Gary Lineker big brass balls?

whilst your at it, would you (and the other handful of big hitters) mind terribly refraining from turning every bloody thread you touch into pointless point scoring bickering being about yourselves.

FFS who have I accused of being a racist now?? According to Ed I apparently accuse anyone who disagrees of being a Nazi, and now according to you I squeal racism at people of whom, according to you, only about 10% are racist. What the actual **** are you on about?

Hold that thought. I’ll point it out next time you do it.

And how about not turning every thread discussing contentious issues into a personal attack on me? Could that be a possibility? This thread is supposed to about Gary Lineker, not me.

I have nothing against you personally, I don’t know you from a cheese sandwich. I’m just kinda bored of you throwing hand grenades and then running behind feigned innocence every time you get called out on it.

The mistake you make is thinking everyone else is daft.

bored of you throwing hand grenades

I hadn’t posted anything for a month on this thread. Delayed action grenade obviously.

The mistake you make is thinking everyone else is daft.

You claim that I wilfully call people who aren’t racist, racists, I’m wrong 90% of the time according to you, and TJ accuses me of being wilfully blind to racism and not seeing it.

Well I am definitely not smart enough to work out the logic in that.

And yeah you obviously have got an issue with me, otherwise you wouldn’t have come back to make one more personal attack.

and TJ accuses me of being wilfully blind to racism and not seeing it.

Willfully blind to racism in anything around brexit

whilst your at it, would you (and the other handful of big hitters) mind terribly refraining from turning every bloody thread you touch into pointless point scoring bickering.

It really is rather tedious.

They’re off their meds. It comes in waves.

Willfully blind to racism in anything around brexit

Is there no limit to my failings!

Edit: You don’t know my views concerning the connection between brexit and racism because I don’t discuss them. All you know is that I don’t believe that the majority of voters in the UK are racists. Certainly no more than other countries and a lot less than most.

No

All you know is that I don’t believe that the majority of voters in the UK are racists.

Whereas I believe a lot of of them are. And a lot are homophobic, Islamophobic and many other things. They won’t say it in public as they at least realise (or most of them) that it is not acceptable these days.

As most of us know, Brexit was very much a racist decision for most people who voted for it so that is a lot of people. Lets hope they felt it was worth it, I guess you did…

All I know is that Ernie is a vexatious poster who probably needs to take a day off from this place. Others too could benefit from a break.

This forum does not belong to any individual poster so why act like it?

All you know is that I don’t believe that the majority of voters in the UK are racists.

and no one has said they are – just enough to tip the brexit vote and to tip the Red wall to blue

All I know is that Ernie is a vexatious poster who probably needs to take a day off from this place. Others too could benefit from a break.

I am gong to disagree strongly with this.  Ernie is a poster with views that are not in step with the group think and who apart from on this one area makes very good analysis

They are in step with Mick Lynch’s veiws though, does that count?

I think probably not.

Edit : I agree that I should probably have a day off though. I have no idea how I allowed myself to get dragged onto this thread by a daft personal attack from Ed. He only had to launch the personal attack and then withdraw from the thread to watch the result. Good move on his part! I’m doing part of the South Downs Way tomorrow that should be a tad more interesting than stw bickering.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/31/praise-be-to-mick-lynch-the-brexit-arse-made-good

Lynch, it appears, has taught me the meaning of cognitive dissonance.

🙂

For Lynch is undoubtedly a Brexit arse of the first water. And all Lynch’s Brexit-voting members are arses too. How’s that Lexit working out for you lads? How was voting against the EU because you “support basic socialist policies of workers’ rights, public ownership, and opposition to austerity and racism”? I hope Nigel Farage sent flowers and chocolates. Boris Johnson must have been laughing all the way to the next ex-KGB agent’s son’s private Italian hilltop party. Lynch and the RMT will be first up against the wall come my Crushed Velvet Remainers’ Revolution.

Madame used to take 60 kids to the UK every year. They spent about £300 each on the UK part of the trip some of which went to pay RMT workers’ wages. Since Brexit she takes them on an exchange with a school in Germany. We get on great with the German teachers. 79% of school trips to the UK have stopped.

Edit: You started with calling me and others with similar views “Nazis”, Ernie. I quoted you, read back, that was the start of it all. You provoked and as Cougar pointed out, we called you out.

It’s perfectly possible to talk about red wall racists (because that’s what they are without thinking or stating they are Nazis, which I never have.

Fell free to continue distorting and misquoting people which is what I find most irritating about you. I’ve made two contributions to this thread today, that’s quite enough.

Have a read through the last couple of pages, mods, this kind of crap is why 2 day old threads are half way up the first page of threads.

You started with calling me and others with similar views “Nazis”, Ernie.

That’s just made up nonsense. I have never called you a nazi. I don’t recall ever expressing any opinion about you.

Fell free to continue distorting and misquoting people which is what I find most irritating about you.

Are you for real?

Have a read through the last couple of pages, mods, this kind of crap is why 2 day old threads are half way up the first page of threads.

