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The World Cup: J'accuse!

 
  

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STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
09:00 / 06.06.06
Surely when they said "football" they actually meant "Doctor Who". Schoolboy error.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
09:04 / 06.06.06
That would irritate me almost as much. I don't watch Dr. Who either, though that's not really the point here.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
13:21 / 08.06.06
One more, from an online grocers:


Save your metatarsals from the walk around the supermarket and use the
extra time to support your favourite team during the World Cup by
placing an order with us next week.


Argh! I might want to spend the extra time smoking methamphetamines instead, or torturing small animals. Watching the World Cup is not analagous to either of those activites - I might have a preference for those pastimes over the World Cup for all they know though,but I assume there isn't going to be a marketing email sent with either offered as an alternate to going to the supermarket.

I'll try not to post any more of these unless they're really egregious, but this is starting to irritate me almost as much as the random World Cup enthusiasm of strangers on park benches, who upon patting the dogs while Stoatie and I are enjoying talking crap about films or music or somesuch, then proceed into discussing the prospects for the world cup whether we want to or not.

So it's pleasant to talk to strangers sometimes, and conversational gambits can be hard to come by beyond the weather's all-around warmness (already discussed and done in the first sentence) - but some of my irritation is to do with all the assumptions that are apparently being made.

OK, rant over. Thanks.
 
 
illmatic
13:37 / 08.06.06
While I will almost certainly be watching some matches and enjoying them, nothing has done more to put me in fullest sympathies with Alex's Grandma and the other cup-haterz, than the new Carlsberg campaign. To be found in pub toilets everywhere, I quote:

When communites come together, the country will come together
When the country comes together, the team will come together
When the team comes together, we'll win together

CMON ENGLAND
CMON ENGLAND
CMON ENGLAND


I may have that slightly wrong as I was rendered blind by tears of rage, which also made keeping control and getting buttoned up and quite difficult.

Gah.

*sobs*
 
 
Mistoffelees
16:15 / 08.06.06
In Germany it´s like this every time:

The press completely destroys the players, the team and the trainer. They are the worst ever, they have no chance in hell of ever making it. And then, after start they winning game after game, the press chimes "We have been saying it all the time, with this team we cannot lose!"
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
16:25 / 08.06.06
As if the World Cup itslef wasn't bad enough, it's proved an excuse for Stan fucking Boardman to crawl out of his bunker with a hideously xenophobic "comedy" World Cup song.

And it goes a little something like this:


Oh we're all going to Germany for the Cup
Oh we're all going to Germany for the Cup (yee-ha)
Oh we're all going to Germany, we're all going to Germany
Oh we're all going to Germany for the Cup

CHORUS
Singing ay-yay-yippee-yippee-yay (clap three times)
Singing ay-yay-yippee-yippee-yay (clap three times)
Singing ay-yay-yippee,
the Germans bombed our chippy,
ay-yay-yippee-yippee-yay (clap three times)

Some of us are going on the plane
Others from Dover on the train
A few of us with women
The rest of us are swimming
But we're all gonna get there just the same

We'll be drinking German lager in the pubs
we'll be dancing and singing in the clubs
and there's forty lads from Huyton
who said they won't be fighting
so there won't be any need for boxing gloves

Singing ay-yay-yippee,
the Germans bombed our chippy,
ay-yay-yippee-yippee-yay (clap three times)

Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin
we haven't got a ticket to get in
so we'll take a pick and shovel
and dig a massive trundle
and smuggle through inside a wheelie-bin (hee hee)

Carracher, Rooney and Gerrard
these lads are tough and very hard
and when they're in a battle
they won't shake or tattle
and they won't get a red or yellow card

we'll be taking lots of banners and some flags
there'll be thirty lads with ASBOs wearing tags
and when it's all over, we'll be heading back to Dover
so don't forget the 30, 000 fags

Eins, zwei, drei, vier, funf..

