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@LaSambadeStGermain when he sees a post by Teso.

Just because it applies to one case doesn't mean it applies to another. Dog for instance is an insult in Australia but an endearing term in the USA.

Well it is culturally relative isn't it? A Sudanese man probably won't find 'nigger' very offensive because it isn't culturally relebant to him. Just kinda like you wouldn't find 'gweilo' that offensive if a Cantonese person said it.

I didn't mean it wasn't an important win for Pakistan, I'm just not that into ODI for the most part. Congrats!

Can't see I'm even the slightest bit fussed by this tournament. Clenching my bum for the Ashes.,

Racism is unfortunately a lot more common than we think it is, and I'd wager most of them aren't the type to wear it on their sleeve. A lot of the time (well at least in my experience) a lot of the racism I've witnessed is from people that aren't sincerely racist, they just let slip something stupid that they didn't actually mean, trying to insult someone for instance.

Was it an intentionally racist comment? For instance I could take that two ways 'You are a gorilla because you're Ecuadorian' versus 'You are a gorilla because you are unrefined and stupid'. I'm always cautious about the 'racist' label these days, it gets thrown around a lot to the point that everything is reduced to racism.

Depends on what part of Australia you go to. It's pretty respected in places where people actually take part in their cultural heritage rather than fall into the pitfalls so many young fellas do, the drinking, the fighting, the drugs, lots of programs to help them too but not too many want the help. Kinda sad that most of the young Murris I grew up with have ended up doing some time in jail, just a product of their environment, hard for most of them to escape the cycles of poverty. There was a local bloke that was a published author wrote stories of his youth doing a lot of station work in the outback, nothing fancy but interesting reads. Also some great art work and handiwork, I dunno if you've come across one but a carved emu egg is pretty amazing. I feel like with some Murris anway, there is resistance, they wouldn't than their culture to be 'core' given the choice.

The Maori All Blacks is an odd thing really. A similar thing happened in Australia call the Indigenous All Stars.

Do you even really have OCD?

Oh grow up. You can't even ignore someone properly and you have to untoggle all their posts?

Jesus, talk about an overkill.

Use the ignore function.

Well it is probably better than a bottle of spirits.

The true definition of 'liberal' would be pro-gun ownership.

Bannings are stupid, grow up and just use the ignore feature. Teso is allowed to his free speech and I'll defend that despite him not giving me the same treatment.

Farcelona

It'd be a more interesting debate if we looked at the theories and practises behind both academies and compared their success rates since Cruyff's revolution. Both academies aren't afraid from scouting and inviting/buying/whatever youngsters but that is seemingly where similarities end. Besides, football is observably a sport of cycles, it can be seen in tactics, style, formations, positions, and personalities. For instance in the early 90s Barca had: Guardiola, Ferrer, and Busquets (that I know of), a few years later Real had: Raul, Guti, and Casillas. Barcelona came back with Xavi, Puyol, Iniesta, and Valdes, while Real floundered about and let players like Arbeloa, Mata, and Negredo leave, the Barcelona turned up the heat with Messi, Busquets 2.0, Pedro, Pique, and Alba. Of course it returns back to Real with Carvajal, Nacho, and a few others on the wings. Castilla isn't bad by any stretch of the imagination, but it's hard to argue that La Maisa isn't the modern standard. The only academy that could give La Maisa a run for it's money is Ajax's.

Coentrao was more expensive than all three of those players put together. Messi constantly raped Coentrao like Monica Belluci in Noé's Irreversible.

Right front tooth, top. Took 1/3 of it off, it happened years ago in a skating accident but the filling or whatever it was snapped off last night.

Chipped my tooth again today. Absolutely fucking livid

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Whaaat? All that matters is the match and without that the game is nothing. Of course they mean something, attitude, and 'lethargy' are equally important as raw talent otherwise Quaresma would be the best player in the world. Don't give me that nonsense, of course Man Utd were 8 goals better than Arsenal that day, the other 36 matches have no bearing on that one. It was also 8-2 not 8-0. Because the joke was "I'd eight two be an Arsenal fan right now". Of course they tell us something, every match tells a story, you can't write it off because it wasn't 'regular'. Well guess what? The bloody CL FINAL isnt a regular match. It is important just like Holland defeating Spain in 2014 was important. They are neither good nor bad things because they are far in the past but are all equally important in the narrative.