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• At 2008.12.29 23:40, Iain Purdie said:
  

  I once had someone email me randomly saying they’d like to start supporting NUFC. I think they were from the US. No real reason, I think they’d just read something about us or maybe had a relative from the region or something.

  Before I could reply, I had a second email from them. Essentially along the lines of “Wait a minute, I just looked at the club crest and it’s got f*cking seahorses on it. I mean f*cking seahorses. How can anyone take a team seriously with f*cking seahorses on the badge. That’s just so damn gay.”

  Etc. Etc. Etc.

  Some people really shouldn’t be allowed near a keyboard.

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• At 2008.12.30 00:42, Beth said:
  

  That is the most bizarre thing I’ve heard all year. Seahorses are amazing. D’you think it’s because of the male seahorses carrying the babies thing? That’s the only thing I can think that would make them gay. Except, y’know, not.

  I can only nod and concur to your final sentence :)

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• At 2008.12.30 01:56, Antonella said:
  

  How sweet! I would have never noticed them. I love seahorses, they are the cutest things ever. Some people are so horrible. I do not understand the gay connection….and as if “gay” were a sort of illness. How horrible. Ciao, Beth. A.

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• At 2008.12.30 08:24, Beth said:
  

  They’re worth looking out for Antonella. And you’re right, it’s not like ‘gay’ should be an insult of any kind at all. It really upsets me when I think about how ubiquitous an insult it is for kids these days. Must be so, so hard for gay kids to come out to their friends - even harder than it was a decade ago, and it must’ve been bloody hard then :o(

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• At 2009.01.01 19:02, Elodie said:
  

  I remember those ones. Thanks for this blog it reminds me when I studied in Newcastle :)

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