I enjoyed it, and usually I don’t follow league football closely at home. There are plenty of sports I don’t particularly enjoy watching, but I’ve dialed down my Edgelord ‘What’s going on with the Sports Ball?!’ schtick as I don’t think it was doing me any favors.
The only reason I knew it was happening this year was because of all the shit the orange diddler was doing to meddle with it by denying/deporting refs and players, make it about himself, and outright cheating.
Every other year of the world cup I didn’t even know until is see a post about the winner
My mistake was only watching the final game live. Turned out to be a real snoozefest, with very, very few even mildly exciting moments.
How bad was it? Spain had 12 shots on net. Argentina had 0. Zero.
I think that any other game in the tournament would have been better to watch.
To be honest I’m a little sad to see it go because this has been the most I’ve seen other Americans take an interest in soccer, expanding their horizons beyond their own border a bit, and the banter between countries was fun in a way the Olympic medal farming doesn’t quite capture.
Seriously, thank fuck.
Didn’t even notice it. Heard that Spain won though. Congrats to them.
Next week baseketball or superb owl or some other shit will start. It never ends. Never.
superb owl
Wouldn’t some superb owls tbh.
baseketball
I should really get around to watching that movie. I saw it in the TV guide like 20+ years ago as a kid, but never watched it even though it sounded funny. Thanks for reminding me
I prefer female volleyball.
Explain yourself
It’s the shorts. I err I mean he likes the shorts.
Now, avoid bringing international events (and money by extension) to the United States until it stops with this Republican bullshit. It needs to be cutoff and isolated. Don’t reward it for this behavior. Reminds me of this, and we all know how it all turned out:
I’m so happy its over.
Look if you like organized sports fine. You have my vote.
But God… I just don’t care.
The organization is so thoroughly corrupt that I have no interest in it. Especially because I don’t like football/soccer that much to begin with
I’m just glad the late games are over.
European, I see
Only geographically, but don’t forget a billion people live in the same time zones as Europe and are equally interested in the World Cup. ;)
World Cup in what sport?
Football
Not liking something like this isn’t a brag… it’s just one less thing you can enjoy in life. One less thing you can watch. One less thing you can talk about. Etc…
The entire world partied for a month and you’re over here thinking you’re better because you were too cool to join in on the fun
Nobody likes that guy that tells himself he was, “too cool” to go to the party
The 10 to 10 ratio of up- and downvotes says a lot about the people here…
I don’t really use sites like this… when I was younger different forums on different sites was still a thing
I kind of out-grew that and focused on my real-world life. Got a woman, had kids, climbed the corporate ladder, etc… I get my news from RSS feeds and I spend my days actually going places and doing things. I’m still friends with people I met in elementary school. My kids have activities, I befriended other parents, etc…
But when the World Cup rolled around, this time, I’m high enough up the corporate ladder that not only do I get to work from home but I don’t really have scheduled work hours any more. I have tasks that need to be done but when I do them is up to me and if my board items are clear I don’t have anything to do. So this year I thought I’d watch the games and post about them on reddit… but that turned out to be a shit-show. Turns out reddit is a terrible place
So some quick research said, “try Lemmy”
I like that Lemmy is smaller, reminds me more of the forum days… but the people here don’t seem any different than the people on reddit; there’s just less of them
Nobody seems happy. In fact, they seem to get joy out making everything out to be as bad as it can possible be.
I just looked it up: 61% of the world watched at least one world cup game and at any give time around half the worlds population was watching. That’s fucking awesome that we do this. Half the world was cheering with me, dancing with me, partying with me… countries have ended wars in the past to participate… and the internet is full of people who think that sucks. Not just think it sucks, but think it’s cool to think it sucks.
My advice to anyone who sees this, just quit social media. That’s not new information, you hear it all the time… it’s even starting to be banned for children it’s so bad… but seriously. Give it up. This is no way to live. A past-time where this kind of constant negativity is being thrown in your face is no way to live.
I’m happy mate, and I enjoyed the world cup. There are positive people here as well - and this is from a Scotland fan :-)
Well-said
The entire world partied for a month
A whole lot of the world doesn’t give two shits about soccer… especially FIFA’s, for obvious reasons you seem to be willfully ignorant of.
