Seconded
I'll cheer for Wales as I'm half-Welsh but only as long as they're not playing England. Not much point anyway. They're shit.

I have been taking an interest in New Zealand's fortunes in this World Cup, mostly because I have family out there but partly because seeing them hold the World Champions to a draw was fucking hilarious
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Jun 2010, 9:36, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

after having lived in Wales for 4 years
I got put right off Welsh sporting teams. The Welsh are the worst losers and manage somehow to be even worse winners.

Fortunately when I was at uni we consistently thrashed the shit out of them at rugby.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Jun 2010, 9:38, Reply)

You were a rugby player?
That explains a lot...
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Jun 2010, 9:46, Reply)

by we I meant England
I played rugby for my school for a couple of years when I started secondary school.

by the time I got to uni I was far too stoned all the time to even contemplate playing rugby. and even if I wasn't, I wouldn't have played. Have you seen rugby boys? fucking awful quasi-benders.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Jun 2010, 9:50, Reply)

^this in spades
Never played on a rugby team, but more than once have encountered the braying public school arseholes that make them up, who seem to adore games that involve getting naked and performing debasing acts in the presence of other braying public school arseholes or pissing in your mate Biffo's pint while Belcher cracks one out into his kit-bag. WHIZZO!
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 23 Jun 2010, 9:54, Reply)

so true
that sort of thing is very much not for me

(I was particularly proud of my quasi-benders remark)
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Jun 2010, 9:56, Reply)

I like it
and think you should find more ways to use it in conversation.

(And likewise, I too prefer my biscuits crunchy...)
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 23 Jun 2010, 9:59, Reply)

Officelol

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Jun 2010, 10:01, Reply)

When I thought you were a rugby man
I was going to accuse you of chronic bumdering and smuggery on account of this hobby. I am pleased that you agree wholesale with my opinion of the sport, and also that I wasn't wrong about the smuggery.

In all fairness "quasi-benders" is an awesome word
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Jun 2010, 10:00, Reply)

sm b
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 23 Jun 2010, 10:00, Reply)

My secondary school was full of itself
And invested heavily in the rugby team (financed tours abroad etc). I was on the fencing team, who were arguably more successful despite being largely self-funded. The rugby team were adamant that fencing, aka hitting people with swords, is totally gay compared to rugby, a game where you roll in the mud with men and grab their nuts, then shower with them.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 23 Jun 2010, 9:58, Reply)