Gray isn't a 'TV presenter' iirc
― nothing tastes as good as zingy feels (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I have to say i did enjoy Gray's imaginary player dialogues. Not that he intended them to be funny.
― Number None, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 02:52 (thirteen years ago) link
would you smash ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCEjCsMU9_s
― cozen, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 07:35 (thirteen years ago) link
are they talking about louise from eternal
― cozen, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 07:39 (thirteen years ago) link
The debate about the C-word has been extensive on ILX and my personal take on it is that the word as used in the UK has become divorced from misogynist invective in the same way that cock or dick as terms of abuse don't really connect to the image of the male member. Obviously in a private discourse with somebody who was offended by the use of the word I would avoid using it, but an internet message board is a different level of discourse in which the potential for offence is so limitless that a blanket avoidance of potentially offensive language is not possible.
In these cases we have agreed that only blatant hate speech is to be forbidden, which is why this board would not welcome, say, Jack Straw, to name one famous racist cunt.
― Cars and Freedom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 08:05 (thirteen years ago) link
surprising how buffon, baros and aaron hunt arent our 3 favourite current players
― supply 'n d-man (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 08:11 (thirteen years ago) link
This is the 21st century, for heaven’s sake. As long as they are not distracting the male players with their come-hither smiles and intoxicating musk, or suffering their mood-altering “monthly business”, then what is the problem?[...]Gray and Keys’s crime was not to be sexist, but to be sexist towards women. Worse still, they foolishly chose to target not the entire gender but a blameless individual with a name, a heart, a face and a soul. Not to mention rather lovely legs.
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Gray and Keys’s crime was not to be sexist, but to be sexist towards women. Worse still, they foolishly chose to target not the entire gender but a blameless individual with a name, a heart, a face and a soul. Not to mention rather lovely legs.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 08:24 (thirteen years ago) link
The great thing about weeks like this is you can update your .xls of complete fucking bell-ends
― Cars and Freedom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 08:35 (thirteen years ago) link
lol that's such a 'regional paper' column I could well believe it to be a parody
I do not claim to be a broadcasting expert (as you can hear for yourself when I cover the Pete Price Show on Radio City 96.7, all next week)
― nothing tastes as good as zingy feels (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 10:12 (thirteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/#!/Jay_SouthLondon
― Inspector Anthony Slade, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 12:33 (thirteen years ago) link
how did u find that allardyce clip....it had like 300 views on youtube
if the press are going to run and run with the misoj in football theme then i could see attn being drawn to that
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 12:37 (thirteen years ago) link
might be worth emailing to a few news providers idk, he is actually sexually humiliating an irl person in a manner p similar to that which did for gray
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 12:39 (thirteen years ago) link
RT @hofflimits: I heard a female Assistant Referee is going to explain the Equality Act to Andy Gray and Richard keys using condiments on the kitchen table.
Good work
― Cars and Freedom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 12:45 (thirteen years ago) link
That "would you smash it?" thing is just cringeworthy, Keysey butting into the conversation in a desperate attempt to be one of the lads. I like Gullit fixating intently on his Blackberry rather than acknowledging him.
I think "would smash" is probably dead as a meme.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 12:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Where's the Allardyce clip again?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 12:54 (thirteen years ago) link
au contraire, WS has just picked up a whole new set of useful connotations
― Cars and Freedom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 12:55 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/711/ffffof.gif
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 12:56 (thirteen years ago) link
that gleeful little squint and headroll is hilariously reminiscent of a good friend of mine
― Cars and Freedom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 12:57 (thirteen years ago) link
― Inspector Anthony Slade, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 12:33 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Opinionated and considered thinker of the game, looking to become involved in football writing and blogging.
― onimo, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 13:00 (thirteen years ago) link
good luck with that.
i wasn't there for the birth of ws but i thought it was always supposed to go with how creepy and dommy p the thread intention was? keysy fits right in with whoever it was this morning going "oh noes! her skin has a slight mark! ew!"
― supply 'n d-man (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 13:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Keys on TalkSport in a few minutes apparently.
