Giggs

[The Steel Roses]

I was also there, stood in the middle behind the goal, and heard nothing of the sort. Since I was with my 12-yo son, I'm generally alert to chants because I like to ensure he understands the context to them. I suspect that among the 1,100 blades there yesterday there were quite a few posters from here, and none of them seem to have heard it either, not did any of those watching on stream.

I fucking hate Neanderthal chanting generally, and I'll always willingly call it out where it happens. If it happened then whoever is responsible ought to be shown the door - but I also don't think we should manufacture outrage when it isn't needed.

If some of our fams

I’m not going to say any more on this because in the scheme of things happening around our world it’s not worth getting upset about, but, what I don’t understand is sceptism about a post from an honest fan, the chant happened, I was there, it’s as simple as that, let’s move on

 

[Pittsburg Blade]

Who on earth shags his brothers wife ?

Wait…that’s not ok?

 

[Gin&Juice]

 

[54yrblade]

After the hammer that George Long got from our very 'own' on the Kop, nothing suprises me.

When they decide to turn, anyone is fair game, red and white shirt or not.

 

[AWetFlannel]

Yes, all I’m saying is can us, Blades, not be so unbelievably shit, I remember when we just sang Blades songs to be better than the fans in the other end and to back the boys thru 80’s 90’s 00’s and so on, I’m still middle aged and still daft but ffs, this new generation, BORING

Yeah, your generation of football fans were sound as anything, hardly any monkey chants or violence at all...

 

[Pittsburg Blade]

After the hammer that George Long got from our very 'own' on the Kop, nothing suprises me.

When they decide to turn, anyone is fair game, red and white shirt or not.

Fascinating isn’t it? Tribalism even rejects their own sometimes.

 

[The Steel Roses]

Yeah, your generation of football fans were sound as anything, hardly any monkey chants or violence at all...

Oh of course your generation just sprays it across the internet as well as in the stands, yeah, we were all terrible back then, I never learn from my naivety from the wisdom of those people that folks like me have positively educated, people like you, I presume you are educated???

 

[AWetFlannel]

Oh of course your generation just sprays it across the internet as well as in the stands, yeah, we were all terrible back then, I never learn from my naivety from the wisdom of those people that folks like me have positively educated, people like you, I presume you are educated???

Can't make any sense of this. I was responding to your comment about how Blades used to "just sing Blades songs to be better than the fans in the other end and to back the boys", which is just obviously a crock of shit. Fans were far more toxic back then and commonly abused players in ways which are considered unacceptable now.

If you're going to post about fans being disrespectful, why lay into the younger generation for no reason?

 

[N20 Blade]

Can't make any sense of this. I was responding to your comment about how Blades used to "just sing Blades songs to be better than the fans in the other end and to back the boys", which is just obviously a crock of shit. Fans were far more toxic back then and commonly abused players in ways which are considered unacceptable now.

If you're going to post about fans being disrespectful, why lay into the younger generation for no reason?

Exactly. There have always been toxic chants. The old John Street Terrace West back in the day.

''Small town in Asia'' to Bradford fans 1989
''What's it like to shag your kids'' to Boro fans 1990 after the child abuse scandal in Teeside

Nowadays such jibes are online only

I remember Yorkshire cricket ''fans'' (well Leeds scum tbh) throwing bananas at the late David ''Syd'' Lawrence at Bristol in the 80s.

I went to Darlo v Cambridge 1989/90 in the cup and the abuse Dion Dublin got was apalling.

Football fans like all other folk can be vulgar and thoughtless.

 

[Maurice Maurice]

I’m not going to say any more on this because in the scheme of things happening around our world it’s not worth getting upset about, but, what I don’t understand is sceptism about a post from an honest fan, the chant happened, I was there, it’s as simple as that, let’s move on

Wait a minute. You were there, apparently you were the only one who heard it so could it be that you were the one chanting it? Is this a kind of confession, a coming out as it were?

UTBFTP

 

[dexter101]

Wait a minute. You were there, apparently you were the only one who heard it so could it be that you were the one chanting it? Is this a kind of confession, a coming out as it were?

UTBFTP

Might be Giggs Juniors uncle...

 

[Gin&Juice]

I reckon we could add 2 million to whatever we sell with the name he has. Is he ready yet? Is it time to gerriminfirstteam

 

[Bladedog]

Exactly. There have always been toxic chants. The old John Street Terrace West back in the day.

''Small town in Asia'' to Bradford fans 1989
''What's it like to shag your kids'' to Boro fans 1990 after the child abuse scandal in Teeside

Nowadays such jibes are online only

I remember Yorkshire cricket ''fans'' (well Leeds scum tbh) throwing bananas at the late David ''Syd'' Lawrence at Bristol in the 80s.

I went to Darlo v Cambridge 1989/90 in the cup and the abuse Dion Dublin got was apalling.

Football fans like all other folk can be vulgar and thoughtless.

Dion Dublin...what? From his own fans?

 

[dexter101]

Dion Dublin...what? From his own fans?

Nah, from someone who felt he represented them badly on homes under the hammer.

