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Probably you are American... You cannot understand.
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Alex Fr wrote:
Probably you are American. |
I'm not, I'm from one of the most football-obsessed regions (even without the silverware to match) in the UK and I agree wholeheartedly with the OP. Totally pointless competition which we are forced to have discussed at us* at length, With the added benefit of the knowledge that pretty much everyone at the "professional" level in this country is earning more than me for kicking a ball pointlessly around a field whilst generating top-quality excuses for failure or thuggery.
* by us, I mean those of us who are totally disinterested in fußbal.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Yeah, you are not American, but you have another good reason to think so... I don't blame you.
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If the U.S. wins, it will stop.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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If the US wins "it" will freeze over 
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Oh, that's right, I forgot that soccer is the official sport there.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Would make sense, if it existed many of the top footballers would be heading there, probably for assaults of one kind or another...
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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How long until the lounge starts getting flooded by the next major Cricket Tournament?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Aren't all cricket posts re-directed to the GIT?
I do hope so - though I don't hate it, or rubgy, quite as much as I hate the footba'
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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A fair amount bleeds over to the lounge still.
Since march there've been 50 posts with cricket in on the lounge[^]; my eyeball filter puts about 1/3 of them being about the sport. (Most from 2 medium size threads.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I've tried in the past to get folks on this side of the pond to flood the site with NFL Football in retaliation, but apparently we, as a group, are far too polite and respectful to behave so thoughtlessly.
Will Rogers never met me.
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And we don't like NFL here anyway.
We could take up the MLB All Star Game though.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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I've been waging a different campaign that does not involve sport(s)* of any kind[^]
* delete according to national/presonal prejudice
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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If you're swimming against the tide so much, it should be a hint that you're the one who's out of kilter
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I'm sure that's what was said to Churchill after the treaty of Munich.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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The soccer hooligans are invading the internets!
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I'ma bit curious here, why do you keep calling it football?
It doesn't have anything to do with neither foot nor ball.
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Because "soccer" was taken.
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Well, I think it will be way too many countries, so I came up with a list of alternative approaches.
- Convince FIFA to change the name of the tournament to "The World Mug".
- Convince FIFA to hold the tournament every 20 years.
- Convince the UN to merge all countries into a single union. No countries, no World Cup.
- Buy up all soccer balls in the world and destroy them.
- Embark on a world tour to tell every soccer fan in the world, that watching soccer causes ED.
- Engineer an insect that can kill off all grass in the world.
- Commence "Operation Legstrong" to ruin the sport from the inside by replacing the 10-15 most popular players in the world by robots and reveal the scandal in 3 years.
- Build a time machine. Go back in time and start cracking skulls. Ebenezer Cobb Morley[^], England, 1863 should be your first target.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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These two might work. You can convince FIFA to do anything with a few backhanders (Qatar anyone?)
Quote: - Convince FIFA to change the name of the tournament to "The World Mug".
- Convince FIFA to hold the tournament every 20 years.
Speak to the EU, this sounds like their plan.
Quote: - Convince the UN to merge all countries into a single union. No countries, no World Cup.
Might be counter productive. All the ball manfacturers will be raking it in and will make even more balls!!!
Quote: - Buy up all soccer balls in the world and destroy them.
Everybody loves a good scandal. Moaning about what was wrong and how things should be is a key part of the fun!!!
Quote: - Commence "Operation Legstrong" to ruin the sport from the inside by replacing the 10-15 most popular players in the world by robots and reveal the scandal in 3 years.
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Hi All,
First one in this am, to start to check around for anything of mine (I started the grand carry on Friday!), got most of it, just some 'Heavy' MS books left for tonight. I pulled a shoulder, but... I also have appeared busy so as not to draw attention to myself(!).
Company director has a days Holiday which probably explains why the talk is not today(!). Ah well worst things happen at sea I suppose!.
Glenn
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Are you really positive it's going to happen or is this just something you fear?
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Well from the conversation last week with the MD, I think it is... 
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Just had the meeting, I'm out the door!! Byeee!
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I'm sorry to hear that. I hope they are giving you favourable terms.
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