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You need to get out more, over time on this board alone, Bale, Morrison, Pack have been ridiculed for their top knots, Brown was likened to a 90s magician, Vincent Tan’s trousers had a weekly piss take slot, Scott Murray was regularly battered, Wayne Rooney’s good looks have been questioned now and again. It happens, people in the spotlight have always had this cross to bear, always.
In that case it’d be worse abuse wouldn’t it? Ridiculing someone for something they personally choose rather than something they can’t do bugger all about. I’m saying abuse, but is it? Some folk make or made a living out of such things, General Tom Thumb, Schnozzle Durante, Ginger Rogers, Two Ton Tessie O’Shea etc. I’ve got mates with big ears called ‘Flapper’, bulgie eyes we call Popeye, I’ve answered to the name Donkey Dick for years now.........as a piss take
For what it's worth, i do understand where you're coming from. It's a working class thing, factories, building sites, sports teams, the boozer, even within the family. I get and give heaps in work, sometimes on the end of a battering. The working classes have always been good at self depreciation and taking shit, they've had to be. It's a cultural thing. In the case of Cooper though, it's not done in a way that workmates and friends do it, it's probably not meant as a joke, although i don't think that you mean it in a nasty way.
Yes ... but come on ... have you actually seen Cooper ?
Really its all about the fact that he is Swansea manager of course. Its all about context. If I saw someone who looked like him in the street (but wasn't him), of course I wouldn't say anything or talk about him to other people.