Sterling display of moronic idiocy.

Good article.

 

Good point. No one considers Jesus’s family and their feelings.

 

Er no, everyone knows. There is no public interest here, just pure bs from the Sun.

 

The only two sides are people that think it's ok for public figures going around promoting gun culture and those that don't.

You seem to support this, which is your prerogative, but I don't not think it's a good message. Basically it filters down to the younger generation and is a bad example.

I personally think it's sad to see how standards get lowered year after year. As a society you've got to draw the line somewhere, there have to be certain boundaries in which is deemed decent and appropriate.

 

Well done, the Sun have something against Sterling, whether it's racism or not, he has done well for himself from a poor background in London and should actually be seen as roll model for youths, far better than watching people have sex on TV and glamorise it as Love Island.

I hate tattoos but Andre Gray's is a work of art, Raheem's is certainly not, but it's his choice if he wants to look at that for the rest of his life.

 

Anyone who has a problem with this or any of the other wrongdoings that The Sun have adjudged Sterling to have committed (buying a sink for his mum's house, eating breakfast, flying economy class on a plane etc.) are genuinely pathetic human beings who must lead utterly miserable lives.

You have to wonder what it is that The Sun and their readers find so objectionable about young, black working class Raheem Sterling.

 

and your line, after all the other footballers with they terrorist supporting tattoos, was sterling. is it naive to ask why?

 

Okay, but there’s a bit to the story that you are overlooking.

His dad was gunned down when he was 2. So why would he actively be promoting gun culture in such a manner?

 

There seems to be more uproar over a newspaper showing a photo, then there is over a player with a gun on his leg.

Sterling represents England, therefore it has a certain amount of responsibility. Having an assault rifle on his leg, supported by no other image, sends out a deliberate message. If people are ok with that, but annoyed with the newspaper showing the photo of it, then it probably tells me a lot over British society than anything else. ​

 

If you take the tattoo into context with what Sterling has said then it is obviously an (unfinished) anti-gun piece of ink.

He vowed never to touch a firearm because of how his father was murdered, instead he 'shoots' with his right leg and that has brought him wealth, success and fame.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least if it's come about through therapy/counselling, a way of turning a negative experience/emotional response into a positive outlook.
What's the problem with that?

I think the problem a lot of people are having is The S*n seemingly reporting negatively on anything Raheem Sterling has done or does. It's not solely about this one thing.

 

The message it sends, when associated with the quote from the player (which the paper purposely declined to ask for) is that Raheem Sterling has an unfinished tattoo.

 

When is Robbie Keane going to apologise for the VILE gun celebration that he performed hundreds of times throughout his career?
When are Arsenal going to change their DISGUSTING gun-glorifying badge?
When are fans of teams going to stop SICK chants about shooting (insert rival team) scum?

What sort of message do these send out?

 

Exactly.....this is my entire point. He needs to explain himself.

Maybe he has Stockholm syndrome!!

Had there been an accompanying image, which clearly associated the gun symbol with his father, then fair enough, but there is none of this. He can say whatever he likes, but the fact it needs an explanation tells its own story. He should not need to explain, because the tattoo should be self-explanatory.

I've heard stories where people cannot board a plane because there was an image of a gun on their t-shirt. The word is a very dangerous place, and anything that could be used or seen to be used to incite violence, needs to be looked at.

Something like Sterling's tattoo has to be understood by everyone, and not open to interpretation.

 

Yes....I'm sure there's room for a couple of hand grenades too.

 

It might look a bit like this when it's finished. Let's wait and see......

 

Hopefully the rest of the tattoo is made up of a bottle because he doesn't have one of those either.

 

I wouldn't dream of getting a tattoo myself, and certainly not that one.

But wow! As CB above says, who cares?

No one with a life of their own, perhaps. Certainly anybody giving the Sun any credit for this non-story or using their own headline grabbing hyperbolic exclamations such as "moronic idiocy" or "crème de la crème of stupidity" or "role model of gangsters" or "beyond belief" or "I would say he's probably into crime, supports violence and probably supports terrorism" needs to look at their own sense of priorities.

