2014 World Cup Running Commentary

Started by bayonetbrant, May 23, 2014, 11:36:15 AM

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If only there was a German word that captured the essence of schadenfreude ;)

TheCommandTent

While I wanted to see Messi win his World Cup the better team and probably the most consistently good team of the tournament won in the end.  Also for those who actually understand the game of soccer it was for the most part a fun match to watch and that goal.  :smitten:  I wish I had a first and second touch half that good.
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endfire79

I like Messi as well, but why did they give him the Golden Ball award??
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JudgeDredd

If you were aware of any commentary before or during the World Cup, it was his all along.

I've given up on honesty in FIFA - it's as corrupt as government.

In fact - I'm slowly but surely giving up on humanity! I always genuinely believed people were generally good - but my world has slowly been getting turned upside down over the years!
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W8taminute

I'm glad Germany beat Argentina after Argentina embarrassed Holland the other day. 
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bayonetbrant

How to tease the hell out of your Argentine friends.

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"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

JudgeDredd

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bayonetbrant

The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

MikeGER

#188
i like that cake  :smitten:

...Thank God the international media didn't discovered this picture from yesterday celebration in Berlin under the Brandenburg Gate yet ...it was 'hidden' in a whole series of pictures in our local newspaper website... ( i saw it when i was searching for a nice special one of celebrating players, that was in the print but not placed online...and thought GDS-Star will like to fool around on fb with it  ;))   

;)

JudgeDredd

lol - that's an unfortunate pose for a German today!  :2funny:
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BanzaiCat

That's just a friendly "hi" as opposed to a friendly "hi-el hitler" I think.  ::)

MikeGER

#191
...there is a big back and for swirling shitstorm battle going on in all kind of social media (like twitter #gauchogate ) about the mocking "Gauchodance" ...and of course some Argentinean sport media pulled the Nazi card already  ...biz as usual ;)



...its developing into an international crisis and the Political Correctness crowd here is going apeshit and having a fieldday all at the same time     ::)

(for non soccer enthusiast:  Gauchos  is the nickname of the Argentinean soccer team like Selecau for the Brazilian , and so one... the dance is part of fan-culture mocking each other  since  IIRC  2008 or so )   


 

JudgeDredd

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MikeGER

#193
 Judge, it was branded  'gauchodance' by the media. (see the YT vid)

it is part of fan clubs mocking each other with songs and choreography after a game 
to the rhythm of that children-song the loosing team is named first and you crawl around like 'unhappy and beaten' then with the wining team name you 'jump in the air like joy celebrating'

translation " xxx is walking like this , this is they way xxx is walking,  yyy is walking like this , this is the way yyy is walking "

xxx loosing team nick name
yyy winning team nick name     

JudgeDredd

Yeah - I watched the vid and read the report.

So by the PC mad crowd it's being interpreted as Argentinians being beaten and hunch back but the Germans standing tall and proud? Oh well...suck it up  ;D

Good tournament from your lot.
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