h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I would like to know who is fed up of the World Cup already (and it hasn't even started yet) and who cannot wait for a month of footie.

I get the first vote...aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhh!

Every advert, every television trailer, every magazine is football, football, football.

I cannot wait until it is all over. I almost wish I was in the Big Brother house.

YAYYYYYYYYYYYY

I'm in the USA and I'm STARVED of world cup action. Thanks God for the Web. Bloody Americans, haven't got a clue

Ste

I'm bored rigid by the whole thing already. Whilst everyone else is glued to the tv, I shall be out shopping!

World Cup? Is there any?

See how I care

I have no interest in football, but I don't watch television, so I haven't noticed the World Cup yet, although everyone around me seems to be getting excited about something.

Looks like there's only one positive vote so far, and I'm going to add another negative one. I never watch football. In fact, I rarely watch sport of any kind. As far as I'm concerned, I'm glad that the World Cup is being played in Japan. If games are only screened 'live', the football won't disrupt normal viewing. But then, they won't all be screened 'live', will they. The TV companies are bound to screen some matches in the evening, d*mn them!

Yay! I rarely watch telly, but I'll try to watch as much of the World Cup as possible. I don't especially like football apart from international tournaments. The World Cup has always fascinated me.

International rivalry is an inevitable, and, if properly channelled, healthy thing. It just so happens that the one truly international contest between nations that doesn't involve guns and bombs involves instead kicking a bag of air around. (The Olympics is hardly an even playing field). Broadly, football rewards ability rather than availability of cash. Where else could, for 90 minutes at least, Iran reign supreme over the US?

Will the World Cup take up too many TV channels? Maybe, but there's always h2g2 instead...

Time to redress the balance....

The World Cup is, along with the Olympics, the greatest sporting event on the planet. It's a festival of the world, and of humanity. And I can't wait!


Otto.
With a bucket of Vindaloo

A group of us are just off down the pub to watch the opening ceremony. Different pub for the Ireland vs Cameroon game (I have very divided loyalties there) and the great difficulty of listening to the end of the England/Sweden game at the same time as the beginning of a Mozart concert. This is one world cup that it is at the proper time and I intend to enjoy all of it - a definite YAY here

Current score:

yay = 4 : nay = 5


I cannot believe that even h2g2 has got the bug - where and WHEN did that new football "smiley" appear????

There have been various campaigns for new smileys yet they haven't been heeded and now all of a sudden a

The injustice of it all

I think you'll find the 'polite request' for a smiley started here - F79114?thread=159739

And what is wrong with having a smiley?
The middle classes got a smiley for Wimbledon last summer, and that is a way less important event than the World Cup.




Oh, and you can put me down as a YAY!!!

And GD brings it level to 5 all!

I do not begrudge the footie fans a smiley - all I am saying is that there have been requests for certain other smileys (with a lot of backing from other researchers) dating further back than January this year. Surely there should be some sort of referendum on what new smileys are introduced? (are you listening italics?)

Personally, I don't have any particular smiley I want to see - but a new batch to play with would be good!

I agree there are a lot of valid requests out there for other smileys, many with a lot of support, being one that springs to mind.

The difference, however, is that is the only one on the list that had a deadline to it! H2g2 would look a little silly without a smiley when you consider the size of the investment by the BBC in the tournament.

And finally its half time, and Senegal are leading France 1-0. Frank Lebeouf is playing like a totally donkey by all accounts.

Lions un, Anes zero!

Whats all this nonsense about the World Cup and the olympics being on a par? There is only one sport, and that sport is football, nothing, but nothing comes close to it. Football is the closest we humans can come to the divine. Peles pass in the 1970 final, or de Boers 60 yard pass to Bergkamp in 98, one touch and its under control, second touch, hes round his man, third touch blasts it into the net - that should be in the Tate that should...

...and then theres that wonderful feeling you get when your team scores an important goal against your deadly rivals...such an explosive out of the blue orgasmic feeling

Football is great and the greatest Football is at the world cup.

Well I like it.

And I'm alread sick to death of certain papers telling me how their women's sections will be World-cup-free zones, except for the pretty footballers. Likewise the entire media seems to feel sorry for women for being world-cup-widows

God forbid we should do something other than housework

Jack, Otto, GreyDesk, Skatehorn

It is the one true world festival. Thousands of people from wildly different cultures meeting and mingling can only be a good thing. (Only a few of them fight, which is to be expected when alcohol is involved ). The passionless, dreary olympics pale in comparison.

SENEGAL! RAHHHHH! See how great this competition is? When a former colony of the defending world champions beat them at their own game! Hahahah!

Ste

Well, I won't be a 'World Cup widow', 'cos Richard can't stand football, either. Even if he was a manic supporter, the way some people seem to be, I'd just go and do something else while he was watching the sport, just like I do when he's watching motor-sport. (That's the only sport he *does* watch.)

Besides, a lot of the "women's sections' of newspapers that I've seen are an insult to my intelligence. They seem to assume that all women are interested in is fashion (never cared about it, don't have the figure or the cash), make-up (never used it, don't have the patience), or household stuff like cooking, decor or making things. Book and film reviews in the "women's section" are generally limited to things with a romantic side. I haven't read a romance since my teens and I don't care much for romantic films. (The Abyss was a love story wrapped in science-fiction and Titanic was a love story wrapped in special effects. Other than that, the only romantic film I have on video is Ghost.) Guess who doesn't read newspapers or women's magazines.

>It's a festival of the world, and of humanity<
Which will be why no women compete then, and why I was nearly assualted in my local during the lasy outbreak of England vs the world hostilities, for 'not ing wearing an' ing-er-lund shirt mate'.
A pox on it.
To quote the great Mr Howerd;
'Nay, Nay, thrice times nay.'

I'm indifferent to the world cup. But I do wonder why womens football doesn't get more attention. Why not run the mens and womens competitions in parallel (like Wimbledon) with equal tv coverage?