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[Freeman's Wharfer]

1 hour ago, Wymsey said:

Maybe, but how would it make you feel if you work with the person who did it after looking at who made the comment?

None of my business what my colleagues get up to at the weekend in their spare time.

 

I don’t care how they vote, who they sleep with, what they say on the internet, what they eat or drink, where they go.

 

I care about how they conduct themselves in the work place and how they get their job done. They’re colleagues, and that’s therefore the only business of theirs that I have any right to even start to take an interest in.

[Asha]

And why do you think they do that?

 

Because it gets such an over-the-top reaction. 

 

Trying to ruin the life of some random guy on Facebook because he put a crash emoji in a stupid post? Fvcking hell, man... get a grip. 

 

It was obviously a tragedy and it's ultimate numbskullery to joke about it, but some Leicester fans need to remember that Vichai wasn't actually THEIR Dad.

 

 

[Langston]

5 hours ago, Nalis said:

'Grant, 47. Carling drinking Brexiteer.  Beats the missus when bored'

 

Cov. Chelsea. Rangers FC. Divorced. Proud dad to two boys who are my world. I say it as it is if you don't like it jog on !

Edited 14 January 2024 by Langston

[Gamble92]

Hilarious how I got told we were pushing the rivalry in August by some lads writing cov scum and they've done all this.

 

The irony is we only wrote cov scum because there's literally nothing in their history. Who we supposed to have a pop at? The Tesco next to their ground? 

 

 

[tylesta]

4 hours ago, Asha said:

And why do you think they do that?

 

Because it gets such an over-the-top reaction. 

 

Trying to ruin the life of some random guy on Facebook because he put a crash emoji in a stupid post? Fvcking hell, man... get a grip. 

 

It was obviously a tragedy and it's ultimate numbskullery to joke about it, but some Leicester fans need to remember that Vichai wasn't actually THEIR Dad.

 

 

But he was tops dad and he is apart of the leicester family and always will be! Will be apart of our memories 

 

5 hours ago, Asha said:

And why do you think they do that?

 

Because it gets such an over-the-top reaction. 

 

Trying to ruin the life of some random guy on Facebook because he put a crash emoji in a stupid post? Fvcking hell, man... get a grip. 

 

It was obviously a tragedy and it's ultimate numbskullery to joke about it, but some Leicester fans need to remember that Vichai wasn't actually THEIR Dad.

 

 

****ing arsehole

[iancognito]

6 hours ago, FoxSince88 said:

some of these above probably reckon there was nothing wrong with the mocking of Bradley the young Sunderland fans death either, if you can say something after a few beers have the balls to repeat it on request 

No, it's vile and offensive, mocking a kid dying of cancer is as low as you can go but the more people show these banners and posts, the more it happens. The Bradley one rightly needed calling out because that's the misery of one family being treated as a joke, the crash affected the club as a whole and the fanbase is being antagonised as a whole by a small section of another fanbase.

 

One random banner you can pity them for their shocking grammar and being a lone idiot but it soon becomes obvious the reactions to one banner create another 5, so you let the police do their job, pull them down and don't give it any more oxygen.

[FoxInTheBirstallBox]

8 hours ago, Freeman's Wharfer said:

None of my business what my colleagues get up to at the weekend in their spare time.

 

I don’t care how they vote, who they sleep with, what they say on the internet, what they eat or drink, where they go.

 

I care about how they conduct themselves in the work place and how they get their job done. They’re colleagues, and that’s therefore the only business of theirs that I have any right to even start to take an interest in.

I just paraphrase this and call them c***s but exactly this. I don't care who they are or what they do,.I'm there to pay my mortgage 

[FoxInTheBirstallBox]

2 hours ago, tylesta said:

But he was tops dad and he is apart of the leicester family and always will be! Will be apart of our memories 

 

****ing arsehole

I understand the passions run high. But if the last few years have shown us anything, it is that the higher ups don't actually care for the fans so why get so bothered? 

[RoboFox]

Imagine how shit your life has to be to think "yeah, that's a great idea" 

 

I love football as much as anyone but it doesn't half attract the dregs of society. Fanbases chocka full of proper room temperature IQ smooth brains. 

[Muzzy_no7]

Wonder if those who are truly massively offended by the banners laugh at Ricky Gervais stand-up? 
 

Let Cov be Cov and move on. 

[RonnieTodger]

Mad that they’ve paid to get it printed 

[BKLFox]

Those suggesting it’s just idiots mouthing off and it’s football it happens don’t give it the time of day & that it’s a waste of police resource if they pull individuals for it really think it’s harmless & if ignored it it will go away?

Do they also thinking wolf whistling the female official or telling them to get back in the kitchen is ok as it’s football they should just ignore it, after all it’s aimed at someone else a, so why should people get personally offended?

 

Society is changing and a whole raft of things that were deemed “ok” in yesterday year are no long appropriate today.
  

There is legislation against offensive & tragedy chanting done anywhere, this isn’t police just going overboard on football supporters, nor is it police or soft centred individuals trying to suppress stadium atmospheres, it’s vile and goes against social values & should rightly be pulled up.

This isn’t just 2 isolated incidents against Leicester it happens up and down the country every week affecting the lives of people in various degrees, people I don’t even know but people I’d rather stand behind than these green street type wannabes trying to act the big men.

Would they sing these chants to their gran or go into their work place, a place were they could get fired (cancelled) for incorrectly calling someone he/she and sing these chants….probably not so why in a stadium?

[Gamble92]

23 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Wonder if those who are truly massively offended by the banners laugh at Ricky Gervais stand-up? 
 

Let Cov be Cov and move on. 

