Who will be the second team from Group B to go to the semifinals?
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Who will be the second team from Group B to go to the semifinals?
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MikeJ
My uncle has four goals in an account in Nigeria. Please send me your bank account details and when the goals are released we’ll split them.
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
@MikeJ: /thread
bill d
So much for channel line ups. I watched 15 minutes of NBA pregame drivel before I decided to check ESPN2.
Amir Khalid
I slept through the last match. I didn’t really fancy watching a rugby score victory to Spain. This at least looks like being more evenly matched.
@MikeJ:
As evidence of your good faith, I must ask you to send me at least one of those goals via a trustworthy third party first. Then we can talk.
(A friend of mine once told me her husband liked to respond to Nigerian email scammers in this manner. She said he found it amusing.)
Thlayli
Where did Mikel learn to do that?
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
@Amir Khalid: There are apparently a number of people who like to bat the mice around wrt Nigerian scammers.
gogol's wife
@MikeJ:
I thought, you’re really not desperate enough to click on this thread when you know nothing about soccer, are you? I was rewarded for my desperation. Thanks for the laugh.
burnspbesq
Miracles of modern technology: I can watch the entirety of this match on my iPad. There will be no crimes of violence at 5:00 p.m. Pacific time when spouse wants to watch game 7 of the NBA finals on the big TV.
Miracles of modern technology, part deux: I will not have to get up at 2:00 a.m. Pacific time on Sunday to watch India mop the floor with England in the final of the ICC Champions Trophy. What was that about “oh, they won’t be the same without Tendulkar?”
Amir Khalid
The BBC liveblog notes that Chelsea FC have now scored six goals in the Confederations Cup today. Four to Nando Torres (Four! His best single-match tally in a while, I reckon), one to Juan Mata, and now one to John Obi Mikel.
burnspbesq
Can somebody translate Macca’s halftime comments? I don’t speak Scouse.
Amir Khalid
@burnspbesq:
Have you no Beatles albums?
bill d
One would think that FIFA (almost typed FISA due to current events) would have fancier looking head bandages.
burnspbesq
OK, this is ridiculous. Spain has so much depth coming through its development system that they sent two completely different teams to the European U-21 championship (which they won) and the U-20 world championship (which starts tomorrow in Turkey).
beer time somewhere
Has Suarez bitten anyone yet.
burnspbesq
@Amir Khalid:
Tahiti did pretty well. They only gave up a try, a conversion, and a penalty.
Amir Khalid
@beer time somewhere:
Alas, no. In fact he seems rather out of the main action. Which continues with a really nice goal from Diego Forlan: one-two to Uruguay.
burnspbesq
Question: if Torres bites you, do you get vaccinated for tetanus or rabies?
Roger Moore
@burnspbesq:
All of them, Katie.
beer time somewhere
@burnspbesq:
Tetanus is a shot in the arm/arse, isn’t i?. Rabies they have to kill the animal to test?
Roger Moore
@beer time somewhere:
Tetanus is a shot in the arm; it’s often combined with diphtheria and pertussis (DPT or TDAP). For rabies, they’ll give you the shot as a precaution if they can’t test the animal.
Amir Khalid
BBC online poll finds 2/3 of respondents don’t expect Luis Suarez to stay at Liverpool this season. What I think will happen is that he does stay, at least until the January transfer window; but after he serves out his suspension, Rodgers will leave him on the bench, or even off the team sheet on some days, to encourage a change of attitude.
burnspbesq
Apparently Cavani, who led Serie A in goals last year, left his GPS device back in Italy.
Paula
It took a few years, but Ian Darke finally calmed down about the Suarez handball.
beer time somewhere
@Roger Moore
Well, they certainly find the animal, as Suarez is usually rolling around the ground like he’s been gut shot.
/snark/
burnspbesq
Stuart?
Is that my man Psycho doing commentary?
Randinho
@burnspbesq: This. My brother-in-law who lives nearby said that Spain is getting old. Ha!
Randinho
@beer time somewhere: My dad was bitten by his rabid dog when he was five. At the time it was 14 shots in the stomach, one per day for two weeks.
Alison
Switching to the USWNT game myself…
#ChasingMia!! Get it, Wambach!
burnspbesq
@Randinho:
Hard to imagine any other country where Isco and Alcantara would have difficulty breaking into the senior national team.
Randinho
@burnspbesq: Indeed. Not to mention De Gea.
burnspbesq
Cavani’s an idiot. Take that to the corner and stand on it, ya dumfuck.
MikeJ
@Alison:
Thanks for the reminder!
beer time somewhere
@Randinho:
I know, friend of mine went through the same process. He wasn’t a happy camper. Back in the day they had to hunt down and shoot/kill the dog for testing.
bill d
Congratulations Uruguay, wherever you are. :P
MikeJ
Give one to the wombat!
Randinho
@bill d: The only country in South America wholly outside of the tropics.
Rex Everything
Andrew Sullivan is a dildo.
gogol's wife
Mamie van Doren in Untamed Youth is on TCM right now. It’s a real cinematic gem.
MikeJ
Two
burnspbesq
@Rex Everything:
Andrew may be many things, but a device designed and intended to give pleasure to women? One thinks not.
Alison
record tied!!
burnspbesq
I should hate Crystal Dunn because she’s a gad-damn Tarheel, but she is exactly what the US women need at right back.
MikeJ
@burnspbesq: Not everyone can uphold the reputation of Duke like Richard Nixon did.
MikeJ
Mia who?
burnspbesq
There it is!
Alison
WOOOOOOOO!!!
Alison
And damn if she don’t look likely to score another 2 or 3 tonight :) :)
burnspbesq
@MikeJ:
Nixon was a finished product before he arrived at Duke Law. That’s all Whittier College.
MikeJ
@burnspbesq: Fuckin Quakers.
raven
@burnspbesq: Used to shoot rattlesnakes in the hills up above Whittier College. There was still a Nixon’s drive in on Whittier Blvd in those days.
piratedan
@MikeJ: them and those fucking Oats!
Omnes Omnibus
@piratedan: Please don’t talk about Barbara Bush.
Roger Moore
@burnspbesq:
I suspect that plenty of men receive pleasure from dildos, too.
piratedan
@Omnes Omnibus: it’s a free country, so cover your ears….
Roger Moore
@MikeJ:
That’s Fuckin’ Poets, TYVM. With Poets, Beavers, and Sagehens, SCIAC has some of the wimpiest mascots in college athletics.
Omnes Omnibus
@piratedan: I asked nicely. You watch your ass from here on out and other internet tough guy talk.
Randinho
@burnspbesq: FTW!
burnspbesq
@raven:
Did somebody say Whittier Blvd?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLbTUIffQWY
Alison
Damn, what a boss. Doing worrrrrrk :)
piratedan
@Omnes Omnibus: lol… I’ll remember that mr thread monitor….Ted and Helen raging amok on thread after thread, the GG sock puppets runneth wild and free and you come down on me for Ms. Babs, somehow I think this is seemingly unjust :-)
burnspbesq
@piratedan:
Now we see the violence inherent in the system.
Omnes Omnibus
@piratedan: I have my limits. I hate that woman.
piratedan
@burnspbesq: help help, I’m being Oppressed! LOL
Narcissus
@Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS): The story of Leon Sumbitches.
Shane in Utah
Has Uruguay cheated yet, like they did against Ghana in 2010?
Omnes Omnibus
@Amir Khalid: I am willing to be a trustworthy third party. As far as you know, I have never defrauded anyone.
burnspbesq
Arlo Smith has been in this country too long. No self-respecting Englishman would ever pronounce “O’Hara” that way.