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Tennis legend's 'disgusting' comment about US Open umpire
Yahoo Sport ^ | 11 Sept 2020 | Sam Godwin

Posted on 09/12/2020 6:42:42 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

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To: DUMBGRUNT
You cannot call a spade, a spade anymore either.

They're called "garden shovels" now at Home Depot.

Really - went looking for one to replace an old one early this spring - that's what the sign says and so does the manufacturer's label.

41 posted on 09/12/2020 7:30:12 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Also seems to living proof of this axiom, I might add.
42 posted on 09/12/2020 7:37:56 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Das Auge isst mit! Idiomatic expression,

Literally, "your eyes eat along with you," this implies that presentation is key when it comes to food preparation. Your eyes should delight in what you are about in ingest, just as your palate does. So maybe it just should be "a feast for the eyes"!

People seem to take the expression literally. Boris did nothing wrong.

43 posted on 09/12/2020 7:41:24 AM PDT by kabar
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To: SkyPilot

I was thinking the same thing!! Dikes are in, true feminine beauty is out...


44 posted on 09/12/2020 7:44:06 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Clutch Martin

She has nice — lines. I wouldn’t mind judging them more thoroughly. OMG I AM CREEPY AND DISGUSTING. OFF TO RE-EDUCATION CAMP FOR ME


45 posted on 09/12/2020 7:44:50 AM PDT by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America: INCLUDING THEIR LIBERTIES)
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To: trebb

if he said she was ugly/not pretty, he’d be a sexist pig - when he says she’s pretty, he’s “creepy”

BINGO! We have Bingo!

At least he did not enquire if she still beats her husband.


46 posted on 09/12/2020 7:46:07 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: nwrep

Yeah, but real referees do not sit in a chair — we are actually on the field. I would be more impressed with a tennis umpire if they were on the court dodging the 100 mile an hour ball :-)


47 posted on 09/12/2020 7:47:39 AM PDT by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America: INCLUDING THEIR LIBERTIES)
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To: AFB-XYZ

I’ll bet this is a German idiom that is much more innocuous in native Deutsch


48 posted on 09/12/2020 7:47:57 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Ge0ffrey

The author is a Beta male at the very least.


49 posted on 09/12/2020 7:48:17 AM PDT by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!)
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To: NonValueAdded
Agreed. Calling a pretty girl a "dish" used be be normal and complimentary.


Note the "dish" apparently keeps her figure by ordering the tiny size.
50 posted on 09/12/2020 7:49:34 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: bramps

I didn’t say he “shouldn’t” say it. I said that, contrary to his words, “I have to say ...,” that he didn’t have to say it. He could, for example, have said something regarding the sportball contest. He could have said something about the weather.


51 posted on 09/12/2020 7:49:42 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("What we can see of God's canvas is laughably small." ~Bp. Barron)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“ALL CATS ARE GRAY IN THE DARK “

B. Franklin
I can’t keep track but guessing his statues are long gone?


52 posted on 09/12/2020 7:51:15 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: AFB-XYZ

“You eat with your eyes”

Means the presentation of the food is the first thing you notice. Or so they say on a Chef Gordon Ramsey show. Me? The first thing I notice about food is quantity....but I eat at Denny’s more often than a fine dining place.


53 posted on 09/12/2020 7:53:43 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Seems journalists have always had a boner for the Commies.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

So it’s now “creepy” and “disgusting” for a man to find a woman attractive.

To all the critics of this....how do you think you got here, genius?


54 posted on 09/12/2020 7:55:09 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I don’t know that “you eat with your eyes” means, but why is it wrong to comment how pretty a woman is? Good grief - this is a compliment.


55 posted on 09/12/2020 7:56:07 AM PDT by peggybac (wow)
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To: Tax-chick

He could, for example, have said something regarding the sportball contest. He could have said something about the weather.
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Or he could have said that instead of just pretty, the women is smoking hot!


56 posted on 09/12/2020 8:07:15 AM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

This is why women should be in burkas. It’s the only way this problem will end. Islam is right about women.


57 posted on 09/12/2020 8:08:14 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Prediction: G. Maxwell will surprise everyone by not dying anytime soon.)
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To: bramps

Do the viewers need the announcer to tell them a woman is attractive? Couldn’t they decide for themselves?


58 posted on 09/12/2020 8:11:03 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("What we can see of God's canvas is laughably small." ~Bp. Barron)
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To: SmokingJoe
Saying a girl is pretty is now “creepy”?

Yes, to ugly girls, trannies, and soy boys. I can't find any indication that the umpire herself, Serbian Marijana Veljovic, was offended (not that I've ever known any Slavic woman to be troubled by being called beautiful).

What a load of twaddle.

Yes. So many "backlash" and "outrage" stories today are nothing more than quoting a small number of handpicked Tweets.

59 posted on 09/12/2020 8:15:04 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Clutch Martin

Why????


60 posted on 09/12/2020 8:28:39 AM PDT by dp0622 (I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABO UT THE COVID GODFATHER, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. YOU CAN ACT LIKE A MAN!)
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