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[fpb]

Italy's performance has been shameful.

Having said that, there is nothing more ridiculous than the American bloggers who insist on repeating to each other that soccer is boring. Of course, four fifths of mankind are all wrong, and only a few hundred million Yanks are right. You people are like the proud mother at the army parade who said "everyone's out of step except my Jimmy." Say that it bores you, and nobody will question your taste; there are Italians and Brazilians who dislike soccer. Bit if you qualify it as boring, period, you simply certify your alienness from the human race.

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Re: If you dont use your hands is it really a sport?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I take it that running is not a sport, then? You don't run on your hands, either.

Re: If you dont use your hands is it really a sport?

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

He's referencing George Carlin, who did a routine about why basketball, baseball and football were the only sports, and then went through all kinds of other sports explaining why they weren't sports. Some of the rules were purposefully ridiculous. For example, gymnastics is not a sport because Romanians are good at it. Anyway, the rule excluding soccer was that you don't use your hands.