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Simpleton Gas

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2 minutes ago, RedRock said:

Simples. Listening to you lot blathering on constantly about how big/good/loved you were on his radio show which, back in the day, was one of the finest national football phone-ins. He no doubt, did a ‘compare and contrast’, between those expressed views and his own visits to both Bristol clubs (and elsewhere) following his beloved Millwall.

Well unfortunately, by virtue of his extremely ill-advised Tweet, Mr Baker has effectively been blacklisted (probably unfairly, as I don't believe he did this with racist intent) and is no longer employable within the media. If he can't tweet properly, then why should anyone care what he thinks about another football club? 

Even before this, he was renowned as a gobsh*te who would say the first thing that came into his head.

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10 minutes ago, chowie said:

A 'Ted' has been, and they making the signing about being ex 'Ted' = Still Tinpot not Jackpot

 

 

8 minutes ago, cidercity1987 said:

Bunch of sadacts. The point of the video doesn't work when you're going down the ladder 

He’s also unarchived all the pictures already ?

All the best to him, never rated him but was the only one who seemed to care during the covid season. They don’t half mind an expensive ageing defender though. 

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Port Said Red

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32 minutes ago, Hot Air said:

I would direct you to the eye-wateringly racist material that he posted on Twitter. I'm sorry, anybody with a brain in their head would have realised how deeply inappropriate it was - it would have even raised eyebrows in a NF publication!

I'm not in a position to comment on this, but I can say that Bristol was quite a racist city until quite recently and even now is far from the multicultural nirvana that it is caricatured as. However, I have absolutely no reason to believe that City fans were more progressive in this regard, and here its worth noting that I have recently highlighted a number of cultural sensitivities for the attention of several contributors. 

I can however say with considerably greater certainty that your socialist credentials have been brought into clear question by the extent to which you have bent over for Mr Lansdown and his fortune. 

Have you bothered to read his explanation of what was posted at the time? Probably not. 

He had posted the same picture when any royal baby had been announced for the previous 15 years, no matter their cultural heritage, qhich of course was pretty much 100% white. He posted it instead of the little Lord Fauntleroy, picture which he also used in the past, because he found that one first. It was only when he posted the picture that it was pointed out to him that it could be considered racist, that he realised the connotations because of Megan's heritage. He immediately removed it. But the BBC decided to take the safe route of the ultimate sanction.

Baker tweeted: "Sorry my gag pic of the little fella in the posh outfit has whipped some up.

"Never occurred to me because, well, mind not diseased.

soon as those good enough to point out it's possible connotations got in touch, down it came.

And that's it.

Now stand by for sweary football tweets."

If you have read his autobiography, you will know that he was briefly married to a girl of African descent, a singer from Darts, but of course the Twittersphere decided he was guilty and should be cancelled, because one tweet defines your whole outlook on life.

 

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Can't have had any other offers so fair play to him swallowing his pride and being able to prolong his pro career. After Hillsborough, I wonder what he'll make of a 5hitty little terrace, a cricket pavillion, a half of a stand built in the wrong place and lovely view of a few washing lines and gnomes. 

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20 minutes ago, chowie said:

A 'Ted' has been, and they making the signing about being ex 'Ted' = Still Tinpot not Jackpot

 

 

9 minutes ago, petehinton said:

He’s also unarchived all the pictures already ?

We've all pretended to delete pictures in front of a partner, but not actually doing so lol

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Simpleton Gas

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1 minute ago, Port Said Red said:

Have you bothered to read his explanation of what was posted at the time? Probably not. 

He had posted the same picture when any royal baby had been announced for the previous 15 years, no matter their cultural heritage, qhich of course was pretty much 100% white. He posted it instead of the little Lord Fauntleroy, picture which he also used in the past, because he found that one first. It was only when he posted the picture that it was pointed out to him that it could be considered racist, that he realised the connotations because of Megan's heritage. He immediately removed it. But the BBC decided to take the safe route of the ultimate sanction.

Baker tweeted: "Sorry my gag pic of the little fella in the posh outfit has whipped some up.

"Never occurred to me because, well, mind not diseased.

soon as those good enough to point out it's possible connotations got in touch, down it came.

And that's it.

Now stand by for sweary football tweets."

If you have read his autobiography, you will know that he was briefly married to a girl of African descent, a singer from Darts, but of course the Twittersphere decided he was guilty and should be cancelled, because one tweet defines your whole outlook on life.

