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wrong thread re: the second one
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 17:55 |
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# ? May 14, 2024 12:34 |
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Maradonna Summer posted:wrong thread re: the second one Brony Car fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Jul 14, 2014 |
# ? Jul 14, 2014 21:49 |
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lol I'm sure Gerrard and all Liverpool fans would love to have Owen and Torres back at the club right now
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 22:53 |
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"Terrible Sportswriter Dave Zirin posted:I am often asked, given my love of soccer and my criticisms of how the World Cup is organized, whether it is possible in the twenty-first century to have the spectacle of top-notch organized sports and have it done ethically? Or, can it at least be done more ethically than the neoliberal carnival of debt, displacement and militarization we normally see?
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 23:06 |
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its a bit worthy but not really that bad tbh
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 23:15 |
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TelekineticBear! posted:its a bit worthy but not really that bad tbh it's more the fact that he was painting loving MLS as a "real" and "pure" alternative to major football plus how Zirin, a man who rails against public stadium funding at all opportunities, forgets that the Seahawks stadium was itself publicly funded to the tune of $400 million dollars, but because of multiple Reasons (it's in Seattle, Richard Sherman is a Correct Thinker, etc.) he's willing to sweep this under the rug
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 23:20 |
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It's one of the worst things I've ever read (second only to my post history)
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 23:39 |
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Everything terrible in that terrible post was outweighed by "pied piper of graft, FIFA chief Sepp Blatter" and I'll give it a pass
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 23:42 |
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 01:56 |
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http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2618680&mc=7&forum_id=2
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 06:18 |
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Troy Queef posted:The Sounders-Timbers game, coming just hours after a desultory World Cup Final, entirety convinced me like little else that sports truly is like a fire and you can use a fire to cook a meal or burn down your house. In the hands of FIFA, the house of international soccer is burning down while they play a chorus of discordant violins. Oh my god this guy zirin is retarded. Do their parents know that their retarded child is on the internet unsupervised?
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 13:47 |
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elanciano posted:Oh my god this guy zirin is retarded. Do their parents know that their retarded child is on the internet unsupervised? Do yours?
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 17:07 |
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One day I am going to travel to America, where I will find every American who didn't enjoy the World Cup Final because it didn't have eight goals in and kick them in the shins I'd also like to see the Grand Canyon
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 19:38 |
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FullLeatherJacket posted:One day I am going to travel to America, where I will find every American who didn't enjoy the World Cup Final because it didn't have eight goals in and kick them in the shins This isn't the fan fiction thread and anyway that's not a nice way to talk about Pissflaps' wife.
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 20:27 |
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holy gently caress
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 23:06 |
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 07:02 |
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lol...
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 07:28 |
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I'm starting an Arsene Wenger Lets Play in September, please look out for it.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 08:17 |
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The Germany World Cup players are a joke So when the referee ended the game, many wives of the german players entered the field to congratulate them. And I just realized that probably NONE of the players would have those girls if they weren't a top-tier soccer player. It's a joke, the women are with them only for their wealth and status.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 22:32 |
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diego-semerene/mourning-the-national-phallus-brazil-soccer_b_5589437.htmlquote:The World Cup has always functioned as a kind of test of the power of the Brazilian phallus, or the illusion of such, outsourced to the 11 players on the field, who work their hardest to create the trompe-l'œil that will make us witness the spectacle and experience the frisson of a collective orgasm that says, "Yes, we all bow down to the same insuperable god." quote:Instead of looking for culprits to blame for this humiliation, we would do well to welcome it as an opportunity to seek something other than the fiction of heteromasculinity's astonishing force with which to orient our lives. Let us look for the richness and pleasures of loss and accept the very idea of loss as an essential part of being alive and human. If soccer has worked in Brazil as a great defense mechanism against that truth -- that we are born to lose from day one (cells, hair, teeth, loved ones, time) -- we should bury the myth of an invincible Brazilian manliness, which comes alive every four years to flex its muscles and keep everything in place, as Brazilian soccer becomes something between a museum piece and a joke. Perhaps now we can unburden our children of the weight that a soccer jersey imposes (be a man, be infallible) and allow them the freedom to wear the costume ("fantasia" in Portuguese) that they see fit -- or none at all. Let us stop using soccer as the only language that Brazilian men are allowed to (and demanded to) speak. Let us reject soccer as the all-important marker of gender difference and arbiter of whether a boy is properly Brazilian or a disposable "bicha." Let us not measure the value of who we are through an institution built on the bullying of losers with homophobic insults, from the less-obvious "chupa" ("suck it") to entire stadiums chanting that a certain player is a human being. by Diego Semerene Filmmaker, queer theorist and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern California
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# ? Jul 17, 2014 00:44 |
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I agree, Brazil's football identity needs more flamboyance
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# ? Jul 17, 2014 15:31 |
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I went shopping there it was pretty nice but lmao that name made me think of this thread and I did a lol
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# ? Jul 17, 2014 17:43 |
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# ? Jul 17, 2014 20:14 |
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Rename me this. Or No Room ft. Fabregas.
