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World Cup; and the female psyche!
“Don’t tell me you’re watching the game as well”? My idle distraction wrote to me in an sms as I was settling down on my friends couch about to take in the first England game. “I’m so dissapointed in you”, she joked, though I get the feeling it had a bit of a serious barb to it.
Of course I was watching the football, it’s World Cup! It’s the best of the best national players playing the best of the best countries! I mean, it’s right up there with The Olympics, and World Championship Concrete Drilling for excitement. I’m not even a football guy really. I mean, I couldn’t give a shit about league football or any of the 400 European Cup football competitions that seem to run endlessly ad nauseum all year around, but World Cup is something different. It’s got a fever to it you just can’t help but get sucked into. Or maybe that’s how it is when you’re a man because most chicks just don’t seem to get it. They don’t really pit their physical skills against another equally desperate and hungry opposition, all for the glory and rush of victory. No, chicks are more your cunning types for whom winning is achieved through bleeding the lifeforce out of their enemies, like vampires and succubi do to hapless victims once they’ve scored! I guess it’s a difference in how you look at life I suppose, but either way, it’s not really compatible with enjoying World Cup.
I get the feeling this is the time when a lot of relationships will be tested too. After all, most sports mad blokes are going to want to watch as many games as possible while most basically female partners are going to be driven mad and do everything they can to minimise the amount of football they have be subjected too. So will begin a contest to see who has the strength of will to control the television broadcasting. If it was 50 years ago I would say the chicks had better just sit back and learn the rules to make it easier for themselves, but now in the new millenium, I’m not so sure. With equality and easier to use TV remote controls, comes a blurring of the traditional power structures in a household, and many a guy may find himself sitting down in front of a cooking show whilst some game is on as a sign of submission to his partner.
If nothing else, at least it’s hot enough that he can do so while sitting on the couch with his shirt off and a beer resting on his belly! There’s no taking that right away from us!
Padwanna!
Posted: June 13th, 2006 under General Rant.
Comments: 4
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Comment from pippi
Time: June 14, 2006, 12:17 am
haha, Well Padwanna i do really enjoy the world cup, in a different way that is, i’m finally able to sit on a terasse in my neighbourhood without being shut in by others. that is if there is no flatscreen offcourse! I love it the worldcup it can last me the whole summer and i will even enjoy the finals!
About the shop i challenge you to come by in my shop on a saturday, to buy a dress for your idle distraction.It’s very funny the guys that do come in now and then all have the same lost exxpression on there face. They make it impossible for us to move around because they know excactly not where to stand. So I rather have them to wait outside. So if your interested let me know and i will tell you the location off that scary place, take a risk now and then i will even help you find something and believe me you need it. Acctually i’m doing pretty good meeting my male friends only on days when there is no football and that’s fine it’s gonna be over soon so enjoy it while it last. It’s your right, is it in the big book of laws that is? Groetjes Pippi
Comment from Padwanna
Time: June 14, 2006, 9:14 am
Hi Pippi,
Jezuz… you mean, you actually like World Cup! Well if you hadn’t of told me, I would never have believed it. In fact, I still can’t. Are you sure you’re not lying to make yourself look good in front the guys? 
You know Pipp, so many times in the past I have actually been in a shop as that guy that stands around with that patient/pained expression on his face while the woman tries on 400 items. It’s not something I’ll put myself through that again unless it’s for true love or tons of money! You know, it doesn’t matter where we stand either, it will always a big frigging inconvenience to you… and don’t you all just lurv to tell us that too! 
Very kind of you to offer to help me with picking an outfit, but we’re kinda not that sort of a couple together, so I’ll pass just for now.
Good luck with your Holland game tomorrow and I’ll speak to you soon!
Padwanna!
Comment from Faragon
Time: June 16, 2006, 2:50 pm
“I get the feeling this is the time when a lot of relationships will be tested too.”
A friend told me tonight that she heard on the radio that sex is really good this time of year
World cup football does that to couples apparently Men are all hyped up on victory or need the distraction after a loss and women are just all turned on by 22 very fit guys running arround a field
All that being said, I do like football! I just hardly ever take the time for it anymore…
Comment from Anonymous
Time: June 22, 2006, 5:40 pm
Faragon said…
“A friend told me tonight that she heard on the radio that sex is really good this time of year
World cup football does that to couples apparently Men are all hyped up on victory or need the distraction after a loss and women are just all turned on by 22 very fit guys running arround a field :-)”
I agree with you. Women who get jealous of their partners for watching too much of the World Cup need to chill…lol…hmm 22 very fit guys running around on the field - could be watching a lot worse…lol
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