EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP 2016 aka terrorist olympics start today!

Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by McGyver, Jun 10, 2016.

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Who wins the EURO 2016 and with how many bombings?

Poll closed Jul 1, 2016.

  1. Germany with one team explosion in the 90th minute

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    0.0%

  2. France with several major attacks

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  3. Germany with a lot of balls

    2 vote(s)
    50.0%

  4. England with a bombing offense

    1 vote(s)
    25.0%

  5. England with two bombings

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    0.0%

  6. Spain witha lot of defense and one little bombing

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  7. France with sharp shooting

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    25.0%
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  1. McGyver

    McGyver Experimental Pedagogue

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    Today starts the most important sports event of the year, the EUROPEAN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2016. Since it is hosted in France, a country that has already seen the incredible enrichment of having a muslim minority, we can expect all kind of surprises.

    The participating countries are:
    [​IMG] Albania Group I runner-up 11 October 2015 0 (debut)
    [​IMG] Austria Group G winner 8 September 2015 1 (2008)
    [​IMG] Belgium Group B winner 10 October 2015 4 (1972, 1980, 1984, 2000)
    [​IMG] Croatia Group H runner-up 13 October 2015 4 (1996, 2004, 2008, 2012)
    [​IMG] Czech Republic Group A winner 6 September 2015 5 (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012)
    [​IMG] England Group E winner 5 September 2015 8 (1968, 1980, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2012)
    [​IMG] France Host 28 May 2010 8 (1960, 1984, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012)
    [​IMG] Germany Group D winner 11 October 2015 11 (1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012)
    [​IMG] Hungary Play-off winner 15 November 2015 2 (1964, 1972)
    [​IMG] Iceland Group A runner-up 6 September 2015 0 (debut)
    [​IMG] Italy Group H winner 10 October 2015 8 (1968, 1980, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012)
    [​IMG] Northern Ireland Group F winner 8 October 2015 0 (debut)
    [​IMG] Poland Group D runner-up 11 October 2015 2 (2008, 2012)
    [​IMG] Portugal Group I winner 8 October 2015 6 (1984, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012)
    [​IMG] Republic of Ireland Play-off winner 16 November 2015 2 (1988, 2012)
    [​IMG] Romania Group F runner-up 11 October 2015 4 (1984, 1996, 2000, 2008)
    [​IMG] Russia[C] Group G runner-up 12 October 2015 4 (1996, 2004, 2008, 2012)
    [​IMG] Slovakia Group C runner-up 12 October 2015 0 (debut)
    [​IMG] Spain Group C winner 9 October 2015 9 (1964, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012)
    [​IMG] Sweden Play-off winner 17 November 2015 5 (1992, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012)
    [​IMG] Switzerland Group E runner-up 9 October 2015 3 (1996, 2004, 2008)
    [​IMG] Turkey Best third-placed team 13 October 2015 3 (1996, 2000, 2008)
    [​IMG] Ukraine Play-off winner 17 November 2015 1 (2012)
    [​IMG] Wales Group B runner-up 10 October 2015 0 (debut)

    and as special guest: the Islamic Caliphate!

    France is probably the favourite team, since playing in your home country always gives a big boost to the team. Then there are the usual suspects like Germany, Spain, England. Germany was a little meh in the qualification, so I think they will maybe just make it to the final. England on the other hand had a great qualification and is going to dominate. Of course this is all irrelevant, since Austria is participating too and will kick Hungary's ass!

    But the real question to discuss is not who wins the championship, but how many succesful attacks go with the winning team. France has increased their defense, but the Caliphate has a sneaky offense and doesn't care about red cards and can hit hard coming through the flanks.

    So do you think pushing trough the middle with the ball and then shoot sharp in the crowd will be a winning strategy?
     
    McGyver, Jun 10, 2016
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  2. Lazybum

    Lazybum :D Staff Member Moderator

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    I have to ask do you even bother watching football outside of championships like this? Do you even intend to watch this one?

    Feels like the super bowl for america, where a bunch of people don't even care about the game and use it as an excuse to party and drink.
     
