Mucker1884

15 hours ago, Anag Ram said:

The biggest anticlimax since my uncle discovered Viagra.

I hope to god you were stalking them from the wardrobe, and not there as an invited guest!  😲  

28 minutes ago, alram said:

i can remember similar cases of denial when the lawrence/other idiots story came out

 

we think the best of footballers but they have a habit of taking advantage of the faith shown in them

 

lets see but i think its obvious this is going to escalate into more. its amazing how easily football fans turn a blind eye to things like this. if it were not true the article would be gone and they would be getting sued for libel

I don't think it's a case of anyone turning a blind eye.  Just that we don't know the facts.

#One cannot turn a blind eye to that which cannot be seen!  👀

The charge of phone theft "appears" to be taking it as some form of retribution out of anger/frustration (for the way he and his wife were being treated by the so-called victim). 
There seems to be no evidence that NML had spent the day trawling clubs and bars for the sole purpose of snatching as many phones/wallets/purses as he could pilfer!

There doesn't appear to have been any charges at all, relating to assault, be that a defensive swipe against an attack by a third party, a reactionary smack in the gob as revenge for receiving similar, or an out and out unprovoked attack on an innocent and unsuspecting victim.

I don't see it escalating beyond a small fine for "taking someone's phone without their permission". 

Theft on a technicality, one might say.

If I may, I'd suggest you are more guilty of over reaction, than anyone (on here) has been for turning a blind eye.  With that, I will bid you no more than a good day, sir.

1 minute ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

I have my viewpoint.  No chivalry, just proportionate and I've never seen a female i'd feel I need to clobber to fend off, even an angry one.   If one ran at me with a weapon, that's different, but i'd still probably falter for a minute. Stiletto's don't count.  I got hit with one of those once by a girl on Babington Lane who just been clocked by her fella and when I clobbered him, she clobbered me as did his two mates.

That's what you get trying to nab a pair of ladies high heels off the dancefloor.  I bet they wouldn't have even fitted you anyway, yer bloody perv!

Tiffs, was it?  🤓

1 minute ago, DiggerB said:

Christ, this club gives with one hand……..

We don't know that.

It could have been a swift left-right combination!  👀  

... oh wait... Damn... I messed up again.  🙄

2 hours ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

If a woman attacks you it's not necessary to take that kind of ultra physical action. unless a weapons involved.  A woman swinging a fist at you isn't the same as a tanked up 18 stone bloke.   Having seen the damage a punch will do to a woman as a youngster when a bloke swings it, it's totally disproportionate.   

How about an 18 stone woman (with arms like tree trunks) lamping a 5'6", 10 stone bloke?  Have you seen such a scenario?  Because I have.  It wasn't pretty!

I know (personally) at least 7 adult females who I would run a mile from, if they come at me waving their fists at me (And about 20 or so blokes, but that's by the by!)

Come on now.  Your feeble attempts to signal chivalry are admirable... or would have been, back in the day, when females were considered the weaker sex.  That no longer applies.  Have you not heard?    

25 minutes ago, McArthur Park said:

Sorry @Mucker1884, I generally enjoy your posts, but I don't think that a post seemingly normalising giving a women a backhander is something to be joked about. Just my opinion of course.

Of course.

I'd have been more surprised had (some of) my comments offended nobody.  It's a well documented risk that goes hand in hand with any attempt at humour.  There's always someone out there that will be offended.

Hat off to you for shouting up.

🍻

2 hours ago, Anag Ram said:

In answer to your question I can’t think of any reasonable circumstances in which a man hitting a woman would be acceptable.

 

But my question didn't mention hitting a woman!  Neither did the previously referenced question by another poster, to which you answered "No" to it being acceptable (To thump a man!)

I'm sorry, but having evaded the question multiple times now, I've lost all interest in your thoughts on the subject now.
I still love yer, man, but ye gads, it's like getting a pie from a red dog!  🙄

... and besides, I've lost count of the number of folk who have come at me with a knife, and I'm still here!  (I just can't fathom why folk keep doing that!) 😉🍻

24 minutes ago, Anag Ram said:

Quite a long way from someone taking photos wouldn’t you agree?

You’ve been watching too many Liam Neeson films.

I deliberately made my question a multi choice, to make it simple for you, and still you fail to answer!  🙄

So... How about we forget all about NML, Spanish nightclubs, stolen mobiles and redrag newspapers, and go back solely to your comment that I deliberately quoted in order to set up the relevancy of my little questionnaire?

Namely your response of "No" to the question "Would you say a man punching a man is acceptable under certain circumstances?"

The question still stands.  I'm genuinely intrigued as to how you would respond to my hypothetical scenario... or a million others, to be fair!

🤷‍♂️

A duck walks into a pub and orders a pint of beer and a ham sandwich.

The barman looks at him and says, "Hang on! You're a duck."

"I see your eyes are working," replies the duck.

"And you can talk" !!  Exclaims the barman.

"I see your ears are working, too," Says the duck.

"Now if you don't mind, can I have my beer and my sandwich please?"

"Certainly, sorry about that," Says the barman as he pulls the duck's pint.

"It's just we don't get many ducks in this pub. What are you doing around this way?"

"I'm working on the building site across the road," Explains the duck.  "I'm a plasterer."

The flabbergasted barman cannot believe the duck and wants to learn more, but takes the hint when the duck pulls out a newspaper from his bag and proceeds to read it.

So, the duck reads his paper, drinks his beer, eats his sandwich, bids the barman good day and leaves.
The same thing happens for two weeks.

Then one day the circus comes to town.
The ringmaster comes into the pub for a pint and the barman says to him "You're with the circus, aren't you? Well, I know this duck that could be just brilliant in your circus. He talks, drinks beer, eats sandwiches, reads the newspaper and everything!"

