Which is more grubby?

Hard to decide which is the more grubby:

That a rugby league co-captain simulates sex with a dog...

Or that A Current Affair and Daily Telegraph between them paid a total of $60,000 for video/stills from someone's phone of Mitchell Pearce simulating sex with a dog while no doubt drunk as a skunk.

The rot of so-called journalism. The rot of what a waste of money spent on cheap, slimy, mindless 'news' stories.

 

It is Rugby Gwendo, not cricket......
I hardly ever watch this brain dead game, with those muscle machines running around to run their opponent over, or better to knock them off their socks.
Not my cup of tea anyway....
But what happened is in context of male brains which developed in absence of books and ethical standards.
If you to start a thread to determine the lowest ranking sport in terms of players intelligence, I wonder which one comes lowest.....
Cheers

 

This is recourse of too much money in sport.

These brain dead idiots with the intellect of a parsnip being held up to the public by the media and politicians as "hero's" makes me cringe. Doesn't everyone want their son to grow up like this - a drunk; peeing themselves; and wanting to penetrate an animal.

What do people think is really going to happen when they decided to pay adults with low intellects $millions to play kiddie games?

The Captain of the team peeing himself, and wanting to penetrate a small dog. What's in a man sober, comes out in him drunk.

 

I don't think it's the sport that's at fault. When I was a schoolboy in the UK I played rugby for the school. I bought into the rubbish that rugby was a gentleman's sport while league was played up north by working class yobbos. See Richard Harris "This Sporting Life" for a great example (save you watching the film have a read - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Sporting_Life). Such generalisations are misleading.

The bloke we're referring to has a big problem with booze. culldav has a good point - in vino veritas - but Pearce still needs to realise he has an alcohol dependence problem. Also I don't know if anyone got the memo but everyone is a Sixty Minutes journo nowadays, got the video camera in the pocket ready to go at all times.

Anyway he's a dickhead.

 

I agree its not the sport itself. Its the prestige and money associated with sport thanks to the media representing these fools as hero's. Money becomes power, and these people think they can do what they like, when they like, and are untouchable by the law.

My brother played first grade rugby back in the mid 80's for a local team. He got paid $5 if the team won, and was rewarded with a few beers and a barbecue after the game. If they lost, he got paid $1 and a few beers and a barbecue.

Sport now has become an obsession with money, prestige and power; and no one plays it for fun and team spirit anymore.

Sport is a big money making machine thanks to the media, and the general public wonder why these brain dead thugs held up as "hero's" making $millions in contracts are drunks; pee themselves, and want to root animals.

 

People get the sack for less.

But... the club is predominately concerned for his welfare... he is going off to an 'intensive rehabilitation facility' for help with his drinking.

Which is fine kinda... BUT where is the unqualified support of all those people that are sacked for far, far smaller 'misdemeanors'? Not to mention the concern for them...

If some are to be stomped on and sacked then let ALL be stomped on and sacked. Or else ALL be sent for 'help' and the employer show concern. Talk about so much bull(*)(*)(*)(*). Not only on inflated salaries and having pea-brains and a dangerous sense of entitlement... but their behaviour gets shown compassion while all others get sacked unequivocally, no question, 'goodbye you done wrong, you're out'.

This culture here bugs me: Inflated salary, behaves like a moronic dangerous idiotic clod. But no worries, poor bloke needs help. I hate this culture of GRAND entitlement for total (*)(*)(*)(*)heads. Hate hate hate.

 

Look the guy didn't verbally or physically abuse anyone or maliciously destroy property. The guy probably would have bought her a new couch when he came to his senses. He was disrespectful indirectly and annoying. He was asked to leave and did just that so end of story.The guy is single as far I know and was out having a bit of fun on the turps trying his best to get a little hanky panky as young people do. This is a guy living his life of freedom. Give him a bloody break. The media are turds who freakin don't care who's lives they destroy as long they got an exclusive story and obviously pay well for it.

 

And even when off his face he knew when to stop. Deep inside his alcohol-befuddled brain something stopped him going further and making a complete criminal of himself. I've seen a few pissheads who could learn from him as far as that goes.

But on the broader picture. Yes, sport is now a multi-billion dollar business. Practitioners are (largely) extremely well paid and receive adulation even if they are complete dicks (Exhibit P1 Shane Warne...more where he came from too).

Our values as a society are screwed up.

 

You are not completely wrong there, we tend to forget "when I was young".....
The (*)(*)(*)(*) I did will last me another lifetime.
But we would agree the guy needs to mature....
Cheers

 

I once thought of rugby just as you do but having gotten to know two gay, ex-rugby players and their 11 month old son I've hosted a few rugby nights on the TV at my place. At first totally confused by the whole thing the boys have educated me in the strategy of the game. It's not just brute strength, although that obviously helps, there's so much strategy it's an extremely complex game. There is however the question of brain damage from concussion but AFL and other codes are equally vulnerable to that.
As to footballers after hours shenanigans I cannot understand why in the last ten years or so we all expect these blokes to behave like saints.And don't come the crap about roll models for children, it's the media that exposes children to videos of the kind that started this discussion when there's absolutely no need to expose the public to such nonsense.
Lets face it, athletes are fitter than most of us therefore usually a lot randier. That doesn't excuse some of the idiotic things they do but why the public is so fascinated by the sex lives of their heroes is another question we should be asking.
Off topic, but for Australian readers I have another question that keeps popping up like a footballers c**k.Why is it when a number of gay rugby players, swimmers, divers etc have come out of the closet have no A.F.L. (Australian Football League) players confessed to being gay. And don't tell me there aren't any, I've had the privilege ( not always a joy!)of getting it off with more than a few of them.