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  3. Z100000M

    Z100000M Vithered Weteran

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    Idk about mean seriousness of fan commitment but id think people actually watch the game because they are interested, not because theres a weird live non-sequitur ad block.

    No really whats up with that one?
    Hope you wont regret the joke. Not particularly thrilled at the idea that the finals might be a more literal bomb.

    I actually forgot that poland didnt participate in champs before 2008. Odd, since thats many years after eveyrone and their mother realised that the national team always performs like dogshit during any tourney.
     
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  4. McGyver

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    Yes, excactly this is what makes public viewing so great.
     
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  5. flasche

    flasche Member Staff Member Moderator

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    as far as i understand thats pretty much the essence of football in general.
    unless its used as excuse to beat eachother down, but that may only be some strange understanding of party hard ^^
     
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    flasche, Jun 10, 2016
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  6. blizzerd

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    its obvious the caliphate will try to spawn backwards and get the rax up early...
     
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  7. A-z-K

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    Silly sport. Unless we get to a quarter final - at which point I become an expert at footballs. Drinking 10 pints of Stella and taking your shirt off shows your dedication to your country
     
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  8. Z100000M

    Z100000M Vithered Weteran

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    And then you wake up the next day and go back to trying to dodge taxes
     
    Z100000M, Jun 11, 2016
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    wait, what?? Slovakia actually made it in?
    Thats surprising. xD
     
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  10. Devourawr

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    Currently watching Albania vs Albania
     
    Devourawr, Jun 11, 2016
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  11. Ranger

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    GUYS. BALOTELLI IS BACK IN THE ITALIAN TEAM. LET'S SEE HOW MANY TIMES HE RAGES. SINCE GREECE DID NOT MAKE IT, I'M ALL FOR ITALY. WELL. I WOULD BE ALL FOR ITALY ANYWAY. FORZA ITALIA. I HOPE THE COACH KNOWS HIS NEW TEAM.
     
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  12. McGyver

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    Haha, England throwing away their victory against Russia.
     
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  13. McGyver

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  14. Ranger

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    Many injuries. May Allah save them.
     
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  15. Ranger

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    Add Italy to the poll bitch. Show respect.
     
    Ranger, Jun 12, 2016
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  16. Ranger

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    Actually Balotelli is not in the Italian squad in the end. Hm. I'm quite happy about the squad despite the fact everyone looks down on them.
     
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  17. A-z-K

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    A penny saved is a penny earned.

    The violence is terrible though, a real embarrassment for football and for the nations involved. Luckily it is a pleb sport anyway and so long as one can stay several hundred meters from these collarless oiks everything is fine.
     
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  18. McGyver

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    Aren't you supposed to hate Italy because they invaded Greece in WW2? Well, they tried to and then we had to finish the job...
     
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  19. Ranger

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    No, I'm half Italian. My Italian grandfather met my Greek grandmother during the war. As a soldier he kept her family alive by providing food and medicine (she had 7 siblings, one died then). As a payment my great grandfather saved him from a Nazi trap. They put all the Italians in a ship in Piraeus saying it's time to go back to Italy, then they blew it up with Stukas. There's a 15m tall concrete cross in their name on the coast a few hundred meters away from my home.

    When Italians were meant to bomb my city, they bombed the sea of Piraeus. All my uncles who were children then, went on their fishing boats to get all the fish. Free food. That's how cruel the Italians were. In comparison to our god-fearing American English liberators who bombed Piraeus to kill 7 Nazis and 1500 citizens.

    As far as war is concerned I dislike the English, for that is not the only time they have done ill to "allied" civilians.
    Greece practically liberated itself by the end of the war, thanks to guerilla warfare. The only Nazi forces were in Athens which surrendered.

    I have no hate for anyone whatsoever.

    While many Greeks dislike Germans for ww2 and economies etc, they don't hate Italians, so it's not like I'm telling you this cause I'm affected by the history of my family.
     
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  20. McGyver

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    I see. That's quite an interesting origin story you have.
     
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