The FIFA World Cup Thread (Spoilers Welcome)

[ExileOnDaytonStreet]

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The Dutch tore Javier Mascherano a new one. Literally.

http://screamer.deadspin.com/argent...-says-he-tore-his-anus-agai-1603023083/+samer

Oh wow, the comments section...

That's a common injury in that area. Millions of Brazilians were also severely butthurt recently.

Henceforth, losing one's anal virginity shall be known as popping the Mascherano cherry.

Once again an Argentinian is prepared to give the Germans easy entry.

There was something lost in translation: he actually said he was listening to Tori Amos.

I'd rather tear my anus, thanks.

I believe the German term for this is "der Goatse".

He spells his name Götze

A torn anus after an encounter with the Dutch? Sounds like the plot of the Amsterdam scenes in Eurotrip.

Well, if they have to remove the hair from the injured area to apply the bandage, at least he is in the right place.

An ******* causing much pain. Oh sorry, though I was commenting on the Pierzynski article.

In a strange twist, this injury has been extremely common during the semi-finals of this World Cup. No less than 11 Brazilian players reported the exact same injury following their game against Germany.

According to local citizens this is just another brown eye for the World Cup in Brazil

Aaron Hernandez had the same injury

 

[Priceless]

Netherlands surprised Spain. Costa Rica surprised everybody. Germany tore Brazil a new one. Lots of scoring in group play, then not so much in knockout, but still more than in years past. Americans still acknowledge soccer after USA get eliminated: Fluke or no? Teams decide to attack Spain, it works, people try it on other teams, it works. Now everyone attacks. Attack=Goals. Germany best at attacking.

I get the gist. I mean if you read the site's FAQ you'll see that you are only supposed to copy and paste 4 paragraphs.

 

[Kepler]

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Nice.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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Oh wow, the comments section...

The Deadspin comments section is one of maybe four or five comment sections on the internet worth reading.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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I get the gist. I mean if you read the site's FAQ you'll see that you are only supposed to copy and paste 4 paragraphs.

I get what your are doing, but that's like someone pointing out some ridiculous city ordinance about the size of a birdfeeder attached to a house.

 

[board]

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I get what your are doing, but that's like someone pointing out some ridiculous city ordinance about the size of a birdfeeder attached to a house.

Yes, but when it's your job to enforce the ordinances you tend to take these things seriously.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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Yes, but when it's your job to enforce the ordinances you tend to take these things seriously.

So, in other words....

 

[state of hockey]

The Deadspin comments section is one of maybe four or five comment sections on the internet worth reading.

Tumblr and Tickld to name a couple others.

 

[XYZ]

Oh wow, the comments section...

Can you please trim that to four paragraphs?

Wait...they're all quoted individually. You're free to pass.

 

[Patman]

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So, in other words....

I think the board is allergic to C&D orders

edit: to be fair, I can't really believe any of those are really "paragraphs" in the true sense. A carriage return after each sentence is not a paragraph make....

on the other hand, I don't think there's a purpose to tempt the lawyerbeast.

 

[FreshFish]

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538 blog ranks the "best" to "worst" matches of this year's World Cup so far.

# 1 on their list: USA v Belgium.
# 2. Germany v Algeria

# 6 Germany v Brazil

# 10 Argentina v Netherlands (a bit of a surprise, eh?)

# 61 Spain v Australia
# 62 France v Honduras

 

[Kepler]

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The Deadspin comments section is one of maybe four or five comment sections on the internet worth reading.

It's actually become its own freestanding institution at this point, with its own traditions and memes and of course a trillion in-jokes. It is fun to read a Comments section on DS without even bothering to read the article.

This goes for io9 even moreso. Jezebel's is great too, but in a totally different way -- the arguments are so ludicrous and repetitive that they're well into the third or fourth level of meta-self-parody at this point, and it's the only Comments section to get a shout out on Honest Trailers.

 

[Spartanforlife4]

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Yeah... I don't agree with that list at all.

Mexico-Netherlands and Mexico-Brazil would be an interchangeable 1/2 for me. Argentina-Netherlands should go last. That was dreadful and every stereotype Americans have for soccer.

I thought that Costa Rica-Greece game was very exciting, certainly not worthy of 10th worst, but maybe that's just the CONCACAF bias in me.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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I think the board is allergic to C&D orders

edit: to be fair, I can't really believe any of those are really "paragraphs" in the true sense. A carriage return after each sentence is not a paragraph make....

on the other hand, I don't think there's a purpose to tempt the lawyerbeast.

Agreed on all accounts. The paragraph is a dying concept.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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It's actually become its own freestanding institution at this point, with its own traditions and memes and of course a trillion in-jokes. It is fun to read a Comments section on DS without even bothering to read the article.

This goes for io9 even moreso. Jezebel's is great too, but in a totally different way -- the arguments are so ludicrous and repetitive that they're well into the third or fourth level of meta-self-parody at this point, and it's the only Comments section to get a shout out on Honest Trailers.

I lump io9, Jezebel, and Deadspin into one group.

 

[Spartanforlife4]

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The Deadspin comments section is one of maybe four or five comment sections on the internet worth reading.

Deadspin's comments are amazing. Probably my favorite site for comments.

I used to read the Yahoo News comments because it was hilarious so many bigoted and backwards people could combine in one place to share their opinion. I had to stop though, because over time I started to hate myself for being the same species as them. There was a 538 blog about immigration that had a couple Yahoo-like wackos comment on there, and it was so refreshing to have people make fun of them rather than everyone agreeing with them like on Yahoo.

On the topic of 538, it is a good place for some intelligent discussion but almost every article has those one or two guys that continually try to discredit or show the flaws in their analysis.

 

[Kepler]

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I lump io9, Jezebel, and Deadspin into one group.

They are owned by the same folks, along with Gawker and a few others (Gizmodo, and the games one I always forget about).

It's funny because there are die hards that criticize the others not knowing they are the same entity. It's like watching Christian Mingle ads while keeping in mind the owners also operate gay dating sites.

 

[Jimjamesak]

They are owned by the same folks, along with Gawker and a few others (Gizmodo, and the games one I always forget about).

It's funny because there are die hards that criticize the others not knowing they are the same entity. It's like watching Christian Mingle ads while keeping in mind the owners also operate gay dating sites.

Kotaku is the Video Game one. And Kotaku, like any other video game site, is a different world.

 

[Kepler]

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Kotaku is the Video Game one. And Kotaku, like any other video game site, is a different world.

It's the only one that I can't figure out what's going on just from context. I can't tell a headlight from a moon roof but I can understand Gizmodo, and I haven't read a second-wave feminist manifesto without rolling my eyes since 1987 but I understand Jezebel. Kotaku, though, is in another language, which is apparently shared by several hundred million people under 25, half of them Korean.

I would just like to thank them for paying my social security checks in 30 years.

 

[Shirtless Guy]

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I found the big head red head podcast on espn radio that has Twellman and Lalas talking soccer. They did one yesterday, it's a good listen...the one before that was from 5/23 is all about the 23-man roster. I'm sure most of us felt the way they did on that day but it's a great listen. I called them out on twitter that none of them mentioned Boud and the lack of a man for man sub for Altidore. Twellman actually responded saying talked talked about injury...