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Fair enough Simon. I concur

 

Can’t tell if you’re being serious or not?

 

Just caught a glimpse of Phil Neville being interviewed ahead of England’s game against Argentina.

‘It’ll be tough and physical, they’ll have man to man marking’.

Erm......

 

Watching England v argentina. The standard is atrocious

 

It is much less physical that is for sure, but they played well. However, because I am steeped in men’s football and especially lower league I found I was becoming impatient and frustrated watching. Nevertheless they did have a good skill set, which was on display last night. The other half thought they were excellent and we shouldn’t compare, and he thought they played really well and passed the ball well, plus using trickery on the ball.

 

I've started to watch a few games but never lasted long. This sudden and large increase in publicity for women's football is totally at odds with the product to sell, it's really, really poor. At this rate it'll take women 500 years to reach Bradford Nig Nog division 8 level.

I caught England v Japan from HT yesterday. It was bizarre, England either mis-controlling, hoofing or just plain passing to Japan. And Japan actually playing football, women's football, less physical, far slower but having the gumption to use the space provided by all that. They were nice to watch. England were like a really bad pub team.

 

Kids football?

 

"Too hideous to contemplate" funny as owt, absolute classic.

 

I haven't taken offence. I'm merely questioning whether you actually meant to use the phrase 'nig nog' in 2019.

 

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/16309859.ta-150th-tribute-to-the-nignog-club/

 

Of course l meant to use it. I think l am going to piss my pants, do you actually know what l am talking about.

 

Thanks for that.
Being a southerner and not arriving in Bradford until 1980 I'd never heard of this club.

 

Regardless of the nignog club, it's not a Bradford specific word and has multiple meanings.

 

No, I didn't, until @Storck posted the above. Which is why I asked whether you really meant to use the phrase. It seemed completely random and gratuitous to me, having never heard of it.
But, 40 years after the club closed, I can't see why you needed to use that particular analogy when, by current standards, the name is totally unacceptable and there are plenty of alternative ways you could have made the same point.
My parents used to use the expression 'nigger brown' and could never understand why it was no longer acceptable. I suggest that nig nog club belongs in the same category.

 

Really? Such as?

 

Suggest all you want, you are now clutching at straws to obfuscate the matter, namely, that you showed outrage at the use of an innocent term that you decided to attach racial connotations to, where none were implied.

Now you've had the term explained you still can't say "Oops sorry". Google it, you obviously haven't and need to, there are many innocent meanings for nignog, l am sure there are not any for nigger.

 

I'm not obfuscating anything. The term nig nog is no less offensive than nigger. I've never heard it used in any other context. I've just googled it and the first six definitions all produce results such as 'offensive, derogatory term for a black person'. It's abundantly clear what every major online dictionary thinks the term means, whatever obscure colloquial usage it might once have had.

I'm certainly not going to say sorry. I now understand the context in which you used it. But I don't understand why you think it's still acceptable to use an analogy citing the name of a club that's been defunct for over 40 years that bore a name which is now socially unacceptable, when there were so many other options you could have used.
Language changes with the times. It used to be socially acceptable to call learning disabled people mongs or cretins. Now it isn't. Just because something was seen as ok in the 60s & 70s doesn't justify casually using it now if it's clearly no longer a socially acceptable term.

 

‘Just because you’re offended, doesn’t mean you’re right’.
Ricky Gervais.

 

And vice versa