From a distance, you’d be forgiven for thinking the cardboard characters were actual spectators.
Borussia Mönchengladbach have come up with a meaningful way to support their players in an empty stadium – with life-sized cardboard characters, so called "Pappkameraden" – that will be printed and then displayed at the said venue.
The idea is to try to provide atmosphere as the suspended top-tier German professional football league gets ready to re-start behind closed doors.
The club’s supporters have ordered €18 cutouts of themselves and which are being installed at Borussia Park in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia ahead of their first home fixture against Bayer 04 Leverkusen on May 23.
It is understood that profits from this initiative will go towards local causes.
Before the Bundesliga season was suspended, Gladbach were in fourth place but only six points behind leaders Bayern Munich.
They kick off their campaign with a trip to Eintracht Frankfurt today.
All eyes will surely be on Germany as the Bundesliga season resumes.
Like many children across the world sent home from school, youngsters in Turkey were encouraged to draw pictures of rainbows and place them on windows to cheer up the country in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
But teachers have been instructed by some local education boards to stop this practise because the rainbows are seen to be part of a “plot” to turn children gay!
“Unfortunately this sort of anti-LGBTQ mentality is widespread amongst policy makers even if ordinary people don’t see a connection between children’s drawings and gay rights”, said Meral Gülsen, a representative for teachers union Eğitim Sen.
I’m not entirely surprised by this – remember the occasions when a segment of Malaysian society got really riled up because they caught sight of a “t” on public display?
They put the "t" in the crosshairs because to them, it is the sign of the Christian faith and so, they find it offensive. It just goes to show the extent to which gormlessness has caused their brains to rot.
Whether in Turkey or Malaysia or anywhere else, stupidity is pretty much entrenched within our respective societies!
But teachers have been instructed by some local education boards to stop this practise because the rainbows are seen to be part of a “plot” to turn children gay!
“Unfortunately this sort of anti-LGBTQ mentality is widespread amongst policy makers even if ordinary people don’t see a connection between children’s drawings and gay rights”, said Meral Gülsen, a representative for teachers union Eğitim Sen.
They put the "t" in the crosshairs because to them, it is the sign of the Christian faith and so, they find it offensive. It just goes to show the extent to which gormlessness has caused their brains to rot.
Whether in Turkey or Malaysia or anywhere else, stupidity is pretty much entrenched within our respective societies!
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