| Oh FFS on 17:10 - Jun 15 with 4153 views | GeoffSentence |
I thought it was a static w@nker sign at first. But reading that article it seems it can be a far right symbol. If that was what he was doing then it's not a joke. |  |
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| Oh FFS on 17:11 - Jun 15 with 4120 views | NthQldITFC |
I assumed he was calling Infantino or Trump a vvanker.
Don't need VAR to clarify that, though. |  |
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| Oh FFS on 17:14 - Jun 15 with 4054 views | IndependentlyBlue |
Sorry, what is the joke that FIFA can’t take?
Thanks |  |
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| Oh FFS on 17:18 - Jun 15 with 3970 views | Zx1988 |
| Oh FFS on 17:10 - Jun 15 by GeoffSentence |
I thought it was a static w@nker sign at first. But reading that article it seems it can be a far right symbol. If that was what he was doing then it's not a joke. |
From the various bits and pieces I saw about it before the BBC published their article, it was almost universally taken as the chap playing 'the circle game'.
The far right connotations are about as tenuous as they get, and it all stems from some internet trolling a few years back when 4Chan users tried (and succeeded, in this case) to claim that various innocuous gestures were secret right-wing code. |  |
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| Oh FFS on 17:22 - Jun 15 with 3896 views | Axeldalai_lama |
Of course it's over analysed and unnecessary but with millions of people watching, what was he thinking? Best case it's apparently a joke from Malcolm in the middle? Just weird. Worst case it's interpreted as something dodgy to say the least. Just stand still you plank, or wave, he clearly did whatever it was intentionally, so can have no complaints. |  | | |
| Oh FFS on 17:24 - Jun 15 with 3852 views | SitfcB |
| Oh FFS on 17:14 - Jun 15 by IndependentlyBlue |
Sorry, what is the joke that FIFA can’t take?
Thanks |
The Playground Hand Game:
This is a viral, real-life game of peripheral vision and trickery popular among adolescents.The Goal: An offensive player tricks another person into looking at their hand.
The Setup: The player makes a circle with their thumb and forefinger (resembling an "OK" hand gesture).
The Rule: The circle must be held below the waist.
The Outcome: If a victim looks at the circle, the offensive player gets to punch them in the shoulder or arm.
Pop Culture: The game was heavily popularized in mainstream media by a famous subplot in the television show Malcolm in the Middle.
Been a thing for absolute years, certainly was about when I was at school 20 years ago. |  |
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| Oh FFS on 17:29 - Jun 15 with 3762 views | IndependentlyBlue |
| Oh FFS on 17:24 - Jun 15 by SitfcB |
The Playground Hand Game:
This is a viral, real-life game of peripheral vision and trickery popular among adolescents.The Goal: An offensive player tricks another person into looking at their hand.
The Setup: The player makes a circle with their thumb and forefinger (resembling an "OK" hand gesture).
The Rule: The circle must be held below the waist.
The Outcome: If a victim looks at the circle, the offensive player gets to punch them in the shoulder or arm.
Pop Culture: The game was heavily popularized in mainstream media by a famous subplot in the television show Malcolm in the Middle.
Been a thing for absolute years, certainly was about when I was at school 20 years ago. |
Thanks Sitters. Had no idea. Never seen Malcolm in the Middle. Been many more years than that since I was at school. Best we had was hoops and sticks. | |
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| Oh FFS on 17:35 - Jun 15 with 3672 views | J2BLUE |
| Oh FFS on 17:24 - Jun 15 by SitfcB |
The Playground Hand Game:
This is a viral, real-life game of peripheral vision and trickery popular among adolescents.The Goal: An offensive player tricks another person into looking at their hand.
The Setup: The player makes a circle with their thumb and forefinger (resembling an "OK" hand gesture).
The Rule: The circle must be held below the waist.
The Outcome: If a victim looks at the circle, the offensive player gets to punch them in the shoulder or arm.
Pop Culture: The game was heavily popularized in mainstream media by a famous subplot in the television show Malcolm in the Middle.
