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That wasn't the connection. The connection was that they were the first at the top level in their sport to announce to the general public that they are gay (or something to that effect)
And yes, firsts like that are notable, as they start to break down another barrier so that others who fear persecution or ridicule or prejudice for something that has no effect on their ability to do their job can be themselves, instead of having to pretend they're something they're not. After a few more have followed suit, nobody much will care any more - apart from a small minority of bigots who will never be convinced anyway. |
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They got the final name correct which is all that matters.
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But they weren't the first, certainly not in the case of Hirst and Hitzlsperger, Ian Roberts in the NRL came out years previously, and I would have thought Justin Fashanu would have been the first in football.
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In the "Mels" question last night did anybody else think, when just Carl Reiner and Griff Rhys Jones came up, of the old Holsten Pils movie spoof TV commercials (Carl Reiner having directed the film Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid which they were based on, and GRJ obviously having featured in them)?
I assume this was simply a coincidence as opposed to a deliberate trip-up, since I guess they wouldn't use a brand name so overtly, plus it's more the wall rounds that have red herrings. It amused me, anyway
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Not while he was still playing.
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In the "Mels" question last night did anybody else think, when just Carl Reiner and Griff Rhys Jones came up, of the old Holsten Pils movie spoof TV commercials (Carl Reiner having directed the film Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid which they were based on, and GRJ obviously having featured in them)?
I assume this was simply a coincidence as opposed to a deliberate trip-up, since I guess they wouldn't use a brand name so overtly, plus it's more the wall rounds that have red herrings. It amused me, anyway ![]() .
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Well that's you shot - it's "on which they were based"
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So, I really, like, can't stand people who, like, use so, to start any, like sentence, you know!
![]() My other gripe, in case you hadn't noticed, is the ridiculous over use of the word "like" where what they are talking about isn't like anything!! Why are English speakers so scared of a fraction of a second silence while they collect their thoughts, instead of filling it with pointless sounds, such as like or so, or you know. It's not just annoying, it's wrong. Try it with something other than 'Brits' and it reveals itself as ungrammatical nonsense: 'Us Scots', 'Us Germans', Us dog-lovers' etc. It's "WE BRITS"...and even then who the hell says 'Brits' apart from bloody Americans? |
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It's "WE BRITS"...and even then who the hell says 'Brits' apart from bloody Americans? |
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Well that's you shot - it's "on which they were based"
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I wasn't a contestant.
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Got the WW1 name changing thing after Alsatian came up.
I wonder if that's when Rubella became the preferred name rather than German Measles. |
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No. Rubella is the "new" name. If you go back to the 1960s, nobody had Rubella, it was very much German measles. Possibly because it's a "bad" thing, so the German context would have been apt?
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Makes me wonder why they renamed Sauerkraut then
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I didn't know they had.
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Well that's you shot - it's "on which they were based"
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Did you even watch the program in question?
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No. Rubella is the "new" name. If you go back to the 1960s, nobody had Rubella, it was very much German measles. Possibly because it's a "bad" thing, so the German context would have been apt?
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1866 H. Veale in Edinb. Med. Jrnl. (1867) 12 i. 414, I therefore venture to propose Rubella as a substitute for Rötheln, or, at any rate, as a name for the disease which it has been my object in this paper to describe.
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Got the WW1 name changing thing after Alsatian came up.
I wonder if that's when Rubella became the preferred name rather than German Measles. |
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Yes, that's all well and good but can you describe the South Sea Bubble and it's effects on investment?
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No. Rubella is the "new" name. If you go back to the 1960s, nobody had Rubella, it was very much German measles. Possibly because it's a "bad" thing, so the German context would have been apt?
Corruption of "germane". Like measles in other words. |
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Mine was Gordon Jackson
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Yes, that's all well and good but can you describe the South Sea Bubble and it's effects on investment?
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Outstanding Not the Nine O'Clock News reference.
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Outstanding Not the Nine O'Clock News reference.
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Outstanding Not the Nine O'Clock News reference.
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