Ricky Gervais who sells like 200 million tickets worldwide? Bit of a large demographic you're targeting there Muzzy 

[DennisNedry]

14 hours ago, FoxSince88 said:

Forwarded the comment he made to his employer scumbag 

To be honest I find it far more out of order trying to get someone sacked. 

[hackneyfox]

Had the person on this board that mentioned the the Coventry blitz been banned?

Over 554 people lost their lives.

[Bayfox]

36 minutes ago, RonnieTodger said:

Mad that they’ve paid to get it printed 

You have to assume they probably didn't as I'm sure no right minded company would take money for it.

[Trav Le Bleu]

Some people accuse the mods on here of being offensive banners.

[murphy]

Why is this still being discussed?  I mean who cares that a couple of Cov lowlifes acted like Cov lowlifes? 

 

It was a major own goal anyway as it just says to the world "We are Coventry and we are scum"

[grobyfox1990]

3 minutes ago, Wymsey said:

If I was their employer and noticed that an employee I hired had made such comments on social media, which could negatively affect the company's integrity/morals, I'd be having words of advice of that employee imo.

 

There's two sides of a coin etc..

You’ve changed your argument to being their employer, rather than colleague, now. Which of course prompts different connotations and scenarios. Different firms have different policies, especially based on how regulated they are. But your original comment of ‘how would you feel if it was someone you worked with’ which we can assume you mean colleague, has been wholly answered here I would think.

[Corky]

I agree that I don't think it warrants losing employment or things like that but if something did happen I have little sympathy. You are in full control of what you type and if you resort to it then tough shit if negativity comes your way. Can't even use anger or frustration as an excuse as they won the ****ing game!

 

Cannot stand this side of football where human tragedies are used to do whatever is intended. Usually it is from grown adults as well.

[leicsmac]

5 minutes ago, Corky said:

I agree that I don't think it warrants losing employment or things like that but if something did happen I have little sympathy. You are in full control of what you type and if you resort to it then tough shit if negativity comes your way. Can't even use anger or frustration as an excuse as they won the ****ing game!

 

Cannot stand this side of football where human tragedies are used to do whatever is intended. Usually it is from grown adults as well.

Yep.

 

There's too many people out there who think freedom of speech/action also means freedom from consequences... when in fact the freedom to suffer those consequences is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

[ozleicester]

14 hours ago, Freeman's Wharfer said:

None of my business what my colleagues get up to at the weekend in their spare time.

 

I don’t care how they vote, who they sleep with, what they say on the internet, what they eat or drink, where they go.

 

I care about how they conduct themselves in the work place and how they get their job done. They’re colleagues, and that’s therefore the only business of theirs that I have any right to even start to take an interest in.

 

6 hours ago, FoxInTheBirstallBox said:

I just paraphrase this and call them c***s but exactly this. I don't care who they are or what they do,.I'm there to pay my mortgage 

Yeh, i dont care if they are fvcking children and beating their partners, as long as they turn up for their shift on time

[grobyfox1990]

43 minutes ago, Corky said:

I agree that I don't think it warrants losing employment or things like that but if something did happen I have little sympathy. You are in full control of what you type and if you resort to it then tough shit if negativity comes your way. Can't even use anger or frustration as an excuse as they won the ****ing game!

 

Cannot stand this side of football where human tragedies are used to do whatever is intended. Usually it is from grown adults as well.

 

37 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Yep.

 

There's too many people out there who think freedom of speech/action also means freedom from consequences... when in fact the freedom to suffer those consequences is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

So where is the line? How do we be proportionate? Of course consequences should come his way, but losing his job?!?!?! Anger and frustration are only a few emotions, the bloke has had his best day out at the football forever, had a few too many carlings and could not handle the coke his mate cobbo from Nuneaton gave him. Thereafter made a stupid, presumably one-off, comment on the interweb. It is not comparable to racism, homophobia or sexism. I really cannot tally as to why this should fundamentally alter his life forever.

I was raucously laughing at the Ricky Gervais show on Netflix the other night. Will the line keep on coming down as to eventually report me for finding his comments, which are far more derisory than Granto's, funny? i am being flippant here but you get the drift.

[grobyfox1990]

37 minutes ago, ozleicester said:

 

Yeh, i dont care if they are fvcking children and beating their partners, as long as they turn up for their shift on time

There's always one that takes it completely out of context and loses all grasp of reality to make a point, this is why I love the internet. 

[leicsmac]

1 minute ago, grobyfox1990 said:

 

So where is the line? How do we be proportionate? Of course consequences should come his way, but losing his job?!?!?! Anger and frustration are only a few emotions, the bloke has had his best day out at the football forever, had a few too many carlings and could not handle the coke his mate cobbo from Nuneaton gave him. Thereafter made a stupid, presumably one-off, comment on the interweb. It is not comparable to racism, homophobia or sexism. I really cannot tally as to why this should fundamentally alter his life forever.

I was raucously laughing at the Ricky Gervais show on Netflix the other night. Will the line keep on coming down as to eventually report me for finding his comments, which are far more derisory than Granto's, funny? i am being flippant here but you get the drift.

Unfortunately, that's something that will never be universally agreed upon and so neither will what would be a proportionate response. I'm more concerned with the implication made by some that there should be no consequences of meaning at all.

 

Speaking personally, if I were his employer I wouldn't take drastic action, but as said above, I wouldn't really shed a tear or look to defend the guy if his employer decided to be drastic, either.

 

NB. With Gervais, he punches down but you can tell it comes from a desire to shock in the name of humour and everyone is targeted. With some of these comments, I'm not sure humour is the objective here, rather seeking to cause deliberate harm. The two are different, and given the sometimes tribal nature of football you can't assume they're all one offs, either.