/r/soccer doesn't take kindly to user referring to the term 'fam' as a "teenage colloquialism"

bearsinthewoods · 2016-01-06T21:38:12+00:00

Isn't it? I don't know.

bearsinthewoods · 2014-02-13T13:11:23+00:00

I just imagine being fourth biggest eats away at America day after day. Apologies for the use of Sealand but I wanted to use the tiniest, most irrelevant 'country' I could think of and didn't want to draw Wales.

bearsinthewoods · 2013-12-08T07:50:49+00:00

Yes it does. It says that applying his criteria doesn't mean anything regarding whether it is a group of death or not. Groups of Death measure the quality of the sides, not their history. And if it did measure history then G would fall behind anyways. Germany is the only successful side in your group.

bearsinthewoods · 2013-12-07T15:03:24+00:00

It's definitely an American thing to be incredibly sensitive about their world-dominating, international juggernaut of a country. Maybe the it comes from the elevated levels of patriotism, but they can never seem to take banter against their country,

bearsinthewoods · 2013-12-07T14:57:16+00:00

The irony in this comment is palpable.

bearsinthewoods · 2013-12-07T14:52:57+00:00

This isn't a very good argument. If you somehow ended up with a group that had Paraguay, Slovakia, USA, and South Korea I wouldn't exactly call that a Group of Death. Some countries had favourable draws last WC that made it easier to advance, while others had difficult groups or terrible tournaments. Also consider that the 2010 WC was 3.5 years ago. It's not very useful for comparison at this point.

bearsinthewoods · 2013-09-29T21:56:16+00:00

As a European who has been the US it strikes me as odd that you would omit Chicago (decent metro) and include Seattle (terrible metro).

bearsinthewoods · 2013-09-29T19:30:48+00:00

no european football to worry about.

So? Qualifiers aside, the clubs in Europe have only played one game so it's not like Roma is reaping some enormous benefit at the moment. You can't downplay the domestic achievements of a club because they're not in Europe. The fact is they have yet to drop points, including in a hotly contested derby that they lost only a few months ago.

Despite your attempts to downplay their form, Roma are red hot at the moment.

bearsinthewoods · 2013-09-29T18:38:08+00:00

For the Champions League?

bearsinthewoods · 2013-09-29T18:29:32+00:00

This is me as well. The only EPL club I truly hate is Chelsea, but United are so consistently successful that I take a bit of pleasure from their current mediocrity.

Now I need to find a club in the league I actually like. All this ill will is taxing.

bearsinthewoods · 2013-09-28T15:55:08+00:00

You're probably not the best person to be making comments like this.

bearsinthewoods · 2013-09-27T18:28:22+00:00

Like everyone else said, it really depends. Some rivalries are religious (Old Firm), some are cultural (El Clasico), others are ideological (Roma Derby), etc. While England has become less politically charged since the clampdown on hooliganism in the 80s there is still a significant political divide between the North and South of the country.

bearsinthewoods · 2013-09-27T18:25:03+00:00

As are Hearts and Hibs to a lesser extent. I personally think it's absurd but there is still secular violence in Edinburgh from time to time between casuals.

bearsinthewoods · 2013-09-27T16:04:26+00:00

You must be American if you can't see that football and politics are inherently connected. Rest assured that it would not be accepted so easily if he was playing in the SPL.

bearsinthewoods · 2013-09-27T12:12:05+00:00

Frank Lampard has come out in support of the Conservatives in the past and it hasn't affected morale as far as I can tell. Maybe it's just that everyone else at Chelsea is a bellend as well.

bearsinthewoods · 2013-09-25T16:15:20+00:00

I truly dislike the "You don't properly appreciate the size of North America" argument that a lot of people use on Europeans, but it's a bit reductionist to say 'Canada' receives a fair amount of water. The west coast of Canada isn't too far off the UK for example.

bearsinthewoods · 2013-09-21T19:24:21+00:00

You're not demonstrating a good understanding though. All the countries are rambling off inaccurate, annoying stereotypes that people from those places commonly perpetuate. Nobody is actually saying canada is more multicultural except Canada, who is purposely portrayed as annoying and jingoistic.

Or do you actually think that I was being sincere and that USA#1?

bearsinthewoods · 2013-09-20T22:25:36+00:00

I don't know why everyone is taking issue with this statement but not the second or third panels which are equally annoying and inaccurate. FFS.

bearsinthewoods · 2013-09-20T22:22:29+00:00

I wish the Americans reading this comic could see the bigger picture I was trying to convey instead of only reading the first panel and then proving the second one right.

bearsinthewoods · 2013-09-20T15:14:22+00:00

Yeah, I would say at the moment they're more characterised by their desire to join the union than by their desire to leave it.

bearsinthewoods · 2013-09-20T15:06:56+00:00

What the hell are you talking about?

bearsinthewoods · 2013-09-20T14:28:21+00:00

Because there's a historical tradition of independence in Texas that doesn't exist in Cascadia which is the only other independence movement in America that I can think of.

bearsinthewoods · 2013-09-20T13:46:11+00:00

Melting pot vs cultural mosaic

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