35 Years And Never Felt So Low As A Fan

Discussion in 'The Hornets' Nest - Watford Chat' started by tonycotonstache, Aug 14, 2020.

  1. Hogg-DEENEY!!!

    Hogg-DEENEY!!! Squad Player

    As much as I'm not sweeping this under the carpet, literally every fanbase has morons who post **** on Facebook
     
  2. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    ......Or post of facebook birthday wishes to their daughter "Happy birthday to my little princess. You are the light of our lives and we are so proud of you, the fact that you are so much better than all the other children of your age. I love you so much and want to thank you for the joy you bring to the lives of everyone who knows you. You're the best daughter a mother could hope for and everyone loves you so much xxxxxxxxxx". She's sitting next to you on the sofa while you're typing this drivel FFS.
     
  3. tonycotonstache

    tonycotonstache Squad Player

    When i called one out over it i got told to stop preaching and it was to stand up to online trolls. I messaged the club and as much as I'm not a snowflake I was stunned. I took screenshots but here is a sample, one of which got 25 likes for crying out loud.....

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  4. folkestone orn

    folkestone orn Squad Player

    Wouldn't be so sure. Their tolerance thresholds are all over the place.
     
  5. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    Those type of replies are kids, it's just so basic.
    Season before last a "much loved and well known" Watford fan shouted out "black ****s" from the back of the SEJ. He's most definitely not a kid.
     
  6. tonycotonstache

    tonycotonstache Squad Player

    It's not kids. One is my age and seemed proud of his work.
     
  7. El distraído

    El distraído Johnny Foreigner

    I've emailed the club to report them anyway, and will post the outcome on here.

    If I don't get a response, I'll continue to chase.
     
  8. Relegation Certs

    Relegation Certs Squad Player

    If you think that's bad, wait till you find out about friends reunited.
     
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  9. Moosegasm

    Moosegasm Reservist

    On one level Facebook is pretty much an Ikea catalogue for paedophiles. I'm amazed anyone posts photos of their children on it.
     
  10. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    3 tommee!!!
     
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  11. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    When FG was routinely very funny:
     
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  12. Sort of OK

    Sort of OK Reservist

    Facebook market place is great though, much better than Tinder for finding local single ladies. Simply search for used wedding dresses in your area, this gives you a list of recently divorced ladies, then if you are fussy you can filter by size too.
     
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  13. Pozzo Out

    Pozzo Out Squad Player

    Given it was “suggested” the club moved a fan behind the area to further down the LGT after others who heard racial abuse complained at the start of last season, I wouldn’t hold out much hope. Allegedly etc.
     
  14. reids

    reids First Team

    I also got into an argument with some of our fans on Facebook today over the club wishing Pakistan a happy independence day ("stick to the football" said one person, I then suggested the club stop posting about the NHS and for us to not to honour the minutes silence for Remembrance day as they also have nothing to do with football "but both of those causes are really close to my heart" was the reply :rolleyes:) - had to report someone else to the club for their comments which I never thought i'd do but I wasn't going to let that comment go unpunished.
     
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  15. El distraído

    El distraído Johnny Foreigner

    I saw that. We really do have some utterly deplorable characters in our fanbase don't we? Little inbreds they are.
     
  16. Unless you mean the away fans the Vic never used to 'reverberate' with anything in Luther and JBs time except a bit of 'come on you orns' on a corner
     
  17. There was a young lady called Abiola
    Who for breakfast loved granola with coca cola
    Whilst out shopping for something more crunchy
    She got bit by an escaped monkey
    And ended up with Ebola
     
  18. Chumlax

    Chumlax Squad Player

    There are some serious meter issues here.
     
  19. Hogg-DEENEY!!!

    Hogg-DEENEY!!! Squad Player

    I get that things aren't as bad as they were before, and that they are better here than in many other countries, but as soon as any kind of minority says something that makes the usual suspects uncomfortable, you really start to see just how racist this country still is. Burnley obviously got a lot of bad press for that plane, but let's not pretend that our club, or any other club, is different. It's an issue that goes way beyond football, one which football alone, despite all the feel-good stories it can inspire, cannot solve, but which the powers that be in the sport can definitely make more of an attempt at dealing with
     
  20. Hogg-DEENEY!!!

    Hogg-DEENEY!!! Squad Player

    Yup, just because the NHS or Rememberance Day are things that the vast majority of the country supports, it doesn't make them all of a sudden apolitical. Obviously James McClean has his reasons for not wearing the poppy (although he's never going to get any sympathy for it), as does Matic at United, and who knows, maybe Ivic won't be comfortable with it neither
     
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  21. Arakel

    Arakel First Team

    Well since you insist...

