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So Seat68, what's pissing me off in Yank Land is the complete and utter capitulation to the Military Industrial Complex by the professional sports scene. Random pre game "celebrations" of "heroes", and all that bullshit. Some teams wear camouflage on these random special days. F-16's doing flyovers, the national anthem performed before EVERY game in EVERY major sport here. It's a total brainwash. And it's horrifying that some people here are so easily duped. The smartest people I've known have been Americans. But the most clobberingly* ignorant people I've known have been Americans. It's weird here, man *A new word I just made up

Hear hear, except for the cyclist barb, we're not all assholes. Meet me in the Things That Piss You Off Thread

I feel bad for Palace, Clattenburg is an idiot.

A healthy skepticism is a good thing, especially for Villa fans after Ellis and Lerner. But we'd also be fools to not at least try to stay positive about the new guy and his intentions. We wanted Randy to sell to a wealthier and more engaged owner. Check and check. Let's enjoy the summer and the exciting developments, it's all out of our hands now anyway.

Xann, I'm sorry I called you smug, you elitist.

I worked at this one bar in Boston, and the manager was this complete dickhead from Dublin. Total closet case and a real red headed devil. He came up with a drink that he wanted to call "The Carrie Bradshaw". I really should have quit right there on the spot...

The BSO and the Pops are separate entities with completely different purposes. The Pops played POP songs as a way to promote their main thing which was their real orchestra, which is known the world over. That said, I've never even **** been there so they may as well be clubbing seals to death in there.

Full marks for succeeding in being a smug musical elitist, but you are confusing the Boston Pops with The Boston Symphony Orchestra:

The bio on some local artists' website, LOL-

Sorry for being totally ignorant, but what is the UK honors system?

Post of the Year candidate, haha

Symphony Hall is just a few blocks from the ballpark, but when I look at this picture I think that it's a picture of pure culture, and a more relevant culture than stuffy old classical music. I like classical music too, but I've never been to Symphony Hall. It never seemed like a place to have real fun. But Fenway was a **** playground, especially when I was a teenager, smoking weed in the concourse and abusing the visiting players (if we had close enough seats). It's a museum now, it must be something like how old time Man United fans view Old Trafford. It's no longer "ours", if you get what I'm saying. It's like the secret is out. In fact it's been out for a while.

Come see the Revolution. You can watch mediocre football in a giant stadium that's mostly empty. Pats tickets will cost you. A Red Sox outing is much more doable because Fenway is right in the city and Gillette is about a 30 minute drive south of the city. The Red Sox play 81 homes games to the Patriots 8, and the Patriots play in autumn and winter, when you don't want to be here. Let me know if you ever really go, it would be a good laugh to meet you. Maybe we can rope a few other VT guys into it too. Can you rule out a Mets-Red Sox World Series right now? That would be amazing, because Boston is still shellshocked from 1986.

What's all that about, then?

Yeah dude, whatever

Recent email correspondence from an ex-girlfriend- Sounds like a true friend, doesn't she? This chick was amazing. Half Filipina, half white, fitness trainer, total pothead, great taste in music and a complete tomboy, she could hang with the guys no problem. And I let her move to Los Angeles.

If you can find this where you live, grab it before they run out.

Do cobblers still exist?

But by and large we're a well behaved lot. On weekend day games, it's like Elementary School, all families and tourists and whatnot. I love night games in the summer. So much fun, especially if it's a close game. And hot women all over the place. You guys would crush it just by speaking with an English accent. You could say "I wipe my arse with my bare hands", and you'd still get laid. And I know some of you DO wipe that way, it's all documented in the "How Do You Wipe Yer Arse?" thread. You charmers...

True, baseball fans wait to shoot you in the parking lot after the game.

Or Thor. Dude is for real. Imagine facing his 100MPH fastball?

Another home run for Jackie tonight...

Fenway Park. I spent a lot of time there as a young kid, it was a different place back then. Mostly men, lots of them drunk. I was fascinated by the old timers sitting in the grandstand, smoking their cigars and listening to the broadcast of the game on their transistor radios, while keeping a scorecard. Great smells sounds and sights that are long gone now. It's more beautiful now, and safer, but I really miss those old days. If you ever go to Boston, go to a game, it's a special place. Go there before they tear it down.