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Japan World Cup 3 game is wonderfully silly has been added as a related post - related requested by ant on that post.

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They should at least benefit from all the added infrastructure (roads, bridges, mass transit, etc) that was necessary to upgrade in order to host the games.

I don't understand why FIFA couldn't change the way the tournament is played and scheduled such that fewer stadiums are required... I could see needing to build 1 or 2 more stadiums, but why 12 (stadiums in Brazil for world cup 2014, 3 brand new, others renovated).

note: 30 billion brazilian reals = $13.76 billion usd

Your video, Why Brazilians are Protesting the World Cup, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

This is very good.

All the wrong people get rich from the WC and FIFA laughs very heartily all the way to the bank. The whole process of bidding and breaking your countries back to host these things is borderline ridiculous and the "privilege and gratitude" you're supposed to show because your corrupt politicians want to line their pockets is equally ridiculous.

Hosting these events should be put to public vote, I don't feel this is absurd, there are only two such events, the Olympics and the World Cup. The politicians should have to argue their case to why it would benefit the country, with an *actual* plan for trying to make good of it, not just claim "Oh trust me, this will be GREAT for the country"....based on? All the other failures? Sounds promising.

Well there were drug-free riders but they got the heave ho from the sport thanks to Lance. After that I have no doubt it wasn't worth competing unless you decided to use PEDs.
Also I think it's instructive to read cyclist Nicole Cooke's retirement speech.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/jan/14/nicole-cooke-retirement-statement

Here's an extract;
"Every scandal on the men's side has caused sponsors to leave on the Women's side. And with such thin budgets, the losses have a greater relative impact on what survives. In areas where there was unique female development and growth, such as in Canada, which hosted a major Tour, a World Cup and the World Championships, all geared to supporting their number one rider — Genevieve Jeanson, there has been calamity. Perhaps Jeanson will not be a name familiar to you. She was the Canadian superstar, a national icon. She never tested positive. She missed a drugs test when she beat me and received a meaningless fine as a consequence. She exceeded the 50% Hematocrit level and the authorities acted in line with their legislation and imposed a "health rest" on her."

In order they are...

Andres Iniesta who scored the winning in the World Cup Final for Spain plays for Barcelona

Cesc Fabregas who joined Barcelona this past summer from Arsenal

Carlos Puyol central defender from Barcelona

Sergio Ramos right back for Real Madrid (and hack when it comes time for El Classico)

Fernando Torres (Fatnando) who joined Chelsea for a a fee of 50 Million pounds.

Wow you ain't pretty when you get hyper defensive...talk about internet nerds...

I don't remember telling you what to post. Besides, I like RP. Now that you mention it I think I only ever posted one World Cup video...I think I'll have to change that.

Not sure how briefly writing about my action concerning my annoyance with UMG is hypocritical.

Anyways, if making up bullshit about me helps you get through the day go right ahead. I like to help people in need.

Or be an uppity internet nerd and go around telling people they're doing it wrong. "Hey stop posting Ron Paul videos! But hey, did you see my umpteenth Fifa World Cup video?"

Or maybe I can be an annoying hypocrite and moan and piss about some copyright owner taking down my free internet videos?

>> ^DerHasisttot:

>> ^Gallowflak:
>> ^DerHasisttot:
Ahh the British and the Nazis. i had a course last semester analysing Britain's ongoing fascination with the Nazis. Conclusions: 1. British school history-courses are a catastrophe of american magnitude.
2. Empire? What Empire? We defeated the Nazis! What? Britain had concentration camps, torture and cultural genocides? ... erm ... But we defeated the nazis, and they were way worse than us! Hooray Britain!

Britain, in my experience, is aware of its own miserable history to the point of being self-flagellating. There's a massive emphasis in culture and education on the tudors and WW2, and it's almost ridiculous, but I really doubt it has anything to do with soothing the social discomfort to be had by reflecting on the crimes of the empire.
I don't know. WW2 seems pretty fucking important when it comes to modern history, considering how much that conflict defined the shape of the future world.


