Sport Sense of Humour Failures
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Starting this off in the sports forum as it'd be good to keep it on topic related only to sporting things and I think it's a good idea ...
Anyway, to start it off - Dale Steyn. It seems that resident commentator Simon Doull noted that he'd grown his hair out and called it a mid life crisis hairstyle ... Steyn has responded with the below rant. Doull has not responded (publicly at least).
Is there something I've missed? Is hairlength-ism some sort of bigoted thing in SA that cannot be joked about? Or is this just an epic sense of humour failure?
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@majorrage haven't seen the hair in question, but all I'll say is it's lucky Fakatava isn't as thin-skinned. It's not like rugby commentators have plenty of "free" time to fill gaps in play too...
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@bones said in Sport Sense of Humour Failures:
@majorrage haven't seen the hair in question, but all I'll say is it's lucky Fakatava isn't as thin-skinned. It's not like rugby commentators have plenty of "free" time to fill gaps in play too...
Don't think I could talk about him in my local curry house. Tava is their specialty curry (and it's epic).
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Looks like he takes it pretty seriously given this response to somebody ... although it makes a bit of a mockery of his soapbox rant here ...
@scribe said in Sport Sense of Humour Failures:
Steyn’s comments reminded me of another Sth African sportsman’s sense of humour failure. I give you Brendan Venter’s interview from 2010.
I was worried about Venter when I saw that. Turns out he was just totally taking the piss in some sort of stand about being gagged to talk about referees.
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South Africans are quite a serious bunch. Steyn certainly does himself no favours by whinging online about it.
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a sense of humour free zone quite like Hanse Cronje when he was interviewed, he was probably worried about matches to fix rather than looking for opportunities to make cheeky quips I guess.
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@majorrage said in Sport Sense of Humour Failures:
Starting this off in the sports forum as it'd be good to keep it on topic related only to sporting things and I think it's a good idea ...
Anyway, to start it off - Dale Steyn. It seems that resident commentator Simon Doull noted that he'd grown his hair out and called it a mid life crisis hairstyle ... Steyn has responded with the below rant. Doull has not responded (publicly at least).
Is there something I've missed? Is hairlength-ism some sort of bigoted thing in SA that cannot be joked about? Or is this just an epic sense of humour failure?
Seems Dale is very touchy. He always had wild eyes though
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god i was so disappointed when i read this story. Steyn is one of my all time favourite players. And this? This is fuuucking pathetic
yes Dale, you are woke as fuck. Look at you , standing up for the oppressed.
Jesus H Christ, Dale, get a fucking haircut, you look ridiculous.
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@mariner4life said in Sport Sense of Humour Failures:
god i was so disappointed when i read this story. Steyn is one of my all time favourite players. And this? This is fuuucking pathetic
yes Dale, you are woke as fuck. Look at you , standing up for the oppressed.
Jesus H Christ, Dale, get a fucking haircut, you look ridiculous.
Serious question .... what is woke about a joke about long hair???
I cannot see a single thing wrong, from any point of view, with what Doull said! Agree it’s disappointing, Steyn is a dead set legend.
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@majorrage said in Sport Sense of Humour Failures:
@mariner4life said in Sport Sense of Humour Failures:
god i was so disappointed when i read this story. Steyn is one of my all time favourite players. And this? This is fuuucking pathetic
yes Dale, you are woke as fuck. Look at you , standing up for the oppressed.
Jesus H Christ, Dale, get a fucking haircut, you look ridiculous.
Serious question .... what is woke about a joke about long hair???
I cannot see a single thing wrong, from any point of view, with what Doull said! Agree it’s disappointing, Steyn is a dead set legend.
no, nothing, nothing at all. But a joke about long hair turned in to Dale lumping himself in with those suffering homophobia, racism and any other form of modern oppression you care to name.
It was a inoffensive as a throwaway line can be.
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@mariner4life said in Sport Sense of Humour Failures:
@majorrage said in Sport Sense of Humour Failures:
@mariner4life said in Sport Sense of Humour Failures:
god i was so disappointed when i read this story. Steyn is one of my all time favourite players. And this? This is fuuucking pathetic
yes Dale, you are woke as fuck. Look at you , standing up for the oppressed.
Jesus H Christ, Dale, get a fucking haircut, you look ridiculous.
Serious question .... what is woke about a joke about long hair???
I cannot see a single thing wrong, from any point of view, with what Doull said! Agree it’s disappointing, Steyn is a dead set legend.
no, nothing, nothing at all. But a joke about long hair turned in to Dale lumping himself in with those suffering homophobia, racism and any other form of modern oppression you care to name.
It was a inoffensive as a throwaway line can be.
Clearly knows nothing about a mid life crisis either ... not even close to an insult
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@majorrage said in Sport Sense of Humour Failures:
Starting this off in the sports forum as it'd be good to keep it on topic related only to sporting things and I think it's a good idea ...
