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The World Cup: J'accuse!

 
  

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Haus Of Pain
15:26 / 22.06.06
yeah Sleaze I know what you mean, I can't wait 'till it's over and we can have the decent ASDA adverts back with Mum's shopping slapping their bums to make the change jangle. We all love that don't we, slap slap Asda price.
 
 
The Falcon
15:46 / 22.06.06
I wish I could joyously slap you in the neck, a la Gennaro Ivan 'Rino' Gattuso, PATO B. Release a new single - not with Sting, this time, eh? - and I'll definitely pay 80 p for a download, can't say fairer, etc.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
15:53 / 22.06.06
I'll hold your jacket while you deal with Panto Boy, Mr Falconer.
 
 
sleazenation
15:54 / 22.06.06
I have recently learned that a variety of pubs have actually been charging punters entrance fee if they are showing England football matches.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't England matches all free to air? Unlike, you know ALL PREMIERE LEAGUE GAMES.
 
 
The Falcon
16:02 / 22.06.06
It's more a victory punch in the neck, Xoc. Pato is undisputed champion of this thread, we're all pals hating football together.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
16:37 / 22.06.06
I have recently learned that a variety of pubs have actually been charging punters entrance fee if they are showing England football matches.

I dunno... I quite like the idea that pubs are free to get into except for on those occasions where I don't want to go into them. It makes it more of a special occasion- "WAHEY!!! Stoatie's quite up for going to the pub today- no entrance fee, lads!"
 
 
Mourne Kransky
17:08 / 22.06.06
Damn. Might have culled more vicarious thrills from you two wrasslin' than the men in shorts playing with their balls tournament offers.

I saw a sign today outside a pub saying Two More Weeks! Surely not. Not sure if that was a threat or a promise. Maybe just an exclamation of incredulity.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
17:16 / 22.06.06
Y'know, as soon as this bollocks is over, I'll actually have minions who know about sport and therefore know how to do the press packs for our sport-related clients again. At the moment it's a fucking nightmare.
 
 
The Falcon
17:32 / 22.06.06
Damn. Might have culled more vicarious thrills from you two wrasslin' than the men in shorts playing with their balls tournament offers.

If you tune in at the end, there tends to be a bit of shirt-swapping - Michael Essien looked pretty fly today. Might be worth a look?
 
 
sleazenation
18:20 / 22.06.06
FOR FUCK'S SAKE I went to the toilet in a pub to find little goals in the urinals. And suspended from the crossbar, tiny footballs.

I JUST WANT TO PISS WITHOUT MORE CUNTING FOOTBALL CRAP
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
18:28 / 22.06.06
FOR FUCK'S SAKE I went to the toilet in a pub to find little goals in the urinals.

I hate to think what the pub had done with the toilet bowls in the stalls. Still, when the Olympics hit London, maybe some enterprising establishment can put a miniature synchronised swimming team in each?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
18:54 / 22.06.06
Still, when the Olympics hit London, maybe some enterprising establishment can put a miniature synchronised swimming team in each?

I never thought anything could make me not despise the cunting 2012 Olympics, but if they did that I may have to reconsider my position.

And eat more chilli.
 
 
sleazenation
19:04 / 22.06.06
Dude, you do realise that this saturday's Dr Who is set during the 2012 Olympics, right?

Can Dr Who save the Olympics for you?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
19:05 / 22.06.06
Actually, I think that's what makes me hate the World Cup the most. It ruins the pub for the rest of us, who are good customers the rest of the time. An analogy would be the park when it's sunny. I go there every day, come wind or rain, because I have to walk my dog. As soon as there's a bit of sun, fairweather park-goers seem to resent me for it. Where were you when it was pissing it down, motherfuckers?

PUB PEOPLE. WHY DID YOU NEVER DRINK IN HERE WHEN FOOTBALL WASN'T ON, YOU SHOWER OF BASTARDS???
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
19:08 / 22.06.06
Dude, you do realise that this saturday's Dr Who is set during the 2012 Olympics, right?

Just this once, I hope he loses.

"Just this once... EVERYONE DIES!!!" That's what I'd like.

COME ON YOU BAD GUYS, COME ON
COME ON YOU BAD GUYS, COME ON
COME ON YOU BAD GUYS, COME ON
BAA-AAD GUYS COME THE FUCK ON
 
 
Mourne Kransky
19:13 / 22.06.06
Can't see the Cybermen winning many medals. And the Daleks are fucked when it comes to the Triple Jump.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
20:34 / 22.06.06
Llama, don't think I'd be welcome over there as I hate football.

Umm...

What is it, exactly, that make you think you're welcome over here?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
21:14 / 22.06.06
You're right, Stoatie, nobody who watches the World Cup ever drinks in a pub otherwise! As football fans they are far too bust committing hate crimes and burning down old ladies.

Japan got an early goal tonight - in doing so, by playing football, they committed a worse atrocity than the bombing of Pearl Harbour - but Brazil came back to win 3-1, with the first goal courtesy of Ronaldo, who looks like Nosferatu - of course by taking part in a game of footie he was doing something much worse than drinking the blood of a virgin. DISGRACEFUL!
 
