"You speak treason!" "Fluently."
Jun. 17th, 2004 03:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexsarllI've always been fond of Switzerland. I think it's the same logic as decides my favourite dinosaurs, the armoured and pointy triceratops and ankylosaurus. They don't start fights but if anyone else is fool enough to do so, then they'll fvcking well finish them. I also like the Swiss tradition of direct rather than representative democracy, and their landscape. And one of my first crushes was on a Swiss family friend.
All that said, even if tonight's footballism was against a team representing the shortlived Nazi-Soviet Pact, I'd still hope England lost.
All that said, even if tonight's footballism was against a team representing the shortlived Nazi-Soviet Pact, I'd still hope England lost.
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Date: 2004-06-17 08:10 am (UTC)What fights have the Swiss ever fvcking well finished?
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Date: 2004-06-17 08:12 am (UTC)Styracosaurus does rock, as do all the other variants on that template, but for me Triceratops will always be the classic.
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Date: 2004-06-17 08:18 am (UTC)that one's legs are in the wrong place though... spazzosaur!
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Date: 2004-06-17 08:13 am (UTC)do carry on, you lovely people!
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Date: 2004-06-17 08:18 am (UTC)You see I always liked the dinosaur formally known as Diplodocus because, well, they were dinosaur shaped and they proved Ann Elk's dinosaur theory...but I secretly liked Ankylosauruses because they were well 'ard.
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Date: 2004-06-17 08:19 am (UTC)they had a penchant for synthesisers, apparently...
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Date: 2004-06-17 08:30 am (UTC)man, swansea museum was great for toy dinosaurs, only reason i ever went on holiday...
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Date: 2004-06-17 08:25 am (UTC)you couldn't have predicted this with me on your friends list? you're losing your touch, sir...
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Date: 2004-06-17 08:22 am (UTC)Sure, I can ignore Big Brother just fine. But people don't congregate to watch that in pubs near my house, spill out noisy and looking for a fight, and then vom on my doorstep.
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Date: 2004-06-17 08:14 am (UTC)feel the dejection, sportfvcks!!!
not that i'm bothered, like...
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Date: 2004-06-17 10:09 am (UTC)It's not that I want us to lose per se; I just want us not to be in it, so it no longer impinges on my life, and that's the quickest and simplest way. I'd be equally happy to see us thrown out for the fans' misbehaviour.
Ever since I was a child and the cartoons would get cancelled if football overran, I have hated its dominance of English life.
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Date: 2004-06-17 10:25 am (UTC)The thing about the bellowing oafs is that they generally mean well. An oaf in a wig or an England shirt isn't an instant football hooligan, quite the opposite - they're probably a little insecure like the rest of us, only be afraid when you see a Burberry baseball cap. But all said and done perhaps there is a reason you can embrace it, as there are pitifully few times the English come together in a near-orgy of community spirit than football matches. Unlike those pr!cks in the Algarve, football tends to bring out the best in the rest of us, every matchday it's practically a nationwide love-in, chatting and hugging and kissing complete strangers. I'd have thought that was right up your street ;)
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Date: 2004-06-18 03:06 am (UTC)Oh, and the hooligans being sent down in this morning's paper were all hair-dyed and red/white colour coded clothes.