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[PeachesEnRegalia]

@Prolix

I was the one that flagged the post. It’s a slur that I felt has no place in our community. This comes following another poster casually using the term “tranny” last week.

If the mods reviewed the post and felt it didn’t rise to the standard of requiring moderation, I would have disagreed privately but had no complaint. I understand and accept that not everyone will have the same perspective on what constitutes hateful speech.

I had no interest in starting an unproductive argument about gender politics on the football side of the forum and preferred to allow the mods to do whatever they felt appropriate. I will not apologize for that.

The reaction to a simple post deletion – on a completely off topic tangent, by the way – is comically over the top though. In an ideal world perhaps this could have been a learning moment, but it’s clear that there’s no appetite in general to engage with these topics on face value. There’s only more of the same boring “snowflake generation” nonsense. Whatever. I’ve given up fighting that fight.

To my knowledge I’m the only openly transgender member of the forum. Maybe this isn’t even a widely known thing. But I would encourage anyone who is so outraged by this to consider the real human beings on the other side of the language and attitudes you have been thoughtlessly regurgitating for the last 30+ years because society taught you that punching down is not only acceptable and encouraged. Think about it what it means for our little community and anyone who would perhaps be thinking of joining it. Maybe upon some reflection you’ll find something to empathize with.

Or maybe you won’t. But it’s not the end of the world that someone took the mildest issue with the post. Just like it’s not the end of the world that it was made in the first place. If you really want to die on this hill, be my guest. But what actually happened here is not the witch-hunt you desperately seem to want it to be.

Welp. @Prolix just lost a fan today….

(This is a joke, lads)

[Klopptimist]

You get a like for the sentiment, maybe not the actual words

[Iftikhar]

Dear @DublinRed , don’t go

[RedSi73]

I’ll have to stay, somebody will need to like your posts

[cynicaloldgit]

I’m too old to care if anyone likes me, or my posts, or not.

[SBYM]

Outstanding work.

[SBYM]

Good.

This should be easy, then…

[Dane]

Mine went everywhere with me at work during my apprenticehsip in the building trade in the early 80’s.
The amount of useless music trivia in my head as a result of it is frightening

[Klopptimist]

Listened to the 05 final on my LW radio watching the game in the pub. Was leaping like a loon 10 seconds before the final pen. Thankfully we won so the euphoria stopped people’s natural desire to beat me up.

[sandsoftime]

A common saying when one of your mates copped for a girl in a club, who shall we say, wasn’t the best looking… was that she had a face
“Like A Plasterers Tranny” (radio)

Anyone ever worked the wet trades on the building, will picture exactly, what that refers to… :0)

Is was either that phrase which was commonly used… OR… she had a face…
“Like A Stuntman’s Knee”

Words seemed to mean different things across the decades was all…

[Klopptimist]

Painter’s radio?

[gasband]

I like to make a complaint against @JU97ICE. First he tags me and when I click on the notification and I saw this. This puts alot of unnecessary mental stress on me as ai am wondering what are the possible compliments and praises he might have left me and now I could not see them. Please consider banning him. Thanks

[PaulRoJo]

I would like to make a complaint against @gasband. His artwork has gone to shit and I am sad because I expected to sell his horse eouvre works for millions but have only been able to sell two for 25,000. Mods pls consider a ban, thanks.

[gasband]

I am honestly very disappointed with certain forummers in here. They have secretly benefitted and become millionaires by reselling the art I shared freely in here and now to silence me, wants the mods to ban me.

[aussielad]

Sadly the true value and genius of any artist is once they have passed.

Count yourself lucky that you are still valued enough to be kept alive…

for the time being

[gasband]

And now cursing me to die

[PeachesEnRegalia]

@sandsoftime

A common saying when one of your mates copped for a girl in a club, who shall we say, wasn’t the best looking… was that she had a face
“Like A Plasterers Tranny” (radio)

Anyone ever worked the wet trades on the building, will picture exactly, what that refers to… :0)

Is was either that phrase which was commonly used… OR… she had a face…
“Like A Stuntman’s Knee”

Words seemed to mean different things across the decades was all…

I was always partial to “face like a blind cobbler’s thumb”.

No offense, @cynicaloldgit

[SBYM]

Jesus, @Klopptimist

Stop fucking spamming the joint.

No-one cares.

[Klopptimist]

Was waiting for the penny to drop

[Iftikhar]

@Klopptimist

Was waiting for the penny to drop

You changed your logo (or whatever it’s called)