Gunners what's is your view of them?

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From the Urban Dictionary

A person who is competitive,overly-ambitious and substantially exceeds minimum requirements. A gunner will compromise his/her peer relationships and/or reputation among peers in order to obtain recognition and praise from his/her superiors.
That chic in the front row of our class who always raises her hand, takes on additional assignments, and wrote a 25 page answer on our final when all that was required was 10 pages is such a gunner.

[alondouek]

To me, a Gunner is a supporter of/player with the Arsenal football club.

And is therefore amongst the greatest people ever to grace this planet.

But srsly, someone who "compromises his/her peer relationships and/or reputation among peers in order to obtain recognition and praise from his/her superiors" is missing the point. It's good to be competitive, and it's good to be ambitious; but if someone is actively isolating themselves or harming the opportunities of others because of it - it can be a dangerous and ubiquitously unhelpful thing.

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Soccer fans   

[alondouek]

Soccer fans   

***Football fans 

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Oh no I don't wanna go into this shit saw it so many times on youtube comments. The common soccer vs football naming. 

[lala1911]

It's good to be ambitious and competitive.. but to an extent. However, I don't mind knowing competitive people. In a way, when I look at gunners I always remind myself that I should be more ambitious and persistent. I feel that if you're not a gunner yourself, and you have no contact with any gunners, you're always going to be mediocre, but once you're aware that there are other crazily ambitious people, it wakes you up and you realise that you need to step up your game.

[awesomejames]

Haha when I first saw this, I thought of arsenal too (even though I don't go for them)

Then I read the top comment and got sad, since there are barely any threads about soccer/football.

Then I read the rest of the of the comments and it surprise me

Anyway, I think of arsenal too, yet I don't really like them but I do feel sorry for them since they've lost basically they're core group over the past few seasons eg:van Persie, Nasri, fabregas, clichy, adebayor etc. these players wouldve taken arsenal to the top of the premier league definitely this season, but since they lost them all, they've had to rebuild again which I do feel for. But since I go for the superior LIVERPOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And we too are in a rebuilding phase my sympathy goes down.

Lol someone pls respond so we as the AN forum can rebuild the soccer/football community here

[walkec]

In the first line, "succeeds minimum requirements", I thought of myself a bit. In VCE if you just do the work, you won't get a great result, but by succeeding the minimum requirements, you'll get results that reflect some of the amazing efforts achieved by multiple members of the AN community..

In regards to compromising relationships, this is definitely not me. I don't like talking about school work with my peers, unless its for discussing key concepts or revision. I know with the amount of work I put in I know more than i think i do, so there is no point alienating myself from my peers out of pure competition.

Sure, VCE is competition. But it is also a time where you should be surrounding yourself with people who will make it a journey to remember, not removing yourself from them because of pettiness associated with the competitive side of VCE.

And recognition. I don't know about others, but I don't really like being recognised for my efforts. Like I do but I don't? I would rather be recognised formally after ATARs come out (for example, my school has an assembly/morning tea for all students who achieved an ATAR or 90 or above) instead of having people congratulate me on SAC results during the year.

Besides, isn't the best recognition of all getting into your first choice of course anyway? (Provided that you haven't been pressured into choosing something out of prestige or similar).

[brenden]

Gunners? Ha, I laugh at gunners. They do not impress me. Someone truly great will have an excellent reputation amongst their superiors AND their peers without compromising anyone, because they're just that good.

[Russ]

Haha when I first saw this, I thought of arsenal too (even though I don't go for them)

Then I read the top comment and got sad, since there are barely any threads about soccer/football.

Then I read the rest of the of the comments and it surprise me

Anyway, I think of arsenal too, yet I don't really like them but I do feel sorry for them since they've lost basically they're core group over the past few seasons eg:van Persie, Nasri, fabregas, clichy, adebayor etc. these players wouldve taken arsenal to the top of the premier league definitely this season, but since they lost them all, they've had to rebuild again which I do feel for. But since I go for the superior LIVERPOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And we too are in a rebuilding phase my sympathy goes down.

Lol someone pls respond so we as the AN forum can rebuild the soccer/football community here

There's a discussion thread, it just died because I'm the only one who supports a decent team

The Football (Association) Thread

[pi]

Re: academic definition

Not a fan of gunners, but I try to not to have much to do with them.

[Neo]

Arsenal supporters represent