• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    It was weird when American food franchises started advertising that they would show “the big game this weekend” in Canada and no one knew what they were talking about.

    Then it started defaulting to that it must be that American game. Now I imagine most people hear about it from the internet before those signs go up.

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    I’m surprised I didn’t see anything like this yet… Years ago, I heard the superbowl was one of the most important events to… traffic children. It makes sense because a lot of people are traveling internationally to one city. No one is going to question big families traveling together or an uncle traveling with many young ladies. Hotels can be reserved by entire entities who can trade/sell people floor by floor. The cover is that it’s a party. It’s terrible and terribly easy…

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    My folks’ fav characters got killed off a few episodes ago but for some reason everyone is still hyped for the finale

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    I came across something about it this morning, and thought, ‘Oh, is that today?’ Then I forgot about it again until this post.

    I’ve never cared about sportsball, but I’ve learned enough about football to follow a game. I couldn’t avoid it. Same for other sports, like baseball, golf, tennis, and even bowling.

    I’m old and mostly alone now, I feel no desire to pretend to be interested anymore. Y’all have fun.

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      I never cared for it, but it felt like such an event that I’ve been to a lot of superb parties over the years. But now I barely knew it was happening.

      Same goes for the Olympics. I remember watching it for hours and hours back in the day, but I didn’t even know it was happening until I heard Vance got booed.

      Culture is shattering.

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    The most fun take I heard about this: “Why are they playing a football game at the Bad Bunny concert?”

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      Meh, I’d like sportsball better if they didn’t spend my taxpayer funds on stadium construction.

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        Yes that is something that’s not right and you are entirely justified in being upset about it.

        However it’s kind of unrelated as here you are being kind of a douchenozzle and shitting on people for liking different things than what you like. Which is kind of ironic give how much supposedly a lemming should be different from others and liking other things, like Linux over “Normie” windows.

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        Lol, no you wouldnt.

        Youd still find a way to be in the out group because it makes you feel special

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    8 days ago

    Everytime one of my frienda where’s a scarf of our local soccer club, I’m gonna tell them their cosplay looks fabulous.

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    Still adapting to EST. It’s inhumane and outrageous this shit goes down at 630pm every year. How do people work on Monday??

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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      It has a massive impact on productivity. Something like 25 million people are calling in sick today.

      I’m not a big football fan but I love seeing people not working.

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      I’m near 45 and have a 5 year old. Even I can stay up to 930, have a drink or two, and wake up to get the kid to school. It’s not exactly clubbing until 3am.

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    And again, two bands of brawlers beat themselves up over a ball, and they call this uncivilized bar fight “football” despite carrying the ball in the hands most of the time.