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The World Cup: J'accuse!

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Goodness Gracious Meme

11:12 / 11.05.06

Also: why are people watching TEH IDIOT BOX anyway?

Sheeple.

Spaniel

11:13 / 11.05.06

football represents that sporty elite

To you maybe. To me it represents a hell of a lot of my friends, colleagues, neighbours, relatives.

I really hate this sport fan (particularly football fan)=big dumb wanker mentality, it's bloody juvenile.

Spaniel

11:15 / 11.05.06

That's not to say everyone complaining hereabouts is indulging in it

Sax

11:16 / 11.05.06

Most of them are working class, after all.

Goodness Gracious Meme

11:18 / 11.05.06

Well, yes. Let them have their little diversions, I say.

Spaniel

11:19 / 11.05.06

Boboss is lying? LYING!

No Boboss is not lying. Boboss and Baboss and Bobosso will be watching the lovely fireworks in Preston Park this weekend, and in a few weeks Boboss will be turning on the TV to watch football (even though he's only a fan of international games).

This is Boboss's future. BEHOLD!

Loomis

11:30 / 11.05.06

every middle-class boy with a street-level name like Theo can be plucked from the obscurity of a five-bedroomed detached house and become a hero on the global stage.

Dude, that's Fight Club.

Ganesh

11:42 / 11.05.06

While I'd be the first to parade my psychological scars where Teh Beautiful Game is concerned, I broadly agree with Flyboy that it's more impressive to have got beyond that antipathy (or at least recognised it for what it is and put it to one side). Keep harking back to the day rough ball-kicking (ow!) children threw one's Fantastic Four lunchbox in the canal, and the footbullies will have won.

Regrettable Juvenilia

11:45 / 11.05.06

Oh no it's not, almost everything shuts down, I was at Glastonbury the same weekend as England got put out of the WC and all but 2 stages were shut.

I thought the whole point of Glastonbury was you could spend a lot of time wandering around the outskirts monged, meeting interesting people and getting massages/tattoos/tarot readings/Reiki healing off them?

Meanwhile, thinking about the telly... BBC2 and Channel 4 are never affected by the football, are they? Aren't those the channels which show all the decent programmes anyway (Doctor Who aside, which will still be on and is already on after football anyway half the time)?

Goodness Gracious Meme

11:49 / 11.05.06

Re glastonbury: indeed. I was there too, watching the football (in the biggest crowd I've ever watched a match in, I think. Magical), but the football-hating chums of my party managed to keep themselves amused somehow.

_Boboss

12:02 / 11.05.06

I watch about half a dozen or maybe ten football matches every two years - the international tournaments bring a festive feel to the summer that i always enjoy, even though the rest of the time i have as little enthusiasm for football as i do for date rape, playing fruit machines, dogging, rioting, or anything else that footballers and football fans like to do.

Sniv

12:03 / 11.05.06

me - football represents that sporty elite

Boboss - To you maybe. To me it represents a hell of a lot of my friends, colleagues, neighbours, relatives.

I really hate this sport fan (particularly football fan)=big dumb wanker mentality, it's bloody juvenile.

That's cool, I wasn't trying to diss your friends by suggesting that they're sport-nazis or anything.

I try not to generalise too much (epecially not here on the 'blith), but the world cup does bring out the lobster-coloured lager lout in the English (esp the younger men), even amoung my friends. At least with your own mates you can tell them to calm down.

I'll put it this way - I can't talk comics with any of my friends. Why should I have to listen to their football guff? Oh, woe is me.

Of course, I'll wager my tune'll change if England make it to the finals (bwa-hahahahahahaha!).

Loomis

12:24 / 11.05.06

Actually, I fukcing hate the football summers. All this means is that regular TV gets messed with, reasonable, intelligent people talk complete shite for weeks on end about how well (or nt) 'we' are doing (argh!!! shutupshutup! You're not even playing, shutup!!!), and everyone assumes that if you're young and male, you'll be getting drunk on cheap beer and watching the game. Fuck off, you footiecentric cunts.

If you replace all references to football in the above quote with Doctor Who, then you have an insight into my life. The appeal of that ridiculously bad show is a total mystery and I'm tired of hearing it referenced everywhere from the office to the banter of newsreaders on tele. I'm rather looking forward to a change of subject.

Sax

12:37 / 11.05.06

Yeah, fuck off, Whocentric cunts.

