From: Bodie (mclarkc@essex.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jun 18 2002 - 02:58:48 MDT
Yeh, I know the feeling. I'm never one to wave a flag, but there is a
difference between supporting your country because at the end of the day
it'll be a good party if we win the thing. And Dylan, I've got a
horseradish here thats very offended by your comments.
On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Andy Brice wrote:
> Dylan,
>
> You're not the only one. I normally have zero interest in football, but
> found myself cheering England on against Argentina and Denmark.
>
> Perhaps the 'us v them'/tribalism/nationalism is wired a bit deeper in our
> brains than we realised.
>
> Andy Brice
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dylan Sunter" <dylan.sunter@fisystem.com>
> To: <virus@lucifer.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 04:18
> Subject: RE: virus: world cup 2002
>
>
> > The meme of World Cup football, how bizarre.
> >
> > Even as a committed
> person-not-in-the-slightest-bit-interested-in-football,
> > I find myself strangely drawn to how England are doing, to the point where
> I
> > actually watched a whole England game the other day, and found myself
> > ecstatic that they got through.
> >
> > So what is it with the world cup that entralls us? (mainly in europe...im
> > informed its nowhere near as "important" a sporting event in the US as it
> is
> > this side of the pond). Is it patriotic fervour, is it simple
> > competativeness, is it the sense of something big which the whole world
> can
> > compete in, even developing nations and countries with sociolical problems
> > to superpowers...
> >
> > PLease help, I find myself in the unfortunate position of thinking that
> > Englands Pride rests with David Beckham, a man with the IQ of a
> horseradish.
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