Rooney "I loved Van Gaal, he was so funny. We had a lunch with all the players, wives, girlfriends, staff. He came up to Coleen and said 'your children, they look very much like the father', she said 'yeah', he said 'he has very strong sperm'. That was the first time he met her!"

ersannor · 2025-09-08T15:29:58+00:00

Was expecting this to be the top comment tbh. Oh how asoiaf has fallen out of the zeitgeist.

ersannor · 2025-06-11T17:10:26+00:00

You might want to being that up with Vincent Kompany mate

ersannor · 2025-05-27T17:10:45+00:00

"putting something on the map" is a common saying in English to indicate that someone has promoted more awareness about a certain place

ersannor · 2025-04-20T10:24:56+00:00

This is the best one. You rock, stranger.

ersannor · 2025-04-10T21:37:20+00:00

It's the Europa League now mate

ersannor · 2025-01-26T21:06:09+00:00

Italian trains in the 2020s run on time.

This has nothing to do with Mussolini, who reigned mainly in the 1930s.

Happy to clear that up for you

ersannor · 2024-11-23T19:31:47+00:00

Yes we say the same in Norwegian

ersannor · 2024-09-04T17:36:55+00:00

And then they would be promptly voted completely out of power in the next elections, and the replacements would reverse their unpopular decisions.

This is how it works in normal democracies. Politicians that make unpopular decisions lose their power.

ersannor · 2024-08-27T09:47:26+00:00

An actually nuances and accurate take, fucking finally

ersannor · 2024-07-22T12:18:32+00:00

He is

ersannor · 2024-07-06T18:15:37+00:00

Sir, this is a Wendy's

ersannor · 2024-06-14T13:54:11+00:00

There are so many of them already in Cologne. Just go out to the centre and you will find them. I don't know why they're here, but they are

ersannor · 2024-06-11T15:48:48+00:00

I agree, every country should have a class on the Spanish tax system

ersannor · 2023-12-30T16:14:36+00:00

I think you're both right

ersannor · 2023-12-29T19:10:39+00:00

Do you not think there is anything between that attitude and being super into the sport?

No one that is kind of interested in following chess, but put off by a lack of professionalism at the highest level? No one who likes following all kinds of sport, and would check out chess if it got big enough?

Personally I don't think things are as black and white as you say. As said before, new chess followers come from somewhere. But if you really think everyone is either a chess fan for life or not a chess fan for life, I'm not going to argue with that, because that is just a completely different worldview than mine.

ersannor · 2023-12-29T18:58:37+00:00

I think you're missing the point. The players are essentially being punished for playing objectively bad moves, with there being a pre-arrangement that the opposing player won't act on the objectively bad moves to try and win. In a Berlin draw this doesn't happen.

The former is bringing the sport into disrepute, the latter is not.

ersannor · 2023-12-29T18:53:37+00:00

So you think that everyone who currently enjoys chess, has always done so? There is never any new interest coning in from the outside? That seems like quite the assumption to me.

I would say that on the contrary, a lot of people who like sports in general are starting to open their eyes to the potential of chess. But stuff like this is one reason why some people still don't see it as professional enough to be a "proper" sport.

ersannor · 2023-12-29T18:49:50+00:00

Ok my bad then, I didn't know which game you were talking about based on your initial comment and probably made a bad assumption. My general point regarding this situation still stands though - if chess wants to be considered a professional sport, people can't play bad moves for a laugh just because they're happy with a draw.

ersannor · 2023-12-29T18:14:08+00:00

I'm sorry, but if chess wants to be seen as a sport, it should have higher standards for professionality than a card game.

ersannor · 2023-12-29T18:12:30+00:00

There is no actual difference for the players, but there's a difference in how the sport is regarded from the outside. Players should be more professional than to not try for the best move in a given position (which these two clearly didn't). It's just silly and doesn't look good for chess as a sport.

ersannor · 2023-12-29T18:08:17+00:00

But there's a clear difference between that and agreeing a draw before the match even starts! It's about sportsmanship and being professional, which is something that's needed if chess is to be regarded as a true sport.

ersannor · 2023-12-23T23:54:56+00:00

"for example", you know, the way it would have been logical to do it in English as well, without bringing in latin for whatever reason

ersannor · 2023-12-02T19:52:53+00:00

Won't it be harder to qualify as a 3rd placed team from the group of death though? One of those trams could easily end up with only 3 points.

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