OT - The Joey Barton Vs Piers Morgan match thread here!

Barto.

Forgets he's from two dogs fightin and giving it large about global issues and airport pollution.

 

Joey apologised for his sexist comment.....but then scored an own goal about Heathrow runway.
However Joey is nowhere the most stupid, boring, annoying or opinionated panalist. He is being completely outshine in all those catagorises by the two women and Piers Morgan.

 

Piers airport rant. Tw@t.

 

All a bit dull, wasn't it?

 

Old Tory bloke must be loving this...

 

I actually feel sorry for two-brains.

 

Hooray, It's over now.

Sorry if starting this thread has annoyed anyone on here, that was not my intention. Just an Ill thought out bit of fun.

Peace!

 

Match abandoned - no result.

Player ratings:

UKIP dragon 3 - bullying, lying, offensive harridan
Labour non-entity 0 - did not start
Morgan 5 - more likeable than UKIP
Barton 4 - tried but failed
Two Brains 6 - rose above it, just

 

motm?

 

I'll give it to a cameraman.

 

[video]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27631525[/video]

The highlight, if there was such a thing.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-...-who-won-Question-Times-Match-of-the-Day.html

Very good summary...

 

Frankly, I am surprised that Mr Barton's comments about ugly girls has caused such outrage. I thought it wasn't that bad an analogy, but one young lass in the audience was particularly upset about it and brought about the apology.

I appreciate that I'm unlikely to become politically correct and show sufficient sensitivity for our times, but I cannot help but feel that many people are unnecessarily prickly about stuff like this that once upon a time might provoke the odd sn****r or "tsk!", but would be quickly forgotten as people moved on to more important matters. I'm f**king ugly and have more character faults and annoying habits than your average knobhead, but have a thick enough hide to not get that animated if anybody cares to remind me of any of them.

Nowadays people seem to be queuing up to get offended on behalf of others. They'll be people only hearing of Mr Barton's comments this morning that'll be sat in front on the iPlayer shortly, anxious to get the 'full affront' for themselves so that they can register their own outrage on some blog or comments page somewhere. I just don't see the appeal.

Edit: can you believe that the 'no swearing' filter has placed asterisks across the word I used to describe "laughing in a half-suppressed, typically scornful way"? Instead of this being an entirely innocent word, anybody using the filter could easily jump to the wrong conclusion that I've used an offensive terms. Outrageous!

 

Try typing Scunthorpe.

Good luck with the move to Tunbridge Wells Ubes.

 

Or Danny ****tu!

You don't fool me, Stan. You're as much bewildered by the 21st Century as I am. We both belong in the Hussars or on some expedition through Abyssinia.

 

My personal theory is that some of the UKIP vote is a vote against the left wing, liberal and politically correct agenda evident, especially in London. Farage, the beer drinking, cigar smoking plain speaking bloke appeals to those of that persuasion.

Declaration of conflict of interest: I did not vote for UKIP!

 

Rumbled. Sounds like you are getting close to the end of the Flashman saga, the Abyssinian one was quite late, wasn't it? Ironically given my rabid and uncontrolled atheism, I suspect I would have been quite content as a country clergyman with a big library and a nice wine cellar.

 

If all of the UKIP people who are not Farage are similar to the woman on Question Time last night, the protest vote will collapse pretty quickly. She hurt my ears.

 

I'm assuming "...a big library" is some sort of euphemism?

Yeah, just got the "...and the Tiger" to get through, but am struggling to make a start. It's just a collection of short stories, I believe. I've thoroughly enjoyed all of them and find many of the myriad statues of London are coming to life as a consequence of my slightly improved knowledge of history.

 

Just seen it.

I think its a shame that Joeys "ugly birds" analogy has been jumped on so heavily as I think other than that he came across quite well with reasoned arguments in a place where he was clearly out of his comfort zone.

I agree with Uber that some people just can't wait to get offended at the smallest of things and again its a pity that can sometimes dumb down reasoned debate.

As a side line the UKIP woman Louise Bours represents and lives in my home town of Congleton and is the sister of a good mate of mine, and as long as she's been a political figure in this town her voice has always been that bad!!