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The FIFA Refuge

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22:45 / 04.06.06

So, anyone booked their holidays to somewhere without TV yet?
This thread is here for two reasons:
A) To be a kind of fuzzy fallout shelter to hide in while Korea kicks the arses of all the major nations in the world cup and everyone goes on and on and on about metatarsals and 17-year-old boy wonders;
B) An excuse to see if youtube clips work here:
...and on previewing they clearly don't, so have a butcher's here
Come, brothers and sisters, let us enjoy the sunny days of summer without recourse to mentions of David Batty, Gareth Southgate and Shrek's toes.

sleazenation

22:55 / 04.06.06

I fucking hate all the football themeed adverts and products at the moment.

Fucking football pizza for fucks sake and Mars changing its name to Believe...

I just leaves me hoping that a shower of flaming meteorites strikes each of the stadia and team hotels used in this competition, tragically killing all footballers and comentators involved...

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22:59 / 04.06.06

Now, now, that's a bit harsh. Have a comforting Mars bar. Erm.
Anyway, welcome. You may wear the bunny slippers of footie ignorance. You may also look after this thread while I go to bed.

The Falcon

23:12 / 04.06.06

Not one of these already? Calm down, non-football fans eh? Can't go anywhere without hearing how much you hate the World Cup.

I must confess that I am so utterly pig-sick of Wazza's metatarsal I could probably vomit blood on demand, however.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:29 / 04.06.06

I'll be watching Big Brother. They won't be talking about the footy.

Tryphena Absent

23:33 / 04.06.06

Oh the Mastercard adverts make me hurt but the crown went to an electrical shop- could have been Dixon's- their TV ad had price reductions on loads of stuff. Every time they showed the price go down a football flashed up. I almost wept.

ONLY NICE THINGS

00:09 / 05.06.06

So, anyway, Peter Crouch - what a hero, eh? From the opprobrium of th nation to England's favourite, thanks to a little robot dance. I bet Lord Haw Haw wishes he'd thought of that...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:24 / 05.06.06

GET OUT.

Saint Keggers

00:25 / 05.06.06

Canada has no chance in the World Cup so I really dont care either way. I do like pie though, not that that has anything to do with soccer..I mean football.

Triplets

00:32 / 05.06.06

Mm. Pie.

Why can't the nations of the world just take it to a pie-eating contest?

World Cup of Coffee and Pie 2006.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:34 / 05.06.06

Or even a pie baking contest. They could then use the pie to feed the poor.

Saint Keggers

00:36 / 05.06.06

Or use the poor to make the pies thereby giving them a good wage and a sense of belonging to something non soccer related.

Triplets

00:36 / 05.06.06

But... can they bake it like Beckham?

astrojax69

05:18 / 05.06.06

[groan!]

(at least they don't read like beckham...)

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06:26 / 05.06.06

You know who I pity? All those people who work in bookshops in Scotland whose head offices will have scaled out hundreds of copies of the latest flag-waving football books which will sit untouched for the next three months and be told every week that they're just not trying hard enough to shift them. I used to hate that.

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