Liverpool FC Forum

[Toffeehater]

Exactly but if you don't take your chances against argentina , you will be punished . Aguero is lethal and he showed it today , i'm actually quite surprised how easily brazil were swept aside

[The Manhattan Project]

I predict Masch to get a gold medal, and then eat it.

[66-1112520797]

Those Canadians have some cute softball players.

[112-1077774096]

I reckon theres something wrong with the lighting in the arenas...

...everyone in the crowd seems to be squinting

not very funny really

depends whether you have a sense of humour or not i suppose

or maybe its not funny to people who may have a chinese background so maybe best thing would be to refrain from racist jokes when you dont know what people will find funny and what people will find offensive - ie show some common sense

im pretty sure plenty people have a sense of humour but most realise what can easily be offensive and what cant .

wind your neck in mate - no offense meant.

wont wind my neck in at all with someone posting a comment which i feel and im sure others feel is racist - we have the spanish at the moment with the pics of them making slant eyes and everyone condeming them for being racist - your pathetic little joke is pretty much along the same lines and sick humour . so suggest have a little think before posting liek and that realise who you could be upsetting .

chill dude

sorry mate just my brother married a chinese girl and i have a chinese nephew and find it extremely insulting - just like what the spanish are doing with their pictures.

so if your brother hadnt married a chinese bird would you still find it offensive, it seems your offense is based purely on this. before he married her did you go around defending chinese people?

my bird is thai of chinese decent and i found it funny (just as she finds things funny and doesn't need others to be offended on her behalf), but then again my underpants are not too tight so i have not lost the ability to laugh.

anyway back to the games

[112-1077774096]

Those Canadians have some cute softball players.

i like the womens gymnastics, the synch swimming and the womens diving   


(better watch out though in case someones brother married a woman and they choose to get all defensive on the entire womens populations behalf)   

[Leonmc0708]

Anyone see Anichebes miss for the Nigerians ?

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Anyone see Anichebes miss for the Nigerians ?

no, the coverage is a bit gash out here, hoping the final is on though

[Bad Bob]

Anyone see Anichebes miss for the Nigerians ?

Aye.  All the hard work done, net at his mercy and somehow he manages to corkscrew the shot wide.  WTF was going on with the Belgian defense, though?  I hope Liege emulates that form next week.

In the other match the Argies were impressive but it would have been such a different match if the two Brazilian shots that hit the bar had gone in.  Both were at crucial moments in the match and could have stopped Argentina's momentum.  I'm still not certain Aguerro's first wasn't in off his arm either. (Bicep of God? )  Oh, and Lucas's red card was harsh as was the 2nd rwd when Masch got chopped down and decided to show the gymnasts how to do a tumbling routine. 

[Bad Bob]

Those Canadians have some cute softball players.

Really?   I'll have to have a look.  Usually avoid softball and other such sports like the plague.

[GYBS]

I reckon theres something wrong with the lighting in the arenas...

...everyone in the crowd seems to be squinting

not very funny really

depends whether you have a sense of humour or not i suppose

or maybe its not funny to people who may have a chinese background so maybe best thing would be to refrain from racist jokes when you dont know what people will find funny and what people will find offensive - ie show some common sense

im pretty sure plenty people have a sense of humour but most realise what can easily be offensive and what cant .

wind your neck in mate - no offense meant.

wont wind my neck in at all with someone posting a comment which i feel and im sure others feel is racist - we have the spanish at the moment with the pics of them making slant eyes and everyone condeming them for being racist - your pathetic little joke is pretty much along the same lines and sick humour . so suggest have a little think before posting liek and that realise who you could be upsetting .

chill dude

sorry mate just my brother married a chinese girl and i have a chinese nephew and find it extremely insulting - just like what the spanish are doing with their pictures.

so if your brother hadnt married a chinese bird would you still find it offensive, it seems your offense is based purely on this. before he married her did you go around defending chinese people?

my bird is thai of chinese decent and i found it funny (just as she finds things funny and doesn't need others to be offended on her behalf), but then again my underpants are not too tight so i have not lost the ability to laugh.

anyway back to the games

yes i would of found it offensive no matter what - i just think people should be more careful these days as its hard to know who you will upset or what people will find offensive and what people will find racist.

