Reader Jim called my attention to this amusing tw**t posted on this isn’t happiness. It’s especially appropriate after today’s results:
A footie tweet about England
June 24, 2014 • 11:35 am
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No visits for Italy. Uruguay has sent them straight home.
I was working on a very poor taste joke for if Nigeria didn’t make it through: Nigerians holding up signs saying “Bring Back Our Girls.”
It’s pitch black, but I grinned.
Oh damn, did I say pitch black?
Huff Post headline following another Suarez bite and Italy’s exit:
Chewy Luis and the Blues
Overrated band that got successful on the back of the hit film Back to the Denture.
Overrated by whom? I think to count as overrated there needs to be at least one person who thinks you’re good.
That’s actually pretty old but still funny.
In fact, I heard that Luis Suarez made the same joke about Italy. When asked to comment, one of the Italian players said “bite me”….
During England game today, they showed some English fans in the stands with a sign reading (something like):
“Plane ticket – $2000
Hotel for a week – $2000
Food, game tickets, etc. – $2000
Arriving after their elimination – Priceless”
Why is it that other people’s adversity can be hysterical?
How come the English figure all their expenses in dollars?
Maybe they bought everything from a web site that uses USD.
I’m English, I support England but I know only one person who was confident that England would progress into the knock out stage. Before the tournament started, most of us would have predicted England to finish third in the group.
Only an incurable optimist would lay out $4000 in the expectation that England would still be in it after the first two matches.
Love that kind of humour that plays with expectations!
It’s one of the most important joke mechanisms, even Freud knew it!
What’s red, white & blue and goes beep, beep, beep? England’s open top bus reversing back into the garage…..
Greece accepts another bailout and dives through to the next round. Check out this GIF to see what a blatant dive it was. Samaras plants his toes in the turf to make sure he goes down.
https://twitter.com/bruce_arthur/status/481555785148030976
Sorry, but you are blind if you don’t see the defender’s calf hook Samaris’s foot as he is getting ready to kick the ball. This will definitely throw off your kicking trajectory so that your foot doesn’t do what you are attempting to do.
You’ve got to be kidding. I was rooting against Greece, but Sio clearly ran into him and tripped him. That was a good call.
That’s been floating around for a few days at least. Hahahaha!
Doesn’t matter. It’s a classic. Can’t stop laughing. And hey I’m an England supporter.
LOL