Will Cristiano Ronaldo be a Portuguese hero? Will Robert Lewandowski finally wake up?
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.
Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.
How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.
Consistently wrong since 2002
Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.
If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.
Fight them, without becoming them!
Hot air and ill-informed banter
It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.
People are complicated. Love is not.
Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.
Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.
Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.
We will not go back.
Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.
They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!
The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.
Everybody saw this coming.
When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.
Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!
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Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!
I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.
Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.
Onkel Fritze
Early riser today.
Tony J
Lewandowski is officially awake. Boof! Eat my goal!
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Wooo!
Villago Delenda Est
Will Corey Lewandowski go away and never bother anyone again is a better question.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
The lead up to the goal is the only successful passing sequence the Poles have had yet.
Tony J
@Villago Delenda Est:
No, he will continue to be a terrible human being and make pots of money out of it, thereby providing justification #7431 for your nym.
Swings and roundabouts.
Creature
CR7 doing his best to keep up his penalty kick streak going.
Roger Moore
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
It only takes one.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Shit.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Roger Moore: Yeah, but a continued inability leads to you giving the goal back.
Onkel Fritze
@Roger Moore: Not anymore.
Tony J
Now that is he you score your first international goal.
Get up Ronaldo, you’re giving that nice lad Cristiano a bad name.
Onkel Fritze
The kid that scored the goal was picked up by Bayern before the Euro.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Is it just me, or is this game getting kind of nasty?
Punchy
I havent seen this many Poles in one area since I last hit The Dollhouse. More “ski”s than Aspen. Polish sausage-fest.
Onkel Fritze
Go Po……wait, I don’t actually care.
Tony J
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
A bit. Poland are not exactly taking it easy in the tackle and Portugal is made up of muscular young athletes gifted with phenomenal balance who still throw themselves to the ground if someone in the stadium farts loudly.
Hopefully the referee will keep a level head.
benw
@Onkel Fritze: wait, which Po were you going to root for! I MUST KNOW
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Tony J: I’m sure we can count on Pepe to respond calmly.
Tony J
@Onkel Fritze:
Given the animus shit-for-brains Brexitheads over here have shown for our Polish immigrant communities I’ve started feeling that I’d really, really like Poland to go on and win this thing.
Tony J
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
He’s a good Christian boy, he is. But he’s got the Devil in him, that’s for sure.
And the face of a Levantine knifeman, but that’s just genetics.
Onkel Fritze
@Tony J: That’s a valid reason, at least. Still can’t help myself. Don’t care.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Tony J: As opposed to Leonardo Bonucci and Giorgio Chielini, who just look like they’d bust your head with lead pipes in a dark alley.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
I’m rooting for Poland because I’ve been there several times and loved the place.
Edit: And because I spent six weeks in China living in a hotel with Cristiano Ronaldo’s punchable mug plastered all over every billboard in sight.
Tony J
@Onkel Fritze:
Fair enough. I’m always happy to see Portugal get a clattering, though. For such a lovely country full of generous, friendly people they’ve somehow managed to mould their national team into a hive of scum and villainy.
Tony J
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
They don’t just – look – like they’d do it.
Punchy
Cruz/Cristiano 2020! The punch muggiest tandem running!
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Wow. Glik has a name that actually fits on his shirt.
Onkel Fritze
@Tony J: Read an interview with Thomas Müller this morning. He said he really likes playing Italian teams. In his experience they are the fairest sportsmen, they’re always friendly and cool, and if it gets rough sometimes, they just lend you a hand and help you up afterwards. Way to confound expectations.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Onkel Fritze: Hey, no one claimed that it was personal when Chielini or Bonucci bust your head. They’re just, you know, taking care of business. No hard feelings.
Tony J
@Onkel Fritze:
Heh. on that topic I found out this morning that Germany’s bogey team, the only team they apparently fear coming up against because they – never – beat them, is Italy. I think the stats are something like 8 meetings over numerous World Cups and Euros, Germany hasn’t won once. Which is pretty remarkable when you think about it.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Bonus soccer!
Onkel Fritze
@Tony J: That’s actually true, although this ends Saturday, of course. I also like to point out that in Euro 96 Italy needed a win in the last group game and we tied them. That felt like a win.
Onkel Fritze
This game here raises the question whether Portugal means to win this Euro without winning a single game in regular time….
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Milik has made nothing out of something pretty consistently in this tournament.
Tony J
@Onkel Fritze:
It’s very weird to hear that about imperious Germany.
Was that a half-naked man on the pitch? Excitement!
Onkel Fritze
@Tony J: Don’t be so negative. He was half-dressed!
Punchy
If you asked a group from Warsaw what they thought of metal fence posts, would you be polling Poles on poles?
Onkel Fritze
@Punchy: Polesibly.
Dork
@Punchy: Due to the underwhelming sorority system, frat parties at the U of Krakow are largely Polish sausage fests.
Amir Khalid
@Tony J:
BBC liveblog photo shows the pitch invader wearing tan cargo shorts, very close in colour to his skin.
Onkel Fritze
As bad as he was all game long, CR7 might even miss this one.
ETA: nope.
Onkel Fritze
Dammit
Amir Khalid
Portugal through on penalties. Incidentally, has The Vainest Man in Football (TM) scored at all from open play n this tournament? It seems to me that his first goal was in this penalty shootout.
Onkel Fritze
@Amir Khalid: Two against Hungary.
Amir Khalid
I don’t think I’d ever heard of a football team making it into the semifinals of this (or indeed any) competition without winning a single match over the 90 minutes. Now we have Portugal.
Amir Khalid
@Onkel Fritze:
I sit corrected.
Onkel Fritze
@Amir Khalid: Correct sitting is very important for your back.