Mikkel Diskerud can choose US or Norway NT [R] includes NT results

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  1. LouisianaViking07/09

    Aug 15, 2009
    Meeting women is easy. Meeting women who aren't repulsed by me, that's what I need help with :D
     
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  2. The Irish Rover

    The Irish Rover Member+

    Aug 1, 2010
    Dublin
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
    I think this photo deserves a caption competition.

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    My entry is "All that hair, and no hair spray? What's going on?"
     
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  3. UniversalAdvice

    Apr 18, 2018
    Wow, what a dickish and disrespectful tweet from that account.
     
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  4. Suyuntuy

    Suyuntuy Member+

    Jul 16, 2007
    Vancouver, Canada
    Mix, quietly answering Pirlo's question: "Herbal Essences."
     
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  5. Crewmudgeon

    Crewmudgeon Member+

    Sep 3, 1999
    Crewdom
    Mix: "I just soiled myself."
     
  6. USA-Zebuel

    USA-Zebuel Member+

    Mar 26, 2013
    Club:
    Colón de Santa Fe
    Ahhhh the internet. Where some hack journalist makes a snarky remark to get clicks.
     
  7. miklagard

    miklagard Member

    Mar 15, 2009
    Club:
    Stabaek IF
    There is no country with a more respectful, consistent, thoughtful and humane police force than that of Sweden. It sadens me tremendously to hear the news that came out of Göteborg this morning.
     
  8. ChicagoVT

    ChicagoVT Member

    United States
    Jun 26, 2019
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  9. The Irish Rover

    The Irish Rover Member+

    Aug 1, 2010
    Dublin
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
    You're from Louisiana aren't you? All the help you need is back home. Go spend the summer with your grandmas and their friends and learn to cook proper Cajun food. Women have a hard time resisting a man who can really cook.

    Get her into the kitchen doing the chopping with you and you'll soon have her somewhere else doing something else with you. :cool:
     
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  10. LouisianaViking07/09

    Aug 15, 2009
    I can't do those things with my grandma. I'm from Louisiana not Alabama o_O
     
  11. The Irish Rover

    The Irish Rover Member+

    Aug 1, 2010
    Dublin
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
    I certainly hope so!!!
     
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  12. miklagard

    miklagard Member

    Mar 15, 2009
    Club:
    Stabaek IF
    Like 1:30 into this one:
    ?
     
  13. The Irish Rover

    The Irish Rover Member+

    Aug 1, 2010
    Dublin
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
    #8288 The Irish Rover, Jul 2, 2021
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    I LOLled watching that. Really loudly.

    So loudly in fact, that I decided to replay it. Also, so loudly that my daughter came in and listened. :speechless:

    Then she LOLled as well :confused:
     
  14. felloveranddidanadu

    Plymouth Argyle FC
    Dec 12, 2009
    Club:
    San Jose Frogs
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    After
    (and deep contemplation of Stonehenge) you get to:

    "Your vagina is a self cleansing muscular tract/with 50000 nerve cells ready to act"
    has been in my brain since 2012
     
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  15. BostonRed

    BostonRed Member+

    Oct 9, 2011
    Somerville, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    He's in Cyprus:

     
  16. Suyuntuy

    Suyuntuy Member+

    Jul 16, 2007
    Vancouver, Canada
    Omonia is perhaps the top side in Cyprus. So he's not going down this time.
     
  17. autobus39

    autobus39 Member+

    Jun 28, 2006
    Scranton, PA
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Omonia announced on Wednesday that Mix has signed a one-year contract with the club.

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    Omonia have a spot in the Champions League second qualifying round (first leg to be played on July 20th or 21st) where they will face the winner of the Dinamo Zagreb vs. Valur (Iceland) tie. Dinamo Zagreb won 3-2 at home on Wednesday in the first leg.

    Congratulations and good luck Mix!
     
  18. ttrevett

    ttrevett Member+

    Apr 2, 2002
    Atlanta, GA
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Just signed and already in full glorious flow. Hope you insured those locks of yours @miklagard
     
  19. miklagard

    miklagard Member

    Mar 15, 2009
    Club:
    Stabaek IF
    Political history of Cyprus is difficult. Please join in if you have any interesting angles or other input. (In Scotland club soccer is about ethnicity religion, in Norway about heritage and loyalty, in Korea about a mix of yin & yang, respect, and somewhat sensible club authocracy.) Here in Cyprus - it is a lot about politics, I'm told - from left to right - and scaled threrein.
    Just to check if we (participants of this BigSoccer thread) are on the same page - tell me; what is soccer (along such lines) about in the U.S., and in MLS in particular?
     
