One to enlarge our audience. tags - football, footy, hero, Collingwood, gatorfingers
STOP THE PRESSES - Was Jarryd Blair really doing the International Sign Language "Gatorfingers" (loosely translated to a kinky two holed fingering in English) or was he simply emanating the great George W Bush with a devil sign ... or was GWB really doing gatorfingers with the entire Arizona State Athletics team? I am tipping the latter, that kinky fuck!
Compliments to the Age for having a for once mildly interesting but at least somewhat humorous story about football, or was it about Gatorfingers, or was it about GWB and the devil sign ... either way it highlighted a disinformation event ... and check it out. ITS ABOUT FOOTBALL WOOHOO ... great investigative journalism ... putting those skills to great use here ... I mean the number of people this affects is staggering ... okay so most of them can't actually count but if they could it'd be a BIG number
Now if he had been doing the Barracuda then well, phew, that would be offensive ...
Of course people will ask what is the difference ...
[SockRatEz says: okay, what is the difference?]
perhaps the Age will do a follow up ...
[SockRatEz says: here's hoping ... ]
[Greg the Bunny says: you a bit jaded SockRatEz?]
[SockRatEz says: fuck off ... what I am is flabberghasted ... perhaps if the Age spent less time on some dick doing the Gatorfingers in a fucking photo and more time on things that matter they wouldn't have reported on the latest fire at Fukashima 4 hours after the BBC was reporting it ... IN THE MIDDLE OF THEIR NIGHT ... ]
[Greg the Bunny says: don't worry about the fire ... Kev sent Julia over to cry some of her crocodile tears to put it out with ... hah crocodile, see what I did there?]
[Ferretous says: I reckon I'm going to lose [e]props from sparx for this post ...]
[HappyAppleStarlight says: perhaps she could do with some Gatorfingers? I'm not really sure I get what it means but it sounds good ... and lots of people seem to be into it by the looks of those photos ...]
[SockRatEz says: ha ha, one of the two of you is going to cop it!! I know that!!]
[sparx says: Actually, I'm totally psyched to respond to this because I bet no one would expect me to know or care anything about organised sports. OH HOW LITTLE YOU KNOW ME. Not only are organised sports an effective way for the ruling class to distract us all from the fact that we're being fucked over every single day [see: bread and circuses] it also works to reinforce the basic "us versus not-us" programming that we all get force-fed as kids and makes shit like wars possible. Think about it: you get two teams with different uniforms and anthems and flags and shit symbolically battling over territory, while the atmosphere gets the crowd's bloodlust pumping and everyone has the vicarious thrill of "victory" over the "enemy." So, in short, organised sports are an excellent substitute for war in times of relative peace, and if, hypothetically, a society that's already obsessed with organised sports ever does go to war, it's not that massive a cognitive leap to transfer the uniform-wearing, anthem-singing, flag-waving bloodlust from the symbolic sports field to the literal battle ground. You dig me?]
[HappyAppleStarlight says: I still don't get the Gatorfingers, you guys. Gators don't even have fingers.]
[sparx also says: And as for your so-called "Gatorfingers" I think you'll find it's actually called "the shocker" and if you're gonna use cheap smut as a way to get more hits, I'll thank you do a bit of fucking research and at least get your terminology correct. Would it kill you to do some due diligence?]
[Greg the Bunny says: yeah, that killed the mood.]
[Ferretous says: oh really ... no fingers huh? I'll thank YOU HappyAppleStarlight to do some basic research ... and stop spreading godsdamn disinfo about gators! As if they don't have enough to deal with, people trying to deny them etymological credit for shit an' all]
[SockRatEz says: ah, that's better, vitriol! and nice use of an underhanded diversion tactic!]
[sparx says: Actually, I'm totally psyched to respond to this because I bet no one would expect me to know or care anything about organised sports. OH HOW LITTLE YOU KNOW ME. Not only are organised sports an effective way for the ruling class to distract us all from the fact that we're being fucked over every single day [see: bread and circuses] it also works to reinforce the basic "us versus not-us" programming that we all get force-fed as kids and makes shit like wars possible. Think about it: you get two teams with different uniforms and anthems and flags and shit symbolically battling over territory, while the atmosphere gets the crowd's bloodlust pumping and everyone has the vicarious thrill of "victory" over the "enemy." So, in short, organised sports are an excellent substitute for war in times of relative peace, and if, hypothetically, a society that's already obsessed with organised sports ever does go to war, it's not that massive a cognitive leap to transfer the uniform-wearing, anthem-singing, flag-waving bloodlust from the symbolic sports field to the literal battle ground. You dig me?]
[HappyAppleStarlight says: I still don't get the Gatorfingers, you guys. Gators don't even have fingers.]
[sparx also says: And as for your so-called "Gatorfingers" I think you'll find it's actually called "the shocker" and if you're gonna use cheap smut as a way to get more hits, I'll thank you do a bit of fucking research and at least get your terminology correct. Would it kill you to do some due diligence?]
[Greg the Bunny says: yeah, that killed the mood.]
[Ferretous says: oh really ... no fingers huh? I'll thank YOU HappyAppleStarlight to do some basic research ... and stop spreading godsdamn disinfo about gators! As if they don't have enough to deal with, people trying to deny them etymological credit for shit an' all]
[SockRatEz says: ah, that's better, vitriol! and nice use of an underhanded diversion tactic!]