Social The Social Party - Version 3

Nah, this thread is impossible to kill...

 

But it can sleep from time to time...

 

It idolizes Rip Van Winkle and Sleeping Beauty.

 

My turn...

 

Their turn!

 

How come no one here is talking about the World Cup, anyway?? You're not all US Americans, are you?

 

Not all of us Americans hate soccer/football. I've been watching some of the games. I watched the US team finally beat Ghana. Saw an idiot get red carded in the Cameroon vs Croatia game yesterday . Now I have the Japan vs Greece game on.

 

EDIT: I love it when the boards glitch and make me double post the same thing.

 

Gangrenous: I know. But it does get a lot less coverage there than pretty much everywhere else.

The World Cup is just one of these events that everyone here seems to talk about, even if they don't care for football/soccer at all the rest of the time. We've got people from all over the world in my office, so it's particularly interesting. Our two Spanish guys received a lot of commiseration and even some condolatory hugs the other day.

Germany's first game went a lot better than I had expected, it'll be interesting to see if they can keep it up.

 

That's true Morgaine but it is growing in popularity though. Maybe someday will catch up with the rest of the world in our love of the game and start doing the chanting/singing and such.

 

Now that's an interesting 'double post'.

True, you never find anything interesting on TV while there's an important match on. And most people will make very sure not to accept any appointments for that time.

Two years ago during the European Championship, I had a colleague who actually took the whole time off from work so he could watch every. single. game. Personally, I think that's a slight overkill.

And now I should go and watch Germany's game so I can keep up with the discussions on Monday.

 

We have professional soccer teams here with more coming into existence seemingly each year, Sabine. But it does seem more watch during the World Cup, FIFA European Tournament and the Olympics.

Might lose electricity. Severe storms here.

 

What other sports? Hockey? Baseball? Basketball? Cricket? Pod racing?

How about American football or NASCAR?

 

I don't care for NASCAR but it's really popular here. Formula 1 racing, however, isn't very popular on this side of the "pond". Unless it's the horse races for people to bet on, the papers here don't cover horse riding. Sometime rodeo is covered though.

 

Ice hockey is really popular over here, at least in the northern and central portions of the country. There are even a few teams in the southern part of the country where ice almost never exists outside(Florida, Arizona, Los Angeles(the last two in the desert part of the country)). It's even discussed during the off season(trades, injury updates, hall of fame inductions, etc...)

 

A double post! Haven't had one of those in a while...

 

What the hell, I know I clicked twice, but where is the third post coming from??

And now my original post is gone. This is messed up.

What did I write?? Let's see if I can reconstruct it or if the boards will eat my post again...



I haven't seen any Rodeo here. I did a quick search and found a music festival with that name and several sites from animal rights activists, so I guess you could say the 'sport' is rather unpopular here.

Equitation doesn't really get much coverage at all here, though - even though the region I live in is actually famous for its horses! It's really mostly football with a bit of Formula 1 and a few less popular sports like Tennis mixed in. Most sports only get coverage when there's a special event going on - like American Football, which only seems to exist at the time of the Super Bowl.

So, next game is Germany vs. USA. Your predictions?


Whatever happened to the edit counter anyway, this post must have an impressive number by now.

 

As much as I hate to say it, the best the USA team can realistically hope for is a draw.

What about darts and billiards?