Anyway, to start it off - Dale Steyn. It seems that resident commentator Simon Doull noted that he'd grown his hair out and called it a mid life crisis hairstyle ... Steyn has responded with the below rant. Doull has not responded (publicly at least).
Is there something I've missed? Is hairlength-ism some sort of bigoted thing in SA that cannot be joked about? Or is this just an epic sense of humour failure?
I'll take this seriously when I see the armbands being rolled out
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It’s a wonder Steyn survived as long as he did in the game and compiled the ( extremely impressive ) record that he did if he is this much of a crybaby.
They say you should never meet your heroes....perhaps that needs to extend to never reading their tweets as well.
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@mn5 said in Sport Sense of Humour Failures:
It’s a wonder Steyn survived as long as he did in the game and compiled the ( extremely impressive ) record that he did if he is this much of a crybaby.
They say you should never meet your heroes....perhaps that needs to extend to never reading their tweets as well.
i honestly don't remember hearing much from him at all over his career? Just seemed like a silent killer
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@marty said in Sport Sense of Humour Failures:
@majorrage said in Sport Sense of Humour Failures:
Starting this off in the sports forum as it'd be good to keep it on topic related only to sporting things and I think it's a good idea ...
Anyway, to start it off - Dale Steyn. It seems that resident commentator Simon Doull noted that he'd grown his hair out and called it a mid life crisis hairstyle ... Steyn has responded with the below rant. Doull has not responded (publicly at least).
Is there something I've missed? Is hairlength-ism some sort of bigoted thing in SA that cannot be joked about? Or is this just an epic sense of humour failure?
I'll take this seriously when I see the armbands being rolled out
justiceforshithaircuts
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@mariner4life said in Sport Sense of Humour Failures:
@mn5 said in Sport Sense of Humour Failures:
It’s a wonder Steyn survived as long as he did in the game and compiled the ( extremely impressive ) record that he did if he is this much of a crybaby.
They say you should never meet your heroes....perhaps that needs to extend to never reading their tweets as well.
i honestly don't remember hearing much from him at all over his career? Just seemed like a silent killer
Well I think any number of batsmen have a bit of ammo should they feel the need to engage in a few verbals.....
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@mariner4life said in Sport Sense of Humour Failures:
@marty said in Sport Sense of Humour Failures:
@majorrage said in Sport Sense of Humour Failures:
Starting this off in the sports forum as it'd be good to keep it on topic related only to sporting things and I think it's a good idea ...
Anyway, to start it off - Dale Steyn. It seems that resident commentator Simon Doull noted that he'd grown his hair out and called it a mid life crisis hairstyle ... Steyn has responded with the below rant. Doull has not responded (publicly at least).
Is there something I've missed? Is hairlength-ism some sort of bigoted thing in SA that cannot be joked about? Or is this just an epic sense of humour failure?
I'll take this seriously when I see the armbands being rolled out
justiceforshithaircuts
I mean, if you need a mascot for the group. Hi.
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@mariner4life said in Sport Sense of Humour Failures:
@majorrage said in Sport Sense of Humour Failures:
@mariner4life said in Sport Sense of Humour Failures:
god i was so disappointed when i read this story. Steyn is one of my all time favourite players. And this? This is fuuucking pathetic
yes Dale, you are woke as fuck. Look at you , standing up for the oppressed.
Jesus H Christ, Dale, get a fucking haircut, you look ridiculous.
Serious question .... what is woke about a joke about long hair???
I cannot see a single thing wrong, from any point of view, with what Doull said! Agree it’s disappointing, Steyn is a dead set legend.
no, nothing, nothing at all. But a joke about long hair turned in to Dale lumping himself in with those suffering homophobia, racism and any other form of modern oppression you care to name.
It was a inoffensive as a throwaway line can be.
You're clearly ageist.
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@booboo said in Sport Sense of Humour Failures:
@mariner4life said in Sport Sense of Humour Failures:
@majorrage said in Sport Sense of Humour Failures:
@mariner4life said in Sport Sense of Humour Failures:
god i was so disappointed when i read this story. Steyn is one of my all time favourite players. And this? This is fuuucking pathetic
yes Dale, you are woke as fuck. Look at you , standing up for the oppressed.
Jesus H Christ, Dale, get a fucking haircut, you look ridiculous.
Serious question .... what is woke about a joke about long hair???
I cannot see a single thing wrong, from any point of view, with what Doull said! Agree it’s disappointing, Steyn is a dead set legend.
no, nothing, nothing at all. But a joke about long hair turned in to Dale lumping himself in with those suffering homophobia, racism and any other form of modern oppression you care to name.
It was a inoffensive as a throwaway line can be.
You'reclearly ageist.Sorry: 'your'.
