The World Cup 2014
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Re: The World Cup 2014
That high score is probably not great news to the promotions manager at Audible. See, audible.de's current promotion is that, on every day the German team plays a World Cup game, Audible will give away a Kindle Fire per German goal to people who bought an audiobook on that day. My imagination's crazy exaggerated run-away version of how it will play out is something like the McDonalds 1984 Olympics promotion (parodied in The Simpsons - "Lisa's First Word") - http://www.cracked.com/article_19334_th ... ideas.html
"It's in South America this time, boss. Europeans NEVER win! Plus it's soccer. The scores are ALWAYS small!" - 30 Kindle Fires later: "I will personally put a virus on every other Kindle!"
"It's in South America this time, boss. Europeans NEVER win! Plus it's soccer. The scores are ALWAYS small!" - 30 Kindle Fires later: "I will personally put a virus on every other Kindle!"
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I know it! New Coke and the Hoover 'Free USA Flights' are, with that, the things I remind our marketing team about when they get all carried away with a new promotion but have no back out plan.
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Go USA!!
Oh balls! Now I am gonna have to stay up to watch the rest of this.....
Oh balls! Now I am gonna have to stay up to watch the rest of this.....
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Hmmmmmmmm. Not quite what Brazil had planned. Stoppage time to go.
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The Aussies are giving the Dutch a run for their money here!
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CUNTING FUCK!
FUCK!
SHIT-BALLS!
FUCK!
SHIT-BALLS!
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I kind if expected to read something like that when I checked in today.
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Ahhhhh, well. And now Italy are losing to Costa Rica so it looks like we are out in the first round. Shamazing!
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That's it. Costa Rica beat the Italians and therefore England are out.
If Uruguay do the job over Italy on Tuesday then the Italians can share our flight home!
If Uruguay do the job over Italy on Tuesday then the Italians can share our flight home!
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My weekly email from audible.de clarifies that the Kindle Fire promotion only applies to these group games (Vorrunden) and not the next rounds of the tournament - so just on June 16, 21, and 26.
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Re: The World Cup 2014
It's all just too depressing now.
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Re: The World Cup 2014
I know it would be frowned upon, but why wouldn't Germany and USA just make a gentleman's agreement to play to a draw, insuring that they both advance to the knock-out round?
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Germany and Austria were accused of doing something like that in the '82 World Cup, in a game that became known as the "Disgrace of Gijón". That game is the reason that the last two games of the group stage are now carried out simultaneously. As the case of the Germany-U.S.A. match shows, it's still an imperfect system, depending on the constellation that results from the previous two rounds of games.
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Time has an article about the potential for a fix:
How the U.S. and Germany Could Hack the World Cup
How the U.S. and Germany Could Hack the World Cup
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It's also very hard to try and make a professional sportsperson not to try to win.
Hope the US get through and Portugal fuck off home.
Hope the US get through and Portugal fuck off home.
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It was easy enough for some of the people Mike Tyson fought.
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I am sure they tried.
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Some of them *were* tried... in the Court of Public Opinion, if nowhere else.
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I don't know how hard it is to convince professional sportspeople from Nigeria not to try to win.Bananarama's Bouncy Bits wrote:It's also very hard to try and make a professional sportsperson not to try to win.
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This is nerve wracking!!!! Hold on USA. Hold on!!
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What, no comment on last night's hellacious ass-whomping?
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Yes. My colleague had £100 at 90-1 on Germany winning by more than 4 goals. Lucky bastard!!!!
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These Dutch and Argie guys clearly didn't see last night did they?
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Bananarama's Bouncy Bits wrote:Yes. My colleague had £100 at 90-1 on Germany winning by more than 4 goals. Lucky bastard!!!!
Clearly, they did. It's hard to run around with mess in your pants.Bananarama's Bouncy Bits wrote:These Dutch and Argie guys clearly didn't see last night did they?