Just so I don't get deported...

[active_apathy]

OMGWTFqualified!

(This will, I promise, make sense to the Australians reading this. Everyone else will most likely be very, very confused.)

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[eighthcloud.livejournal.com]

Um... huh?

[one-bullet-left.livejournal.com]

Not Australian? Check.

Confused? Check.

Right on both counts, Cap'n.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Our football* team won in a shootout. They're in next year's world cup. This is the first time in over 30 years. There's a chance of lynch mobs and deportations for those not excited about their win.

*football, of course, is that game which is played using the feet and a spherical ball. Games with pointy balls that are carried or tossed about with the hands are not football.

[one-bullet-left.livejournal.com]

I had the misfortune to grow up in a family whose men are obsessed with both pointyball and checkeryball football. Mistaking one for the other is a grave offense, and only LOCAL checkeryball is to be referred to as "soccer". The World Cup is most definately "football".

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Pointyball is boring, and good for making me all sleepyfied. Circlyball is rather more watchable, but sport in general isn't a viewing option in the world of me.

[arib.livejournal.com]

Let me guess, Australia has beaten Uruguay in the final FIFA World Cup qualifying playoff?

(Okay, the other Aussie on my flist mentioned it in the post right under yours. :-) )

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I said you'd most likely be confused, not definitely be confused. :)

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

I read that and thought, "What has she qualified for deportation for?" ...um, yeah, I'm awake.

So: yippee! Although I hate it when a winner is settled by penalty shootout. Such a crapshoot.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Icon!

And, yes. But I'd hate it much more if they lost.

[ryttu3k.livejournal.com]

Hee. Yay us. Not that I'm interested in soccer (I was dragged to too many of my brother's games as a kiddie!), but I just don't like losing ;)

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

It was good of them to not actually win until after The Glass House.

[ryttu3k.livejournal.com]

*laughs* True!

[jetsam-porridge.livejournal.com]

I WENT TO FED SQUARE OMG AND ALMOST GOT KILLED BY ECSTATIC HOOLIGANS OMG!!!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

OMGWTFcrowdsquish! Did Schwarzer jump out to save you?

[jetsam-porridge.livejournal.com]

TOTAL crowdsquish! Alas no, did you hear about the crazy blocking up of the Flinders st/Fed Square junction by people? WE WERE STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT IN MY FRIEND'S CAR. OMGWTF!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Ah. Well... he'd have just made the crowdsquish worse, anyway. *nods*

And... that would've been interesting. (Define interesting.)

[jetsam-porridge.livejournal.com]

...oh God, oh God, we're all going to die?!

That is actually what I thought at the time. :|