News: Sharks "gave players sex toys".

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Duff link said:
Rex & Isz,

It just sounds like you guys are willing to play the game. You think that other peoples reactions should determine your actions.

What about just standing up & saying \"this is who I am & this is what I do. The rest of you can suit yourself\"?

The fact that someone may be offended by something shouldn't stop you doing it if logic & reason can determine that what's being done is, within its context, harmless.

You're corporate ladder climbers, right?

Duff, you are kidding.

"You think other peoples reactions should determine your actions" Absolutely they should, its called being a responsible and accountable adult.

Peoples perceptions of what is right and wrong differ greatly from individual to individual. What one person sees as harmless, someone else could see as reckless.

You wont get far in life if something as simple as that escapes you.
 
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Duff link said:
Rex & Isz,
...
What about just standing up & saying \"this is who I am & this is what I do. The rest of you can suit yourself\"?
...

OK

This is who I am & this is what I do. The rest of you can suit yourself.
 
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C'mon Rex, you can do better than that.  Contribute to the discussion.  Be a man, not a dog.
 
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Rex link said:
[quote author=Duff link=topic=180452.msg223914#msg223914 date=1242890039]

Rex & Isz,
...
What about just standing up & saying \"this is who I am & this is what I do. The rest of you can suit yourself\"?
...

OK

This is who I am & this is what I do. The rest of you can suit yourself.
[/quote]
Clever - but were you standing up?
 
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DSM5 link said:
C'mon Rex, you can do better than that.  Contribute to the discussion.  Be a man, not a dog.

Woof.

This is who I am & this is what I do. The rest of you can suit yourself.

(standing)
 
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Personally re the sex toys it is very much a case of the context. There may be some situation where it is not inappropriate.

However...in a footy club where sex workers are brought into the dressing room and introduced as Bitch 1 and Bitch 2...not to mention the culture of consensual gang-bangs...it just paints a picture of the club's misogynist culture.

Sex toys in themselves of course are harmless (Although I suppose even that depends on what type). (And whether they were incorporated into training sessions)
 
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lsz link said:
I cannot believe that you can say giving out sex toys is harmless?

How could you think that someone could not be offended by that? I am not but as a manager I would never put my staff in a position where they would feel uncomfortable.

Can you put your hand on your heart and say no one would ever be offended by a sex toy? As a manager you have a responsibility to create a safe comfortable environment for your staff.

Yes you do have to worry about what other people think. It is part and parcel of the job

Hope you haven't ever farted in the office mate :p
 
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Yes Manly Backer you WERE on that table and saw it all happening, you must have expected something from two single young things!!

They are even attending the Titans game this weekend!!

I might have a new fan before long he's "seeing the light"
 
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Kiwi Eagle link said:
[quote author=lsz link=topic=180452.msg223916#msg223916 date=1242890895]
I cannot believe that you can say giving out sex toys is harmless?

How could you think that someone could not be offended by that? I am not but as a manager I would never put my staff in a position where they would feel uncomfortable.

Can you put your hand on your heart and say no one would ever be offended by a sex toy? As a manager you have a responsibility to create a safe comfortable environment for your staff.

Yes you do have to worry about what other people think. It is part and parcel of the job

Hope you haven't ever farted in the office mate :p
[/quote]

Too many times in my office......many a close escape....
 
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lol

"The club released a statement denying a series of tawdry allegations, including claims players were offered sex toys to take home and sex workers had entered the club's dressing rooms after a game. There were also allegations sex shop owner Con Ange was an unofficial supporter of the club. Ange, a member of Manly's supporter group The One-Eyed Eagles, declined to comment last night."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25519287-2722,00.html
 
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Duff link said:
When will these scumbag journos be held to account for bringing the game into disrepute?

There was the beatup job done on Stewy until the Sharks came along even brighter & shinier.

If people are shocked by any of this sort of behaviour, they need to get out into the real world a bit more. There's nothing wrong here. There's nothing wrong with a business owner supporting his club.

If sports journalists are truly sports fans, they'll stop trying to bludgeon to death the thing that they're supposed to love. THEY are the real f**king criminals.

Totally agree.
It seems as though Magnay has got it wrong again ::)

I can't understand why fans can't call for these idiot journalists to be stood down..

http://www.leaguehq.com.au/news/lhqnews/porn-shop-king-speaks-out-on-sharks/2009/05/21/1242498868990.html
 
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Hmmm, I'm not quite sure how to keep this footy related so I guess I'll stop before I get booed out.

It's just to me a case of conservative values being pandered to rather than kicked up the bum as they deserve.
 
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Did anyone catch the discussion of this on the Footy Show last night ?

They gave Zappia his right of reply on this article, and then Gould spent a few mins strongly questioning Magnay, who was squirming and struggling through the questions with the usual reply from the journos "Legally I can't divulge that" along with "This is only 1/10th of the story"

Gould's best point, which she couldn't give a straight answer too, was along the lines of "You put this headline as front page news, if you are wrong, it still sticks to them" and her response to that was pitiful
 
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I just wish Gould asked her the obvious questions.
Why are you writing about this? What are your motives?

That would put the slag in her place.
 
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Kiwi Eagle link said:
Did anyone catch the discussion of this on the Footy Show last night ?

They gave Zappia his right of reply on this article, and then Gould spent a few mins strongly questioning Magnay, who was squirming and struggling through the questions with the usual reply from the journos \"Legally I can't divulge that\" along with \"This is only 1/10th of the story\"

Gould's best point, which she couldn't give a straight answer too, was along the lines of \"You put this headline as front page news, if you are wrong, it still sticks to them\" and her response to that was pitiful
Wrong, her response to 'Gould's best point' was to say her story was correct. Zappia refused to give her answers. Voss forgot to ask Zappia what the 20 G was for. That was her story, and that is why I think Zappia is history.
 
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What did she have to back up that her story was correct ? A lot less than Zappia can put forward refuting it. She also said she "believes" her story to be correct. Plenty of people believe things that are wrong. Difference is she has a front page to crucify people, as she did with Brett. Gould was all over her and she was squirming

Voss did ask Zappia about the 20 G, and Zappia replied that it was a board decision that was not in his hands
 
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Duff link said:
It's just to me a case of conservative values being pandered to rather than kicked up the bum as they deserve.

Get real.  The issue driving action is not "pandering" but desperation to keep sponsorship dollars.  Sponsors will always run scared of dirtying their images.

Very practical issues.
 

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