Things you hate IV

The train service in this country. Busy day today for one reason or another. So naturally Thameslink are already saying their service is struggling because a load of their drivers have (definitely not football-related) ‘Covid’ or are otherwise pulling sickies, and my first train of the day to London with another company is delayed by 20 mins. And have they thought to increase the number of trains rather than run a Sunday timetable? No chance.

Sigh. I had half a hope of getting back from Wimbledon in time for kick off tonight - at least, if works on paper - but I’ve pretty much given up on that just to save me stress later.

 

Add to that the guides doing the rounds for new football fans like this:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/euro-2020-final-football-lingo-b1881810.html?amp

 

Surely that's a Daily Mash article.

 

"Invest" in a betting account with us and you will spend your life drinking in a great pub with cool handsome mates, being eyed up by beautiful women as you constantly punch the air with delight as win after win comes home....

 

I bought an England shirt with RASHFORD on the back, so f**k off

 

My wife who works for Tesco was given a food voucher which she handed on to the local food bank .
They were very happy because they were able to purchase some eggs and fresh food as opposed to tinned and dried .

How about you ?

 

And if you want some big style virtue signalling my wife and I currently sponsor a young Brazilian

couple . But if you want a Brazilian punch in the face . Call us Fash Gammon Yap yap blah blah in front of them .

 

It’s not really my point though, it was yours. I don’t think people have to qualify to have an opinion through their good deeds - which was the implication of your #1850. And a good job too, because I’ve been on holiday all week and done nothing for the poor and needy, unless you count Mrs Moose.

Otherwise I work in health and volunteer through a community group to do people’s shopping, pick up prescriptions and I walk disabled people’s dogs. I also do a highly virtue signalling scheme, Lendwithcare, where you invest small sums in individuals in the third world, so they can buy seed, goods to sell or equipment etc. https://lendwithcare.org/

It’s not a lot, but I also argue on Internet forums, which everyone will agree is massively socially useful.

 

Mrs Moose is also the only poor and needy person that I have done something for this week.

 

Yes thanks. She was a bit low and you cheered her up no end with this.

 

A bit sore but all worth it if it cheered her up a bit.

 

People that stick lighted flares up their bums in Leicester Square

 

We may have lost the football but we won the "Sticking a Lit Flare Up Your Won Arse" competition. These moral victories are important.

 

Are you ok with it outside of Leicester Square?

 

I hate how the behaviour of the few makes this country look like a lawless joke of a country particularly during football tournaments when the international media focus is upon us.

The laser pen at Schmeichel, the booing of national anthems, the storming of Wembley, the racism directed at the players who failed in the shootout, the list goes on.

Having said that, I had a Portuguese family around at mine yesterday for a BBQ and the football and we were talking about hooligans in other countries. He was saying that there is hooliganism in Portugal but they have two police forces, the everyday run of the mill type you see on the streets and the other look like the military and are well armed. They take no $hit with Benfica and Sporting fans when they kick off. I understand that it's similar in other European countries. So the point here is, are our idiots simply more exposed because we have a single police force policing by public consent without deadly weapons and appear to be overrun at times?

On the note of booing anthems, I did notice that it happened at other venues during the tournament but it wasn't so obvious. The non England game I noticed it most at was Italy v Austria, the Italians booed the Austrian anthem (I assume there were a lot more Italians living in the UK than Austrians), is it a case of that the acoustics at Wembley make it appear worse?

I'm not condoning anything that had gone on as we are all well aware every country has it's idiots but we always appear to have the worst of the worst citizens.

 

I’m always caught between deploring the bad behaviour and yet finding some aspects of it hilarious.

 

A 'better' angle:

Spoiler: NSFW

 

Total eclipse

 

McDonald's latest ad features the tag line "Letting go". Which I interpret as "let yourself go" - Don't bother with the healthy diet.

 

Part time football fans outrage at football not coming home.

Photo of Cheillini pulling back Saka by the shirt... "He should be ashamed pulling a 19 year old boys collar, could have broke his neck". " yeah should have been a red card, disgusting, can't they look at this?".

Me - accepts its a yellow, quietly respects the Italian for taking one for the team and giving no *****.

 

One last thing on the temporary popularity of football during the Euros: those who refer to it as “footie”. I think that might be worse than those who betray themselves by calling it “soccer”.

 

From POPBITCH:

Eleven grand for the 'story'?

That works out at just over £600 a word.

 

And that sort of head for business is why Britain will bounce back after this pandemic. There isn’t anything we can’t make a few quid from.

 

Looks like the Mail got there first: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ting-white-substance-ahead-Wembley-final.html

 

How modern online 'journalism' works Pt94:

 

That's the spirit. For the burgeoning future British 'flare up your own arse' industry to really succeed we all have to believe in the British 'flare up your own arse' industry.

 

Your own ar5e flaring up ? You need this....

 

I'd stick that up my own arse for 11 grand.

 

I once knew a chap who, on a camping trip, woke in the night suffering some discomfort from his 'Chalfonts.' Not wishing to wake others by turning on a torch, in the darkness he mistook a tube of toothpaste for his Anusol and applied Colgate to his bum grapes. The echo of his screams can still be heard across the Black Mountains

 

I put Olbas Oil in my eye once, mistaking it in the dark for eyedrops.

That was ******* painful and carried the added bonus of temporary blindness.

 

Lovely "fresh as the mountain air" farts though...and no plaque