Placename of the day: Weston-Super-Mare. Look, in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's ... SUPERMARE! :D And then there's a Mr Anchor who works at a Naval Recreation Centre.

Ganked from [livejournal.com profile] ladyjaida:

Five People I Would Really Like To Be BFF With

  1. Jayne Cobb. We would totally get along, and he can beatup annoying people for me while I hold his beer.
  2. Captain Jack harkness, who would take me across time and space to go see places and teach me how to be suave and seduce people, and possibly let me braid his hair and other BFF-like things.
  3. Jean-Paul Beaubier, because we could totally hang out at coffee shops all day to people-watch. And by "people-watch" I mean "snark". :D
  4. Sir Ian McKellan, although that would be more of a mentor/pupil relationship than proper BFF.
  5. Neil Gaiman. He can be adorable and smart and brilliant, and I'll be in the corner being a doof and making him look even more brilliant by contrast. :D Also, we could talk writing.

It occured to me yesterday that the World Cup is about to start getting underway, and that I've friended a whole bunch of people in the last two years, who probably have no idea what's about to hit them. So, yes, a little warning: I get taken over by a pod person during the World and European Cups. Click on the football tag on this post to see what I was like in 2004, and especially in 2002. I normally support, in that order, Belgium, Scotland, England, anyone playing against Brazil, and anyone playing against the Netherlands.

(Belgium and Scotland for obvious reasons, and England because I like watching David Beckham and Michael Owen get their grope on. The Dutch-hatred is cultural, and it's a tribute to my still-seething hatred of Brazil that I would suppotr the Dutch if they played Brazil, because Brazil, through blatant cheating and lying and A FUCKING BLIND REF APPARENTLY, kicked first England and then Belgium out of the Cup in subsequent matches, and NO I AM NOT BITTER AT ALL! But anyway.)

With both Belgium and Scotland not even in the running, you can expect, for the following couple of weeks, a lot of minute-by-minute match commentary, picspam posts of boys in shorts touching each other in inappropriate ways, threatening of people's kneecaps, bitterness, Ronaldo-hatred burning with the passion of a thousand suns, and, if England manage to get anywhere (ha!), probably the occasional drunk celebatory post.

(Speaking of which, any of the football/slash fans on my friendslist want to help me come up with a football/slash drinking game? Doesn't have to be England-specific, although "If David Beckham insists on taking a turn during penalty shootouts, empty your drink" should really be in there.)

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From: [personal profile] thawrecka


I refuse to believe there are people who don't go all pod person when the World Cup happens.

From: [identity profile] bubosquared.livejournal.com


I'm told there are people who never watch or even vaguely follow football at all. O_O
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From: [personal profile] wibbble


The guy setting up the TV in the canteen asked me what channel the football was on. Not only did I not know - I don't even know when it starts. :op

From: [identity profile] bubosquared.livejournal.com


This Saturday. :D Or a few days before, actually, but Saturday's the first England mach.
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From: [personal profile] thawrecka


Shock! Horror! Can I really stand to live in a world where people do not follow football at all?

From: [identity profile] bubosquared.livejournal.com


I once met someone who did follow the footie, but insisted there was absolutely no homoerotic vibe to it whatsoever. Some people? Weird.
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From: [personal profile] thawrecka


No homoerotic vibe to football? Ahahaha! I think I just coughed up a lung. There is absolutely no code of football that isn't deeply homoerotic.

From: [identity profile] bubosquared.livejournal.com


I know, right? I mean, I know it's probably nowhere near as subtexty as I often read it, but ... No vibes? None at all? Dude, they're grabbing each other's arse out there! Oh, that's just "friendly," right. Riiiiiiight.
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From: [personal profile] thawrecka


The only sport more homoerotic is greco-roman wrestling.

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And that said, I'm actually looking forward to the World Cup itself, I just really could've done without its omnipresence in advertising over the past couple of months. You know how it's usually, "Wow, they managed to work a naked woman into an ad for lemon-scented oven cleaner!"? It's been like that with football lately.

From: [identity profile] bubosquared.livejournal.com


Yeah, they've actually renamed the Mars bars over here to support the England team, which, WTF?

And don't mock my Brazil-hatred, dammit! They're a bunch of wankers who should]'ve got an Oscar, not the Cup!

