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Today the main headline on the BBC website has been controversy over a proposed European football 'super league', and there have already been protests and demos in response to it.
Over the past two years it's gone from Brexit (both for and against), XR, BLM, Kill The Bill and now this footie thing.
Just one big issue after another!
MyNameIsTerry
20-04-21, 18:29
Gary Neville wants to see them all punished severely https://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/agressive/t0140.gifhttps://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/agressive/t0141.gifhttps://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/agressive/t0147.gifhttps://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/agressive/t0150.gifhttps://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/religion/t0821.gif
MyNameIsTerry
20-04-21, 18:34
You missed off Cuthbert the Caterpillar cake. I'm marching for that! :biggrin:
Steve Bray announced a return to shout various things like rejoin. He was seen Tweeting a few weeks back getting ready to use the rule of 6 for it...and encouraging people to get around the rules by gathering in as many groups of 6 as possible. So that's probably 2 groups then given the more recent political moves over vaccines...:biggrin: He might as well have a rule of 100 since no one is enforcing much anyway now.
They think it's all over with the Super League....It IS now...
ankietyjoe
22-04-21, 14:26
Vindication for 49 years of a complete apathy for football is finally mine.
WiredIncorrectly
22-04-21, 15:35
I'm so glad I dislike football.
I'm so glad I dislike football.
I've always personally found footie so overrated. Even hearing the din from the crowds and the commentators' constant hyperactive patter when matches are being shown live on TV really puts me on edge.
Actually being present in the stadium at a match as a punter would be pretty damn terrifying for me, what with all the deafening din and the thought of getting my head kicked in if I accidentally looked at another punter a bit funny!
WiredIncorrectly
23-04-21, 17:26
I've always personally found footie so overrated. Even hearing the din from the crowds and the commentators' constant hyperactive patter when matches are being shown live on TV really puts me on edge.
Actually being present in the stadium at a match as a punter would be pretty damn terrifying for me, what with all the deafening din and the thought of getting my head kicked in if I accidentally looked at another punter a bit funny!
I went to a few Birmingham City games as a kid. It was enjoyable then, but now ... hell no. Yes, it would be damned terrifying for me ha ha.
I went to a few Birmingham City games as a kid. It was enjoyable then, but now ... hell no. Yes, it would be damned terrifying for me ha ha.
I often feel the same thoughts about going to certain gigs (live music concerts) once they finally start happening again.
I always used to help my brother who played drums in a covers band from the late 90s through the mid-2000s, and some of the venues we played would give me full-on panic attacks nowadays, even though aggro from the punters in general is probably no more prevalent now than it's ever really been, but I just feel far more hypervigilant towards such phenomena now than ever before, despite the fact that even back in the day the vast majority of events passed peacefully without any major 'bovver'!
Perhaps I was just fortunate at the time, and never brushed with the full-on 'hellholes' of venues that were always ravaged by epic punch-ups and sometimes even shootings and/or stabbings (e.g, the Hacienda in Manchester, and various others of its ilk up and down the country).
WiredIncorrectly
23-04-21, 21:14
I was due to go to a Pete and Bas gig but it was called off due to COVID. I was looking forward to it to be honest. The anxiety would have been all over the place, but I often find once you're there it's not as bad. It depends on the size and behavior of the crowds though. I haven't been to a venue in a very long time, but oddly the terroist attack isn't something that causes me to worry. It didn't cross my mind until you mentioned it.
Clubbing today is much different to what it was. I think every generation says this, but when I went to clubs there was the odd punch up but rarely people getting stabbed, or killed. It feels more commonplace now. It doesn't matter what genre of music you're into, you can bet there will more than 1 fight at the venue that night.
Entering a mosh pit is on the bucket list though.
MyNameIsTerry
24-04-21, 05:27
Knives were certainly around in my youth but it was bottles that got used more. Broken bottles.
Glaswegians older than me would definitely know of higher knife crime.
Knives were certainly around in my youth but it was bottles that got used more. Broken bottles.
Glaswegians older than me would definitely know of higher knife crime.
Yes, I recall people talking about 'glassings' far more back in the 90s and early 2000s, and I think 'aggro' overall was actually more commonplace in pubs, nightclubs, etc back then.
I think nowadays our general perception of threats and potential hazards is far greater than the reality.
Also I'm not sure if shootings and stabbings are actually more prevalent in such places nowadays than previously, especially as security is usually far more stringent at the 'higher-risk' venues.
Someone posted a thread on here a couple of years ago (pre-pandemic) about the violent crime 'epidemic' in London and their 'fear of getting killed', and someone mentioned that they recall there being similar problems back in the early-mid 90s, but it didn't really seem to trouble the media back then to the same extent that it does today, unless it was extremely serious, of course.
Plus of course we didn't have 24/7 rolling news channels, let alone social media, back then.
Neither were CCTV cameras as widespread back then as they are today.
I was due to go to a Pete and Bas gig but it was called off due to COVID. I was looking forward to it to be honest. The anxiety would have been all over the place, but I often find once you're there it's not as bad. It depends on the size and behavior of the crowds though. I haven't been to a venue in a very long time, but oddly the terroist attack isn't something that causes me to worry. It didn't cross my mind until you mentioned it.
Clubbing today is much different to what it was. I think every generation says this, but when I went to clubs there was the odd punch up but rarely people getting stabbed, or killed. It feels more commonplace now. It doesn't matter what genre of music you're into, you can bet there will more than 1 fight at the venue that night.
Entering a mosh pit is on the bucket list though.
A band that me and my dad have known for years actually did a tour supporting Roy 'Chubby' Brown back in the mid-90s, and they played a venue in the Gtr Mancs area (ironically at the height of all the 'Gunchester' hysteria), and there were people in the audience with guns and machetes at said venue, and hardly anyone seemed to bat an eyelid at the time.
Even the band members, of which three of whom are female (including the lead singer) seemed dead brave at the time, but probably wouldn't even dare to take such chances in such a potential 'life-or-death' situation nowadays.
Plus I doubt venues like that with such lax security would even be allowed to exist today, either!
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