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The Creeping Militarization of UK sport continues
The suggestion that you could wipe out fascism in britain with a well placed bomb at twickers comes to mind.
This is going to end up with anyone who wants to represent england having to tattoo a poppy on their face isn't it?
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The Creeping Militarization of UK sport continues
Furtho wrote: Come on, people. There is, after all, "a huge crossover between the VC and its history, and rugby."
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The Creeping Militarization of UK sport continues
Furtho wrote: Come on, people. There is, after all, "a huge crossover between the VC and its history, and rugby."
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The Creeping Militarization of UK sport continues
Surely, at some point, SOMEBODY in the whole design and QA process involved in that England shirt should have stopped and thought, "so we're appropriating the Victoria Cross? For England. To wear when we play Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, just to really rub it in?". Never mind the thunderingly poor taste to begin with of thinking "I know what, when Malcolm, the morbidly obese 45-year-old marketing executive from Bracknell, buys his next replica England top, let's put the fucking Victoria Cross on it, so he can show his affinity for the armed forces, too".
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The Creeping Militarization of UK sport continues
La Lanterne Rouge wrote: Creeping militarisation? Ha! You ain't seen nothing 'til your town's baseball team plays in camo, with a national flag on the sleeve, every Sunday
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The Creeping Militarization of UK sport continues
It seems to be compulsory now in US team sports to have a veteran (in the military sense) presented to the crowd at some point during the game to take a standing ovation. I've not seen that done over here (in that form), but there is a tendency to have soldiers bringing out trophies and flags before big games. Rugby League is keen on this, for some reason.
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The Creeping Militarization of UK sport continues
Walt Flanagans Dog wrote: It seems to be compulsory now in US team sports to have a veteran (in the military sense) presented to the crowd at some point during the game to take a standing ovation. I've not seen that done over here (in that form), but there is a tendency to have soldiers bringing out trophies and flags before big games. Rugby League is keen on this, for some reason.
No, it's not. In fact, it is incredibly fucking disrespectful to say that.
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The Creeping Militarization of UK sport continues
extraordinary violence, people drowning in mud as they make their way over an absurdly pockmarked surface, the abandonment of all humanity in the grinding pursuit of victory? it almost sounds like the chelsea 1-2 barcelona game from 2006. If jose thought he could have got away with barbed wire and machine gun emplacements he probably would have.
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The Creeping Militarization of UK sport continues
The "Salute the Troops" stuff in the U.S. is insane. I've complained about it on OTF before, but I watch sports to have a little break from the outside world, so I find it very tedious and unpleasant when instead I'm reminded of one of our endless wars at halftime.
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