@ellencarmichael It all boils down to americans thinking rules can be bent if "you're right". No, they can't, and thinking so sets a dangerous precedent. Hell if full of people who were justifying breaking rules by feeling they are morally right to do so.
Rules are rules. Period.
Tyle pierdolenia i filozofowania żeby tylko nie powiedzieć że jankesi to zwyczajnie rozwydrzone bachory z kompleksem wyższości myślące że można sobie łamać zasady do woli jeśli "ma się rację".
Otóż nie, nie można.
Debile.
The most interesting part of the red card saga isn't the ruling. It's how differently Americans and Europeans process the idea that they might have been wronged.
Europeans are fundamentally different from Americans in one particular way: they expect life to be aggravating and at times unfair. It's just a fact of moving through the world. I joke that in Europe, the customer is always wrong. You didn't read the fine print. The only pharmacy in town is closed every other Tuesday for three hours, and even if the times weren't posted, that's still your problem. Too bad if you want the bill, because the waiter's on his union-mandated half-hour smoke break, and you're just going to have to wait.
To quote the great Mark Knopfler: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. There's something freeing in that. Things are less in your control, so there's less angst in managing your expectations.
In America, things couldn't be more different. We simply can't accept a wrong left unrighted.
The flight attendant sneezed handing you a drink on your one-hour flight? 15,000 frequent flyer miles. Didn't like your appetizer? A replacement is on the way, and the whole course comes off the bill. There's a reason our interstates are lined with trial lawyer billboards.
Europeans have turned complaining into a continental pastime with no expectation that the universe owes them a remedy for their grief. You gripe about the train being late, your friends nod solemnly and everyone goes back to their apéro. In America, we launch a full-blown investigation of the train system, sue the government (and its contractors) that allowed for the tardiness and hold a Congressional hearing on the state of national infrastructure.
So to an objective observer, the red card shouldn't have happened, and VAR was a travesty. To Americans, our star player shouldn't be unfairly banned from a match we couldn't afford to lose for a card he so obviously didn't deserve.
Who cares that FIFA used a little-used reversal to fix it. Who cares that other people are mad about it. We. Were. Wronged. It was unjust. It must be corrected. We would accept nothing less.
Europeans waxing poetic about the sanctity of the game are, of course, talking about a governing body whose last tournament host was decided via confirmed cash bribes — one that imposed dress codes on women, shrugged off widespread allegations of modern slavery and reconfigured the entire tournament calendar to suit the host country. Which is exactly the point. If you've made peace with all of that, at least enough to watch the tournament four years later, a probationary suspension isn't actually a scandal.
Maybe that's the real divide. Over millennia, Europeans have made peace with being the bug. Americans have never once considered it, and apparently, we're not about to start now.
@PawelPaczul Uwielbiam ten wynik z 1921 co do którego meteorolodzy do dzis mają wątpliwości bo istnieje poważne przypuszczenie że to była wartość z termometra umieszczonego w metalowej klatce na słońcu XD Ale chuj, pod teze pasuje 100 lat temu o 13 było ciepło więc nie ma zmian klimatu
Hey Europoors. I just got AC installed.
In my garage.
For my dogs.
And I don’t even live in the South.
My dogs live better than you do.
I care more about my dogs than your govt cares about you.
ostateczny dowód denialistów klimatycznych - 30 lat temu ktoś nagrał piosenkę "40 stopni w cieniu"
ludzkość zasługuje na wyginięcie, jesteście głupsi niż psy
@PatBry80 Ten utwór ma 30 lat. Były takie upały, że nawet piosenki o tym robili, ale ty nie pamiętasz więc nie na pewno tak nie było xD
https://t.co/FOy0oMQHsL
@krzysiekto1@JakubN84 Dziwnym trafem wszystkie rekordowe fale upałów są w ciągu ostatnich 20 lat i wszystkie przebijają te sprzed “dziesiątek lat”, ciekawe dlaczego.
@krzysiekto1@JakubN84 Różnica jest taka że poważny mróz mamy obecnie raz na 10 lat (a powinniśmy co roku), a ekstremalne temperatury co roku (a powinniśmy co 10 lat).
To jest właśnie klimat.
@sebsol70 Wtedy zakolak był na grillu i nie interesował się polityką, zainteresował się po wyborczej porażce pisu i przestanie się interesować w dzień gdy pis znów wróci do władzy, czego nie rozumiesz?