I think we're saying the same thing.Originally Posted by MFKS
Either way, someone is having a laugh.
I think we're saying the same thing.
Either way, someone is having a laugh.
The Championship Chronicles - The Jetstream's review of the 2007/08 season. www.newcastlefootball.net/chronicles
lulz. just keeps on giving. queerios would be neck and neck with him
For the most part yeah you’re correct.
For a 14 yr old girl, nah. There’s way more too it.
The interesting thing about all this is her parents have been pretty anonymous. I’d love to know their role in pushing this kid out there into the social media space.
Also it cracks me up the lack of parenting with this stuff. The amount of Plague Jnrs friends that have Facebook Instagram etc, let alone phones is pretty amazing (he’s 8).
When it was all going on he asked if he could be part of it but we said no, sat him down and explained why not*. He accepted it and hadn’t brought it up since.
Kids are smart, and reasonable for the most part. It’s mostly parents who are the real weak ones. Young kids don’t ‘need’ all that shit. But plenty of parents just cave because it saves a fight or makes them look like legends in the school playground.
*was also easy due to me not being on any social media platform. Saves me looking like a hypocrite. seriously Facebook users are the ****ing worst.
as for the tennis players.
Seriously, if you get personally offended by the behaviour of someone you don’t know, have never, or will never meet, nor the behaviour affecting you in any way shape or form it says more about you than the player.
There is so much jealousy surrounding those 2 blokes. You want to write Bernie’s wrongs? Pick up a racquet and start hitting. You’ll get there in no time, then you can be nice as pie to all those around you that are begging you to fail.
Bernie is doing exactly what we all wanted that 14yr old to do. Ignore he haters.
Why can’t we celebrate the bloke for standing up for himself?
Agree some parents want shooting - also social media should have some controls. Kids can't get PS4 accounts under 18 - social media should not kick in till 16 at least.
Oh and another thing, when you kiddies go to bed at night turn all your phones off ffs - the next person who complains of getting texts at all hours cops a gobful.
I have a Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin but only because business dictates I do. Information feeds from groups you like are fine but the personal "look at me" shit on there just kills it.
I did an experiment last year and turned off birthday notification - I did not get a single birthday wish or call that day, even from long time friends and family who should know. My sister said "not my fault, it didn't show on Facebook".......ffs.
PREACH!
I still don't comprehend a text/message/email being lampooned for the time of sending. It's not a phone call, not something that needs switching off, it's non-conflicting. We all live in a world where we're routinely checking these things anyway, I don't understand the people with the seemingly non-ability to prioritise these non-conflicting messages and answer/absorb/etc at a time suitable for them.
If I send an email at 3am it doesn't make it any less relevant or whatever than one at say 10am, but the response and replies I get are disturbingly contrasting - sometimes it's as if any email sent/received before 9am is ignored. If I send a clearly non-urgent message on say facebook, I can't comprehend the "why would you send this at this hour? It's too late/early, I won't be able to check/reply until later". If it's labelled as urgent, sure, address it that way (but at least from me, most know I wouldn't send an actually conflicting message that required urgency thru that method anyway, nor should anyone really). But for things clearly not in dire need of immediate response I can't respect how the time of sending is addressed tbh.
Turning off notifications, silent mode, etc is far too easy to implement nowadays, so I find the time of sending those kinds of messages completely irrelevant and it moreso reflects the receivers inability to cope and prioritise socially as the issue imo.
Maybe I'm being ignorant with these views, and maybe I'm less against timings etc of things because being a parent and needing to have your wits about you pretty quickly immediately after waking, or working locally and there's no morning grace period of "not before this time" so it's clock on and anything is immediately fair game, makes me less against this? I dunno.
OK
Put down the pipe. the most gypo post ever. this is too much lolol
You of all people should know what it’s like to make in rain in da club.
Stop trying to sympathise with broke people.
Bernie da real MVP.
Because aren't the haters having a crack at Bernie and Nick etc just bullys in the first place??
They are just bullying them to conform / behave how they want etc
Same idiots who would also be front and centre in support of this 14 year old
Hypocrisy at its finest
nice story
A dickhead who gets a hammerlanche (ahh hammer) in return is not a victim and the giver not a bully.
Did you go to the donut shop instead of school ooops
You got it in a nutshell Member.
And as long as people are focusing on Bernie and Nick there is no focus on the woeful / shithouse job Tennis Australia are doing with respect to developing the game in this country.
Last edited by The Dunster; 16-01-2018 at 12:30 AM.
2 completely different issues. No problem in calling out 2 jerks representing a nation who do not deserve it.
Huh?
So you making derogatory comments about a young man you do not know is not the same as some stranger making derogatory comments to a 14 yr old girl?
Ok then.
did you watch kyrgios in the davis cup in belgium last year? dude was immense
I love how the tennis chat has been moved here to keep the Tennis Thread for what it REALLY is.
The Championship Chronicles - The Jetstream's review of the 2007/08 season. www.newcastlefootball.net/chronicles
Nah they only remember that time Kyrgios set fire to the Aussie flag on centre court then spat on a photo of Kylie Minogue.
Bloke should go back where came from etc etc etc
How are they jerks ? Both of them basically sacrificed ever having a normal childhood / life to be professional tennis players. It's not easy. Anyone who thinks these two are lazy khunts blessed with only natural talent to get as far as they have is a complete fool.
While you would have been out having fun with your friends - these kids are training - there is no life away from it. You train, you diet, you recuperate, you play - that's there lives.
The mental pressure / grind is nothing you have ever experienced in your life either. Try watching a little yellow ball moving at 200kmh for 6 hours a day - it does your head in - and is very tiring on both mind and body.
That being the case how frustrating for them would it be for people to be constantly making judgement calls on their personalities with absolutely no idea of what they go through.
I used to run 25km a day when I played just to relax - that might give you an idea how much of a grind the actual training and playing was. By the way - I stopped playing at 14 years old because I'd had enough.
These kids would be doing a lot more than I ever did - they are amazing athletes who deserve respect.
Last edited by The Dunster; 16-01-2018 at 12:20 PM.
The greatest thread in professional sports forums ?
Last edited by The Dunster; 16-01-2018 at 12:37 PM.
hang on cobber...dont see federer and Jokvic or a host of others in the supposed "tennis is making me a jerk" sport doing this stuff. They all have the same piss weak excuses but hey.
The training and the money comments arent even the problem. they assholes, accept it move on.
Now just in context they arent Apex prix that need a good beating or cereal killer who needs the chair, just morons who need a wake up.
anyway Feds angry ant yoof emo period has been well documented.
As a talented young player, Federer’s on-court tantrums and hair-trigger temper once threatened to stunt his progress.
“I had a tough time getting my act together out on court, trying to behave properly. For me that was a big deal,” he admitted."I was throwing my racket like you can't imagine … I mean, I was getting kicked out of practice sessions when I was 16. I used to talk much more, too, and scream on court."now, a couple of things here, yes Roger was having his temper issues at a younger age than Nick and Bernie, but i tlooks like his family got around him and pulled his head in. Nick and Berns relos seem to be around when its time to cash those cheques but nowt much else.At 17, my family decided that I had to go to a psychologist, because I was so angry on the court.
it is amazing though what some winning will do for your rep.
remember as well, the lil aussie battler Lleyton was out there calling linesmen retards and implying the darkies were all sticking together to gang up on him.
if/when Aussie nick brings home his first major things will be sweet sweet.
also, have you ever seen Roger Federer and the Apex gang in the same room at the same time?
makes you think.......
Last edited by plague; 16-01-2018 at 11:06 PM.
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