Hodgson....

[thebish]

I suspect Hodgson would be less than impressed for you to tell him he has a speech impediment. He hasn't.

[Montreal Wanderer]

I suspect Hodgson would be less than impressed for you to tell him he has a speech impediment. He hasn't.

As I said, you are probably correct - I was acting on information received. However, since I'm dealing with the bish, I would ask you to point out where I said he had a speech impediment. I don't believe I did. I merely said, after you stated he did not have one, that I had assumed that he had one because someone else said he had. This was all in the general context of suggesting one should not mock such things.

[thebish]

I suspect Hodgson would be less than impressed for you to tell him he has a speech impediment. He hasn't.

As I said, you are probably correct - I was acting on information received. However, since I'm dealing with the bish, I would ask you to point out where I said he had a speech impediment. I don't believe I did. I merely said, after you stated he did not have one, that I had assumed that he had one because someone else said he had. This was all in the general context of suggesting one should not mock such things.

you said:

Which doesn't make any of it right (though I consider 'Arry acceptable because it is dialect not impediment)

the only way to make sense of that, surely, is that you think 'Arry is acceptable because it is a dialect not impediment - but that Woy isn't acceptable because it is an impediment not a dialect.

is there another obvious way to read the sense of that?

anyway - all that aside - we are basically in agreement.

1. it is a pile of toss (but predictable toss) that the Sun should go with that headline.
2. Roy Hodgson hasn't got a speech impediment.

[newcarsmell]

Maybe the FA should have appointed Tony Angelino instead..

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[officer_dibble]

He's been referred to as Woy for years on this forum, other forums, the media, radio phone ins, etc and nobody has once raised an objection to it.

and - on this Forum..

Harry Redknapp has been referred to as Arry - cos he can't say his H's

or as Droopy - cos of his facial impediment
or as Twitchy - cos of his facial impediment

and Alex Ferguson as Red Nose - cos of his nasal impediment
and David Moyes as Spazzy Eyes - cos of his eyeball impediment

redknapp is spazzy eyes
moyes is starey eyes!

[Prufrock]

Fooking Nora. It's a well-meant nickname. As BWFCi says, we gonna stop being calling Allardyce Big Sam because he has 'weight issues'? I haven't seen the Sun headline, but whether or not that is OK is again surely a matter of intent.

Personally I'd call Redknapp Droopy (coz he looks like him on account of his jowliness-which I don't think is related to his burns) but not Twitchy. For me there is a difference in intent there. However, if somebody else, on a message board he was never going to read, said it meaning it to be light hearted, then I can't see a problem. It's bloody health and safety gone mad!

[thebish]

Fooking Nora. It's a well-meant nickname. As BWFCi says, we gonna stop being calling Allardyce Big Sam because he has 'weight issues'? I haven't seen the Sun headline, but whether or not that is OK is again surely a matter of intent.

Personally I'd call Redknapp Droopy (coz he looks like him on account of his jowliness-which I don't think is related to his burns) but not Twitchy. For me there is a difference in intent there. However, if somebody else, on a message board he was never going to read, said it meaning it to be light hearted, then I can't see a problem. It's bloody health and safety gone mad!

ok Stinky - calm down!!!!

[Prufrock]

STFU!

[thebish]

STFU!

GTFO Floppy!

[Bruce Rioja]

Fooking Nora. It's a well-meant nickname. As BWFCi says, we gonna stop being calling Allardyce Big Sam because he has 'weight issues'?

Big Sam was called Big Sam when he was in the peak of physical nick. It is indeed a foolish fellow that quotes BWFC-I to support his point

Someone sent me this today, obviously well-meant also. Tell me, does anyone really find this remotely amusing because I just think that it's utterly pathetic.

Hodgson's first England side;

Wobinson
Wichards, Tewwy, Wio, Bwidge
Bawwy, Gewward, Wwight-Phiwwips
Wooney, Cwouch, Stuwwidge.

Oh, my aching sides

[Prufrock]

I don't think it is funny (which in fairness was how I took your initial post, 'ban them' as in 'oh my days, the hilarity, the hilarity', not, actually ban them). It seems to have developed into a serious point.

[Bruce Rioja]

Nicky Campbell says he has a speech impediment. Nicky Campbell > thebish

[thebish]

Nicky Campbell says he has a speech impediment. Nicky Campbell > thebish

the speech therapist he was talking to says it is not a speech impediment. speech thewapist>bwuce

(I know a speech therapist who pronounces her Rs the same as Roy Hodgson does... She used to be called Janet Lees - then she married Bob... Bob Warwicker...)

[BWFC_Insane]

Fooking Nora. It's a well-meant nickname. As BWFCi says, we gonna stop being calling Allardyce Big Sam because he has 'weight issues'?

Big Sam was called Big Sam when he was in the peak of physical nick. It is indeed a foolish fellow that quotes BWFC-I to support his point

Someone sent me this today, obviously well-meant also. Tell me, does anyone really find this remotely amusing because I just think that it's utterly pathetic.

Hodgson's first England side;

Wobinson
Wichards, Tewwy, Wio, Bwidge
Bawwy, Gewward, Wwight-Phiwwips
Wooney, Cwouch, Stuwwidge.

Oh, my aching sides

Aye and he was also called it when he wasn't. He's also been referred to as "big fat sam" on here and elsewhere quite a few times.

What you posted there isn't funny at all by the way.

[Bruce Rioja]

Nicky Campbell says he has a speech impediment. Nicky Campbell > thebish

the speech therapist he was talking to says it is not a speech impediment. speech thewapist>bwuce

(I know a speech therapist who pronounces her Rs the same as Roy Hodgson does... She used to be called Janet Lees - then she married Bob... Bob Warwicker...)

Ok, let's go with 'impairment' then. Either way, I have a problem with people being singled out for ridicule on the grounds that they're slightly different.

[thebish]

Nicky Campbell says he has a speech impediment. Nicky Campbell > thebish

the speech therapist he was talking to says it is not a speech impediment. speech thewapist>bwuce

(I know a speech therapist who pronounces her Rs the same as Roy Hodgson does... She used to be called Janet Lees - then she married Bob... Bob Warwicker...)

Ok, let's go with 'impairment' then. Either way, I have a problem with people being singled out for ridicule on the grounds that they're slightly different.

oh - I agree with your basic point wholeheartedly!

(I don't think it's an impairment or an impediment - just a fairly common idiosyncratic way of pronouncing Rs)

oh - and not to let it pass so easily..

yesterday you joshed someone for using BWFCi as support for their argument... yet today you use Nicky Campbell!!!

[Bruce Rioja]

Can BWFC-I accurately guess people's starsigns? I think not!

[thebish]

Can BWFC-I accurately guess people's starsigns? I think not!

he could if the horoscope involved dooooooooooom!

[Verbal]

Just appointed Gary Neville as part of the England backroom staff.

Seems like a shrewd little move, that.

[David Lee's Hair]

Just appointed Gary Neville as part of the England backroom staff.

Seems like a shrewd little move, that.

I was about to say seems like a fecking stupid move... no experience and will alienate anyone who is none Utd with his Manure hyperbole