Been a thing for absolute years, certainly was about when I was at school 20 years ago. |
I give it 34 minutes until the Guardian claim It's all part of a right wing culture war plot to promote white supremacy. |  | | |
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| Oh FFS on 17:35 - Jun 15 with 3668 views | KrakenBlue |
| Oh FFS on 17:18 - Jun 15 by Zx1988 |
From the various bits and pieces I saw about it before the BBC published their article, it was almost universally taken as the chap playing 'the circle game'.
The far right connotations are about as tenuous as they get, and it all stems from some internet trolling a few years back when 4Chan users tried (and succeeded, in this case) to claim that various innocuous gestures were secret right-wing code. |
I mean the guy who shot up the mosque in NZ did it, which would have been big news in Aus, it's not that tenuous.
Whilst the overwhelming majority of people using are unaware, it is a dog whistle for those in the know and either an unfortunate mistake for this guy or a moment of madness. | | | |
| Oh FFS on 17:36 - Jun 15 with 3665 views | RadioOrwell |
| Oh FFS on 17:24 - Jun 15 by SitfcB |
The Playground Hand Game:
This is a viral, real-life game of peripheral vision and trickery popular among adolescents.The Goal: An offensive player tricks another person into looking at their hand.
The Setup: The player makes a circle with their thumb and forefinger (resembling an "OK" hand gesture).
The Rule: The circle must be held below the waist.
The Outcome: If a victim looks at the circle, the offensive player gets to punch them in the shoulder or arm.
Pop Culture: The game was heavily popularized in mainstream media by a famous subplot in the television show Malcolm in the Middle.
Been a thing for absolute years, certainly was about when I was at school 20 years ago. |
You forgot the bit about it being a Far Right sign. |  | | |
| Oh FFS on 17:40 - Jun 15 with 3593 views | NthQldITFC |
| Oh FFS on 17:29 - Jun 15 by IndependentlyBlue |
Thanks Sitters. Had no idea. Never seen Malcolm in the Middle. Been many more years than that since I was at school. Best we had was hoops and sticks. |
Sticks! You were lucky. We had to make do with bits of grass. | |
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| Oh FFS on 17:47 - Jun 15 with 3521 views | NthQldITFC |
Shaun Evans played the young Morse in Endeavour, did he not?
Must be where Laurence Fox caught it from. | |
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| Oh FFS on 17:52 - Jun 15 with 3446 views | SitfcB |
| Oh FFS on 17:29 - Jun 15 by IndependentlyBlue |
Thanks Sitters. Had no idea. Never seen Malcolm in the Middle. Been many more years than that since I was at school. Best we had was hoops and sticks. |
I’ve never seen it either to be honest. | |
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| Oh FFS on 18:05 - Jun 15 with 3247 views | Simonds92 |
| Oh FFS on 17:35 - Jun 15 by KrakenBlue |
I mean the guy who shot up the mosque in NZ did it, which would have been big news in Aus, it's not that tenuous.
Whilst the overwhelming majority of people using are unaware, it is a dog whistle for those in the know and either an unfortunate mistake for this guy or a moment of madness. |
I really think he's clearly dicking about with his mates back home and has no idea it has any links to anything else. If we're going to take this as intended to be a white supremacist thing, 95% of the people between about 25 and 40 have been doing white supremacist signs for a large portion of their childhood. | | | |
| Oh FFS on 18:19 - Jun 15 with 3111 views | dickie |
| Oh FFS on 17:24 - Jun 15 by SitfcB |
The Playground Hand Game:
This is a viral, real-life game of peripheral vision and trickery popular among adolescents.The Goal: An offensive player tricks another person into looking at their hand.
The Setup: The player makes a circle with their thumb and forefinger (resembling an "OK" hand gesture).
The Rule: The circle must be held below the waist.
The Outcome: If a victim looks at the circle, the offensive player gets to punch them in the shoulder or arm.
Pop Culture: The game was heavily popularized in mainstream media by a famous subplot in the television show Malcolm in the Middle.