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# ? Jul 17, 2014 20:29 |
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# ? Jul 17, 2014 21:43 |
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I think I love this.
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# ? Jul 17, 2014 22:22 |
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Von Linus posted:I think I love this. show him hair-sexing with john henry please
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# ? Jul 17, 2014 22:27 |
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gently caressquote:Luckily, you have me, your Russian Premier League–watching, tactics board–chalking, Opta Stats–devouring Gandalf, this is bad http://grantland.com/features/world-cup-soccer/
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# ? Jul 18, 2014 16:51 |
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How can you say that, when it's brought suqit.txt.avi into our lives? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGuaQ1khn2k
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# ? Jul 18, 2014 17:01 |
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straight up brolic posted:gently caress
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# ? Jul 18, 2014 17:09 |
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euroboy posted:
I went there just to get a sticker to take home and remember but then I left with pink shoes and a ball sewn by hand by poor Afghani women. I later kicked the ball onto the roof of a bar while drunk and angry which I feel is good allegory for US international refugee policy or something. It's a nice place though don't let the name fool you.
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# ? Jul 18, 2014 17:33 |
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Recommending people to watch their local league if they wanna watch football sounds pretty reasonable?
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# ? Jul 18, 2014 20:04 |
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Holy... Like we had the Gerrard Cup Final or the Stanley Matthews Final - this is the Ayre Window. Wow.
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# ? Jul 18, 2014 21:58 |
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Puseklepp posted:Recommending people to watch their local league if they wanna watch football sounds pretty reasonable? If the piece is supposed to get people into football, saying their best option is Calvinball league with a negligible TV footprint doesn't seem like a very good idea. Meanwhile you can watch every Premier League game on U.S. TV, and NBC actually cares about the production values there.
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# ? Jul 19, 2014 02:54 |
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Godzilla07 posted:If the piece is supposed to get people into football, saying their best option is Calvinball league with a negligible TV footprint doesn't seem like a very good idea. Meanwhile you can watch every Premier League game on U.S. TV, and NBC actually cares about the production values there. It's really easy to watch the MLS. I rarely do but you're being an idiot about it. Also the gap between the production values is negligible.
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# ? Jul 19, 2014 04:33 |
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Seltzer posted:It's really easy to watch the MLS. I rarely do but you're being an idiot about it. Also the gap between the production values is negligible. Nah sorry he is right
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# ? Jul 19, 2014 05:38 |
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Seltzer posted:It's really easy to watch the MLS. I rarely do but you're being an idiot about it. Also the gap between the production values is negligible. I know you dudes go into a tizzy whenever anyone says anything bad about MLS but there is no comparing MLS, with its bad pay streams, blackouts, and lovely local channels and poo poo to the excellent availability of the EPL on NBC.
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# ? Jul 19, 2014 06:48 |
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I've literally wanted to watch MLS, for whatever reason, multiple times this season and been unable to each time because of the league's idiotic pay-to-watch streaming service, lack of illegal streams, and poo poo tv presence. It's a crap mickey mouse league that they're running like loving idiots. The Premier League on NBC is a better product and easier to access.
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# ? Jul 19, 2014 13:08 |
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Seltzer posted:It's really easy to watch the MLS. I rarely do but you're being an idiot about it. Also the gap between the production values is negligible. incorrect.
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# ? Jul 19, 2014 17:05 |
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Ciprian Maricon posted:I know you dudes go into a tizzy whenever anyone says anything bad about MLS but there is no comparing MLS, with its bad pay streams, blackouts, and lovely local channels and poo poo to the excellent availability of the EPL on NBC. "You dudes". I've watched 3 MLS games this year. I guess that's how much of an MLS fan I am cause I thought it was accessible. NYRB games seem to always be on as well as bigger games like Seattle Portland.
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# ? Jul 19, 2014 17:29 |