No More Football Chat In The Office

That's OK. Still got politics, gender and religion to talk about.

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...

And now for something completely different. Or is it?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51262839

Ann Francke should go back to hiding in wardrobes.

^^It is completely different obv.

The OP is completely absurd and Ann Francke of the Chartered Management Institute should either admit she fell into the trap of making a comment before thinking or start looking for another job.

grrr dusty I had a nice pun about her diary but you beat me to it.

can understand womens viewpoint here  ,men shouldn't be working in offices ...it's a  feminine environment  ...men should be doing manly/masculine jobs if they want to discuss sport etc

fine as long as talking about soaps, love island, im a celebrity, strictly , sandwich making etc is banned too

I  took a job for 2 weeks in an office out of desperation for a pay cheque ,couldn't hack any more and got a new job pronto   ...it was  either  women and sheepish feminine men  ...they were talking about soap operas and hair styles  most of the time  .... i'd rather'd spent the fortnight in prison looking back 

or^

What did you expect when you took a job in a hairdressers?

morpteh ,that is general office talk

exactly, ban it , mind when i used to work i would instigate conversations about soaps, var didnt exist when i were a lad.

if you go on a buiding site working with boomers conversation will probably be about immigrants and 'pufters'


done that too

you can't beat working on your own mate  ...get up when you like , drink beer when you like ,watch what you like ,listen to what you like and you get to  'commute' to work in your carpet slippers  .

You can't beat being retired ...get up when you like, drink beer when you like, watch what you like, listen to what you like ...etc (don't own carpet slippers )

exactly aspro.

morpeth ...i say don't ban in because that is the natural environment  (as long as it's not offensive) 

men who work in offices around women are doing the wrong job if they expect to talk about VAR etc  lol ..it is a FEMININE environment

get a blokey job in other words   ...simples

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I've worked in an office my entire working life Coach and it was always predominantly male... but I get your point

Ann Francke said sports chat can leave women feeling left out...............


SO GET THEM OFF MY FCUKING TELLY EVERYDAY RUINING MY ENJOYMENT OF SPORT.........

Aspro ...i guess it depends on your line of work ...  if it's electrical enginerring  based etc or buidings regs etc ...but anywhere mixed is asking for trouble imo

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some offices can be 100 % male   ... i call that more a 'workspace'   

To be fair Coach it's all a load of bollox; most of the women that I have worked with love the banter and join in

men shouldn't be working with women imo ...it's just not right or proper

same as with women who watch the match down the pub with all the blokes

You haven't lived until you see women, daily, in their office attire

there are barriers that shouldn't be crossed imo 

NO aspro ...  power dressers 

Even Better!!!

call me old fashioned but i like women to be women ...pretty ,feminine  and quiet 

can't be doing with bossy ,mouthy or excitable girls

terry has found the wrong thread 

I get the pretty and feminine bit, but quiet? Nah mate, you're dreaming.

yes aspro ,i agree i am a dreamer in a world of chaos 

womens high pitched voices drive me insane  ,bad enough hearing the neighbor from time to time 

totally agree

terry's reading comprehension skills on show again

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I agree with Ann Francke to a point. Most football chat is inane and excrutiatingly boring, and often becomes boorish - just has to be avoided rather than banned.

(Of course, any lads who have any brains and sufficient desire to get his leg over 'Clare from work' should have figured this out already and upped his game / conversation topics by now. However I see at first hand this is not the case........ poor w@nkers have no chance).

Reminds me of a nerdy guy (Angus) I worked with who was with some of us on a night out - I swaggered over to a a couple of dollies and was getting on quite well until the said Angus joined me and regaled the same dollies about our work,and the ins and outs of web service deployment we were undertaking at a bank - left without finishing their drinks. Not quite as boring as football - but not far away

But football chat has become more interesting, Wallflower, with the VAR debate.

Arguments now about marginal offsides, accidental handball, fouls, etc etc has now enlivened my Saturday evening Match of the Day!  Though it has spoilt the game overall.  There needs to be new rules brought in.

