So when was the last time the NAACP found something more racially offensive than their own organization’s name?
What gets me is there are so many better things to watch on TV than the World Cup if you want to watch people not kick soccer goals.
I’m forced to use divide and multiply to shift bits in visual basic. That’s like using a car as a wheelbarrow.
Commenter on Obama: “He’s the black Justin Bieber…and just as tough.”
What’s that weird buzzing sound during the game? Did someone decide soccer wasn’t quite annoying enough already?
Before, I made fun of soccer fans. Now with these noisemakers, I want them all dead.
Let’s not host the World Cup again. I don’t want these people and their noisemakers in our country.
I tried to give soccer another chance, but just a couple minutes of watching and I’m enraged the sport exists.
Couldn’t they change the rules to soccer so there’s more scoring. Would that be so bad?
Couldn’t they have death squads roaming the stands killing anyone with those noisemakers. Would that be so bad?
Maybe for the next soccer game, the announcers could have an alarm clock going off in the background with no one turning it off.
If I set a howler monkey on fire, it would sound 10 times less annoying than the World Cup and be 100 time more interesting.
Do only Jedi have lightsabers, because it seems like it would be useful to anyone who does lots of yard work.
They should have a True Blood/Jersey Shore crossover. “Snook-eh!”
I dunno, lightsabers might set the grass on fire. Then again, it would stop squirrels from stealing bird seed…
The problem with soccer is that the field is about 3 times too large.
If they would play it in the space they use for arena football, it might actually be exciting.
Well that or give them motorcycles.
Motorcycles and light sabers!
I’d watch soccer if they threw a few dozen tigers and Komodo dragons on the field with the 2 teams of metrosexual football wannabes.
the only thing that comes even close to that buzzing is that damn drum at the Indians game – Go Nats!
The organizers gave out free horns – or perhaps they had to be bought. I once had the same experience at a Hershey Bears hockey game, except it was more an angry moose sound. I wanted to find the kid with one nearest me and break it over his head.
Frank, Frank, Frank. ‘Tis difficult to compare the two, but are you one of those people who complains when a college football game “doesn’t have enough offense”? More scoring wouldn’t help soccer. Maybe Veeshir is right. My Dad once attended something called “arena soccer” and said it wasn’t as boring.
Soccer reminds me of hockey in the amount of time spent in the neutral zone, but in most hockey games the action is much faster, there are many more shots on goal, there are checks and hits, and there is even the guilty pleasure of fighting. For someone used to sports like hockey, football, and basketball, soccer becomes more boring than baseball.
Re: flaming howler monkeys
Absolutely.
You’re spot on in regards to all your soccer ideas. I only watched the first half of the US game and I had the volume on next to nothing, and I still wanted to kill all the idiots with the noisemakers. I didn’t think you could get a kazoo to be that loud.
I fully support death squads, howler monkies, body checks, fights, and any other idea for improving soccer.
You can tell it sucks as a programming language because it has “basic” in the name.
Frank, I’m a little fuzzy on this noisemaker thing. Could you be a little clearer?
yeah, but do you like soccer?
Since the company at which my wife works is a headline sponsor for the world cup, we got a package of branded items. Among the items was a vuvuwhatever horn. Just one of these things can be unbelievably loud … I can’t imagine what a stadium full of these things blowing would sound like. I bet an AC 130 would have little problem targeting each one individually …. just sayin’….
NOW we know what happenned to all of the soccer moms and dads. Ever been to a organised soccer game for school kids? Same noise. I’m going back to the firing range. it’s quieter.
“They should have a True Blood/Jersey Shore crossover. ‘Snook-eh!'”
That raises an interesting question. Which venereal diseases could be contracted by sucking blood?
Re: the annoying buzzing sound.
Still not as bad as FSU’s tomahawk chop.
Commenter on Obama: “He’s the black Justin Bieber…and just as tough.”
Admit it, we all thought it, I was just the only one to write it.
