USA: You realize we're a lost cause, right? Not just our soccer team. They're gonna lie down like Obi Wan this month. I'm talking about the whole country. I'm talking about the IDEA of America. It's hopeless. That whole thing about being a shining beacon of freedom to the rest of the world? GONE. Never coming back. You don't live in a free country. You live in a paranoid surveillance state oligarchy where people gun each other down in broad daylight completely at random. And you know something? It's never going to get better. Ever. The violence will escalate. Income inequality will widen. Twenty years from now, there will be one trillionaire (Donald Sterling) and 350 million people working as his personal wage slaves. Local infrastructure will deteriorate. People will forsake work and the duties of citizenship in favor of fighting unwinnable flame wars—digital arguments that increasingly have NOTHING TO DO with how people actually deal with one another in real life. Good ideas will be discarded because they're too expensive or because some dipshit company already has a vague patent on it and will do nothing with it but sue forever. Your house will be swept away in a Category 12 Nor'Eastercane. It's OK to admit it that it's over. Go ahead. Say it to yourself: America is no longer worth the effort. Feels good, doesn't it? Feels freeing. Finally, we can stop HOPING. We can be adults about this and accept the fact that AMERICA WILL DIE. And the worst part is that your cable bill will, like, double when it happens.
I wonder what will replace the Kazoo or Vueveuzela? as the biggest story in America regarding the world cup. Before that it was the mexican soccer announcer that prounounced GOOOOOALLLLLLL forever.
I don't know why, someone told me that at Carnival in Brazil, it just smells like ass everywhere since everyone is sweaty and almost naked and vibrating their buttocks. I just kind of assume its like that in Brazil.
I think the normal hipster is pulling for Camaroon. Its a funny sounding country name and obscure enough to be relevant for that purpose. The soccer poseur always cheers for the 3rd favorite team, about how they are "underrated" and how "x" is coming into his stride. I have no idea who that is though. someone let me know.
In Rio there are no public toilets at the beach, people just dig holes in the sand and piss and shit in them. Rio is dirty and nasty.
What can I say at a "pub" so that I seem like I have cred. Something that regular people can't verify, but sounds impressive about Belgium. "What I like most about Belgium is their ability to control the tempo" something like that?
Why Soccer Is Un-American "Sports are a reflection of national character and aspirations, and it is no coincidence, I think, that soccer has had a hard time catching on in the United States. Simply put, soccer—call it “football” if you must—is a tragic game, and thus it cuts deeply against the grain of the American ethos. Americans are an optimistic people. We like scoring too much to enjoy a game that is more about preventing success than achieving it." Soccer is like watching a bunch of Sisyphuses competing against each other by trying to roll the same rock up a hill—without using their hands, of course. And there’s a big guy on top of the hill just waiting to kick the rock all the way back to the bottom. Let’s remember that in the original myth, Sisyphus was being punished; there was no break in the action, and no flopping either. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/why-soccer-is-un-american-107793.html#.U5skBvldWgN
"The Americans' new red, white and blue colour-block shirts - critics say they resemble Domino's Pizza delivery uniforms" Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/fifa-world-cu...-cup-shirts-20140612-zs4li.html#ixzz34Y9kJUxT
