MaVilla Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 goes from Villa assistant head coach, to Chelsea Youth team consultant. I would love to know what really happened when he left Villa, cus it just doesnt make sense, or maybe he thought he was a shoe in for a role somewhere and it didnt come off? Weird all around tbh. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted December 29, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 29, 2021 2 hours ago, ciggiesnbeer said: Gonna NFT my forum posts. If you are reading this, you owe me $10K. Am I doing it right? No, because whoever buys the NFT just has an NFT. The post is still available for everyone to read. So we're all good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 A strange move for him. Sideways at best unless he thinks Tuchel will go in a year or so and he will get the job. Perhaps he expected a premier league job when that did not come up he didn't fancy a spell in the Championship. I do wonder if he is fully committed to becoming a manager. He has never had the same intensity when interviewed if you compare him to Gerrard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 3 hours ago, The Fun Factory said: A strange move for him. Sideways at best unless he thinks Tuchel will go in a year or so and he will get the job. Perhaps he expected a premier league job when that did not come up he didn't fancy a spell in the Championship. I do wonder if he is fully committed to becoming a manager. He has never had the same intensity when interviewed if you compare him to Gerrard. He would be very naive to expect a Premier League job after being Villa coach Smith after us got the Norwich job for example Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouUnastanFren Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 14 hours ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said: I wouldn't be writing off NFTs as nonsense, just because it looks like nonsense to us. I bet the idea of the Internet, Crypto, Electric Cars, Smart phones, Virtual Reality, Leather seats in the dugout and alot more were looked at as absolute Bollox to some people in the past as well. Whether or not NFTs as a whole have any value as a concept, these badly drawn generic pictures of monkeys created solely for the purpose of selling their NFTs are completely worthless. The over the top enthusiasm Terry has shown in the tweets for owning these NFTs is so clearly not genuine, I don't know how much he's been paid for it but I hope it's worth more than the credibility he's lost. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 10 minutes ago, YouUnastanFren said: Whether or not NFTs as a whole have any value as a concept, these badly drawn generic pictures of monkeys created solely for the purpose of selling their NFTs are completely worthless. The over the top enthusiasm Terry has shown in the tweets for owning these NFTs is so clearly not genuine, I don't know how much he's been paid for it but I hope it's worth more than the credibility he's lost. Does he really have that much crediblity left? I think being a Villa coach helped him nearly rebuild it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciggiesnbeer Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 More seriously it does seem a weird career move. I expected him to rock up at a league one or even Championship club by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Keyblade Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 12 minutes ago, Kuwabatake Sanjuro said: Do these guys not have PR people? Which genius thought it was a good idea to let the guy who famously once called his opponent a black word removed post this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamburglar Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 11 minutes ago, Keyblade said: Do these guys not have PR people? Which genius thought it was a good idea to let the guy who famously once called his opponent a black word removed post this I didn’t consider a racial element to this in the slightest. Maybe I should put myself down for re-education. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuwabatake Sanjuro Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 9 minutes ago, Keyblade said: Do these guys not have PR people? Which genius thought it was a good idea to let the guy who famously once called his opponent a black word removed post this Those guys are facing allegations of racism themselves (a bit of a conspiracy theory at least). http://gordongoner.com/ Quote Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) is a series of 10,000 anthropomorphized ape cartoons sold as NFTs. Since the project's launch in April 2021 the value has amassed to over $4B USD, and spawned many similar projects. The apes have various clothing and other traits, most traits are racially oriented or involve some type of military history. The act of disparaging someone by comparing them to an ape/monkey goes back hundreds of years. There is a word for it, “simianization.” There are many examples throughout history, its purpose is to justify violence and racism against another group by dehumanizing them, comparing them to apes. Simianization has occured with various ethnic groups such as Jewish, Irish and Asian people, but it is most predominantly used as a tactic against Black people. You might think simianization is something of a past era, but racists are still comparing Black people to monkeys today, such as the trend in Europe of throwing bananas at Black soccer players. At first glance, the apes in Bored Ape Yacht Club might seem innocent, but there are several traits that indicate that they are intended to represent Black people and Asian people, such as the gold chains trait called "hip hop," the gold/diamond grills trait or the Kamikaze headband, offensively labeled "sushi chef headband". Myself and many others have noticed the issues with the images, it is clearly simianization. If you run a Twitter search you can find people have been talking about this since the project started. Knowing the history of alt-right/4chan types in crypto I started looking into it. I found what I believe to be definitive evidence that the group behind the creation of these images are neo-nazis. Here is how I have arrived at this conclusion – 1. The BAYC logo looks very similar to the Nazi Totenkopf emblem, even containing the same amount teeth in the skull, 18, a number the ADL has identified to mean Adolf Hitler. Might be of importance to note I cannot find another ape skull drawing with this amount of teeth in Google images. 