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The World Cup: J'accuse!

 
  

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Haus Of Pain
08:58 / 26.06.06
Haus are you Steptoe off the telly by any chance?!;-)

Was in a pub on Sunday watching England v Equador and it was great. At one point a man shouted "Come on Lambard you C@~#" and was asked to "shut up or leave". Not what i expected at all. Very pleasant!
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
09:13 / 26.06.06
Pato, you don't have to apply yourself to flattering if flat-footed plagiarism of the other El Dude Brothers' gags (in this case, the comparison of Flyboy to Victor Meldrew) to prove your dedication. Just go over and see them. Play some XBox. I know it's not like it was when you were living in halls, but they're still your friends. Best call ahead, mind.

Back to the football... I'm curious, incidentally, about whether this applies to other sports. For example, Wimbledon has just started, and I remember as a young'un being infuriated by the way the television was hijacked by Wimbledon - fewer TV channels back then, obviously. It seemed inexplicable that so much attention was devoted to the tournament, especially given the apparently insane suspension of disbelief about the chances of the English (or British, in this case) contingent.

Mind you, it does seem that Wimbledon is currently being obscured rather by the World Cup. Still, not long to go now. .. England will probably be out in the next round, which should calm things down, and the whole tournament will be over fairly shortly.
 
 
Haus Of Pain
09:23 / 26.06.06
Wow you are funny, I take it all back. that was an absolute corker. Top marks!

You see you can do it when you try.

Bravo!
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
09:32 / 26.06.06
Actually, I was going to ask for that to be modded out, because thirtysomething estrangement from old chums is no laughing matter, but that might be a bit hard to do now. By giving you attention, I'm just reinforcing your mechanisms for seeking it, and I feel bad about that, because while it might be diverting, it may have consequences which might be upsetting for you and for other people. I apologise, and I will try to do better in future.
 
 
Haus Of Pain
09:37 / 26.06.06
No need to apologise & thanks for the attention. Don't feel bad, your very sweet.

Back to football?
 
 
_Boboss
09:53 / 26.06.06
i was in meetings thursday with a couple of volk - lovely of course, as i think all the germans I've ever met have been. there was one thing though - we were discussing usng fuzzy logic systems to clean-up a database (mm - snooze), but the chap was very keen to stress that this was just a stop-gap, a short-term fix, if you will, for the ongoing database issues. in a few weeks, he stated, we will be finished with this near-term process, and will move on, inevitably, to 'the final solution' of our database woes. he said it about eight or nine times across the course of the day. i had to poke myself in the throat with a biro to hold back the snorts, guffaws, howls, screams etc.

so anyway, there i was yesterday, drinking beer, hating football - and yet for a second or two there, i really really just thought, power of football can be so immense sometimes, posh spice just seemed like a nice lady, you know? just happy for hubby i guess (i swear i could hear her hitting all the bum notes in the national anthem though. perhaps for these occasions she could just pout her way through the anthem instead, much as if it were a rendition of 'mama' or 'stop right now thankyou very much').

i reckon that julian lennon's probably my favourite at the moment though, he seems to really want to have a nice old kickabout. same with that rooney baby-man, weird looking bastard looks damn fine with a football at his feet.
 
 
Cherielabombe
17:53 / 26.06.06
I hid out as far away as I could yesterday to avoid the football, and I almost succeeded. Probably was a mistake to try and avoid football in Essex.

Anyway, I had great fun today asking "Oh, did England play over the weekend?" to my colleagues going on about it. Because I'm American they're never *quite* sure if I'm telling the truth or not. Tee hee hee!
 
 
uncle retrospective
06:11 / 27.06.06
Because of the bastard football, Lost was on nearly an hour late last night, so my attempt at recording it was ruined. Then someone in work told me what I missed and now I hate football so much more.
Fuck you football, die!
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
08:57 / 27.06.06
Isn't Lost repeated twice in a week, more times if you have E4?
 
 
Haus Of Pain
09:06 / 27.06.06
SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
























Rio Ferdinand, Michael Owen & Frank Lampard to star in Lost Season 3.
 
 
uncle retrospective
10:36 / 27.06.06
Isn't Lost repeated twice in a week, more times if you have E4?

It was on RTE we're half a season ahead on E4. Anyway your missing my point.
My point is fuck football. In the ear.
 
 
Haus Of Pain
10:43 / 27.06.06
Fuck LOST more like, they don't even have a football on that bloody island. Maybe the 'others' have one. God I hope so, it's driving me mad.
 
 
Shrug
10:48 / 27.06.06
'Tis repeated on Saturn's Day, uncle.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
10:54 / 27.06.06
Nice to fuck a football in the ear! Arousing!
 
 
Sauron
10:59 / 27.06.06
What would the teams be called?

Real Others 5 Athletico Plane Crash 4

Lokomotiv Polar Bears 1 Repeated 5 times on a wednesday 0
 
 
Alex's Grandma
11:27 / 27.06.06
Ironically enough, I've actually found avoiding the World Cup fairly easy this year except in this thread.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
11:42 / 27.06.06
It's like Neechee said, Grandma:



The abbess gazes also.
 
