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Football is good and the current England team are a bunch of woke Marxist snowflakes which is even better imo e: 1-3-6 could possibly be a formation in association football but I don't think anyone's ever used it even in the old days when they were mad like that. sebzilla fucked around with this message at 08:50 on Jul 4, 2021 |
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Jul 4, 2021 08:48
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I mean that's what the nationalists always say, you have to like it because everyone likes it. There is no room for the suggestion that you could actually have a valid reason to dislike it, just "oh someone shut the whiners up"
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Jul 4, 2021 08:49
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It's just not for me. I like that other people do enjoy it though! It's nice to see people happy. Just maybe not at 1 am when your trying to sleep, that's all.
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Jul 4, 2021 08:51
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PawParole posted:https://twitter.com/SeanMcCarthyCom/status/1411440863381762048 Sure we joke, but we all know really that this sort of comment is a sentiment shared in the heart of all englanders. I pray that they fail and that these urges remain dormant in the english peoples. keep punching joe fucked around with this message at 09:01 on Jul 4, 2021 |
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Jul 4, 2021 08:59
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It’s cool and good for people to like different things, and concerns about nationalism are valid even if I don’t hugely agree with them in a practical sense. Even complaining that it seems to take everything over for a bit is fair - i get a bit peeved when it’s wall to wall bake off but that’s just living in a society. The only truly melt thing is to just support whoever England are against. Absolute wet napkin behaviour that. My partners flat mate is doing it, ostensibly because of violence against women, which has led to him supporting paragon of gender equality Ukraine.
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Jul 4, 2021 09:01
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Rome broke our continent and now we have a deeply ingrained compulsion to witness hyper nationalism played out in stadia.
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Jul 4, 2021 09:01
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Some really insane takes about football itt lmao
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Jul 4, 2021 09:06
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Josef bugman posted:It's just not for me. I like that other people do enjoy it though! It's nice to see people happy. Just maybe not at 1 am when your trying to sleep, that's all. Yeah this. I don't dislike football because it's working class or because some of the fans are horrible. I just find that, out of all the codes of football that exist, and the theoretical codes that could exist, this particular combination of pitch size, player count, ball and goal size, and rules, produces a game that's quite boring. A view shared, at times, by some of the sport's most ardent fans, who often complain that a match was terrible and boring. But unlike me, they enjoy watching it for the times that it isn't. Also it's very fitting for the British love of disapoinment and complaining  And it's not hard to avoid except at times like this. And I was always happy for the beeb to be taken over by tennis for 2 weeks every year, so I just keep quiet and let people enjoy things. Except now. I shall resume.
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Jul 4, 2021 09:16
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keep punching joe posted:Sure we joke, but we all know really that this sort of comment is a sentiment shared in the heart of all englanders. It's an Al Murray type joke
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Jul 4, 2021 09:16
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Party Boat posted:Team GB took this to extremes in the late 90s / early 00s when they started winning loads of golds in cycling and rowing events. They had a bunch of lottery money sloshing around and did an analysis of how they could get as much as possible out of it. Cycling and rowing were the sports they overwhelmingly pushed funds into because a) they both have a ton of events so lots of chances to pump up that medal total and b) unlike many of the track and field events they have a pretty significant barrier to entry in terms of kit required, which effectively bars developing nations from being able to properly compete I'm sure it's also just coincidence that rowing and cycling are more purely reliant on outright physical conditioning than any sports apart from track and (most) field events, and that there's a particularly well-known path that allows large, well-funded teams to massively improve physical conditioning in a relatively short time.
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Jul 4, 2021 09:19
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sebzilla posted:e: 1-3-6 could possibly be a formation in association football but I don't think anyone's ever used it even in the old days when they were mad like that. Ossie Ardiles used it when he wanted to park the bus.
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Jul 4, 2021 09:20
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Football's coming home after a few too many pints at spoons and a kebab.
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Jul 4, 2021 09:22
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Ossie Ardiles used it when he wanted to park the bus. How is sending your whole team up front parking the bus?
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Jul 4, 2021 09:24
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I'm sure it's also just coincidence that rowing and cycling are more purely reliant on outright physical conditioning than any sports apart from track and (most) field events, and that there's a particularly well-known path that allows large, well-funded teams to massively improve physical conditioning in a relatively short time. Drugs? It's drugs isn't it.
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Jul 4, 2021 09:25
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https://twitter.com/sajidjavid/status/1411588996979900416?s=19 Jesus gently caress
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Jul 4, 2021 09:30
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International football is good craic. Every time it happens there are always people falling over themselves to declare that they don't like it the most and therefore no one else should. Just let people enjoy things.
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Jul 4, 2021 09:32
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Jakabite posted:It’s cool and good for people to like different things, and concerns about nationalism are valid even if I don’t hugely agree with them in a practical sense. Even complaining that it seems to take everything over for a bit is fair - i get a bit peeved when it’s wall to wall bake off but that’s just living in a society. Supporting whoever England are against is a time honoured Scottish tradition and I won’t stand to hear it disparaged in this way! Never known someone to do it cause of a political cause though, it’s mostly just wanting your haughty and arrogant neighbour taken down a peg or two. That said, if England do finally win I look forward to English comrades being able to attribute it to the power of BLM and Marxism.
