Mine's 30gb/mo. It's apparently more than enough for most people, which only makes me think most people never watch porn.

Now on 1,866 mb till the 29th :eek:

Just start going to Starbucks and steal their wi-fi. I honestly couldn't go back to limited bandwith. I'd feel like someone's breathing over me whenever I stream or download anything.

In football related news. I'm currently on the last group game for the women's England squad. These guys have been nowhere near as depressing as the u-21's squad.

i couldn't go back to living in an apartment again, and hear the neighbors trampling around when i'm trying to sleep

and sirens. goddamn sirens in the middle of the night. and of course gunshots.

life is full of tradeoffs.

would i love me some google fiber? sure. is it as important to me as having as few neighbors as possible? nah-ah.

That game was insane. Fuck a classic, shit was an albino unicorn

I rewatched that too, a little while back, and yeah, the start didn't indicate at all what was to come. It's the same with Spain's implosion against Holland. If anything Spain looked to have a slight edge on Holland at the beginning, and then they just collapsed. Maybe we read too much into those results. We've all seen excellent teams lose games that on paper they shouldn't have. We saw it in the Prem when Chelsea lost to teams they should've been thrashing. Difference in a WC is you're gonna have a bad day against some world class players so the penalty is far worse than it would be against, say, Leicester.

Admittedly, in Spain's case, it wasn't just a one off game. They were awful throughout.

chile just beat uruguay 1-0. tons of crap went on-- i missed the first hour of play due to work but apparently it was quite a battle. bachelet jumping in the stands-- hilarious.

I enjoyed the LA Galaxy game tonight..surprised me.

Oh that Spain Netherlands game was a thing of beauty.. easily as epic a collapse as Brazil, because shit if we were to really analyze it Brazil wasn't playing that great either so the outcome was as predictable but the games themselves were epic. Huge losses for bazil and spain. Those were 1980s NFL Superbowl losses, four and five score blowouts..

The Spain implosion(s) were huge. 'End of a dynasty' stuff. I didn't enjoy it cos I loved what Spain represented in their pomp but their was something beautiful about the way they just, died. Better that in a way than for them to have just limped along to the latter stages, a la Brazil and, to a degree, Argentina.

I still have mixed feelings about the whole Brazil thing. They weren't impressive throughout and were lucky to even make the semis. But actual football aside, the squad was in such a difficult position, trying to represent a nation openly rioting in opposition to the tournament itself. I kind of sympathised with them, as people, even though my true support was probably with those protesting, as a body.

It all added up to probably the most fascinating World Cup I've seen. Huge upsets (Spain), great new finds (Rodriguez), enormous personal dramas (Suarez) and the whole underlying political drama.

With all the shit going on at FIFA who knows where the next WCs will be, but if they remain in Russia and Qatar we're at least guaranteed some political controversy. As for the other stuff, I doubt we'll see another tournament with as many points of interest as the last one for some time.

West Ham sign Dimitri Payet from Marseille for 10m. Don't know too much about him but hopefully Bertrand will see this and reassure me he's at least decent.

not sure if you're aware (i wasn't) but the ramifications of this investigation have uncovered a major clusterfuck in argentina that go all the way up to kirchner.

shit's like wikileaks

yesterday peru 2 bolivia 0

now argentina colombia starting!!!

argentina 0 colombia 0 at halftime!

colombia barely holding vs. argentina's relentless dominance

ospina a hero

lots of yellow cards on both sides

an INSANE 0-0 and they're going directly to penalties!

(no overtime in this tournament)

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holy shit bananas. argentina wins on EXTRA penalties after too many colombia fuckups. tevez scored the winning penalty. hot damn.

most exciting 0-0 ever ha ha ha.

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ospina had 7 saves

Damn, I really wanna watch that.

My net allowance renews tomorrow so I'll find a download.

well i hope this was not too much of a disappointment



^^ a prize for who tells me why this picture

Ya got me. No idea. Dopey, right? Should I feel insulted? Or some reference to a drug scandal?

Did you see Cavani's sending off? One of the worst decisions I've seen. Jara tries to give him an anal probe then falls over holding his face, and Cavani gets a second yellow for it. If ever there was an argument for video technology, that's it. And Jara deserves a retrospective tournament-length ban. They'd stamp that kind of thing right out if the refs started doing that. Not that it helps Uruguay.

dopey, yes. in brazilian portuguese, "dunga".

which is a nickname his uncle gave him. because he looks like that.

ha ha ha ha ha ha.

poor dopey. and his team of defenders.

anyway-- i did miss that fingerlicking good part of the game, but my dad told me all about it when i called him post-match. "le metió la mano!" etc. then it turned out it wasn't the whole mano but just a finger-- in a way, worse.

yeah, for things like this-- yeah the law should allow for non-god reversals. "i take my red card back". i don't know what that would do to the concept of the ref's authority and if it would open up a can of shit what size but yeah.

jara is banned i'm not sure how long. but without that decision, chile would not have won the game-- and how do you undo a result? just fucking terrible.