 

I dunno about 'equally' vulnerable to brain damage. Rugby involves the repeated impact to the head in normal conduct, while AFL tends to have secondary contact which is less frequent and often mitigated as part of a fall. Soccer has next to none. I'd put rugby at number one as just slightly worse then boxing, and ahead of NFL in 2nd, with AFL coming in a distinct 3rd behind them... with soccer not even registering - soccer players are a joke and have so much energy after the game they can run around like cheerleaders.

Anyway, yea the guy did nothing wrong. The real story is who is the 'mate' that released the video from a private event - he is the bad egg in this.

 

So 'boys will be boys'... Is that it? That's what I'm hearing here.

Unwanted advances to the party host the peeing and the dog thing. No, don't mind that, he was 'drunk'. Didn't he grope a woman at Kings Cross? I mean, seriously his character is up the (*)(*)(*)(*).

Gotta be careful too when putting the onus on just the alcohol and not the person's character.

Maybe cos I'm not a 'bloke'... that I find the guy repulsive.

 

No doubt there is maturing to be done. I felt like I hadn't fully matured until I was in my early 40's and still working on it.

 

Ha,
never ending story that is......
Cheers

 

drug counselling, and in 12 months time, he will be hailed as an Australia HERO, and be awarded The Australian of The Year.

An incontinent, dog rooting, drunk - a HERO, and Australian of the Year

Doesn't every Australian want their son to play rugby - in a country of incontinent dog rooting drunks?

This has gone viral over here, everyone is at this clown Australians hail as a HERO.

 

Gwen,
It's unsavoury but as the good looking bloke I was :/ I had women make advances to me in very unsavoury ways, especially when intoxicated. On the whole I would have to say women are actually worse than men in this department in all seriousness. I nearly grounded my son after one of his school camps until he explained that the girls instigated the late night rendezvous. On reflection what saved him was my experiences. It was always the girls that instigated activity when I was a youngster but the boys copped the punishment because the girls were deemed innocent. Not saying that any of it is bad but just put it down to human nature to a degree.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a strong advocate as everyone knows regarding respect towards women but just wanting to try and put things in perspective. Not sure if it has worked though lol!

 

Interesting how much we're shaped by our experiences, how much we form our opinions out of what happens to us.

All I can say is I copped a lot too. A lot.

I'm sorry you copped stuff and your son did too.


Anyway, I don't care about this overpaid twit any more. I had my rant.

 

I suppose the innocent little dog thought he was good looking too, and wanted to get a cucumber human penis up the ********.

 

Nah, he thought he was a hot dog!

 

For a moment there I thought you were going to say "What else could it be … is it a duck?".

 

That just shows your character, it seems Gwendo, tv and his boy are plainly good people. It is that, in my humble experience, people make advantage off. There are plenty of folks out there, be it male or female, who just look for the good ones, so they can boss them around or have other ideas up their sleeves.
Cheers

 

Don't get me started on Shane Warne...

 

Interesting in context to the dog exploiter here, cos when Shane Warne was sprung in a hotel room with a rubber doll, people generally guffawed and wrote it off as hilarious and no one seemed that bothered by it or him. I thought at the time that 'like attracts like' - that Shane Warne had found 'someone' just as inflated as him.

 

There are so many variables, huh? But interesting what you say here, and thanks.

It can start very early on... being exploited, used, objectified and all those things. Yes, some look for soft targets, targets that won't or can't fight back or are too small to even know what is going on. I was a well-developed girl by the age of 11. And I had a leering father. Screws up the sexuality big-time. I can probably attribute not liking the football fella cos that kind of grubbiness hints at my dad - an out of control / ugly grubbiness. At least, that's how my mind interprets that stuff.

We are shaped by our experiences, I do believe that.

 

I'm just resigned to the fact that the world will never be a perfect place but absolutely mindful of the fact that collectively we can help ensure that our societies don't go crazy by people vehemently opposing certain behaviours that destroy people's lives whenever the opportunity arises. Sharing our own experiences helps to build empathy around a certain situation and totally understand your stance on this issue.

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I'm just resigned to the fact that the world will never be a perfect place but absolutely mindful of the fact that collectively we can help ensure that our societies don't go crazy by people vehemently opposing certain behaviours that destroy people's lives whenever the opportunity arises. Sharing our own experiences helps to build empathy around a certain situation and totally understand your stance on this issue.