So a girl cries, whoopdedoo, that's life, can't believe there is money in the pot, she isn't on social media, they can't locate the family, load of shite.
http://news.sky.com/story/euro-2020-...abuse-12348557
I watched this match and saw this little girl.
What is wrong with these morons who troll like this. It's about time we put WW2 in the past where it belongs and stopped this stupid laddish behaviour that seems to permeate English sport.
These people are a complete waste of a good human skin.
So a girl cries, whoopdedoo, that's life, can't believe there is money in the pot, she isn't on social media, they can't locate the family, load of shite.
Yes, how exactly is she abused online?
Too young to have an account and probably to read English too or are our yobs posting in German.
I think seadog and Kingstepper are missing the point.
Someone felt bad about the unnecessary abuse the girl got online and organised the fundraiser.
The point here is why do people feel the need to abuse such individuals online in the way they did?
People post the vitriol they do in the hope that the individual concerned becomes aware and it has a negative impact on them.
We know nothing more about the girl that in the news report so any speculation on her, or her ability to understand English, is misplaced.
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Pussy way out, it's a debate.
As original poster the point I am trying to make is why do these people feel the need to troll? It is immature and thuggish behaviour and , in the case of Germany, why do we Brits keep harping on about a war 70 years ago. Pathetic.
just wow...
The money is going to go to a charity that combats online abuse.
I'm going to donate just to piss you off, you don't seem to like the idea of people doing what they like with their own money.
JUST WOWZERS, I really wish that people who corrected people would also check to make sure they’ve read the whole thing....
From the actual just giving page.....I'd like to think that the parents of the little girl will spend this on a nice treat for her so that she knows that not everyone from the UK is horrible and that we care.
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Sometimes the coming together, camaraderie and well being on here is amazing & inspiring such as Matt’s charity raffles amongst others.
Other times it makes me wonder just how many twunts exist on here.
You missed out this bit, conveniently, from the actual story that was linked in the OP.
"a team at JustGiving has since taken over the effort. They now have a strong lead which they believe will help them to reach the family. The plan then would be to open discussions about donating the money to a charity in line with the message of the campaign."
Woke twunts annoy me as well.
One of life's lessons is that we don't always get the result we want, it would be upsetting for many young kids to see their team lose, made worse no doubt by some folk rubbing "salt in the wound" by making fun of Germanys unfortunate past.
I went to the local pub to see the game, well actually I sat alone in the garden and watched the match on my phone, inside the pub was rammed with as far as I can tell no social distancing and no masks, the chants went along the usual xenophobic anti German lines of WW2 from people who weren't even a glimmer in their grandfather's eye back in the 1940s.
Hopefully the kid's dad will make it clear that not all Britons are total pis*heads.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
Its football, i remember watching some UK game on TV and the camera did a close up of the crowd and just about every "fan" was throwing things, shouting abuse and putting their middle finger up. It was no minority of morons, they were all morons, hundreds of them
the people who dont see a problem wouldnt mind their daughters being trolled and memes sent around the world to millions of people then?
From someone else who went to a pub to watch football.
RI watched the game in my local last night. A group of lads sat across the way, aged around early to mid 20’s. They were a bit inebriated having turned up at 3 o’clock to claim their seats, as most of the people there, including myself, had done.
The singing and chanting began not long after the Czech Republic v Denmark game. Fair do’s, it was harmless fun and it added to the atmosphere, as it normally does.
As the Ukraine sang their national anthem these lads started booing. When the England team took the knee I heard one of the lads shout “fucking stand up” followed by more booing. At the end of the game the camera focused in on a young Ukrainian girl clearly upset at her team being knocked out. The same kind of hateful reaction exhibited by England fans to the young German girl last week was emulated by these lads with shouts of “boo-hoo”, and a totally baffling shout by one of them of “Gold digger” whatever the fuck that meant.
Ignorance breeds Fear. Fear breeds Hatred. Hatred breeds Ignorance. Break the chain.
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Not sure if anyone has seen the most recent update on this? The family of the girl were found and asked that the money was donated to UNICEF to benefit children around the globe.
I'll also add that I know, Joel, who started the campaign. It was done so on the basis of its not on to share vile photoshopped images of a young girl which are then circulated on WhatsApp etc. Joel has posted several updates confirming his rationale.
The other side of the coin was the vile trolling. Brain dead Morons calling someone a nonce, threatening serious harm to him and his family. Takeaways being sent to the home of his estranged wife, his kids receiving abuse..... Need I go on.
For context, below are screen grabs showing the types of comments he was receiving and the type of people who were threatening him. It wasn't one or two people, it was loads and loads of bile, venom and vitriol. Funnily enough there was a common theme, the majority had an England flag on there Twitter names and were obsessed with football.
Does raising awareness of online bullying and abuse really deserve that level of abuse? Anyone who thinks it does has serious issues. Answer me this, if it's no big deal, you wouldn't mind sharing a picture of your daughter, grandchild, niece etc and I'll Photoshop it so she's sat on Jimmy Saviles knee add some suitably offensive commentary and get it shared millions of times on WhatsApp / tiktok...... Would it still matter whether or not your daughter knew??? What about the fact your friends, work colleagues, acquaintances, neighbours etc knew and had seen that image(s). Maybe then it would matter.
No harm done though eh?? Particularly nice were the DMs he was receiving.
I'll leave it there.
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Oooh, let me think - Some football fans are mindless racist, nationalistic thugs in a nation that has boosted the cult of racist nationalism over the last 5 years, perhaps?
Why is anyone surprised that there's a minority of racist morons in the football fan community? As far back as I can recall, it was probably the easiest place to find such scum.
I saw the young girl on the TV and thought "Ah, poor thing, a lesson in life - Sometimes you're disappointed".
However, like some of the earlier posters, I do agree that 'raising money' seems to be the knee jerk reaction to everything these days (Little girl crying at a football match, man shot by police, etc) - I guess it's easier to donate a couple of quid online that actually think or do anything about it. I'm sure there's a donate-now site somewhere asking for money for racist cretins who have been critised online and it's probably bringing in money.
Actually, there's probably an interesting social experiment there, how much could you raise for a totally fictious cause if you could get it fronted by a TV or sports personality?
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Breitling Cosmonaute 809 - What's not to like?
For something that is supposed to unite all classes creeds and colours football just seems to bring out the worst in people. I agree with this fellah: