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Who cares about the world cup?
It's 2006. England - no - the WORLD has gone mad. It seems. The football world cup is in full swing, but does anyone else here actually NOT GIVE ONE?
I couldn't give a monkey's testicle about the world cup! (Not that i actually have one...). Yet everyone else seems to. [EDIT - i meant everyone else seems to care, not everyone else has a monkey's testicle. Whoops.]
Anyone else out there feel the same way?
I couldn't give a monkey's testicle about the world cup! (Not that i actually have one...). Yet everyone else seems to. [EDIT - i meant everyone else seems to care, not everyone else has a monkey's testicle. Whoops.]
Anyone else out there feel the same way?
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You can't deny that it is exciting when you're in a room full of people all crowded around the TV, and the ball flies off an England player and into the back of the opponent's net. It's not so much about the football - it's more about the experience and all cheering for and supporting the same thing. In normal life, we're all fighting for different things and living individual lifestyles.
You only have to go to the pub when an England match is on to feel the buzz of everyone all willing for the same thing.
You only have to go to the pub when an England match is on to feel the buzz of everyone all willing for the same thing.
Smug attitudes like that are much more annoying than any football fan.
"ROFL FOOTBALL SUX LOOK HOW STUPID YOU SHEEP ARE ...I'M SO SMART FIGHT THE POWER" is not funny or clever. and you'll just come off as a ****** You don't like football? Fine. But trolling sports fans and acting like some pretentious dimwit won't make anyone think you're somehow cool and smart because you're snooty to something that 5 billion people in the world enjoy. No-one except some Star Wars nerds will think you're cool because you rage against the football machine. I'm not necessarily aiming it at just you, but at anyone who thinks this lame-as-funk 'rebelling' makes them Che Guevara.
"ROFL FOOTBALL SUX LOOK HOW STUPID YOU SHEEP ARE ...I'M SO SMART FIGHT THE POWER" is not funny or clever. and you'll just come off as a ****** You don't like football? Fine. But trolling sports fans and acting like some pretentious dimwit won't make anyone think you're somehow cool and smart because you're snooty to something that 5 billion people in the world enjoy. No-one except some Star Wars nerds will think you're cool because you rage against the football machine. I'm not necessarily aiming it at just you, but at anyone who thinks this lame-as-funk 'rebelling' makes them Che Guevara.
DanGrover
Smug attitudes like that are much more annoying than any football fan.
"ROFL FOOTBALL SUX LOOK HOW STUPID YOU SHEEP ARE ...I'M SO SMART FIGHT THE POWER" is not funny or clever. and you'll just come off as a ****** You don't like football? Fine. But trolling sports fans and acting like some pretentious dimwit won't make anyone think you're somehow cool and smart because you're snooty to something that 5 billion people in the world enjoy. No-one except some Star Wars nerds will think you're cool because you rage against the football machine. I'm not necessarily aiming it at just you, but at anyone who thinks this lame-as-funk 'rebelling' makes them Che Guevara.
"ROFL FOOTBALL SUX LOOK HOW STUPID YOU SHEEP ARE ...I'M SO SMART FIGHT THE POWER" is not funny or clever. and you'll just come off as a ****** You don't like football? Fine. But trolling sports fans and acting like some pretentious dimwit won't make anyone think you're somehow cool and smart because you're snooty to something that 5 billion people in the world enjoy. No-one except some Star Wars nerds will think you're cool because you rage against the football machine. I'm not necessarily aiming it at just you, but at anyone who thinks this lame-as-funk 'rebelling' makes them Che Guevara.
sorry, but it's hardly rebelling, it's just pointing out that there's a ****load of hype over a sports competition which we aren't even interested in and that we get reactions like yours everytime we say this.
i hate the fact that the whole world has to change because of 90 minutes, it's stupid to think that footballers are also paid the earth for kicking a ball around.
I see your point about the social aspect - going to the pub and all pointing yourselves towards the same thing...
