katiepenny wrote:
LOTS OF BLASPHEMY
More coherent and humorous response than other (mean) reblogs I have inadvertently attracted thus far.
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Hey. Hi. So here is what has happened: you wrote a funny thing about Americans and soccer. I read it, thought it was funny, and thought “Hey, I could write a funny response, get some humorous trans-Atlantic special-relationship banter on the go”, you say po-tay-to, I say po-tah-to, let’s call the whole thing a thoroughly nice bloke and it doesn’t matter what sport he watches. Then some asshole came along, completely misread the tone of your post, and got his knickers in a right old twist about it. This happened before I had time to write my post, and I briefly thought about backing out because the situation had suddenly become very tense, but then I thought “No, why should I let one idiot spoil my fun?” and decided to rep hard for the .1% of brits with a sense of humour and post anyway.
With hindsight I think I should have realised that the first reply you garnered had put you in the wrong frame of mind to appreciate any other replies, regardless of tone, so I am sorry if my words offended you at all, they were written with no malice.
Full disclosure: I am a US/UK dual citizen, I don’t really watch that much football outside of international tournaments and the Champion’s League, I am a HUGE American Football fan and I went to the game in London last year, I even follow baseball during the playoffs, I don’t care if you call it soccer, the second game of the World Cup was a 0-0 draw and SUPER BORING, and I think it is totally OK to like fat guys.
