Ackey

1 hour ago, wiseowl said:

Very strange times we live in, Lee. Gay old men can have sexual relations with their teen lovers and millions of people say nothing. Many in this weird world we live in actually celebrate it! Go and look at the story around a certain TV presenter - people fawning over him. Makes me physically sick.

 

Nothing wrong with what Grovesy did at all - the age gap wasn't that big.

 

She married Les Chapman later - does that make him dodgy too?

 

My final word on the subject.

What in the fuck does this have to do with someone being gay? There's a societal problem with older men abusing their positions of power over younger people, irrespective of gender. Some get a social pass with regards to it, and some don't. 

*META*

I guess the (our) club is healing - everyone seems much more animated and vocal at the moment. It's nice to see! But it's also bringing out the petty bickering.

Knock it off - nice to each other for fuck's sake! 

13 hours ago, mick26 said:

Can't view it - is he quite young, ex Manchester FA or local non league club?

Anyway good luck to him.

He's been the "Football Operations / Administration Intern" at Latics since Oct 2020.

Good luck to him.

Glad we didn't spend £140,000 of 2008's money on him, looking at his career!

22 hours ago, LightDN123 said:

Reputation points gone ? Shame it was good to filter out the trolls. 

Sometimes site updates (things to keep the underlying tech updated and secure) remove things like that by mistake. Other times it's just that the vendor (Invision) remove features and we're subjected to that without much say in the matter.

@Matt is most likely to know... Matt? 

16 hours ago, singe said:

What did I  link you to? All I  see is Dr Kershaws page

It's the top of this OWTB post which is about a break in (a long time ago)...

Nope... I can see your post...?

An absolute shitload of BBC 6music thanks to lockdown.  Who are playing the hell out of the new Fontaines D.C. single... it's banging... 

Album: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Luck,_Kid

Opening Single is astonishing:

18 hours ago, Frankly Mr Shankly said:

Yes! They're great aren't they? And probably one of my favourite ever band names to boot! The Nick Cave albums a masterpiece too. May be his best piece of work yet.

It makes me laugh every single time I put it on. Childish or not!  And yeah, Ghosteen will be one people talk about in 50 years, it's astonishing. 

18 hours ago, Frankly Mr Shankly said:

Still can't stop playing The Fernweh album from last year. Incredible stuff.

I never actually got to that. I saw them support Doves with The Coral at The Royal Albert Hall and they were good. Very twee!  I've popped it on now, so thanks for that!

Quick run through of a few of late...

• Nick Cave - Ghosteen 
• Karen O and Dangermouse - Lux Prima 
• Peaness - Are You Sure? EP
• Fuzzy Sun - Warm Evening / Cold Morning EP and also Want Love EP

@Frankly Mr Shankly if you've not tried Peaness yet I think you may like them.

Fuzzy Sun, from Stockport, are fucking Ace!

If we banned the cunts then this place would be reeeeeeeal empty!  

15 hours ago, Monty Burns said:

...Was also after they went commercial so @Frankly Mr Shankly probs won’t like it.

Not sure where I stand if I say "I just like the one off Teachers" ?!

11 hours ago, Kusunga_Is_God said:

Let's cut to the chase... When are we going to get an official board statement on the removal of the down and up boats. *shakes fist*

Official statement: We removed them because people used them to be cunts. Now people are being cunts, but directing it at us. We're used to that. Also entirely arguable we're actually cunts.

End of Statement. 

Afternoon Everyone, 

The Mod team have been talking over the last few days and have decided to post a little update on funds, following the exceptionally generous donation (both in financial terms, but also the time, effort and talent) by @mrwalks12 from the Wild Boys thread.

We're always on the look out for funding, and we don't want to take for granted our current position, but thanks to some tweaks with our ad-platform (now @Matt is back), we're capitalising a little better on the site's ad revenue.  We've also had countless other (equally generous) donations in this thread over the last few months, which all means for the moment we're currently keeping our heads above water.

As a result, whilst we're incredibly grateful for the offer, we have decided to donate 50% of the £350 to the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Association - in honour of @opinions4u.  O4U made a huge impression on all of the Mods, and we feel it's the absolute least we could do.

Thank you to everyone for your generosity - your support really does make a difference for OWTB and we'd not be online today without your ongoing support!

OWTB,

The Mods.

8 hours ago, Frankly Mr Shankly said:

As a good mate of mine pointed out on Twitter. We're really through the looking glass with that sensationalist wanker, aren't we?

You should try moderating that kind of mentality... 

1 hour ago, latics22 said:

If having that monstrosity means we had to cancel voting, I’d like to swap back please 

Nope. Purely a win-win situation.

Not directly, no.  Though features like that can cost extra the Reputation one was in-built for now.  We are just going through a cycle of changes based on feedback and that was one.  As was the snazzy new logo (thanks @Matt!!)

On 1/9/2019 at 10:54 PM, boundaryblue80 said:

 

Then if you’re serious about a job in media and doing a half decent job, you get your CV out and look forward to handing in your notice as soon as possible. After all, it’s what you’ve studied for. 

Isn't that (seemingly) exactly what he's done?

11 hours ago, fleetwood Blue said:

If Missilou played like that every week he wiould be a prem player, outstanding and its a long time since ive witnessed a Latics midfielder covering every blade of grass, driving forward and tackling everything in sight..excellent performance

I don't get to see us much, so have no idea who he is as a player.  But, if he can put shifts like that in every week you'd have to assume he's got Championship football in him at the very least.  An astonishing performance.

1 hour ago, disjointed said:

Thought also that our 2 young lads Hamer and Edmundson didn't look out of place. Solid defending. 

You can see why people are talking about Edmundson already, can't you. He's got Tarky 2.0 written all over him.

Thanks mate - appreciate it!

1 hour ago, leeslover said:

Aren't you meant to start by asking if it's plugged in?

I have minions for that these days, giving me time to proselytise about shit I am ill-equipped to speak of. 

17 hours ago, LightDN123 said:

You see a lot of this in society. The Welsh on the whole seriously dislike the English (lived in Wales all my life) personally don’t understand it. Remember being in the local pub back home, England v Australia where on and several of the Welsh where dressed in Australia shirts looking for a reaction. 

Also went to another pub, group of 6 of us who wanted to watch England during the Euros and they just said we would never show England games in here. Weird because the pub essentially only trades due to the tourism from England. 

Weird mentality but hey ho 

The entire concept of sectarianism, nationalism, racism, sexism... all the isms... are deeply flawed once you strip away the layers of fear and prejudice which form their foundation. Unfortunately, centuries of history shows us that when there is (rising, especially) inequality those feelings flourish and people misplace their own, often legitimate, fear in an ism of one kind or another. Worse still, predatory people use those fears to push their own agenda - be it political, social or most often greed.  Personally, I feel we're going to look back fondly on the pre-2020 age as being just the tip of an iceberg. We may not see the previously-experienced extreme examples (world wars, famines, genocides)... but we just may.