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Rants’n Raves: Euro 2008 Football (soccer) championship

By fpp ⋅ 25-June-2008 at 23:25 (UTC) ⋅ One comment

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Been sitting around this afternoon watching the semifinals of the Euro 2008 football championship via the Internet (there is no post on this site how to use a proxy to watch German TV from the US - go look somewhere else). Have to admit that I normally never watch football or golf or TV in general since they’ve replaced most of the interesting stuff with game shows, but today I made an exception.

So I’m sitting here nibbling on Lieber’s Kosher Winkies (that’s what my Deli had for sweets - not bad anyway, but full of artificial flavors) and watching parts of that game - the Germans win and there’s that big huha going on, everybody’s celebrating - besides the Turks of course - and dancing people anywhere as if they would have contributed to the result.

Then what would you expect German TV to do - interview some players, the coach, your grand uncle who knows everything about soccer - NO WAY!

They go straight ahead for some political schmoozing and…

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Rant of the day: 20061107

By fpp ⋅ 7-November-2006 at 15:41 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

For today a little puzzle:It’s voting time all around in the US today so let’s look a bit into the future:You’ve got that all-shiny-high-tech new passport the state department just started to hand out. Yes we know you’re still waiting for that RFID - Crypto (clipper 2) chip cover but you like the new look [...]


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