Coronavirus and football.

[Andy_Faber]

Back to football and covid, don't you think that it's the government's awful handling of the crisis that has meant we have lost access to the beautiful game? Had we adopted the German or the Danish approach we would have, erm, still not played the games but felt much better about it.

And what about that dreadful Ryan Clark-Neal. His existence is entirely Boris Johnson's fault, and how can he keep social distancing with people racing uncontrollably round the shop running into each other. And no sanitiser either.

And magpies, I had one of them in the garden yesterday, bullying the neighbours cat who was trying to steal his eggs. Typical Tory, even had bits of blue on his wings and was mostly white. I blame the government for giving these birds financial support while little robins get nothing.

Finger well on the pulse, I think you mean Rylan

[Geoff Parkstone]

Finger well on the pulse, I think you mean Rylan

Oh yes, but whatever his name is, he is still a bellend. Taken a wonderful piece of daytime kitsch entertainment and destroyed it by outcamping even Dale Winton

[Andy_Faber]

Oh yes, but whatever his name is, he is still a bellend. Taken a wonderful piece of daytime kitsch entertainment and destroyed it by outcamping even Dale Winton

Something that's been bothering me since I got into a rare face to face public argument with someone a while back, is the term 'mincer' now on the PC blacklist? To me its a valid term related to 'camp' but I was shouted down for being homophobic. IMO Rylan minces with the best of them, and I couldn't give a stuff (?) about his ***uality. I guess bell-end is OK although I use a hyphen

[Geoff Parkstone]

Something that's been bothering me since I got into a rare face to face public argument with someone a while back, is the term 'mincer' now on the PC blacklist? To me its a valid term related to 'camp' but I was shouted down for being homophobic. IMO Rylan minces with the best of them, and I couldn't give a stuff (?) about his ***uality. I guess bell-end is OK although I use a hyphen

I'd guess almost any phrase is now non PC, and with "mincer" having been an almost historic slang term from the days when Jack Smethurst was king, its most likely still sat on the naughty step. The polari word "mince" simply means to walk "affectedly" so whilst not directly linked to gay community, its pretty damned close.

Interestingly though the term "snowflake", originally used negatively against Jack, has now been hijacked and recycled via Fight Club into a different form of negativity.

So perhaps anyone objecting o "mincer" is in fact now a "snowflake"?