Ganesh

12:41 / 11.05.06

*paints tardis on face, puts metal dog in window, chants 'oo-eee-oooo'*

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:46 / 11.05.06

I can't fucking stand football (and some of my clients are interested in sport stuff too, so I HAVE to read the fucking sports pages) but whenever it's the World Cup there's never any shortage of barbecues and afternoon pissups to go to. I just ignore the game and get stuck in to the beer.

Sax

12:46 / 11.05.06

A nodding K-9 on the dashboard! Genius!

At least they'd be sorted for scarves.

Goodness Gracious Meme

12:47 / 11.05.06

I'd just like to note that outside of the G&G forum, and it's whole two current threads, this thread has the only mentions of football on Barbelith that I can find.

Which I do find, in some way, amusing.

All Acting Regiment

12:50 / 11.05.06

A world cup anecdote. English football violence is downright pathetic compared to Czekh football violence. I happened to be in a large beer tent in Prague (300+ people, a large silk projector screen at one end displaying the game, a whole pig roasting on a spit) when they lost to Greece the other year. There was much grumbling and anger. We got up to leave, but someone bade us sit down using growls and sign language.

Just as soon as we did several knives whistled past us and slammed into the screen, and then, as a wave, the jolly folk rose up and started thashing the place. I briefly saw the pig carcass judder atop the crowd, spurting blood, before it sank like a ship into the morass.

Loomis

12:55 / 11.05.06

I witnessed a similar scene when it was announced that Christopher Eccleston was leaving Dr Who.

Bloody Whooligans.

Ah, if ONLY Dr Who dominated the TV screens for 9 months of the year (10-11 months of the year every other year) - if only every newspaper, every news broadcast had its own Doctor who section.

Bear

13:09 / 11.05.06

At last the Whovolution has began. In years to come you'll be seen as a Hero young Loomis.

Evil Scientist

13:18 / 11.05.06

There's a World Cup on?

Not rugby you say?

I'll leave it then.

Slim

13:24 / 11.05.06

I love the World Cup and will watch as much of it as possible. It's like the Olympics, except that people actually give a fuck. The Cup feels special to me and is more entertaining than even the Super Bowl. Of course, I ignore soccer for the years between World Cups so it probably feels more rare than the average British person who is subjected to it on a near daily basis.

Sniv

13:25 / 11.05.06

Rugby is the same as football, except that the players (and the fans) get hit in the head more often. And nobdy cares about it until the national side are any good. At least with football, we know England will lose, and I for one am looking forward to rubbing it in when it happens.

Sax

13:29 / 11.05.06

Doctor Who is the same as Star Wars, except that the actors(and the fans) get head more often. And nobody cares about it until the good guys are winning. At least with Doctor Who, we know the Doctor will regenerate, and I for one am looking forward to rubbing it in when it happens.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

13:36 / 11.05.06

I will be drinking beer that is very expensive here in New MExico and is likely cheap in the parts of the world that give a damn about the WC.

I really don't have any loyalties to any of the teams, and just started watching soccer (ha, take that!) this year due to a neighbor. OF course he will be in Europw during the WC, so I will have nobody to explain how this shit works while I watch. I will likely be painting wargames miniatures and reading comics while watching anyway.

Quantum

13:41 / 11.05.06

*ooo-eee-oooo* I'm with Ganesh, let's invent a cocktail called a sonic screwdriver!

I must confess, Sax was bullied by me at school, chasing him round the playground with a rolled up copy of the Fantastic Four. A bit like that scene from Alien, if I were Ian Holme and Sax was Sigourney Weaver.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

13:48 / 11.05.06

Do we know that Sax isn't Siggy Weavy?

Sax

13:52 / 11.05.06

No. No you don't.

Evil Scientist

13:56 / 11.05.06

Sax has nicer legs*, only just though.

*Than Ian Holm.

Quantum

14:03 / 11.05.06

When we pulled up his skirt he had boybits.

Haus Of Pain

14:20 / 11.05.06

Well I can't wait for the World Cup & I love football, even if I am rubbish at it. I have the physical appearance of an overweight pear, with the stamina to boot but who cares.

On the ed!

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

14:53 / 11.05.06

'Nesh, have you concocted a recipe for a sonic screwdriver yet?

(And in keeping with the theme of this thread, yes, I have watched a few games. Mostly Arsenal ones.)

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