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[Football] Banter - just an excuse for otherwise socially unacceptable behaviour
- Thread starter severnside gull
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What a stupid little boy or girl you are. No idea whatsoever.
mejonaNO12 aka riskit
Well-known member
Banter has fast become the code word for "rubbish humour".
I've found in my group of chums it has gone full circle now and we use "banter" ironically to signify said rubbish humour.
To further emphasise the crapness of it, "Banter" can be shortened to "Bantz" or inserted into "That's LOVELY Bantz".
Once one has fully engaged in the world of Bantz he or she can soon rise to the role of Archbishop of Banterbury
I've found in my group of chums it has gone full circle now and we use "banter" ironically to signify said rubbish humour.
To further emphasise the crapness of it, "Banter" can be shortened to "Bantz" or inserted into "That's LOVELY Bantz".
Once one has fully engaged in the world of Bantz he or she can soon rise to the role of Archbishop of Banterbury
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Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
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As an ex-soldier with 12 years’ service, including 4 tours of Iraq and Afghanistan, I would suggest that at 32 years old, I still fall into that younger generation bracket (I hope anyway). Military banter is certainly something quite unique to the military and things I say to ex-army friends I would never say to my current work colleagues, it doesn’t make either one right it's just different, the environments you work / worked In make it that way.
People will cross the line with "banter" all the time, I wouldn’t say the military is any different, the line is just beyond what a civilian would expect. Are we all dickheads? well I hope not, actually my 20-year-old self would consider me quite boring now, I'm married with a young daughter work an office 9 - 5 and drive a ford focus!
People will cross the line with "banter" all the time, I wouldn’t say the military is any different, the line is just beyond what a civilian would expect. Are we all dickheads? well I hope not, actually my 20-year-old self would consider me quite boring now, I'm married with a young daughter work an office 9 - 5 and drive a ford focus!
spring hall convert
Well-known member
Great. Now let's all agree where the dividing line is.
spring hall convert
Well-known member
I think you worry unduly with reference to being legally judged for past behaviors in a present context. I mean a real life example is the legislation to safeguard the rights of same sex relationships in recent times. No one has been prosecuted for discrimination relating to a time when such actions were legal.
Gender identities have only come from people's lived experiences and for the minor inconvenience of the rest of us having to scan through a few more boxes or ask for an appropriate pronoun, I'm not sure I really understand what the problem is. All that's being asked of us is to treat all individuals with respect.
I see that well known bastion of socially liberal politics the Telegraph did a relatively well meaning piece about all this a while back. To be frank we don't need to know it all anyway, we just need to be respectful of and listen to all people that we encounter in life.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-...ossary-of-gender-identities-for-your-next-ce/
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The only point that has been proven is that you are naive on how a Soldier is trained, and that you have a stereotypical view on soldiers in general.
I so hope one day, in this ever increasing violent world we live in that you and your family need the help of a soldier, and as he or she holds his or her arm out to you, you can look them in the eye and say thanks for this but all soldiers I have ever met are c*nts.
With that I hope they turn their back on you.
Its because of so called soldiers like me and others, that you even have the right to write on this board in the first place.
spring hall convert
Well-known member
Is Wrong Direction trying to give us a real life demonstration of banter being an excuse for socially unacceptable behaviour on this thread?
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Thats itv for you ...i'm seeing different
I so thought the same.
maltaseagull
Well-known member
Is that banter?
Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
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Thanks, I didn't realise you were in WW2
Anyway the next world war that happens, our tiny little island will be wiped out first so an arm won't do me much good
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Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Here's an example of that.
https://twitter.com/FSF_FairCop/status/920689473054298112
[tweet]920689473054298112[/tweet]
Dismissed because it is true?
- Jan 3, 2012
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When writing essays of any sort at school several decades ago, we always had it drilled in to us that we needed to be clear about the terms we were using and so on, so maybe we need to define banter! And I'm not going to try and do that now.
The report I've read about it this morning makes comments about things like "ill judged attempts at humour" and similar, and being someone who has more time for chaos theory than conspiracy theory, I just think that some of what has gone on here was just crass stupidity on the part of those who made the comments.
But in terms of the FA and what they seem to have tried to do to "resolve" it more recently with the victims, it is just completely inept - and that is probably a massive understatement.
The report I've read about it this morning makes comments about things like "ill judged attempts at humour" and similar, and being someone who has more time for chaos theory than conspiracy theory, I just think that some of what has gone on here was just crass stupidity on the part of those who made the comments.
But in terms of the FA and what they seem to have tried to do to "resolve" it more recently with the victims, it is just completely inept - and that is probably a massive understatement.
Sweeney Todd
New member
During the height of the BSE crisis in the UK, I went to France to visit a (French) friend of mine. Before I set off for France, he joked: “Don’t go bringing that Mad Cow Disease over here with you.” Did I take that as racist joke? Did I heck?
Your naivety is laughable.
FYI. WW2 is not the only war that the UK has been involved in, we are still fighting today.
Your limp attempts at humour are a shameful.
It may not be a world war when you need help, it maybe when you are on a bus, tube or just walking in the street like Lee Rigby was.
spring hall convert
Well-known member
Was this person your boss?
Have you as an English person been affected by the impact of centuries of discrimination at the hands of French people?
Did that person subsequently remove you from your employment in what you perceived to be an unjustified fashion after you mentioned this 'joke' to authorities?
Did you have a relationship where previously these sort of jokes had previously been exchanged without complaint?
This kind of blithe false equivalency looks good on paper but falls apart under examination. Surely people understand that different relationships we have in life have different 'rules.' I assume you don't treat your mother in law the same as your best mate do you?
Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
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I'll blame the government if something happens to me, something you fight for.
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