Because people like you launch personal attacks on other forum users?

As far as I am aware I have not made any personal attack on anyone on this thread. But you certainly don’t pull your punches Ed.

I don’t think that constant personal attacks contribute much to the forum.

Godwin!  Godwin!  Godwin!

Bingo!

Oh please, make it stop… Seriously 😐

All I know is that tjagain is a vexatious poster who probably needs to take a month off from this place.

FTFY

All the big hitter point scoring got me thinking of this.

No, no, no, no, no.

Won’t someone please ban me, pleaaaase!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Burn my last packet of fags, pour the last bottle of Vodka down the sink, infest my weed plants with greenfly and wipe STW from the www.

Flounce etc.

Have a read through the last couple of pages, mods, this kind of crap is why 2 day old threads are half way up the first page of threads.

You can always use the Report button

Erm… please can we crowd fund extra Dev resource on this site to add an enforced interval between posts of say… 2 hours on some individuals who always trash these threads with their relentless bickering please? Every discussion with a vague political content gets trashed by these machine gun posters who post faster than they think.

If you are wondering who I am referring to? Well its anyone who posts more frequently than every 2 hours.

Que arguments of “Oh no I dont” etc etc

Supposed grown ups behaving like kids in a playground. Dreadful.

How do people have the time to post in such volume? Do they ride at all? Watch sport? Read?
I did my first road 100k of the year, and now vegetating in a pub.
Oh and Gary Lineker.

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Erm… please can we crowd fund extra Dev resource on this site to add an enforced interval between posts of say… 2 hours on some individuals who always trash these threads with their relentless bickering please? Every discussion with a vague political content gets trashed by these machine gun posters who post faster than they think.

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That’s a frankly brilliant idea.

Its always the same people…

Yep, can’t imagine why a rag owned by a 7 figure cash donor to the Tory party would run that headline.

Unless I am missing something this isnt the case.
The porn king sold it to Trinity mirror group back in 2018 at which point Trinity changed its name to Reach.
So we have the same company owning both the more left wing mirror and the Daily Diana/Snowmageddon.

Whereas I believe a lot of of them are. And a lot are homophobic, Islamophobic and many other things. They won’t say it in public as they at least realise (or most of them) that it is not acceptable these days.

100%
But its not about what they say, rather how people think.

In my observation of people, all are racist bigots, homophobes etc, but far as I can tell thats perfectly normal for the human mind.

what you have to do is remind yourself, that people who look nothing like you, or follow different cultures that deep down they are exactly the same. Same hopes, same fears, same worries, same needs.

Well GB News have managed to turn the story concerning Richard Sharp’s shameful resignation into an attack on Gary Lineker.

The sub-headline might acknowledge the story:

Richard Sharp has resigned as chairman of the corporation

But the main headline doesn’t:

Gary Lineker hypocrisy laid bare as woke presenter wades into BBC row – ‘Like his football career, he’s there for the tap-ins!’

https://www.gbnews.com/celebrity/gary-lineker-woke-bbc-tv-news-latest

He’s been polishing his balls on Twitter again, well done Gary 🙂

Who’d have thought that in 2023 a football pundit, an ex-daytime telly quiz show assistant and the lead singer of a 70s punk rock band are doing more to hold the govt to account than the leader of the opposition…..sad times

No doubt usual suspects will be along soon to take over this thread and take us to the land of whataboutery

🤦‍♂️

Well done Lineker

Oh god! Now the Keir Starmer thread has been shut this is going to be every thread now, isn’t it?

If you chose the wrong tyres for Llandegla then somehow  it’ll all be Keir Starmers fault 🙄

looks like I’m going to have to retire this – goodbye Starmer sign – but as our usual 4 or 5 spirit-crushingly tedious STW revolutionaries pile in to wreck thread after thread, we’ll all be thinking it

Let the orgy of competitive virtue-signalling commence…

If you chose the wrong tyres for Llandegla then somehow it’ll all be Keir Starmers fault

I know you are obsessed about Keir Starmer not receiving any criticism but there is no need to bring it up where it is completely irrelevant.

This thread is about Gary Lineker’s criticism of Suella Braverman.

Apparently Jonathan Gullis has said that Lineker is a ‘snooty sneering “star”‘ who has ‘a limited capacity to understand what is really going on’

Which coming from Gullis undoubtedly adds value to Lineker’s comment.

As someone who doesn’t do X/Twitter, anyone care to enlighten me on what Lineker has said now?

It involves Suella Braverman, claims of “hate marches”, and the crises in the M*ddl* E*st, which cannot currently be discussed on stw.

Like any sane person Lineker thinks it’s not on for Israel to be killing civilians in their effort to eradicate the Hamas problem.

what Lineker has said now?

Something about VAR and the off-side rule but applied to politics.

Ooh, how incredibly brave and edgy of him – after saying the square root of nothing over the last three weeks about either the October 7th attacks or the release of hostages