REPEAT CHORUS TO FADE


What an utter penis.

On behalf of the United Kingdom, I'd like to apologise to Mistoffelees, and indeed the entire population of Germany, for this abomination.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
16:29 / 08.06.06
And every fucking advert break!!! "How much do you love the World Cup?"

Well, strangely... I mean, this is really gonna surprise you...
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
16:39 / 08.06.06
There has been no better time then NOW to purchase a PLASMA TV! Imagine, seeing the second half of the current DOCTOR WHO 2 parter in STYLE!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
16:44 / 08.06.06
There has been no better time then NOW to purchase a PLASMA TV! Imagine, seeing the second half of the current DOCTOR WHO 2 parter in STYLE!

If you'll excuse me, I just have to pop to Dixons for a minute...
 
 
Mistoffelees
16:49 / 08.06.06
No need for excuses, Stoatie, just make sure, we arrange that gnome meeting in Ironforge! WoW will safely ship me past the championship!

And that Chansonier will be deeply disappointed. I never heard of lager beer here. We have Pils and Weizen!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
16:55 / 08.06.06
Yup, between then WoW and Big Brother will save me.

Although if the weather's nice I may go to a friend's house for the match tomorrow. I say "if the weather's nice" because that way I can stay in the garden with her (also football-hating) boyfriend and help him with the barbecue.

If it looks like I may have to go indoors where the telly is, I think I'll pass.
 
 
Smoothly
17:49 / 08.06.06
I never thought I'd post to this thread because although I don't have any interest in footie myself, I don't really have a problem with it; some of my best friends are football fans, etc.

But FUCK.

I think the songs are the worst thing about it. I just saw a montage of them on the news and I wanted to eat my own head.
But also the ads. Particularly the 'Real Fans Only' one, and the 'I like football more than you' pizza one. They've turned *watching* football into a competition. I'm used to having to pretend to enjoy football more than I do at times like this (it gets me afternoons off work, for one thing), but this year it's frightening how much you're supposed to be into it.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
17:58 / 08.06.06
Last time round I didn't mind it so much- it was in Japan, so they opened pubs at ludicrous hours of the morning to let people watch the footy (which was handy for me, as I finish work at those same hours and it meant I could go to the pub without having to trek to Smithfield Market).
 
 
Mourne Kransky
18:03 / 08.06.06
The worst thing will be that I begin by abjuring all footballistic hyperbole and, by the end of the damn thing, I'll be eagerly discussing metatarsals with the butch boys and girls at work and cheering on Our Boys.

At least I'm not in Scotland still, where you have to pretend to be Brazilian or other A.B.E. nation for the duration.
 
 
Dead Megatron
18:08 / 08.06.06
At least I'm not in Scotland still, where you have to pretend to be Brazilian or other A.B.E. nation for the duration.

It's not as easy as it looks. Very specific frame o'mind.

One day to kick-off, you bunch of world-cupists!!

(btw, what exactly is A.B.E.?)
 
 
Ganesh
18:23 / 08.06.06
Anyone But England?
 
 
Mourne Kransky
18:31 / 08.06.06
Just so, Pretty Boy.
 
 
Lama glama
18:46 / 08.06.06
No, Dominoes, I want to watch the Simpson's not order your stupid fucking World Cup pizza. Find a dead animal that looks like a TARDIS when placed on pizza and then, and only then, will you regain my respect
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
18:55 / 08.06.06
You're probably best off avoiding Dominos altogether- don't they still give large amounts of cash to pro-lifers?
 
 
Lama glama
20:16 / 08.06.06
You mean like Operation Rescue? Don't forget their other crime: that creature that should have been aborted at the moment of conception-The Noid.
 
 
Mistoffelees
21:31 / 08.06.06
You're probably best off avoiding Dominos altogether- don't they still give large amounts of cash to pro-lifers?

That´s the only thing I know about that company. I´ve read about it ca. 12 years ago in Pete Bagge´s comic book HATE.