 

[FTPE]

I know but his lad is so let’s not sing his dad is a C word while the lad has red and white stripes on

You have got to be kidding me?? Really? I despair at times

 

[100% part time blade]

The last one is a haiku only if you've been sucked into the American way of pronouncing years.

I know this is irrelevant, but are you really pronouncing the year: 2053, as ‘Two thousand and fifty three’ rather than twenty fifty three?
Does this mean you’re referring to the current year as two thousand and twenty six? Surely nobody does this - do they?

 

[Klaatu Barada Nikto]

I know this is irrelevant, but are you really pronouncing the year: 2053, as ‘Two thousand and fifty three’ rather than twenty fifty three?
Does this mean you’re referring to the current year as two thousand and twenty six? Surely nobody does this - do they?

Er yes.

 

[EddieColquhoun]

Wait a minute. You were there, apparently you were the only one who heard it so could it be that you were the one chanting it? Is this a kind of confession, a coming out as it were?

UTBFTP

In the opening post he didn't seem sure that he heard it. Perhaps he only mouthed the words so nobody else heard it?

 

[Maurice Maurice]

In the opening post he didn't seem sure that he heard it. Perhaps he only mouthed the words so nobody else heard it?

That's what I thought to be honest. We got the bus a while back (always at least one nutter on any bus over here) from Everett to Seattle and the obligatory crackpot got on in Bothell. He looked ok but about 10 minutes in he started tapping his feet, about 5 minutes after that he was slowly drumming and 25 minutes in he was standing at the front like that fucking nutcase drumming on the Muppets. Everyone was looking out of the windows but I couldn't take my eyes off him. I was pissing myself laughing but he didn't care because by then he was lip synching to God only knows what. He got off before we did but looked like he was carrying it on as he danced down the street.

Not saying this was our thread starter but hey, even bus nutters have to start somewhere.

 

[100% part time blade]

Er yes.

Listen, I’m with you on Two Thousand. “Let’s all
meet up in the year two thousand…” Absolutely understandable. Sounds great. And you can see how that carries on “Two thousand and one - a space odyssey” and we’re fine through 2003 - 2009, but somewhere after that we’re getting to two thousand and eleven - and that’s a lot of syllables. Around this point you’ve got to be thinking ‘Hang on, we weren’t doing this with 1912 and 1812 and 1712: time to stop saying it like it’s a full number and split it so we can say “London twenty twelve”.’ I mean no-one ever talks about George Orwell’s great novel one thousand nine hundred and eighty four. You could MAYBE push me on something-hundred and …. As in ‘In fourteen hundred and ninety two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue…’. But if you’re adding that into every year reference (‘World War Two began in nineteen hundred and thirty nine…’ etc.) the you get to the logical year ‘Twenty hundred’ which is madness. Saying it as an actual number was fine a couple of decades ago, but times have moved on, and we need to all be saying Twenty Fifty Three - just like we say nineteen fifty three and eighteen fifty three.
I therefore reinstate the haiku previously presented as a valid and fully functional example of the literary form.

 

[LudlamBlade]

I know this is irrelevant, but are you really pronouncing the year: 2053, as ‘Two thousand and fifty three’ rather than twenty fifty three?
Does this mean you’re referring to the current year as two thousand and twenty six? Surely nobody does this - do they?

Who can forget the classic song by Prince?!

Tonight we're going to party like it's one thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine

It's so catchy!

 

[Klaatu Barada Nikto]

The KBN rules for year pronunciation.

All BC dates, or BCE if you're fussy MUST be pronounced in full. The Battle of Thermopylae did not happen in four eighty BC it was four hundred and eighty BC. Absolutely zero exceptions on this.

AD or Common Era dates have much more flexibility.

Before the second millennium, I am of the opinion that BC rules apply.

After the first millennium then it gets more fluid.

1001 is One Thousand and one. I will not hear of shit like 'ten oh one'. Fuck off.
1066 is perfectly acceptable to be pronounced as ten sixty six
Anything from 1000 to 1019, must be pronounced in full.

Every centennial year must be pronounced in full. Pulp did not sing "let's all meet up in the year twenty zero zero".

Every year from 1020-1999, it is acceptable to shorten it, for example, eighteen oh one, nineteen eighty four

In the first century of every millennium, then the year must be pronounced in full. Thereafter it can be shortened, but only if the year is not 0-19.

So examples

• 2001 - Two Thousand and one
• 2010 - two thousand and ten
• 2061 - two thousand and sixty one
• 2101 - twenty oh one
• 2010 - twenty one ten
• 2061 - twenty one sixty one
• 3001 - Three Thousand and one

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

The KBN rules for year pronunciation.

All BC dates, or BCE if you're fussy MUST be pronounced in full. The Battle of Thermopylae did not happen in four eighty BC it was four hundred and eighty BC. Absolutely zero exceptions on this.

AD or Common Era dates have much more flexibility.

Before the second millennium, I am of the opinion that BC rules apply.

After the first millennium then it gets more fluid.

1001 is One Thousand and one. I will not hear of shit like 'ten oh one'. Fuck off.
1066 is perfectly acceptable to be pronounced as ten sixty six
Anything from 1000 to 1019, must be pronounced in full.

