Calling people fat is also nasty and just as hurtful.Originally Posted by Mug Punter
Calling people fat is also nasty and just as hurtful.
Get over it......when I grew up there was a saying, and I'm sure you've heard it, if not, you must be a youngin' tainted by the age of 'Political Correctness', and that saying was, "Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me!". Worked well for me, seems to work well for Adam, and the current generation would do well to follow this creed, in the hope that everyone's skin may just thicken a bit. Frankly, mock outrage is tiresome , but to be genuinely outraged by this is just sad.....
Honestly, if this wasn't beaten up so badly by the media after the hawthorn game, no other teams would have jumped on the bandwagon. Goodes has been getting booed for years, but by a very small portion, the way many champions do. Hawthorn are the one team who took it to another level. Half of Gold Coast fans probably didn't even know who Goodes was a year ago, yet they booed him? Did they boo him last year, even after the 'ape' saga? Don't think so. Nor did Carlton fans or Kangas fans ( well at least not in those numbers)The reason it continues and the reason it probably will never stop now is because it gets so much oxygen in the media. To the extent where people in the crowd now may boo simply because they were asked not to. It's their right to boo, whether you like it or not. Goodes will get Booed week in week out now mainly because the media have made such a big deal out of it. Very sad but true, doesn't take away his legacy, doesn't stop him being a champion. Just ignore it and hope the swans cheers drown out the boo's, as they did many times last night . Absolutely loved the Goooooooodesyyyyyy chant to, bravo to those who engineered and participate In that. I'd love to hear that every week.
Thought Longmire handled it pretty well in the presser. They clearly don't want to give it oxygen, where the media keeps digging (Sam lane did anyway).
Game day this morning took an excerpt from horse that said 'swans have said their piece aboot booing' or similar.
The less it's talked about the sooner it will stop.
In the spirit of ending, could moderators end this thread pls?
As long as it's an issue, this thread should remain open. If the media shut the **** up about it, and the boo's actually stop, then we can call this thread irrelevant and closed......we can only hope that day comes sooner rather than later.
Most of the booing came from the other side of the ground to where I was, but still pathetic.
A few swans tried to boo Boomer, but it never really got off the ground.
The chant of "Goodesy" echoed around the cauldron brilliantly.
Boo hoo. If the fat, slack-jawed little simpleton is prepared to dish out mindless personal abuse then the fat slack-jawed little simpleton has to be prepared to cop mindless personal abuse. Surely he can't think such behaviour is unacceptable if he indulges in it himself? It's the golden rule about treating people as you want to be treated yourself.
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I see what you did there
The difference between insanity and genius is measured only in success.
Really?
Get over yourself
Calling people any names is hurtful.
You have no idea what people have been through in their life, or are going through now.
Goodes is a classic example.
What might seem innocuous to many, is not always the case for the recipient.
More people should think before they speak (or boo).
Andrew Ireland has teed off on the boo brigade and their apologists.
Adam Goodes booing has racial undertones, says Sydney Swans CEO Andrew Ireland
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