Off Topic Things that aren't worth a new thread ...

young2077 said:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12766215/Female-boxer-Canada-withdraws-trans-opponent.html

Wow, it's bad enough when they will struggle to compete with a trans athletes with an unfair advantage (swimming, weightlifting etc...) but when it puts the biologically female at risk like in boxing it's going too far.

I think it's interesting we haven't seen a male trans (female to male) athlete even come into a male sport never mind absolutely dominate the competition!

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I await the time when 'liberally minded people' have to accept a white person being nominated in the MOBO 'black music' awards ...

... if someone can ignore all the physical evidence of manhood then surely your skin tone shouldn't be any obstacle.

It's been a weird day, not least because I'm being told the International break is entitled to completely ruin our weekends when we've bought season tickets and looked forward to our games.
Do I care more about whether Mayenda or Rusyn will start at Plymouth or if Harry Kane will break some fckin meaningless record against Transylvania or not. Just fck off.

Anyway, I was sent a daft harmless joke from a mate of 40 years, on the Fulwell, etc, who was worried about being racist or whatever ... it's so unclear these days that we no longer know if we're being offensive or not.

To reassure him I thought I'd send him a brief message that turned into a huge rant. As I've just spent half an hour of my Sunday on it I thought I'd post it on here to get my money's worth

So, here's the joke and afterwards is my response ... please ignore this post if you're easily bored.

Dave Ashfield - Clever, but could be construed as anti-semitic or indeed Islamophobic ... or maybe just racist.

The joke - Jew and an Arab go into a bakery. The Arab immediately steals three pastries and puts them in his pocket.
He says to the Jew, “See how good I am? The owner didn’t see a thing.”
The Jew says to the Arab, “That’s typical of you Arabs. I am going to show you an honest way to get the same result.”
He goes to the owner of the bakery and says, “Give me a pastry and I will show you a magic trick.”
Intrigued, the owner accepts and gives him a pastry. The Jew swallows it and asks for another one. The owner gives him another one. Then the Jew swallows that one and asks for a third pastry and eats that, too.
The owner is starting to wonder where the magic trick is and asks, “So what did you do with the pastries?” The Jew replies, “Look in the Arab’s back pocket…”

My WhatsApp to Dave Ashfield.

When I worked for the Russians we had 18 full time gardeners which was only just enough! The gardening company was owned was owned by Mr Jebali who was a lovely Tunisian fella, his son became a good friend. All of the gardeners were Tunisian and bloody good workers who never gave me any trouble. They were Muslim so Ramadan was hard as they were working in high temperatures doing eight hour days under the pressure of an Oligarch owner. I'd go for a chat every day just to make sure it was all going as I'd asked … it always was. During Ramadan I'd usually have a freezing cold can of beer, with loads of condensation, while I was talking to them at lunch break …. "Lads, ffs man, why do you persevere with this Muslim malarkey, it's shyte. Why not become a Methodist Christian like me … a beer whenever you like but just be kind to everyone, sing loudly at Church and pray for people you love, simple."

They'd laugh and call me Mr Neville, say things in Arabic to each other then carry on with not eating or drinking until dusk. I fully expected a spade on the back of my head, one day, when they exacted their revenge on 'the infidel'.
It never happened and, as I was also dealing with 30 other contractors, I didn't pay it that much attention tbh. At the end of Ramadan they had a feast, which is traditional, and the only non-Muslims they invited were me and Mrs. Smug. They proceeded to whoop, holler and dance around the olive grove while cooking endless meats and delicacies on a piece of corrugated iron over a fire on the ground. The toasts were to Allah, their homeland Mr Jebali and Mr Neville.
No mention of the Russians who paid them, the French who's country they were in or any of the other 200 people involved in the project …

... the point of all this, as I'm sure you know, is that you give respect by your attitude and respect rather than sticking to a stupid set of rules than lessen us as human beings. I worked, on the doors in Nottingham, for a gang of black lads called The Darkies who loved me despite my relentless piss taking about their hair and their patter. People are too far up their own arses Dave, just be decent and you'll be fine is what I believe, nowt wrong with that joke. You could easily replace Jew/Arab with Mag/Macken and it still works.

At the end of the day we're all in this leaky boat together and none of us know where we're going

TopCat_ said:

Why the **** are people putting Christmas trees up in November?

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It's because people are desperate for a little cheer after Covid, Ukraine, Gaza, HS2 and that fukin referee at Stoke

Gordon Armstrong said:

Sunderland's Niall Huggins wins Sky Bet Championship Goal of the Month award for October
Sunderland's Niall Huggins wins Sky Bet Championship Goal of the Month award for October. Cambridge United's Michael Morrison wins it in League One and Colchester United's Chay Cooper wins it in League Two

Friday 17th November 2023

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Sunderland defender, Niall Huggins, is the Sky Bet Championship Goal of the Month winner for October.

It's the second goal on this clip
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What a way to score the first senior goal of your career. Against Watford, Huggins cut in at pace from the right touchline and just kept going, jinking this way and that before driving home an irresistible shot.

Lead Sky Bet EFL Goal of the Month judge and Sky Sports Pundit, Don Goodman, said: "Niall Huggins scored his first senior goal last month v Watford, which must have been a thrill in itself. When he received the ball wide right, he had nine outfield players and a goalkeeper behind the ball, but he cut inside and just kept going, skipping past a couple of challenges along the way before finishing it off with a powerful strike into the top corner. My bet is that he'll struggle to top that in the rest of his career - it was that brilliant"

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Told you I was right about it hitting the bar

TopCat_ said:

Ant & Dec are a pair of talentless, predictable ****s

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Their only talent is to impersonate really annoying noisy teenagers ...

... they've absolutely nailed it.