The colour of skin has nothing to do with looking like a monkey. So are you telling me Bale doesnt look like a monkey then or that only the white version of him would look like one? I was called honky all the time at school by a mate who was born in Figi. To us, terms like that were no different than ginger tosser or fatboy.
You seem to be the only one on here who thinks Hodgson was being racist. Its silly accusations like that that take away from genuine racist accusations. Stan Collymore, Martin Jol, our own manager, even Townsend himself have all dismissed it as errant nonsense. Nobody on here has cried racism except you, yet you make me out to be the unreasonable one! You're totally out of step mate.
Nail hit firmly on head. This sort of crap just makes a mockery of the whole anti racism issue. A stupid, inoffensive story about a f****** space monkey makes front page headlines, where as a story about Asian letting agents not allowing Black people to rent homes goes mostly unreported. As The Specials sang....'Its all a load of bollox, and bollox to it all'
Sorry? I've posted numerous times on this thread that I DON'T think he was being racist. Such as: You want to read stuff before you post, Swords. You, I, and everyone else knows you're just trying to wind me up. And you've chosen a subject that you know I feel strongly about, simply to make yourself feel better. That's such a sad thing for a grown man to be doing, you know?
This was your very first post on the matter (indeed the first post from anyone) which prompted me to reply. Oh don't be such a big baby. You're acting like you've no control over yourself. Don't allow yourself get so wound up, you're not a child. And I don't care how strong you feel about something. If you're talking balderdash, which Staines has perfectly illustrated above, I'll pull you up on it.
Who the hell appointed you my thought policeman? What on earth gives you the right to decide that you should be able to berate me for expressing an opinion, when you are also having a go when people call you on yours? Hypocritical doesn't even come close to covering it. You have a history of being banned from this forum because you keep baiting individuals - it's a bad habit you have, in common with loads of others across the internet who clearly have no way of getting any real satisfaction out of their real lives and so get their jollies hiding behind a pseudonym and acting as if the other person they are attacking isn't a real person. You know that some people feel extremely strongly about certain issues, and those are the people you specifically attack. Those who don't really care get left alone. It's typical behaviour that you have displayed time and again, and ultimately it results in a ban for you. Every single time. It's just a matter of time with you, isn't it?
Doesn't work that way - I can still see he's posting stuff, just not what - so the assumption has to be that it's his usual abuse (and 99.9% of the time, I'm right.) I'm not prepared to allow him to write what he wants about me without responding, and I'm not prepared to give up the site just to avoid him.
You seriously need to grow up. If you post a controversial opinion like you did here - IE the first poster on the Board to comment on the Hodgson affair - you can't then complain when someone disagrees with you. You said he was telling racist jokes, I said that was nonsense. Then, predictably, you lost the head. I'm signing off this thread now because you're clearly not capable of discussing things in an adult manner without throwing your toys out of the pram. The last word is yours.
Thats how trolls work, the way to get back is not to respond. If you ignore him, he will just move onto someone else.
I spoke too soon. "In the four-page complaint, Race for Sport, an off-shoot of the Society for Black Lawyers, says the decision to consider the matter closed is "unacceptable". It also demands "cultural intelligence" training for Hodgson and all football managers." Pricks.
My last word (unless you weren't being truthful with your intentions) is again - read what I wrote. I said that Redknapp wasn't telling racist jokes. That's all. I have never, on this thread or elsewhere, said that Hodgson is/was racist. Your spin on what I wrote, twisted for your intended controversial effect.. Anyway - thanks for the input, it's been unvaluable....
I refer you to my previous post!! These comments will alienate the masses of well balanced people who support anti racism
My mate once got disciplined as a teacher for calling a student a "cheeky monkey" He was 1/8th black and clearly there was no racial connotations but the loony left head master went into PC mode. Also, this was the school that had the pupils riot because they werent allowed a snooker table so that tells you what type of ship they ran.
I have been reading this thread with interest and have, until now, decided not to get involved in the silliness. However, this latest quote highlighted by Flyer is ridiculous. What they are basically saying is that the word "monkey" should be eradicated, we can no longer use the word at all. If it's cold outside we can't say it's "brass monkeys", by the sound of it we can't go to the zoo and say we are going to look at those...........what are they called now, there's spider, marmoset, emporer, squirrel I just wish there was a collective name for that group of primates. Oh wait there once was but because a group of disgusting people decided to use that word in a racial way the rest of society isn't allowed to use it?? NASA originally sent a dog into space, if that dog was intelligent, or dexterous, enough to push some buttons (the monkey never did that either by the way despite what Karl Pilkington might think) then the joke's punchline could have quite easily have been "Just keep feeding the dog". It's the same joke, it's meant in the same way and yet nobody would have a single problem with it. This non-story making headlines all week is is just detracting from real racism that, unfortunately, is still in our society.
A man and the dog are sent into space in a brand new, state of the art spaceship...when NASA are asked why they sent the dog with the spaceman, they say....the man is there to feed the dog...and the dog is there to bite the man if he tries to touch anything!! Is that racist, is that funny...I dunno I work in a lab and do diagnostic tests....the clinicians who ask for the tests call us "lab monkeys" Should I get upset
if Neil Armstrong had been black, NASA would of been called racist for sending a black man to the moon by the black spaceman association
