« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2   Go Down

Author Topic: World Cup Discussion  (Read 7698 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Hawkgirl

  • Alpha Female
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4291
  • Reputation: +186/-73
World Cup Discussion
« on: June 12, 2010, 06:48:47 PM »
So USA tied with England...thanks to a mistake by the Englishman goalie.  I predict both England and USA will advance.

Great game.

Looking forward to the Italy/Paraguay game on Monday.
Logged

Offline BlueStateSaint

  • Here I come to save the day, because I'm a
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 32553
  • Reputation: +1560/-191
  • RIP FDNY Lt. Rich Nappi d. 4/16/12
Re: World Cup Discussion
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2010, 05:57:49 AM »
Both the Brits and the US were predicted to advance.  I'm pretty happy it was a draw.
Logged
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty." - Thomas Jefferson

"All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk!" -Ayn Rand
 
"Those that trust God with their safety must yet use proper means for their safety, otherwise they tempt Him, and do not trust Him.  God will provide, but so must we also." - Matthew Henry, Commentary on 2 Chronicles 32, from Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

"These anti-gun fools are more dangerous to liberty than street criminals or foreign spies."--Theodore Haas, Dachau Survivor

Chase her.
Chase her even when she's yours.
That's the only way you'll be assured to never lose her.

Offline NHSparky

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24431
  • Reputation: +1278/-617
  • Where are you going? I was gonna make espresso!
Re: World Cup Discussion
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2010, 06:27:51 AM »
Zzzzzzzzz....huh?  What?  Oh, soccer game.

Zzzzzzzzzz.....
Logged
“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.”  -Henry Ford

Offline Hawkgirl

  • Alpha Female
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4291
  • Reputation: +186/-73
Re: World Cup Discussion
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2010, 06:52:10 AM »
Quote from: NHSparky on June 13, 2010, 06:27:51 AM
Zzzzzzzzz....huh?  What?  Oh, soccer game.

Zzzzzzzzzz.....
:asssmack:

I love the World Cup Games....so  :bitchslap:
Logged

Offline Hawkgirl

  • Alpha Female
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4291
  • Reputation: +186/-73
Re: World Cup Discussion
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2010, 06:52:57 AM »
Quote from: BlueStateSaint on June 13, 2010, 05:57:49 AM
Both the Brits and the US were predicted to advance.  I'm pretty happy it was a draw.

Me too...but today Slovenia and Algeria play...if either team wins....they head up to the top of the bracket with 3 points...
Logged

Offline Ptarmigan

  • Bunny Slayer
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 23658
  • Reputation: +932/-225
  • God Hates Bunnies
Re: World Cup Discussion
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2010, 11:47:05 AM »
Quote from: Hawkgirl on June 13, 2010, 06:52:10 AM
:asssmack:

I love the World Cup Games....so  :bitchslap:


Same here.
Logged
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Allow enemies their space to hate; they will destroy themselves in the process.
-Lisa Du

Offline Oriole Fan

  • Player Hater
  • Probationary (Probie)
  • Posts: 69
  • Reputation: +30/-8
Re: World Cup Discussion
« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2010, 06:29:47 PM »
Just watched some of the highlights of the Germany game. Doesn't say much about a sport when you have two players get in trouble for pretending they got fouled and it hurt.
Logged

Offline Hawkgirl

  • Alpha Female
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4291
  • Reputation: +186/-73
Re: World Cup Discussion
« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2010, 07:41:38 PM »
http://www.fifa.com/

I spent the day on the boat...so didn't watch any games...The above link is useful for those of you keeping score.
Logged

Offline debk

  • Topic Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12473
  • Reputation: +467/-58
Re: World Cup Discussion
« Reply #8 on: June 13, 2010, 09:10:42 PM »
I've watched some of them ....but what is that horrible buzzing-like noise that's constantly in the background during the game itself?

It's annoying, so I'm watching it without the volume at 0.... :thatsright:
Logged
Just hand over the chocolate...back away slowly...far away....and you won't get hurt....

Save the Earth... it's the only planet with chocolate.

"My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I've finished two bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already." – Dave Barry

A balanced diet is chocolate in both hands.

Offline Chris_

  • Little Lebowski Urban Achiever
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 46845
  • Reputation: +2028/-266
Re: World Cup Discussion
« Reply #9 on: June 13, 2010, 09:16:18 PM »
Quote from: debk on June 13, 2010, 09:10:42 PM
I've watched some of them ....but what is that horrible buzzing-like noise that's constantly in the background during the game itself?

