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Posts by GefreiterKania  

Joined: 26 Dec 2020 / Male ♂
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GefreiterKania   
8 Jul 2021
News / Poland Sports News [1079]

If you have enough, you can buy a football team or at least follow your favorite one in your own private jet.

Hmm... or you can buy a rival team and lead them to an epic downfall. You've got a point there ;)

*off to watch Śląsk Wrocław in Conference League qualifiers*
GefreiterKania   
8 Jul 2021
News / Poland Sports News [1079]

I can think of only three things more important than football in life: God, family and fatherland (for obvious reasons, so I won't explain).

What else could be more important?

Job? Yer havin a laugh... maybe if you are a Nobel-prize-winning scientist whose discovery can change the world, rock star or a top Hollywood actor. Maybe...

However, 99,9% of people in the world have menial, boring jobs with ZERO effect on the world at large (no matter if they are a street sweeper or a medium company CEO), from which they dream to retire as soon as possible.

Career? What does this word even mean? People won't remember exactly what you did or even care one year after you retire, and in 10 years it will be completely forgotten (unless you're a famous writer, scientist etc. - 0,001% of people). Those who sacrifice their time, health and family relations for their so-called careers are only moderately intelligent (to put it mildly).

Money? Nope. Most "needs" that people in the first world have these days are not genuine but rather invented or forced upon them. If one has enough to support his family on a decent level then struggling hard to get more and more is nonsensical. After all, we only live for 80 years or so, so what's the point of wasting your life to chase after money?

Health? Yeah, right! I would be infinitely more healthy if I wasn't a football supporter (imagine supporting Polish NT!). I would have healthier nerves, digestive system and would probably consume significantly less alcohol, so that would give me a chance to extend my lifespan from approx. 80 to approx 83-84, but I would miss on all the emotions and all the drama, all the love and elation and all the heartbreak and hate. Not worth it. :)

So, yeah, the below list...

1. God (that's a question of eternity, after all, not mere 80-90 years in this vale of tears).
2. Family (close friends are counted in this category as well)
3. Fatherland.
4. Football.
(for atheists it's 3Fs - Family, Fatherland, Football :))
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784361 posting on PF

... looks pretty accurate :)
GefreiterKania   
8 Jul 2021
News / Poland Sports News [1079]

OK, so this is a Londoners take on the game.

Living in a stable doesn't make you a horse. ;)

So, all you England haters

FORZA ITALIA!!! :)

Football is the most important non-essential thing in the world.

What do you mean "non-essential"?
GefreiterKania   
8 Jul 2021
News / Poland Sports News [1079]

Disciplinary proceedings opened

Yes, yes... they will be fined some peanuts money (50k euro or something) and it will all just blow over... until the next time. :-/
GefreiterKania   
8 Jul 2021
News / Poland Sports News [1079]

:)

I don't expect fireworks from a 36-year-old forward, but it will be interesting to see Podolski finally playing for his beloved boyhood club.

Anyway, I've heard that there has been a last minute change of the VAR referee for the Euro final...
GefreiterKania   
8 Jul 2021
News / Poland Sports News [1079]

Łukasz Podolski signed a 1-year contract with Górnik Zabrze...

psnfutbol.com/2021/07/06/official-podolski-signs-with-gornik-zabrze/

... it is not often that we see a world champion playing in Ekstraklasa! Welcome, Poldi. :)
GefreiterKania   
8 Jul 2021
News / Poland Sports News [1079]

Yes, that will be the entire Europe's battle cry on Sunday but I'm afraid the result of the final has already been established.
GefreiterKania   
8 Jul 2021
News / Poland Sports News [1079]

The fact that the Dutch "referee" didn't even take 15 seconds to take a look at the situation on video replay is nothing short of scandalous.

As for the English "fans" - one of the wankers used laser beam to blind Schmeichel during the penalty...

i.postimg.cc/QM6dS7fz/01.png

... what a bunch of sorry *^%#$%.

Hasn't it always been that way?

It has but VAR has aggravated the situation even more.

How often are international referees disciplined for poor/biased performance?

Not nearly often enough.
GefreiterKania   
8 Jul 2021
News / Poland Sports News [1079]

I watched the "penalty" situation again today, with calm head.

Daylight robbery.

The VAR system was supposed to eliminate the referees' mistakes (or "mistakes"). It didn't. If anything it aggravated
the situation. When "the wrong team" has a faulty goal accidently awarded, then the VAR system is always there to point
out the mistake and cause the disallowment of the goal. However, when "the right teams" scores a faulty goal or has
an idiotic "penalty" awarded, then the venal referee can simply decide that he doesn't wish to see the video replay.

