I have to admit I think the Welsh players appeared happy just to be there, a semi. I thought and expected a lot more. I just didn't see any fire today. Either way , I think either France or Germany beat Portugal.
Players don't view this stuff the way we fans do, at all.I mean, they should be proud for what they achieved. I don´t need everybody to cry. But players walking around, joking and laughing after dropping out in the Semifinal vs. an uninspiring opponent in a more or less close game..? Don´t like that.
If you're OK rooting for Patrice Evra, perhaps you should re-examine some of your life choices. I sure hope Sir Alex paid you fair market value for your soul.So, we're all supporting France tomorrow, or no?
I'll take Spain on that.Deutscheland uber alles. Aside from the Portugese trio, France produces the biggest douchecanoes in European soccer.
Seems like the perfect time to mention France's best striker allegedly tried to blackmail another player over a sex tape, and that because of both of those guys were left out, Franck "Underage Prostitutes, anyone?" Ribery is on the team.Deutscheland uber alles. Aside from the Portugese trio, France produces the biggest douchecanoes in European soccer.
Ribery was on the Team for Euro 2012, as well as Benzema. And they´re both probably starting their new season already with Real/Bayern already.Seems like the perfect time to mention France's best striker allegedly tried to blackmail another player over a sex tape, and that because of both of those guys were left out, Franck "Underage Prostitutes, anyone?" Ribery is on the team.
Does it matter?So, today: Camus v. Kafka
We have two hours. How badly am I off?
It so offends me that you would feel the need to correct me in this important venture. I admitted that he was not a German nationalist per se, but can we really call Kafka anything but a German writer?Kafka was Czech. He wrote in German, but only because Bohemia was dominated by Austria.
This is like picking Alex Trebek as the greatest English game show host.
Sure. I can call him a Czech writer, because that's what he is. I don't call F. Scott Fitzgerald an English writer, I call him an American writer.It so offends me that you would feel the need to correct me in this important venture. I admitted that he was not a German nationalist per se, but can we really call Kafka anything but a German writer?
Oh come on, that's absurd.Today's literary giants exercise was extremely difficult. Both countries are just LOADED.
Voltaire, Proust, de Beauvoir, Satre, Flaubert, Dumas and de Sade all sidelined for, perhaps a lesser author from a technical standpoint but, for my money, the one who encapsulated a certain tonal shift in global political philosophy as well as noted Coen Brothers heo:
CAMUS
On the other side, we said "almost, but not quite" to Goethe, Kant, Hegel, Hesse and Mann (Thomas) and chose a man not born in Germany proper but a German writer nonetheless (no, it's not Wittgenstein) and another dutiful chronicler of the absurd:
KAFKA
So, today: Camus v. Kafka
We have two hours. How badly am I off?
Agreed, he is a Czech Writer or a German-language writer, but he certainly isn't a German writer.Sure. I can call him a Czech writer, because that's what he is. I don't call F. Scott Fitzgerald an English writer, I call him an American writer.
It's the Carolingian Derby! A 1200-year geopolitical rivalry marked by almost constant warfare!
TALE OF THE TAPE:
Dictator:
Napoleon vs. Hitler. Egotistical modernizing genius who dragged Europe into the modern era vs. genocidal maniac. Big edge to FRANCE.
Arts:
France has the big edge in painting (Jean-Louis David, Monet, Manet, Matisse, Renoir, Degas, Searat, etc.), but Germany has the big edge in composers (Beethoven wins this single-handedly, but Wagner, Strauss, Schumann are no slouches either). So, DRAW.
Literature:
Proust, Flaubert, Hugo, Zola, Voltaire vs. Goethe, Mann, Hesse, Grass, Brecht. Probably a draw.
Philosophy:
Descartes vs. Kant is a titanic battle for the Enlightenment Era, but the Germans have a much deeper bench with Neitzsche, Hegel, Marx, Schopenhauer, Heidegger, Leibniz, and Husserl. I'm not that impressed with the French existentialists, who were mostly developing themes found in German writers (especially Heidegger) anyway. There's a reason that when Monty Python staged the Philosopher's Football Match, they picked Germany to play Greece in the Final. Edge: GERMANY.
Cuisine:
Big, big edge to FRANCE.
Intangibles:
Big edge to FRANCE.
Pick: France 2-1.
Are the refs equipped by Nike? That would explain the sox being a completely different color to everything else.The Ref's socks are incredibly distracting