Gio#56
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Sexist to imply only women have handbags.
100% true in modern day thinking
Sexist to imply only women have handbags.
A bunch of pathetic lefty, perma-offended zealots.The BBC can %^*& right off with their PC crap and how they thrust it down our throats as if we must concur with it. Savile was a beast and they protected him. Who are the fuckin BBC anyway?
Rangers tag news stories on the club website mens and womens to differentiate.When talking internationals they also now use the suffix “men’s” instead of just saying Scotland or England, etc. Noticed it after the recent qualifiers - “ Scotland’s men’s team qualified for the euros”
Sky are as bad. Headlines on SSN banner about the Spurs manager getting binned - it was their women’s team. Nowhere near the profile of a story they would have used that for even a few months ago.
He's not been sackedabsolute pish and not a sacking offence, surely they could have spoke to him instead and explained there are hunks out there who constantly look to be offended
"handbags" is the one that will generate news but by the sounds of it there's been a few other things he's said too.I mean, the BBC statement literally says he’ll be back in a few weeks in the new year and had agreed some of his language was inappropriate? I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the handbags phrase, but I think this is just the sun trying to stir controversy
If that is the case, then every Clyde and BBC pundit I have heard recently, better watch their p's and q's!!
That phrase is used... all the time.
Had that article been written by a white man for the Daily Mail, you know the Guardian and it's readers would have the complete opposite view to itWe are 'woke' to the point of the Grauniad publishing articles stating that child labour in the Third World is OK & ignorant westerners are in no position to judge. It's character building. And with those suicide nets in the clothes factories it's safe now. Also the article had the seal of approval from Bill Gates. And not because he wants 9yo kids mining for metals to stick into high street PCs where Windows ain't optional.
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You can use protected group privilege to justify anything these days.
That guy will have been ear-marked for replacement by a BAME/Wimminz type.
Look at BBC fixtures/scores most weekends. You'll see Women's Friendly International above the Championship, FA Cup or SPFL. Similarly some wxmn from the wxmns national team will be on TV/radio during real football & presenter will ask really vague questions because he's looked up the score. He's sure as f*** not watched it.
Way of the world. Men, everything you have belongs to us. And if you come near us we'll scream "misogyny".
Recommended Book at Bedtime:
Douglas Murray - The Madness of Crowds
That was never broadcast and was made as an in-house joke for their Xmas party in 1979
I posted this on another thread recently, exercising my newly found video posting skills. One for bears of a certain vintage, when woke meant “not sleeping”.
The bbc have no credibility it’s a national service which we the public pay for and is run like an old boys private school club where liberal f@cking apologists have found a permanent home and platform from which to take offenceAbsolutely ridiculous. The BBC credibility as a broadcaster is fast disappearing these days.
Great statement by the Sun.A disgraceful decision.
If I was on the receiving end of those call/calls, I'd have been telling the complainers to f... off. It's the correct reply to the clowns.
FOOTBALL pundit has been suspended by the BBC — for describing a scuffle between two players as “handbags”.
Steve “Tommo” Thompson was relieved of his duties for using the familiar matchday phrase after listeners complained.
Steve 'Tommo' Thompson was relieved of his duties after describing a scuffle between players as 'handbags'
He made the comment on BBC Radio Lincolnshire during Lincoln City’s 0-0 draw away at Accrington Stanley in the Sky Bet League One last Saturday.
It is so common it appears in the Collins Dictionary as “an incident in which people, especially sportsmen, fight or threaten to fight, but without real intent to inflict harm”.
Freelancer Steve, 65, who played for and managed Lincoln, was said to be “devastated” by the BBC’s decision.
Steve made the comment on BBC Radio Lincolnshire during Lincoln City’s 1-0 win at Swindon Town in the Sky Bet League One on Tuesday night
Lincoln fan Bernard O’Mahoney is campaigning for his reinstatement. He said: “As any football fan knows, ‘handbags’ is an incredibly well-known saying.
“I can’t begin to think who’d be offended by it. The BBC has lost touch with the public.”
'Handbags' appears in the Collins Dictionary as 'an incident in which people, especially sportsmen, fight or threaten to fight, but without real intent to inflict harm'
Fan Marcus Greatorex added: “It’s just an old term. The BBC should pay more attention to songs on their stations promoting knife crime and drug use.”
The BBC said: “After listeners raised concerns, Steve acknowledged some of his comments on air didn’t meet the standards we expect. He is taking a break but will be back in the New Year.”
