General Football Thread

[Benji]

3 minutes ago, MDK said:

It wasn't even a generation ago that Graeme le Saux was getting called gay for reading a broadsheet. We have a way to go.

And we're not going to get any further until someone pushes that boundary, and/or until an entire generation or two has passed.

Edited May 18, 2017 by Benji

[MDK]

Just now, Benji said:

And we're not going to get any further until someone pushes that boundary, or until an entire generation or two has passed.

You ain't wrong.

[Benji]

Also, I still like fairy as an insult. Removed from the gay connotations (which it obviously can't be in this context), it could just be seen as calling someone "delicate" in a physical game.

[Just Joe]

Sunderland U23s got beat 5-0 last night off Porto B at the Premier League International U23 Final. It was boys against men, they were a class above, they do play in the Portuguese 2nd Tier and did win that last year so when you take that into consideration, they should be beating a team made up of players with little to no first team/league experience. They have a lad on loan from Gremio called Galeno, he apparently has a 40million Euro release clause in his contract, I think they've actually signed him. Joris Kayembe was brilliant as well, Belgian U21 player. 

[MDK]

17 minutes ago, Benji said:

Also, I still like fairy as an insult. Removed from the gay connotations (which it obviously can't be in this context), it could just be seen as calling someone "delicate" in a physical game.

Yeah, but you are part bender so you are allowed to say it  

[DavidMarrio]

2 hours ago, MDK said:

Yeah, but you are part bender so you are allowed to say it  

YOU CAN'T SAY THAT, IT'S ON OUR LIST OF NAUGHTY WORDS!!

[MDK]

3 minutes ago, Davidmarrio said:

YOU CAN'T SAY THAT, IT'S ON OUR LIST OF NAUGHTY WORDS!!

Can I call someone an Iron?

[DavidMarrio]

3 minutes ago, MDK said:

Can I call someone an Iron?

If it's not on there then I suppose you could? 

[MDK]

Just now, Davidmarrio said:

If it's not on there then I suppose you could? 

You fuckin' iron.

[DavidMarrio]

Just now, MDK said:

You fuckin' iron.

Sticks and stones may break my bones...

But words will always fucking hurt me 

[MDK]

2 minutes ago, Davidmarrio said:

Sticks and stones may break my bones...

But words will always fucking hurt me 

When I said you were an iron I meant it as a come-on. Mince right over here into my boudoir, sunshine. 

[Baddar]

Is bumder off limits?

[MDK]

8 minutes ago, Baddar said:

Is bumder off limits?

Sheep-shagger isn't on the list! Dolly Hardon!

[TCO]

Half-caste is legitimately used over here for people who are mixed-race.

I don't think anybody knows its offensive at this point!

[The Lusophone]

I... Didn't even know it was offensive. Growing up it was just the term.

[TCO]

Just now, Mad Jack said:

I... Didn't even know it was offensive. Growing up it was just the term.

I know, right?!

I just looked it up now and apparently it comes from latin word meaning pure, so it means "half pure" which obviously is quite racist when said like that. 

[MDK]

2 minutes ago, Mad Jack said:

I... Didn't even know it was offensive. Growing up it was just the term.

Same here. Except that it was 'arf cast.

Then it was a bad term, so we used 'Mixed Race', but then that was deemed bad, so it was 'Mixed Heritage' which doesn't make any sense because I'm mixed heritage and I'm white as fuck.

[Colly]

Half caste has definitely been unacceptable for about two decades. She-man on the other hand is a new one to me, is She-Hulk allowed?

[EddieG]

7 hours ago, MDK said:

Same here. Except that it was 'arf cast.

Then it was a bad term, so we used 'Mixed Race', but then that was deemed bad, so it was 'Mixed Heritage' which doesn't make any sense because I'm mixed heritage and I'm white as fuck.

Wouldn't it make sense because mixed heritage doesn't necesarrily mean you are a (half) person of color?

[Matt]

I genuinely thought that half caste was the correct term, I've never known it to be offensive or used offensively