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[Other Sport] Sack or hauled over the coals? You decide……..(not really as decision already made)

Shown the door or bollocking?

  • Shown door

    Votes: 15 18.5%

  • Bollocking

    Votes: 66 81.5%
  • Total voters
    81












Frankie

Frankie

Put him in the curry
May 23, 2016
4,370
Mid west Wales
A remark you hear all the time since time began in 1992, It's water off a ducks back to me as it only takes about 3 hours to get ready for a night out so it's non applicable to myself.
Saying it over the air to millions of superwokers was obviously a error in judgement but I certainly didn't raise a eyebrow to this possible internet world ending off the cuff remark.

Anyway I'm sure he'll be on celebrity love island soon enough.
 






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timbha

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
10,341
Sussex
A bit of diversity training is usually the suggested solution (I bet more people enjoyed the comment than were truly offended or harmed).
 
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Eeyore

Eeyore

Colonel Hee-Haw of Queen's Park
NSC Patron
Apr 5, 2014
25,403
They're Australian so it's okay.

It's actually funny, Bit like women who complain that men are bed-ridden whenever they are hit by the sniffles. Sometimes folk need to start living and realise that not all humour is designed to either be literal or nasty.

However, given the circumstance, it is inappropriate. There is a time and place. So he was very unprofessional. I'd give him an absolute bollicking if it was not a regular happening and then stick him with a female commentator who might just keep reminding him of it for a little while.

There is a difference between light hearted and offensive. Sadly, in the new age of Liberal Puritanism we seem to have lost that.
 


Flounce

Flounce

Well-known member
Nov 15, 2006
3,456
Titanic said:
Seems like a good chance to employ another woman commentator.
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That is probably exactly it. I was watching some men’s game the other day and all three on field pundits were women. Why?

Rather silly comment from Ballard but how many men haven’t made a similar comment when waiting for their other half? Do women and Woke people REALLY get offended by quips like that? :rolleyes:

I wouldn’t sack or bollock, I’d just say “don’t do it, you are well aware how pc the broadcasting world is now”
 




dazzer6666

dazzer6666

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Mar 27, 2013
54,710
Burgess Hill
Eeyore said:
They're Australian so it's okay.

It's actually funny, Bit like women who complain that men are bed-ridden whenever they are hit by the sniffles. Sometimes folk need to start living and realise that not all humour is designed to either be literal or nasty.

However, given the circumstance, it is inappropriate. There is a time and place. So he was very unprofessional. I'd give him an absolute bollicking if it was not a regular happening and then stick him with a female commentator who might just keep reminding him of it for a little while.
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Yep. When I was working we made comments like this in my team all the time…….both ‘sides‘ giving as good as they got.
 




dazzer6666

dazzer6666

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Mar 27, 2013
54,710
Burgess Hill
happypig said:
Refuse to stand aside, stating "I have apologised and I consider the matter closed."
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BLOCK F

Well-known member
Feb 26, 2009
6,626
Inappropriate in this day and age, but just give him a suitable ‘reminder/gentle bollocking and let the world keep on spinning.
Funnily enough, I have just watched a snippet on t’internet about how weather presenters prepare their tv broadcasts. In it, Sarah Keith Lucas goes briefly through the procedures and what is involved and ends by saying, ‘ and now the most important thing of all, to get my hair and make-up done.’ 😁
 












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