Take into account that from June 11 to July 11, 2010 (the duration of the 2010 World Cup) you should be aware of the following: 1. Shopping will only happen outside the hours of the games and /or repetitions (without exception). 2. Read the sports section so that we have something to talk about. If you chose not to, do not be surprised if we don’t talk during that month. 3. During the entire month the television is mine, at all times, without exception. Don’t even look at the remote control. 4. If you have to pass in front of the TV during a game, you may do so, crawling, without making any distraction or noise. 5. During the games I am deaf and blind. Do not expect me to attend, listen, look, open the door, answer the phone, watch the boy who fell from the second floor, say hello to your mother, go shopping, put out the fire in the kitchen, etc. Nothing, nothing at all. 6. You must supply the fridge with beer and smile at my friends if any of them come to share some hours of soccer. In appreciation I will let you watch TV from midnight to four in the morning, if there are no repetitions. 7. If you see me upset because the … team (my team) is losing, do not say "it’s no big deal" nor "I’m sure they’ll win" you'll only upset me even more. 8. You can sit and watch a game with me and you may talk but only during halftime commercials (this is when the players are not on TV). Do not ever make any technical comment, Don’t push it!. Do not expose yourself! 9. The replays of the goals are very, very important. It doesn’t matter if I’ve watched them before or if I know them by heart, I want to see them again. Many, many, many times (got it?) 10. Your girlfriends better not get married, baptize their children, become ill, organize meetings or dinners and least of all come to visit, especially the days of semifinals and NEVER the final day because there will be only three options: a) I won’t go, b) I won’t go; c) I won’t go. 11. However, if a friend of mine invites us to see the game at a bar or his home (what a wonderful invitation!). We will go, without hesitation. No matter if he called at the last minute. Oh, and if you're not ready in time, you are staying (that’s it!) 12. Nightly summaries of the games are as important as the games themselves, don’t you dare say "but you already saw that", “Why don’t you change it? " or " aren’t you bored of watching the same thing all the time ". I’m not!, I’m not!, I’m not! 13. For the opening day and the final day, you need to prepare a special snack, buy beer and send the children to your mother’s. You should stay at home to serve the snacks, cut the salami and open the beer (all in absolute silence). 14. Finally, save expressions such as "It’s good this happens only every four years" or "at least it only lasts a month", I am immune to these expressions of bad taste and in case you don’t know, take note, there’s the Libertadores Cup, the South American Cup, the Champions League, the Italian League, the Spanish League, NBA and then the qualifying games for the next World Cup. Author: anonimous. I came across this article from a local spanish sportsnewspaper while waiting for my lunch in a restaurant, i could not stop laughing so i decide to translated. This is all in good fun ladies.
Dammit i have to be at the inlaws house during the last 10 days of the world cup. Sweetie please tell your parents to go to the basement quietly and watch Lost reruns or something while I handle the remote up here. And can you lock that stupid whining cat in the closet for the next 6 hours? What you said no sex for a month? Great now be quiet and go to basement. Ugh! They will never love me the same way again after the World Cup is over.
Damn. And hear I was thinking you were giving me a link where I can easily find the racy pictures of various international soccer players. Is there a version for the husbands and boyfriends? I need one of those. My husband still can't figure out when the US-England game is. Knowing him, we'll be hosting his niece's 3 and 5 year old kids so their parents can get some quality time together.
You think anyone has it rough? I have to go to a wedding in friggin' rural Maine on the weekend of the WC final. Do they even have television sets there? It is faster to travel to London or Paris from where I'm at, then it is to go to where I'm going.
Er... what language is this one in, exactly? EDIT: Oh, never mind. Missed the part where you translated it. Nice job! It will soon be making its way to my e-mail rounds...
Somewhere in that is the rule "Just because YOU can't talk and still pay attention to the television doesn't mean *I* can't. If you need to ask a question, just tap me on the shoulder so I know you're there, and ask away." "No, this isn't like my whining about your American football. This only happens every four years." I'm participating in a fundraiser the morning of the US-England game and while I'm sure I can get my father to watch the game with me, I have no idea if we'll manage to do it.
In our house you are not allowed to perve at any sportsman. Saying you are watching Portugal vs Anyone just in case Ronaldo takes his shirt off is not allowed. Saying Ooo he's cute or I like his legs does not gel either. Our marriage vows - in my husband's case "to have and to hold" means the remote!
I had to attend my sister's wedding in India on the day of the 2002 World Cup Final. Proper Indian wedding that went on for TWO DAYS! I still haven't forgiven her.
YES!! You beat me to it ....that winds me up terribly!!! Never ever ever ever say, it's only a game or even worse, when you've been knocked out of a cup or tournament, "oh well there's always next time!!!" ARGH!!! £^£%£^£^@@@$@@£@%%@%@%
I scheduled some surgery for opening day so I have an excuse to sit on my ass in front of the tv for a week. I'll be having "follow up" appointments on each US game day that will require me to miss work for long periods of time.
I suppose "Can we watch Sex & the City/ Marley and me/ BBC food channel /What not to wear/So you think you can dance/ American Idols" is out then too? We had rugby pools at work and had to put down our expected scores - one woman wrote Springboks 2,Lions 1 - she sure knows her rugby..... At least I know the offside rule - that is when the Teriyake sauce is between the sea salt and the mustard (courtesy Bend it like Beckham)