Who needs football anyway?
Oct. 7th, 2007 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dream_labyrinthI never really liked football (soccer for the Americans). I think it's boring to watch 20 men run after a ball. Okay, compared to American football it has the advantage of less breaks, less ads and more activity, there's more running going on. But I never really got into it.
However, it seems there is indeed a sport worth watching. It's![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
foudebassan's fault, who linked the New Zealanders performing war dances and pictures of naked French players.
Rugby.
Oh my, those guys do look good. Love the figures.
I'll have to see whether the rules make sense - I had figured out the rules of American football while watching the Superbowl only to see more than half of the winning team leave the field quite some time before the match was over (there was no way the other team could catch up, and apparently it is not considered bad sportsmanship to go partying with the fans while the game is still on), and I even understand the offside rule in football, the most important test for a woman's understanding of the sport, so I figure I will be able to understand rugby once I start watching. I believe Eurosport broadcasts the matches.
However, it seems there is indeed a sport worth watching. It's
foudebassan's fault, who linked the New Zealanders performing war dances and pictures of naked French players.Rugby.
Oh my, those guys do look good. Love the figures.
I'll have to see whether the rules make sense - I had figured out the rules of American football while watching the Superbowl only to see more than half of the winning team leave the field quite some time before the match was over (there was no way the other team could catch up, and apparently it is not considered bad sportsmanship to go partying with the fans while the game is still on), and I even understand the offside rule in football, the most important test for a woman's understanding of the sport, so I figure I will be able to understand rugby once I start watching. I believe Eurosport broadcasts the matches.
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Date: 2007-10-07 01:47 pm (UTC)Okay, you win.
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Date: 2007-10-07 01:12 pm (UTC)*fans self*
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Date: 2007-10-07 01:56 pm (UTC)usually, I'm very suspicious of attractive men - more often than not they turn out to be gay - but in this case I've decided I don't care who they sleep with as long as I get to see photos like those.
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Date: 2007-10-07 01:54 pm (UTC):D
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Date: 2007-10-07 01:57 pm (UTC)LJ has a dangerous influence on me. And you pervy French people make it worse.
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Date: 2007-10-07 02:14 pm (UTC)You know there's a reason the French Disease is called French Disease, right?
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Date: 2007-10-07 02:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-07 02:38 pm (UTC)They're far too cold and aloof for that sort of thing.
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Date: 2007-10-07 02:52 pm (UTC)We, on the other hand, are angelic.
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Date: 2007-10-07 06:37 pm (UTC)*doubts*
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Date: 2007-10-07 06:45 pm (UTC)*looks pure and innocent so as to give you no reason to doubt*
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Date: 2007-10-07 06:55 pm (UTC)I know that all the pervy stuff has been invented by the French who thereby try to conquer other nations as they don't manage on the battlefield.
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Date: 2007-10-08 11:45 am (UTC)We invaded Britain, won the 100 year war, invaded half of Africa and significant parts of the Pacific, and kicked you out of our country twice. If we don't want other wars, it's because innocents get hurt when we get mad. So there! We don't need to be pervy.
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Date: 2007-10-13 09:25 am (UTC)That was the Americans, they just used your beaches.
You got kicked out of all those unsavoury bits of Africa and the Pacific you insisted on trying to own.
And hey, invading Britain is not such a big deal, who wants that little island anyway...
French most likely invented pervy, only they never considered it such because for you it's normal.
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Date: 2007-10-13 10:18 am (UTC)Nah, we realise it wasn't fair for us to own them so we agreed to do the right thing wherever the population wanted independance. Where they didn't, they're still happy to be France d'outre-mer - New Caledonia, Mayotte, Guyana, Antilles,....
I have, however, to agree with you over Britain.
Now now now everyone knows that SM comes from Britain, fetishes and strange D/s games from Germany and the clap from Italy. We French are pure little angels!
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Date: 2007-10-13 02:37 pm (UTC)*coughMarquisdeSadecough*
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Date: 2007-10-13 02:49 pm (UTC)(What about Sacher-Masoch????)
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Date: 2007-10-13 03:01 pm (UTC)Sacher-Masoch was Austrian. (As was Hitler, but not Mozart, even though the Austrians prefer to pretend otherwise.)
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Date: 2007-10-13 03:21 pm (UTC)He spoke German, that's what counts.
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Date: 2007-10-21 04:30 pm (UTC)You can't tell jokes like that when I'm drinking something!
Natural modesty and Frenchmen in the same sentence??
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Date: 2007-10-21 07:30 pm (UTC)It's a pity you and I don't know how it is.
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Date: 2007-10-21 07:36 pm (UTC)Okay, you win (<-- French cunning to show one can still have the last word when one has lost the argument)
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