Thread: the political correctness and do gooders have gone too far

Originally Posted by incisor

it's not cool but sometimes things get let to run so they can self moderate...

picking the line is not always black and white tho some would like it to be....

No. Fair enough. I wasn't suggesting the mods are cool with it, poor choice of words.

Originally Posted by AndyG

Does AFL fall into the religion category

According to the wonderful poem "Life Cycle" by Bruce Dawe, it is even more important than that.


Life Cycle (for Big Jim Phelan)
by Bruce Dawe

When children are born in Victoria
they are wrapped in club-colours, laid in beribboned cots,
having already begun a lifetime’s barracking.

Carn, they cry, Carn … feebly at first
while parents playfully tussle with them
for possession of a rusk: Ah, he’s a little Tiger! (And they are …)

Hoisted shoulder-high at their first League game
they are like innocent monsters who have been years swimming
towards the daylight’s roaring empyrean

Until, now, hearts shrapnelled with rapture,
they break surface and are forever lost,
their minds rippling out like streamers

In the pure flood of sound, they are scarfed with light, a voice
like the voice of God booms from the stands
Ooohh you bludger and the covenant is sealed.

Hot pies and potato-crisps they will eat,
they will forswear the Demons, cling to the Saints
and behold their team going up the ladder into Heaven,

And the tides of life will be the tides of the home-team’s fortunes
- the reckless proposal after the one-point win,
the wedding and honeymoon after the grand final …

They will not grow old as those from the more northern states grow old,
for them it will always be three-quarter time
with the scores level and the wind advantage in the final term,

That passion persisting, like a race-memory, through the welter of seasons,
enabling old-timers by boundary fences to dream of resurgent lions
and centaur-figures from the past to replenish continually the present,

So that mythology may be perpetually renewed
and Chicken Smallhorn return like the maize-god
in a thousand shapes, the dancers changing

But the dance forever the same – the elderly still
loyally crying Carn … Carn … (if feebly) unto the very end,
having seen in the six-foot recruit from Eaglehawk their hope of salvation.

I won't stand for this unmitigated attack on the working class. I can't believe the hide of some inner city latte sipping gay whale loving watermelon sheeple that would suggest working class heroes are somehow lesser because they chose to save water, the environment and generally carry this great nation on their muscled, bronzed shoulders by sharing a cup.

How dare you, Sir!

I wasn't going to have a beer tonight, but you talked me into it.
The best beer is the next beer, i better slope off & get a six pack of SP

Originally Posted by incisor

it's not cool but sometimes things get let to run so they can self moderate...

picking the line is not always black and white tho some would like it to be....

You'll have the ethics board on your case for running unchecked social experiments Inc.
Sitting in social research classes often has me musing about the results of a social experiment on here would be.
But then I remember that I hate social research with a passion and go back to reading tech threads in lectures

Originally Posted by akelly

I won't stand for this unmitigated attack on the working class.

I was going to disguise my slur on the working class by referring to then as "blue collar workers".

However since the colours blue and puce have come to have political connotations on this forum, I was concerned about breaching the restrictions on political comment.

Am I right in assuming that you have used the salutation "Sir" to imply that I am so far removed from the working classes that I have been added to the list of those to receive a knighthood?

Originally Posted by incisor

read the rules

it doesn't say what you seem to think it says...

Soooo, basically anything goes if we ask foist?
And how many of the peeps in this here Forum actually ask a Mod before they post something?
I recently got Mod-ed because I wrote the word God in one of my posts.
It wasn't negative, it wasn't positive. But the post got removed. It was part of a one liner.
Seems to me, the rules are as clear as the mud inside my wheel arches.
How do I become a Mod?

Originally Posted by discovery39

Soooo, basically anything goes if we ask foist?
And how many of the peeps in this here Forum actually ask a Mod before they post something?
I recently got Mod-ed because I wrote the word God in one of my posts.
It wasn't negative, it wasn't positive. But the post got removed. It was part of a one liner.
Seems to me, the rules are as clear as the mud inside my wheel arches.
How do I become a Mod?

Next time instead of God use Dios and you will be Ok