Anti-American Sentiments

Look, I'm not trying to be unpatriotic or a jerk (okay, I probably am trying to be a jerk, it is pretty typical for me), but I really hope the U.S. never wins the World Cup.

Oh, for my American readers, the World Cup is a soccer tournament played every four years among all the nations of the world.  Kind of like the World Series, except with the entire world having a chance to win, not just New York.  Fine, and Boston.

Anyway, I hope the U.S. does well this year, even advancing well into the knockout rounds, but I really don't want us to win it all.  Thankfully, I don't think there is much chance of that happening anyway.  But, seriously, the U.S. winning the world cup would be like the Bora-Bora Buccaneers winning the Stanley Cup.

Sure, they'd enjoy it for about a day, then they'd move on to the next important news item.  Like a 12 year-old who is stuck in a weather balloon but isn't actually but his parents just said he was so they could get a television show... are you FUCKING kidding me that that actually happened?  What the fuck is wrong with people?  And we all just kind of accept that this is now acceptable behavior.  Not only for our fellow man, but for our news sources too.  If I call CNN and say I accidentally flushed my daughter down the toilet would they, with no other verification and despite the fact that such an occurrence goes against all logic and sense, proceed to televise 4 hours of the sewer outlet downstream waiting for a baby to pop out?  Probably.

Anyway, yeah, back to the World Cup, I will spend the next week rooting for North Korea until they are statistically eliminated by being beaten 12-0 by Brazil, then I'm thinking of throwing my support behind Ivory Coast.  Or maybe the Bora Bora Buccaneers.