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I'm so thankful the World Cup nonsense is done.
Who do we have to bomb to make sure this never happens again?
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Half of the humanity?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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In other words, "I'm not wrong, it's EVERYBODY else who is wrong!" 
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Him.[^]
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Dunno. However, please suspend the one just occurring, since it is not working.
THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?!
-- C++ FQA Lite
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Couldn't agree more!
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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MehGerbil wrote: I'm so thankful the World Cup nonsense is done.
Me too. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
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I know you're really missing the football but don't worry:
you'll be able to enjoy the start of the new league season next month
then the Euro qualifiers next year
then the Euro Championship after that
then the World Cup qualifiers
and finally another World Cup.
Plenty more to savour 
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Probably you are American... You cannot understand.
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Alex Fr wrote:
Probably you are American. |
I'm not, I'm from one of the most football-obsessed regions (even without the silverware to match) in the UK and I agree wholeheartedly with the OP. Totally pointless competition which we are forced to have discussed at us* at length, With the added benefit of the knowledge that pretty much everyone at the "professional" level in this country is earning more than me for kicking a ball pointlessly around a field whilst generating top-quality excuses for failure or thuggery.
* by us, I mean those of us who are totally disinterested in fußbal.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Yeah, you are not American, but you have another good reason to think so... I don't blame you.
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If the U.S. wins, it will stop.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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If the US wins "it" will freeze over 
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Oh, that's right, I forgot that soccer is the official sport there.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Would make sense, if it existed many of the top footballers would be heading there, probably for assaults of one kind or another...
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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How long until the lounge starts getting flooded by the next major Cricket Tournament?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Aren't all cricket posts re-directed to the GIT?
I do hope so - though I don't hate it, or rubgy, quite as much as I hate the footba'
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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A fair amount bleeds over to the lounge still.
Since march there've been 50 posts with cricket in on the lounge[^]; my eyeball filter puts about 1/3 of them being about the sport. (Most from 2 medium size threads.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I've tried in the past to get folks on this side of the pond to flood the site with NFL Football in retaliation, but apparently we, as a group, are far too polite and respectful to behave so thoughtlessly.
Will Rogers never met me.
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And we don't like NFL here anyway.
We could take up the MLB All Star Game though.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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I've been waging a different campaign that does not involve sport(s)* of any kind[^]
* delete according to national/presonal prejudice
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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If you're swimming against the tide so much, it should be a hint that you're the one who's out of kilter
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I'm sure that's what was said to Churchill after the treaty of Munich.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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The soccer hooligans are invading the internets!
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