Love how at least ten people have taken my quotes totally out of context. I didn't say "vile homophobic language aimed at children is absolutely fine". I said, if you take your kids to a game, and they hear some bad language, whether that language is right or wrong, then that's your fault for taking them to the game. I said acting abusive towards kids is wrong. I said nasty chants such as "HIV" are wrong. I said it's unacceptable to act up outside the ground. But if you lot want to ignore all of that in a desperate effort to feel superior and enlightened, feel free. You're only showing yourselves up.
Tooting Gull - I said it's wrong to act up outside the ground, and I said it's wrong to chant genuinely nasty stuff like "HIV". So how in any way am I condoning it as banter? Please read my posts and look at what's actually being said, rather than what you want to see.
mona - I wasn't talking about "graphic comments about anal sex". I was talking about bad language in general. Most people who have a problem with bad language are middle-class.
Questions - Straw man argument (like 99% of these responses).
Blackadder - I understand your curiosity. Basically, when people apply for season tickets, the club carry out checks on your income, favoured supermarket, sense of humour, diet, cars, accent, holidays, choice of alcohol etc., and come to a conclusion on your social class. They then assign you your seat based on this conclusion to ensure nobody has to mix with those lower down the social ladder than themselves. The upper-class are put in the corporate seats, the middle-class are in the Chapel, the lower-middle class make up part of the Itchen and Kingsland, and the rest is generally working class, especially concentrated in the Northam. The away section varies depending on who's visiting. Sometimes it's the scummy underclass (eg Pompey), sometimes it's the boring, quiet, middle-class (eg Brighton). I hope this has cleared things up.
And yes, I behave around women. But I don't make an extra special point of it as we don't live in the 1950s.
Cheers chaps
Tooting Gull - I said it's wrong to act up outside the ground, and I said it's wrong to chant genuinely nasty stuff like "HIV". So how in any way am I condoning it as banter? Please read my posts and look at what's actually being said, rather than what you want to see.
mona - I wasn't talking about "graphic comments about anal sex". I was talking about bad language in general. Most people who have a problem with bad language are middle-class.
Questions - Straw man argument (like 99% of these responses).
Blackadder - I understand your curiosity. Basically, when people apply for season tickets, the club carry out checks on your income, favoured supermarket, sense of humour, diet, cars, accent, holidays, choice of alcohol etc., and come to a conclusion on your social class. They then assign you your seat based on this conclusion to ensure nobody has to mix with those lower down the social ladder than themselves. The upper-class are put in the corporate seats, the middle-class are in the Chapel, the lower-middle class make up part of the Itchen and Kingsland, and the rest is generally working class, especially concentrated in the Northam. The away section varies depending on who's visiting. Sometimes it's the scummy underclass (eg Pompey), sometimes it's the boring, quiet, middle-class (eg Brighton). I hope this has cleared things up.
And yes, I behave around women. But I don't make an extra special point of it as we don't live in the 1950s.
Cheers chaps
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