So last night it was Germany v. Turkey in the Euro2008 championships…unluckily I drew turkey in a pool…
Luckily Turkey keeps finding a way to squeak out wins this year…they’ve won four games and led for a grand total of 9 minutes in those 4 wins…So tonight is a big game…there was talk of riots all week…I think all the foreigners were scared, but we decided to go out in public anyways…
The plan is to watch under a bridge near my flat, and coincidentally the bridge also crosses over the river…
It was the Saffas, Paranoid Pete, Matt, Dalucci, the 2,0’s, Marius, that blonde german chick, Phil, his friend (john?), Phong and I think that’s it…though greg brady made an appearance later
Pete: Greg Brady was a cool dude back in the day…
Saffa said he would be arriving with Pete and Dalucci…he made a comment about 3 bears…
I searched for a gay joke about 3 bears arriving together under the bridge…after about 3 seconds I gave up and just realized we’re in Germany…alles klaar….
so the game started, and turkey dominated…They should have won…I lost money cuz of some cheap goal…OK I didn’t actually see the winning goal cuz i thought we were headed for extra time and went to buy a beer…jerks!!!!
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- down the Main
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- Me (to saffa): You’re taking pictures of pete eating…. Saffa: Yeah, it’s a rare occasion…
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- Yeah…eating disorders rock…glad to see you’ve overcome with the help of your friends, family and a calzone… 😉
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- me holding up the wall…really if this wall fell down people could get hurt…
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- so now the game is about to start and there’s one dude standing during the national anthem…didn’t anyone give him the memo about being patriotic in Deutschland 😉 Saffas response as he took the pic:…Look Moppy’s…I’ve never seen squires so happy…
Spain will annihilate you in the finals…
We stuck around for a while, but it’s hard to stand around the pic-a-nic tables when they’ve been set down on railroad tracks…
…and something stolen from Matt…cuz it’s funny….
He’s telling the story of waiting for a train..It’s so true…
Another announcement comes from the wench. All the German’s around me in chorus go ‘mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnn’.
If you’ve never been to Germany, this is by far the most appealing part of the language. This is the equivalent for the American’s saying ‘Oh Man’ or the Ozzies ‘For Fuck’s sake!’ except it has this melody to it which is mesmerising. It is actually a cresciendo, beginning with a low humming of the ‘m’ and then breaking out like some sort of gutteral animal-pleading-for-help sound, culminating in them regaining their composure for the declining ‘n’. Simply breathtaking at times.