From: [identity profile] sivan.livejournal.com


What? That's baffling in the same way the Freedom Fries thing was. Only with reverse reasoning.

And I wasn't mocking! I agree, but the sentiment amuses me anyway. :D

I mourn the fact that neither Turkey nor Scotland are in the running. And I just can't bring myself to root for England or France. I'll end up cheering for Australia, who won't last past the first round. Or Iran. (Hm, Iran ...)

From: [identity profile] bubosquared.livejournal.com


Butbutbut England! OTP! Pocket-sized players! (*stuffs Michael Owen down shirt, makes off with*) I dunno who I'll root for once England is out--I suppose Brazil will be in long enough to always have someone to root for, though. *waves Anyone But Brazil In 2006 flag*
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From: [identity profile] hakeer.livejournal.com


OMG, I remember the 2002 World Cup so clearly. It's so not been 4 years!

So yeah, in other words, I definitely won't mind your football craziness. Will be rooting for France and the Netherlands myself. ;)

From: [identity profile] bubosquared.livejournal.com


I KNOW RIGHT? At least this time I won't have to follow it during the day via the internet, but can see it live and possibly host a chatroom for those of us who want to babble at each other about the games?

BOO NETHERLANDS! But I do still have a soft spot for France, who won me quite a bit of money back in '98. :D
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From: [identity profile] flabbergast.livejournal.com


I wanted to comment, but you pretty much said everything I was going to say. ...except the whole "rooting for France and the Netherlands" thing, of course. Heh.
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From: [identity profile] hakeer.livejournal.com


Ahahaha! Of course. Though I know you're secretly rooting for them anyway. This whole "supporting England" thing is just an act, obviously.

...Right? :D

From: [identity profile] crazymadjo.livejournal.com


I shared an elevator ride with Neil Gaiman once. We're practically married.

What does "BFF" stand for, anyway?
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From: [identity profile] bubosquared.livejournal.com


I think with certain drinking rules, I'd manage to get drunk on N/A beer, even. :D
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From: [identity profile] carelessmemory.livejournal.com


I'm thinking between yours and [livejournal.com profile] lennongirl's covering of the World Cup I won't even have to turn on my telly. ;D

From: [identity profile] bubosquared.livejournal.com


No no, you do have to switch on the telly, so you can come hang out with us crazy people and laugh at the anyeurisms we're (read: "I am") likely to have during assorted games. :D
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From: [identity profile] carelessmemory.livejournal.com


Hee. Okay, telly it is then. But you have to tell me when to switch it on. :p

From: [identity profile] travelingcarrot.livejournal.com


I'll need some time to come up with ideas for the drinking game but I am so up for playing it.

From: [identity profile] bubosquared.livejournal.com


I'd suggest "Every time Brazil cheats, take a sip," but that alone would lead to alcohol poisoning. (I AM NOT BITTER!)

*goes off to ponder*

From: [identity profile] rane-ab.livejournal.com


and anyone playing against the Netherlands.

*snickers* My thought exactly. I'm not a big football-fan, but last time, I had the incredible sense to pick Netherlands - Czech Republic (or however that's spelled) as the only match I watched. And everyone kept saying it was the best match of the competition. And the Netherlands lost. Bless my intuition. ;-)

From: [identity profile] rane-ab.livejournal.com


P.S.: Though I'm getting this British radio station here, BFBS, which I think is meant for the British troops stationed in Germany, and really, could someone please tell them to stop playing the most ridiculous 'England Is Going To Win The Cup'-songs? There's this variation on 'Is This The Way To Amarillo?' that I have to say is particularly painful on the senses.

From: [identity profile] bubosquared.livejournal.com


Heeee! Have you hear This Time yet? That's my personal favourite, from back in 1982. I have a ridiculous soft spot for football anthems, I admit.

From: [identity profile] rane-ab.livejournal.com


That's really nice of you, but I've heard two of the Dutch supporters songs on the radio yesterday. I'm too busy being traumatised right now to bear any more football anthems. :p

From: [identity profile] bubosquared.livejournal.com


No no, clearly, you need to hear this to clear your brain of the trauna. ;D

From: [identity profile] rane-ab.livejournal.com


Be my guest, though I don't know what the chances are of me being lucky twice. ;-)
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