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To report my colleagues fantasy football team name?

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Hulkins87 · 21/08/2026 20:56

We have a work fantasy football league, it’s advertised on the internal intranet site and emails were sent around about sign up details etc.

The league has gone live tonight so you can see everyone’s team including their team names.

A colleague has a team name which references stopping the boats - would it be wrong of me to report this?

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AnitaCam · 22/08/2026 12:13

Honestly this thread is really making me hope Nigel gets into power. Thus country is absolutely done for, it’s a constant invasion. So depressing.

placemats · 22/08/2026 12:13

dustabsorber · 22/08/2026 11:58

UC plus rent after he gets refugee status

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How likely is it that he will get refugee status after a a prison sentence for such an awful crime?

Winter2020 · 22/08/2026 12:10

backformoreofthesame · 22/08/2026 09:04

It is racism dressed up as safety

assuming illegal immigrants are dangerous is racism - it’s making sweeping generalisations and it’s directed frequently at people who have arrived here legally , people who have lived here for decades , people who were born here

illegals get sent back - they don’t get given social housing and benefits

4% of people that have arrived on small boats have been removed. 4%. They are not "sent back".

..and they have been pretty much Albanians.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10590/

To report my colleagues fantasy football team name?
Friendlygingercat · 22/08/2026 12:01

What's it like to be the office grass?

MouthOfTheThames · 22/08/2026 12:01

5128gap · 22/08/2026 11:10

I think the laugh emoji is actually on you tbh. This isn't a thread about immigration. It's a thread about reporting a colleague for an inappropriate team name. No clue from the title what the name even was when I opened the thread.

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Ah, you are deriding people for talking about immigration but the discussion isn’t about immigration. I see …

FKAT · 22/08/2026 12:00

Fantasy Football team names are basically puns on existing teams or players with a self-reference. So on that basis it should be reported.

Otherwise YABU. And it's best to assume people who do not want to stop the boats are in favour of human trafficking and the deaths by drowning of vulnerable people.

GeneralPeter · 22/08/2026 11:58

WhomeverSpeaks · 22/08/2026 11:53

That wouldn’t go down well in my public sector role. I wouldn’t bother reporting. They can just show who they are themselves.

Which is good, right? If any politics is allowed in the office at all then it’s good that all shades of mainstream opinion get represented. Diversity and neutrality and all that.

dustabsorber · 22/08/2026 11:58

placemats · 22/08/2026 11:51

How will they get £1k a month for life?

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UC plus rent after he gets refugee status

AnitaCam · 22/08/2026 11:55

If Nigel stopped the boats he’d be doing a terrifically good thing for everyone. It’s a good name for a team, it’s uplifting.

GeneralPeter · 22/08/2026 11:54

@olivepicanto What’s your objection though?

Because to me (a Remainer goodthinker), reporting him to HR for his politics looks like straight-up ideologically motivated victimisation.

This is a legal, mainstream party and position we are discussing.

WhomeverSpeaks · 22/08/2026 11:53

That wouldn’t go down well in my public sector role. I wouldn’t bother reporting. They can just show who they are themselves.

GunnelVallquist · 22/08/2026 11:51

LuckyHazelFox · 22/08/2026 11:51

Thank God for common sense.

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Agreed.

No lunatic here (aside from the OP maybe)

LuckyHazelFox · 22/08/2026 11:51

linkedinlunatic · 22/08/2026 11:48

I work in HR and if I was contacted by a colleague about an off-colour FF team name I'd genuinely think they'd lost their mind.

Thank God for common sense.

placemats · 22/08/2026 11:51

dustabsorber · 22/08/2026 11:42

He got 6 years, will be out in 2, will never work and will get 1k a month for life.

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How will they get £1k a month for life?

GunnelVallquist · 22/08/2026 11:49

linkedinlunatic · 22/08/2026 11:48

I work in HR and if I was contacted by a colleague about an off-colour FF team name I'd genuinely think they'd lost their mind.

Love the username! 😁

placemats · 22/08/2026 11:49

dustabsorber · 22/08/2026 09:23

Nigel Martyn was a great shot stopper

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Yet posters like @MouthOfTheThames and those posters who agree, know exactly what the reference is.

linkedinlunatic · 22/08/2026 11:48

I work in HR and if I was contacted by a colleague about an off-colour FF team name I'd genuinely think they'd lost their mind.

Dollymylove · 22/08/2026 11:45

dustabsorber · 22/08/2026 11:42

He got 6 years, will be out in 2, will never work and will get 1k a month for life.

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Another reason to vote for Nigel

LiuBei · 22/08/2026 11:44

ilovesooty · 21/08/2026 21:45

It's in a work setting. What do you need to have explained to you?

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People do express political opinions at work. You can talk about anti racism at work. How do you know which opinions are allowed and which are verboten in a work setting?

olivepicanto · 22/08/2026 11:43

Totally inappropriate in a work setting.

it has the benefit of other people knowing he's a tosser though

the gaslighting on this thread is a sight to behold.

dustabsorber · 22/08/2026 11:42

MouthOfTheThames · 22/08/2026 09:53

Asylum seeker who raped vulnerable man in park jailed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ryr5yxy28o

and so on and so on. Information available to anyone with access to google.

He got 6 years, will be out in 2, will never work and will get 1k a month for life.

usernamealreadytaken · 22/08/2026 11:38

Hulkins87 · 21/08/2026 22:01

NigeWillStopThem

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Out of interest, what are all the other teams called? Let’s see how many others are offensive to different people…

ThisBlueBear · 22/08/2026 11:36

Report it in the game if you are that bothered. Getting someone disciplined over an app game is wild.

usernamealreadytaken · 22/08/2026 11:35

LakieLady · 22/08/2026 08:01

Yes, there's nothing like a bit of light-hearted xenophobia to brighten up the day, is there?🙄

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The government is xenophobic; HMO is xenophobic; most of the UK is xenophobic. Most right-minded people and organisations want to stop the boats. YABU.

placemats · 22/08/2026 11:31

Hulkins87 · 21/08/2026 22:01

NigeWillStopThem

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Report.

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