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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: WarszaVillan on August 02, 2017, 03:57:36 PM

Title: Linking to The Sun
Post by: WarszaVillan on August 02, 2017, 03:57:36 PM
I see that a link to an article in the Sun has been put up on the H&V facebook page. Can  it not be made site policy to not allow links to the Sun here or on any of our social media pages?
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: Legion on August 02, 2017, 04:02:45 PM
I'm not the biggest fan of the S*n either, but it's an article about John Terry which I found mildly amusing and shared because I could not find it elsewhere. I will remove it if wished.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: PeterWithesShin on August 02, 2017, 04:06:37 PM
Article is in the Brum Mail as well.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: Legion on August 02, 2017, 04:10:02 PM
Can't stand that site either. Anyway, I've sorted it now.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: WarszaVillan on August 02, 2017, 04:22:18 PM
Thanks. There are many newspapers I don't like but for obvious reasons the Sun should be boycotted
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: dave.woodhall on August 02, 2017, 05:50:40 PM
Thanks. There are many newspapers I don't like but for obvious reasons the Sun should be boycotted

Absolutely.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: Leicester_Villian on August 02, 2017, 06:01:52 PM
Not aware that the Sun has done anything against Villa
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: Ger Regan on August 02, 2017, 06:11:27 PM
Some things are bigger than club rivalries
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: dave.woodhall on August 02, 2017, 08:06:47 PM


Not aware that the Sun has done anything against Villa

What Ger said, plus their appalling treatment of Sir Graham, even after he died.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: Legion on August 02, 2017, 08:08:45 PM
Not aware that the Sun has done anything against Villa

Turnip ring any bells?
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: Matt Collins on August 02, 2017, 08:49:47 PM
Every football fan should boycott the sun
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: Simon Page on August 02, 2017, 08:49:54 PM
I have the same problem with people sending me links to the Daily Mail. I don't want to honour that rag with even a single click - mainly because of its sidebar. People at work still send them with alarming regularity which, considering the Mail's attitude to who I work for, really gets on my tits.

I agree on The Sun by the way. I think Liverpool's boycott is one of the great social movements of recent times and happy to support it.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: pauliewalnuts on August 02, 2017, 09:06:28 PM
Not aware that the Sun has done anything against Villa

If it had been Villa fans at Hillsborough, that disgusting rag would have been exactly the same as it was with Liverpool fans.

Doing that, they've done something against every club.

Not to mention common human decency.

Fuck that disgusting rag.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: myf on August 02, 2017, 09:07:22 PM
I see that a link to an article in the Sun has been put up on the H&V facebook page. Can  it not be made site policy to not allow links to the Sun here or on any of our social media pages?

Just wanted to point out there's a double negative in the second sentence
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: Dave on August 02, 2017, 09:11:44 PM
Every football fan should boycott the sun

Every person with more brain cells than fingers should boycott The Sun.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: johnboy on August 02, 2017, 09:17:33 PM
Even when I was recently in the barbers waiting my turn, I didn't soil my fingers by picking that rag up, I may now even change where I have my hair cut
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: wittonwarrior on August 02, 2017, 09:33:40 PM
Every football fan should boycott the sun

Every decent person should boycott that rag n vermin be just football fans
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: Damo70 on August 02, 2017, 10:25:11 PM
For football coverage, although they can't compare with the more serious papers they are the best of the rest.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: PeterWithe on August 02, 2017, 10:26:19 PM
Agree with all before me.

And they've done away with the tits.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: dave.woodhall on August 02, 2017, 10:39:44 PM
For football coverage, although they can't compare with the more serious papers they are the best of the rest.

Yes, their tribute to Graham Taylor was particularly classy.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: ciggiesnbeer on August 02, 2017, 10:41:36 PM
Some things are bigger than club rivalries

Well said.

Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: Sexual Ealing on August 02, 2017, 11:22:01 PM
Even if they were to reanimate Hunter Thompson and give him the editor's gig, never buy (or read) The S*n.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: Chris Jameson on August 03, 2017, 12:04:37 AM
Not aware that the Sun has done anything against Villa

Was going to respond but hopefully you've got the message by now.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: cdbearsfan on August 03, 2017, 12:41:04 AM
I can't see why any football fan would buy The S*n, to be honest. Surely everyone knows how to find pictures of tits on the internet by now, anyway?
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: Three Spires Villa on August 03, 2017, 06:16:32 AM
I have never paid money for that rag and wont. Bloke at work buys it every day, strange but it takes all sorts, he is a b-looser!
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: sid1964 on August 03, 2017, 06:44:14 AM
As long as you don't buy that rag called the Mirror, you are ok by me!
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: brian green on August 03, 2017, 06:55:23 AM
History will show that Murdoch treated society in exactly the same way that he treated football.  The Sun is not alone in its lack of morality.  The Daily Mail (supreme court judges are the enemies of the people) has been mentioned.  I would add the disgusting Daily Express who this morning run a front page arse lick of the Duke of Edinburgh who called it "a bloody awful newspaper". The headline reads "Thank You Sir".
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: Brazilian Villain on August 03, 2017, 08:33:05 AM
As long as you don't buy that rag called the Mirror, you are ok by me!