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  22. luke_golden

    luke_golden Space Cadet

    One night, probably more than 10 years ago when I was drunk, and had finished catching up on posts here (obviously), I made Facebook profile for the cat I’d met and fed some of my kebab on the walk home.

    I woke up the next morning and found more than 100 friend requests from other cat profiles.

    I’ve been down some rabbit holes in my time, but the few hours I spent looking through the profiles of my new cat friends were genuinely terrifying.

    Pretty much gave up on Facebook at that point.
     
  23. Arakel

    Arakel First Team

    Must have taken the drunken you all night to make 101 cat Facebook profiles.
     
  24. brinnyboy1985

    brinnyboy1985 First Year Pro

    If you join the Championship group on Facebook you’ll get to see how excited the Luton fans are to have their biggest 2 games in years.

    #obsessed
     
  25. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Three words that I know you'll hate
    Work
    Book
    Day
     
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  26. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    I hope someone is feeding your dead friend's cat.
     
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  27. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Wind machine. Obvious insta filter too.
     
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  28. K9 Hornet

    K9 Hornet Border Collie Dog

    No and no. Just from my phone in the park. Don't do Instagram...
     
  29. Smudger

    Smudger Messi's Mad Coach Staff Member

    Social media can have it's uses (there are some interesting groups on there like the local Watford history one with some great historical photographs) but in general it is very anti-social and ninety percent of it's content is drivel or commercially driven garbage and misinformation. I am sure social historians of the future will have a field day with it. Some tremendous landscape. architectural, place of interest photographs on there are alwats ruined by someone sticking their face in between the lens and the actual object of interest and sticking their tongue out.

    My sister has already given her two little ones a lecture on the perils of it especially about so called friends. That in real life one only has maybe a handful of very close and genuine friends not numbers on a social media site. The other social media sites are just as bad. Clip Clop and Egogram.
     
  30. Ybotcoombes

    Ybotcoombes Justworkedouthowtochange

    it is very sad that adults can’t work out for themselves where the line of decency is, bit of banter is fine but some one always pushes to far, this is where Facebook is at its worst.

    I have found that around d 90% of Facebook is drivel, the other 10% is offensive and normally inaccurate

    if you want a reason to never use Facebook again watch the documentary about Cambridge Analytical , you will soon realise why it is so full of crap - it’s actually worth watching it’s amazing to hear how one company has spent the last 10 years manipulating Facebook users and influencing elections around the world , before I watched it I didn't really think it was possible to manipulate an election result, but it absolutely is
     
  31. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    ...and about 30% are bots.
     
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  32. Hogg-DEENEY!!!

    Hogg-DEENEY!!! Squad Player

    It's absolute madness, was working in a primary school in St Albans, even the Reception and Nursery kids get lessons about the importance of staying safe online and not believing everything you read. Obviously very essential in this day and age, but sad that it's got to this
     
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  33. Sahorn

    Sahorn Reservist

    You mean I don’t really have 356 friends?
    And I thought their friends were also my mutual friends.

    Now what am I supposed to do?
    I’ve spent all this time locked away trying to make more friends and getting them to ‘like’ me, and now I’m too scared to actually go out and meet people.
     
  34. miked2006

    miked2006 Premiership Prediction League Proprietor

    Another classic example of the Boomer Rule.

    Whenever any trend is widely adopted by Boomers, it’s time to move on.

    You think it might be nice that your Mum/ Aunt is on Facebook, so you can easily send a birthday greeting or share a picture.

    But before you know it, Sally, Paul and Ian are putting England flags as their profile picture, posting hugely simplified posts to hugely complex ideas as if they are obvious, arguing incessantly with internet trolls as if they are able to ”win” and posting what are essentially status updates but as a picture with strange font and a jazzy background for no reason whatsoever.

    Facebook died years ago.
     
  35. Since63

    Since63 Squad Player

    Sorry, mate, not been built. Couldn't raise the tax & for reasons of security, they couldn't find the plans.
     

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