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Jul 4, 2021 09:32
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Failed Imagineer posted:How is sending your whole team up front parking the bus? He's got one defender on the pitch, is that not good enough for you Mister Catenaccio? (Assuming you're either a non-football fan or an actual child who doesn't remember the 90s - both mortal sins but nobody's perfect - Ossie's managerial career at Spurs and (particularly) Newcastle was infamous for his habit of just throwing attackers at every single problem, including more than once playing a formation that could only be described as 0-4-6 because even though he had 4 nominal defenders on the pitch they were all attacking fullbacks)
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Jul 4, 2021 09:34
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Reveilled posted:Supporting whoever England are against is a time honoured Scottish tradition and I won’t stand to hear it disparaged in this way! Never known someone to do it cause of a political cause though, it’s mostly just wanting your haughty and arrogant neighbour taken down a peg or two. Oh I only meant English people who do that, it is only right that any other country, particularly our neighbours, should be rooting for us to be annihilated. It’s part of the fun!
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Jul 4, 2021 09:36
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I'm sure it's also just coincidence that rowing and cycling are more purely reliant on outright physical conditioning than any sports apart from track and (most) field events, and that there's a particularly well-known path that allows large, well-funded teams to massively improve physical conditioning in a relatively short time. Oh yeah the Lance Armstrong method definitely helps lol
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Jul 4, 2021 09:37
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I think living here gives you more right than most people to wish for annihilation to be honest.
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Jul 4, 2021 09:37
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If anyone is going to annihilate England it will be England. We are the best at annihilating world cultures.
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Jul 4, 2021 09:38
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I hope it comes home personally
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Jul 4, 2021 09:41
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Communist Thoughts posted:I hope it comes home personally There is no hope about it. It’s coming home.
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Jul 4, 2021 09:53
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Depending on the overall mass of the universe, everything is coming home, eventually.
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Jul 4, 2021 09:54
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OwlFancier posted:Depending on the overall mass of the universe, everything is coming home, eventually. And Home is also coming to It in that sense I suppose
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Jul 4, 2021 09:56
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Wgen sung at about midnight the simple words "it's coming home" become something like an eldritch chant. It's very cool.
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Jul 4, 2021 10:10
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Also eldritch in that it torments the dreams of sleepers and drives people to madness if repeated often enough.
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Jul 4, 2021 10:15
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quote:"Bread and circuses" (or bread and games; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement. It is attributed to Juvenal, a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century CE — and is used commonly in cultural, particularly political, contexts. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
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Jul 4, 2021 10:22
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Jakabite posted:Oh I only meant English people who do that, it is only right that any other country, particularly our neighbours, should be rooting for us to be annihilated. It’s part of the fun! It's not fun. It's not remotely fun, it's a necessity to see perfidious Albion lose. It's like hoping the Old Firm lose, a matter of surviving the smugness of the worst fans in the world.
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Jul 4, 2021 10:26
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It's coming home, and every time we do this it closes the distance by half. It must never be home, it must be coming home forever. Zeno's on a shirt.
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Jul 4, 2021 10:38
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forkboy84 posted:It's not fun. It's not remotely fun, it's a necessity to see perfidious Albion lose. It's like hoping the Old Firm lose, a matter of surviving the smugness of the worst fans in the world. Maybe I should have clarified it’s part of the fun for us 
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Jul 4, 2021 10:44
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OwlFancier posted:There's a company based somewhere out of northumbria I think that does very nice jerky but jerky is too expensive for me generally. Not So Fast posted:Sports and nationalism are so interwoven into the culture of the working class of this country, that I find it hard to believe you can achieve socialism while disparaging it. I'm not calling for Starmer-esque flag shagging, but some appreciation of why people identify with their countrymen, especially in friendly competition like sports, is important if you want them to vote Labour. keep punching joe posted:Sure we joke, but we all know really that this sort of comment is a sentiment shared in the heart of all englanders. Jakabite posted:The only truly melt thing is to just support whoever England are against. Absolute wet napkin behaviour that. My partners flat mate is doing it, ostensibly because of violence against women, which has led to him supporting paragon of gender equality Ukraine.
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Jul 4, 2021 10:52
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*me, the enlightened philosopher, outside a bakery* Those poor blinkered fools...
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Jul 4, 2021 11:01
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Guavanaut posted:These are the real reasons there will never be a British team. There is a British football team that competes in the Olympics
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Jul 4, 2021 11:12
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How much fanfare does it get compared to the FA level teams?
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Jul 4, 2021 11:14
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fridge corn posted:There is a British football team that competes in the Olympics
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Jul 4, 2021 11:17
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/sajidjavid/status/1411588996979900416?s=19 RIP everyone who's not double vaxxed I guess. Feel really poo poo for everyone who is going to have to use public transport now that the govement is actively encouraging people not to wear masks or distance. Also congratulation to eggman for making App Hancock look competent.
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Jul 4, 2021 11:19
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Why are they discouraging masks? I can understand wanting to end lockdowns and shop closures and distancing from a selfish economic recovery perspective, but masks seem like they'd be a benefit if you wanted to do all that with minimal consequences. Is it like the bit in his Ayn Rand fairytales where they all smoke cigarettes to show how intellectual they are and make their lungs stronger?
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Jul 4, 2021 11:24
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Javid is a free market poo poo and his reasoning is I’m sure not based in anything like altruism or care, but it doesn’t seem controversial to say that we will have to live with it like flu. I thought that was relatively uncontroversial at this point - that it isn’t going to go away completely and like flu there’ll be an acceptable death toll each year from it. Whether that’s ah argument for opening up now is a whole other thing but there will come a point we have to and I don’t think COVID-19 will ever be eliminated globally (and therefore anywhere really).
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