 

I'm trying to imagine circumstances under which I would willingly decide to read Danny Baker's autobiography, but I'm really struggling....

As I said, I believe he was guilty of outstanding stupidity, not racism. However, any reasonable observer would struggle to believe that he looked at the photo and did not realise how it would be construed. 

'Has whipped some up' and 'mind not diseased' also implies that the fault is in the observer, not in what he actually did. The lack of contrition is striking. 

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Hot Air said:

I'm trying to imagine circumstances under which I would willingly decide to read Danny Baker's autobiography, but I'm really struggling....

As I said, I believe he was guilty of outstanding stupidity, not racism. However, any reasonable observer would struggle to believe that he looked at the photo and did not realise how it would be construed. 

'Has whipped some up' and 'mind not diseased' also implies that the fault is in the observer, not in what he actually did. The lack of contrition is striking.

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Now I know you are a parody account. 

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Lew-T

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3 minutes ago, formerly known as ivan said:

A lot of people on here easily upset… personally I think that is a great video on there part to announce the signing.

Also think they will compete well this season. Obviously hope not but come on. Who isn’t missing a proper league derby game?!

Come on?

I found it funny actually.

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2 hours ago, Hot Air said:

What would Danny Baker know about Bristol Rovers? And, more to the point, why would I care? 

He is a Millwall-supporting loudmouth who was sacked by the BBC for tweeting extraordinarily racist material. 

What does a bristol rovers know about the inner workings of Bristol City and more to the point why are you so obsessed, 

Envy is a sin you know

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6 minutes ago, formerly known as ivan said:

A lot of people on here easily upset… personally I think that is a great video on there part to announce the signing.

Also think they will compete well this season. Obviously hope not but come on. Who isn’t missing a proper league derby game?!

Barton’s woman bashers? No thanks. They can stay exactly where they belong in the slums of nothingness

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1 minute ago, View from the Dolman said:

So, it's the fault of a news reporter rather than the sports reporters. Almost like he's had to report on them having a tinpot leadership team unable to navigate the basics of planning permission. 

Unfortunately for them it's a reporter's job to report the truth. Not the reporter's fault that the truth is they are *****.

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2 hours ago, Hot Air said:

I don't really have any ambition to go higher than the Championship. I don't like the PL and I think it is becoming increasingly impossible for teams from the lower leagues to genuinely compete - teams hit a glass ceiling and then steadily decline.

The costs of competing at that level are too great - look at Reading. You could conceivably go even further and emulate your successive relegations of 1976-80. Bigger clubs than you have done this. 

Both are forms of schadenfreude aren't they? I take a mild pleasure in watching you fall flat on your face - I'm not actively invested in it, like some of our fanbase. 

 

The only ambition any of you have is to be in the same  league as us . You might find this ironic as you’re on a city forum taking the piss out of you 15ers. However , what is true & I know this because I have quite a few of you cuckoos as mates is that you obsess over us . You hate us , not because of sporting rivalry but because we’re something that you’ll never become. You’ve been mismanaged for decades & in you’re twisted logic you all blame us for this . I suppose it’s easier to do that than look closer to home. 
we've always challenged our owners no matter who they’ve been over the years. We’ve protested in the 80’s when Terry cooper was sacked & we’ve questioned the club over many things over the years. The reason being is that we won’t just put up with any old crap the club comes out with. 
 

you lot on the other hand just put your heads in the sand & say , it’s not my fault or what can we do . You just put up with any old crap they say. As a fanbase your weak & cowards . 

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47 minutes ago, petehinton said:

 

He’s also unarchived all the pictures already ?

All the best to him, never rated him but was the only one who seemed to care during the covid season. They don’t half mind an expensive ageing defender though. 

Tommy Rowe as well.

He’s a bloke from Leeds who is out of work, so don’t have a problem with it. He looked to be a squad player at Wednesday & they were in the same division last season, so it’s hardly a big signing.

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5 minutes ago, steviestevieneville said:

you lot on the other hand just put your heads in the sand & say , it’s not my fault or what can we do . You just put up with any old crap they say. As a fanbase your weak & cowards . 

This.

In other words ‘bend over’ and take whatever nonsense gets dished up by whoever is the owner of their club at the time, and this cretin has actually got the nerve to criticise us..…?

