Pointless But It Does My Head In
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Usain Bolt: "If I'm at a championship, like in Korea, Japan and these places where the food is not normal food, I always have nuggets,"
Not 'normal food'? Are you 11 years old? Ffs Japanese food's (arguably) the best on the planet, you very fast doofus.
Not 'normal food'? Are you 11 years old? Ffs Japanese food's (arguably) the best on the planet, you very fast doofus.
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
ah sure, it works for him, it was the way he was characterising foreign food like a picky teenager that got me.
Who was the guy who beat him? Ah OK, Yohan Blake, Googled it. Hard to tell how much Bolt is holding back. But Blake did 19.26 for the 200 last year apparently, so Bolt has defintiely got a race on his hands. Which is good.
There's a British 18-year-old who ran 10:05 the other day, who looks like he could be a contender for the 100m final.
Who was the guy who beat him? Ah OK, Yohan Blake, Googled it. Hard to tell how much Bolt is holding back. But Blake did 19.26 for the 200 last year apparently, so Bolt has defintiely got a race on his hands. Which is good.
There's a British 18-year-old who ran 10:05 the other day, who looks like he could be a contender for the 100m final.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
O RLY? Maybe he et a bit of ramen by mistake and got put off his stroke.
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
excellent. and for that i give you a portrait of the defeated Usain Bolt that you can frame at home:
Yohan Blake was off eating Peking duck while Usain was sitting for this photograph.
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On my first day at Dyas
cool an employee took me round the ironmongery dept saying "here's the hammers...prety self-explanatory...here's the nails...pretty self-explanatory..." about everything, so perhaps not so much an attitude as being not the most dangerous knife in the drawer or whatever.mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
I want Usain Bolt to come out.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
On my first day at Dyas
Only one step away from the famous unused Borat scene: "That's cheese...that's cheese...that's cheese..."
Patrick Swayze
I'm trying to shut up
alan carr: batty man
Felt sure you were going to come back at me with something about shamanic ironmongery there. Disappointed.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/jul/15/rio-ferdinand-ashley-cole-racist-fake
My brain hurts.
i thought the reaction to the Diane Abbott 'scandal', when she made every white person fear for their safety on the streets by suggesting that there might just be a racially-inflected history of 'dividing and ruling' in the world, was a nadir in sheer stupidity and disavowal of reality. Seems not.
My brain hurts.
i thought the reaction to the Diane Abbott 'scandal', when she made every white person fear for their safety on the streets by suggesting that there might just be a racially-inflected history of 'dividing and ruling' in the world, was a nadir in sheer stupidity and disavowal of reality. Seems not.
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baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/jul/16/football-swearing-jeremy-hunt
Even Radio 4 calls you a cunt Jeremy - it's nothing to do with football.
Even Radio 4 calls you a cunt Jeremy - it's nothing to do with football.
IdleRich
IdleRich
But choc-ice doesn't mean "fake" does it? Or only in as much as it means "fake black man" or race-traitor. It's a pretty nasty thing to say. I can see that it could open up a can of worms.
Sounds like Ashley Cole's statement (via his lawyers) is basically the first sensible thing I've ever heard him say or do.
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Didn't read the statement tbh.
Agreed it's a nasty thing to say (and Rio had to lie about what it meant to avoid, absurdly, being branded a 'racist') and no doubt very hurtful to Ashley Cole, along the lines of calling someone an 'Uncle Tom'. I personally think Rio should be targetting the FA for refusing to do anything about the whole thing, and not Ashley Cole, cos he was also put in an impossible situation. Anyways, obviously what is being said is racially charged, but for people to describe it as 'racist' is just...no, my brain hurts again.
The effect of this whole sorry trial has been to make it even more difficult to talk about the realities of race in and around football (and the silencing of Rio Ferdinand is part of that - the conversation should be out in the open rather than curtailed by absurdly calling 'racism', whatever its merits, as these are real feelings about a white-dominated football establishment that chose to drop Rio at the Euros rather than John Terry, redirected towards Ashley Cole for his perceived collusion with the white establishment. Sweeping them under the carpet is the whole problem, and clearly nothing has been learned). We'll wait to see if the FA do anything.
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IdleRich
IdleRich
Oh Cole just said something like "Rio is a good mate of Ashley and he (Ashley) realises people say silly things on Twitter so he's just gonna forget it".
Seems that the Terry thing could have all kinds of repercussions but it's not clear at all that they will be the right ones. I gotta say I always had a feeling that the trial wasn't gonna get a result, these things are so hard to actually proove.
Seems that the Terry thing could have all kinds of repercussions but it's not clear at all that they will be the right ones. I gotta say I always had a feeling that the trial wasn't gonna get a result, these things are so hard to actually proove.