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You know, in an odd way, this reminds me of the Wrestlecrap forum, which is not a good thing for Barbelith to be compared to, but... Y'see, a running theme on that forum is the hatred of the current WWE champion, John Cena, to the extent that people feel motivated to start threads (many threads...many, many threads...often by people who can't spell and have malfunctioning 'humour' neurons) devoted entirely to slagging him off. Which never works because, inevitably, some fule who doesn't understand the thread title will come in and start defending the fucker, and the. Interminable. Arguments. Will. Start. All. Over. Again.
And, hey, look - a Barbelith thread devoted to slagging off the World Cup is started! And what happens? That's right - people on Barbelith don't take the time to consider the thread title, and the point of the thread, and start coming in and defending the world cup! In a thread dedicated to being a refuge where World Cup Curmudgeons can come and slag it off!
FWIW I have no strong opinions on footy either way, aside from finding it boring, but I would imagine it only strengthens the case of the aforementioned Cup Curmudgeons to have to put up with people coming into a thread specifically designed for the belittling of the world cup and by extension football in all its forms and telling them off for their opinions.
Here's an idea - why don't you guys start a 'We love the World Cup' thread, the footie-haters can have this thread to get on with the serious business of hating football in, and then everyone'll be happy, eh? And, more importantly, Barbelith might just get back to appearing to be more mature than a site devoted to discussion of men fighting in their pants*.
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