That hurts me so much.
Shiggz super awesome donkey happy fun banana time random quotes of others.
-“He regards homosexuality as, most probably, biologically determined, and while he opposes gay marriage as culturally subversive, he has no problem with gay civil unions. — which is the stance of President Obama and Hillary Clinton… He is not opposed to capital punishment, but he ‘wouldn’t go to the mat over it.”…..Zev Chafets describing Rush Limbaugh
-“A Chinese businessman said to me over lunch in Beijing, “In many ways the financial crisis and the discrediting of the American model has been bad for us. You see, we don’t really have an ideology anymore. We don’t know what we believe in. We used to think it was some version of the American Dream — liberalize, open up, grow. But then you had your crisis. We can say, it proves we’re strong. But where do we go now?” ”
-Support for Obama among Spanish-speaking Hispanics has dropped over 20 points, from 73% in January to 52% now.
-in 1957, Golda Meir, a future prime minister of Israel, spoke at the National Press Club in Washington. She said, unfortunately prophetically, “Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”
-The problem isn’t that Greece is the sick man of Europe, but that Germany is—and, when the economic engine of a continent no longer has enough folks to shovel the coal in, that puts a huge question mark over Ireland, Sweden, Slovenia and beyond.
-Industries seldom reform themselves, and real competition usually comes from the outside
-Bubbles burst when there are no longer enough excessively optimistic and ignorant folks to fuel them.
-You teach people how to treat you.
-The idea that we can create a heaven on earth through pharmacology and neuroscience is as utopian as the Marxist hope that we could create a perfect world by rearranging the means of production. The history of totalitarianism is the history of the quest to transcend the human condition and create a society where our deepest meaning and destiny are realized simply by virtue of the fact that we live in it. It cannot be done, and even if, as often in the case of liberal fascism, the effort is very careful to be humane and decent, it will still result in a kind of benign tyranny where some people get to impose their ideas of goodness and happiness on those who may not share them.
-Courage is being scared to death…but saddling up anyway -John Wayne
-By raising expectations for what government can do and for campaigning irresponsibly against the failures of his predecessor, Obama made his own eventual fall all the more precipitous.
-This is when you know you are truly harpooned, when your problem has become someone else’s meal ticket.
-intelligence is a tool. The world’s best hammer does not guaranteee its user will be a good carpenter. The world’s best microscope gives no guaranteee its user will make the right conclusions about what she sees through it. Intelligence is not much difference. it’s what you do with it that matters.
And what you do with it depends on a lot of other factors: judgment, character, integrity, objectivity, humility, experience, something like “common sense,” to name but a few. These other factors are often more determinative of a useful, accurate thinking result than raw SAT firepower.
The smartest person in the world is going to be blind to some things if he sees only what he wants to see or is conditioned to see or predisposed to believe. I for one am not impressed by hearing how very “bright” someone is. I am far more interested in how honest he is, for example. Putting it another way, “discernment” is made up of many things other than a certain slice of rational faculties.
The NAACP’s main agenda is to instigate and antagonize. That is offensive.
Semi-serious ways to get more scoring in soccer
1) Allow unlimited substitution (well, some limits, but like basketball or hockey), so the guys aren’t dead tired after running around for 90 minutes.
2) As a follow-up to 1, play four quarters rather than two halves.
3) Get rid of the offsides rule (in actual football, this would be like banning a pass to a guy who’s wide open downfield because the DB slipped)
4) Throw red cards for flopping.
5) More hot soccer babes.
Did you ever notice that soccer is popular only in socialist countries and in Latin American dictatorships?
In the U.S. it’s only played by children on Saturday mornings in suburban, rigidly-controlled leagues directed by wannabe dictator parents.
In parts of the world where it’s too cold to play soccer, they play hockey, eh? Da.
I’m not sure what version of VB you’re using, but I think they all can performs bitwise operations…You really should switch to C# though.
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