61% of the worlds population watched at least one World Cup game this year.
If you had sat down and watched even a single game, at that point in time, people all over the world, lots of them, were watching that same game with you. They were cheering with you. They danced in the streets, threw parties, and just generally celebrated with you. Literally a global celebration that you were invited too
It’s such a big deal that, in the past, countries have literally ended wars with each other in order to participate
Being the weird-o kid that pretends like he’s too cool to go that party because “AcTuAlLy ThErE’s CoRrUpTiOn” is not nearly as cool as you think it is
Only for morons who think it’s cool to support corruption.
This has that big, “social incel” energy. Most of us went to a giant party and had the time of our lives. We drank, we danced, we cheered, we laughed, we got laid. It was great! But not you. You think you’re super cool because you didn’t go that party because, “AcTuAlLy PlAsTiC cUpS aRe BaD fOr ThE eNvIrOnMeNt”.
That’s just lame. Missing out on big fun events doesn’t make you cool… you’re just fucking up your own life. This is it, this is all you get. Don’t spend it watching from the sidelines
I’ll just copy and past something I said to somebody to somebody else
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I don’t really use sites like this… when I was younger different forums on different sites was still a thing
I kind of out-grew that and focused on my real-world life. Got a woman, had kids, climbed the corporate ladder, etc… I get my news from RSS feeds and I spend my days actually going places and doing things. I’m still friends with people I met in elementary school. My kids have activities, I befriended other parents, etc…
But when the World Cup rolled around, this time, I’m high enough up the corporate ladder that not only do I get to work from home but I don’t really have scheduled work hours any more. I have tasks that need to be done but when I do them is up to me and if my board items are clear I don’t have anything to do. So this year I thought I’d watch the games and post about them on reddit… but that turned out to be a shit-show. Turns out reddit is a terrible place
So some quick research said, “try Lemmy”
I like that Lemmy is smaller, reminds me more of the forum days… but the people here don’t seem any different than the people on reddit; there’s just less of them
Nobody seems happy. In fact, they seem to get joy out making everything out to be as bad as it can possible be.
I just looked it up: 61% of the world watched at least one world cup game and at any give time around half the worlds population was watching. That’s fucking awesome that we do this. Half the world was cheering with me, dancing with me, partying with me… countries have ended wars in the past to participate… and the internet is full of people who think that sucks. Not just think it sucks, but think it’s cool to think it sucks.
My advice to anyone who sees this, just quit social media. That’s not new information, you hear it all the time… it’s even starting to be banned for children it’s so bad… but seriously. Give it up. This is no way to live. A past-time where this kind of constant negativity is being thrown in your face is no way to live.
Seems like you’re the one with a problem: the obsession of watching a bunch of millionaires kicking a ball. It’s your money, spend it where you want to.
There is life besides soccer though and there’s a lot of stuff you can do to have fun, both alone and with your friends. One of us knows this.
Bye now.
They say it’s a cup, yet it is clearly participated on a field. And that field is plainly not big enough to house the whole world.
Lies through and through.
At least Trump won the game! Spain on the other hand… Terrible people. Terrible. Rapists and murderers. But they are winners when they get to stand in the man’s presence. /s
Does that mean we all… lost the game?
(le 2008 meme fedora tip)
The game has concluded since the Queen is dead.
The cup is the world
Hold on flat earthers, the inverted earth theory just dropped
🌏🏆
I have a burning hatred for football and football hooliganism.
Ugh, especially the hooliganism. People are way too mild on the hateful competitivism it breeds in fans and the millions it costs for demolishing our cities.
I have a “I don’t give a shit” about football but a love for hoolaganism
well, pay to fix all the destruction then.
and made me arrive on time each time football hooligans take the street and my bus has to be diverted.
The hoolaganism I enjoy does not involve destruction of public property or traffic disruption to be clear
then you just don’t know what hooliganism is.
A hooligan is a violent or rowdy person who engages in disruptive behavior, vandalism, or brawling in public places
Say for example, destroying a flock camera, or illegal Street art
Hooligans do it for the sake of destroying, because it feels good for them.
they’re nit doing it for a better world like the flock camera ppl
