jackytoo

Over 18,000 anti Semitic comments were made on Twitter after Tel Aviv beat Madrid at Basketball. Just bad losers or........some were very strong.

http://elpais.com/elpais/2014/05/20/...32_231819.html

Sally Redux

I don't a know.

jackytoo

Thank you for your contribution. Your sarcastic wit is the envy of the forum.

andyrich666

Bad losers yes, are not we all ?

I am ! I can change my personality very easily if I lose, sport, watching sport, court case, betting or whatever.

Madridboy

Yes they are.....you should hear them swearing on Call of Duty!

Dick Dasterdly

Of course being Spain it couldn't be anything to do with the R word,

.....that's all listed under Xenophobia here, which apparently makes it quite acceptable.

Retired in Euskadi

To lose face goes quite deep in Spanish culture, as it does in the Middle East, if I may generalise, which is always dicey!
Anti-semitic taunts come quite easily here, but probably in most Western cultures as well.
I think we Brits are better losers or at least we have been; whether it's still true, I'm not sure.

jackytoo

I wondered if someone would come up with the bleeding obvious. If the 18,000 anti-Jewish tweets had come from the UK it would have been different what

Dick Dasterdly

Shhh, don't rattle their cages.

The Angry Bus will be along any minute.

rugbymatt

Why don't you a know? It's a, a, serious issue this! Jacky has a, an important point to a make.

Dick Dasterdly

Right on Time.

Sally Redux

Shaddap you face.

rugbymatt

Edited for obvious reasons.

Sally Redux

That's a nice a boy.

rugbymatt

That actually made me laugh out loud and now the bloody dog is barking!...*sigh*.....


It's funny, we'd almost forgotten this site could be fun!