Twitter Wars

Gassage

randomhandclaps said:

I say they should settle it the old way -

http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a579/imadray/BrianMoore_zps92053d40.jpg

Sure that pic is from England Canada at Wembley Stadium 1990 ish.

jonnyburgo

Just laugh at the bloater. What a ridiculous man, not worth hitting IMO

joneve

My rule of thumb - if he looks like a cunt, he probaby is a cunt. 

CabbageCat

Neil said:

Twitter is load of vapid  nonsense.

Rubbish.

I'm not a Twitter user but disparaging a communication channel due do some of the stuff being communicated is illogical. That's like dissing telephones because of cold callers.

chillidoggy

Well done for not tweeting him, Gassage. Sorry, I meant twatting. Damned predictive text.

CabbageCat

Gassage said:

What on earth is the world coming to when this happens?

I think that people have argued with each other for quite a while now. So I suspect that the world is coming to a very similar version of the world.

Gassage said:

And, what SHOULD I have done?

It seems pretty obvious to me that you should have left them to bicker among themselves and not got involved. A "long standing battle on twitter" seems to preclude "bullying". While I don't know nearly enough about the exchanges to provide an educated opinion it does seem on the face of it that you have just picked a side in said battle and not nobly step in to defend the needy from also-said bullying.

Gassage

CabbageCat said:

Gassage said:

What on earth is the world coming to when this happens?

I think that people have argued with each other for quite a while now. So I suspect that the world is coming to a very similar version of the world.

Gassage said:

And, what SHOULD I have done?

It seems pretty obvious to me that you should have left them to bicker among themselves and not got involved. A "long standing battle on twitter" seems to preclude "bullying". While I don't know nearly enough about the exchanges to provide an educated opinion it does seem on the face of it that you have just picked a side in said battle and not nobly step in to defend the needy from also-said bullying.

Perhaps that's pretty sane. Journo B does rile a lot of people though and as I said, the rugby writers are a tight knit community which he is not part of.

randomhandclaps

Gassage said:

randomhandclaps said:

I say they should settle it the old way -

http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a579/imadray/BrianMoore_zps92053d40.jpg

Sure that pic is from England Canada at Wembley Stadium 1990 ish.

I think you're right.  I do find it hilarious how sportsmen seemingly used to look older.  Teague is only about 30 in that photo and Moore a couple of years younger.  Neither look much older 25 years later.

I did however stubble across an astonishing similarity -

http://legacymedia.localworld.co.uk/275784/Article/images/16825992/4106986.jpg

http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/wennpic/chris-o-dowd-41st-international-emmy-awards-01.jpg

joneve

I fucking KNEW I'd see Mike Teague somewhere before! 

Don't rate his pub much though The Kingsholm Inn is much preferable for pre and post Glaws game tipple. 

randomhandclaps

Gassage said:

At the end of the PC, he'd had another skinful and started again, and, in front of the entire press corps, got fairly physical towards my friend (prodding and wagging fingers and squaring up). Now I don't care what was said, you DON'T do that a) in the workplace b) to a woman

Fucking misogynist.

Gassage

OK
Greatest English Player of all time:



Former Royal servant Paul Burrell

Gassage

Teague's greatest ever moment

Shooting John Olver in the foot (literally)  at a clay shooting event.