*** Official Politics Shitposting Thread ***

[OngBonga]

Yes but what do they say for the second line? Who are they catching by the toe?

[BananaStand]

Yes but what do they say for the second line? Who are they catching by the toe?

Apparently it doesn't matter.

[OngBonga]

Apparently it doesn't matter.

Of course it matters.

Primark have pulled the t-shirt becuase it's bad press, not because of any legal obligation. There was an airliner that used the rhyme "eeny meeny miny mo, take a seat it's time to go", and there was uproar from the African-Americans on the plane. Legal pressure followed, and courts found in favour of the airliner.

The rhyme was not origianlly a racist rhyme, as far as I'm aware. I think it's "catch a tiger by the toe". Therefore, using the rhyme is not de facto racist.

If people are going to take offence at innocent uses of the rhyme, fuck them. I'm a Birmingham City fan, a crappy football team in England. Our local rivals, Aston Villa, have a song about us, sung to the tune of "Walking in a Winter Wonderland". Does that mean I should take offence when someone sings Winter Wonderland? They also sing "fight fight wherever you may be" to the tune of Lord of the Dance. Let's ban a hymn because a bunch of morons sing silly aggressive lyrics to it.

[BananaStand]

Of course it matters. .

nah man, the way I read the article, the shirt doesn't even contain the second line.

I'm a Birmingham City fan, a crappy football team in England.

Am I racist if I cringe because you referred to 'soccer' as 'football'? Or are you being jingoist by not recognizing that America stole your sport's name fair and square?

[Poopadoop]

America stole your sport's name fair and square?

Indeed. And that's why the whole world outside of the US and Canada associates the world 'football' with a game where you kick a ball around meaninglessly for 90 minutes, with the occasional incident of someone brushing against someone else and the other person then rolling around on the ground like they'd been hit with a sledgehammer.

[BananaStand]

the whole world outside of the US and Canada associates the world 'football' with a game where you kick a ball around meaninglessly for 90 minutes

They all need an updated vocabulary lesson. "Football" is an American game where 99% of ball contact occurs in the hands, and foot contact is illegal on 99% of the plays. I'm not saying it makes sense. I'm not saying we aren't being pricks about it.

But your game is called "soccer" now. Learn it. Love it.