Hmm. It is Friday! and i assume there is soccer or some type of interesting sport on TV!

Because this Forum is so very quiet...

It's 15:00, and you're already done for today?

I'm glad I can breath for 2 seconds

There is indeed soccer, but it's tonight, at 20:45: greece - france. I hope greece wins (sorry, french readers ). Tomorrow is the big match: The Netherlands - Sweden. Piece of cake of course for the orange boys

It's 15:00, and you're already done for today?

He, he.. I wish.
I have been updating/writing help files for the last 2-3 weeks. And i am sooooo bored with it.

Programming is much more fun - Every now an again i find myself investigating some code...

I am not much of a soccer fan.. But since we got the World Cup for 2010 i have been paying more attention to soccer...Still have to figure out the rules Did the Netherlands not lose pretty badly last weekend?

Rugby is much more interesting... tomorrow it is South Africa vs Wales(me bit worried!) - we kicked Irelands butt last weekend although our back line sucked - SA usually has strong forwards and bad backline..they just can't seem to catch a ball and run at the same time...The forwards usually win the game for us.

Otis wrote:

Tomorrow is the big match: The Netherlands - Sweden. Piece of cake of course for the orange boys

Yesterday was the big match!

What a day yesterday was - i went to see Bob Dylan play possibly his best gig since 1966 in one of the best small rock venues in the uk - the Glasgow Barrowlands Ballroom. Rocktastic!! Bob was in sizzling form, certainly one to remember.

Then after the gig, i start to receive text updates about the football -

• 1-0 to england
• 1-1
• disallowed england goal
• extra-time
• 2-1 to portugal
• 2-2
• penalties

At this stage we run to the nearest pub just in time to see Beckham miss the first england penalty, the pub is in uproar (this is Glasgow remember, not many england supporters here )

• 0-0: Beckham blazes over
• 1-0: Deco scores
• 1-1: Owen scores
• 2-1: Simao scores
• 2-2: Lampard scores
• 2-2: Rui Costa misses
• 2-3: Terry scores
• 3-3: Cristiano Ronaldo scores
• 3-4: Hargreaves scores
• 4-4: Maniche scores
• 4-5: Ashley Cole scores
• 5-5: Helder Postiga scores
• 5-5: Vassell's kick is saved
• 6-5: Goalkeeper Ricardo wins it

Wow! What a night!!

Netherlands - Sweden should be a good game though.

wayne wrote:

Hmm. It is Friday! and i assume there is soccer or some type of interesting sport on TV!

Because this Forum is so very quiet...

Well, with a great deal of help from LLBLGen, I'm sitting in a VERY comfortable chair this lovely (though rainy) Friday morning! Thanks everyone for helping me out over the past couple of weeks!

And no sports tonight... it's all about the bar..

And no sports tonight... it's all about the bar..

About a year and a half ago - i worked in a little town called Buxton in the UK.

It is such a small town - could walk from the one side to the other in 15 minutes - But there was 52 pubs in that little town! 1 for every week of the year! Gee.. the people in the UK must love there pubs

Its 16:00 - 1 hour to go... Drinks anyone?... Beer's on me

wayne wrote:

Gee.. the people in the UK must love there pubs

Never a truer word spoken!

Glasgow has some 500 or so pubs At the moment you will find 383 of them listed on pubutopia

Never a truer word spoken!

I can almost hear your accent

Ssshhhhhhh, Mmm the beer tastes great...

You all suck... It's still 10:00 here. I appreciate the consistent torture every Friday. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy... And, by the way, I thought the U.S. was the only place that called it soccer?

Jeff...

jeffreygg wrote:

You all suck... It's still 10:00 here. I appreciate the consistent torture every Friday. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy... And, by the way, I thought the U.S. was the only place that called it soccer? Jeff...

Heh Here we call it 'voetbal', but soccer is the overall term everybody understands I think (my wife calls it 'sucker' hehe, she's not a fan of the sport ).

(I'll now try some of that Polish beer my neighbour brougth home from his holiday)

hmmm...I just came back from a restuarant - There is nothing nicer than a nice juicy piece of steak stuffed with muscles and coverd in white wine source...

Oh ya...And BEER!!

Don't you just love Fridays! or should we call in Jeff's day?

PS - We call soccer - sokker or voetbal or e-football. - Depending on your language of choice...

In the main black language here Xhosa - you just add 'e' in front off all english words if there is no native word for it....

Like e-coffee, e-email(Yeh! beleive it) and e-motocar...

Here is the US, we just get confused when different countries start talking about their beloved soccer.

Baseball for me. Those New York Yankees are going to beat up the New York Mets tonight. I'll be building a new computer for myself while I watch, so I best not have a beer with the game!

heh Indeed if(beer) { ComputerFunction(Quality.Microsoft); }

Btw, Greece beat France. (for the people who know what soccer is: france is like the LA Lakers, and Greece is like that other gang who won the NBA )

Otis wrote:

heh Indeed if(beer) { ComputerFunction(Quality.Microsoft); }

Heh... et tu, Brutus? Where's the love, Mr. MVP?

Jeff...

Where's the love, Mr. MVP?

Yeah.. it seem like Mr. MVP? is actually a rebel!

Maybe he is a ruthless anti microsoft klingon programmer in disguise.

haha Actually, they made me MVP because I'm critical, they want that.

It's not that odd, the more critizism they get, with arguments, the better their products will become (which is the point of the critizism of course )

Hey, Otis what are you still doing up?

Gee, we can't even chat behind his back, he is always around!

Just want to inform everybody that it is now SATERDAY!!!

Yeah, I'm off now

Indeed saturday today, the BIG day Netherlands- Sweden.

wayne wrote:

Just want to inform everybody that it is now SATERDAY!!!

Noooo, it's Friday, 16:00 and I'm still at work. And if I ever meet you, Wayne, we're gonna have words.

Jeff...

WE WON, WE WON, WE WON!!!

SA 53 Wales 18

Strange...our backline managed to catch the balls today!?

What a hidding!..53-18

What happend in the macth between Netherlands- Sweden?

The match is tonight, in 2 hours.

Should I remove the 'oops' posting? (too much beer isn't good for ya, Wayne )

Hey!, Otis you should atleast tell us that Holland won.!

Euro: Sweden vs Holland : Quarter Final Regular Time: Sweden 0-0 Holland Overtime: Sweden 0-0 Holland Penalty Shoot-Out to decide winner Van der Saar Saves Holland! Holland win penalty shoot-out. Sweden 4-5 Holland Sweden OUT of Euro 2004

I hope this report is correct?

I know that soccer is a type of religion up there in Europe - so if you think this message might make enemies, then rather remove it.

yeah we won But it was horrible HORRIBLE to watch. Each individual in our team earns a couple of million euro's a year (at least, some over 10 million) and they were simply UNABLE to kick the ball to a team mate. As if there were 11 Frans Bouma's playing for us (I have absolutely no talent for soccer ). The swedes weren't better, but they also aren't as highly payed...

When the penalty shoot out started I really believed we would fail. We did that 3 times in a row already in previous tournaments. So overall we were very lucky yesterday, it was horrible to watch, but very exciting at the same time

My personal favorite is Portugal though (next to Holland of course ) and we have to play against them next on wednesday. Would have been a great final...

You guys seem to be the ultimate on/off team. You either play brilliantly or terribly, there is no in between, e.g. Scotland 1 - Holland 0 followed by Holland 6 - Scotland 1

Holland v Czech Replublic

now that will be a final worth seeing, if it's anywhere near as good a match as the last game.

p.s. it's monday now