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8 minutes ago, steviestevieneville said:

The only ambition any of you have is to be in the same  league as us . You might find this ironic as you’re on a city forum taking the piss out of you 15ers. However , what is true & I know this because I have quite a few of you cuckoos as mates is that you obsess over us . You hate us , not because of sporting rivalry but because we’re something that you’ll never become. You’ve been mismanaged for decades & in you’re twisted logic you all blame us for this . I suppose it’s easier to do that than look closer to home. 
we've always challenged our owners no matter who they’ve been over the years. We’ve protested in the 80’s when Terry cooper was sacked & we’ve questioned the club over many things over the years. The reason being is that we won’t just put up with any old crap the club comes out with. 
 

you lot on the other hand just put your heads in the sand & say , it’s not my fault or what can we do . You just put up with any old crap they say. As a fanbase your weak & cowards . 

Bit embarrassing this, to be honest.  Let's choose our battles wisely.  There are so many easy targets, no need to reinvent history

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Midlands Robin

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Oh no, Barton's no longer talking to the Post. 

How will Saggy fans get their fix of his wisdom now? 

If only he offered some sort of subscription service on his Twitter they could sign up to for exclusive content. That would fill the void from his lack of communication in the local press wouldn't it? 

Wait a minute....... 

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1 hour ago, City Rocker said:

Anyway, without getting into the Danny Baker discussion (he is as passionate an anti-racist as he is an anti-royalist), you'll be well aware, no doubt, of Rovers' history as the perennial right-wing bigots of Bristol football, famously hosting the National Front selling its newspaper at home games. Meanwhile, conversely, the distinctly anti-racist Socialist Worker was on sale at City in the early 90s.

 

1 hour ago, Hot Air said:

I'm not in a position to comment on this, but I can say that Bristol was quite a racist city until quite recently and even now is far from the multicultural nirvana that it is caricatured as. However, I have absolutely no reason to believe that City fans were more progressive in this regard, and here its worth noting that I have recently highlighted a number of cultural sensitivities for the attention of several contributors. 

I can however say with considerably greater certainty that your socialist credentials have been brought into clear question by the extent to which you have bent over for Mr Lansdown and his fortune. 

"I'm not in a position to comment on this, but I can say that Bristol was quite a racist city until quite recently". 

What the actual ****? I'm starting to believe you actually might be Joey Barton. If you were from Bristol, you would be only too well aware that our city as a whole is one of the most inclusive and progressive in the country. Although sadly, the Blue Few do rather let the rest of us down, what with being a bunch of daft old racists and that. 

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I See the Gas are considering recruiting an Ex of ours......... Jack Hunt? Who i believe has been released by Sheff Wed?   He is one player I would not wish on my worst enemy!   Though when i come to think of it?...............he'd be a perfect fit for them!!

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1 hour ago, Hot Air said:

can however say with considerably greater certainty that your socialist credentials have been brought into clear question by the extent to which you have bent over for Mr Lansdown and his fortune. 

I have no socialist credentials whatsoever, or any other political credentials. But I would rather be bent over by someone who has a fortune, than a clear charlatan who hasn't a fortune. 

Wouldn't say no to a vulture either, not till I've tried it ?

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14 minutes ago, maxjak said:

I See the Gas are considering recruiting an Ex of ours......... Jack Hunt? Who i believe has been released by Sheff Wed?   He is one player I would not wish on my worst enemy!   Though when i come to think of it?...............he'd be a perfect fit for them!!

They’ve announced him. They’re spending a lot of money on ageing players. 

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44 minutes ago, Midlands Robin said:

Oh no, Barton's no longer talking to the Post. 

How will Saggy fans get their fix of his wisdom now? 

If only he offered some sort of subscription service on his Twitter they could sign up to for exclusive content. That would fill the void from his lack of communication in the local press wouldn't it? 

Wait a minute....... 

Is this his master plan ? There is no actual fall out but he invents something to make a bit of cash ?

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4 hours ago, Hot Air said:

An interesting link, but Iran is not generally spoken of as part of the Middle East. You are presumably also aware that the Islamic Republic is towards the more extreme end of the Islamic political spectrum, which leaves you open to the charge of cherry-picking. 

The region is not just defined in geographical terms, but also in ethnic, religious and cultural terms. Iran is generally spoken of as something separate from the Middle East, and as an external force that acts on the region.