― The referee was perfect (Chris), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 13:26 (thirteen years ago) link
oh crap that means i have to stop listening to the elgar viloin sonata on r3
― henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 13:31 (thirteen years ago) link
I wonder if the "smash it"/"hanging out the back of it" thing will come up, guessing not.
― onimo, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 13:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Keys is the oldest person i've ever heard say 'smash it' - picked it up from the runner?
― idgi fridays (blueski), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
this is great
― henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link
he actually tried to twist it around to blaming brady for not taking his calls
― henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 13:41 (thirteen years ago) link
hawksbee and jacobs oozing subtle disdain for him
― henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 13:42 (thirteen years ago) link
also apparently it's not the time to have the discussion about the appropriateness of sexist banter, even thoughe he says he's apologised for it several times
― henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 13:44 (thirteen years ago) link
"political correctness gone maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!"
― The referee was perfect (Chris), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 13:48 (thirteen years ago) link
i pray hawksbee does not think that himself, though i distrust him since harry hill's i wanna baby single
― henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 13:49 (thirteen years ago) link
"dark forces" lol
― The referee was perfect (Chris), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
"it's for others to say whether we were the best at our job, we like to think we were"
― henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
"leave sian massey alone, get off her case"
classic tactics being employed here
― henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 13:57 (thirteen years ago) link
this is getting very awkward isn't it.
― The referee was perfect (Chris), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 14:33 (thirteen years ago) link
he's very very defensive, and not mortified about what he said at all.
― henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
what a curious interview
― zvookster, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
he's mortified about what's been made about it and that he was caught. the repeated 'im very sorry, not for myself, but for others' is absolutely head achign in its insincerity.
― henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i feel like he kind of turned it around by the end, the stuff about behavior that needs reconstructing and stuff like that. i don't feel like he's insincere because i kind of believe he wants to resign in protest at andy grey being sacked, & is too conceited want to keep his job at all cost
― zvookster, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Keys granting his interview to the official radio voice of white van man is a clever move on his part, he knows he's talking to an audiencce of people who basically agree with him.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
http://thescore.thejournal.ie/richard-keys-takes-to-airwaves-to-defend-sexism-leaks-2011-01/
Full version here.
― Inspector Anthony Slade, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Did they really run an erectile dysfunction ad straight after the interview?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
is it plausible that it took a media firestorm for keys to consider the ramifications of this shit? it hardly seems it.
"that's for others to decide" abt stuff that he obv agreed with, and brady not taking his calls, and "you hear more complaints than support when something like this happens" and his "she got the call right, thank god" and charlotte "SHE CAN HANDLE HERSELF" and oh so many things, absolutely infuriating
― zvookster, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 14:50 (thirteen years ago) link
who exactly is "on sian massey's case"...he's the dickhead who called her entire career into question. also "just banter" etc...fuck off. "just banter" is the new standard defence of racism/sexism etc.
major lols in my office at the bit about brady "i don't know why she didn't take the call". hmmm i can think of a reason!!
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
bog standard 'mea culpa i need to go pray with my pastor' stuff, no?
― henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
What are these DARK FORCES that are massing against him?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
dark, hairy forces
― henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
if he wasn't such a repulsive fella i'd have some sympathy for him. if you're 50-odd and going around talking about smashing and banging and the other stuff he's on about at every opportunity, in the way he's on about it, then you're a sad sad man with some significant issues to work out.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
― henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, January 26, 2011
yeah maybe, maybe i was just dying for some shit that was clearly not coded stuff for his supporters
― zvookster, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
OTM (except I wouldn't feel sympathy). He comes across as someone who actually *hates* women. And in the 'smash it' clip, he just comes across as desperately trying to ingratiate himself with Redknapp etc.
― Death and Taxis (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
i feel disappointed he's been allowed to try and apologise for this. nothing he says alters the hateful tone. like if there was an element of wit in what he said you could call it banter, even if it was offensive. but that "do us a favour love" and worse, his "HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH" in all these emerging clips just damns the guy. what a rodent.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link