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Oh How Sweet It Is....
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ALL HAIL KING LOUIS! :-).
As A Southern Blue I try to get to as many games as I can (including the FA Cup Final). Now as you can imagine, I am surround, by Gooners, Yiddos & Chelski fans, also the southern Red Shite but they're not worth it.
This morning, I walked into my office with such a big smile on my face as those glory hunting gobshites had nothing to say for a change. After trying to watch the game on one of the crappy links on the internet, I gave up and listened to it on Five Live. My Dad & I were jumping round the house, what a feeling! It put to bed the shocker on Saturday for me.
I love David Moyes, I Love Louis Saha & I Love Everton. So, fellow Blues, walk around today and bask in the glory of a fantastic performance, and victory!
All Hail King Louis.....HOW SWEET IT IS!!!!
COYB FTRS!
Mikey Cummins, Posted 11/02/2010 at 10:49:31
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I’d have raised an eyebrow at red sea pedestrian.
Now, who will be the first cuckoo of spring to come out with the usual, "It’s PC gone mad"?
Tottenham supporters call themselves the Yids so I think they’re game for it.
I hate it, this PC nonsense. It's mostly middle class white folks who get a bee in their bonnets over this stuff... Speaking as someone who attended one of the most multicultural schools in our fair city, I was lucky enough to have a massively diverse group of friends. It is my understanding that people who get involved with other cultures are usually given a ’free pass’ were political correctness is concerned, as my friend put it... "It fucking bothers me more when there’s some dickhead trying to protect my rights without getting to know, I’d rather have an openly racist cunt anyday, because at least you know where you stand with those twats."
My apologies for the expletives but I think it highlights the point perfectly.
However, I digress; yesterday... bliss.
COYB
I did, however, see the goals and I was mightily impressed by Saha’s second goal.... one touch on the chest and wham... in with his left, fucking brilliant stuff!
What’s also brilliant is our position in the table.... we really are in touching distance of 6th. If we get a few good results (and other results go our way) we could clinch a top six (if / maybe / possibly / whatever / I know!).
Beating Spurs and Villa would definitely help! And I will say, if Moyes can pull off a top six after the start we’ve had, he deserves a bloody medal!!
I am an expert on prejudice and discrimination. Even in old age my hair colouring is much as was Alan Ball’s in 1969. I have always preferred ’Ball of Fire’ or ’burnished bronze’ to describe my hair rather than the unimaginative use of the word ’ginger’.
Nick - I gave ’Mock the Week’ a fair trial, but but disliked its boorish competitiveness. Dara is very sweet (intelligent, but a Gooner), and the baldy you refer to, and some long thin northern guy who can’t bring himself to get into the macho mosh pit - but there is evil in the place - best avoided. I doubt that that a term such as ’Red Sea Pedestrian’ (Bertie Wooster?) would raise a smile nor even a hackle in that melee.
So, to football - Mikey, King Louis IX of France is the very same St Louis, as in Missouri, USA (as I’m sure you know). The question must be - how many fine performances (rather than the crude measure of goals) such as he gave last night does it take King Louis to become Saint Louis?
(I have history on my side here - Alex Young, The Vision himself - wasn’t a prolific goalscorer, but that was excused by the adoring tens of thousands. Possibly a future for Bily with us?)
Saha gave a masterclass of ball control last night. A video of his touches - foot, head, thigh and particularly the chest - should be shown to every apprentice for years to come.
I have no particular use for saints or kings myself, but hat Saha guy looks like a good one to me.
And what’s blue got to do with my personal identity? Don’t offend my id, bro, la!
I’m a Scouse, Irish, Taffey Scandeswegian - what you wanna do about it?
(Going for a lie down, now)
I don’t think that, in any context you care to think of, the modern usage of the word is in any way offensive. It is adapted for a very clear context.
Anyhoo, yes, COYB!
Again, until you’re part of that community, you really, REALLY don’t get a say in how such people are called.
It’s the minority (especially if with a history of persecution, which, umm, the Jews do) who set the agenda of naming.
I do. And as such I have the misfortune of knowing a lot of Tottenham fans. The term ’yid’ has been adapted to refer to all tottenham fans, not just the Jewish ones. All Tottenham fans chant ’yid army’ at the lane, regardless of whether they’re Jewish or not.
That’s why Mikey has used the term in his post. Because, down south, that is how Spurs fans refer to themselves.
ps: I’m not accusing you of being overly PC. I’ve been accused of that myself for having a go at people who call Benitez the fat Spanish waiter!
This is the time for those of you who have said something inappropriate to stand up and take your punishment.
How dare you call a club, known for their many Jewish fans (which they proudly proclaim during matches), for the Yids?! I can’t believe my eyes. It may well be just a stereotype, and by all means, that particular club has stolen a couple of players just in front of us... but calling them Yids? That is absolutley shocking.
I know we don’t miss the opportunity to call other people or clubs names such as "The shite", "Manure", "Gooners", "Chelski", "Gobshites", "Fat Spanish Waiters", Cunt (S Gerrard)... but calling Spurs fans Yids?? That is astonishing...
(Feeling sick of my own irony)
Talking about minorities, and their rights to dictate what is right or wrong to say. Spurs fans have no problems chanting "Yid army" regardless of being Jews or not.
According to this article from The Guardian, there could well be a new minority in the capital this year.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/sep/03/race.world1
Is it appropriate for a London-based team to chant "White army" nowadays? (Regardless of race)
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