[Effes]

Can you blame anyone for seeing that as racist though, honestly ?

Its okay for you to point the finger and call people homophobic or racist. But when you're countrymen are in question of it, you jump to their defence, and start whinging about the American and British press ?

It písses me off that when there are both in your country and mine lots of racism problems, the english and american press just picked up and innocent and childish gesture. When I say childish gesture, I mean exactly that, we do that kind of thing when we're 4-8 years old, we're disguised as chinese or japanese, or we're making a theatre. That gesture is the universal gesture here if you were playing a game to characterise the chinese.

Sabre - I think that is the difference between how we or yourselves perceive racism.

The "gesture" would not be tolerated anywhere here - because guess what,
the kids will copy it in school and use it to taunt Chinese kids.

It might seem extreme but these things have consequences.

(And no, Im not related to any Chinese  )

[112-1077774096]

I reckon theres something wrong with the lighting in the arenas...

...everyone in the crowd seems to be squinting

not very funny really

depends whether you have a sense of humour or not i suppose

or maybe its not funny to people who may have a chinese background so maybe best thing would be to refrain from racist jokes when you dont know what people will find funny and what people will find offensive - ie show some common sense

im pretty sure plenty people have a sense of humour but most realise what can easily be offensive and what cant .

wind your neck in mate - no offense meant.

wont wind my neck in at all with someone posting a comment which i feel and im sure others feel is racist - we have the spanish at the moment with the pics of them making slant eyes and everyone condeming them for being racist - your pathetic little joke is pretty much along the same lines and sick humour . so suggest have a little think before posting liek and that realise who you could be upsetting .

chill dude

sorry mate just my brother married a chinese girl and i have a chinese nephew and find it extremely insulting - just like what the spanish are doing with their pictures.

so if your brother hadnt married a chinese bird would you still find it offensive, it seems your offense is based purely on this. before he married her did you go around defending chinese people?

my bird is thai of chinese decent and i found it funny (just as she finds things funny and doesn't need others to be offended on her behalf), but then again my underpants are not too tight so i have not lost the ability to laugh.

anyway back to the games

yes i would of found it offensive no matter what - i just think people should be more careful these days as its hard to know who you will upset or what people will find offensive and what people will find racist.

and there lies the problem mate, i am surprised you even strike up conversations with anyone for fear of offending them since people like you make it ok for pathetic beings to be offended by the simplest of things or say they are offended. seriously people will be scared to open their mouths soon.

that said, the spain basketball team, i found that in poor taste to their hosts, however i wasnt offended by it as i am not chinese.

no offence intended mate but there is no need for you to go through life being offended for others when you are not even sure they are offended by it themselves, i am sure the chinese have their own jokes about us (their belief is that we all smell of dairy products as an example), singaporeans call us ghosts because we are white and

physical features are purely that mate and people joke about them, however i agree that there needs to be some control and if a chinese person was offended by a comment then i would apologise, however if someone was offended on behalf of a chinese person i would tell them to get of their soap box.


anyway just a difference of opinion, not worth arguing about. you have your beliefs and i hve to respect that

[supersub]

Interesting piece relating to the reactions to the slitty eyed photos....