Hilarious overreaction

 

The Sun isn't available in Philippines, but if that's where you got the story from, fair enough. Glad to see you are striving to reach better than the Mail anyway.

Gun violence is an issue, only idiots would deny it. It doesn't need a celebrity endorsement.

 

The only thing that's hilarious, are people trying to defend the tattoo, blaming is just the press that is the problem. It's a hilarious under-reaction. The sort of under-reaction that let Jimmy Saville and co. get away with their crimes for so long. Yeah.....it's just a bit of innocent fun, let's just turn a blind eye.

 

Now I know you’re just on a wind-up!!!

 

As a defender of Jews you must accept his point that holocaust survivors and their offspring would naturally get a huge Swastika tattooed on their leg right?

 

I’m not sure I need to dignify that with an answer!

 

This will sort it out.

 

Looks like he fell asleep on a newspaper.
What the **** is the attraction of that type of tattoo ? Just don't understand it. What will it look like in 15 years ? Utter madness.

 

I know that this thread is really only continuing, because people keep responding to Rentboy1 and giving him the attention he so cravenly desires, to fill the void usually occupied by friendship and family, but it's my last contribution anyway.

If you're seriously suggesting that no Jewish artwork ever incorporates Nazi regalia, then I can only assume Google hasn't reached your part of the world yet. It's an infantile comment and you (unlike RB1) should know better.

 

See what Sterling has done now...

Another knife tragedy indeed but really?

 

Everyone time I read a post of yours, I imagine a grown man dressed as a piece of fruit. It does make me laugh.

What's your attire this season? Still a banana or are you now delving into vegetables, which I think would suit you more........maybe a carrot?

 

Sterling has gone well down in my estimation.

I blame brexit.

 

This is obviously a huge issue.

While we're at it, can we talk about the Royal British Legion using a poppy as their symbol? Don't they know there's an opioid crisis going on? It's just not right.

Also, why do London ambulances have snakes on the front of them? Don't they know that many people around the world die from snakebites? Talk about tone deaf.

 

I don't think Sterling does need to 'explain himself'. He has already done that, but that's not enough, it seems. If anything, The Sun needs to explain itself for its predictable over-hyping of what is a non-story in the first place, but it won't ever do that of course.

Earlier in this thread I asked where the rage was for the influences of gang culture, drill videos, poverty etc on youth-on-youth gun/knife crime. Where is yours? Dealing with the real causes will help reduce the use of weapons, not the covering up of a tattoo. It's incredibly complex and efforts to reduce gang-related violence in the UK have not worked so far. However, an unfinished tattoo on a footballer's leg is not going to fuel weapon use by any stretch of the imagination. To think it does shows a naive gullibility to be taken in by the groundless moral panics that media like The Scum like to stir up.

 

You, my friend, are so wrong. Google has been here months already.

I didn't need Google though to know about Jewish Holocaust artwork but the Nazi regalia is secondary to rather than the focus of the art. The (reluctantly agreed infantile) point was you don't commemorate someone's death by focusing on what killed them. I had a friend who died of a heroin overdose....a big needle tattooed on me isn't the way to go.

 

I don't believe what he is saying about the tattoo not being complete. The gun was finished. Now if Mickey Mouse later appears holding it, then I believe he's only acted because of public pressure.

 

There are actually no words for this.

 

Maybe, but what about all the other points I make?

 

And can I ask on what grounds you don’t believe him? You do realise if you want a sizeable tattoo that incorporates different styles, lettering, colour etc that it wouldn’t all be done in one sitting? For instance, a tattoo that wraps around his whole lower leg from
ankle to top of his calf, which this could easily conceivably be, would probably take the best part of a month to finish With various lengthy sittings? You have literally no idea when he started this.

If he was using his dad’s murder as an excuse, I’m sure his family would be furious so I doubt he’d take that course of action and lie.

He’s come out and given his reasons and explaination and it’s frankly no one’s business but his and that papers obsession with trying to smear him at every opportunity is frankly very weird.

I like exchanging views on all things WFC with you as we both know our opinions come from a love of the club. And I would never throw in personal abuse. But your view on this is verging on utter stupidity.