Should Newspapers Be Following This Alcoholic Around?

[sp1814]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5918595/Paul-Gascoigne-makes-homophobic-slur-busy-pub.html

Seriously - rather than condemning this sad man, we should be sympathising with him. Why on earth is the gutter press doing this? Surely they must know that his mind is not functioning properly?

[Sqad]

Way back in 1950:
Headlines..the Times...Royal college of Physicians report on smoking and lung Cancer.

The Sun: Do Fags Kill?

Which paper would Johnny English buy?

[Peter Pedant]

fell over in her own vomit
why that reminds me of the famous photie of New Year in Manch
likened in the Graudiad "like a beautiful painting"

the beautiful ptg is to be found here
https://imgur.com/gallery/iPFZOv5

not kim but a local from my part of town Newton heath

[kvalidir]

^^ That's awesome Peter : ) ^^

[scooping]

If you guys don't like newspapers and the media in general suggest you stop buying and watching. You fail to understand that your opinions are almost wholly conditioned and informed by what you read and see.

[scooping]

Good grief. *** ex-footballer says something wrong and you're on it like a wolf pack. Get a life.

[andy-hughes]

scoooing - // Good grief. *** ex-footballer says something wrong and you're on it like a wolf pack. Get a life. //

The thrust of most responses - if you read them, is not the inconsequential ramblings of an addled sad man, but the fact that our 'celebrity culture' makes it 'news', and that sadly reflects on us as a society.

[sp1814]

scooping

Yes, please read the responses to this thread. andy-hughes is correct...it’s not Paul Gascoigne who is the subject of this thread, but newspapers who trade off his sad decline.

[Zacs-Master]

I saw Mr Gascoigne at a function last year as an after dinner speaker. He made all sorts of controversial comments. And I think I paid £35 for the privilege. Very very funny he was.

[The_Rim_Greaper]

to the OP, get over yourself...hes probably had a few drinks, who care what he said...and dont feign all this "should the papers" virtue signalling...if you really need to ask why the papers print stories on "celebs" then it sounds like you need educating...

[Old_Geezer]

Did someone actualoy suggest he was a p*** ?
Unsure it can be considered a slur by folk who see nothing wrong with all sorts of sexual preferences anyway. And no, no one group owns words.
Bit of a non-story really. Intoxicated fellow forgets he must always be PC by somebody's order.

[Old_Geezer]

ACTUALLY !

[The_Rim_Greaper]

"Bit of a non-story really. Intoxicated fellow forgets he must always be PC by somebody's order. "

spot on....PC the modern bubonic plague

[andy-hughes]

RG - // … Intoxicated fellow forgets he must always be PC by somebody's order. //

No, he doesn't have to be 'PC' at all - just remember that he is in a public place, and he should act like the adult he is, and realise that not everyone wants to hear his nonsense proclaimed loudly in public.


That's not being 'PC', it's acting like a mature adult, a simple responsibility most of us manage without thinking about it.

[jno]

ah, PP, that reminds me of one of Spinal Tap's unfortunate drummers, died from choking on vomit - "not his own".