@PloughLaneByNum No! Mixed up my fevernova with my jabulani! It was really light and you could feel like Roberto Carlos if you punted it across the garden at your little sister. Only really became good for keepie uppies once it had deflated a bit
World Cups of my lifetime ๐งต
1994 - age 7
A boy called Tom in year 6 could kick a ball so hard that I didn't want to go to the top of the playground where he played
I remember walking through a game on the rec trying to ask boys if they wanted to play something else now
Listened to Handsome Devil by The Smiths on repeat, stalked Pete Doherty around East London, and pretended to do art at Goldsmiths (reality: English Lit at the University of Greenwich)
@PotCzach Yes! Coolest guy at my uni in 2005 (American apparel jacket, skinny jeans, Strokes-adjacent haircut) told me about this new "Math Rock" genre
I imagined it being like a new type of punk and was very disappointed to learn that it was just emo but in annoying time signatures
@drewharkins My indie band was definitely given an easy ride by late 2000s audiences because everyone wanted to "discover" new acts.
Now when I play or attend those same venues 20 years later audiences generally won't bother watch any act that isn't their mate's band they came to see
@Or8meold@SamGreszes Yeah and that weird Napoleon Dynamite thing some used to do where they'd wear bad t shirts on purpose (like a wolf howling at a moon or whatever) and pretend that they actually really liked Wham and Toto
The act was like "I'm so cool that I love uncool stuff, actually" ๐
@pictureplane Hipsters in 2010s were all listening to the Velvet Underground and Jonathan Richman, as they always have done and always will.
Ask me how I know (this is me and my pal from November 2010)
2026 - aged 39
Now have a 5 year old boy to collect stickers with, he's watched enough AFC Wimbledon to be ready for his first ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ disappointment
Would love to have the moral strength to boycott (Trump, ad breaks, Coldplay HT show) but I can't look away. I LOVE THE WORLD CUP!
2022 - aged 35
TWICE on separate occasions during this World Cup I was holding a cold leftover sausage when England scored (not a euphemism) which says a lot about my post-kids lifestyle
The greatest final of all time won by the ๐