Posted on 06/16/2006 9:09:41 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
From your prism, the same could be said about basketball players, track and field, figure skaters, and swimmers.
Yup. All sports for weenies.
How to win friends and influence people?
it's freaking SOCCER!
Who gives a crap!
It's a snooze fest.
Yer mum's yer dad!
Yer dad's yer mum!
Yer inbred, ya Burnley scum!
A piece in the NY Times a couple of years back noted that opponents of Liverpool liked to remind its supporters of the blight and misery the city suffered in the 1980's. To the tune of the team song, "You'll Never Walk Alone," they'd chant: "You'll never get a job."
My problem with the BBC is that it isn't voluntary. We can't opt out. I'm not worried about the amount of money involved - it's the fact that I'm left funding a massively socialist news organisation.
But anyway: no time for a thread diversion. Decisive-looking final score against Trinidad, wasn't it? Crouch, Gerard, Terry: the boys done good!
Good for RUPERT Murdoch.
'But to pay per boob tube? That would really frost me.'
Nah - it's per household, you can have as many TV's as you like. 36p (about 55c) per day for 30 digital channels plus 11 national channels and a local radio station for every county all guaranteed advert free!
That 55c also pays for the BBC world service, the worlds most listened to international service. I think 55c a day is worth it to get all those foreigners listening to the News the way Britain sees it! It's our patriotic duty! :D
CNN could have just provided a feed from their sister station- Al Jazeera.
'I'm glad our American friends are making a decent showing in world football - it takes a lot to reach the first round of the World Cup.'
It's a shame the FIFA ranking system is so lop-sided. Many Americans saw their team was ranked 5th and are now disappointed and may turn away from football. In reality they are probably about 20th and have a lot of work to do, but I sincerely wish them well.
Big deal. Our military people get to miss two teams running around while not scoring on each other.
'My problem with the BBC is that it isn't voluntary. We can't opt out. I'm not worried about the amount of money involved - it's the fact that I'm left funding a massively socialist news organisation.'
I can see your point, but it's the same with anything. If you don't want to pay for a TV licence, don't watch TV. If you don't want to pay for a driving licence, don't get a car! All of your income tax funds a massively socialist govt, so the TV licence is the least of your worries! :D
'Decisive-looking final score against Trinidad, wasn't it? Crouch, Gerard, Terry: the boys done good!'
Took the lads a while to warm up, but they deserved the win - T&T were entirely defensive, very little attack and very few real chances for them to score.
Best bit was that just before the game there was a piece on radio 4 from Scotland where everyone was supporting T&T as they don't care who wins as long as it's not England. Glad to see the unsporting and largely socialist Scots crying into their Tennents Extra on the way home! :D
Agreed. I've got no problem with and international business organization charging for their services. Why should a non-US organization be obligated to give their goods away for free to the US millitary?
As some others pointed out. I don't think a whole lot of grunts give much a damn about Cameroon vs Ghana.
Anyway, I digress. I've always liked football (soccer) because I was small and generally the wrong physical type for American football. I was pretty good at it. I like watching it. You actually use your foot to maneuver a ball...hence the name football. And there is no less strategy and teamwork in scoring with real football either.
Gosh, I'd better put my flameproof suit on now.
I like the way you think! Unfortunately half the time it's not the way Britain sees things, but the way the Guardian-reading Euro-elite sees things. Foreign listeners don't need the BBC reinforcing any freakish notions they might already have about Israel or President Bush. But I (seriously) like the idea that the world is being force-fed "Antiques Roadshow" and David Attenborough - and at the same time learning English. In that sense the BBC is a superbly cheap reinforcement of our cultural genome.
No kidding. Better check into the late folklorist Alan Dandes:
'His “Into the End Zone for a Touchdown: A Psychoanalytic Consideration of American Football” sparked debate with its study of homoerotic influences in football.'
'tight ends', 'wide receivers', 'end zone'? Yeah, it's futbol (soccer) that's "gay".
Hehe. I get this a lot from certain Scots acquaintances, unfortunately. The thing to do is ask them how come Angola managed to qualify, and they didn't.
I must say: that is where American Football really, really scores. Football would be brilliant with a pyramid of sexy cheerleaders at every game. So would tennis, cricket and synchronised swimming, actually.
But I cannot believe there is more beer involved in the American game, unless the players actually drink it on the pitch or something. Think what you are saying man!
Ya' think maybe you took that comment a little too seriously?
Good grief.
Er..a NEW low? They've always done this in one fashion or another. Old news.
So what about the Jets this year? Will Pennington stay with them? Is it possible he can get through a season without getting hurt?
I like the Jets and the Giants, probably lean towards the Giants a bit.
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