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Re: Rate and Slate you're dead right, I mean have you SEEN the NZ rugby team? those guys scare the shit out of me rating - the season finale of Supernatural season seven slating - my friend Rachaels performance on the voice tonight just wasn't quite as good as it should have been ps as I've said a couple of times now I only watch her performances, the show itself I think is stupid

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ps as I've said a couple of times now I only watch her performances, the show itself I think is stupid
It's alright mate, we know and are not going to question your machismo or metalness just for watching your friend perform :D ! Rating: England wins! Two-nil in the test series! Slating: The Euro football event is coming up which means endless adverts (usually mars bars) exhalting a bunch of over-sexed, over-paid morons to the level of Olympian Deities and then acting all desolate and surprised when it turns out that a team who doesn't score goals (unless you count skying it over the crossbar and them clutching your head before applauding - actually, who the hell are they applauding, themselves!), gets lazy in defense and goes to sleep at the end of each half actually can't win an international tournament :evil: .
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Re: Rate and Slate Yep-a-do, we thrashed the Windies by NINE WICKETS! Party-time! Now, how I know something about football is that for a while I was a fan. I know, unbelievable but there we go. I supported Plymouth Argyle (just google World's Crappiest Soccer Team and they'll probably come up :lol: !) and watched England through a Euro and World Cup. Gradually I learned that Soccer is a pointless, boring game, played by a bunch of girl's blouses. Horribly defensive, rife with incompetance, arrogance and out-of-control fouling and diving, it blows. Also, Argyle stink. I can cope with a team losing, even constantly, if they put up a heroic battle, but they always let things slide just before time in both halves. Depressing. Same with England, except twice as girly, twice as stupid and twice as lazy/incompetant. I only like Beckham, he seems nice. Anyway, I have a habit of picking up a lot of knowledge quite fast once I'm a fan of something and so I acquired a fairly large football knowledge. Also, it's impossible to be completely cut off from football in this country. For instance, last time I was ill, for want of anything else to watch I saw the FA Cup final (as matches go, it could have been worse). Football permiates everything here - even to the extent that it's the only thing called football (sorry, I'll go back to soccer!). Every two years, a great rumpus goes up around the summer's international event. The Premier legue is discussed in great detail (thank goodness somebody different won this year), Euafa (I think I spelled that wrong) Cup is all over the TV, soccer-players fill the news with their latest idiotic antics and are constantly advertising this, that or the other. Most people at least own a football (I'm no exception - remember me saying that I was a fan once, ONCE - NOT NOW :lol: !). It's all soccer, soccer, bloody soccer. I swear, football (oops, there I go again) coverage and coversation AT LEAST equals that of all other sports put together! Rating: Most sports Slating: Soccer, the worst sports in the world except for water polo, beach volleyball and, the world's worst, basketball!

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Re: Rate and Slate I would love to, but as I have mentioned before I'm afraid I can only watch a very limited amout of video a week and thirteen minutes is too long (that's why I don't get involved with the rate the song above you threa :( ). I'm really sorry, and I absolutely take your word for it that AFL is awesome.

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Slating: The Euro football event is coming up which means endless adverts (usually mars bars) exhalting a bunch of over-sexed, over-paid morons to the level of Olympian Deities and then acting all desolate and surprised when it turns out that a team who doesn't score goals (unless you count skying it over the crossbar and them clutching your head before applauding)
Sounds like they mixed up American football with European football... :lol: Or that they just have an entire team of fullbacks so they can't kick with any accuracy. Rating that I have been playing Need for Speed Underground 2 recently and it is awesome. Slating that EVERY SINGLE AI in that game appears to be white people pretending to be black gangsta folk. No matter. I thrash them most of the time... :twisted:
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Re: Rate and Slate NFSU2 is by far the best Need For Speed game but you have to accept the wiggas as street racing is as I understand it predominantly a hip hop world and not a metal friendly environment rating - nothing slating - being awake, being another year older and the fact I gave myself an extremely nasty cut whilst shaving earlier today

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Re: Rate and Slate Moany-moany! I'm so sorry, Murph, that you feel depressed to live in a country blessed with great weather most of the time :lol: ! I can tell you it's pretty doomy here. The light is nastily bright, but iron grey clouds rule the skies like grim gods and the air feels heavy with their oppressive rule.

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Re: Rate and Slate Rating - Sobriety Slating - The f**king Olympic torch rely, couldn't give a shit about the Olympics in London. It's in the south of this country not here in the north west. Seems to me I'll be paying for it though while others will be making a mint out of it.

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Re: Rate and Slate I remember having the winter olympics here in Salt Lake City 10 years ago, and I shared a similar sentiment. My mom was always trying to drag me to the olympic village, or the newly built (at the time) Gateway outdoor mall, and I was completely disinterested. I didn't even watch it on TV, but I was certainly annoyed by all of the press it got, and how difficult it was to get around downtown for a while.

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