There is a very easy way out - say you were wrong when you referred to some rugby players you do not like as "seuntjies" and the problem will go away.
Tokkie eat Frans crow7
There is a very easy way out - say you were wrong when you referred to some rugby players you do not like as "seuntjies" and the problem will go away.
noun
An old person, especially one receiving special care:a rest home for geriatricsUsage
Geriatric is the normal, semi-official term used in Britain and the US when referring to the health care of old people ( a geriatric ward; geriatric patients). When used outside such contexts, it typically carries overtones of being worn out and decrepit and can therefore beoffensive if used with reference to people.
The essence is that, if you look at the origin of the word it actually refers to the medical care of elderly people and not to the elderly people themselves.
Origin
1920s: from Greek g?ras 'old age' + iatros 'doctor', on the pattern of paediatric.
Geriatrics or geriatric medicine[1] is a specialty that focuses on health care ofelderly people.[2] It aims to promote health by preventing and treating diseasesand disabilities in older adults. There is no set age at which patients may be under the care of a geriatrician or geriatric physician, a physician who specializes in the care of elderly people.
1. (Medicine) of or relating to geriatric medicine or to older people2. (of people or machines) old, obsolescent, worn out, or uselessn3. (Medicine) an elderly person4. an older person considered as one who may be disregarded as senile or unable to look after his or her own best interests
There you have it. All of the people who ou Tokkie describes as geriatrics have at some stage rendered, or are still rendering valuable service to SA on the rugby fields. Despite their service and reputation, he regards them as obsolete, worn out, useless, senile, unable to look after their own best interest..............
"There you have it. All of the people who ou Tokkie describes as geriatrics have at some stage rendered, or are still rendering valuable service to SA on the rugby fields. Despite their service and reputation, he regards them as obsolete, worn out, useless, senile, unable to look after their own best interest."
Whomsoever comes up with the above is delirious. I do not criticize players about their past performances in the case of the more elderly players. The criticism is directed against present players who are indeed way past their sell-by date and whose presence in the team reduces team performance.
The part of "despite their service and reputation" is claptrap - past service and reputation is not the issue - present lack of performance is. Sure they are obsolete, worn out and useless as rugby players - that is proven over and over in games. The rest is real rubbish - they can have a full life after rugby - without all those junk thrown in by Ceradunce.
What is tragic is that players who overstays their welcome do damage to their reputation and the general public remember their recent flops and forgets about their past greatness.
I have never referred to a specific age group in dealing with the issue - I have never called Habana and Jean de Villiers :rugby geriatrics" because they perform still as players. Even younger players whose performance is gone - gets the designation because they should be out if the game.and not be detrimental to the team as a whole.
Weak effort to get out of the mess you created for yourself and admit that you were wronmg in using of the term "Seuntjies" and the term will stop.
Age of players have nothing to do with the issue - deficient performance by especially elderly players, but also younger ones who have gone totally off the boil - everything.
I refer to useless players with under-par performance as rugby geriatrics. Matfield is number one qualifier for that,
How can anyone take you seriously when you sound like an early 2000s google translation of Japanese to English?
Tokkie is a good guy in spite of being a potty mouth, a liar and a perv? What exactly is good about him, I'm not computing but open to new inputs.
I see no reason to step back....nor do I believe I am wrong about the Perv's nature. .
This is the nature of the beast we have to deal with here - he lies if it fits his book and that is his daily bread. He started this thread refusing to quote what I did say in full about Steyn - already a lie. He made the "Seuntjies" remark to criticize any player who is a potential threat to Steyn's selection.
All of this because he was cornered about Steyn's lack of performance in games and he had to cover for his nonsensical support. He and his Disaster Sidekick talks about "bad behaviour - but the only bad behaviour is when somebody dares to differ from them on anything. They lie about what happens in matches - that is not bad behaviour - they dish out insults left right and center - that is not bad behaviour - they are foul-minded like in the perv story - that is not bad behaviour.
If their is one member who has summed Mozart up 100% - it was Rooinek who knew what was going on and identified "Seuntjies" as the worst liar ever on this Board.
If he thinks he and Disaster will drive me from this Board - like they did before with members - they can forget about it. If they think somebody will stop exposing their lies about players - they can forget about that as well. Sc um they remain and sc um they will ever be.