Of course WW2 and Nazis should be studied. But there is the difference between study and obsession. We had to do projects for the course, and one group knew a bunch of Bachelor of Education- students being teacher's assistants in the UK at the time. So the group created a survey to look at british student's perceptions of Germany. One question concerned, for example, the number of years the students had WWII as a subject. Out of 4 or 5 classes (all over the UK), all had had WWII in more than 2 years, focussed mostly on Britain vs. Germany. When asked to name something "bad" the British Empire had done, most of only one class could name the enormous slave-trade. When asked to name the things they most associated with Germany, Nazis came before the cars and the soccer team. (And if you look at the tabloids and even proper papers when a match is on, you'll see an abundance of Nazi-refernces.) A friend of mine got cursed out of a London cab for being German. Nick Clegg wrote an article about the obsession. Edit: Moar. I can't find the article I'm searching for. I'll look again tomorrow.


"Having world war 2 in more than 2 years" does not mean that you have studied it for the entire duration of that teaching year - i have covered 3 or 4 different topics 3 or 4 different times during the course of my secondary education (11-16). The word "in" is a big clue there. We also covered native americans, the tudors and stewarts, and the rest i forget because i've never been interested in studying history.

The rest of my points i'll list in brief list form;
1) I don't believe that's true, at all, that 4 out of 5 classrooms full of students had no person who knew about the slave trade during colonial britain. That's covered plenty.
2) I am wholly unsurprised that a bunch of SCHOOL CHILDREN who have spent the last few years covering nazi germany on and off associate germany with nazis over cars (which they can't drive and who cares where cars are made?) and a football team (which we probably play on average once in a 2 year period, mostly in friendlies). If you're older than about 18, your grandad was probably in the war, and your grandma lived during those times. The war was a tough time and we're proud of standing alone for a time.
3) You're reading the sun or the news of the world - tip for you, stop reading the sun or the news of the world.
and 4) I've been cursed out of a london cab for being northern.

PS. Two world wars and one world cup, doodahhhh doodahhhh! .... it's a joke.

Come on lad, get a grip. This questionnaire sounds like bollocks to me - i've experienced 3 student exchanges with german students, and everyone got on really well with no war/nazi/anything comments or insinuations. I could ask 10 strangers what they thought of germany and i'd probably get 7 saying they like em. I got along better with german kids on holidays to spain than i did with the english kids, hung out with them, learned german better, and still love the language now.

Perhaps you're looking for it?

>> ^radx:

That's even more wtf than the other one.
0:42 -- is the commentator really saying "ninja sniper"?


Yeah, that's the ninja horse's name.

Play the game yourself here!: http://www.jra-jwc.jp/win5/

My first race I had a horse with a mohawk and a horse with an afro. Halfway through the race all the horses got power-ups... one was on skis and another tried to run on top of a giant tire! The winner was a horse that rode on a swiveling chair. All the horses have hilarious gag names to match their looks.

How to play (if you can't read Japanese): [NOTE: You can only purchase 20 tickets per day unless you delete the cookie from your browser history]

1) Go to the website (http://www.jra-jwc.jp/win5/)
2) Click the red "skip" button in the lower right to skip the intro.
3) Click the red button again: Japan World Cup 3 Wins を始める！！ (It now says "Begin Japan 3 World Cup Wins" in Japanese)
4) Click the first yellow tab next to the red button that says "馬券購入" (purchase tickets)
5) For ease of play, I suggest clicking the yellow button on the far right that says ランダム (randomly choose horses)
6) Next, you have to decide how many tickets to buy... you can only buy 20 tickets per day (unless you clear the browser history/cookie cache). I suggest you pick 20. When you're ready, click the button that looks like this: 購入 (purchase)
7) The next screen shows you your picks for the races (there will be 5 WTF races--remember, these horses have been randomly picked for you). Click the yellow button that looks like this: 決定 (confirm)
Click the red button that looks like this: 出走 and has a picture of a jockey riding a horse (begin run)
9) Click the red button that looks like this: レースに進む！！　(start the race)
10) Enjoy your WTF race!

Thanks for the promote

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