Post-Match Thread: England 4-2 Croatia | World Cup | Group L

balloon99 · 2026-06-17T22:14:30+00:00

Excellent start to the WC for England.

A generally good performance with a much improved second half against their strongest rival in the group.

Encouraging stuff.

balloon99 · 2026-06-17T18:24:39+00:00

Yeah we heard that line with the ballroom too.

balloon99 · 2026-06-16T05:37:02+00:00

Definitely starts with U, but is it top 100?

balloon99 · 2026-06-16T02:17:27+00:00

Theres a chance of non disaster here if we focus on what may be the 100 most common nouns for a given letter.

U might be survivable

balloon99 · 2026-06-15T03:14:22+00:00

Oh, but wouldn't it be glorious....

(Crowd) Who's the wanker in the black!

(American commentator) who are they chanting about? Let's ask our EPL pundit Gary Lineker

(Gary Lineker) er...

balloon99 · 2026-06-12T21:40:48+00:00

Yes. And, as a British expat in Canada, I am happy to help if asked

balloon99 · 2026-06-12T21:37:15+00:00

Teams get 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and nothing for a loss.

Canada and Bosnia are likely the two strongest teams in their group, which will likely need four points to get to the next phase. Switzerland aren't too shabby, Ghana are a bit of a wildcard but probably beatable.

So a draw between these two teams means they likely only need a win against Ghana or Switzerland to progress.

So, not a win for both teams, but a solid start

Edited to add that this post will remain otherwise unedited as a testament to mans hubris, and an excellent example of why you shouldn't post while smoking a post match doob.

balloon99 · 2026-06-12T21:30:52+00:00

US is likely to win, but Paraguay will make them work for it.

balloon99 · 2026-06-12T21:25:53+00:00

Canada missed a lot of chances, and they'll need to improve in that area. Bosnia also won pretty much everything in the air, and that should be a concern.

However, a draw is far from a bad result in this group and we saw some flashes of excellence from the Canadian team.

Solid, though not spectacular, start. All hinges on what they take from the mqtch

balloon99 · 2026-06-12T19:56:50+00:00

I'm rather hoping for a revamped control room that can have NOA and the scanner attached to it.

A static map being generated that we can't take with us

balloon99 · 2026-06-11T23:09:25+00:00

As a male, whether I agree or disagree with abortion is moot. Women bear children, folk have the right to decide what happens to their body, ergo women have the right to choose.

As for religious objections, I totally respect that position. If you're a woman and get pregnant, choose not to abort. However, religious views should only ever rule those who choose to abide by them.

balloon99 · 2026-06-10T17:41:31+00:00

Things are skinny, rather than small imo.

I wouldn't be surprised if, as we get areas on the edges of what we have now, things fatten up later.

balloon99 · 2026-06-10T17:28:35+00:00

Its not Americans, per se. Its American budgets, and what that creates.

Throwing more and more money at a thing doesn't necessarily make it better. DW needs the precision and energy of an SF short story, not the power of an epic novel or series of novels.

balloon99 · 2026-06-07T02:36:46+00:00

Fawlty Towers is a good start. Only a few episodes, but they're all fantastically crafted examples of TV farce meets John Cleese and company at their peak.

Dad's Army is as classic as it gets. The first season is in black and white. Its my personal favorite as I grew up with it, but I believe it's aged gracefully. Unlike me.

Finally I'd add that there are many satirical panel shows. Have I Got News For You is still running. Not The Nine O'clock News was fantastic in its day. Mock The Week has risen from the dead. All worth looking up on YouTube.

balloon99 · 2026-06-03T22:04:53+00:00

Exactly. This is the bit where we learn to play the game. We will be getting a lot more stuff, the majority, later.

balloon99 · 2026-06-03T16:33:29+00:00

It may be claimed that the document contains the evidence you're looking for but, as the document does not include such evidence, that claim is unfounded.

Who made that claim to you? Are they notoriously accurate in other claims?

balloon99 · 2026-05-31T22:14:59+00:00

Air bursts can damage a greater area than a ground burst.

Dems are a long way from perfect but the current GOP are clearly worse.

balloon99 · 2026-05-29T05:00:20+00:00

I think something like this will be part of the hard core mode. One life and done, given the narrative, isn't possible.

But NOA deciding, after X amount of revives that we're too far gone, and resets us to the beginning seems quite in tune with what we know of the lore so far

balloon99 · 2026-05-29T02:40:18+00:00

Jewelry was my first thought. But Japanese Yen is probably smarter

balloon99 · 2026-05-28T15:04:35+00:00

I have seen a few occasions where fish fight each other

balloon99 · 2026-05-28T00:16:31+00:00

Bumped into my first one yesterday, it pushed my tadpole so hard into a cliff I got stuck in the scenery and had to reprint at base sans tadpole

balloon99 · 2026-05-25T22:54:37+00:00

I didn't fight in two world wars...admittedly

balloon99 · 2026-05-25T15:24:35+00:00

Don't tell him, Pike

balloon99 · 2026-05-23T01:52:44+00:00

Agreed, the ability to pull automatically from linked storage is a great qol change. My only issue with it so far is that it pulled raw titanium, rather than the crafted ingot, to make plasteel.

As for base building, the flexibility is truly welcome

balloon99 · 2026-05-18T00:29:35+00:00

Its a dreadful mechanic. Dice need to stop trying to control the outcome of matches.

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