CHEER UP, EMO NATION

[vostoklake]

(essential background for Americans and non-French Europeans)

1) Now you rugbyheads understand how we cricket fans feel every year.

2) Parents are saying that their children are inconsolable? Maybe we should look again at our culture which encourages this almost-compulsory vicarious identification with one single corporate brand, sorry, sports team so thoroughly. At least English soccer hooligans or AFL nuts (hi, Cal!) have a variety of teams to support.

3) At least this provides helpful advice for me on what to do if RAM gets wiped out this Saturday. I suppose the equivalent of "get behind South Africa" would be "get behind City Vision", but that will take some gritting of teeth.

4) Go Argentina!

Comments

[darthsappho.livejournal.com]

I was somewhat amused by the listener feedback on the radio this morning - a whole string of people complaining about how much time had been wasted on the rugby.

[calenturian.livejournal.com]

A variety of teams in the one season, even.

My parents have just gone over to your fine country (I forget whether they are in Auckland or Wellington right now) and my mum tells me the flags are all at half-mast :) I was going to go for the All Blacks since the Wallabies got wiped out, but I'm just going to go back into apathy until next February.

(I support NZ in the cricket - your captain is more attractive than ours in every conceivable way)

[laputain.livejournal.com]

While I am of course 100% in favour of Dreamy Daniel, I am not at all happy with the way they pretty much stabbed Fleming in the back. I wonder whether Dan is not being used as a pawn by the forces of cricketing bureaucracy.

Since I have a visceral hatred for South Africa and I want to wind up the English boys at work, I'm not sure whether whistling La Marseillaise or chanting "MALVINAS! MALVINAS! MALVINAS ARGENTINAS!" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkland_Islands) would be the superior course of action.

I feel sorry for the French chick at work, who spent most of yesterday embarrassed out of her skull.