NorthernLights Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 John Oliver is some boi - http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jun/10/john-oliver-trinidad-television-mock-jack-warner-fifa 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Whenever John Oliver covers FIFA, it's magnificent. Think it's especially good as you can tell how much he loves his football. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparky88 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 It's fairly ridiculous that the country which invented the game has hosted 1 World Cup. Especially considering that it's a 1st world country with the infastructure to host and a place that people around the world like to visit (not Russia and Qatar).England didn't invent football, they codified it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yank Mike Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Scotland has never hosted the world - and never will - despite having played a significant part in the development of football. It means very little to anyone these days. Also, you don't want to visit Russia? seems pretty interesting to me. 1. It would seem obvious that the full UK and Ireland could host a wonderful World Cup together. I guess there are politics within both international football and the british countries which prevent such an event. Obviously Scotland was as important, or close to as important, as England when it comes to the sport of football, but it's not a big enough country to host a 32 nation event on it's own. 2. I'd consider visiting St. Petersburg and Moscow, but would never, ever leave the city center. Russians are terrible people. I lived in Alaska for a bit when I was younger. There's a semi-significant Russian population there. If they were disrespected at a party they'd show up with guns. It was normal for parties to have a ban on any Russian attendees. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernLights Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Whenever John Oliver covers FIFA, it's magnificent. Think it's especially good as you can tell how much he loves his football. The latest in the Jack Warner v John Oliver duel... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RBWGlKM6ns 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 1. I lived in Alaska for a bit when I was younger. There's a semi-significant Russian population there. If they were disrespected at a party they'd show up with guns. Those awful Russians need to know that you only take a gun to the playground or a prayer meeting in the States. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itzdrk Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 2. I'd consider visiting St. Petersburg and Moscow, but would never, ever leave the city center. Russians are terrible people. I lived in Alaska for a bit when I was younger. There's a semi-significant Russian population there. If they were disrespected at a party they'd show up with guns. It was normal for parties to have a ban on any Russian attendees. Pesky Chelsea fans 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yank Mike Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Those awful Russians need to know that you only take a gun to the playground or a prayer meeting in the States. Yeah, I'm sure 95% of people in Scotland would choose the US over Russia if they were forced to pick a new place to live. The US isn't much more deadly than the UK outside of the areas controlled by organized crime gangs which is less than 1% of our country's landmass. Those are the spots where the vast, vast majority of innocent bystanders are shot and killed. If you are not in one of those areas you are almost as safe in America as in Scotland. I saw a stat recently where West Baltimore (where the riots recently happened) have a murder rate near 100/100,000. If memory serves me correctly the US as a whole is about 4/100.000, the UK is around 1/100,000, and South Africa is about 30/100,000. We do have crazy people shooting up stuff in normal society because we decided to stop condemning the mentally ill to prison. But even those instances are subject to media drivin hype. We are a country of over 300 million people. Once a year some dumbass kills 5-10 people. It's clearly different from a country like Russia where violence is seen as a legitimate way to solve problems by a large segment of the population. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yank Mike Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 (edited) I'll point out that in Alaska, one of the few states where you don't need a permit to carry a gun outside your house and a place where every street sign outside of a city in shot up with bullet holes from passing cars, the only times I felt danger were the two times Russians showed up with guns. One time they were mad that we wouldn't give away our beer at a time when sales were banned. The drunk Russian dude thought we were disrespecting his promise to pay later. He showed up with a gun an hour later. The other time was due to a fight where the Russian guy came back armed looking for his adversary. The crazy part was that none of the native Alaskans viewed this behavior as extreme. They just said that's how Russians acted. Edited June 23, 2015 by Yank Mike 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airdrie Onions Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Russians are fucking quality, I'd love to live in Russia 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Russians are fucking quality, I'd love to live in Russia You really wouldn't. It's an utter shithole 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airdrie Onions Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 You really wouldn't. It's an utter shithole As opposed to Glasgow? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 As opposed to Glasgow? Yes 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Once a year some dumbass kills 5-10 people. And how often does a domestic drunken argument escalate to murder simply because there's a gun lying around? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airdrie Onions Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Yes Hm, Russia looks beautiful to me. If language wasn't an issue then can't imagine many places I'd rather live. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 (edited) Blatter was just kidding when resigned. And it looks like one of the FIFA HQ cleaners will be presenting the Women's World Cup trophy in Canada. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33284185 Edited June 26, 2015 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yank Mike Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 (edited) And how often does a domestic drunken argument escalate to murder simply because there's a gun lying around? I apologize. As dumb as it might sound, I was returning from a Women's World Cup watch party and was wasted when I posted in this thread.* I didn't mean to distract from the terrible organization that is FIFA. Obviously the USA has a problem where our gun culture leads to escalations. That is how most normal middle class/working class Americans die when it comes to gun violence. It's how anybody in the spots I've lived have died by guns A girl who was ahead of me in high school, and was the softball coach for my sisters, was killed by her husband when she was cheating on him. He was sentenced to life. The last murder in my current town was a situation where a dude killed his girlfriend and the two guys she was banging. It's beyond arguement that our easy access to guns leads to these murders. I've never lived in an area where people were shot randomly, as happens often in the worst parts of my country. Can we go back to bashing FIFA. *Sorry, same situation now. Haha. USA>Russia, though. Edited June 27, 2015 by Yank Mike 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Lee Nelson has turned up at Blatter's conference today. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airdrie Onions Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 How does Lee Nelson manage to get in all these places, constantly doing shit like this 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigOutYourSoul Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 I normally hate him but I found this funny. No idea how he manages to get past security so regularly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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