Of all the colloquial terms to use! I know its intended harmlessly but ffs Roy..."feed the monkey" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...y-Hodgson-apologises-monkey-jibe-Wembley.html
It sounds like he's insulting Smalling by likening him to a human that's so stupid they get a monkey to do his work and give him one basic task. That's unfair too because he's the daft **** that picked Smalling in the first place. The biggest concern I have though is that Hodgson is spending his half time talks telling jokes to convey tactical instructions.
It's very annoying that we're at a point in history when likening any human who happens to have browner skin to a monkey is taboo. Cos a) of all the animals in the world, well, monkeys look quite a bit like humans and b) they're funny. Some day in the future we'll happily be able to make jokes about humans and monkeys at the expense of all people, I'm sure. But in the meantime best not to. TBF that Roy would tell that joke rather than think "Oh, here's two black guys better not tell the monkey joke" could well indicate how very unracist he is. Oh well. We have to be a bit politically correct til the human race is basically more of a grown up I guess. As YV says - the most insulting thing about the whole thing is not that it's racist in any way, it's that it shows how limited the England manager believes the England RB to be.
Crap joke that works with any animal. Swap the word monkey with pig, dog or cat and it still works, crapply. I was expecting something racist alone the lines of "monkey see, monkey do" or "Even my pet monkey could pass a ball". I don't know what I'm dispointed in most: Roy, the daily fail, the crap joke, or NASA sending monkeys to space when I'm just sat here mast...
Rather naive of Hodgson not to see the potential for a misunderstanding, but I can't see how anyone could take this to be a racist joke. As YV has pointed out, if anyone should be insulted then it should be Smalling and he's the human in the scenario. I'm sure that you can all guess who did get upset about it, though. Our old mate Peter Herbert. What a total ****er.
My contempt for Peter Hebert and anyone else using political correctness to build a career trumps my temptation to point out that any figure in the media probably ought to have enough sense to leave monkeys, apes, prosimians and our other close relatives out of their vocabulary entirely.
The thing with the joke he made, other than it being a crap joke, is that there's so many pitfalls depending on which animals you use: Monkey, Gorilla - racist connotations Dog - could be argued as having racist connotations Zebra, Badger, Penguin, Malayan Tapir - similar to "choc ice" Cheetah - there was a cheetah named Kike on Big Cat Diaries so it's anti-Semitic Seagull - Sounds a lot like "Sieg Heil" so it's anti-Semitic Stag, Puffer Fish - obviously rhyming slang for slurs about homosexuals Toadfish - slur about fat Australian lawyers
My daughter is slightly darker than me as her mum is African. I call her a cheeky little monkey when she screams in order that either I or her mum picks her up. Am I doing anything wrong? I don't understand this PC stuff any more. Surely there must be intent?
Of course there must be intent,my wife is west Indian and a running joke in our house is, am i black or something,whenever one of us avoids the other in some way
I went onto Google and typed.... '' Hodgson monkey joke leaked '' and even tthough it's just speculation, it doesn't surprise me to see Ashley Cole at the top of the page.
Was Ashley Cole in the squad? I thought he pulled out due to a rib injury? I doubt it would be him anyway, after his racist apologetics in the Terry v Ferdinand row. I think that we can rule Townsend and Rooney out, as they've both been pretty vocal about their support for Hodgson, but other than that it's anyone's guess.
Usually it's the people you least expect so am just jesting about Cole, mainly because he's a twat! It wouldn't surprise though if ferdinand somehow found out and leaked it. Or a couple of the players could have been joking about what Hodgson said when walking down the tunnel and someone over heard. But whoever it was should be ashamed as Roy is a complete gentleman, doesn't have a bad bone in his body so you can imagine he's feeling distraught at the headlines.
Don't worry I've just emailed social services so you'll be correctly re-educated as soon as they get round to it and in the meantime your daughter can live in a less evil environment. You'll like your new brain, I promise.
Oh - just looked at a couple of websites - this is a big story is it? What a load of ****. There is nothing more nauseating than witnessing the British Press get into a feeding frenzy over who can be the most "disgusted" about some dubious instance of racism/sexism/homophobia when they're more pathetically prejudiced than the average British person by miles. I'm sure Hodgson is smart enough to ignore the bullshit.