Haha, yeah, Dunga. Poor old Brazil. A country that doesn't just have to compete against other nations but against its own footballing identity, too.

With video tech, it should go further than just retrospective post match decisions - which we already have. For key decisions, the ref should be able to consult someone on the sidelines with a monitor.

argentina scored and my stream locked up!!

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argentina 2 paraguay 1 @ 45'

paraguay started controlling, then argentina scored two, then paraguay rose again & scored before halftime

i love paraguay-- they have the biggest cojones of any south american country-- always have

jiminy f. ape, argentina beats paraguay 6 to 1!

it was sad, watching. paraguay never gave up but they were just outgunned in every front-- they don't have 1/10th of the talent that argentina does. and they got ripped apart exponentially.

now argentina please DO THE SAME TO CHILE. they don't deserve to be in the final with their fingerassrape qualification

oh, and yesterday peru was playing better than chile until the idiot zambrano had himself thrown out early in the game-- 3 fouls in 20 minutes (one warning, one yellow, one straight red for kicking someone's kidneys). ended up 2-1 for chile but 11 to 11 could have been very different.

ANYWAY.

i'll be rooting for the insufferable argentinians for the final. they really have the best team.

Same ol Honduras

Not having seen the actual games, I wanted Chile to win at the beginning but everything I've read, especially since the Uruguay game, makes me want it to be Argentina.

Meanwhile transfer window now open:

Man U have made a £50m bid for Thomas Muller. I'd like to see him in the Prem but think he wants to stay at Bayern.

argentina has been the dominant team of the tournament by far. they have no competition.

brazil is like a giant airplane going down in flames

uruguay without suarez not a threat

chile plays pretty but has shown serious weak spots and has only made it with the help of various refs

colombia a massive disappointment-- falcao a zero, james null, what the hell happened?

paraguay always corageous but they have no game

peru well organized and a cohesive team but lacking the insane individual talent of argentina (west ham is getting one of their players though)

argentina should win it all. chile wants it bad of course but argentina easily on another level.

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as for muller-- he should go! i don't understand what he does at bayern anymore. not his fault but the overlarded lineup.

Ive never liked the "own goal" im futbol.. just seems unfair. Its like, hey all kinds of goals are negated all the time... seems like they could change the rules. If my team won that way id be embarrassed yo

You talking about the women's England game? Just heartbreaking. And to be honest it was one of those damned if you did, damned if you didn't go for the ball.

Talk the Man Utd are offering Jonny Evans as a trade for Seamus Coleman. No. Just no thank you.

True, but would I be happy for West Ham to win against Chelsea thanks to a JT own goal? Fucking hell yeah! I might even love it more than if we'd scored ourselves. Schadenfreude's a motherfucker.

Don't see how Evans would ever be a sweetener in any deal, least of all for Coleman. Hope you keep him.

You getting Deulofeu on permanent seems like a good bit of business long-term.

perú-paraguay for 3rd place in 45'

perú 2 paraguay 0, it was a lively 2nd half. lots of young talent in perú-- advíncula, cueva, reyna, vargas, etc.

demonyo, i think you'll like advíncula if west jamón gets him.

chile-argentina starts i think in 4 hours

0-0 after 120', 4-1 in penalties, THE LONE STAR WINS THE CUP.

Brilliant. Wonder what the odds at the beginning of the tournament were for them to win.

they were one of the heavy favorites-- seasoned team with a great world cup performance 2 years ago, and same coach as then, their share of international stars, playing at home, brazil in decline, uruguay without suárez, etc.

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one interesting thing to remark aside of that is the success of argentinian coaches on this tournament, who take the first 3 places:

1st - jorge sampaoli
2nd - tata martino
3rd - ricardo gareca
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6th - josé pékerman
10th - gustavo quinteros

Shush.

ha ha ha-- how the hell do you mean??

Coming in here with your facts and opposing opinions. Facts schmacts!:D

Argentina's football culture seems much more rounded than Brazil's. Brazil obviously produces great players (although arguably no more than Argentina has) but very few coaches of note. Weird for such a football-obsessed country. Scolari's the only one I can think of whose had any significant career outside his own country. And even that looks better on paper than what he actually achieved.

oh ha ha ha

i didn't know...


either that or a cultural bias towards producing an overabundance of philosophers and psychoanalists.

yeah, i don't know why-- even with extremes of hate like bilardo, they do make a lot of contributions to tactics

and bielsa-- argentino too.

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btw, tonight's women's world cup final. yes, some people will say "too slow" or "too soft" or whatever, and sure, i have the same problem, but it's the final, and the u.s. will play, and demonyo will have the chance to see his one and only true & eternal love, hope solo.

I agree with you on the too slow, but not the too soft. I've not seen one person rolling around pretending to be in agony in the whole tournament. Compare that to the men's and there's something very wrong.

Women's football has a long way to go after being suppressed for so long, but that doesn't mean it can't be exciting any more than League 2 football can.