@Gingerlyyours: Frank Lampard. His exact words were that "there was only one team in it" in the first 20 minutes of the game - and he actually meant England. I fear years of heading the ball have left him with rather severe hallucinations.
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@PaigeTurner: I'm with you. She seems to have been unable to move beyond the spunky-young-thing act of her childhood. She has been so one-dimensional in her later roles.
@inessita: Wow. That is why we always watch Germany games at home...on our own. A two-person cheer squad doesn't make for the greatest atmosphere, but there's no abuse to deal with, either.
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@laetitiae: Did you see Gerard Pique during the Spain v Honduras game the other day? I know I shouldn't laugh, but the poor guy turned up with a bandage over his eye (from the Switzerland game), ends the game with another one over his lip, and got a sturdy kick in the groin for good measure. He'll probably turn up to the game against Chile wrapped up like an Egyptian mummy.
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@Texpat: If you've got time on your hands and like a bargain, try trawling through the racks at TK Maxx. I've bought lots of good pairs there over the years, from Diesel and 7 For All Mankind to True Religion.
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@Jane_H: There have been several Aussie PMs who first achieved office without contesting an election as party leader - Menzies, Gorton, McMahon, Keating, for example.
It's hardly unusual in Australian political history.
It's hardly unusual in Australian political history.
@Ailatan: Oh yeah, I wouldn't miss the game for anything, but I am just going to have to avoid reading most of the media coverage here in the lead-up to it...
Also, I guess I have an unusual perspective on the whole thing. My husband's family are German, but he was born and raised in England, and he's a bit sensitive about the whole thing. He remembers after Euro 96, when Germany beat England in the penalty shoot-out, and England supporters ran up and down this very street vandalising German cars. Some people really need to chill.
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Also, I guess I have an unusual perspective on the whole thing. My husband's family are German, but he was born and raised in England, and he's a bit sensitive about the whole thing. He remembers after Euro 96, when Germany beat England in the penalty shoot-out, and England supporters ran up and down this very street vandalising German cars. Some people really need to chill.
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@CurtCole: Come on. It's gotta be Tilda Swinton. She and Gillard were separated at birth, for sure.
@rah29: Yes! This is one of my favourite tidbits about her (from The Sydney Morning Herald):
"A straight-A student at an Adelaide high school, Gillard showed she had the ability to stand up to the blokes when she led a delegation against a physics teacher known to favour male students - his examples were inevitably of motorbike engines and boys' toys.
The adolescent Gillard declared his approach unacceptable and said if he did not include the girls it would be taken up the school totem pole."
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"A straight-A student at an Adelaide high school, Gillard showed she had the ability to stand up to the blokes when she led a delegation against a physics teacher known to favour male students - his examples were inevitably of motorbike engines and boys' toys.
The adolescent Gillard declared his approach unacceptable and said if he did not include the girls it would be taken up the school totem pole."
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Soooo, Franz Beckenbauer writes a piece for Bild in which he says the Germany-England game should be a semi-final, but that England "stupidly" screwed things up by finishing second in their group...and he's right. It's a shame to have such a potentially great - and highly anticipated - game so early in the tournament.
But of course, the Daily Mail and The Sun have already re-written it so that Beckenbauer has simply called the English "stupid."
I hate this nationalistic bullshit. I am sick to death of all this Germany-baiting in the lead-up to any Germany-England clash. I am sure most England supporters are capable of enjoying an exciting game between two old football foes without needing the tabloids to get them fired up with the same tired, old World War II Kraut cliches.
Ugh, Sunday can't come - and go - quickly enough.
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But of course, the Daily Mail and The Sun have already re-written it so that Beckenbauer has simply called the English "stupid."
I hate this nationalistic bullshit. I am sick to death of all this Germany-baiting in the lead-up to any Germany-England clash. I am sure most England supporters are capable of enjoying an exciting game between two old football foes without needing the tabloids to get them fired up with the same tired, old World War II Kraut cliches.
Ugh, Sunday can't come - and go - quickly enough.
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@pinkcrickets: Agreed. One thing I do like about the show is that the village women are presented as individuals, rather than the cardboard cut-outs you often get in shows like this. And, as in that clip you mentioned about the fishing, the women are not pitiful creatures, but capable of taking the piss out of the Brits and voicing their often strong opinions. (Bruce Parry's Tribe does a good job of this, too).
As I touched on above, though, I wonder about how the women cope with the disruption to their lives after the British women have driven off at the end of the show.
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As I touched on above, though, I wonder about how the women cope with the disruption to their lives after the British women have driven off at the end of the show.
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@pinkcrickets: I don't like what I've seen of it (I watched some of it last season, and caught the first episode this year). Who cares if some privileged woman from the West has her eyes opened and realises how lucky she is to live the life she does? Or that the experience has "healed" her, as seems to be the theme. The "tribal women" themselves don't seem to gain anything from it, apart from a brief friendship with the British woman.
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@rd2uk: Yeah, I caught it earlier!
I haven't seen Maradona's eyes bulge that much since he scored that goal against Greece at USA 1994. (Although I'm pretty sure he was playing it for laughs this time).
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I haven't seen Maradona's eyes bulge that much since he scored that goal against Greece at USA 1994. (Although I'm pretty sure he was playing it for laughs this time).
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@rd2uk: Oh my, that was hilarious (tinges of homophobia aside, of course). God knows how the translator interpreted the question...
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@Maritsa: Yippeee, we can now make a respectable exit and go quietly into the night!
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@Maritsa: YAAAY!!!
We don't expect much, right?
I was never counting on Greece to win the damned Cup...or even just to get out of their group...but their first ever World Cup goal - woo hoo for small victories!
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We don't expect much, right?
I was never counting on Greece to win the damned Cup...or even just to get out of their group...but their first ever World Cup goal - woo hoo for small victories!
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@DexterHaven: She's not so bad but what bugs me is the way she has maintained that Blue Peter-like manner - she always (pause) SOUNDS like she's (pause) SPEAKING to PRE-schoolers.
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@cottonstar: And double extra bonus points if she says it's "for the children."
What makes me laugh about that Miley Cyrus statement is that she says there are more important things in the world to focus on...and then, presumably because she can't actually think of what those "important things" are, she plumps for "world peace."
OMG, you guys, WORLD PEACE!!! Bless her, I guess she's...trying.
OMG, you guys, WORLD PEACE!!! Bless her, I guess she's...trying.
@Had a brain tumor for breakfast: @bitchyolympian: Her only excuse would be if she's trying to position herself as a female lead for romantic comedies, but that doesn't seem to be happening, so...pretty cringeworthy stuff.
