[TopAce]

Okay. thanks for the history lesson.

Now let's talk about football.

[Scotty]

Un momento, por favor.

It's genuine. It's an 'Easter Egg' that was added to the 'I'm feeling Lucky' option. It still works.

There's another one for "Chuck Norris."

Now talk of football may resume.

[Turambar]

Algeria vs USA!

AL GE RIE
AL GE RIE

[swashmebuckle]

Can the anglophone nations play up to expectation or is it ch-ch-choke time?!

Watch out Aljazeera and Serbevlokinia, our vocabulary is vast!

[chief1983]

And they did end up losing twice, even with Britain occupied with their uppity former colonies.

The only reason Britain didn't pull a full scale invasion of America in 1812 was because France kept them plenty occupied in Europe.

It's genuine. It's an 'Easter Egg' that was added to the 'I'm feeling Lucky' option. It still works.

Well how about that. I stand corrected.

It's not an easter egg.  It just happens that the first result is the Albino Black Sheep site that mimics Google results.  It's not actually a google easter egg at all, although I'm sure they could fix it so it wasn't the first result if they wanted to.  I think it got there through a google bomb a long time ago.

[Klaustrophobia]

goddamnit USA let's FINISH some balls. 

(and i REALLY hate refs.  at least this one was understandable call, if not correct)

[iamzack]

AL GE RIE

[The E]

England and the US are both moving on, it seems.

[Klaustrophobia]

christ that was close.  man of the match goes to algeria's keeper for me.  that was a beautiful read on the goal, if he hung on USA was out.

[Mongoose]

Y'know, whatever that FIFA jackass said the other day, the officiating in this thing is flat-out broken.  That's the second legitimate goal the US has had disallowed, and combined they almost cost us moving on.  Thankfully, Howard and Donovan are awesome and managed to put together an awesome play.  But seriously, FIFA, get your refs some goddamn LASIK surgery.

Hell, I don't even particularly care about this sport, and I'm still pissed off.

[Rodo]

Things that happen in football... if they added those tv review's the NBA uses then it wouldn't be the same game at all.
Good for USA and England , I'm just sorry for Ivory Coast not making it to the next round.

[iamzack]

[Klaustrophobia]

i don't get all the complaining about the horns.  it's nothing new to football.

[TopAce]

Vuvuzelas are far louder than the ones players are used to.

[chief1983]

And it's _constant_.  They just keep blowing those stupid horns...

[TopAce]

Germany won't drop out

[StarSlayer]

And it's _constant_.  They just keep blowing those stupid horns...

They sound like a massive horde of mosquitoes which is odd considering Malaria is such a big issue in Africa.

[The E]

Germany won't drop out

Germany didn't drop out 

[Mongoose]

Things that happen in football... if they added those tv review's the NBA uses then it wouldn't be the same game at all.

Yeah, it might actually have some integrity then.  Add replay and eliminate that asinine "stoppage time" concept and we could have a real sport here.

And the thing about the vuvuzelas is that, like chief1983 said, it's just a constant incessant buzz, no matter what's going on in the game.  At least with cheers, or chants, or songs, there's a natural ebb and flow, and some variety to the sound itself.  This is just ridiculous, and I don't know how the people doing it can even stand the very sound they're making.  I stumbled across a website with someone selling a 45-minute MP3 of an inverse waveform of the sound, so that you can blast it while you're watching and cancel out the noise. Pretty ingenious.

[Klaustrophobia]

that's kinda funny, but i don't imagine it works terribly well. 

i don't know what you're on about with the stoppage time, but that is how all sports should work.  what is assinine is taking 3 hours to play a 1 hour game.