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So, of course, Brumgoth is full of posts about football (CovHeretics, thankfully, isn't), the city centre pubs are full of drunks with England flags and/or facepaint, and the drunk who marched past my bus queue was yelling "C'maaan! Whazup! Aren't yer fuckin' proud of yer fuckin' country?".
Good question. I'm proud of a lot of the things it's done (which isn't quite the same thing) - but Beckham kicking a ball into a net isn't one of them.
It's not that I don't like football (I watched the Senegal/France match when I was in Montreal, and really enjoyed it), it's just that I don't take it quite that seriously - and I certainly don't think it's any real measure of patriotism (which is itself an entirely different can of worms, and one which I won't open here).
Am I missing something? (testosterone, perhaps?)
So, of course, Brumgoth is full of posts about football (CovHeretics, thankfully, isn't), the city centre pubs are full of drunks with England flags and/or facepaint, and the drunk who marched past my bus queue was yelling "C'maaan! Whazup! Aren't yer fuckin' proud of yer fuckin' country?".
Good question. I'm proud of a lot of the things it's done (which isn't quite the same thing) - but Beckham kicking a ball into a net isn't one of them.
It's not that I don't like football (I watched the Senegal/France match when I was in Montreal, and really enjoyed it), it's just that I don't take it quite that seriously - and I certainly don't think it's any real measure of patriotism (which is itself an entirely different can of worms, and one which I won't open here).
Am I missing something? (testosterone, perhaps?)
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There have been incidents in US cities where rioting breaks out if a sports team wins, complete with looting, burning cop cars and people being shot dead for not cheering "____ is number one".
I actually had to watch the news to see who won since it's been quiet around here all day. If it was my home town, I would be under a seige of banging lamposts with sticks, car horns and guns!
:O