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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[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.