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Do you think Xabi would come back to England if he was promised future casting as the first Basque James Bond? Good looking dude.
We didn’t love him simply for his passing ability. Oh no.
Soccer continues to supply the metrosexual dude envy.
“The Italian, whatever, national, whatever their organization is, they don’t understand that ‘guidos’ and ‘guidettes’ are good-looking people that, you know, like to make a scene and be center of attention and just take care of themselves. hey are old-fashioned. They don’t know that; they think it’s offensive, because maybe in their time it was offensive, but now it’s kind of a compliment. So they don’t understand that and that is what we are trying to say. They are way overreacting to the show. We’re 22 to 29 just having fun at the shore. They are just taking it way out of proportion.” —
Snooki from Jersey Shore on allegations that the program is promoting hurtful ethnic steroetypes. (via jgh)
YOU MEAN THE NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION SNOOKI, YOU FUCKING DUMB PIECE OF SHIT.
As a first generation New Jersey-bred Italian-American, I loathe how the show uses a sad, white trash stereotype from 1991 as the DNA of it’s “characters.”
Don’t even get me started.
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I admit to having watched and been fascinated by Jersey Shore, and I haven’t watched MTV, even for casual channel-surf reasons, for years. (I think I stopped when The Hills started its ascendancy.) But I don’t think the show actually says that much, or is trying to, about the Jersey Shore, at least in terms of identity politics or sociological accuracy. As a Northeasterner, I’ve known many people from the tristate area, particularly this one family who own the summer camp next to ours in upstate New York. They’re a large Irish-Catholic family from Long Island, I’ve known them my whole life, consider them almost extended family members, and theoretically they’d exist squarely within the Jersey Shore demographic. Of course, they don’t. They’re actual human beings, with complicated pasts and inner lives, and I can’t imagine them being anything other than horrified at the show or enjoying it purely as a guilty pleasure. Which is pretty much my response, as well as marvelling at the show’s utterly next-level transfiguration of reality show conventions. If The Real World is the genre’s Oedipus Rex, the foundational, high-minded text from which all further iterations must deviate, then Jersey Shore is a 19th-century melodrama: giddy exploitation populated by a cast of ridiculously overdetermined stock characters. And that’s the way character seems to work on this show. It’s a televisual version of the Jersey Shore created for the voyeuristic desires of people who have never been there, or have been there once and want to see a version that conforms to their prejudicial notions. In other words, it isn’t the imitation of real-life types, it’s the imitation of people’s ideas of real life, which is something else entirely. The lack of interiority, or any kind of personal authenticity whatsoever in the cast they’ve assembled is something I find sort of astonishing. It may be the most well-cast show in the history of reality TV. As a “reality” TV show, its profound dearth of humanism has attained sublimity: it repulses, it attracts, it produces awe.
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“I do not care about headlines - for me, there is only one Tom Cruise, and it is the one who plays for Arsenal Football Club. I believe he is a very good footballer, but I would not like him to be under too much pressure.” —
Wenger defends Arshavin after Russian rumours - UEFA Champions League - ESPN Soccernet
Really? Tom Cruise? This isn’t some elaborate practical joke?
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Quote of the year.
Cape Town Stadium, ZSA.
Whoaaa.
Always disconcerting to see pictures of a hot Robert Smith.
I think spirit guide is a great way to characterize how R.S. operates.
Last night I had another dream (the third one this year) where Robert Smith is prominently featured. What does this man mean in my life? Is he my spirit guide?
My expert analysis of the English (likely) starting XI:
Ben Foster/David James/Robert Green: None of them are as good as Brad Friedel, not to mention Tim Howard.
Ashley Cole: The Sasha Vujacic of English football.
John Terry: Crybaby. Can’t hit penalty shots.
Rio Ferdinand: Over the hill.
Glen Johnson: Great O, no D.
Steven Gerrard: Diver.
Frank Lampard: Fat. Can’t hit penalty shots.
Aaron Lennon/James Milner/Theo Walcott: Great for the premier league, all anonymous internationally.
Gareth Barry: A fairly dull, dependable player. He’s no Xabi Alonso.
Wayne Rooney: Diver.
Emile Heskey/Carlton Cole: They both seem like all-around bros. Neither can score. Might as well call in Bobby Zamora.
Subs:
David Beckham: Used to be able to run all day but now he’s evidently asthmatic(?). Sickeningly over the hill.
Jermain Defoe: Can’t hit penalty shots. Still don’t trust him in big situations.
Peter Crouch: Sucks.
Joleon Lescott: hahahaha
Prediction: ENG 1-1 USA. USA scores on am easy rebound given up by Ben Foster, or a Rio Ferdinand own goal. ENG ties in injury time after a Rooney dive/penalty shot. US wins 4-2 on PK’s after Defoe, Lampard, and Terry all miss their penalty kicks.
Yahh trick yah.
This might be my favorite thing on the internets.
No way. That face is pure cockney chagrin.
Good actor. I am not usually one to think soccer is fixed, but there was a lot of money riding on England and the USA being in the same group. I smell a conspiracy!
Goldenballs reacts to drawing the States.
Goldenballs reacts to drawing the States.
Sorry, I need to do more research on the US players. Is Mia Hamm stilll playing for you lot?Is it banter to remind you that you’re going down in six months?! All hail the epic wimpiness of Landon Donovan!
I look forward to some epic banter in the coming months.
Unlike England, the US doesn’t have a team full of divers and divas (excepting Donovan, obv). Of course, the first time one of our defenders makes a clean hard tackle, expect the cards to come out.
It is on, my friend.
