Handbags - acceptable language?
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Worlds gone mad!
Drago
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Welcome to 1984, where the thought police reign.
The BBC have clearly not yet woken up to the fact that this sort of shenanigans is hastening their demise.
The BBC have clearly not yet woken up to the fact that this sort of shenanigans is hastening their demise.
Cycleops
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That’s the problem, the BBC have woken up.
Alien8
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Accrington Stanley vs Lincoln?
I think we can guess who complained.
I think we can guess who complained.
Beebo
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Handbags is an acceptable expression IMO.
The other 2 examples are far worse. Referring to the ref’s wife and players wearing skirts.
Shouldn’t he be banned, maybe some training is required.
Edit. He’s had a written warning before.
The other 2 examples are far worse. Referring to the ref’s wife and players wearing skirts.
Shouldn’t he be banned, maybe some training is required.
Edit. He’s had a written warning before.
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yes i think it was probably for the other two comments.
What was the comment about the ref's wife about?
by the by, I've just heard some woman from argentina (don't know who she was - no caption from the beeb) wittering on about departed Diego.
I swear she said he transcended binary - haven't a damn clue what she was on about.
Maybe it was my imagination but had the idea that the presenter back in the studio's thank you to her for a contribution was a quickly lobbed in "get off quick before you chuck more waffle at us"
I think she may also have said he was the ball.
Colemanballs is alive and well.
What was the comment about the ref's wife about?
by the by, I've just heard some woman from argentina (don't know who she was - no caption from the beeb) wittering on about departed Diego.
I swear she said he transcended binary - haven't a damn clue what she was on about.
Maybe it was my imagination but had the idea that the presenter back in the studio's thank you to her for a contribution was a quickly lobbed in "get off quick before you chuck more waffle at us"
I think she may also have said he was the ball.
Colemanballs is alive and well.
Drago
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The 2018 warning was for describing a player as a Drama Queen.
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what's the approved contemporary alternative for "drama queen"?
it's a phrase which has its uses - am sure we have all known folks of all genders it could describe
Drago
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Pretty soon we won't be able to refer to the Queen as a Queen.
Chris S
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No more Reeves and Mortimer then.
Drago
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Youd think that with all thats gone on over the years with Savile, Stuart Hall, and now Martin Bashir, that the Beeb would be trying to get its own house in order and keep its head down instead of getting involved in time, money and reputating wasting irrelevancies like this.
If I had heard this broadcast I would have been terribly offended on someone elses behalf. I didnt hear it and I wasn't personally offended but I am still outraged that it may have offended someone else's sensibility. This man, whoever he is, needs to be sent on one of the BBCs highly recommended re-education courses.
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I fear the woman i heard on bbc news may already have been on it.
aspects of this put me in mind of the catholic church (which also pops up in another thread - vastly important to use the right words/forms, charges of heresy chucked around, folks cast out into the darkness, whilst underneath serious evil is afoot. And relentlessly covered up.
My tip, shamelessly nicked from the catholic church with its bells and smells, concentration on ritual - chuck the phrase "non binary" in front of any phrase you have the slightest worries/rumbles about.
So @Drago i can set your mind at rest/get you off the hook.
call her the non-binary queen.
IaninSheffield
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The examples quoted in the article illustrate tired, lazy, dated language best left alongside archived exerpts of 'The Comedians', rather than be perpetuated through current sports commentary. Haven't we moved on? The implications of public figures using phrases such as "he'd have been better wearing a skirt" don't need stating, do they?