THE SUN SAYS
THE BBC has been in the grip of “woke” madness longer than almost anyone.
But dropping a footy pundit for calling an ineffectual on-pitch scuffle “handbags” is a new level of foolishness.
Who exactly is offended by this term, so common it’s in the dictionary?
No one outside the imagination of hyper-sensitive producers.
The BBC is growing more distant by the day from the public whose licence fees it needs.
It’s one own-goal after another.
Were you researching the wife's Xmas present, or is it for you?Amusingly, I've got an ad for handbags showing on this page
Tbf, people were saying just that 5 years ago. I hope you're wrong however. BBC provides lost of excellent programmes, documentaries, dramas, music programmes, nature programmes etc etc. Also, the radio, World Service or 5Live, can be a bit of a godsend for the insomniacs amongst us.Go woke go broke. BBC will be gone within 5 years.
Only if you say it in your own house.If that is the case, then every Clyde and BBC pundit I have heard recently, better watch their p's and q's!!
That phrase is used... all the time.
The predictable comments on here. However if you want to be annoyed (copied from Lincoln)
Annoying cliches
1 It was a game of two halves
2 It's a six pointer
3 Goals wins games
4 They scored too early
5 He certainly knows where the goal is
6 If that was on target, it would have been a goal
7 Schoolboy defending
8 Good squad on paper
9 Yard of pace
10 Your Rooneys/Lampards/whoevers
11 Cultured left foot
12 He gave 110%
13 He's lost the dressing room
14 He fell into the offside trap
15 He's got genuine pace
16 Away goals count double
17 It could be a cricket score
18 A good time to score
19 A team that likes to play football
20 In his locker
21 This game needs a goal
22 You can't win the title in August but you can lose it
23 He was in acres of space
24 A no-nonsense player
25 He'll have nightmares about that for years
26 That was a great cross but there was no one there
28 Some tired legs out there
29 A bit of 'handbags' going on there
30 Beckham territory
It won't last even that long IMO.Go woke go broke. BBC will be gone within 5 years.
It sums up the BBC that they actually have 76, yes 76, different gender groups defined in their HR policies
All this PC nonsense is hilarious.
FFS world, grow a set.
Oh no, that will probably offend all the woke, Lefty, bed-wetting fucking arseholes as well.
The resident FF woke spokesman rears their head.The predictable comments on here. However if you want to be annoyed (copied from Lincoln)
Annoying cliches
1 It was a game of two halves
2 It's a six pointer
3 Goals wins games
4 They scored too early
5 He certainly knows where the goal is
6 If that was on target, it would have been a goal
7 Schoolboy defending
8 Good squad on paper
9 Yard of pace
10 Your Rooneys/Lampards/whoevers
11 Cultured left foot
12 He gave 110%
13 He's lost the dressing room
14 He fell into the offside trap
15 He's got genuine pace
16 Away goals count double
17 It could be a cricket score
18 A good time to score
19 A team that likes to play football
20 In his locker
21 This game needs a goal
22 You can't win the title in August but you can lose it
23 He was in acres of space
24 A no-nonsense player
25 He'll have nightmares about that for years
26 That was a great cross but there was no one there
28 Some tired legs out there
29 A bit of 'handbags' going on there
30 Beckham territory
Aye I heard that as well, I was shown it on a course a few years ago along with this video below. F&ckin cringeThat was never broadcast and was made as an in-house joke for their Xmas party in 1979
It's not even patter. Its just a phrase. Suggest you go rethink your definition of patterTerrible decision but even worse patter, to be fair.
Straight form the Billy Dodds, Andy Walker School of commentary.
That would not be out of place as a caption on Mock the weekThe Sun's comments (for once) are 100% fair and accurate on this subject at least
What's your problem? So you like cliches. Jolly good.The resident FF woke spokesman rears their head.
Well Jermain Defoe doesn't. I think it was the Hamilton game where the ref blew the whistle & he took off across the centre circle before realising everyone had taken a knee and dropped onto one knee half way across the centre circle.All this nonsense is taking away the real issues that many feel exist. If you look at footballers taking the knee before kick off it has lost any relevance now as the majority of people don't even take any notice now. It's just a fashion now and isn't having any effect.
Or people just annoyed with the utter shite thrown about in 2020Lots of offendedness in the thread about other people being offended.
Bed-wetting lefties.