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HaemishM
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What...
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Fuck?
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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I agree.. those are a horrible style and color choice. OH OH THE CHAINS and SHACKLES! Yeah, saw that earlier today and really wondered if people are so far removed from reality that it did not occur to them that those might be a tad bit wrong.
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Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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Paelos
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/danieltosh "High Fashion"
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Paelos
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Why would soccer be afraid of goal line tech? I mean shit, it can't possibly slow down the game, nobody scores that much.
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Nebu
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Why would soccer be afraid of goal line tech? I mean shit, it can't possibly slow down the game, nobody scores that much.
I'll become a diehard soccer fan when they start doing something about all of the dives and play acting. That shit ruins the sport far more than any pace or lack of scoring issues.
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"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
- Mark Twain
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ghost
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No shit. Until they do the retroactive penalties/cards for the floppers nothing will change.
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HaemishM
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Sepp Blatter now says that "goal line tech is a necessity". Is there anyone more comically incompetent than this asshat? While just before the 2010 World Cup he was against it. He is the consummate politician. He is such a cockmunch. Hell, the entire soccer world was saying it was a necessity after the 2010 World Cup while he put it on a "meh, we'll see" ignore list. The only thing I can think of is he didn't get enough kickbacks from the companies making GLT until now. Corrupt shitcock.
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Paelos
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No shit. Until they do the retroactive penalties/cards for the floppers nothing will change.
Well yeah. That too, but I can't imagine retroactive replay is a bad idea in any facet of soccer.
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
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Paelos
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Yeah and it's already becoming an issue with the commish. However, I can see them stopping it through suspensions. Soccer won't do that.
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ghost
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Soccer should have done it years ago, but they can't even seem to get their shit together and come up with a simple electronic system to determine whether or not a goal is actually a goal.
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Sir T
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I was watching the European championships the other day (BTW the Irish team SUCKED and should have been beaten over the head as they got on the plane) and it was pretty stupid. For example, Italian player screams and flops on the ground clutching the back of his leg. The ref ignores it and the guy stays on the ground till the ref is forced to blow the whistle while the Irish team is actually attacking the italian goal for once in their lives in order to see if he is alright. Then the guy gets up, limps a bit then is suddenly jumping over tall buildings again.
And then they run the slowmo and the guy had actually slammed his shin off the back of an irish players leg rather than the other way around.
Even the defenders of the game say that the diving game is ruining the sport. Oddly I watched an american game on ESPN the other day and enjoyed it as there was none of that shit.
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Hic sunt dracones.
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ghost
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I hope everyone is watching the exhilarating 0-0 tie between the Czechs and Portugal today.
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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I hope everyone is watching the exhilarating 0-0 tie between the Czechs and Portugal today. Better than watching a bunch of doped up bicyclists riding around on their ten-speeds, screwing up traffic.
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Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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ghost
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I would disagree, but to each their own.
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HaemishM
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To be fair, the Italian team is NOTORIOUS for being diving bitches. It's one of the reasons I can't watch Seri A games (along with the Italian game being extremely defensive in nature). It infects the other major leagues, but not nearly as much as Seri A or the Italian national team.
Unless FIFA starts retroactively issuing cards for obvious dives, it ain't going away. They already do that sort of thing in the appeals process for red cards (i.e. rescinding a red card giving in error), so why not do it for diving if you are really serious about cutting that shit out of the game.
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ghost
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Now Sandusky's adopted kid, Matt, has accused him of abuse. Again, this dude is indefensible. It's sickening.
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Der Helm
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Paelos
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Sandusky guilty on 45 counts. He will die in prison.
He got off light.
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Abagadro
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I doubt he lives long.
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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
-H.L. Mencken
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WayAbvPar
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Is he still out on bond? If so, he will kill himself. Like he should have done 30 years ago when he started fucking people who couldn't give consent.
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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ghost
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Is he still out on bond? If so, he will kill himself. Like he should have done 30 years ago when he started fucking people who couldn't give consent.
No. They revoked his bail and took him to jail. Apparently he'll be kept in solitary confinement for a while, probably to keep an eye on him and see how stable he is. If he wanted to kill himself he should have done it long before the judgment was passed.
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Zetor
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I watched the Germany-Greece match from a random pub here in Corfu, and the locals were pretty livid when the Merkinator came on screen
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Der Helm
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I watched the Germany-Greece match from a random pub here in Corfu, and the locals were pretty livid when the Merkinator came on screen They same happens here in Germany. For different reasons, on the other hand maybe not so different at all...
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ghost
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Spain is beating the fuck out of France so far. It's only 1-0, but they've completely dominated the match. They look very, very good.
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HaemishM
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Oh England, is there no situation you can't fuck up? I got kind of disgusted with the England-Italy match. Italy was the better team because all England did was sit 10 guys behind the ball almost the entire fucking game. Granted, some of the England internationals are overrated - in particular I'm thinking of James fucking Milner. But there are some quality players on that team, and Hodgson had them lined up like they were a relegation-threatened lightweight up against Man U. Fucking ATTACK for FUCK'S SAKE. Milner starting every game on the right wing was idiotic. He's 1) better in the center of midfield (though not as good as either Parker or Gerrard) and 2) better defensively than offensively so is wasted as a winger. Glenn Johnson's defensive weaknesses luckily didn't affect them (probably because he had Milner back there defending most of the time). Wayne Rooney, whether from ring rust or just his usual disappearing act in big tournaments, was fucking worthless against Italy. Andy FUCKING STATUE Carroll had a better game than Rooney. EDIT: Also, Germany is going to win the Euros.
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Paelos
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I hope Germany does. I find them the least objectionable of the remaining divefests.
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Stewie
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I don't know if anyone here watches F1 but the race in Valencia on the weekend was pretty nuts.
I cant stand Lewis and yet I still feel bad for him as he didn't deserve to go out like that.
Overall a great season so far!
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sigil
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I don't know if anyone here watches F1 but the race in Valencia on the weekend was pretty nuts.
I cant stand Lewis and yet I still feel bad for him as he didn't deserve to go out like that.
Overall a great season so far!
I do, but usually time shifted for sometime durning the week. Also all you people bitching about diving in soccer, MLS rewatches every game and dishes out Reds and fines for diving and other unsportsmanlike conduct. Also, every single MLS game (save Dalas v Chivas) was more entertaining than the Euro Quarters this weekend. I didn't say higher quality. I said more entertaining.
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Germany versus Spain would be a quality match.
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HaemishM
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Germany versus Spain would be a quality match.
That's what the final will be.
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ghost
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You know, I've cheered England on in the past and I can't for the life of me figure out why. They play the most boring style of football and continually choke. The only thing interesting about them is that Wayne Rooney is likely to shiv someone at any moment. I think I'm done. I'm either adopting Spain or Germany. Probably Germany because they've brought football out of the dark ages of 89 minutes behind the ball and hope for a lucky cross.
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