Get with the programme you lot. This is where its at with the Walkers at the moment.....
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the Late Terry Wogan, David Attenborough or David Jason - they think it's all over, it is now.
They've all gone? Good grief, next you'll be telling me Van Morrison has died.
You may want to sit down. Its about Joe Cocker....
Also utterly baffled by this. Saw something saying he was "defending" comments he's made and wondered how much of a clanger he'd dropped. Then had to read the article twice to make sure I hadn't missed something. Totally absurd.
Who is Gary Lineker?
Have to admit I'm quite enjoying the "kids who look like adults" side-project. We'd not have let 15-year-old The Rock into the country, that's for damn sure.
This whole "story" is sick tbh, the lineker thing is just a bit of side-poison, don't get distracted
[url= http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/celebrity/we-will-abolish-the-monarchy-if-we-hear-one-kind-word-about-immigrants-says-sun-20161021115812 ]The Mash really are on form today! [/url]
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The boy Line Acre done good.
didn't you get the memo? biscuits out/anything you can put jam on in.
I've got some jammy dodgers , are they in or out ???
As above, saw the headline and thought he'd said something offensive..
Then I saw the tweet...can't quite work out what hes done wrong?
I'm not convinced that all the 'kids' are actually 'kids' (and I don't think its should matter either given what they've been through) but thats not really the point.
This country has gone to the dogs..
I've got some jammy dodgers , are they in or out ???
i vote IN 😉
Nice bloke says something nice
This country has gone to the dogs..
I wish, dogs are smashing...
Its more gone to the parasitic flesh weevils.
He's just virtue signalling.
(this is my favourite thing on the internet- it's completely infallible, literally everyone who has ever criticised someone for "virtue signalling" is a bona fide shitehawk.)
jambalaya - MemberBBC Sports presenter getting involved in politics.
Hang on a minute, you're not a serving politician are you?
REJOICE! REJOICE!
JAMBA WILL NO LONGER BE SPOUTING POLITICAL BOLLOCKS!!! 😀
The street parties shall commence forthwith!
Huzzah! 😀
Didn't Lineker get a right kicking on here just a few weeks ago?
Definitely not for being a left wing handwringer but I can't remember what for?
Can anyone remember the thread?
Definitely not for being a left wing handwringer but I can't remember what for?
For wearing shorts
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For wearing shorts
BAASTADD! BURN HIM!
BBC Sports presenter getting involved in politics.
I think you mean freelance broadcaster. I also think you mean being involved in human crisis not politics. Just because politicians and governments are involved it does not make it exclusively political.
@woppit: Joes lookin good (for a dead un)
We just need to boycott his other ventures too if you can give up / find alternatives to his TV and broadband services
This
Which is a pain in the bum when you want to support Geraint Thomas 😡
And it's actually quite heartening to see that only a few nutjobs seem to be in agreement with The Sun here.
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'nutjob' is too near the mark, if this thread wasn't online there'd be at least 10 of you engaged in group masturbation by this point. Best slow things down boys otherwise you won't last 5 pages 😆
if you can't identify the dichotomy of this front page, then ask someone you trust if you're a racist.
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I don't care how old those two are, we should let them in.
Got to say that Linekar is playing a blinder on this whole thing, and running rings around that vile Murdoch rag. He tweeted yesterday that he'd follow the Suns lead, and apologise in 25 years.
I' sure theyve realised by now that they picked a fight with the wrong person this time
Linker has always struck as one of the minority of footballers who has a few brain cells, and seems a decent bloke. I can't help thinking the BBC are secretly laughing away behind the scenes.
It's about time someone stood up to the Sun,amd other such rags. Unfortunately, it's not going to be anyone who can dish out any form of sanction.
Of all the players in this sorry saga, that MP David Davies (the Vegemite and teeth enthusiast, not the Brexit one) really is a rancid excuse for a human being.
The Daily Heil has had a pop at GL.
So on the balance of probability must be right.
Even the Torygraph has a columnist supporting his right to say it
[quote=torsoinalake ]Of all the players in this sorry saga, that MP David Davies (the Vegemite and teeth enthusiast, not the Brexit one) really is a rancid excuse for a human being.
He is my MP who I have met several times. He is a bit of a worm to be fair. A staunch Brexit supporter despite his constituency voting overwhelmingly to Remain. He also has a Hungarian wife. The fact that Hungary is moving very rapidly to the extreme right probably has nothing to do with his opinions either.
