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7 March
Commenting, @YahooSports says : * Watch: Rory McIlroytosses club into water in frustration * Plus 'public demonstration of anger' = ???
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 7, 2015
What do you expect of people ‘in public life’ ?*
Sainthood, sanctity, and never dare feel anything ?
Manipulated not a little by reporting (and, more importantly, reporting-style), do we project – stupidly, one might suggest – chucking a golf-club into some water with the subject-matter of Falling Down (1993) or, God forbid, Bowling for Columbine (2002) – do we allow ourselves to feel threatened [disappointed ?] by something only seen on a laptop / t.v. screen ?
Also allowing itself a different slant / description, @YahooSports calls what the golfer did : [L]osinghis cool and hurling a club[...]
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 7, 2015
Is it not similar to when press people, assuredly in the insular comfort of their 'private' offices, rage Who’s lost the fucking thumbnails THIS TIME ?!@*!, in an act of bullying oppression / intimidation of their subordinates (or peers), but write, approve or publish hypocritical cant, about some other person’s foul-mouthed rant !
Gun + guy dressed smartly = Golfer + chucking a club ?
Not even in a non-Euclidean multiverse !
All in all, the moral's clear for our mental well-being :
A campaign such as Time to Change (@TimetoChange) is up against some very articulate voices that tell us what people "acceptably" can - and cannot do - in public...
End-notes
* And, more relevantly, why ?
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