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  20. gogorath

    gogorath Member+

    None
    United States
    May 12, 2019
    American sports in general rarely scale that way. There are hardcore fans for whom fandom defines a big part of themselves, but there's rarely something that stands for something more than the community in terms of politics or ethnicity or religion.

    In other words, the team can be a big part of a local shared community here, but it rarely, if ever, is part of a sub-community. The Browns are a big part of Cleveland (American football) and in college American Football, the fortunes of local college often become THE proxy for local pride, especially in parts of the country that are often are made fun of or don't have much to brag about in the larger context. For instance, people from West Virginia are prouder and care more about West Virginia sports than a New Yorker would ever care about NYU or Columbia -- they don't.

    MLS has done well to attract very active local fanbases. Mostly, it tends to be urban hipsters who like the community but never liked traditional American sports. And so it mostly hangs liberal / left wing, though there are some right wing elements, like at NYCFC where you were.

    But it's nothing like St. Pauli or Lazio is perceived over here. People don't pick a team because it aligns with their politics.
     
  21. BostonRed

    BostonRed Member+

    Oct 9, 2011
    Somerville, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    If you look at American soccer in the days before the original NASL, you get a very different picture.

    Some of the clubs:

    New York Hakoah (Jewish)
    Bethlehem Steel (at first, a company team)
    Bridgeport Hungaria
    Prague Americans
    Philadelphia Ukrainians
    New York Ukrainians
    Greek American Atlas Astoria
    San Pedro Yugoslavs
    Maccabee Los Angeles (Jewish)
    New York Hota Bavarian S.C.
    Chicago Croatian

    The American sports scene was an amalgam of company teams and ethnically-oriented (though not always ethnically restricted) club teams. Some of that passed over to the professional ranks, but mostly it was in the "amateur" world that the more insular approach happened. Obviously, most of the teams were racially segregated and some were probably officially restrictive in their selection process. Undoubtedly, some clubs formed because their members weren't welcome in other clubs.
     
  22. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Red Sox vs. Yankees is a big rivalry, and it's in part about the identities of the two cities. With so many major universities, Boston is the intellectual capital of the US. New York is the journalistic and financial capital of the US.

    Duke-UNC in basketball is a terrific rivalry. In part, it's a rivalry about native North Carolinians (the UNC fan base) and all of the new arrivals to the Triangle drawn by tech jobs and just a generally vibrant economy (the Duke fan base)

    Many states have 1 flagship university for liberal arts and also medical school and law school, and then another flagship for applied sciences and agriculture. So you'll have the snooty effete leaders of the state (UNC, University of Virginia, etc etc etc) against the backwoods (negative) or "real men" (positive) of NC State or Virginia Tech.

    As I understand the New York pro market, the Mets and Yankees, and the Jets and the Giants, have different fan bases in socio-economic terms. The Knicks are popular with everyone. A New Yorker can probably flush that out.

    In California, there's a rivalry between LA and the Bay Area, and it's based in part on a general fight for 2 big dogs vying for state leadership, and in part on LA stealing water from the Bay Area.

    I wonder how sports fandom in the US would have developed if we had been a 1 sport nation, with for example 15 teams representing different groups in New York, and 10 teams representing different groups in Chicago, etc. I think we're lucky to have avoided that, or else we would have a ton of Old Firm style rivalries in which ethnic identity reflects and exacerbates civil strife. Like, under that scenario, New York would probably have a traditionally Italian team, an Irish team, an African American team centered in Harlem and another in Brownsville, etc.

    Kenya is a total soccer backwater, but they have a Luo team and a Luhya team. Whom does that help? (My Luo wife would insist that I point out that the Luo team, Gor Mahia, is definitely the big brother in that relationship.) :)

    Sports should be a diversion from society's ills, not a contributor.
     
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  23. Pestbeulen

    Pestbeulen Member

    Aug 14, 2010
    Here is an interesting article and graph along the lines of what you're talking about. 7 years old now, but still...
    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/politics-sports-you-like-2013-3?amp
     
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  24. beamish

    beamish Member+

    Jul 6, 2009
    It's true. You joined the communists' team. But they're pretty mild as communists go, and they're the least nationalistic and the most inclined for a settlement with the Turks in the north.
     
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