 

I don't know if you noticed, but the link is from the Middle East section of the BBC World website. Where else do you think the country sits?  It's hardly South Asia or Central Asia, is it? The "Persian Gulf" washes its shores, just as it does those of Kuwait and the entire east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. The Shatt-Al-Arab estuary with Iran on one bank, Iraq in the middle and Kuwait at the far side, is just 120 miles wide at its mouth.  Iran may not be part of the Arab world, as a majority Farsi speaking country, but it most certainly is part of the Middle East and it plays an active role in its neighbours' affairs, sponsoring political parties, militia and militant groups in Lebanon, Yemen, Palestine, Libya, Sudan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi and elsewhere.

If you want me to "cherry-pick" an Arab-speaking state, take Saudi itself. Women are required to wear a niqab and abaya in public, cannot spend any time with males who are not immediate family and cannot even leave the house without their husband's consent. It's not surprising this is the only country where Christianity is illegal, except for non-Saudi residents. Even Iran has churches, allows Christians to wear crucifix jewellery and possess Bibles.  Every year hundreds of women flee Saudi - so much so that the government has now rolled out an app to track their movements.

https://mirrorherald.com/saudi-arabia-track-women-movements/

Yes, there are a few who might welcome their restrictive life as "true Islam" or a choice, but I think you'd find most would welcome more choice - even if they chose to wear niqabs. 

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3 hours ago, redsontour said:

Holy crap, you are seriously going with that? 
Tell you what… https://www.thenationalnews.com/lifestyle/fashion/2022/03/08/the-fight-for-the-hijab-muslim-women-lament-their-lack-of-freedom-to-choose/?outputType=amp

Hijab isn’t an article of religious oppression, it’s a cultural choice, that is suppressed in some places by religious zealots, and not only those zealots that claim to follow Islam… it’s the choice to or nor to that’s cracked down on by some

Some people need serious education…and  I don’t just mean in the Middle East…

 

 

 

I don't support banning hijabs any more than I support making them compulsory. I support women being able to choose what they wear.

Don't you?

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 @TomF are you taking your ban hammer with you when you depart? Personally, I think that you should use it just once more, for old time’s sake, because now the novelty of our most recent subscriber has quickly worn off, the result is that the most reliably enjoyable thread on the ever excellent OTIB is being too regularly derailed onto subjects better suited to a world politics forum. I’m possibly in a minority in thinking this way but I wouldn’t mind betting I’m not the only one. 

Let’s clear the (hot) air and lose the troll.  They won’t be missed. 

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25 minutes ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

 @TomF are you taking your ban hammer with you when you depart? Personally, I think that you should use it just once more, for old time’s sake, because now the novelty of our most recent subscriber has quickly worn off, the result is that the most reliably enjoyable thread on the ever excellent OTIB is being too regularly derailed onto subjects better suited to a world politics forum. I’m possibly in a minority in thinking this way but I wouldn’t mind betting I’m not the only one. 

Let’s clear the (hot) air and lose the troll.  They won’t be missed. 

Sorry Rudolf,I am afraid that I have to disagree with you. I think we should keep him.Perhaps in the interests of democracy, we could have a virtual "show of hands"?I suspect you will be the clear winner if we do though. 

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8 hours ago, Midlands Robin said:

Oh no, Barton's no longer talking to the Post. 

How will Saggy fans get their fix of his wisdom now? 

If only he offered some sort of subscription service on his Twitter they could sign up to for exclusive content. That would fill the void from his lack of communication in the local press wouldn't it? 

Wait a minute....... 

And they will lap it all up and then blame the Post on why people have to pay poor old Joey for information on their club. 

I cannot believe what he is doing hasn't been stopped by their club, but they seem so scared of him that he does whatever he wants. Why are they not up in arms about this? If they weren't so tinpot this would make National news (or a few more headlines) with a manager blatantly ripping off its own fans. But as usual they just all take it and say nothing.

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44 minutes ago, glynriley said:

Now we know why the gAss are begging their fans to sign up to the no pot to piss in scheme at £2 per week. They’re nicking all our scouts ?

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Yes because there is more money being invested into a YTS scheme then a level 2 academy that may well because a level 1 in the future due to the multi millions being invested,

They really are thick as pig shit

And legally we can just take any decent youth from them for peanuts due to where our academy sits in the food chain and there is not a thing they can do about it

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