Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

Farah should win that easily, i would back him in the 400 as well

 

Hope they manage to organise it, but they have agents as well trying to put spanners in the work. They will have to find a window where training for it doesn't interfere with their main schedule.

 

Nothing wrong with a little North Hampshire culture .... My old man still lives a couple hundred yards from her house.

 

I had to study jane austen at school, and as that story suggests she led the most pathetically boring life which leaks into her every word. Its been a while since i last read her work but at the time i would have delighted in setting fire to her old house. Its enough to know that she had a **** life.

 

I love Jane Austen...a master of subtle irony. The only classics I will reread. However, the main point of what has happened is not the merit of an author, but how a nasty misogynist is bravely texting a woman and threatening to rape her every minute. People like this terrorise and bully people and drive them away from Twitter/FB or whatever the newest fad is. Glad he's been caught...little coward, thinking he can hide behind a computer screen. I hope he gets the punishment he deserves.

 

On a lighter note, U21s play Welling tonight. U21s unbeaten all preseason.

 

Well said Fran, both on the nasty texter, and on Jane Austen, of whom I will brook no criticism.

 

Threats of rape aside i can understand why someone would be upset by a campaign that is fundamentally sexist. Any campaign that divides men and women will lead to conflict whether on social media or wherever else.

 

Even if it wasn't sexist, no one should be allowed to annoyingly tweet someone to the point where they can't even use twitter. It would be the same as phoning someone constantly...it's plain harassment. Now I know you can just leave twitter and FB, but why should you?

 

Just to clarify I think the victim of the rape threat ran a campaign that was sexist and should have expected (and no doubt did expect) conflict on some level. I'm not at all justifying any threat or victimblaming or whatever but I can see why someone would quite rationally be annoyed by her divisive campaign. Why should you leave twitter? Hopefully twitter will make it easier to block abusive posts without comprimising your posting, a hard thing to do though probably.

 

I don't know anything about the person concerned or any other activities she may be involved with, but campaigning for a woman to be on a banknote is hardly divisive. Personally, it's not something I care about...a famous person is a famous person to me...male or female. I don't go round looking to be offended, so probably I wouldn't have noticed that they were all men. There are more important things to worry about. However, resorting to harassment rather than logical debate merely demonstrates what a little squirt the police are dealing with. A good plan would be to insist he apologises in person to deflate his ego. Another woman similarly treated outed the man concerned and exposed him to similar irate abuse...he apologised.

 

It's all part of a wider discussion that's happening right now about 'trolls' and the like on Twitter - one side bemoaning the lack of free speech, the other fairly asking why they should just be subject to endless abuse (and particularly abuse of a violently sexually threatening manner).

I'm all for free speech, but there's an enormous difference between free speech (opinion and debate) and 'verbal violence'.

 

I really hope this happens, two of the best characters in athletics. Let's just hope Bolt doesn't get busted doping before it happens!

 

She's a feminist so bound to be a little sexist. She ran a campaign moaning about there not being a female on a bank note. The Bank of England then made a competition which Austen won due to a hell of a lot of feminist's voting for her.
Did any one here hear about the vote? Plus isn't the Queen on every note?

Yes the messages she received are disgusting and no one should get abused like it. But I'm kinda fed up with this feminist crap, they moan about women not being equal yet have no problem describing men as cavemen etc. To me all this feminism and manisom is crap, if both men and women want to be equal then join together and do it the right way.

 

Yay. Having felt ill and still not sorted the toothache, I now get contact from Brentford telling me I am no longer needed.

Roll on Wednesday.

 

Good luck with the toothache, I hate the dentists.

 

Join the club!

 

It's not just the pain it's the cost that annoys me more.

 

Definitely the pain for me.

 

Get some benzocaine.