Not much point. I'm only trying to point out that some can be very cocky and bold through the medium of Internet, but would be shut up like a half-dead mouse in a corner if it was real life.
Yeah, but only trying to show that if you can fall in love with someone on a poster who doesn't even speak to you, I can't say anything wrong about those who do with someone they spend time with on-line.
Being an AC Milan fans more than two decades,I've seen Derby della Madonnina (Milan-Inter) at San Siro several times. I've only seen Celtic once, that was the Henrik Larsson testimonial against Sevilla. I have a couple of blokes I know in Buenos Aires, one of which I've worked with, where I'm invited should I ever want to see El Super Classico, which is supposed to be the greatest derby on the planet (Boca Junior - River Plate). Apart from that, Marseille-Paris SG and Genoa-Sampdoria are on the list.
Ended 1-1. Ronaldinho score first on penalty, with Nou Camp erupting, of course, and Ronaldo made it 1-1. One of the most amazing displays on the stands I've been part of, with 100,000 seats making the Catalan flag.
I don't think it's hate. I think that's a bit of a strong word. I think it's more of a sick sport, convenient when hiding in a far-away country behind a screen. That's why I was wondering out loud how many of those would be prepared to meet up and resolve it like civilized people. If that much time is spent, it must be important enough, or at least a great opportunity to get a good dig in face-to-face.
If I put it this way. I have many mates and people I know who if they were in need, I'd borrow them money. I wouldn't borrow a single one of you money. Would you?
I've been thinking we should organize a big meeting, sponsored plane tickets by Bill Gates (I'll pull it off by something involving a ransome)... and for all us BLOKES ONLY to meet up and have a weekend long party. Any small beefs would be settled forever over a few pints, it would leave all the women wondering what the hell happened, curious to find out details, there would of course be a blood oath so nothing allowed to be said. I promise you things would change from that day ón, as far as month long bickering and digs go.
Oh, don't get me wrong. My first post is not about rating in any way. There's no scale to it where I rate a friend in real life above someone here, or think of one I value as far as ideas and humour goes, less, because its on-line. Hence, to be here is not lesser either. No, it's just that I find it a bit unreasonable, for me, to call someone a friend in that sense which I tried to explain above. And even more so I find it unreasonable how someone can invest such amount of time following another around out of pure bother and dislike, or spend daily time trying to put someone down by continous digs.
An interesting counter question would be: "If you have such an enormous beef, it seems, and spend all that time on-line digging deeper and deeper into it, if that person said they were in your town and was prepared to grab a cab to meet up and sort out the beef, would you do it?"
Hell yeah! I've been a member of a British football forum, a brilliant one which deals with a lot more than football.
I've visited one bloke in Milano, and have sent some sport related stuff to his 12 year old son.
I've met another bloke in Milano when he happened to go see AC Milan play at the same time I did.
I've met up with two other and made a trip to Barcelona to watch Barcelona - Real Madrid. One of them has visited and stayed at my place three times, that other bloke once.
I met a guy last month, who was here visiting.
I've helped a sports journalist in Ireland get in touch with local heroes for some work he needed donw.
There's one who has a standing invitation, one who's moved close to where I live.
Don't you have that feature on your mobile phone. Instead of buying a new gadget, why not use your mobile? You could either upgrade with a memory stick if yours doesn't have enough MB, or upgrade to a new phone maybe, rather than shell out for yet another thing to carry around.
For starters, I have no illusions of having been perfect or already a grown man. I don't know if I even like the expression, as we grow constantly, if we chose so and don’t sit under our own grey cloud in a corner and pity ourselves. Entering our first serious relationship, having your first child, getting your first grey hair, separating with a loved one, retiring, getting a promotion at work, being sacked, and hundred other things make us grow, if we allow it.
At 21 I had done a 12 month spell of military service in the Navy, I’d moved into my own flat which I bought, renovated it from top to bottom with my own to hands, everything from installing new floors and electric cabling, to painting and wall papering, this while I was working 12-14 hours shifts 6-7 days a week carrying clothes in and out of trucks.
It was terrifying and brilliant at the same time, to be 21 with the whole future ahead, and all up to me to pull through. I didn’t act like a 13 year old spoilt teenager about it, and was not treated like one. If I had, I’d probably be sitting in my parent’s basement now playing Doom and feeling sorry for myself.
Imagine a bloke in the trenches of Gallipolli starting to shake and cry, with the other worried, asking him what on earth is going on, and through tears he says: I haven't had a girlfriend in a month.
The blokes would throw him out of the trench and chase him into enemy territory.
Men of 19 came back from bloody 'Nam with lost limbs and incapable penises, not crybabying like this, while one who's had two girlfriends in two years carries the grief of the whole wide world on his shoulders, over what? A month without a bloody hug and a kiss.
Just what the world needs. Another young gun collecting man living the rich life in a developing country, self-diagnosed and out of professional counseling, deep in self-pity and beyond normal melancholic attitude thinking that the whole world is against him, because his girlfriend broke up with him and no other has ran towards him the past month.
Anyone up for a bloody ice-cream and a stroll in Columbine? This thread is giving me the creeps.
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Friendship, switchblade duels, backstabbing & sudden surprise cuts from the side in the cyber world
Not much point. I'm only trying to point out that some can be very cocky and bold through the medium of Internet, but would be shut up like a half-dead mouse in a corner if it was real life.