Kaizero

£10 on Mitro for Golden Boot £10 on Serbia to make the Quarter Finals I guess I'm cheering for Serbia this time

Linked by who? He's good. I'd approve of buying him.

Well that's your fault for watching villa expecting to see him shine.

If nobody shows for the last three I can send over £6 and the forum fund can have them.

Only if you count Messi, Werner, Lukaku, Suarez, Cavani, Costa, Mbappe, Higuain and Coutinho as "decent".

Ah shit, forgot to put my name in the comments. I'll have 37/45.

The celebrations were outrageous given the context being an old-boys charity game repeat of a WC ‘98 group stage game, but I loved it

Also, Rivaldo could easily still play for a decent enough team

Absolutely love how serious it seems both norway 98 and Brazil 98 took the «rematch» From Ronaldo throwing a fit at someone missing an open goal, to Ze Roberto throwing himself all over and asking the ref to card people That Tore Andre Flo could still walk is somewhat of a miracle as well. All in all good fun Like Brazil much more now. Just a shame that Ronaldo decided he was too fat to play With the exception of all pace being gone, Brazil were still so fun and technical to watch. Norway doing their 98 tactic - but without the pace - would never end well

Always been fond of Peter Crouch since the time he answered the question "What would you be if you weren't a footballer?" with "A virgin"

I mean, who hasn't dreamt of seeing a Fat Ronaldo go up against a version of Tore Andre Flo with metallic hips?

Our version of this > Soccer Aid, this time. Purely because it has Emerson, Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Ze Roberto, Dida, Roberto Carlos, Bebeto and more Also some old Norwegians but fuck them. Fat Ronaldo :sweetjesus:

Pending on the time of the year, you can’t fly it before 8/9/10am and no later than 9pm - though if the sun sets prior to that you need to take it down then.

What utter tripe I’d have no problem imagining you having a flag on your living room wall, so your disagreement only aids my viewpoint. That text book straw man though. Brilliant. You're plain wrong btw. Who are you to judge when or where it's right to have the flag anyway Norway has actual laws for use of the flag, fwiw. You’re not actually allowed to hang it (a proper flag meant for a pole, not a paper flag and shit) on the wall, for instance.

What utter tripe I’d have no problem imagining you having a flag on your living room wall, so your disagreement only aids my viewpoint.

I feel you’ve not even read any posts. They aren’t originally racist, they have been given a racist context due to how they have been used and which groups have «claimed» them in the media spotlight. See my listing of proper/not proper way of using flags.

Just learned that until 2007, the lion watching his house burn down used to play at a stadium called "Gay Meadow".

These are not the same. Whilst I know they're not, well, not really. They absolutely are portrayed as such. Every single time our news interview someone who voted for Brexit, they're a fucking racist. It gets imprinted in your mind as the same thing. There's no balance there because a) non-racist Brexiters aren't attention hungry, b) non-racist Brexiters don't make for good TV or c) they don't fit the narrative the news want to portray. Our PM met Theresa May today, and there were some interviews with people off the street about Brexit and how they thought it would influence the British economy. All the people interviewed essentially said they would just be happy if the UK controlled immigration so immigrants didn't take UK jobs. Then asked about if they thought the 20k Norwegians living in the UK should stay, most just said that Norwegians share their culture so they wouldn't want them to go... What culture? Being white? For me, for the Norwegian flag to not invoke feelings of the use being racially motivated, the use must be on official / traditional times and/or during sporting events. If someone shows up at a party with a Norwegian flag pin on their shirt, I'll automatically assume they're racist. It's sadly just how things are these days. Even more so with the UK/English flag, as I am not familiar with the official / traditional times of use, so with the news peppering me with racists groups using it - it generally now evokes feelings that any use is racially motivated, even though I know it's not.

All about the current context and historical context. Canada (and the US) have had the flag thing going on for ages. When I did WannabeZ, which was to be set in Oslo even though we shot it in LA, our set designer wanted to put a big ass Norwegian flag on the wall of one of the locations. Holy fuck that would've made every Norwegian watching it immediately think the main character was a massive racist However, if it was a US flag for a US character, we'd all think he was just an American and not think he was racist. (A confederate flag, however...)

I'll pay extra under the table for you to pocket if you can secure me Mitro

All about how it’s used. Using the flag on a flag post during national holidays / personal events - okay. Shaving your head and walking down the street with the flag as a superman cape - not okay. Having minor flag related interior items - borderline okay pending on time of year / context. Having a flag nailed onto your living room wall - not okay. Once the not okay people are more visible than the okay people, the context of the flag changes from national pride to racist propaganda.

As a filthy foreigner, when I see the Union Jack and English flag, I now automatically think the people waving them are racist/Brexiters. They might not be, but that is what I will think. Feels somewhat similar to when I see the Confederate flag, but not as bad - yet. That said, if I enter someone’s home here in Norway and they have the Norwegian flag on their wall or something - they’re also automatically racists in my head. So our flag is being ruined by a minority fucking shit up with how they use the flag as well.

Goes something like: Give Wullie 2 quid Wullie gives you the name of some random Saudi you've never heard of You passionately watch every Saudi Arabia match in the desperate hope of a goal No goals Some absolute freak and total weirdo wins all the money In and this is what sold it to me. Well, why wouldn’t it sell it to you? Semmy just said you will win.

Either Josh King is amazing, or Panama is horrible.

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