OT James Bond

[Geoff Parkstone]

Thanks. Did you know that the term ‘snowflake’ was first used in Missouri in the mid C19th to describe those opposed to the abolition of the slave trade?
Now that really is ironic.

Show me.....


I didn't know that, but now I do!

[Trickytreesreds]

Nawwwwwwwww I rebute that.
My skin is thicker than most, especially on here.

As for snowflake, this definition is better.

Other than frozen rain, a " snowflake " is a term used to describe an overly sensitive person who thinks the world revolves around them. Snowflakes gasp in horror when they hear an opinion they don't like.

[ramAnag]

Nawwwwwwwww I rebute that.
My skin is thicker than most, especially on here.

As for snowflake, this definition is better.

Other than frozen rain, a " snowflake " is a term used to describe an overly sensitive person who thinks the world revolves around them. Snowflakes gasp in horror when they hear an opinion they don't like.

Lol. Sounds about right...something about you surely seems ‘thicker than most’, and you are the one who repeatedly resorts to ‘shouting’ (in capitals) when you don’t like an opinion, or to facile YouTube clips to make your point for you...on a rival’s site because your own has given up on you.
I’m with them, life’s too short. So you ‘shout’ away...there are people worth discussing and debating with on here...you really aren’t amongst them.

[Geoff Parkstone]

Nawwwwwwwww I rebute that.
My skin is thicker than most, especially on here.

As for snowflake, this definition is better.

Other than frozen rain, a " snowflake " is a term used to describe an overly sensitive person who thinks the world revolves around them. Snowflakes gasp in horror when they hear an opinion they don't like.

A rather splendid new portmanteau word you've invented there TTR - "rebute"

Somewhere between rebut and refute I guess - rebute

[Trickytreesreds]

A rather splendid new portmanteau word you've invented there TTR - "rebute"

Somewhere between rebut and refute I guess - rebute

sausage fingers on a phone. its a curse

[Andy_Faber]

A rather splendid new portmanteau word you've invented there TTR - "rebute"

Somewhere between rebut and refute I guess - rebute

I'll be using that extensively this weekend

[Geoff Parkstone]

So that fine gentleman, Mr Andrew Murray is backing calls for the main tennis venue at Melbourne, used for the Australian Open, to be "unnamed" after multiple grand slam winner Margaret Court because of her religious based opposition to gay marriage and trans athletes etc.

Aside from the somewhat odd scenario which would involve removing the word court from a tennis court somehow, what does anyone think of this latest example of stalinist rewriting of history?

[Trickytreesreds]

So that fine gentleman, Mr Andrew Murray is backing calls for the main tennis venue at Melbourne, used for the Australian Open, to be "unnamed" after multiple grand slam winner Margaret Court because of her religious based opposition to gay marriage and trans athletes etc.

Aside from the somewhat odd scenario which would involve removing the word court from a tennis court somehow, what does anyone think of this latest example of stalinist rewriting of history?

Simple fact is GP, where does it end?
Someone is always offended by something.
But it is the way the reaction is, to a small number of "offended" that gets me.

We have had broadcasters apologising, after a few dozen complaints saying they are offended. Yet some others, attracting thousands more, never even get acknowledged.
I get "offended" when a council etc, decides not to do something, in case it "offends" someone even after no complaints.

I remember the Peppa pig gate scandal. A braodcaster crapping it, over a Muslim complaint he was offended by the character.
Turned out he did it for a laugh, but Jesus wept did they crap themselves.

[AdiSalisbury]

He should be banned from eating because his name is offensive to polo mints

[ramAnag]

So that fine gentleman, Mr Andrew Murray is backing calls for the main tennis venue at Melbourne, used for the Australian Open, to be "unnamed" after multiple grand slam winner Margaret Court because of her religious based opposition to gay marriage and trans athletes etc.

Aside from the somewhat odd scenario which would involve removing the word court from a tennis court somehow, what does anyone think of this latest example of stalinist rewriting of history?

Sorry GP...for the second time on this thread you are making a bit of a proverbial mountain out of a molehill...aka sh1t stirring.
A black woman isn’t going to be the next James Bond although she MAY be the next 007 which is rather different.

Murray was asked what he thought and said, ‘Yes it’s something the sport should consider. I don’t know who makes the final decision on that but I don’t think her values are what tennis stands for.’

I’m not actually sure ‘what tennis stands for’ either, but it’s hardly a ‘Stalinist rewriting of history’. He was asked his opinion and he provided it...or isn’t that allowed either nowadays?