I saw a comedy act last night where the guy kept going on about a 'downy' girl. Turned out he meant it as a comment on a hairstyle and was completely oblivious to the fact that audience members may take it as slang for somebody with Down's syndrome.

Interesting, I know.

Downy πŸ˜†

They can't even cheer on their own.

Had never heard that one but it's not too difficult to work out.
BTW is this acceptable to them?

tbf, best idea from Pool I ever heard. Saves us a lotta grief.

1988
Edit: Capi's lightning reply beat me to it plus the damned "too short" notice.
Also "cheese eating surrender monkey" seems to have got through.

Could have even been in the 70s.

πŸ˜† That's also going to be news to 1 billion Hindus.

@ Tone I think that pamphlet is just for staff and players not for fans, racial abuse during games I assume is already illegal......err unless you're Luis Suarez.

Maybe, the meanings of words/actions/phrases change all of the time.

Could be, although the change doesn't always have to be negative.

Yep. Calling someone a fucktard is acceptable these days.

More like calling a captain 'fucktard'.

Liverpool are such a ridiculous club.

πŸ˜† @ flirting between Captain, Rex and Lagos.

Not between me and Lagos, he has me on 'ignored'. πŸ™‚

flobaba wrote:

πŸ˜† @ flirting between Captain, Rex and Lagos.

πŸ˜† It's so fucking gay its almost retarded.

Zip it fucktard!

Are there more words than is shown in that article as i don't think fucktard is on the list.
Thinking about it, if someone called me fucktard to my face, it would mean nothing unless maybe spittle flew out of his mouth and touched my skin.

Rex wrote:

Zip it fucktard!

We can still get you for being Swedish and for possessing ice skates.

No one can accuse you of not manning up Y.

What if they sign Sven or Lars Bender? Or they are playing against one of them?

πŸ˜† Suppose they'll just leave his shirt blank where the name usually is.....

I giggled through that list. Need to develop a better sense of humour.

People were less uptight in the old days.
Of course there was racism and violence then.

Not like nowadays......

Rex wrote:

More like calling a captain 'fucktard'.

Or lose the quotes and just call him Captain Fucktard

Liverpool is such a weird club. So so strange....

qs! wrote:
Rex wrote:

More like calling a captain 'fucktard'.

Or lose the quotes and just call him Captain Fucktard

πŸ˜† Fear not Wengerites- Captain Fucktard to the rescue!

lagos wrote:

1st time i'm hearing of it, are they going to ban "mixed race" next?

That's already quite dodgy.

How about mixed doubles?

If "mixed race" is dodgy, what's the PC way of describing it?

Who care's its just fashion, its just as George Carlin says: A word is just a word and can be changed as easily as a bankrupt company or a banned terrorist group.
It's the intention to cause offence that counts not the word.

Irish gunner wrote:

If "mixed race" is dodgy, what's the PC way of describing it?

Dual Heritage. πŸ˜†

Liverpool trying to go overboard now, should have maybe railed in fans who through bananas at John Barnes WHILE being a liverpool player.

Also I would like to find out how they may attempt to even enforce those rules as unless you say it to a steward who seems to give a sh!t nothing will happen.