Hypocrisy seems to be the bottom line of every individual who comments on racist issues and coupled with the politically correct madness that has no purpose other than to allow a small amount of politically driven, power hungry obsessives to impose their own doctrines on the population as a whole, the two combined have enrichened no-one's life's and have simply left the world a poorer place. The Chinese government constantly abuse the human rights of their fellow man, that is a problem that needs to be addressed more urgently than a few sportspeople pulling faces, America constantly abuses human rights, the UK constantly abuses human rights.... is there a country's government anywhere on this planet that doesn't?  Of course, by keeping racism in the public eye, the more damaging human rights abuses take a back seat and if I can laugh and joke, ridicule and have great moments of fun with my Chinese, Russian, Polish, Ugandan, Australian, Scottish, Pakistani friends who fortunately all share the same sort of humour and we can all laugh at ourselves and at each other without taking offence then it's a very sad day for mankind when there is so little tolerance, so little understanding of the human pysche and far too much soapbox shouting, self opinionated and real people haters amongst us who strive for nothing in their life's other than to impose their will on others.  I'm Welsh and get subjected to lots of comments/humour/criticism etc because of my background, it doesn't bother me in the slightest. Unfortunately I live near Bristol where there is an obsession about the slave trade. Forgive me if I'm wrong but that happened so long ago and was never a purely black/white thing, it was exactly what we have and accept in so many quarters of our life's now, it was a trading for profit empire involving power hungry, morally bankrupt individuals of many colours and creeds, the very same type of people who now run our governments and commercial enterprises.  It's a pity all those wonderfully perfect critics of the racist phobia don't take time out from their moral high ground and get on with enjoying life as it was meant to be because most of us are living life as best as we can and mixing, sharing and respecting each others existence from what ever background  we choose but certainly have very little time for those self righteous mouthpieces who obviously make so much noise because maybe they have either a lot of guilt to shoulder or who are no better than those they choose to criticise. Basically, get a life because that's all there is at the end of the day and if it offends you then make your point and walk away. Are those of you who have commented on this issue so damned perfect, ultimate paragons of virtue, respect and live your life's so precisely that you have no room for tolerance, if so then I feel really sorry for you when you are breathing your last breath on this planet and wondering how many more breaths you might have used more positively in your lifetime. If racism wasn't such a media hyped, politically corrected phenomena that has been given so much publicity that we are all looking for it even when it isn't actually there, it would have evaporated into history a long time ago because people would be learning to live with each other.

[112-1077774096]

Interesting piece relating to the reactions to the slitty eyed photos....

Hypocrisy seems to be the bottom line of every individual who comments on racist issues and coupled with the politically correct madness that has no purpose other than to allow a small amount of politically driven, power hungry obsessives to impose their own doctrines on the population as a whole, the two combined have enrichened no-one's life's and have simply left the world a poorer place. The Chinese government constantly abuse the human rights of their fellow man, that is a problem that needs to be addressed more urgently than a few sportspeople pulling faces, America constantly abuses human rights, the UK constantly abuses human rights.... is there a country's government anywhere on this planet that doesn't?  Of course, by keeping racism in the public eye, the more damaging human rights abuses take a back seat and if I can laugh and joke, ridicule and have great moments of fun with my Chinese, Russian, Polish, Ugandan, Australian, Scottish, Pakistani friends who fortunately all share the same sort of humour and we can all laugh at ourselves and at each other without taking offence then it's a very sad day for mankind when there is so little tolerance, so little understanding of the human pysche and far too much soapbox shouting, self opinionated and real people haters amongst us who strive for nothing in their life's other than to impose their will on others.  I'm Welsh and get subjected to lots of comments/humour/criticism etc because of my background, it doesn't bother me in the slightest. Unfortunately I live near Bristol where there is an obsession about the slave trade. Forgive me if I'm wrong but that happened so long ago and was never a purely black/white thing, it was exactly what we have and accept in so many quarters of our life's now, it was a trading for profit empire involving power hungry, morally bankrupt individuals of many colours and creeds, the very same type of people who now run our governments and commercial enterprises.  It's a pity all those wonderfully perfect critics of the racist phobia don't take time out from their moral high ground and get on with enjoying life as it was meant to be because most of us are living life as best as we can and mixing, sharing and respecting each others existence from what ever background  we choose but certainly have very little time for those self righteous mouthpieces who obviously make so much noise because maybe they have either a lot of guilt to shoulder or who are no better than those they choose to criticise. Basically, get a life because that's all there is at the end of the day and if it offends you then make your point and walk away. Are those of you who have commented on this issue so damned perfect, ultimate paragons of virtue, respect and live your life's so precisely that you have no room for tolerance, if so then I feel really sorry for you when you are breathing your last breath on this planet and wondering how many more breaths you might have used more positively in your lifetime. If racism wasn't such a media hyped, politically corrected phenomena that has been given so much publicity that we are all looking for it even when it isn't actually there, it would have evaporated into history a long time ago because people would be learning to live with each other.

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[supersub]

I'm not Welsh but I do like a bit of sheep from time to time......this obviously comes in the shape of lamb topped with a bit of mint sauce