Good point, same here. I enjoy The Granma's football podcast but refuse to contribute a penny to that rag despite their "whilst you're here" online begging. We're a diverse group here so it'd be a shame if some papers' stories were censored.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: Steve67 on August 03, 2017, 08:38:47 AM
I hereby swear to never buy the scum or the mirror ever again.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: brian green on August 03, 2017, 08:50:50 AM
For the sake of balance the Mirror and Herald (the Sun as was) were bloody good newspapers in the olden days.  Maxwell and Murdoch were the principal terminators.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: AVH87 on August 03, 2017, 08:55:54 AM
I'd much rather buy the Mirror than the s*n.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: Damo70 on August 03, 2017, 09:50:10 AM
From a football point of view I buy The Sun in the week and The People on a Sunday. I have tried the 'posh papers' and hurt my back carrying all the gardening/lifestyle/arts supplements.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: Drummond on August 03, 2017, 09:53:46 AM
From a football point of view I buy The Sun in the week and The People on a Sunday. I have tried the 'posh papers' and hurt my back carrying all the gardening/lifestyle/arts supplements.

Don't buy the Sun. We'll club together and buy you a granny trolley to help your back.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: dave.woodhall on August 03, 2017, 10:00:22 AM
As long as you don't buy that rag called the Mirror, you are ok by me!

Good point, same here. I enjoy The Granma's football podcast but refuse to contribute a penny to that rag despite their "whilst you're here" online begging. We're a diverse group here so it'd be a shame if some papers' stories were censored.

You know full well why the Sun isn't welcome here so stop pretending it's for some political reason
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: pipe on August 03, 2017, 01:30:14 PM
A guy at our place reads the S*N and he`s as nasty and arrogant as their Editor and hacks. In fact we call him thrush. Leave you to work that out
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: brian green on August 03, 2017, 01:37:43 PM
He has spots on his chest?
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: cdbearsfan on August 03, 2017, 01:39:33 PM
Does he hate UNCLE?
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: brian green on August 03, 2017, 01:49:28 PM
Does he shit on cars?
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on August 03, 2017, 03:53:14 PM
Does he whistle a lot?
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: IFWaters on August 03, 2017, 07:00:46 PM
I assume its the Hillsborough thing but I dont understand why it isnt stated so we're all clear on the reason.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: brian green on August 03, 2017, 07:06:27 PM
Because the publication in question mocked and humiliated SGT without mercy.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: cheltenhamlion on August 03, 2017, 07:14:16 PM
Because the publication in question mocked and humiliated SGT without mercy.

And still hasn't apologised. And Hillsborough. And they still haven't apologised. And....
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: four fornicholl on August 03, 2017, 07:14:46 PM
I don't buy a daily ever, but if I see a Sun lying around at work, as well as any rag, I always have a quick look through, Is that wrong?
And no matter how the footballing world feels on the matter, it still has a big influence on Britain today.
Sad but true.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: Chris Jameson on August 03, 2017, 07:18:45 PM
I don't understand how any football fan who is aware of Hillsborough can read or buy the rag.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: cdbearsfan on August 03, 2017, 07:19:12 PM
And no matter how the footballing world feels on the matter, it still has a big influence on Britain today.
Sad but true.

That may or may not be true, but we can at least avoid increasing their circulation by providing them with free advertising in the form of links.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: Drummond on August 03, 2017, 11:01:50 PM
I can't stand the thing, ditto Daily Mail.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: brian green on August 04, 2017, 08:27:18 AM
As some unknown hero at the Hackney Empire in the aftermath of the General Election said to his face "Fuck off Murdoch we are the majority now".   And we are.  We who communicate via the electronic media and are not in thrall to press barons of any political colour or extremity.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: pipe on August 04, 2017, 11:55:31 AM
Brian, he may have spots somewhere and I understand the treatment is natural yogurt to smear on it!
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: brian green on August 04, 2017, 12:18:35 PM
Best applied pipe with one of the battery operated devices sold in great numbers by Ms Brady before she was enobled.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: adrenachrome on August 04, 2017, 04:19:52 PM
In the profound words of Cockney wideboy beat combo Chad and Dave,  they've got more Rabbit than Saintsbury's.
Title: Re: Linking to The Sun
Post by: CT on August 04, 2017, 05:49:25 PM
In the profound words of Blackadder (goes forth) - its soft, strong and thoroughly absorbent.

Since Hillsborough, I've never touched that rag.
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