 
Triplets
11:45 / 27.06.06
Coming back from a crippling injury, can John Locke cross it into the hatch? Can he? Not if Nigeria goalkeeper Eko has anything to say about it!

Tailaways, Tailaways, Tailawaaaayys.
 
 
Mistoffelees
13:11 / 27.06.06
My encounters with the wm phenomenon this afternoon:

Walking along the Fußgängerzone, I saw a little dog (something like a beagle), and his small tail had a big red stain. I at first thought, it was dry blood (poor dog!), but then noticed, it was only dyed red and the tip of the tail was dyed yellow, while the root of the otherwise usually white tail was black. SO the owner had dyed the flag on his dog´s tail, so it could join him with the flag wagging.

Later on, a black man came towards me and told me "Ghana is playing today!", and I replied, "That´s good!". Just an hour before I had told someone of Stoatie being approached by strangers on the street who vented short football lore in his direction and how that has never happened to me.
 
 
The Falcon
13:34 / 27.06.06
The whole of Africa, including Simon Adebisi, will be supporting Ghana today.
 
 
Haus Of Pain
13:37 / 27.06.06
Aside from the dog painting that sounds quite nice! The world cup encoraging human interaction in public? OMG what next, talking on the tube in London?!
 
 
Sauron
13:48 / 27.06.06
See, the world cup has even increased sales of dog paint
 
 
_Boboss
14:06 / 27.06.06
adebisi's stuck on some gurt 'desert' island you know - not much chance of him giving two goals for ghana really.

anyway - saturday then, bloody hell we're at the quarters already and we've been playing shit for the main. here's where they earn their paychecks then, eh? getting quite excited aout the prospect really. for some reason i suspect lamppard will open the scoring with a penalty, but that's probably just the madness talking. can't wait!

disclaimer: hate football
 
 
Alex's Grandma
14:38 / 27.06.06
The world cup encouraging human interaction in public? OMG what next, talking on the tube in London?!

Indeed. Try smiling everyone! It confuses people!11!
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
14:42 / 27.06.06
The whole of Africa, including Simon Adebisi, will be supporting Ghana today.

Is it not just ever so slightly possible that there is one person in the whole continent of Africa who doesn't like football? You know, there might even be a Brazilian who doesn't!
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
14:46 / 27.06.06
You know, those who want to enjoy this thread as originally purposed, it occurs to me, have the option of putting Sauron, Gumbitch and Pato Banton on ignore. It's easier than getting Boboss and Runce to play baseball with them, and it will calm the thread down a lot. Add Flyboy, Falconer and myself to taste.
 
 
uncle retrospective
14:48 / 27.06.06
'Tis repeated on Saturn's Day, uncle.
Cheers!
Football can still fuck off though.
*pout*
 
 
The Falcon
14:55 / 27.06.06
Is it not just ever so slightly possible that there is one person in the whole continent of Africa who doesn't like football?

Unlikely, I feel.
 
 
Haus Of Pain
15:03 / 27.06.06
You know, there might even be a Brazilian who doesn't!

Interesting concept but scientifically impossible.
 
 
Haus Of Pain
15:05 / 27.06.06
Haus have you had a pooh today?


Hoping Ghana win as it'll be miserable round my way if they don't!
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
15:15 / 27.06.06
You see, Boboss and Runce would have enjoyed that reference to poo back in the day. I wish they came over more often. I don't understand why they had to move out of halls. Something about getting a degree or a girlfriend or something gay like that. We were having a bloody good time, too. TOO GOOD TO STUDY HA HA EH? It's just crazy, man.
 
 
Haus Of Pain
15:25 / 27.06.06
Come on Haus you can be more creative than that can't you? What's all this Boboss & Runce business all about? I havn't had the pleasure of meeting them IRL not being for Brighton as you seem to think I am.

I take it the answer is no anyway.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
15:33 / 27.06.06
It's a conceit, dear boy. Your conceit is that you pretend to hate football while talking about it at uninformed length, because you're a mesoamerican pre-Colombian trickster spirit. 11! 23! Fnord!

My conceit, in admiring response, is that you are seeking the attention and companionship of those who used to perform such jolly japes rather more skilfully in years gone by. This conceit has extended to the idea that yoou, Gumbitch and Sauron are still living in communal student housing, despite having received a disappointing degree in Business Studies apiece, living in squalour because none of you know how to clean and a long-suffering but long-gone flatmate was the only one who knew how to work the washing machine, playing soggy biscuit and wondering what happened to the others with whom you had such jolly fun you forget how many years ago. Rag week? ASK A GIIRLY FOR A SHAG WEEK, more like. It's just a funny, funny conceit, for fun.
 
 
Haus Of Pain
15:40 / 27.06.06
Haus would you like help removing hook?

Anyone god a good reason to actually hate the World Cup?
 
 
Sauron
15:45 / 27.06.06
Haus, when have Runce and Boboss ever been skillful?

They were rubbish over Preston Park.

Runce was always last pick.
 
  

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