However, when you get england flags hanging out of every hang-outable thing there is, it just looks over the top. Walk into Tesco, you're immediately hit by this wall of England-ness.
I don't mean to disrespect football, or genuine football fans in any way - nothing wrong with having something to support.
But most people don't - advertisers and - it seems - the whole world shoves it in your face and just expects you to go wild about the world cup, just because you're from england and it's the "national" sport.
However, when you get england flags hanging out of every hang-outable thing there is, it just looks over the top. Walk into Tesco, you're immediately hit by this wall of England-ness.
I don't mean to disrespect football, or genuine football fans in any way - nothing wrong with having something to support.
But most people don't - advertisers and - it seems - the whole world shoves it in your face and just expects you to go wild about the world cup, just because you're from england and it's the "national" sport.
DanGrover
.....won't make anyone think you're somehow cool and smart because you're snooty to something that 5 billion people in the world enjoy.....
5 billion people? I don't even think there are 5 billion people in the world who know what football is...
username62978
5 billion people? I don't even think there are 5 billion people in the world who know what football is...
why is it so important that you don't like football? i don't either, we should get married seeing as we seem to be aliens upon this football-riddled earth!! Will you marry me? we can have children who hate football as well!
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Lol lighten up
I think it's a great excuse to spend all day in the pub 
I've watched all five games so far (including the german game in the local German consulate with free bier and brotwurst) and the atmosphere has been great. I'm not a huge football fan but the last 36 or so hours have been alcohol fuelled fun.
Pity I still have exam resits to work for
I've watched all five games so far (including the german game in the local German consulate with free bier and brotwurst) and the atmosphere has been great. I'm not a huge football fan but the last 36 or so hours have been alcohol fuelled fun.
Pity I still have exam resits to work for
username62978
However, when you get england flags hanging out of every hang-outable thing there is, it just looks over the top. Walk into Tesco, you're immediately hit by this wall of England-ness.
However, when you get england flags hanging out of every hang-outable thing there is, it just looks over the top. Walk into Tesco, you're immediately hit by this wall of England-ness.
But it's all just a bit of excitement, a bit of fun, a bit of life. Tescos, and the rest of the UK, would be a very boring place otherwise. Well, I think it would be boring anyway. I quite like the excitement, and it's something to laugh about.
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Carl
I think it's a great excuse to spend all day in the pub
I've watched all five games so far (including the german game in the local German consulate with free bier and brotwurst) and the atmosphere has been great. I'm not a huge football fan but the last 36 or so hours have been alcohol fuelled fun.
Pity I still have exam resits to work for
I've watched all five games so far (including the german game in the local German consulate with free bier and brotwurst) and the atmosphere has been great. I'm not a huge football fan but the last 36 or so hours have been alcohol fuelled fun.
Pity I still have exam resits to work for
At one of the pubs in town they have a huge screen outside in the beer garden. The atmosphere today during the England match was awesome! People cheering, dancing around, wearing ridiculously oversized England hats...and all in the sun! Such a good day Don't particularly enjoy football would rather play it on the comp with mates lol, prefer xgames n gravity games. Guess everyone has different tastes. I find it strange how people suddenly become patriotic.
i prefer to play footie, but watcin is ok i guess..
Phoenix CG
Don't particularly enjoy football would rather play it on the comp with mates lol,
o dear.
football is fantastic even if not for the game but the bringing together of people from all walks of life.
we all know the story of the christmas cease fire in world war 1
and almost all countries know what football is, its the widest played sport in the world
dh00001
o dear.
football is fantastic even if not for the game but the bringing together of people from all walks of life.
we all know the story of the christmas cease fire in world war 1
and almost all countries know what football is, its the widest played sport in the world
football is fantastic even if not for the game but the bringing together of people from all walks of life.
we all know the story of the christmas cease fire in world war 1
and almost all countries know what football is, its the widest played sport in the world
even more so than soggy biscuit? I doubt it somehow buddy....
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