AIBU to find the whole #team business annoying?

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Team this... team that. Not singling out any one particular person for this, but it annoys me. I don't really know why. It just does. AIBU? (realises that this is not an important issue, just an annoyance).

YANBU. Cameron proves yet again he is a prat. Wants to be seen with the in crowd.

I think it started with Tom and Katie's divorce, didn't it? Maybe even earlier....

First I heard of it was the Angelina Jolie/Jennifer Anistion/Brad Pitt love triangle as in: teamAngelina or team Jennifer. Although not sure hashtag was used.

YANBU at all. I have a friend who refers to her family as team on facebook constantly, it makes me stabby.

Just the whole concept of being on a team of people you don't even know, I suppose. And, yes, I wasn't going to mention Cameron but he is a prat for doing this.

You're right, Feck even if you know them (as in family) it's annoying!

YANBU.

It's immature and pathetic.

I always knew David Cameron was a bit thick but the #team Nigella thing just takes the biscuit. David Cameron makes George Bush jnr look like Einstein.

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Seems everybody's at it! .

I don't like the #team thing, in the case of a marriage breakup it seems too lighthearted. But in the case of Nigella I can understand people wanting to give her a bit of public support. She is having all sorts of allegations thrown at her in a very public way.

YANBU
Taking sides when you've never met people in a sports event is one thing, but in a court case or a divorce it seems Childish.

We have no idea, who did what in private.

But reviving assume for a moment that all the allegations thrown at her ARE, in fact true. Public support doesn't seem avery good idea then.

Stay neutral, especially when you are in office.

I thought the whole 'team' business started with bloody Twilight.

I sort of agree amra and definitely Dave could have shown support by eg sending Sam Cam round to Nigella's for coffee or something. But I do think she is being put on trial when it is not her trial and she seemed to want to keep things private.

He shouldn't have commented publicly while a trial was going on. That was a very stupid thing for a supposedly intelligent man to do.

YABU, DoctorDonna, nobody has said he was intelligent!

He went to Oxford University. He should be relatively intelligent.

It always amazes me that he went to Oxford. He doesn't come across as someone who is well- educated.

Eton, Oxford, Bullingdon... ahem.

I went to Oxford. So did plenty of entitled, socially-irreproachable people whose relative paucity of intelligence was amply compensated for by their confidence and the amount of coaching their public schools put into grooming them for interview. Cameron is a classic example.

He was burning fifty pound notes in front of homeless people and braying while wearing his grandfather's dinner suit at Oxford. His Team Cupcake stuff is about trying to seem like the kind of person who watches Coronation St.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/13/david-cameron-team-nigella

Team. Team. Team. Team. Team. Team. I even love saying the word team. You probably thing that's a picture of my family. Uh uh. It's the A Team. Body; Doyle; Tiger; The Jewellery Man. The whole lot of them.

friday16 Yep, just about sums up my feelings, though the columnist put it much better than I ever could.

The more shallow society becomes, the more this sort of thing proliferates.