towngas
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Post by towngas on Mar 1, 2021 19:43:46 GMT
Sizeable proportion of the support base? Produce your evidence please. This is close to turning into the sort of ping pong silliness that the other forum is notorious for, but I'll help you out with how you do this. Firstly you get the person who made the claim to define what they meant when they said 'sizeable'. Glad to have been of assistance. I thought it was a reasonable question, but there you go. I was basing my question on the feedback coming through FB, Twitter, these forums the local media etc etc. From that it would appear the sizeable weight of opinion seems to favour Bartons appointment. Thanks for you help. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2021 19:52:47 GMT
The day I base an opinion (other than, this place is populated by morons) on Facebook and Twitter and expect to be taken seriously would be the day that even I would give up.
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towngas
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Post by towngas on Mar 1, 2021 21:41:23 GMT
The day I base an opinion (other than, this place is populated by morons) on Facebook and Twitter and expect to be taken seriously would be the day that even I would give up. So what you appear to be saying is that people who use those mediums are morons who can be discounted in favour of an apparently unspecified number of people who haven't commented but who consider B***** to be the very spawn of the devil. OK, I like scientific debate. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2021 22:03:00 GMT
The day I base an opinion (other than, this place is populated by morons) on Facebook and Twitter and expect to be taken seriously would be the day that even I would give up. So what you appear to be saying is that people who use those mediums are morons who can be discounted in favour of an apparently unspecified number of people who haven't commented but who consider B***** to be the very spawn of the devil. OK, I like scientific debate. Your words, not mine. I see that Steve Cotterill has been readmitted to hospital with Covid related pneumonia, obviously we all wish him well. At the bottom of the story on the BBC website it mentions that his Shrews team played ''Joey B*****'s Bristol Rovers'' at the weekend. Makes your skin crawl, doesn't it. |
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Post by The Concept on Mar 1, 2021 22:52:27 GMT
Although it might not seem it, without knowing the context, the origins of that hymn are very innocent. Sabine Baring-Gould wrote it after seeing a line of children going to Sunday School. It's quite easy to picture any crocodile of children - be they lining up for school assembly, queueing for school dinners, off on a day out - and see them stomping their feet, and swinging their arms, acting as if they are little soldiers. But you're right, there are plenty of examples of similes, metaphors and analogies, to compare events with being war-like. Fair play the concept,I never knew that. I sang it in my local church choir as a boy.I remember our Choir Master was'nt very keen on it,a surprise to me at the time because I thought it might be about soldiers and war,just like had seen on telly.Therefore 'exciting'. Yes, I guess a lot of young lads would have thought that over the years, and sung it with more gusto than other tunes. I remember a friend selected it as one of his wedding hymns, and it seemed a very odd choice. I think he went for it basically because he remembered singing as a child. Nearer the time of the big day he told me he was a bit uncomfortable about it, but he needn't have been - he should have just gone for something a bit more appropriate for weddings! |
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Post by basel on Mar 2, 2021 4:05:43 GMT
Fair play the concept,I never knew that. I sang it in my local church choir as a boy.I remember our Choir Master was'nt very keen on it,a surprise to me at the time because I thought it might be about soldiers and war,just like had seen on telly.Therefore 'exciting'. Yes, I guess a lot of young lads would have thought that over the years, and sung it with more gusto than other tunes. I remember a friend selected it as one of his wedding hymns, and it seemed a very odd choice. I think he went for it basically because he remembered singing as a child. Nearer the time of the big day he told me he was a bit uncomfortable about it, but he needn't have been - he should have just gone for something a bit more appropriate for weddings! Haha!Like eg "fight the good fight". Not sure anyone noticed my little joke.Huh huh,very little joke. |
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Post by CabbagePatchBlues on Mar 2, 2021 6:26:00 GMT
The thing is, war is not sport by any stretch of the imagination so how can sport be war? I can't recall any of our previous managers using it. Clarke was very low key with his metaphors, but then he didn't wake up every morning with a battle on his hands to get through the day like this head case.
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Post by basel on Mar 2, 2021 7:59:03 GMT
The thing is, war is not sport by any stretch of the imagination so how can sport be war? I can't recall any of our previous managers using it. Clarke was very low key with his metaphors, but then he didn't wake up every morning with a battle on his hands to get through the day like this head case. I played local football for 18 years CPB.Believe,it's usual and normal. |
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Post by dido on Mar 2, 2021 13:18:02 GMT
The thing is, war is not sport by any stretch of the imagination so how can sport be war? I can't recall any of our previous managers using it. Clarke was very low key with his metaphors, but then he didn't wake up every morning with a battle on his hands to get through the day like this head case. I played local football for 18 years CPB.Believe,it's usual and normal. And Alex Rodman, aka Rodders, who everyone admires, and is streets away from Mr Unpopularity, used it too. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2021 13:29:33 GMT
This is getting a bit silly. I'm amongst the most outspoken critics of his appointment on here, but even I can't construct criticism around this normal turn of phrase.
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Post by CabbagePatchBlues on Mar 2, 2021 16:00:04 GMT
I played local football for 18 years CPB.Believe,it's usual and normal. And Alex Rodman, aka Rodders, who everyone admires, and is streets away from Mr Unpopularity, used it too. He said exactly what B***** said in his interview.  |
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Post by CabbagePatchBlues on Mar 2, 2021 16:02:27 GMT
This is getting a bit silly. I'm amongst the most outspoken critics of his appointment on here, but even I can't construct criticism around this normal turn of phrase. When was war normalised in a football context? Battle is one thing, war something else entirely. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2021 17:55:41 GMT
This is getting a bit silly. I'm amongst the most outspoken critics of his appointment on here, but even I can't construct criticism around this normal turn of phrase. When was war normalised in a football context? Battle is one thing, war something else entirely. As said, it's a turn of phrase. This board is sounding as deranged as those lunatics who claimed that it was wrong for Trump to use the word 'fight'. Here we go, maybe this will help, |
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Post by The Concept on Mar 2, 2021 18:37:32 GMT
The thing is, war is not sport by any stretch of the imagination so how can sport be war? I can't recall any of our previous managers using it. Clarke was very low key with his metaphors, but then he didn't wake up every morning with a battle on his hands to get through the day like this head case. Don't 'shoot' me for saying this, or rage a 'war' on me; I'm sorry to drop this 'bomb' on you, but life is a 'battle' at times, and love is a 'battlefield' - it's like a 'minefield' trying to avoid all these metaphors and similes! :-) Of course, you're right, war is not sport - you can't compare anything with the atrocities of war. But do people really mean war, when they say 'we're going to war', in describing a football match? I don't think so, and would very much hope not. Look at the pieces on a chess board; think about the attack and defence in football, along with the midfield general; look at the positions in rugby, with the forwards the infantrymen at the frontline, the half-backs as the generals, and the centres acting as battering rams. |
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