A reply in the form of an email, that's a first.As a Liverpool fan, I definitely agree with BOTH of you, negating, and endorsing, both points of view simultaneously.
We are a weird bunch, but all footie fans are and we’re all deluded (all footie fans). Though I would have to admit I’m weirder and more deluded than most (I actually genuinely believe Jordonian Hendershott is a pretty decent player, though he often proves me both, correct and wildly incorrect, within the space of about ten minutes regularly.
Random Task, I think you’re a very good poster, and your insults of us ‘Scouse’ are completely acceptable. The only posters I find offensive are those who use genuinely offensive terms, I would describe them as ‘objectively offensive terms’. The only things I find unnaceptable personally (from both United and Liverpool fans) are those dealing with tragedy.
I find the ‘Victims’ or ‘Victimpool’ tags terribly offensive, because they instantly transport me to the thought of horror, and death and a decades long fight for any form of ‘justice’. I of course, include in that the 38 unfortunate souls, and their families and friends at Heysel, of which our support played the largest, most culpable role.
I feel exactly the same revulsion at Liverpool fans, who deride the memory of those who died at Munich. Some things transcend tribalism, they are about human decency (I believe anyway, and as someone who studied Genocide for my Masters, I wouldn’t class myself as weak stomached, or easily offended).
Anyway mate, I’ve droned on long enough, and I would hope that most of my points are fairly obvious, and universal.
Best wishes,
Jamie L
The Hendersonian institute (for the incurably deluded).
You won't find the "victims" tag being used around here, nor mention of the Heysel or Hillsborough tragedies that inspired it's creation.
Just good ol' fashioned top bantz.