BTW, I didn´t know you guys call it football. In school they taught me you say soccer!

And the WM starts tomorrow? Better get my shopping done early, before the craziness starts.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
22:47 / 08.06.06
Gutted about Rooney, I have to say.
 
 
sleazenation
22:51 / 08.06.06
And the WM starts tomorrow? Better get my shopping done early, before the craziness starts.

dude - wait til the game starts - the shops will be empty...
 
 
Alex's Grandma
23:14 / 08.06.06
I'll admit though, to be quite intrigued about the possibility of England actually winning this. I gather from f-ball friendly friends that there's more of chance, team-wise, of it happening than there has been since '86 at the latest, so I'm prepared to believe it. I'm picturing ... I don't know, a mass outbreak of total psychosis - there are already far too many people flying teh England flag out the back of their cars, I suppose subconsciously already acknowledging the noble crash in the semi-finals, but what if they were wrong? What if the lads, Roo and the others, can keep their heads about them, for once? What then?

I'm not sure if England as a country could cope with that level of euphoria, it feels as if its head might explode, but ... go on Boys!
 
 
Baz Auckland
23:36 / 08.06.06
The first month of all the ads and songs and t-shirt and hats I didn't mind it so much... probably just because I didn't understand a word of it all, (nly the t-shirts were in English)...

...now it's REALLY starting to be a bit much. The damn Fighting Korea song is on EVERY commercial and gets stuck in my head WAY too easily... God help me if they actually start winning games...
 
 
Mourne Kransky
23:51 / 08.06.06
Gutted about Rooney, I have to say

Why, what's happened to the old codger? He was interviewed on Front Row not long since and was still performing then, in his late eighties.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
07:42 / 09.06.06

BTW, I didn´t know you guys call it football. In school they taught me you say soccer!


Americans call it soccer. The British, who invented it, call it football. "Soccer" - short for Association Football, that is football played according to the rules of the Football Association - was a term used to distinguish it from other codes of football, most notably Rugby football - football played as they played it at Rugby school.
 
 
Mistoffelees
08:17 / 09.06.06
Aha, thank you!

Yes, USAmericans sometimes insist on their own words. I remember tuxedo, fall instead of autumn, elevator and now soccer!
 
 
Mourne Kransky
10:44 / 09.06.06
Even Google.co.uk has a football themed logo today, I see. How very counter-culture and ensnarkling.
 
 
sleazenation
10:56 / 09.06.06
The simple fact is that the world cup hasn't really started yet.

While the world's assembled media are all now in place and as over-exited as a bus load of special boys on a trip to the zoo they don't really have much to report yet. "World Cup Still Hasn't Started Yet Shock" doesn't really cut it as a headline, but at least it is honest...
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
11:03 / 09.06.06
Apart from the "shock" bit, but I guess that's par for the course with the tabs (see? see? I hate football so much I deliberately used a golfing metaphor! And- get this- I DON'T LIKE GOLF EITHER!!! HAH! How'd'ya like THEM apples, World Cup???) "My World Cup not having started yet hell" maybe?
 
 
Smoothly
15:12 / 09.06.06
God. Xoc was right. I’m already enjoying the football.
 
 
sleazenation
15:22 / 09.06.06
HEH - i'm wondering if some of the BBC web bods have been listening in to this thread

you can personalize the bbc hompage for the length of the world cup. If you love your footie, the main page will carry updates on the tournament, if not you get updates on cool stuff like Dr Who - at least that is the example they use...
 
 
Mourne Kransky
15:28 / 09.06.06
No, Stevely, my thesis was that I'd crumble and succumb to the blandishments of the Beautiful Game [sic] in the last week. Your condition is known as Premature Enthusiasm. You're fucked, basically. Kiss the next month and a bit Goodbye now.
 
 
Smoothly
15:30 / 09.06.06
Shhh!
 
  

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