Posted On: Friday - June 12th 2026 6:53PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor Geography Bread and Circuses World Political Stupidity
Listen, Jim Hoft, if your country is allegedly the World's Sole Superpower and it's matched up with Paraguay in Sportsball, pick one choice:
1) It's no longer the World's Sole Superpower.
OR
2) Your country needs to find another sport... something other than Communist Kickball.
Are you ready for some futeball?!! ♫ ♩ No, not really.
If we WERE to watch TV at the pizza place, perhaps, it might be the Stanley Cup finals we'd watch - game 6 is on Sunday, only because my kid cares. I have no idea why, as none of the hockey players on either team grew up playing on the iced up ponds of either Raleigh, North Carolina or Las Vegas, Nevada.
I know a girl at the auto parts store who's from Paraguay. About the only other mention of the place I recall since Western Hemisphere Geography class is in this Jimmy Buffett song.
It's been a while, Parrotheads!
There's a cowboy in the jungle,
and he looks so out of place,
with his shrimpskin boots and his cheap cheroots.
and his skin as white as paste.
Headin' south to Paraguay
where the gauchos sing and shout.
Now he's stuck in Porto Bello
since his money all ran out.
So he hangs out with the sailors.
Night and day they're raisin' hell,
and his original destination's just another
story that he loves to tell.
...
We've gotta roll with the punches,
learn to play all of our hunches.
Make the best of whatever comes your way.
Forget that blind ambition,
and learn to trust your intuition,
plowin' straight ahead come what may.
Well, while we're at it, perusing The Gateway Pundit...
Understand this, Anthony Scott, nobody is going to read your posts if you insist on calling BURMA! "Myanmar". Your own commenters told you this last time. (I went straight to comments - thank you, whomever that was.) And another thing, if you're in BURMA, don't get off the freaking boat!
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Moderator
Saturday - June 13th 2026 4:29PM MST
PS: Ha, very good compliment, probably at the spur of the moment too! The younger guys want their careers to keep going (if they are careers of any sort), but now, if they'd all get together and back each other up on these things, it'd be a different story. Or, the beancounters could realize that the HRCL was, as Micheal Douglas was told in the movie "not economically viable."
Do you have to pretend to like soccer a little bit to fit in? I mean, I guess I could sit through a game... with a couple of beers... and some uppers...
Do you have to pretend to like soccer a little bit to fit in? I mean, I guess I could sit through a game... with a couple of beers... and some uppers...
The Alarmist
Saturday - June 13th 2026 11:32AM MST
PS
One of my younger colleagues who I have known for years and is still quite pretty told me her country would be playing and that she wanted to watch, but she didn’t know if she could stay up so late, so I jokingly told her, “You certainly don’t need beauty sleep.”
We have, to horror of the HR cat lady and distress of the younger chicks on staff carried on like this on more than a few occasions over the years, and I still get admonitions from the HRCL that I should cut it out, but my colleague looked at me and wistfully said, “You’re the only one who says nice things like that to me any more.”
So I smiled and told her that “The younger guys have all become p***ies.” This, in my opinion, explains the popularity of a game we Americans know as soccer.
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One of my younger colleagues who I have known for years and is still quite pretty told me her country would be playing and that she wanted to watch, but she didn’t know if she could stay up so late, so I jokingly told her, “You certainly don’t need beauty sleep.”
We have, to horror of the HR cat lady and distress of the younger chicks on staff carried on like this on more than a few occasions over the years, and I still get admonitions from the HRCL that I should cut it out, but my colleague looked at me and wistfully said, “You’re the only one who says nice things like that to me any more.”
So I smiled and told her that “The younger guys have all become p***ies.” This, in my opinion, explains the popularity of a game we Americans know as soccer.
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I will occasionally have a pint with my colleagues when they get together to watch a match, but I don’t even feign an interest in the game.
I did, in my younger days, go out and make an aus of myself playing rugby with my Australian mates.
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