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Re: The Repository of Quotable Remarks

Post by Forty Two » Tue Aug 08, 2017 12:31 pm

What are you blokes on about?

Women play sports. What's the issue here? That most of them aren't sexually attractive, particularly when they're not trying to be that?

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Re: The Repository of Quotable Remarks

Post by mistermack » Tue Aug 08, 2017 12:34 pm

Well I'm talking about women's football kit. (soccer to you)
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Re: The Repository of Quotable Remarks

Post by Forty Two » Tue Aug 08, 2017 12:42 pm

mistermack wrote:Well I'm talking about women's football kit. (soccer to you)
You need to go back a page.
I get it. They're wearing shorts and jerseys. They're not in a beauty contest. If they're on a construction site, I would expect them to wear a loose fitting shirt, denim or other work pants, and a hard hat. While it might give me a chubby when they wear a tight tank top with no bra, and tie up the shirt to expose the midriff and walk around with tight cut-off shorts creeping up their asses, it's not really expected in the real world. LOL
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar

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Re: The Repository of Quotable Remarks

Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Aug 08, 2017 12:55 pm

mistermack wrote:Nope.
Football :



Tennis :

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Anyone spot the difference?
I think the difference is quite obvious. You'd like to have sex with the tennis player more than with the footballer, therefore it's a failing of the footballer not to make you want to have sex with her more.

But still, you wouldn't say no though, would you?
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Post by mistermack » Tue Aug 08, 2017 12:58 pm

Forty Two wrote:
mistermack wrote:Well I'm talking about women's football kit. (soccer to you)
You need to go back a page.
I get it. They're wearing shorts and jerseys. They're not in a beauty contest. If they're on a construction site, I would expect them to wear a loose fitting shirt, denim or other work pants, and a hard hat. While it might give me a chubby when they wear a tight tank top with no bra, and tie up the shirt to expose the midriff and walk around with tight cut-off shorts creeping up their asses, it's not really expected in the real world. LOL
You get it?
Coming from a country that includes this in their football games? I think they get it. Not you.

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Post by mistermack » Tue Aug 08, 2017 1:04 pm

Brian Peacock wrote: I think the difference is quite obvious. You'd like to have sex with the tennis player more than with the footballer, therefore it's a failing of the footballer not to make you want to have sex with her more.

But still, you wouldn't say no though, would you?
Of course I wouldn't. But I wouldn't enjoy it.
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Re: Are Ladies Good Sports? (split)

Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Aug 08, 2017 1:05 pm

Just lie back and think of England dear - it won't take long. ;)
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Re: Are Ladies Good Sports? (split)

Post by Forty Two » Tue Aug 08, 2017 1:12 pm

Some ladies are good at sports, others aren't.
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Re: Are Ladies Good Sports? (split)

Post by NineBerry » Tue Aug 08, 2017 1:12 pm

Return to classic style. Have all the athletes go in the nude. Including Sumo-Fighters.

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Re: Are Ladies Good Sports? (split)

Post by Hermit » Tue Aug 08, 2017 1:15 pm

Forty Two wrote:What are you blokes on about?

Women play sports. What's the issue here? That most of them aren't sexually attractive, particularly when they're not trying to be that?
You blokes? Plural? :think:
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Re: Are Ladies Good Sports? (split)

Post by Scot Dutchy » Tue Aug 08, 2017 1:17 pm

Might end up with a few black eyes in women's athletics. :lol:
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Re: Are Ladies Good Sports? (split)

Post by Forty Two » Tue Aug 08, 2017 1:21 pm

This thread might be a good place to discuss the issue raised in the NPR interview with John McEnroe.

On calling Serena Williams the best female tennis player in the world

Garcia-Navarro: We're talking about male players but there is of course wonderful female players. Let's talk about Serena Williams. You say she is the best female player in the world in the book.

McEnroe: Best female player ever — no question.

Garcia-Navarro: Some wouldn't qualify it, some would say she's the best player in the world. Why qualify it?

McEnroe: Oh! Uh, she's not, you mean, the best player in the world, period?

Garcia-Navarro: Yeah, the best tennis player in the world. You know, why say female player?

McEnroe: Well because if she was in, if she played the men's circuit she'd be like 700 in the world.

Garcia-Navarro: You think so?

McEnroe: Yeah. That doesn't mean I don't think Serena is an incredible player. I do, but the reality of what would happen would be I think something that perhaps it'd be a little higher, perhaps it'd be a little lower. And on a given day, Serena could beat some players. I believe because she's so incredibly strong mentally that she could overcome some situations where players would choke 'cause she's been in it so many times, so many situations at Wimbledon, The U.S. Open, etc. But if she had to just play the circuit — the men's circuit — that would be an entirely different story.
http://www.npr.org/2017/06/25/534149646 ... nner-peace

I mean, the interviewer asks the question why McEnroe would qualify his reference to Serena Williams as the best "female" player in the world. She says "others wouldn't qualify it." Others would apparently, say that Serene was the best tennis player in the world. I'm not sure who the "others" are that she's referring to.

McEnroe took a lot of shit in the media for this. People were pissed off. It was apparently really sexist for him to say that she'd be ranked like 700th in men.

I mean, was his comment even very disputable? I mean, I guess you could figure her somewhat higher than 700, but McEnroe is fairly knowledgeable about tennis, and he wasn't pulling this figure out of a hat. The 700th ranked man in the world is no slouch. http://www.dailywire.com/news/17929/joh ... exit-modal

It's like the US women's soccer team. Probably the best team in the world, or among the top three. Yet, they can lose to a U-15 boys' team.

It's just reality.
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Re: Are Ladies Good Sports? (split)

Post by Forty Two » Tue Aug 08, 2017 1:23 pm

Hermit wrote:
Forty Two wrote:What are you blokes on about?

Women play sports. What's the issue here? That most of them aren't sexually attractive, particularly when they're not trying to be that?
You blokes? Plural? :think:
Sure, I don't assume his gender is singular.
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Re: The Repository of Quotable Remarks

Post by Forty Two » Tue Aug 08, 2017 1:27 pm

mistermack wrote:
Forty Two wrote:
mistermack wrote:Well I'm talking about women's football kit. (soccer to you)
You need to go back a page.
I get it. They're wearing shorts and jerseys. They're not in a beauty contest. If they're on a construction site, I would expect them to wear a loose fitting shirt, denim or other work pants, and a hard hat. While it might give me a chubby when they wear a tight tank top with no bra, and tie up the shirt to expose the midriff and walk around with tight cut-off shorts creeping up their asses, it's not really expected in the real world. LOL
You get it?
Coming from a country that includes this in their football games? I think they get it. Not you.

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I do get it. And cheerleaders are also athletes. It's a lot harder to do what they do than it looks.

I'm not sure what you think I don't get. I posted several examples of professional female soccer players who are very hot. Just because most of them aren't hot as hell doesn't mean anything. Most people in general aren't a picnic to look at. A bunch of them are smoking hot, though. And, the kit is not meant to help out their sex appeal. It's a sports uniform. You don't see the guys wearing shorts that hug the outline of their cocks and balls, or shirts that expose their chiseled midriffs. It's a sport, not a strip club.
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Re: Are Ladies Good Sports? (split)

Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Aug 08, 2017 1:29 pm

I have a chiselled midriff. Chiselled into a nice round shape.
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