Liverpool's greater wisdom

ShoulderChip

The wise Maesters of Liverpool have helped to guide their staff and the world alike with a list of potentially discriminatory words.
Full article here: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/jul/30/liverpool-unacceptable-words-discrimination

This has to be one of the oddest stories of the summer, what next will these wise men tell us?

RayCon

This is not going to go well ...

ShoulderChip

RayCon wrote: »

This is not going to go well ...

Ha should I add a disclaimer that the media gurus at pretty much all clubs come out with serious goofs, and this is directed at their folly more than any club in particular, seriously though what an il advised campaign, like starting a diversity training course and teaching people about the the weird things other people do.

Offensive also to the staff members, surely context and judgement are required and no one word is powerful enough , queer for example is a reclaimed umbrella term referring to anyone who identifies as non hetero-normative.It is a positive term in the literal context.

5starpool

I was wondering when this thread would be started.

roanoke

It shows you how poor the Ireland national team currently are that "Paddy" doesn't even make the list.

dahat

League title
Is another offensive phrase on Merseyside,causes all manner of upset and false hope to the less fortunate

PhlegmyMoses

RayCon wrote: »

This is not going to go well ...

Man up, princess.

Turtyturd

I can think of one poster who will be kicking himself he missed this opportunity.

Mr.Nice Guy

I can't see the word lady-boy without thinking of Alan Partridge.

LiamoSail

ShoulderChip wrote: »

Ha should I add a disclaimer that the media gurus at pretty much all clubs come out with serious goofs, and this is directed at their folly more than any club in particular, .

it is in it's hole. Look at the title

LiamoSail

It reads more like the wording of Suarez's new contract :pac:

roanoke

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

I can't see the word lady-boy without thinking of Alan Partridge.

Ahhhh ....lady-boys.

ShoulderChip

LiamoSail wrote: »

it is in it's hole. Look at the title

ha apologies I reported my own post asking for it to be changed.

trusting me winding people up because they like one club over another does not get my juices flowing.

Nuri Sahin

Turtyturd wrote: »

I can think of one poster who will be kicking himself he missed this opportunity.

Just the one? :eek: :pac:

GLaDOS

I was hoping this was a pun on Andre Wisdom

Leiva

Appropriate name OP.

mike65

Nothing illustrates the decline of Irish football players quite like not being protected from staffs verbal abuse.

eagle eye

I don't see whats silly or wrong about educating players in what is unacceptable.

ShoulderChip

eagle eye wrote: »

I don't see whats silly or wrong about educating players in what is unacceptable.

firstly its not the players, how much of this have you read?

I think this was covered in the Office where the David Brent character hosted a meeting on discrimination, and the conceit was that a manager should know better and of course it led on to encourage the exact behaviour it was discouraging.

Would you like to be verbally discriminated and a member of staff judging the incident based on a checklist of bold words?

I think George Carlin covers the topic of a distinct list of unusable words very well in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqvLTJfYnik

Pj!

I know the whole pc thing is growing and growing but is 'Man Up' really offensive now?
We'll all be old men and our grand kids will think we're awfully rude and old fashioned!



"That player is crap"

"You can't say that grandad!"

"Ah man up"

-Kids run away in disgust

Guy:Incognito

Coon? I didnt think anyone usef that outside of the deep south in america or since the 60's

Man up should be encouraged however. All these bloody southern fairies and their acting like princesses.

Brendan Filone

"Hello, would you get able to help me with my friend who is handicapped?"

"GET OUT!!!"

gandalf

Hmmm I heard the Chelsea guidelines were the exact inverse of the Liverpool one

Pj!

Is 'coloured' not allowed now either?

RasTa

Pj! wrote: »

Is 'coloured' not allowed now either?

Depends on the colour

Guy:Incognito

Pj! wrote: »

Is 'coloured' not allowed now either?

I dont see darkey on the list, maybe thats the one they want you to use. Or maybe not .....

Flincher

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

I dont see darkey on the list, maybe thats the one they want you to use. Or maybe not .....

Or Nignog?

I was first introduced to that term at an Ireland v Nigeria soccer match in the old Lansdowne Road.

Everything was "stupid nignog", "useless nignog", "go back to your own country you nignog". Jaysus, Clinton Morrison took awful abuse.

roanoke

ShoulderChip wrote: »

Sticking with the Partridge theme, I can picture Rishi Jain and the rest of his team sitting round the a table trying to come up with a comprehensive list and being quite proud with their efforts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29SslXv_Ja8

Knex*

And we laughed while discussing this in the Liverpool thread about this getting its own thread.

Frankie Lee

No mention of negrito I see. I've never heard anyone being called a she-man before.

Turtyturd

Knex. wrote: »

And we laughed while discussing this in the Liverpool thread about this getting its own thread.

Bonus points for knowing 'Paddy' would get a mention.

wandatowell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1ri2oUGBZg

I am the Coon

Oranage2

ShoulderChip wrote: »

The wise Maesters of Liverpool have helped to guide their staff and the world alike with a list of potentially discriminatory words.
Full article here: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/jul/30/liverpool-unacceptable-words-discrimination

This has to be one of the oddest stories of the summer, what next will these wise men tell us?

You have to wonder if the person who came up with this had certain players in mind or if it was something overheard on the training ground.

Downy being the obvious as in Stuart Downy.
Spaz could be about the aspas.
Nog is easy enough who that's about.
Midget could be in relation to spearing.
Lady boy another easy one in relation to skertl.