Rumour Multiple GWS players are set to be suspended to start the 2025 season after distasteful costumes and skits from their post-season function

[Bostonian]

You think people can't get upset about "things"?

Get upset over whatever you want.

Doesn't mean anyone else has to give a toss about why or what you're upset over.

 

[Chief]

Get upset over whatever you want.

Doesn't mean anyone else has to give a toss about why or what you're upset over.

I think many people see care and consideration for others as being a part of a civil society.

 

[FlowersByIrene]

I think many people see care and consideration for others as being a part of a civil society.

Depends on if that person is also part of the same social contract. Of course no one would want to upset others, but there is a level to what hurting someone's feelings generates as a social punishment in response. Would you execute someone for upsetting someone? Of course not. Would you imprison someone? I'd hope not. Would you fine someone for upsetting someone else? I'd say absolutely not, and here appears to be the line that the morally repugnant among us begin to draw. That because someone is upset, the person upsetting is deserving of a financial or greater penalty. The only thing the social contract (in my opinion) demands of someone who has upset someone else is an apology or a sense of empathy. Demanding anything more is cruel and unusual.

 

[Aussie in exile]

It really is time to move on from this and accept that a majority of footballers are dumb as dog ####, and fine them and tell them not to do it again, but being footballers they probably will.

 

[iameviljez]

It really is time to move on from this and accept that a majority of footballers are dumb as dog ####, and fine them and tell them not to do it again, but being footballers they probably will.

The one genius who played footy (Justin Clarke) was unfortunately one of the guys who had to retire due to too many concussions.

Now a Rhodes Scholar and doing a PhD in Engineering.

 

[Aussie in exile]

The one genius who played footy (Justin Clarke) was unfortunately one of the guys who had to retire due to too many concussions.

Now a Rhodes Scholar and doing a PhD in Engineering.

Well done to him

 

[gambinotosserflog]

Well done to him

Mike Fitzpatrick also.

 

[Aussie in exile]

Mike Fitzpatrick also.

And well done to him as well.
The reality is though you wouldn't want someone like Buddy Franklin teaching your kids or grandkids Math, English, and that would apply to a majority of them.

 

[iameviljez]

And well done to him as well.
The reality is though you wouldn't want someone like Buddy Franklin teaching your kids or grandkids Math, English, and that would apply to a majority of them.

I have heard people hypothesise that being smart gets in the way of playing well in a contact sport - that if you actually thought seriously for a second about what you were about to do, and the cost/benefit of it, you wouldn't be so fast to do it.

 

[captainMyCaptain]

Get upset over whatever you want.

Doesn't mean anyone else has to give a toss about why or what you're upset over.

Or in the words of Ricky Gervais:

 

[Bostonian]

I think many people see care and consideration for others as being a part of a civil society.

And if you walked around considering every single thing that might offend or upset someone in life you'd never do or say anything.

 

[gambinotosserflog]

You sound like youre expecting that staff should have signed NDAs before the event. If a worker feels unsafe at any stage before, during or after an event at their workplace, they are well within their rights to report it. Good on them for having the courage to speak out. If you want your actions to remain private, do them at home, not at a pub. Which is short for public house btw

"Unsafe". We are incredibly precious in 2024.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

 

[Saucery]

And well done to him as well.
The reality is though you wouldn't want someone like Buddy Franklin teaching your kids or grandkids Math, English, and that would apply to a majority of them.

Bet your life they would actually listen to Buddy. No chance of him teaching though, that profession (yes I laughed as I typed that, considering how they are valued these days) has little respect, less pay and no future. Better to be a well-paid coat hanger and laugh at those who call you a fool.

 

[Romeoh1]

And if you walked around considering every single thing that might offend or upset someone in life you'd never do or say anything.

Or alternatively, just come up with something funnier than sexual assault to make jokes about.

 

[Bostonian]

Or alternatively, just come up with something funnier than sexual assault to make jokes about.

Humour is subjective.

If they think taking the piss out of Hayne is funny then that's their humour.

 

[Aussie in exile]

Bet your life they would actually listen to Buddy. No chance of him teaching though, that profession (yes I laughed as I typed that, considering how they are valued these days) has little respect, less pay and no future. Better to be a well-paid coat hanger and laugh at those who call you a fool.

Listen and then think geez this guy isn't very bright.

 

[Bostonian]

Codswallop.

So you're saying humour isn't subjective and you know exactly what their humour is?

 

[treeebeard]

"Unsafe". We are incredibly precious in 2024.

Let us all know when you've been r*ped or been involved in a terrorist attack, then you can decide if you feel precious about it or not.

Gotta wonder what the footy community reaction would have been if the mocked the Bali bombings instead.

 

[iameviljez]

Let us all know when you've been r*ped or been involved in a terrorist attack, then you can decide if you feel precious about it or not.

Gotta wonder what the footy community reaction would have been if the mocked the Bali bombings instead.

Bet if they'd dressed up as Ted Whitten and (apparently quite correctly) portrayed him as a nasty piece of work then not one footballer would be defending them.

 

[Saucery]

Listen and then think geez this guy isn't very bright.

Most kids think their teachers are idiots anyway so once again I don't see your point.

 

[madrigal]

Let us all know when you've been r*ped or been involved in a terrorist attack, then you can decide if you feel precious about it or not.

Gotta wonder what the footy community reaction would have been if the mocked the Bali bombings instead.

If your opinion is that the office is too risque, you are probably being too precious.

 

[burge13]

How the **** is this story still going on - https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/c...t/news-story/dbbe3dc88c03b98f17d620a551e1533b

It's just laughable. I like this Abbey Gelmi traditionally but this GWS story was "terrifying", fmd

 

[Aussie in exile]

Most kids think their teachers are idiots anyway so once again I don't see your point.

It cuts the GWS players some slack by saying a majority of footballers, not all, are not intelligent

 

[Underarm]

How the **** is this story still going on - https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/c...t/news-story/dbbe3dc88c03b98f17d620a551e1533b

It's just laughable. I like this Abbey Gelmi traditionally but this GWS story was "terrifying", fmd

Did you read the story? Or have you just decided that all women are hysterical for pointing out how poorly society treats women?