BFTD Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Of course it makes sense. Take Rugby league for example, It would be madness to suggest women should be allowed to participate in the men's game. Non contact sports such you could make an argument for. Course they should. Whether there'd be a substantial number of lassies that teams would want to take on is another matter. But, much like Stan's right to have babies, nobody should trample on women's rights to play with the men if they want to. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteRoseKillie Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Assuming you're talking about the English national team...they do, don't they? Do we have a women's national team? Can't say anything about the media being shite and patronising as I never read stuff about the women's game due to not having an interest, but they usual are about most things. Anyway, come back in twenty years; there'll be plenty of money in the women's game by then. Nah, they don't. What they do continually reference is 1966, to the extent of one commentator billing a game as a massive clash between former world cup finalists - a friendly against Sweden... Obviously it's be nice if we'd a world cup to boast about, but it's going on half a century now, and its getting a bit Boeing for the rest of us now. A bit like Lisbon, and (in a different, though equally cringeworthy way)Munich, there's very little more embarrassing than football fans banging on about some "defining" event which happened before they were born.* As for the women's game, I quite enjoy it but, like Rugby League, I see it as a slightly different version of the original game. * Eighteen months old when Killie won the league... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Especially in football, women competing alongside men is never going to happen. The question was asked to the coach of the German team who horsed Glasgow City (who murder everyone else weekly in Scotland) about 18-0 on aggregate in the womens' Champions League a few years ago. He said he'd been coaching women for 20+ years, and reckoned on average women are 20-30% smaller, weaker and slower than men - even an exceptional female team couldn't compete and would just get muscled off the ball by the most mediocre male one. Good team talk though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 The English men's national side aren't referred to as lions by the press? They absolutely are, you know; all the time. Usually with the 'brave' epithet tagged on, at least until their inevitable poor performance, when they go out "with a whimper rather than a roar". Having said that, I think they refer to our side as The Lions too. We should refer to our brave boys as haggises; "England's lions choke on Scotland's haggis" sounds suitably silly, albeit pornographic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 (edited) They're referred to as 'the 3 lions' all the time Women's football is quality, started watching games on BT sport, it's so bad it's entertaining Edited July 28, 2015 by 1320Lichtie 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 When West end student types describe something as 'chill' As in 'Yeah, me and Paige were at that vegan teahouse last night, it's pretty chill.' Or 'Did you see Younes last night? He was snorting the lines of M-Cat faster than Ewan could rack them. That dude has no chill.' What shite and improper use of the word. I've never heard this before, but by and large, West End student types are utter c***s. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberdeenBud Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Someone tied a cable tie too tight on a box. I had to cut it off so I had to try and force the scissors into the smallest fucking gap known to man and for some reason the cable tie snapped while I was pushing the scissors and they just went straight through the bottom of my thumb. Fun and games. Get on the phone to Quantam Claims. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberdeenBud Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 I never understand the rage for women's football. You're not the only one to complain about the coverage and/or equality on here. Why do you let it bother you? Because it's absolutely shite and the patronising coverage from the BBC is cringeworthy. Constantly referring to them as the "lionesses" is just awful. If they constantly called the men's team "The Lions" then you'd be thinking wtf is going on and laughing at them. Nobody actually gives a f**k about women's football, there's no money in it. I'd rather we got a decent Scottish football programme instead of wasting licence fee money on women's football. Pretty much this. It's a minority sport that no one really cares about. The coverage it gets would benefit other sports, eg Scottish Football, that are infinitely more popular but get far less coverage in proportion. Ever since they got slated for being sexist the bbc have over compensated far too much. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raidernation Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 The repeated mispronunciation of the word "nuclear", by people who really should know better e.g. science correspondants, NASA people etc. Why the f**k do you think a word spelt N-U-C-L-E-A-R would be pronounced "noo-kil-ur"? every time I hear someone pronounce it like that I want them to suffer some horrible illness, like leprosy maybe. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Pretty much this. It's a minority sport that no one really cares about. The coverage it gets would benefit other sports, eg Scottish Football, that are infinitely more popular but get far less coverage in proportion. Ever since they got slated for being sexist the bbc have over compensated far too much. The money scottish football gets from the bbc is an absolute joke Gary Linekar as an individual gets more in his pocket, wouldn't surprise me if c***s like Shearer etc are the same. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WFAANW Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 The repeated mispronunciation of the word "nuclear", by people who really should know better e.g. science correspondants, NASA people etc. Why the f**k do you think a word spelt N-U-C-L-E-A-R would be pronounced "noo-kil-ur"? every time I hear someone pronounce it like that I want them to suffer some horrible illness, like leprosy maybe. Similar to crab people. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilostmyself Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 When you're on the train in the morning and some woman sits next to you drenched in perfume. It's always stinking and you know you'll smell like that all day. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 When you're on the train in the morning and some woman sits next to you drenched in perfume. It's always stinking and you know you'll smell like that all day. ^^^^ that's the story he told his wife 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 The repeated mispronunciation of the word "nuclear", by people who really should know better e.g. science correspondants, NASA people etc. Why the f**k do you think a word spelt N-U-C-L-E-A-R would be pronounced "noo-kil-ur"? every time I hear someone pronounce it like that I want them to suffer some horrible illness, like leprosy maybe. Isn't that an American thing? Bit like how they pronounce pavement as "sidewalk" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamdunk Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Aloominum. And meer. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 "Pasta" with an RP "a" - "I'll have the pawsta" and "Craig" as "Cregg" - "Oh, look, Elmer - that's Ailsa Cregg" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranaldo Bairn Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 I saw a Canadian comedian called Craig something do a wee joke about that, how Scottish people correct his pronunciation of his own name: "Hello son, what's your name?" "Hi, my name's Cregg." "Nice to meet you, CRAIG." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerrdavidson95 Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 I went to the Women's Champions League match at the Excelsior between Glasgow City and PSG and the quality was guff, bar the two well worked goals. I only went to see the UEFA flag flying over the stadium and the Champions League anthem being played, and they didn't even play it. Thats inequality, I say. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 The women's game in Scotland is ridiculously uncompetitive. I watched a few games online and Glasgow City would regularly pump team 12/13 - 0 Even this season, they've managed to score 63 goals in the opening 12 games. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutz_the_Squirrel Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 (edited) JLS sing: Every minute's like an hour, Every hour's like a day,Every day lasts forever,But what else am i gonna do,I'd wait forever and a day for you, So, two days then? p***ks. Edited July 29, 2015 by Nutz_the_Squirrel 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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