Absolutely disgusting. This is not football anymore.
GefreiterKania   
7 Jul 2021
News / Poland Sports News [1079]

I'm off to catch some z's. Hopefully I won't have any penalty-related nightmares. Good night.
GefreiterKania   
7 Jul 2021
News / Poland Sports News [1079]

Farage is probably now talking on some British TV that it's all thanks to Brexit - "we left the nazi EU and look what happens - first major tournament final in 55 years!". *rolls eyes*

"...and the previous one was outside the EU as well! Coincidence? I don't think so".
GefreiterKania   
7 Jul 2021
News / Poland Sports News [1079]

...and 11 Italians playing against 13 English (11 + home crowd + referee). I'll probably find something better to do than watch this parody.
GefreiterKania   
7 Jul 2021
News / Poland Sports News [1079]

Schmeichel is a great penalty specialist - referee couldn't allow the game to go into penalties. And he didn't. Well done.

*ironically clapping*

There should be something in football like video challenge in volleyball or tennis (let's say two challenges a game for each team).
GefreiterKania   
7 Jul 2021
News / Poland Sports News [1079]

embarrassed

They aren't. They think they are the best and deserve it all (home advantage, no away fans, and "kind" referee). No embarassment there.
GefreiterKania   
7 Jul 2021
News / Poland Sports News [1079]

I wonder what the Brits paid the UEFA

It's simply a rich and influential federation, and they haven't won anything in a while...

They played all their games but one at home. As I said, ri-di-cu-lous.

Quatar anybody?

...and Russia before that. Logically North Korea and then Iran are next in line.
GefreiterKania   
7 Jul 2021
News / Poland Sports News [1079]

Italians now...

They should refuse to play this game - no point. Someone decided that England is to win the championship, and referees will make sure that it happens.

Michał Listkiewicz - former international FIFA referee - is just saying on TV that there was definitely no penalty.
GefreiterKania   
7 Jul 2021
News / Poland Sports News [1079]

They play at home, with virtually no guest fans and they are getting vital help from the referee as well. That penalty was a gift to England. Scandalous...

What is this VAR system for?
GefreiterKania   
7 Jul 2021
News / Poland Sports News [1079]

NO WAY that was a penalty. Ridiculous :(
GefreiterKania   
7 Jul 2021
News / Poland Sports News [1079]

Yasss!!! Ya beauty! :)

Vi er rode, vi er hvide, vi er danske dynamite!!!
GefreiterKania   
7 Jul 2021
News / Poland Sports News [1079]

I hope they lose!

That makes two of us. Go Danes!
GefreiterKania   
7 Jul 2021
Travel / What is the weather like in Poland where you are now? [202]

I bathed in the Gdańsk bay a couple of times

Well, I suppose it's possible... if one really feels the urge. ;)

people from Tri-City go to Kashubian lakes to dip into water

I like Kashubian lakes indeed. Szarlota (near Kościerzyna) is a nice place.
GefreiterKania   
7 Jul 2021
Travel / What is the weather like in Poland where you are now? [202]

It happens recently, true.

Luckily it is only tourist who ever attempt to have a bath in the Baltic Sea - we, the locals, only look at them with barely concealed feeling of superiority. ;)
GefreiterKania   
7 Jul 2021
Travel / What is the weather like in Poland where you are now? [202]

Tricity is probably the best place to live in Poland (and it's not just my local patriotism) - agglomeration with over 1.2 million people but spread over a large area, so it's not really crowded - a lot of parks, hills and recreational areas, great municipal greenery all over the place, relatively clean air, a plethora of cultural, educational and economic possibilities. Unrivaled.
GefreiterKania   
7 Jul 2021
Travel / What is the weather like in Poland where you are now? [202]

My wife is from Masovia and when I visited her in her parents' house in the summer I remember that it was always 4-5 degrees more than by the sea (and no sea breeze). It felt like visiting Africa :)
GefreiterKania   
7 Jul 2021
Travel / Photos from Poland [258]

I think its black and brown, must be some new disgusting fetish.

Black is for people who like doing it with lights out and brown... well, brown is... figure it out yourself.

Its looks horrible

How dare you - you homophobe, transphobe, patriarchal racist!!!

If you can`t, it means you are all obsessed.

:D
GefreiterKania   
5 Jul 2021
Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

I was just kidding. :) English has great potential to turn from an ugly and vulgar tongue into something very aesthetically pleasing and elegant when the writer/speaker is skillful with his style and choice of words. I am definitely not a keen admirer of this common language, but even I have to admit that when it is used by writers like P.G. Wodehouse, Kingsley Amis, John Mortimer or Hector Hugh Munro it can give one a certain measure of linguistic satisfaction.
GefreiterKania   
5 Jul 2021
Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

If you want to converse with the locals and not make them roll their eyes, don't ever say, "expatiated".

Exactly. Language is, first and foremost, a communication tool, as I have -- on this very board -- on multitudinous occasions expatiated. :D