It's annoying, so I'm watching it without the volume at 0.... :thatsright:

I noticed that too.  Is it the crowd?  Maybe they all have noisemakers.

Not very exciting stuff.
Logged
If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries.

Offline debk

  • Topic Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12473
  • Reputation: +467/-58
Re: World Cup Discussion
« Reply #10 on: June 13, 2010, 09:30:58 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on June 13, 2010, 09:16:18 PM
I noticed that too.  Is it the crowd?  Maybe they all have noisemakers.

Not very exciting stuff.

When I first heard it, I thought it was our tv.

Then I thought it was the broadcast....but it's been there everytime I've had any game on, or even in the clips on various channels.

I can't imagine sitting in the stadium with that noise.  :(
Logged
Just hand over the chocolate...back away slowly...far away....and you won't get hurt....

Save the Earth... it's the only planet with chocolate.

"My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I've finished two bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already." – Dave Barry

A balanced diet is chocolate in both hands.

Offline Chris_

  • Little Lebowski Urban Achiever
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 46845
  • Reputation: +2028/-266
Re: World Cup Discussion
« Reply #11 on: June 13, 2010, 09:32:39 PM »
I was right... they're noisemakers. :rofl:

Logged
If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries.

Offline bkg

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2306
  • Reputation: +4/-15
Re: World Cup Discussion
« Reply #12 on: June 13, 2010, 10:11:50 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on June 13, 2010, 06:27:51 AM
Zzzzzzzzz....huh?  What?  Oh, soccer game.

Zzzzzzzzzz.....

Was helping a buddy yesterday and he had this on - the local AM talk radio station of al lthings - and we both thought we were listening to Formula 1 for a while. Once we realized what it was, we corrected our mistake. :D
Logged

Offline Hawkgirl

  • Alpha Female
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4291
  • Reputation: +186/-73
Re: World Cup Discussion
« Reply #13 on: June 13, 2010, 10:34:54 PM »
Quote from: debk on June 13, 2010, 09:30:58 PM
When I first heard it, I thought it was our tv.

Then I thought it was the broadcast....but it's been there everytime I've had any game on, or even in the clips on various channels.

I can't imagine sitting in the stadium with that noise.  :(

Soccer stadiums are pretty wild.  The fans take the sport very seriously...sometimes too seriously....

Maybe one day, I can see a World Cup game live.....I'd love to see the opening ceremony or the Finale live....

World Cup 2014 will be in Brazil.

Logged

Offline debk

  • Topic Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12473
  • Reputation: +467/-58
Re: World Cup Discussion
« Reply #14 on: June 13, 2010, 10:42:42 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on June 13, 2010, 09:32:39 PM
I was right... they're noisemakers. :rofl:



I don't even want to know what a month of blowing on one of those things would do to someone's lips... :o
Logged
Just hand over the chocolate...back away slowly...far away....and you won't get hurt....

Save the Earth... it's the only planet with chocolate.

"My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I've finished two bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already." – Dave Barry

A balanced diet is chocolate in both hands.

Offline Zathras

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3403
  • Reputation: +455/-71
  • This is the way.
Re: World Cup Discussion
« Reply #15 on: June 14, 2010, 02:42:17 AM »
You want to make soccer interesting? Hidden pit traps with spikes or carnivorous animals in them and land mines sprinkled liberaly around the field of play.
Logged
Solve a man's problem with violence and help him for a day. Teach a man how to solve his problems with violence, help him for a lifetime - Belkar Bitterleaf

If racist dog whistles are meant to be only heard by racists, then it is quite interesting how progressives seem to be the only people who can hear them. - Leonydus Johnson

What makes a good soldier? The ability to fire 3 rounds a minute in any weather. - Major Richard Sharpe

Offline NHSparky

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24431
  • Reputation: +1278/-617
  • Where are you going? I was gonna make espresso!
Re: World Cup Discussion
« Reply #16 on: June 14, 2010, 08:18:49 AM »
Seems that they're trying to ban our little friends the horns.  Seems the noise level coming out of them is on the order of 127 dB.  Earplugs are sold out.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100607/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_soccer_world_vuvuzela

And we're required to wear DOUBLE hearing protection when the diesels are running--those go about 105 dB.

