I voted for CB Fry. The guy makes me laugh, he loves an internet ruck, and I typically agree with him on most things regarding Saints.
Turkish gets an upvote too for the same reasons. I also had time for Dig Dig and View From The Top. There was a chap over there from the north-west, big shaggy hair and loved an internet rumble. Pip I think his name was. Can’t think what happened to him.
MLG just absolutely cracks me up. He’s a fact and C&P machine, God knows how he remembers it all, but he absolutely detests it when he gets something wrong and gets called up on it. And I find his reactions to that utterly hilarious, in that he will do all he can to deny he every got anything slightly wrong. A classic one a few years ago was where he referenced something akin to Tom ince playing for Crystal Palace. Immediately 4 or 5 people jumped on it, quoted it and corrected him, reminding him that at the time Ince was playing for Blackpool (all in true MLG fashion). Rather than just go quiet or hold his hands up, MLG edited his first post and denied he’d said Ince played for Palace (despite the littany of quotes to the contrary), then accused everyone else of editing their own posts to make him look wrong. I had some megaLOLs at that one, bless him.
Nah, this thread is mostly positive. Let’s keep it that way. There’s enough sniping peppered around this site, and indeed, this thread. People are getting their kum by yahs out, but an entire thread dedicated to who we don’t like over there? More embarrassing than the PTS thread, imo.
I used to really enjoy sparring with Fry. While I’d personally steer short of some of his tactics, there’s no doubting the quality he can put in when he’s arsed. I do think he painted himself into a corner on the football front, though. I took the piss out of his “He Could Have Been Our Tony Pulis” comments after Adkins got the chop. I get it, btw. He was pissed off that we’d had so many managers on the merry-go-round and wanted the sort of stability that Pulis created at Stoke. Except the brand of football was fucking awful during his tenure, and his reputation as a one-club man is in tatters after pulling two different clubs out of relegation in two successive seasons.
I think the “we’ll never” state is true of a lot of Saints fans, for want of a better term, that “know their place”. If Saints ever do qualify for the CL, someone is going to have a fucking field day dredging up all of the “we’ll never” comments on TSW
But let me use another example. For some reason Southampton supporters often refer to Liverpool’s manager as Brenda. Why? It is obviously intended as a clever insult but it is neither. Implicit in the insult is a belief that being female and a football manager is a bad thing or, at least, that females are inferior to men in this context. I find that offensive, not to Mr. Rodgers but to women in general. It is also not clever. Sure Brenda sounds like Brendon. The first person in history who noticed this and made the pun was moderately clever. That cleverness has long gone by now.
GO, REDSLO!!
Hi Redslo, I dont think it is intended to be clever as it clearly isnt. I also dont think it is meant to denegrate women. It is just an easy pun to denegrate Rodgers. Lowe came in for stick for being called Rupert - should be worry that that denegrated fictional cartoon bears? Glen Hoddle gets called Glenda. Again not the cleverist put down ever thought of but is is easy and it does the job. I used to go and watch Crystal Palace back in the 60s with my mates. For some reason, which I never worked out, they called their full back Gladys. I think it was a term of endearment maybe? Boys will be boys!
Crumbs, so serious!! I’m guessing you must also take issue with a lot of the technicalities of football songs, ie Pompey fans are not actually real fish so you can’t call them skates, it’s just not funny, we’re not actually the greatest team the world has ever seen so those lyrics aren’t right and it’s unfair the real greatest team for us to try and claim that, the goal keeper about to kick the ball isn’t a fat bastard so that’s not clever either, etc, etc.
Well, it’s easy to say ‘but it’s just meant as a joke’ but when a joke (giving him a girls name as an insult) becomes so ingrained in a culture, it starts affecting people in a negative way as this film very aptly demonstrates.
If you took all of the stupity and childishness out of football chants and names it would be a far less interesting sport to follow. Same for all sports really. Beefy Botham. Lets stop this bovine comparison. Freddy Flintoff - no more cave man cartoon references. Onesize Fitzhall - down with the rag trade buffoonery. Part of the joy of calling names is the sheer dumbness of it all.
Regarding the “like a girl” thing, it’s so ingrained that I’ve heard girls say it themselves. Probably the second biggest case of self-imprisoning language women have. The first is of course, slag, because it’s a self-imposition of a double standard and on a personal level, has probably stopped me from getting a lot of sex.
e.g. " Hmm. A hobbit? I’ve never done one of them before"
Oh totally. I’ve said the girl thing loads of times and never thought anything of it. That’s what I like about many of the modern feminist conversations - they often start with a well thought out insight that makes you see things from a completely different point of view. Rather than the old style bash people on the head.
The slag thing is very complex and has implications on many levels. Plus it’s very ingrained - even if you recognise it, it’s another thing being completely free from it. It’s probably stopped me getting a lot sex too. Well, that and the minefield that is men.
Ohio Saint isn’t mentioned, he get’s my vote. Mainly due to his lucky cigarettes on match threads, and having a great sense of humour.
Huh? I don’t recall ever giving you a blow job! I must have been drunk. If you haven’t had one, I’ll leave one in the barrel for you. I always pay my debts.
A few years ago, I was at work, putting in some screws with an electric drill. I momentarily lost hand pressure and the screwdriver bit slipped. My boss told me I screw like a 12 year old girl.
And no, I never shut up about what he said. I made him pay nearly every day for that one!!