When I was young no young man chatting me up mentioned football, I wished he had.

Aren't women suppose to love football now? that's what we're told anyway

Its like these people just move the goalposts whenever they need to implement any kind of c***

Switch the lights off and close the door ffs, the worlds done

Jan 27, 2020 -- 9:51PM, annie. wrote:

But football chat has become more interesting, Wallflower, with the VAR debate. Arguments now about marginal offsides, accidental handball, fouls, etc etc has now enlivened my Saturday evening Match of the Day!  Though it has spoilt the game overall.  There needs to be new rules brought in.When I was young no young man chatting me up mentioned football, I wished he had.

If we're courting we keep sport locked away

Betting? would never mention that to a lady either

In fact I would wager the first 3 months of a new relationship for a man sport/gambling goes on the back burner, its only when they've tied her up and dumped her in the kitchen we resume those games

That is where we are different, Sontaram.  I would never let my love of gambling be on the 'back burner' where new, or existing, men(or women) are concerned

She won't be much use in the kitchen tied up............

you re a very rare woman annie lol i have never known a woman to gamble

Coach you haven't lived..

A lot of hard core female gamblers about, just a tad harder to spot.

interesting ...must be something they keep under their hat .

I have never known an openly female gambler then

unless you count bingo 

Bingo is quite expensive nowadays, some women play many books several nights a week..

They buy bundles of scratch cards, 49s , lottery, on line games, and they enter bookies too, often in the am period...

Buy next week you will now see them gambling at every turn........

i know there are problem women gamblers.

they bet on roulette and stuff and get hooked

Aren't women suppose to love football now? that's what we're told anyway

Its like these people just move the goalposts whenever they need to implement any kind of c***


Bullseye SS. Oh how these feminists get all tangled in the web of their own making.

The sad thing is, Coachbuster, is that I have rarely had a boyfriend/girlfriend who loves gambling as much as me In fact the opposite, most of them have disapproved of my love of horseracing, then, and now poker, football etc etc

I don't gamble huge amounts and I think 'gambling' is the wrong word. There should be another word for those of us who study the games and not just use chance such as roulette etc.

my old man used to call it 'speculating'

I remember there was a lady on here called galloping carrot decades ago ..i think she liked the dogs/horses etc for a bet .

also there was Cathy 22 ...but i think she was a hoax

Annie sounds a bit shroood.

Annie sounds a bit shroood.

I remember galloping carrot and Cathy22 as well, Coachbuster.  Like you I have had my doubts about some of the 'women' on here, they just don't sound like women. 

I think 'speculating' is a much better word for playing poker and football betting as there is a modicum of intelligence required.  Unlike roulette etc.  My dad was a gambler as well, he started me off putting on bets for me on the Grand National - starting a long love of horseracing that only ended some years ago.  Although I often miss it and think about going back to it, but I haven't got the time to study form, bet on horseracing and play poker as well

tough at the top

it's interesting that you study form Annie and so gives you a head start  over the rest of us ,and i hope it's paid off    ...very few gamblers i know study much of anything ,neither do I these days 

I sometimes get a good feeling in my bones about a game and will punt ,but more often i bet on something if i feel the odds are out of place  ...i've just got to know the prices over the years .

I still never seen a woman in a bookies though back in the day except for  Derby day

When I was betting on horses and on my days off I was always in the bookies!  It wasn't the same when I could get all the racing on my tv, but it was better in lots of ways.

All that studying didn't pay off, Coachbuster, but I think I lost a lot less that if I hadn't

I would rather they be talking about me in my short dresses and high heels
always up for it

fk soccerball - that's for the birdies -

villa one up  - they were always our bogie team (seriously)

honestly

at cov for many years

thompson and hately up front

followed by  cyril

i meant line 1

i know football

yes I am one of the lgbtqi squad - what do you want to know

many a interesting chat with young ladies at the counter when out shopping

you would not believe

you know nothing about soccer ball - if you do - how long do I hang to a 1 0 to  villa

as some of my friends say - you hold out far too long  ho h9o hoopooooos