Threadjacking!

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

Ye wouldn't think there was a world cup on the way would ye?

Where's all the usually unavoidable hype?

I was expecting we'd a least get a panel show about the 1966 World Cup. Presented by John Bishop, with Jason Manford and Ian Wright as team  captains. It's like ye don't even care.

Come on England

[COMMANDO FORCES]

It's probably all on the radio. Talk Sport is full of it and Radio 5 Live is getting into its stride. I'm not looking forward to the coming weeks

[Frank]

The arrival of the World Cup wall chart with your Saturday paper used to be the first sign of the competition's imminence, but I suppose that's all online nowadays. My local Co-op's got those cheapo, not-Panini stickers on sale by the cash till, but thinking that kids will want to pay a pound for a sticker to paste in a book just seems like another of the ways in which those in charge of the Co-operative Society seem to be living in the past, or some kind of altered state of consciousness.

The usual chatter in the run up to any tournament is which of England's show ponies has pulled a tendon and will have to be metaphorically shot, but Roy Hodgson's cunningly negated that by picking a bunch of teenagers with ligaments so fresh, flexible and resilient you could use them as trampoline springs. These indestructible and inexhaustible adolescents enjoy the added advantage that nobody really knows who they are, so if one of them did fall off their scooter and have to pull out, the news wouldn't be all over the front pages of the tabloids anyway.

Also, everyone appears to have finally accepted that England have very little chance of winning the tournament.

[Daveycandlish]

And that post there is why we need a like button!

[Frank]

That post will be seen as a result of sour grapes, even though no-one in Scotland has ever even seen a grape.

[Link Prime]

It's like ye don't even care.

Come on England

I think they're trying reverse psychology this time.
A bold, dangerous move.

Now leave me alone to enjoy this bottle of vintage 2012 Sour Grape Grenache.

[Spikes]

Come on England

Oh, don't get me started on that shower...  Bah!



Not keen on grapes, I'm more a Northern bitter type, 

[M.I.K.]

That post will be seen as a result of sour grapes, even though no-one in Scotland has ever even seen a grape.

S'true. I grew up believing them to be somehow medicinal, only ever having witnessed them being consumed within hospitals. This, in turn, led me to believe Crackerjack's Stu Francis was likely intent on the total annihilation of the NHS and probably secretly a Nazi or something like them UKIPs nowadays. The git.

[Trout]

If you want to post about sport, we should have a special section for it. Then the small number of board members who are interested can fill up the board with specialised threads, many of them spoofing other threads, while the rest of us search in vain for threads about comics before giving up and going back to Facebook.

[Professor Bear]

I agree, this forum is hardly the place to discuss a niche interest.

[JamesC]

If you want to post about sport, we should have a special section for it. Then the small number of board members who are interested can fill up the board with specialised threads, many of them spoofing other threads, while the rest of us search in vain for threads about comics before giving up and going back to Facebook.

The threads about comics are in the 'Books and Comics' section.

[The Doctor Alt 8]

Tired of Dealing With Potholes in Pennsylvania, Citizens Make the Most of Them

[Trout]

I agree, this forum is hardly the place to discuss a niche interest.

Correct. I also hope to find widespread discussion of 2000AD at derbycounty.com.

[M.I.K.]

I agree, this forum is hardly the place to discuss a niche interest.

Correct. I also hope to find widespread discussion of 2000AD at derbycounty.com.

Can't help you there, but will these discussions on biscuits and cheese do?

[I, Cosh]

I agree, this forum is hardly the place to discuss a niche interest.

Correct. I also hope to find widespread discussion of 2000AD at derbycounty.com.

Can't help youthere, but here's a threadfrom mildly popular indie music website drownedinsound which correctly identifies Midnight Surfer as best ever Dredd story in the first post.