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The same can be said about you being a pies supporterWhat'sinaname wrote:Suggesting Caro go down the slide is one thing, offering more for her to drown is not really appropriate. I wasn't even funny.
Eddie needs to <snip> or step down as president as he is embarrassing the Club.
Hit the nail on the head. Good to see the perpetually outraged out in force. I think it's time to get off this planet as the idiots have taken over.Redlight wrote:Ridiculous overreaction from the humourless few that somehow feel empowered by their own empty outrage.
The comments were a joke. Quite a funny one at that.
It is an insult to the actual victims of violence that people are more outraged by this than they are by a woman being beaten with an iron bar during a robbery.
Yet the headlines tomorrow will be all about a harmless joke told on radio. The discussion at workplaces tomorrow will be about a joke told on radio. Columnists will fill pages, talk-back will be inundated with outrage, outrage so deeply and sincerely held that will be gone by the afternoon. All of it impotent, pointless and counter productive.
And why? Because the joke was told by celebrities.
Be angry if it makes you feel better, but don't kid yourself that your attitude does anything to end violence against women. You're just creating victims where there are none, and leaving the real victims to their own devices.
Personally that kind of blokey humour shown in the transcript leaves me cold. But it was clearly meant as a joke against someone who has often expressed a negative view of McGuire, and it was not condoning violence against women - it was joking about drowning one particular woman, rather as either gender might joke about drowning an ex-spouse. Slightly poor taste ? Yeah, I guess so - but hardly malicious.schuey07 wrote:Hit the nail on the head. Good to see the perpetually outraged out in force. I think it's time to get off this planet as the idiots have taken over.Redlight wrote:Ridiculous overreaction from the humourless few that somehow feel empowered by their own empty outrage.
The comments were a joke. Quite a funny one at that.
It is an insult to the actual victims of violence that people are more outraged by this than they are by a woman being beaten with an iron bar during a robbery.
Yet the headlines tomorrow will be all about a harmless joke told on radio. The discussion at workplaces tomorrow will be about a joke told on radio. Columnists will fill pages, talk-back will be inundated with outrage, outrage so deeply and sincerely held that will be gone by the afternoon. All of it impotent, pointless and counter productive.
And why? Because the joke was told by celebrities.
Be angry if it makes you feel better, but don't kid yourself that your attitude does anything to end violence against women. You're just creating victims where there are none, and leaving the real victims to their own devices.
Redlight wrote:Ridiculous overreaction from the humourless few that somehow feel empowered by their own empty outrage.
The comments were a joke. Quite a funny one at that.
It is an insult to the actual victims of violence that people are more outraged by this than they are by a woman being beaten with an iron bar during a robbery.
Yet the headlines tomorrow will be all about a harmless joke told on radio. The discussion at workplaces tomorrow will be about a joke told on radio. Columnists will fill pages, talk-back will be inundated with outrage, outrage so deeply and sincerely held that will be gone by the afternoon. All of it impotent, pointless and counter productive.
So true. Oh the outrage. If you are not outraged you are for violence against women or likely to be violent yourself. Will these celebrities receive IVOS? If they did they would have no hope of defending against them. Violence, violence, violence. See it's everywhere and we should be outraged and make a stand and this should be in the Magistrates Court. Maybe even call the police and serve the summons live on TV.
And why? Because the joke was told by celebrities.
Be angry if it makes you feel better, but don't kid yourself that your attitude does anything to end violence against women. You're just creating victims where there are none, and leaving the real victims to their own devices.
This.Culprit wrote:If it had of been "Robbo" instead of "Carro" no one would have battered an eye lid. The trouble is "Carro" is female so that makes it not PC. Ed should know better and I see it was banter between blokes and that banter cannot be done in public or on air. It has to be done in one's man cave.
He will cop it and keep the Pies in the headlines for another week until someone from the NRL pretends to bang a cat or something.
