Anyone else find the trend for prefixing with "Team" really naff?

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  1. Warfist

    Warfist Active Member Full Member

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    I have no idea what "Naff" is but yes!
     
  2. BUM FACER

    BUM FACER You lack intensity Full Member

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    I think i've been misunderstood.

    i dont object to the use of the word team. As in "Hatton's team" or the "Chinese Olympic team".

    it's when used as Team Hatton, Team GB or Team Nadal etc etc etc. Suddenly everything is Team X. I think it just ****s me off cos it's lazy and it's simplistic and everyone uses it now because somehow it's fashionable.

    I'm guessing they dont call the US Olympic team "Team America" though :lol:

    I'll get my coat...
     
  3. Vantage_West

    Vantage_West ヒップホップ·プロデューサー Full Member

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    it's ok we......will send it to you:nod

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    i dont mind it. it's just a way of having the "togetherness" part of it. in the olympics i look at "Team GB" and feel no nationalistic/racial feelings about it. but i notice the team side of it .where as the term great britian on it's own is a bit of a patriotic game...type...thing that i dispise.:huh just read that back and it dont make a bloody sensability.



    but i also feel it's a very cold corprate term
     
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    Vantage_West ヒップホップ·プロデューサー Full Member

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    just means fake/tarnished/cheap/cheesy on the lins of that
     
  5. Warfist

    Warfist Active Member Full Member

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    "Team Naff" I like it! :bbb
     
  6. Vantage_West

    Vantage_West ヒップホップ·プロデューサー Full Member

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    dont talk about the U.S. boxing team like that :verysad
     
  7. Polymath

    Polymath Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Pavlik pisses me off when he refuses to use the word "I". Even in post-fight interviews its all 'we started to back him up, Miranda cant fight going backwards' - 'we landed more right hands'. WE?! wtf? It doesnt get cornier than that.
     
  8. Warfist

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    It's a little known secret that Pavlik suffers from multiple personality disorder. There is Kelly Pavlik - mild mannered boxer and then there is his alter ego: KP - The Destroyer of Wills. :tong
     
  9. Suge Green

    Suge Green Boxing Junkie banned

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    Only reason I ask is...suppose you are part of his entouage, and you are going to hold the spit bucket and maybe carry the water for Joe C...wouldn't you rather be called a member of "Team Calzaghe," than Joe C.'s spit bucket guy...???
     
  10. BUM FACER

    BUM FACER You lack intensity Full Member

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    :lol: - nice!
     
  11. BUM FACER

    BUM FACER You lack intensity Full Member

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    thank you! you've clarified what it is about it that pisses me off. You can imagine "Team UBS" having a team building sports day!
     
  12. Vantage_West

    Vantage_West ヒップホップ·プロデューサー Full Member

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    what about camp.

    camp as in group not camp as in kenneth williams.