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clo_againAnd there goes the first World Cup advert. Let my irritation of the next few months be noted as having begun.
Let it also be noted that I am Welsh and therefore have no obligation to support England since the Welsh are, quite sensibly, much better at rugby. England is as much up for being snarked at as anyone. More probably, given that I've had twenty years of football marginalising every other sport in this country and quite frankly I'm hardly the only Brit who thinks David Beckham's left foot IS. NOT. NEWS.
Having got that out the way, I just saw David Tennant at the BAFTAs and finally got a look at the Infamous Beard. It's not quite as impressive as the one![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hill2k had over Easter but it also doesn't make him look quite so shifty so it probably balances out. ;-) And hey, Top Gear's nominated for something and they used a mocking!Hamster clip for it. Hee. Aw, didn't win though. Not that I think anyone from Top Gear is actually there, so it's not like we've missed out on a Hamster speech.
The football is interrupting Top Gear for six weeks too. Oh, how my hatred grows.
edit: Aw, David Tennant presenting the award to Russell T. Davis. So cute. And also, amusing that the short montage they showed could've equally been for David Tennant getting an award, he was in it so much. *amused*
Let it also be noted that I am Welsh and therefore have no obligation to support England since the Welsh are, quite sensibly, much better at rugby. England is as much up for being snarked at as anyone. More probably, given that I've had twenty years of football marginalising every other sport in this country and quite frankly I'm hardly the only Brit who thinks David Beckham's left foot IS. NOT. NEWS.
Having got that out the way, I just saw David Tennant at the BAFTAs and finally got a look at the Infamous Beard. It's not quite as impressive as the one
hill2k had over Easter but it also doesn't make him look quite so shifty so it probably balances out. ;-) And hey, Top Gear's nominated for something and they used a mocking!Hamster clip for it. Hee. Aw, didn't win though. Not that I think anyone from Top Gear is actually there, so it's not like we've missed out on a Hamster speech. The football is interrupting Top Gear for six weeks too. Oh, how my hatred grows.
edit: Aw, David Tennant presenting the award to Russell T. Davis. So cute. And also, amusing that the short montage they showed could've equally been for David Tennant getting an award, he was in it so much. *amused*
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Date: 2006-05-09 12:05 pm (UTC);) No one cares anout Becks anyway. I'm all about my Liverpool lads (and Newcastle lad) doing great. :D
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Date: 2006-05-09 01:13 pm (UTC)Which I quite like because it has the same kind of vibe as the Secret Tournament Nike ad from the last world cup and that's just my favourite advert ever.
Fiona
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Date: 2006-05-09 02:45 pm (UTC)I'm sticking with what the guy from Little Britain said when he went on Top Gear,/i>: "I don't understand why they can't just decide which football team is the best and leave it at that." Really, it's just football. ;) Invading totally unrelated adverts so I have absolutely no way of avoiding it is totally uncalled for.
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Date: 2006-05-09 02:47 pm (UTC)Nike does do the awesomest adverts. I just wish they'd keep the football to simply the football, so people who want to ignore the world cup can simply not watch the matches. Using it in a billion adverts between now and whenever it finishes is just... irritating. ;)
(Also, nothing beats the Guinness adverts. They win at life.)
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Date: 2006-05-09 03:14 pm (UTC)FINE, STEVIE THEN. :p "Oi, Roberto, pass the pringles?" sounds awfully sexy coming from him. He's the Andy to Xabi's Roger (One is hopeless, the other is perfect). I must convert you, seing as it is your fault I'm looking at the picture of Roger at tennis-x.com and dying a little inside. :D
I'm not English. You may have noticed. But I care anyway. ;) (if this has been posted 3 times, its LJ's fault, not mine!
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Date: 2006-05-09 05:14 pm (UTC)Nothing will ever convert me to football. ;) I don't just hate it as a sport, I hate everything it stands for, how much money they make, how much attention the media pays to it at the expense of other sports. Also, I have no respect for football players as sportsmen either, since I've seen them fall over and pretend to be injured but get over it as soon as they realise no one is paying attention. And get all upset about a nosebleed that a rugby player would simply shrug off. No respect for them at all. ;) And Roger has *skill*. Not to mention very, very pretty hair. ;)
Neither am I. ;) I have the Welsh vs English feud as justification for not supporting England in any way, which means I'll be cheering for every opposing team so we can get this World cup nonsense over with as fast as possible. LJ does that sometimes, it's just evil. Didn't this time though! :)
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Date: 2006-05-09 10:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-09 10:59 pm (UTC)Liverpool don't do that! People just like pushing Luis Garcia over cos he's tiny, and in the CL final, a Milan player pushed Stevie just in front of goal. Stevie did fall over twice in a Blackburn (or Bolton?) game, but we're not as bad as Chelsea, they're the worse at diving and all that nasty stuff. Arjen Robben actually got our goalkeeper sent off. *glares*
I do agree on the money issue. I hate that Chelsea have too much of it. Thy're almost buying their sucess, which is unfair. They almost bought Stevie, but he said no twice, cos he's good like that. Players like Scott Parker and Shaen Wright-Phillips have had their careers ruined by moving to Chelsea and being benched cos they have such world class players alreday.
And football players do have skill. :P Stevie's one of the best in his generation cos he can play in all sorts of different position. Xabi's passing is sexy. He also has pretty hair, and even after 90 minutes, when everyone's hair is splastered on to their forehead with sweat, his stays bouncy. :D
Yeah, but you're on the same land mass. If you supported England, you could justify it. I'm a whole other continent away!
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Date: 2006-05-09 11:46 pm (UTC)Pah, football players have skill. ;) Maybe it's partly my dislike of team sports showing but for me, someone like a tennis player or a horse rider or sprinter is more skillful simply because their entire success depends soley on them at all times. Team sports, it's a combined effort and therefore each personal success is diluted and therefore not as interesting. ;) A football player spends half his time running up and down the pitch without so much as touching the ball and when they do it's for all of a few seconds. A tennis player can spend up to four hours or more being forced to concentrate utterly while everyone watches his/her every move. For me, that's just more interesting.
Yeah, which means we get to point and laugh at close range. ;) The Welsh have to mock the English, just like the North Wales people have to mock the South Wales people and the Scots have to feel vaguely superior to all of us because they're about as close to being their own country as they can be without actually being one. For me to support England would probably take more jusitification than you. Though, perhaps that just me personally and my love of mocking the English. (We'll ignore the fact that I'm in an English university as I type this. ;) )
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Date: 2006-05-09 11:47 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-05-10 12:07 am (UTC)That pipe thing is my brothers A level project. There is also a poster for the film Léon, an African drum as you rightly pointed out with a shirt on top of it made from The Gambia flag.
I know it looked shifty and was pretty damn irritating, but it is dead and gone now. Lets move on!
And as I may never see you on MSN again, look:
Peak of Ben Nevis, Top of the UK, 6ft of snow!