Will Iceland continue to surprise? Will Hungary continue to impress?
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.
People are weird.
Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.
Let there be snark.
I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.
Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.
A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.
Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.
Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?
Fuck these fucking interesting times.
I was confident that someone would point it out and thought why not me.
These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.
If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.
Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.
Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.
Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.
Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.
Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?
Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.
The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.
‘Museums aren’t America’s attic for its racist shit.’
GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.
Runt
Given the current state of Hungarian politics, I really don’t like those blackshirts behind their goal.
humboldtblue
It was requested in the thread below, but here are some fun facts about Iceland football.
Amir Khalid
@humboldtblue:
Amazing that Cristiano Ronaldo is worth more on the transfer market than Iceland’s national side combined, and has a Twitter following that exceeds the population of Iceland.
humboldtblue
@Amir Khalid: Just amazing. Also, the Iceland captain who asked to switch shirts with Ronaldo reports that he didn’t get turned down, Ronaldo just said they would exchange inside.
@Runt: Most of the blackshirts read “magyarorzag” and they are generally tied to the right-wing party, Jobbik.
MobiusKlein
In the sfo airport now checking in to flight to Reykjavik… should have been there, but flight was canceled
humboldtblue
And for the funniest and most nation-appropriate twitter commentary you should follow Rekjavik Grapevine. It’s hilarious
Runt
It looks like about 3-6% of Iceland’s population is present at this match.
humboldtblue
GGGGGGYYYYYLLLLLLFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFIIIIII
SRW1
Amazing how elegantly one can swat flies. Cinderella story in the making?
humboldtblue
@SRW1:
Only if Cinderella is a princess of Athgar and can summon the lightning of the Norse gods!
SRW1
@humboldtblue:
I’ve been to Iceland once and enjoyed floating in the Blue Lagoon, but unfortunately my grasp of Norse mythology is pretty much non-existent.
SRW1
Question: Does Gabor Kiraly have a private sponsor for his trademark grey sweatpants?
call_me_ishmael
@humboldtblue: Second the twitter feed – “Now the players feast on half time boar and mead”. The header pic of some bearded Icelander smirking at Ronaldo is gold.
SRW1
@call_me_ishmael:
That ‘Suggested defensive formation 2nd half’ looks hard like a rock.
humboldtblue
@SRW1: Not sure if the pants are sponsored (they are very popular in his club’s shops) but the pants have a long history
@call_me_ishmael: The offerings to the gods are perfect, fish and beer
humboldtblue
It also appears I screwed up the link to the twitter feed, here’s the correct link
humboldtblue
Damn
SRW1
All in all, the Iceland warriors did better without their battle axes than the Magyars without their ponies, though their goalie’s elementary insecurities is gonna cost Iceland one of these games.
Oh, and the curse of the dying minutes continues unabated.
The Hungarians are obviously aware they had a lucky escape.
Runt
Damn. So close, but no vindill.
MobiusKlein
Late news about flying to Iceland : wow air is terrible about communication to customers about delays. Now we are on a rental plane going hours late. Boo.