Use of derogatory terms

[MrMouse]

I'd just like to ask everyone to steer clear of homophobic and/or other discriminatory language.

Terms like "poofball" degrade both gays and the round-ball code. That's not cool. It'd be good if a thread header in this section could be relabelled soccer/football/round ball/the whining hypochondriac's game.

Let's all make an effort to be inclusive. :yay

 

[Scarfman]

I know what you're saying MM, but I really do like degrading soccer and AFL. It's a bit like in the Gulf War, American soldiers were directed to call the enemy towel heads, not sand-niggers.

I'm as pro-gay as anyone this side of Elizabeth St, but what can we do? Wogball? It's tricky.

 

[rustycruiser]

Wendyball? Chavball?

 

[cyclopath]

Diveball, after Italy's antics against NZ overnight.

 

[Baldric]

As a hypochondriac I feel it is discriminatory to be associated with soccer.

 

[Scotty]

Sookball.

 

[Scotty]

Afterall they all have sookfaces that are better than our own sookface's sookface.

 

[fatprop]

Yeah calling it "Poofball" is an insult to poofs.

 

[matty_k]

Can someone please think of how the poor ball feels!

 

[DPK]

I wonder if somewhere on a soccer forum there is a thread dedicated to stopping people calling rugby "yawnion" or "thugby", or calling league "mungoball" or "glorified touch".

BTW, for the soccer fans around, is soccer ok? It is derivied from the official name of the sport, after all...

 

[Blue]

I wonder if somewhere on a soccer forum there is a thread dedicated to stopping people calling rugby "yawnion" or "thugby", or calling league "mungoball" or "glorified touch".

BTW, for the soccer fans around, is soccer ok? It is derivied from the official name of the sport, after all...

Uhm I thought it was originally football and then rugby football only came around after that. Wasn't soccer invented much later?

 

[Groucho]

I know what you're saying MM, but I really do like degrading soccer and AFL. It's a bit like in the Gulf War, American soldiers were directed to call the enemy towel heads, not sand-niggers.

I'm as pro-gay as anyone this side of Elizabeth St, but what can we do? Wogball? It's tricky.

I have no problem with degrading soccer but I'm uncomfortable with degrading gays by associating them with it.

 

[Scarfman]

I've put up a poll. I'll add any more sugestions that come in. Winner to be "official" G&GR derogatory term, although individual members may choose to use other terms.

 

[fatprop]

Did anyone see the dive by the Ivory Coast player vs Brazil, it was tragic, I don't know they can sleep at night.

 

[en_force_er]

Personally I've never called Soccer Poofball but words like faggy and poofy have taken on a meaning that has nothing to do with sexuality. I mean my gay mates call things gay.

Let's not get too PC.

EDIT: Obviously personal attack like calling someone something colourful like a "black c..." are completely off limits.

 

[Moses]

Would this also apply to (g)AFL?

Seems fair enough, but still a shame.

 

[RugbyFuture]

also, if we remember john eales column a few weeks ago where he was talking about the convicts, he asked them if they get called names often and they said that they get called poofs all the time, but it was mostly because they were from the eastern suburbs rather than being gay, so perhaps it comes with how you mean it?

 

[DPK]

Origin of "Soccer"

Uhm I thought it was originally football and then rugby football only came around after that. Wasn't soccer invented much later?

Well, as I understand it ( I looked it up a long time ago) is that it originated in a certain part of Britain, where Rugby is called "Rugger". People were looking for a similar title for Association Football, but "Asser"... well, obviously. So, they simply used Associtation Football to make "Soccer".

 

[daz]

I am a former soldier and manly man, yet still find interior decorating oddly satisfying and cry buckets when the hero in a movie dies heroically.

On the one hand I think any soccer player who dives is a girls blouse who deserves a swift kicking, and on the other hand I do hope the poor fellow is ok when he is writhing on the field.

I'm so confused, and I blame all things PC for this confusion. Group hug, anyone?

Time to seek external help, methinks.

 

[rugbywhisperer]

Uhm I thought it was originally football and then rugby football only came around after that. Wasn't soccer invented much later?

The original name was Football Association and gradually the word association became assoc and then soccer.
That dive on today's replayes was pure classic, elbow to the chest which didn't seem to connect and the victim goes down clutching his face.