2. The project was launched by a company called Yuga Labs, the Kali Yuga is a popular element of alt right/traditionalist ideology and Yuga Labs has gone to the effort to embed the traditionalist philosopher's name, René Guénon, who is credited for bringing Kali Yuga into western thought and an alt-right icon, inside one of their puzzles. Also embedded is the word "macaque", a known racial slur. 3. All the co-founders are anonymous, we don't know their true identities, one of their handles is Gargamel, a character from the Smurfs who is acknowledged as an antisemetic depiction of a Jewish person, also a common term used on 4chan to discuss Jews. Since I've brought this up, he has gone through the effort to try to hide it. 4. The other co-founder goes by Gordon Goner, who says he picked the name because it sounds like "Joey Ramone".. being that the group frequently uses anagrams (as seen in the puzzle linked above) and that it doesn't at all sound like Joey Ramone, another community member thought maybe this is an anagram. Sure enough its an anagram with only one solution, Drongo Negro, Drongo is common 4chan and Australian slang for stupid, its in the dictionary as such as, second definition.. So Stupid Negro. The probability of picking a name that is also a racist anagram is about 1 in 750 billion. Writers frequently use anagrams for character names and they are also often incorporated within videogames, some of which Yuga Labs have stated they play. 5. Their video game as well as Rolling Stone cover features rats with gold, this is a common anti-semitic association. The video game also features bananas arranged to look like swastikas. 6. Their Rolling Stone cover features an ape with a Nazi hat on, no other militia in history has worn this style hat with a skull emblem. 7. The co-creators went out of their way to state in an interview that the "official launch" of BAYC is the day Hitler died, April 30th, when the project was in fact released to the public a week before. 8. The symbols, content and attitude in the images themselves share alt-right ideology and war references, such as this Imperial German helmet. 9. In an interview co-founder Gargamel suggests there is hidden encrypted meaning and referenced "iceberg theory". In the same interview, Gargamel cites a Ludwig Wittgenstein quote, “let the unutterable be conveyed unutterably,” Wittgenstein is a philosopher in semiotics and mathematics who went to school with Hitler, noteworthy writing about 'picture theory' and coded meanings. Seems strange if they are just cartoon apes, no? What are their other meanings? They've yet to explain and seem very evasive. The alt-right is known for this tactic of hidden images and innuendo. 10. Here is a recent 4chan thread where users are acknowledging this. Why does it matter? To me it's a terrible example to other creators, setting a bad tone for future generations of art – we have already seen it morph into increasingly racist offshoots. Similar to why you don't teach children to say cuss words. Beyond that, I am personally offended by the Nazi references and find the act of covertly incepting an uninformed audience vile. There is a true danger in dehumanizing people, equating them to monkeys, it justifies violence and racism according to much research. What can you do? Spread the word, stand up against BAYC, comment on influencers pages, tell your friends, alert the press. The owners of the apes are not the problem, covertly infiltrating culture with hate to an unaware audience is whats wrong and evil. I have dedicated a lot of time to researching this and as an expert in the field of internet culture having been active within it for 25 years, with many credentials, I, and many others, feel very confident these accusations are founded. -Ryder Ripps, Jan. 2022 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moustache of Teale Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Saw this thread bumped and wondered what the next chapter in Terry’s career might be. Instead, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 (edited) This is super weird. NFTs are so dumb. And bloody hell, now that’s it loaded - that NFT is grotesque. Shameful. Edited January 24, 2022 by The_Steve 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 I've had a very low opinion of Terry as an individual for many years, but him trying to use his fame to flog this crap to gullible idiots really is low. Not rich enough, man? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 On 29/12/2021 at 22:13, MaVilla said: goes from Villa assistant head coach, to Chelsea Youth team consultant. I would love to know what really happened when he left Villa, cus it just doesnt make sense, or maybe he thought he was a shoe in for a role somewhere and it didnt come off? Weird all around tbh. I do wonder about the rumours of him telling Jack to leave had any substance after all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 1 minute ago, Davkaus said: I've had a very low opinion of Terry as an individual for many years, but him trying to use his fame to flog this crap to gullible idiots really is low. Not rich enough, man? Honestly, footballers shilling for crypto and NFTs is going to have big ramifications down the line. It’s very wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted January 24, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 24, 2022 8 minutes ago, The_Steve said: Honestly, footballers shilling for crypto and NFTs is going to have big ramifications down the line. It’s very wrong. Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 12 minutes ago, PieFacE said: Why? The environmental cost of NFTs is very high. Celebrities getting in on NFTs have accidentally linked people to scams costing them serious cash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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