 
The Falcon
21:19 / 22.06.06
Pato, I can assure you your brand of footy-hating is most welcome.
 
 
The Falcon
21:25 / 22.06.06
Or not.

I think, for an extremely daft thread, this is being taken a mite seriously, but whatever.
 
 
Lama glama
21:26 / 22.06.06
And the Daleks are fucked when it comes to the Triple Jump.

They'd have very little competition though. Some might say that the competition would be exterminated!!!

Sorry.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:52 / 22.06.06
Fly, I really don't get your problem here. I don't think football is on a par with Nazism. What I do think is that it would be nice to have a thread that's set up for people who hate football- like, say, this one- and a thread for people who like football- like, say, the one in the Games and Gaming forum, which people are always complaining doesn't have enough sport in it- and for people to just share their enthusiasm there.

I haven't started spamming the World Cup thread in G&G with football-hating, but I'm becoming sorely fucking tempted.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
22:11 / 22.06.06
Can I have a thread in the Conversation for each band, film or TV show I don't like, then, in which nobody is supposed to say they enjoy those things, or imply that my comparisons and complaints are at all out of proportion?
 
 
The Falcon
22:17 / 22.06.06
Exactly. Or one for each Big Brother? Hate threads are the pits, the worst sort of net cliche, unless they're at least amusing.
 
 
The Falcon
22:25 / 22.06.06
I haven't started spamming the World Cup thread in G&G with football-hating, but I'm becoming sorely fucking tempted.

Although, you kind of have a bit. It's not a like-for-like comparison, anyway - one thread is about discussing a specific thing in a 'serious' forum and one's for moaning about how one's life is ruined by, erm, adverts having a sphere and some flags in them.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:37 / 22.06.06
Can I have a thread in the Conversation for each band, film or TV show I don't like, then, in which nobody is supposed to say they enjoy those things, or imply that my comparisons and complaints are at all out of proportion?

Yes. You can.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:38 / 22.06.06
Although, you kind of have a bit

Hey, be fair. I hadn't when I posted that. I'm considering having the post in G&G removed anyway, cos I've calmed down a bit now.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:41 / 22.06.06
I've now put in a removal request. It was a bit silly of me in the first place, really.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
22:54 / 22.06.06
Can I have a thread in the Conversation for each band, film or TV show I don't like, then, in which nobody is supposed to say they enjoy those things, or imply that my comparisons and complaints are at all out of proportion?

I think you probably could. And they'd be very entertaining, all of them. But I can't help but worry that you'd end up a bit like Warren Eliis, before the fall. Nobody wants to see that.

As teh thread-starter, I'm all about Pajo Banton's fnnord-ing antics - he wants to fuck shit up and be a pa-rankster and so on, this is one of the things that teh board was invented for, after all, and I applaud him for his anarchism.

I do feel, though, as has been noted above, that if LOL!OMG! Etc is all that interested in discussing events in the footie, there is a thread in the G&G forum, and that if he isn't, and cares to carry on posting round these parts, he should be prepared to take the consequences.

Pretty much uniquely in this bad world we call the world, the World Cup is something it takes an actual positive effort to ignore - it's easy enough to pay no attention to a general election, to U2 and Bob G's efforts to save Africa, to even Tony B and George W's efforts to help teh Arabs, but every time you walk out the front door, you're reminded of the football.

I don't suppose it's football's fault, but honestly, FFS, as they say ...

It's not in any sense comparable to the average TV show, surely?
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
23:06 / 22.06.06
I remember the various music forum threads on embarrassing/shite music people hated, where myself and Ganesh (there may have been others, but we were the loudest and therefore best, nyah) posted to sneer at those with such a dizzying lack of proportion and self-awareness that they felt the need to ridicule and reduce people who loved music they loathed. Of course, Flyboy was one of the haterz then. But then hating Phil Collins isn't a classcrime deserving of petulant snark, is it?

Or is it?

No, it's not.

Or is it?

No.

Anyway, I don't hate the football. Four years ago, yes. But I'm older now, and frankly I need all my energy just to get up in the morning and feed the cats/guinea pigs/snails.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
23:12 / 22.06.06
I thought snails fed themselves?

Christ, I have a lot to learn.
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
23:13 / 22.06.06
Oh and Fly : i) this thread started out in G&G before it got bumped here, not the Conversation, and ii) when you find a film/artist/TV show that's as culturally pervasive as the World Cup that it rates its own high-snark hate thread, then yes you can start it, and more power to you. And I'd hope that when you do someone will post to it with mature, cogent and valid arguments disagreeing. And then I'd hope that someone else will tell that someone to cunt off and stop ruining their fun.
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
23:15 / 22.06.06
Stoatfather: I'm not saying I suckle the foul creatures. I just introduce lettuce into their environment. Just like Jesus.
 
 
Quantum
00:00 / 23.06.06
I just introduce lettuce into their environment

You are the Antichrist and I claim my five pounds.
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
07:11 / 23.06.06
Giant African Land Snails. Pets, not pests.
 
  

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