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S'updates July 2nd 2005
1. Complaints
- Crappy Soccer Refs
We need another Falkland War...
*Sorry to Any Argentines reading this. I'm [still] pissed off and I need to blow some steam* Anyone who wants to see and example of Grand Theft World Cup should've been watching the U20 championship yesterday. It was perhaps the most disgraceful display of partisan refereeing I have ever seen since the WCQ game in which the referee would not let the regulation time of the game end until Spain had scored a goal to equalize with poor little Bosnia. This is a game Argentina managed to win WITHOUT SCORING ANY REAL GOALS! Thanks to a referee who was only too eager to award them penalty kicks (only one was merited) and not do the same for the Nigerian side under the most blatant fouls I have ever seen in my life. You should not be allowed check someone like in a hockey game! I'm sorry did they just make up a new rule that when a Nigerian player gets fouled inside the box, the name of the game is suddenly American football and thus obviously no foul no harm? If that weren't enough, the same player whose antics should have had Nigeria awarded two PK's went ahead and shoved one of our players in the back while he was already out of bounds sending him crashing into the sidelines. They don't even tolerate that crap in the NFL yet no red card was awarded. A crime I tell you., A CRIME!
But, unlike those Argentines, we actually scored a real goal. and a badass one at that! Even up to this point, I still cannae comprehend it. Oh I want to host it on here so badly for all the world to see but I don't want FIFA finding out somehow and harassing milord Webmasta Will so you'll just have to IM me and I shall be deloighted to send it.
*I need to stop being xenophobic *rolls eyes* and point out the many great things that Argentinia brings to the table. Like silver....and Evita....and short little fat men that win World Cups by cheating. "Hand of God" my ass...
On to more important things however I still don't know about making this a blog in the technical sense that you can see on the sites I have links to. Not that I don't want to, but I don't know PHP; and since I barely know html from all these years of cutting and pasting, the learning curve is looking slightly steep. In any case, I am awaiting an email from my webmaster overlord Willy Y to give me the go-ahead.
2.Thanksgivings
IT'S ALMOST THE FOURTH OF FREAKING JULY!
That statement really should be "nuff said," but considering these trying times the holiday should hold even more meaning now. Those of you "no longer loyal to my sorrowful country" as Ted Leo puts it, should take time to consider the fact that there are worse places to be. And for the good amount of you that are down about this land right now, that is a good thing because it means you are spoiled. And if you are spoiled, that means that America is the greatest country ever, nuff said.
So wave your flag and be proud. If you dont like the current government that shouldnt impede you from enjoying the hell out of a holiday that promotes overeating, singing, saluting, garish costumes, and incidental arson! Hell, I dont remember celebrating Independence Day in Nigeria - perhaps because that spelled the beginning of our downfall... Irregardless, I for one am glad I am here now and not in a country that liked to jail my father on a whim for raising issue with them be absolutely corrupt. Speaking of freedom, the Ubabukoh family is getting our citizenship hella soon, inasmuch as we should have already had it after being here for fifteen years, thank you very much President (Lil) John Adams.
My beef with our second pres aside and this current administrations folly in granting citizenship to illegal aliens, hooray for sensible immigration law finally passing into existence! If I have to wait around for the Department of Homeland Security anymore my citizenship will be granted to a corpse whose hopefully lived a full life. Although I have thus far avoided the annoying little qualms of citizen, i.e. jury duty and voting. But as I'm growing up I would like to enjoy the basic rights that my tax dollars ensure me so here's to another happy sparkly fourth and hopefully the last one in which I will have the title of "permanent resident alien." That may still apply culturally though...
1. Complaints
- Crappy Soccer Refs
We need another Falkland War...
*Sorry to Any Argentines reading this. I'm [still] pissed off and I need to blow some steam* Anyone who wants to see and example of Grand Theft World Cup should've been watching the U20 championship yesterday. It was perhaps the most disgraceful display of partisan refereeing I have ever seen since the WCQ game in which the referee would not let the regulation time of the game end until Spain had scored a goal to equalize with poor little Bosnia. This is a game Argentina managed to win WITHOUT SCORING ANY REAL GOALS! Thanks to a referee who was only too eager to award them penalty kicks (only one was merited) and not do the same for the Nigerian side under the most blatant fouls I have ever seen in my life. You should not be allowed check someone like in a hockey game! I'm sorry did they just make up a new rule that when a Nigerian player gets fouled inside the box, the name of the game is suddenly American football and thus obviously no foul no harm? If that weren't enough, the same player whose antics should have had Nigeria awarded two PK's went ahead and shoved one of our players in the back while he was already out of bounds sending him crashing into the sidelines. They don't even tolerate that crap in the NFL yet no red card was awarded. A crime I tell you., A CRIME!
But, unlike those Argentines, we actually scored a real goal. and a badass one at that! Even up to this point, I still cannae comprehend it. Oh I want to host it on here so badly for all the world to see but I don't want FIFA finding out somehow and harassing milord Webmasta Will so you'll just have to IM me and I shall be deloighted to send it.
*I need to stop being xenophobic *rolls eyes* and point out the many great things that Argentinia brings to the table. Like silver....and Evita....and short little fat men that win World Cups by cheating. "Hand of God" my ass...
On to more important things however I still don't know about making this a blog in the technical sense that you can see on the sites I have links to. Not that I don't want to, but I don't know PHP; and since I barely know html from all these years of cutting and pasting, the learning curve is looking slightly steep. In any case, I am awaiting an email from my webmaster overlord Willy Y to give me the go-ahead.
2.Thanksgivings
IT'S ALMOST THE FOURTH OF FREAKING JULY!
That statement really should be "nuff said," but considering these trying times the holiday should hold even more meaning now. Those of you "no longer loyal to my sorrowful country" as Ted Leo puts it, should take time to consider the fact that there are worse places to be. And for the good amount of you that are down about this land right now, that is a good thing because it means you are spoiled. And if you are spoiled, that means that America is the greatest country ever, nuff said.
So wave your flag and be proud. If you dont like the current government that shouldnt impede you from enjoying the hell out of a holiday that promotes overeating, singing, saluting, garish costumes, and incidental arson! Hell, I dont remember celebrating Independence Day in Nigeria - perhaps because that spelled the beginning of our downfall... Irregardless, I for one am glad I am here now and not in a country that liked to jail my father on a whim for raising issue with them be absolutely corrupt. Speaking of freedom, the Ubabukoh family is getting our citizenship hella soon, inasmuch as we should have already had it after being here for fifteen years, thank you very much President (Lil) John Adams.
My beef with our second pres aside and this current administrations folly in granting citizenship to illegal aliens, hooray for sensible immigration law finally passing into existence! If I have to wait around for the Department of Homeland Security anymore my citizenship will be granted to a corpse whose hopefully lived a full life. Although I have thus far avoided the annoying little qualms of citizen, i.e. jury duty and voting. But as I'm growing up I would like to enjoy the basic rights that my tax dollars ensure me so here's to another happy sparkly fourth and hopefully the last one in which I will have the title of "permanent resident alien." That may still apply culturally though...