England v Denmark - Wednesday 07/07 - 20:00

[Idaho]

I think the booing is just a part of the pantomime. I find it hard to give a shit. Having to listen to our anti Jacobite dirge is punishment enough for all our sins.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Do rugby teams not challenge the haka, or the fans whistle through it?

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

Did a football fan flush your head down a loo while you were at school?

Are you English? If so, I'm not surprised your daughter thinks we're all wankers.

I was born on Great Britain. I’m not English since it’s not actually a thing.
It’s interesting to be able to see from afar how propaganda reinforces your national collective trauma though. And how fragile it is.

 

[Pickman's model]

I was born on Great Britain. I’m not English since it’s not actually a thing.
It’s interesting to be able to see from afar how propaganda reinforces your national collective trauma though. And how fragile it is.

Er English is actually a thing, like it or no

Get a map of GB, cut away Scotland and Wales and what you're left with is England. And Wales, Scotland and the six cos are effectively dominated by England which has a population dwarfing their combined total

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

You can see it? Like physically touch it?
That’s the problem with borders. They are not actually there. Until someone else tells you it is.

 

[belboid]

I was born on Great Britain. I’m not English since it’s not actually a thing.
It’s interesting to be able to see from afar how propaganda reinforces your national collective trauma though. And how fragile it is.

I think it’s more you being arsed and the offensive stupidity of thinking eu=Europe

 

[Idaho]

Er English is actually a thing, like it or no

Get a map of GB, cut away Scotland and Wales and what you're left with is England. And Wales, Scotland and the six cos are effectively dominated by England which has a population dwarfing their combined total

You are merely a trans-fresian with delusions. Sorry.

 

[Idaho]

You can see it? Like physically touch it?
That’s the problem with borders. They are not actually there. Until someone else tells you it is.

This is an incredibly powerful arguement that has left me and any other right thinking person speechless. I withdraw all earlier remarks.

 

[Pickman's model]

You can see it? Like physically touch it?
That’s the problem with borders. They are not actually there. Until someone else tells you it is.

So you don't think being Scottish or Welsh or German or Andorran is a thing.

 

[Pickman's model]

This is an incredibly powerful arguement that has left me and any other right thinking person speechless. I withdraw all earlier remarks.

You'd do well to withdraw all your subsequent posts in advance too

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

No I don’t.

 

[Pickman's model]

No I don’t.

On the grounds that...

 

[neonwilderness]

So you don't think being Scottish or Welsh or German or Andorran is a thing.

Or Europe

 

[Pickman's model]

Or Europe

Oh everyone agrees Europe exists. But no one agrees on what constitutes it.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

On the grounds that...

On the grounds that it has always been those in power that seek to label others and tell you what you are and what you can and can’t do. Who you are. Which tribe you belong to. Why the others are different. Based on what, the color of your passport and the flag they tell you, you must wave.
I wasn’t English when I lived there and it’s not something I took with me to be proud of. An accident of birth. On the planet we were all born on.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

'Borders aren't, like, real, man' is a classic of the teenage stoner philosophy genre.

 

[Pickman's model]

'Borders aren't, like, real, man' is a classic of the teenage stoner philosophy genre.

 

[Pickman's model]

On the grounds that it has always been those in power that seek to label others and tell you what you are and what you can and can’t do. Who you are. Which tribe you belong to. Why the others are different. Based on what, the color of your passport and the flag they tell you, you must wave.
I wasn’t English when I lived there and it’s not something I took with me to be proud of. An accident of birth. On the planet we were all born on.

So you're labelling yourself with a label that makes everyone else think what a wanker. Borders may be arbitrary. But they are very real both physically and psychologically. You don't need to imbibe the nationalist bile. But adopting your citizen of the world stance you'll unite people of every nationality and none in the view you're an arse

 

[A380]

No

 

[Ax^]

.

 

[Raheem]

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[Boris Sprinkler]

Lol

 

[planetgeli]

My favourite moment of the tournament. Phil Foden gallops around like a baby deer (which you don't see on this clip, but he does) then does this.

 

[Lord Camomile]

My favourite moment of the tournament. Phil Foden gallops around like a baby deer (which you don't see on this clip, but he does) then does this.

Thank you! I really feel like that touch got overlooked in the commentary and post-match discussion, although I'm pretty sure it got attributed to someone else on one podcast I listened to!

Also, nice to see someone pulling off something I've tried a number of times over the years, but... well, decidedly not pulled it off

 

[Steel Icarus]

Kalvin Phillips in the same match did this