Comments on: Sir Alex Affords Himself a Wee Joke About Arsenal’s Late Equalizer Against Aston Villa

By: klyn312

klyn312 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:18:10 +0000

fair enough

By: Bellend

Bellend — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:19:43 +0000

I’m not saying Americans are thick.

I’m saying yanks don’t understand ‘piss taking’ humour as its a typically British thing that’s found in our comedy and on our terraces in chants.

As Fergie is just taking the piss you should put nothing into his comments.

Similarly, Gooners can’t comprehend piss taking. For example, when Villa fans sung “Stand up, cos Eduardo can’t” at the Emirates the Arsenal stewards had the culprits arrested for what is typically, and historically, terrace banter.

And then there’s satire…

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:49:52 +0000

C’mon — it was just a gag on his part! An amusing gag however…

By: klyn312

klyn312 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:24:06 +0000

oh c’mon- enough with the yank generalizations already, it’s very old or boring.

..the gooner generalization on the other hand is perfectly acceptable.

there are plenty of americans who aren’t complete idiots.. not many mind you but…

By: Bellend

Bellend — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:34:54 +0000

Whine whinge whine ^

He was TAKING THE PISS. A concept that isn’t understood by yanks and Gooners alike.

By: derek

derek — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:14:36 +0000

Like Man U hasn’t had their share of late winners/equalizers deep into lengthy injury times. I remember games during the Cantona era when United would have over 5 minutes of injury time and score in this time.