Been a thing for absolute years, certainly was about when I was at school 20 years ago. |
This it what I presumed it was | | | |
| Oh FFS on 18:23 - Jun 15 with 3064 views | armchaircritic59 |
As usual, load of fuss about nothing. Yes I'm white, and I don't think I'm supreme to anyone of any colour, race or creed. |  | | |
| Oh FFS on 18:36 - Jun 15 with 2931 views | IndependentlyBlue |
| Oh FFS on 17:40 - Jun 15 by NthQldITFC |
Sticks! You were lucky. We had to make do with bits of grass. |
Grass in the plural? | |
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| Oh FFS on 18:48 - Jun 15 with 2825 views | Axeldalai_lama |
| Oh FFS on 18:23 - Jun 15 by armchaircritic59 |
As usual, load of fuss about nothing. Yes I'm white, and I don't think I'm supreme to anyone of any colour, race or creed. |
As usual a load of fuss about nothing made into a fuss by people who think it's a load of fuss about nothing. I don't think very many people at all think it's much to do with raving racism or want any punishment. Some have commented it's a little silly, and might look a little dodge, then the persons boss has had to seek clarification and do due diligence or whatever, and then it's amplified and the true people getting miffed are the ones who think you can't say anything anymore and everything is made to be racist. Very very very few people think it's anything other than silly. | | | |
| Oh FFS on 19:11 - Jun 15 with 2649 views | KrakenBlue |
| Oh FFS on 18:05 - Jun 15 by Simonds92 |
I really think he's clearly dicking about with his mates back home and has no idea it has any links to anything else. If we're going to take this as intended to be a white supremacist thing, 95% of the people between about 25 and 40 have been doing white supremacist signs for a large portion of their childhood. |
It wasn't a white supremacist signal before being co-opted a few years ago so not really. It was just an innocent gesture.
white supremacists don't own that gesture now but it's a risky one to do out of context to a global audience, especially with the rise of the far right | | | |
| Oh FFS on 19:13 - Jun 15 with 2621 views | RadioOrwell |
| Oh FFS on 18:19 - Jun 15 by dickie |
This it what I presumed it was |
And it is also used as a far right signal.
But let's all pretend it isn't. | | | |
| Oh FFS on 19:14 - Jun 15 with 2618 views | ReusersTown |
| Oh FFS on 17:22 - Jun 15 by Axeldalai_lama |
Of course it's over analysed and unnecessary but with millions of people watching, what was he thinking? Best case it's apparently a joke from Malcolm in the middle? Just weird. Worst case it's interpreted as something dodgy to say the least. Just stand still you plank, or wave, he clearly did whatever it was intentionally, so can have no complaints. |
I mean if he was intending the joke I doubt he knew, I know I had no idea. | | | |
| Oh FFS on 19:15 - Jun 15 with 2587 views | redrickstuhaart |
| Oh FFS on 19:13 - Jun 15 by RadioOrwell |
And it is also used as a far right signal.
But let's all pretend it isn't. |
You dont have to do so.
You simply have to assume that its highly unlikely that if he knew that, he would do it so obviously. Unless we are also assuming that because its in America and Trump etc... its fine. | |
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| Oh FFS on 19:20 - Jun 15 with 2504 views | RadioOrwell |
| Oh FFS on 19:15 - Jun 15 by redrickstuhaart |
You dont have to do so.
You simply have to assume that its highly unlikely that if he knew that, he would do it so obviously. Unless we are also assuming that because its in America and Trump etc... its fine. |
It's not me doing the assuming. It's you. | | | |
| Oh FFS on 19:25 - Jun 15 with 2459 views | catch74 |
| Oh FFS on 17:24 - Jun 15 by SitfcB |
The Playground Hand Game:
This is a viral, real-life game of peripheral vision and trickery popular among adolescents.The Goal: An offensive player tricks another person into looking at their hand.
The Setup: The player makes a circle with their thumb and forefinger (resembling an "OK" hand gesture).
The Rule: The circle must be held below the waist.
The Outcome: If a victim looks at the circle, the offensive player gets to punch them in the shoulder or arm.
Pop Culture: The game was heavily popularized in mainstream media by a famous subplot in the television show Malcolm in the Middle.
Been a thing for absolute years, certainly was about when I was at school 20 years ago. |
Was also at school when I was there 35 years ago! |  |
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