Gareth Southgate's Sneer At Gamers

[degsy]

Sir Gareth Southgate: Boys need role models, not gaming and porn

Young men are increasingly turning to "callous, manipulative and toxic" influencers as role models, Sir Gareth Southgate says.

www.bbc.co.uk

Is he right?

Are too many men wasting their lives gaming?

He's quite right of course, the country's gone to the dogs...and, seemingly quite ready for the oldies thread too

 

[Rita_Poon]

KBE = Kissed backsides enough.

gerrrrintoim Keano.

Took a bit of digging this.

That game is April 12th 1995, an FA Cup replay between man utd and Crystal Palace (I initially thought Dowie was Batty and it threw me right off!)(sorry David, you massive chancer and serial back passer!) anyway, hated and still hate lord ellary, the very epitome of public school, instant officer, landed gentry tory scum. That was Keane's first red card for man utd, what Patterson got a red for I don't know, and it appears southgate got off scot free.

Once again, if you're going to earn a red card, earn it in full, none of this puzzyfooting around caper, give Cantona his due, when he saw his backside there was no quarter asked and no quarter given.

 

[degsy]

Gaming, wordle and wrestling

The triumvirate of evil

Bravo Sirrah, bra kin vo

 

[Yarrgh]

Since when did that melts opinion matter about anything other than football? (Even that’s questionable)

The problems he’s talking about with influencers etc, he’s part of.
Elevating people like him to spew out their opinions, that haven’t been asked for by the majority of people who have it rammed down their throats by the media, about things they’re woefully uneducated in, who you would likely ignore down the pub, is all part of the celebrity/ influencer nonsense of the period we live in.

Hangings too good for him, the misery faced penalty missing bottler.

All the charisma of a dirty mop.

I haven't played a computer game in years but I'm dusting off my amiga for a game of lemmings after this dullard"s waffle.

 

[Billy Dean]

Way to totally misunderstand the point he was making

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Too many youngsters on forums chatting wham. Big problem. They need to get down to B&Q get some postcrete and go and fill in some potholes - absolute wasters.

 

[Yarrgh]

Way to totally misunderstand the point he was making

I'll have you know that I have not read or heard what he said and have jumped to a conclusion based on my dislike for his mimsy waistcoated uninspired management and profiteering from Big Pizza after his bottling penalties antics.