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ksteve

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I went to the match on Saturday and as usual with Blackpool you run through the whole gamut of emotions, up one minute and down the next. That is the excitement of football and you get that in shedloads with Blackpool. One goal is never enough. The North stand were pouring down abuse on the referee and I agree it probably wasn't his best ever match. Pouring vitriol down from the stands saying that the referee is a wanker may not help the situation however but that wasn't what got to me on Saturday. When I was leaving the ground there was someone behind me who had a young child sat on his shoulders and he was getting this 3 or 4 year old to repeat the phrase "the referee's a wanker" and asking him to tell everyone what the referee is. His encouragement to this young man to swear and use words like this to describe another person is actually not nice and could have potential damage on this young lad when he goes into school and uses the same language in front of the teachers etc etc etc. I work with damaged people and one of the first things we do is to stop people using disrespectful language and swearing just gratuitously. I was told by a very learned man if you cannot control to tongue, one of the smallest organs in the body, how are you going to control anything else.
Rant over I will await the bricks being thrown in my direction.
 
ksteve said:
I went to the match on Saturday and as usual with Blackpool you run through the whole gamut of emotions, up one minute and down the next. That is the excitement of football and you get that in shedloads with Blackpool. One goal is never enough. The North stand were pouring down abuse on the referee and I agree it probably wasn't his best ever match. Pouring vitriol down from the stands saying that the referee is a wanker may not help the situation however but that wasn't what got to me on Saturday. When I was leaving the ground there was someone behind me who had a young child sat on his shoulders and he was getting this 3 or 4 year old to repeat the phrase "the referee's a wanker" and asking him to tell everyone what the referee is. His encouragement to this young man to swear and use words like this to describe another person is actually not nice and could have potential damage on this young lad when he goes into school and uses the same language in front of the teachers etc etc etc. I work with damaged people and one of the first things we do is to stop people using disrespectful language and swearing just gratuitously. I was told by a very learned man if you cannot control to tongue, one of the smallest organs in the body, how are you going to control anything else.
Rant over I will await the bricks being thrown in my direction.
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Welcome to the 21st century 🤷

You only have to be having a drink in the pub, waiting for a bus or just walking down the street and you'll hear bad language.
I'm not saying it's right, it became prevalent to me in my 3rd year at an engineering company and the blokes would use "shop floor" language all the time.
Try not to use it in front of women and children but the odd lapse incurs.
TBH it wouldn't bother me if a person had the foulest language in Blackpool along as they were a decent person.
 
Wizzerboy said:
Welcome to the 21st century 🤷

You only have to be having a drink in the pub, waiting for a bus or just walking down the street and you'll hear bad language.
I'm not saying it's right, it became prevalent to me in my 3rd year at an engineering company and the blokes would use "shop floor" language all the time.
Try not to use it in front of women and children but the odd lapse incurs.
TBH it wouldn't bother me if a person had the foulest language in Blackpool along as they were a decent person.
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There are some very polite thugs. They warn you that they are going to batter you.
 
Wizzerboy said:
Welcome to the 21st century 🤷

You only have to be having a drink in the pub, waiting for a bus or just walking down the street and you'll hear bad language.
I'm not saying it's right, it became prevalent to me in my 3rd year at an engineering company and the blokes would use "shop floor" language all the time.
Try not to use it in front of women and children but the odd lapse incurs.
TBH it wouldn't bother me if a person had the foulest language in Blackpool along as they were a decent person.
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I would swear with the best of them when I was a mechanic in the garage but it was never used in front of the family or women or children.
 
It's just language that happens to have been deemed 'swearing' long before we were all born, around the time of polite society, the same society that was riddled with racism, sexism and classism.

It does of course orginate from 'blasphemy' and religion is a load of old bollocks designed to keep the peasants down.

I wouldn't fuking sweat it.
 
In the 80's and 90's by saying the 'f' and 'c' words in a public place was arrestable.

To save paperwork if it was very busy, we sometimes put the offender in a 'Tranny' - (a van in those days), and then dumped on the Moors about 6/7 miles out of town.

Different times
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
It's just language that happens to have been deemed 'swearing' long before we were all born, around the time of polite society, the same society that was riddled with racism, sexism and classism.

It does of course orginate from 'blasphemy' and religion is a load of old bollocks designed to keep the peasants down.

I wouldn't fuking sweat it.
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Luckily this board is also riddled with racism, sexism and classism🤣
 
No issue with the bad language, I do think it's pretty poor form to identify a referee as fair game for abuse.

Being a ref is an absolutely thankless task and part of the reason we have such a lack of quality in the game is because there are so few people who would put themselves through the disrespect they will receive multiple times through every single game.
 
Tango1953 said:
No issue with the bad language, I do think it's pretty poor form to identify a referee as fair game for abuse.

Being a ref is an absolutely thankless task and part of the reason we have such a lack of quality in the game is because there are so few people who would put themselves through the disrespect they will receive multiple times through every single game.
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And physical assaults!
 
Wizzerboy said:
Welcome to the 21st century 🤷

You only have to be having a drink in the pub, waiting for a bus or just walking down the street and you'll hear bad language.
I'm not saying it's right, it became prevalent to me in my 3rd year at an engineering company and the blokes would use "shop floor" language all the time.
Try not to use it in front of women and children but the odd lapse incurs.
TBH it wouldn't bother me if a person had the foulest language in Blackpool along as they were a decent person.
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It’s interesting, my wife and I just spent a week in Ascot visiting our family. We went in various bars and pubs and I commented that I didn’t hear one swear word, which is pretty common here.
 
I worry that the man in question did not do a risk assessment before putting the child on his shoulders. Do we have a health and safety officer, if so he should be informed immediately.
 
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