Yup--soccer--what a game...anybody got an extra bag of blood or urine I can throw on the field?  I feel like rioting!!!
Logged
“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.”  -Henry Ford

Offline BlueStateSaint

  • Here I come to save the day, because I'm a
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 32553
  • Reputation: +1560/-191
  • RIP FDNY Lt. Rich Nappi d. 4/16/12
Re: World Cup Discussion
« Reply #17 on: June 14, 2010, 08:32:19 AM »
Quote from: Zathras on June 14, 2010, 02:42:17 AM
You want to make soccer interesting? Hidden pit traps with spikes or carnivorous animals in them and land mines sprinkled liberaly around the field of play.

That's how the Afghan national team practices . . .
Logged
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty." - Thomas Jefferson

"All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk!" -Ayn Rand
 
"Those that trust God with their safety must yet use proper means for their safety, otherwise they tempt Him, and do not trust Him.  God will provide, but so must we also." - Matthew Henry, Commentary on 2 Chronicles 32, from Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

"These anti-gun fools are more dangerous to liberty than street criminals or foreign spies."--Theodore Haas, Dachau Survivor

Chase her.
Chase her even when she's yours.
That's the only way you'll be assured to never lose her.

Offline JohnnyReb

  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 32063
  • Reputation: +1997/-134
Re: World Cup Discussion
« Reply #18 on: June 14, 2010, 11:17:34 AM »
I read that in that wonderfully peaceful Islamic country of Sub-molly that they're going around killing people for watching the games on TV....now that should/could raise some excitement among the fans.
Logged
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."  Stalin

Offline Ralph Wiggum

  • It's unpossible that I'm a
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 18591
  • Reputation: +2053/-49
Re: World Cup Discussion
« Reply #19 on: June 14, 2010, 11:22:04 AM »
Quote from: Zathras on June 14, 2010, 02:42:17 AM
You want to make soccer interesting? Hidden pit traps with spikes or carnivorous animals in them and land mines sprinkled liberaly around the field of play.

That's similar to what George Carlin said about baseball...that there should be randomly placed land mines in the outfield. :lmao:
Logged
Voted hottest "chick" at CU - My hotness transcends gender

Offline Hawkgirl

  • Alpha Female
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4291
  • Reputation: +186/-73
Re: World Cup Discussion
« Reply #20 on: June 14, 2010, 03:54:42 PM »
Quote from: Zathras on June 14, 2010, 02:42:17 AM
You want to make soccer interesting? Hidden pit traps with spikes or carnivorous animals in them and land mines sprinkled liberaly around the field of play.

They should do that with football and baseball.

 :fuelfire:
Logged

Offline bkg

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2306
  • Reputation: +4/-15
Re: World Cup Discussion
« Reply #21 on: June 14, 2010, 07:37:48 PM »
Quote from: Zathras on June 14, 2010, 02:42:17 AM
You want to make soccer interesting?

You have a better chance of Getting Obama to roll back SS, Medicare/caid, Obamacare, all banking regulations, make public unions illegal, Fire 70% of Gov't, defend the border, and pay off the entire debt in 1 year while cutting taxes 80%...

Just sayin...
Logged

Offline Hawkgirl

  • Alpha Female
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4291
  • Reputation: +186/-73
Re: World Cup Discussion
« Reply #22 on: June 16, 2010, 04:40:50 PM »
I can not believe the Spaniards lost to the Swiss!!
THIS World Cup is surprising many of us...so far.
Logged

Offline NHSparky

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24431
  • Reputation: +1278/-617
  • Where are you going? I was gonna make espresso!
Re: World Cup Discussion
« Reply #23 on: June 16, 2010, 08:48:50 PM »
I can't believe anyone cares about this shit.

The only things in shorter supply in South Africa than orange slices and juice boxes are earplugs and Chapstick.
Logged
“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.”  -Henry Ford

Offline thundley4

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 40571
  • Reputation: +2222/-127
Re: World Cup Discussion
« Reply #24 on: June 16, 2010, 09:02:34 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on June 16, 2010, 08:48:50 PM
I can't believe anyone cares about this shit.

The only things in shorter supply in South Africa than orange slices and juice boxes are earplugs and Chapstick.

You can download the vuvzela as a ringtone.

http://www.zedge.net/ringtones/1029030/vuvuzela-ringtone/
Logged
Pages: [1] 2   Go Up
« previous next »