"Sounds marvellous," says the ringmaster, handing over his business card.  "Get him to give me a call."

So the next day when the duck comes into the pub the barman says, "Hey Mr Duck, I reckon I can line you up with a top job, paying really good money."

"I'm always looking for the next job," Says the duck.  "Where is it?"

"At the circus," Says the barman.

"The circus?" Repeats the duck.

"That's right," Replies the barman.

"The circus?" The duck asks again.  "With the big tent?"

"Yeah," the barman replies.

"With all the animals who live in cages, and performers who live in caravans?" says the duck.

"Of course," the barman replies.

"And the tent has canvas sides and a big canvas roof with a hole in the middle?" persists the duck.

"That's right!" says the barman.

The duck shakes his head in amazement, and says;

"What the hell would they want with a plasterer" ???

10 minutes ago, one_chop said:

So he gives some daft bird a back hander in a Spanish nightclub, we've all been there, best thing he can do is not answer bail and holiday elsewhere in future.

She was probably one of those ridiculous 'Love island' types that earns a living being an attention seeking 'influencer'.

2 minutes ago, McArthur Park said:

Just, wow. 

I know, right.  😲

Why should he have to holiday elsewhere!  👀

2 minutes ago, Anag Ram said:

No.

Unarmed.  Backed into a corner (Nowhere to run to baby, nowhere to hide).  And face to face with an attacker (gender not stated!)... armed with a baseball bat and/or small veg knife.
For clarity, no other persons are in the vicinity.

What's your next move?

A/  Try to punch and kick your way out of said corner?
B/  Stand hands aloft, whilst wailing "Please don't hurt me"?
C/  Fall to the floor, make like a foetus, and whimper to your mum to come and save you?  (She's not actually there, remember!)
D/  Other?

🤷‍♂️

2 minutes ago, jimtastic56 said:

I’m having a vision of a female version of “Big Daddy”, attacking an 11 stone weakling. 

That same recurring nightmare keeps me awake most nights, to be fair!  

48 minutes ago, Anag Ram said:

... because a man punching a woman isn’t acceptable under any circumstances.

 

If a 17 stone drunken woman came raging towards my sub-12 stone frame whilst simultaneously boasting about how she's about to knock me out, I'm pretty sure I'd be tightly closing my eyes, flailing my arms about, and squealing like a banshee every bit as much as if she were a bloke!
If one happens to land, does that make me a woman-beater?

... And before you answer, remember it's illegal to treat one gender differently purely because of their gender.

#"treat us equally", they cried.  

3 hours ago, SECornerRAM said:

Between Portsmouth and Oxford 

Well, according to Google Maps, that'll be Whitchurch United then!  

6 minutes ago, Patrick Rams said:

"Past this sort of thing"? Has he punched women in the face before?

He may have inadvertently whacked a few!  👀 🍆

1 hour ago, Stive Pesley said:

The fact that both the Scum and the Mail have padded out three quarters of the article with stuff about his cocaine bans tells you about all you need to know about their journalistic standards. Not relevant in the least to this story, but put in there to push the "disgraced footballer" angle that sells papers

Reading between the lines...

 

I see what you did there!  👀

6 hours ago, Ram1988 said:

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I couldn't spot him. Too many people to even start to look...

Took me 3 attempts.

Expand to full screen.

On 0:04, he's hiding behind his mate's black gloves/phone at the very bottom centre of the screen.
On 0:30, his mate has put his 'phone down, and you get a full side view as he joins in the "Derby, Derby".  Bottom right corner of the screen.  
 

On 27/06/2024 at 07:57, Mucker1884 said:

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There... I've said it!  

Bloody football, eh?

Turkey done me out of a last 16 full house at the last hurdle!  🙄

🤓

Muckerette has spent the afternoon rummaging through her late father's stuff, (He passed away in the Spring).  

Came across a couple of almost forgotten gems from his own fair hand back in his late teens.  As he was born in 1931, we're dating these towards the end of the 1940's.
Muckerette does recall having seen them before... about 50 years ago, so wasn't a complete surprise, but like I say... almost forgotten about!  

Both done using ye olde pen and ink pot... and yes, there have been tears!  😢😃♥️ 

I feel a scan, print, and frame project coming on!  

#nice one, Jack
xxx

3 hours ago, Dean (hick) Saunders said:

In the Italian Alps, bit of hiking.

Which one's your knee, mate?  

Disappointed to read this.
OK, he didn't quite rise at the rate many of us expected/hoped.  But he was a Ram, and he always gave his all.

He goes with my thanks, my respect, and my best wishes for a successful career, wherever that may be.   🍻

The signs inside (Greggs)  a fortnight ago suggested nothing more than a refurb. 
I assumed the current offering inside the stadium to be a temporary measure (by the club) during said renovation, but no way would I claim that as fact! 🤷‍♂️
 

Now is as good a time as any to get my first wrong prediction in the round of 16.  All right so far.  I went for Portugal.  I want to be wrong...

🤞

EDIT:

Bloody football, eh!  🙄

3 minutes ago, Van der MoodHoover said:

Some of the so-called "smaller" countries have got tremendous followings.

Slovenia this evening, Georgia last night even Slovakia and of course the tartan army..

Remember tournaments like Argentina 78 when games with European countries seemed to be played in half empty grounds....

Its amazing what a difference 4.5 decades and 7000 miles makes!  🤣

7 hours ago, Turk Thrust said:

“Another baked parsnip, vicar?” said when someone has farted. But for the life of me I can’t remember where it came from.

Well, it wasn't me!