World Cup madness
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I was in Denmark for their first game. The guy running the place I was working told everyone they could watch the game. He laid on popcorn, sweets and soft drinks. He'll get a lot more out of his staff for the rest of the year than the couple of hours that cost him.
a) It's not just England.
b) Treat your staff with respect, and they'll repay you.
a) It's not just England.
b) Treat your staff with respect, and they'll repay you.
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EH7
Out of a population of 50 million 15 million people watched it - How often do 15 million people get together and cheer for one thing? If you can't see the benefits of the world cup for the country and the countrys its been held in (i.e south africa) then quite frankly you have a very naive view on the matter, based purely on the fact you don't like football.
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largada
what what how does one improve on perfection :|:|
But i promise to be a good book worm if you promise to get a sense of humour
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Sense of humour failure much
For a joke like that to be funny, it needs to stand up.
I suppose that if you think WW2 was England v Germany (or even Britain v Germany), then maybe it does stand up...
...Except for the bit about the Americans turning up late, that makes no sense at all... also, the French didn't surrender, they were brought down by a combination of poor tactics and infighting... so, basically, it's an attempt to shoe-horn a tiresome, ill-eductated WW2 reference into a situation that just doesn't fit...
Ho, ho, ho... yawn...
Steve
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largada
Ooo i can think of a few others that did that....... erm blackadder; monty python;only fools and horses; fawlty towers, dads army, steptoe and son...... oh thats it i agree yawn yawn yawn
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I'd suggest that the fact that other people have said amusing things about a subject doesn't mean that every attempt to say something funny about that subject is amusing.
Yours is like the jokes that have gone before... but with the comedy removed.
(Along with the insight, intelligence, imagination and originality...)
Steve
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Dawg
Well. Lagarda's joke is doing the rounds. It's in Popb1tch and I've had it in two emails.
Which proves nothing, but suggests that there are lots of other people who do find it amusing. Low life, unintelligent, uneducated, illiterate, ahistorical swine I'd say. Shouldn't be allowed: if it's not in the Guardian Book of Historically Accurate Sporting Witticisms, (Edinburgh edition) it should be banned and burnt!
Which proves nothing, but suggests that there are lots of other people who do find it amusing. Low life, unintelligent, uneducated, illiterate, ahistorical swine I'd say. Shouldn't be allowed: if it's not in the Guardian Book of Historically Accurate Sporting Witticisms, (Edinburgh edition) it should be banned and burnt!
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Just to show that there's life left in the "England - Germany = WW2" dog:
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport...-hitler-was-german,-say-experts-201006242846/
(Though maybe all that's left is humour about the comparison, rather than in it.)
Steve
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport...-hitler-was-german,-say-experts-201006242846/
(Though maybe all that's left is humour about the comparison, rather than in it.)
Steve
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largada
Now thats how to do a retort
genius in my opinion and the only reason steve thanked you for that post was hopefully because he learned that to respond to a humourous post that you may not like is to respond in a humourous way........Hmm i wonder if humour is written in the genetic code and is therefore sadly missing in some people?? just a thought
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EH7
One of the saddest posts i've ever seen, it was a joke, you don't have to point out all of the historically incorrect things about it - you must have a very boring life.
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Hmmm. Interesting Steve. The Americans did, in a sense turn up late.. in 1942 after Pearl Harbour when they declared war. The war had been under way about 2 years by then. My history book says that the French surrendered in 1940. Hitler dictated that the French capitulation take place at Compiegne, a forest north of Paris. This was the same spot where twenty-two years earlier the Germans had signed the Armistice ending World War I. Hitler intended to disgrace the French and avenge the German defeat. To further deepen the humiliation, he ordered that the signing ceremony take place in the same railroad car that hosted the earlier surrender.
It was brought about by being unable to fight the blitzkreig and in-fighting; but the fact is ... they did surrender.
It was brought about by being unable to fight the blitzkreig and in-fighting; but the fact is ... they did surrender.
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Yes, in WW2, but not in the World Cup.
(Though, if they did, that might explain how England managed to score an early goal against them in the first game.)
As I said before, it's an attempt to shoe-horn a WW2 joke into the situation, but the humour doesn't work because the parallels don't stand up.
Steve
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The scored their 4th goal (of the tournament) in the last minute, they didn't turn up late.
As I said, "shoe-horn".
I have no idea.
Steve
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http://article.wn.com/view/2010/06/24/US_wins_in_91st_minute_on_Donovans_goal_World_Cup/
Without that goal they weren't going through. So it is a late arrival.
Without that goal they weren't going through. So it is a late arrival.
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The scored their 4th goal (of the tournament) in the last minute, they didn't turn up late.
As I said, "shoe-horn".
I have no idea.
Steve
The last minute goal made them go through, get your facts right before you criticize someone for a joke. And clearly me thinking you live a sad, boring life makes me less intelligent than you, but yet you say this then go and spread around your word like it should be listened to despite being completely inaccurate?
We must all listen to your opinion, you clearly have a great sense of humor. So what if it was an attempt to "shoe-horn" a world cup joke, if you don't like it - ignore it, quite frankly you don't sound like the sort of person i want telling me a joke.
Maybe your life would be improved if you stopped taking it so seriously, and maybe read a book on the rules of group stage world cup matches.
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This is the kind of thing I hate about 'English football':
Great Escape: World Cup Edition
I'm sorry, what?...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Great-E...f=sr_tr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1277491467&sr=1-1
What the f*ck has The Great Escape got to do with the England Football Team? It's veiled racism aimed at the lowest brain cell....
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Great Escape: World Cup Edition
I'm sorry, what?...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Great-E...f=sr_tr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1277491467&sr=1-1
What the f*ck has The Great Escape got to do with the England Football Team? It's veiled racism aimed at the lowest brain cell....
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Yeeeessss... but it doesn't mean they turned up late...
I do have my facts right.
That wasn't the point I was making, but I suppose that, if your idea of good humour is a poorly-observed and derivative joke about WW2 being England v Germany, you were never going to get my point...
Interesting.
Interesting again.
This is soooo funny.
Let me spell it out: my reply to you was making the point that it would be crazy for me to attach any importance to your opinion of me as you don't know me. But, at the same time, you think your ill-informed opinion of me is so important, you felt the need to tell me who I am.
You're not the sort of person who would get the joke.
If I read those rules, would they tell me that a team that's been there since the first minute of their opening group game had "turned up late"?
I suspect not.
Steve
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This might help Steve.
The theory is an evolutionary and cognitive explanation of how and why any individual finds anything funny.
Effectively, it explains that humour occurs when the brain recognizes a pattern that surprises it, and that recognition of this sort is rewarded with the experience of the humorous response, an element of which is broadcast as laughter.
" The theory further identifies the importance of pattern recognition in human evolution: "An ability to recognize patterns instantly and unconsciously has proved a fundamental weapon in the cognitive arsenal of human beings.
The humorous reward has encouraged the development of such faculties, leading to the unique perceptual and intellectual abilities of our species.
Earl
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That makes sense.
I'm not in any way susprised by a lame England v Germany = WW2 comparison (as I've heard soooo many of these before).
What is surprising is that there are still adults in the UK who are surprised by it.
Steve
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Quite Kraut is so much more appropriate for the master race.
Just like Bill Clinton saying he did not have sex with Monica,so the Krauts did not know what was going on in the gas ovens.
Ooops slight veering to the left there.
:|Earl
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