Every centennial year must be pronounced in full. Pulp did not sing "let's all meet up in the year twenty zero zero".

Every year from 1020-1999, it is acceptable to shorten it, for example, eighteen oh one, nineteen eighty four

In the first century of every millennium, then the year must be pronounced in full. Thereafter it can be shortened, but only if the year is not 0-19.

So examples

• 2001 - Two Thousand and one
• 2010 - two thousand and ten
• 2061 - two thousand and sixty one
• 2101 - twenty oh one
• 2010 - twenty one ten
• 2061 - twenty one sixty one
• 3001 - Three Thousand and one

Crystal clear - thank you.

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

Who can forget the classic song by Prince?!

Tonight we're going to party like it's one thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine

It's so catchy!

See also two thousand, one hundred and twelve by Rush. Neil would turn in his grave.

 

[LudlamBlade]

So examples

• 2001 - Two Thousand and one
• 2010 - two thousand and ten
• 2061 - two thousand and sixty one
• 2101 - twenty oh one
• 2010 - twenty one ten
• 2061 - twenty one sixty one
• 3001 - Three Thousand and one

Sure about that?

 

[Balham]

The KBN rules for year pronunciation.

All BC dates, or BCE if you're fussy MUST be pronounced in full. The Battle of Thermopylae did not happen in four eighty BC it was four hundred and eighty BC. Absolutely zero exceptions on this.

AD or Common Era dates have much more flexibility.

Before the second millennium, I am of the opinion that BC rules apply.

After the first millennium then it gets more fluid.

1001 is One Thousand and one. I will not hear of shit like 'ten oh one'. Fuck off.
1066 is perfectly acceptable to be pronounced as ten sixty six
Anything from 1000 to 1019, must be pronounced in full.

Every centennial year must be pronounced in full. Pulp did not sing "let's all meet up in the year twenty zero zero".

Every year from 1020-1999, it is acceptable to shorten it, for example, eighteen oh one, nineteen eighty four

In the first century of every millennium, then the year must be pronounced in full. Thereafter it can be shortened, but only if the year is not 0-19.

So examples

• 2001 - Two Thousand and one
• 2010 - two thousand and ten
• 2061 - two thousand and sixty one
• 2101 - twenty oh one
• 2010 - twenty one ten
• 2061 - twenty one sixty one
• 3001 - Three Thousand and one

Note to KBN . This may have made sense last night but it definitely does not in the warm light of day.

The rules are the same for BC[E] and AD/CE and should be as follows:

0-1000 - pronounced in full. "The year seven hundred and sixty-three BC"
1001-1999 - pronounced in two parts: hundreds (as a two-digit number) and then years within each century. "The year ten sixty-six" or "nineteen eighty three"
2000-2009 - pronounced in full. "The year two thousand and six"
2010-2999 - again, pronounced in two parts: hundreds (as a two-digit number) and then years within each century. "The year twenty twenty-six" or "twenty-five thirty-seven"

Rinse and repeat. It gets a bit sketchier once you get to tens of thousands of years but given that's only backwards and nothing is certain, pronouncing them as whole numbers ("ten thousand BCE") makes sense.

 

[Klaatu Barada Nikto]

Sure about that?

There was a little bit of tipsy copying and pasting going on.

 

[Klaatu Barada Nikto]

Note to KBN . This may have made sense last night but it definitely does not in the warm light of day.

The rules are the same for BC[E] and AD/CE and should be as follows:

0-1000 - pronounced in full. "The year seven hundred and sixty-three BC"
1001-1999 - pronounced in two parts: hundreds (as a two-digit number) and then years within each century. "The year ten sixty-six" or "nineteen eighty three"
2000-2009 - pronounced in full. "The year two thousand and six"
2010-2999 - again, pronounced in two parts: hundreds (as a two-digit number) and then years within each century. "The year twenty twenty-six" or "twenty-five thirty-seven"

Rinse and repeat. It gets a bit sketchier once you get to tens of thousands of years but given that's only backwards and nothing is certain, pronouncing them as whole numbers ("ten thousand BCE") makes sense.

Look, this is the nation that measures some things in feet, some things in metres and some things in furlongs, i will simply not let you reduce this to such simple rules.

 

[100% part time blade]

Note to KBN . This may have made sense last night but it definitely does not in the warm light of day.

The rules are the same for BC[E] and AD/CE and should be as follows:

0-1000 - pronounced in full. "The year seven hundred and sixty-three BC"
1001-1999 - pronounced in two parts: hundreds (as a two-digit number) and then years within each century. "The year ten sixty-six" or "nineteen eighty three"
2000-2009 - pronounced in full. "The year two thousand and six"
2010-2999 - again, pronounced in two parts: hundreds (as a two-digit number) and then years within each century. "The year twenty twenty-six" or "twenty-five thirty-seven"

Rinse and repeat. It gets a bit sketchier once you get to tens of thousands of years but given that's only backwards and nothing is certain, pronouncing them as whole numbers ("ten thousand BCE") makes sense.

This falls down on 1700, 1800, and 1900 - which only a madman would pronounce as “seventeen oh oh” etc.