The Post-Fact Society

Well, the Germans have a different word for, like, everything, so I wouldn't put too much credence in what those people say...

 

I looked for the American people failure thread but it was locked.

So.

Payless opened a fake pop-up store called "Palessi" in a LA and invited people to the grand opening. The store was stocked with Payless shoes in disguise. One shopper spent $640 on a pair of boots. https://t.co/Z90w7kV6Ux

— CNN (@CNN) November 29, 2018

 

LOL! That's the whole scam of anything "designer." They are all made in the same sweatshop in Thailand using the same materials anyway, so why does someone's fancy name make it worth 4-5 times the price.

As soccer people, the parallel that we all know is that anyone with an accent or a "funny" name is automatically a better player or knows more about the game than a regular guy does. It's a lot better now, but back in the day, if you watched a lot of Monty Python, you could probably do a decently realistic Brit accent, and then make up some "foo'baaw" club you used to play for, and you could take the piss out of almost anyone! Dead easy, innit?

 

You're making him angry.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Kaiser_(footballer)

 

LOL! That was too funny! I loved the part about using a toy mobile phone and pretending to speak in English. Kinda like the guy who was the sign language translator at Nelson Mandela's funeral.

 

That doesn't talk about the part of his career when he was playing under the name "Welton."

 

Didn't you find his stat line to be impressive?

1972 Botafogo
1973–1977 Flamengo
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1979 Puebla 0 (0)
1981 Botafogo 0 (0)
1983 Flamengo 0 (0)
1986–1987 Gazélec Ajaccio 0 (0)
1988 Bangu 0 (0)
1988 Fluminense 0 (0)
1989 Vasco da Gama 0 (0)
1989 El Paso Sixshooters 0 (0)
1990 América (RJ) 0 (0)
1992 Guarany Futebol Clube 0 (0)
Total 0 (0)

 

I assume that in the pre-Internet era that he was able to hide his track record. Because otherwise, all those zeros would have pretty quickly given his game away.

 

You remember Chet Walker. When he was at Bradley, there was a guy from the East coast who got a scholarship with clips from his high school days. But he wasn't very good (those clips weren't actually him). He washed out after a semester.

The NAIA tournament, in the pre-internet days, would sometimes, allegedly, feature players who had been there before. With other teams. And different names.

 

Oh, if only the catanaccio defense had been rendered obsolete in the 1970s.

 

This happens every day in supermarkets across the country. Just replace "designer" with "organic."

 

This is my favorite bit of "literary football" from the Pythons:

 

"Beckenbauer obviously a bit of a surprise there."

". . . . And Marx is claiming it was offside."

 

That clip never gets old, no matter how many times I've seen it.

 

Or call it "Farmer's Market," where in the summer I pay $6 for a pint of the same blueberries that cost me $1.49 at the supermarket.

 

I'm glad I have a farmer's market that's been at it since something like 1938. Pretty much everything is cheaper at the farmer's market than the supermarket.

The exception is the meat and the eggs, but they're noticeably better.

 

I'm all for the schools going after ride money from people who misrepresent themselves. That was somebody's education. Of course, all they had to do was send somebody to his hometown and school to match it all up (or not).

 

Today, December the 5th, was supposed to be the day that Trump arrests all the socialist traitors in the Deep State and Robert Mueller issues arrest warrants for 60,000 Democrats who would then be sent to a military tribunal and shot. At least according to the Q Anon movement.

I predict that this total failure of the conspiracy theory will in no way deter its followers.

 

Where do you find this stuff? LOL

 

It's silly stuff. Until you remember that the Tree of Life Synagogue shooter was a believer in the Q conspiracy.