Tag: Sports
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Bottom line not people at the bottom
Reflecting on the distasteful news that Nike is again cashing in on Pride month with their #BeTrue campaign, after their lack of any action over Sochi and the LGBTQ abuses in Russia. It’s one thing to flog rainbow gear made in coutnries where the locals aren’t free to express their seuxality and gender to people…
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All About That Cake
So this is what MMA/UFC fighters get upto? Nice booty shaking there too! It’s well known I like a man with some meat on him… And yes I’m all about that fried chicken and cake – wheat free, please.
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Cue the piper! Play you bastard!
As we start another Commonwealth Games, here’s the producer Stewart Morris trying to wrestle the opening ceremony of the last Scottish games, the disastrous 1986 Games in Edinburgh onto the telly…very funny. (sort of via Soundhog who posted the Eurovision one, funny also)
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John Oliver tackles the FIFA World Cup
I was going to post the ‘You can take the world cup and stick it up your arse’ picture, but I think this video by John Oliver says more eloquently why you can do that. Especially worrying about Qatar, but also the dead kids and displaced people from the Brazilian favelas in the ‘Pacification’ areas…
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I hear there’s some football contest about to start?
Love this response from PWEI to some trophy political game called the World Cup. Which given FIFA’s corruption and dodginess which make the IOC look squeaky would be problematic enough, but it seems the local police forces UPP have been ‘disappearing’ and shooting locals as part of their ‘pacification’ scheme. Apparently bodies are being dumped…
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Discrimination is a new Olympic sport
A hard hitting video from Russia Freedom Fund and Athlete Ally, pointing out the many countries including Russia where to be gay can be fined, imprisoned or even killed. As Sochi begins, and even Google has a rainbow doodle in protest with a quote from the Olympic Charter: “The practice of sport is a human…