Even the Torygraph has a columnist supporting his right to say it
I'm sure they'll be sacked and it will return to it's normal diet of right wing racist diatribe....
I reckon the Sun will do a full demolition job on him, various mutterings abound that he was/is a bit of a shagger and they'll probably go for that next.
It's what they do. They are hateful and they revel in unlocking the worst parts of narrow minded bigots' tendencies. A lot of 'ordinary folk' read the Sun because it is easy. It doesn't challenge them to think about their views, it provides an affirmative comfort blanket of hateful prejudice.
Sadly, Brexit and the Sun are symptoms of the same national malaise.
It amazes me that people who've never given a second thought to the BBC's guidelines on conflicts of interest suddenly become bar-stool experts when someone tweets something nice about refugees.
BBC Sports presenter getting involved in politics.
This doesn't mean anything. It's just a bit of half-remembered, half-invented pub-bore "wisdom" that has passed into the minds of simpletons as if it's an actual thing.
You could try reading the BBC's guidelines on conflicts of interest and make a judgement for yourself. I just have done, so I'll save you the trouble and assure you that Gary Lineker has not breached any BBC guidelines. Not even close.
jambalaya - MemberBBC Sports presenter getting involved in politics.
You say it like it's a bad thing. 😕
Ignore
Edit - I was unaware he has tweeted for people not to vote for him.
He's asked that people don't vote for him in that;
https://twitter.com/GaryLineker/status/789794096521048064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
jambalaya - Member
BBC Sports presenter getting involved in politics.You say it like it's a bad thing.
It is to him.
I'd quite like some of the gutter 'journalists' to get involved in sport. Richard Littlejohn, 22 yards of turf, a cricket bat, a cricket ball and me. I'm sure I'd be able to rekindle some of the fire of my youth.
[url= http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/gary-lineker-the-sun-national-television-awards_uk_580b5945e4b056572d82c73f ]I've just voted for Gary :-)[/url]
To wander off-topic a little bit, but is anyone concerned about the way politics seems to be going at the moment? Brexit, racist/sexist nutter possibly becoming US president etc. At least the people of the 1930s had the excuse that they hadn't seen it all happen before. The way our generation is heading we really will be the most globally stupid of all.
Yep, very. It didn't start with the gas chambers, it started with people normalising hate and racism.
To wander off-topic a little bit, but is anyone concerned about the way politics seems to be going at the moment? Brexit, racist/sexist nutter possibly becoming US president etc. At least the people of the 1930s had the excuse that they hadn't seen it all happen before. The way our generation is heading we really will be the most globally stupid of all.
The generation of the 30s had "seen it all happen before" too, in colonial Africa and in numerous other examples of crass cruelty and stupidity that have always been a feature of human society.
A large minority of people are really, really stupid. They lack compassion, they are frightened of change, and of difference, and are suspicious of anyone who is less stupid than them.
They reject evidence, and nuanced argument, in favour of broad, simple ideas like "Nashnulty" and "Sovvrunty", although they've never really given any thought to what those things really mean. Because they don't want to. Because that's complicated. And these people don't do "complicated".
In times of war, having a bunch of cruel, stupid, easy-manipulated people is very useful. They'll fight our enemies, really, really hard, spurred on by simple ideas like "Oi lav mah caaantry."
But in times of peace, these people are just blockers. Blockers to progress and compassion and to creating more civilised societies.
I think I'm in love with hebdencyclist!
That's the single best enunciation of what I term "The Shithead Tendency". The tendency that allows government ministers to be applauded in some quarters for claiming "we've had enough of experts". A tendency that mistrusts intellect out of jealousy and nothing else.
A tendency that mistrusts intellect out of jealousy and nothing else.
The stupid are not jealous of the clever. They resent them. The stupid resent those who challenge, with evidence and fact, their simple "feelings" about how they think the world works.
The stupid haven't "had enough of experts" when those experts have built them smartphones, 50 inch HD televisions and nuclear weapons to defend their precious borders. But suggest to them that their simplistic nationalism is childish and irrational, and that being in the EU is a good idea for many reasons, or that being compassionate to refugees will impose a tiny cost to the country compared to wealthy tax-dodgers, ropey PFI contracts, useless vanity infrastructure projects, corrupt and inefficient defence contracts, or shoring up the losses of reckless private companies, and suddenly they've "had enough" of you.
Spot on Hebdencyclist. I couldn't agree more. Just been round a family do where a lot of opinions spouted were recycled straight from the Heil / Scum / Express. I sat quietly and left as soon as possible. No point arguing with some folk.
