@John Cuthber

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
And I was never interested in sport.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha"

You are lucky

.No AI was detected in Gptzero on this occasion.

Wait, I have not put it through the Schadenfreude machine yet.

Edited 7 hours ago7 hr by geordief

I was reading at BBC about how Nigel F resigned and happened to notice there's some sort of international sporting event involving something called a cup and people kicking balls around a field. There seems to be some immensely complex system for determining who wins this cup, involving 30-50 years of playoffs and a team of mathematicians using advanced combinatorics and possibly string theory to determine arcane "rankings" and decide who enters the finals. Argentina and Brazil seem to be good at it, whatever it is they do on the field (seems to involve passing a ball around and then maybe once every hour or so some actually interesting action that lasts about five seconds), possibly from forcing toddlers to train in special reeducation camps or "favelas"'as they're called, starting at age 18 months.

Not sure why the finals are being held in some backward and xenophobic banana republic with baking hot summers and large numbers of citizens carrying guns around. Perhaps it's that the country's authoritarian leader is in bed with the president of the sport's governing body? You would think it wouldn't be that hard to grab the couple while they're locked in one of their amorous embraces and drop them down a mineshaft or similar.

7 hours ago, John Cuthber said:

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
And I was never interested in sport.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

ha - you missed one.

😃

2 hours ago, TheVat said:

Argentina and Brazil seem to be good at it

Not this year.
Brazil is gone, and Argentina is behind 1 - 0 to Egypt after 60 min. with an Egyptian second goal just disallowed due to a foul in the build-up.

And now Egypt up 2 - 0 over Argentina at 67 min !

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by MigL

8 minutes ago, MigL said:

Egyptian second goal just disallowed due to a foul in the build-up.

Only a temporary reprieve. 2-0 now and into the final quarter.

2 minutes ago, sethoflagos said:

and into the final quarter.

So now we have 'quarters' ?
I guess the hydration ( commercial ) breaks have forced it on us.
Capitalism and corruption; each enables the other.

4 minutes ago, MigL said:

So now we have 'quarters' ?
I guess the hydration ( commercial ) breaks have forced it on us.
Capitalism and corruption; each enables the other.

I note that UEFA has very publicly stated there will be no such breaks in their competitions.

Spoke too soon.
Argentina scored three goals in the last 15 min.
Their last goal is a little controversial, due to fouling in the build up ( which similarly denied Egypt's 3rd goal ), so there have been some 'confrontations' and complaints, after and during the last few minutes of play.

Luck seems to still be with Argentina.

1 hour ago, MigL said:

Not this year.
Brazil is gone, and Argentina is behind 1 - 0 to Egypt after 60 min. with an Egyptian second goal just disallowed due to a foul in the build-up.

And now Egypt up 2 - 0 over Argentina at 67 min !

Was speaking historically (from the faux persona of someone who only yesterday heard of soccer). (One child and I used to play, practicing with a Limey neighbor and another urchin in the street; my kid was then in a youth league for a year or so)