In standard journalistic practice, for a conversation to be off-the-record both parties have to agree. Walton didn’t even ask for it to be off-the-record.

What you mean is that it’s not a first amendment violation.

Off-the-record must be agreed to. One doesn’t just get to send emails saying you don’t want your already public remarks to be written about.

What in the glorious fuck is “Asian culture?” And why is martial arts any more a part of it than boxing is a part of ... Jesus ... Greek culture? I don’t even know. This is where the snake begins eating itself. How can you write this stuff and think you’re the enlightened and informed one? And I was all ready to agree…

See, one can’t say this and simultaneously assert the club is a complete laughingstock whose name has become synonymous with failure. That is what the English media, mostly, has done, as well as a large proportion of the public. Maybe not you. But seriously: Is it a club whose record of success both past and recent,…

I’m going to be charitable and assume “excuse” is not what you really mean, and that you ended up using it because the OP did.

The Guardian: “It was a clear penalty and the referee Michael Oliver’s decision to wave play on was bewildering, to say the least, with potentially serious ramifications for City when Coutinho equalised in the 83rd minute with Liverpool’s first shot on target.”

Immaterial especially since that’s not actually in the laws.

Not actually in the laws of the game, which actually say he doesn’t even have to make contact with Aguero. It’s “trips or attempts to trip” or “kicks or attempts to kick.”

In 30 years did you ever read the the laws of the game?

What, you expect them to know how a knockout tournament works?

From Scotland? Cretin.

Yeah, just went a little scattershot in defense of danonymously, didn’t realize your place in this. I was just responding to TotalFuckingHomer whose argument that “hoist” is archaic is bizarre given that so is petard, and Shakespeare, for that matter. May as well argue danonymously should have written, “Blown up with…

I don’t mind corrections; I mind the incorrections.

The verb is “hoise,” not hoist. (Edit) I didn’t make my point here clearly, which really should just be it’s a quote, and all this talk about archaic forms, etc., is irrelevant.

Man, very little works me into a fury faster than incorrect corrections!

Yes. It’s a typo. You’re just dead wrong and don’t know it.

A petard is a fucking bomb. How can one be hoisted by a bomb? It’s a different word. Stop correcting people wrong.

Hoisted? Complaining about the articles? Not understanding the function of a semicolon. Christ. Keep working on that messageboarding.

No. It’s hoist.