World Cup 2014

[MyOneAndOnly]

if we all buy Toms shoes we'll save the feet of every poor kid in Africa. Because giving them money to buy their own shoes wouldn't make our online shopping experience feel good.

[Bread Regal]

stfu,s

[Trotskilicious]

at this point make a thread about gentrification/yuppie libs with soy based lattes and i'll come in and rant until my fingers are sore

[duovamp]

Nah this thread is pretty suited to bitching about privileges.

[MyOneAndOnly]

let's all laugh at Man U's new kits!

[Trotskilicious]

holy shit the english are going to hate the fuck out of that

[toase]

Originally Posted by bignothing

With the team we had, I'm satisfied we made it this far. Tonight we didn't even have that team, destabilized from the beginning. David Luiz broke my heart.
Do some of you think Brazil wanted to host the World Cup because we were sure we were gonna win? I mean, we're terrible at the Olympics and it's still exciting.

We will get over it, it was a nice (well organized) event and it will be until this weekend, that's pretty important too

Originally Posted by Rairun

Yeah, I'm not upset about the loss. I don't think I care enough about soccer to be, plus we all knew this was a sort of shitty generation. After 3 world cup titles from 1958 to 1970, we didn't win anything for 24 years. Then we reached 3 finals from 1994 to 2002 and were champions twice. Now it's time to lose again.

But I admit it's sort of annoying to see people from developed countries (mostly on twitter) trying to police how Brazil spends its money. It's not that there isn't anything to criticize - there certainly is. But there's always a paternalistic tone to their words. I'm sorry, but you don't get to pretend you're above it all when you've pillaged/conquered/exploited half the world.

It's just trolling, USA didn't even get that far in the tournament (and well, we don't have that many europeans here)

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

for real, and the other part of it is about how they "killed all the poors to build stadiums" and the rest of this nonsense when poor neighborhoods across the united states are being bulldozed every single day to install a vegan grocery and mixed use condos for white people

I don't get the parallel with vegan shops in the US, but, most of the "house being demolished" for the World Cup stadiums are just bullshit, the only real issue was the indigenous museum in Rio, but activists prevented it from being demolished...

[duovamp]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

holy shit the english are going to hate the fuck out of that

[MyOneAndOnly]

"Chevy, the heartbeat of America!"

[MyOneAndOnly]

[toase]

that's kinda scary

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by toase

W

I don't get the parallel with vegan shops in the US, but, most of the "house being demolished" for the World Cup stadiums are just bullshit, the only real issue was the indigenous museum in Rio, but activists prevented it from being demolished...

that's when houses and businesses are literally demolished to refurbish the neighborhood with a more bourgeoisie aesthetic so middle class white youth can live there again

is the comparison a little more clear?

i think brazil is getting a lot of heat about all the nepalese that are dying to build the qatari stadiums because americans can't tell this shit apart

but we can hope by 2022 either FIFA is dead and so is the world cup in qatar, or that any civilized nation would boycott that monstrosity

[Cool As Ice Cream]

Originally Posted by Bread Regal

honestly watching children at sporting events cry about their team's ass getting kicked is one of my favorite things in life

yes!
i was hoping for more of that.

[Mo]

Crying after 29 minutes, no less!

[Trotskilicious]

it's a metaphor for life, really. just when you think things might be okay the germans kick the shit out of you

[smashingjj]

no trots this world cup is clearly a metaphor and an advertisement campaign for Game of Thrones

[sppunk]

It's NED's turn!

[duovamp]

I cried when Tebow knocked the Stillers out of the playoffs. But those were tears of joy.

duovamp wept. Tebow 3:16.

[MyOneAndOnly]

[hnibos]

where is that from? She looks like the chick from the Sarah Connor Chronicles.

[MyOneAndOnly]

that's because she is from the Sarah Connor Chronicles

[MyOneAndOnly]

[MyOneAndOnly]

Hup! Hup!

[juliana]

I wonder if paz is watching the game lol

[sppunk]

C'mon Orange ...

[Bread Regal]

it looks like neither team has hit their stride here.

[smashingjj]

ughhhhhhhhh

[Bread Regal]

since i'm relatively new to football, i'm not sure if it's just me, but with the exception of Robben, neither Germany nor Holland is really about diving and time-wasting all that much.

[KAT]

zzZZzZZzz

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by Bread Regal

since i'm relatively new to football, i'm not sure if it's just me, but with the exception of Robben, neither Germany nor Holland is really about diving and time-wasting all that much.

what i find is much like the NBA, the accusations of diving are much ballyhooed and ultimately most of the dives are after legit fouls

like that one gif killtrocity likes to post of lebron obviously exaggerating his predicament when JR Swish wraps him up to try and steal the ball on the baseline, but JR definitely fouled him pretty badly.