Comments on: Point the way to the World Cup threads.

Point the way to the World Cup threads.

sgt.serenity — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:33:26 -0800

Excuse Me , Where are the world cup threads ?

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:34:09 -0800

By: sgt.serenity

sgt.serenity — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:36:54 -0800

I'm in a foreign country (bosnia) and i turn up on mefi to congratulate Migs and rile the english and hey presto - no world cup threads at all - has the banhammer come down ? Has the Moratorium Moratorialirized ?
Has Europe finally left the Mefi ?

By: Gator

Gator — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:39:18 -0800

Are the "Ctrl" and "F" keys missing on Bosnian keyboards?

By: sgt.serenity

sgt.serenity — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:40:37 -0800

Thereš one kezboard between the lot of us.
whos for a šarajevo meetup ?

By: languagehat

languagehat — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:45:27 -0800

So were the Bosnians happy about the Serbs being eviscerated by Argentina?

By: amberglow

amberglow — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:46:13 -0800

World Cup? some sailing or hockey thing? ; >

By: vacapinta

vacapinta — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:46:47 -0800

Was the whole world happy to see the smug Brazilians get taken to school by France?

By: vacapinta

vacapinta — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:58:53 -0800

Regarding Miguel, I've been reading his online columns in order to improve my Portuguese. Here's the latest one.

As he says: "A Itália e Portugal são, neste momento, aliados fiéis, que se desejam ver na final. A Itália far-nos-á o favor de eliminar a Alemanha e nós faremos à Itália o favor de eliminar a França."

or, my translation: "Italy and Portugal are at this moment faithful allies who wish to meet each other at the finals. Italy will do us the favor of eliminating Germany and we will do Italy the favor of eliminating France."

By: hangashore

hangashore — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 10:16:31 -0800

Google translation of the column vacapinta linked. "Beach and tidbits" for all!

By: terrapin

terrapin — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 10:24:58 -0800

your team sucks

By: mediareport

mediareport — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 10:33:05 -0800

Try here and here.

By: terrapin

terrapin — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 10:40:31 -0800

I specifically didn't link to SpoFi because the community frowns on posting comments simply to taunt the supporters of other teams.

But your team still sucks.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 10:42:01 -0800

Balls. Leather balls. Kicked by boys, even.

By: Otis

Otis — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 10:50:04 -0800

Here's the World Cup thread that Miguel started.

By: Kirth Gerson

Kirth Gerson — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:04:06 -0800

This World Cup - it migrates?

By: fleacircus

fleacircus — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:49:47 -0800

yes, but why IS it so boring. </troll>

By: bardic

bardic — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:57:16 -0800

Germany has so got this thing wrapped up.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:03:31 -0800

Why is everyone mad about the missing cups?

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:09:16 -0800

It's the new Harry Potter, IRFH. Harry Potter and the Missing Cups.

Yeah, I got nuthin.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:20:51 -0800

I think the answer is SportsFilter, in addition to puke&cry's suggestion.

By: NinjaTadpole

NinjaTadpole — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 14:09:45 -0800

I'm in the bizzarre position of wanting Germany, led by Jurgen Klinsmann, to win something important.
How has that happened?

By: i_cola

i_cola — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 14:25:26 -0800

I have Portugal & Germany in the office sweepstake worth 40 or 20 quid respectively if they win so why do I want France or Italy to win..?

By: econous

econous — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:03:46 -0800

It seems to me that most people miss the essential point. I mean.. Yoda.. his intentions are alien aren't they?

By: mischief

mischief — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:10:56 -0800

Threads? Plural? As in, more than one?

By: Wolof

Wolof — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:20:50 -0800

Allez les vieux!

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:23:27 -0800

Aww paw widdle Becky's crying and paw liddle Terry and paw little Ferdy because the big bad Portuguese men came and took their liddle semmy-final away. And liddle Roo's mad because that pretty boy Ronny told the big bad referee to send Roo away and then Ronny winked at the other bad Portuguese men and then he scored the winning penalty so now everyone wants their mummy.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:47:09 -0800

Dear Miguel, how I miss you around here.

By: gsteff

gsteff — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:56:40 -0800

Whatever, he doesn't even use indefinite pronouns correctly anymore.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:58:19 -0800

Figo is the hawt. That is all.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 17:25:36 -0800

Talk about smoldering:

By: the cuban

the cuban — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 01:02:50 -0800

Was the whole world happy to see the smug Brazilians get taken to school by France?

No. Neutrals love Brasil.

England getting schooled by Portugal, however...

By: amberglow

amberglow — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:02:04 -0800

WTF, Der Spiegel???