I predict that neither the US nor England will win, and that something which happens will be blamed on climate change.
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I predict Australia won’t make the round of 16. I know. Not much of a prediction. Brazil, Netherlands and Chile will be using us for target practice. And many will complain of the unprecedented heat and humidity caused by climate change……………..in the tropics.
Actually I think that it will be Spain and not Brazil that will be using Australia as target practice. I would be happy for Brazil to use Australia as target practice because that will mean we would have got out of the group stages …
I agree with all 3 – the last is a certainty.
Also agree with Andy Oz but that might be bias on my part being Oz myself.
and Toronto won’t win the Stanley Cup….we have to wait for the next ice age when hell freezes over.
Our hockey season in DC was over 2 months ago!
Perhaps.
Dare I ask what sort of emissions they are expecting from “officials and fans”? A the emissions from players different some how?
Maybe if they just leave the beans out of the feijoada …
Also, how different are the emissions from the human flesh devouring cannibals among the players …
England will likely be worse than we thought and defeat will be blamed on the wrong kind of grass.
So who do you think WILL win? You follow this closer than most of us, and some of us are inquiring minds.
Probably Spain, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Italy or Mexico. I think I have my bases covered.
Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo says Brazil, Argentina, Spain and Germany are the favourites to win the World Cup.
Germany Argentina again?
Mexico? Really? I would like to see them win, but I am hesitant to put any faith in them.
Ok, you got your bases covered! At least I know who you see as the stronger teams. 😉
Shots will fly with increased kinetic velocity swerving like beach balls as they move more freely through a dangerously thinner atmosphere susceptible to suffering reduced levels of moisture and atmospheric drag, caused by dangerous, accelerating and irreversible pseudo-scientific pretend evaporation due to man made global warming. Or something like that.
Surprise package: Portugal. 3rd ranked team, used to the weather, Ronaldo!
http://youtu.be/hamKl-su8PE
What is a World Cup?
+1
I am glad I am not the only one who doesn’t follow sports.
You’re a girl!
(that is going to cause me all sorts of problems, but I could not resist). 😉
The USA women’s football team is better than the men’s.
The USA does not have female football teams. They do have female SOCCER teams. And every time they play the men, they lose. So your statement is false on both counts.
The Federation International de Football Association is the governing body for world football. Please give the results of USA women vs. USA men in international football tournaments. The American women won the FIFA World Cup in 1991, 3rd. in 1995, won in 1999, 3rd. in 2003 and 2007, and 2nd. in 2011.
You are talking soccer. When in Rome….
Football in America is not a female sport. Try again, and this time educate yourself before crossing the pond.
We are talking about the FIFA World Cup. Here is the lead message :-
“I predict that neither the US nor England will win, and that something which happens will be blamed on climate change.”
Crossing the pond to Brazil. Ask the Brazilians what they call it.
We are not talking about that game where the players carry the ball with their hands.
The THREAD was. However the subject changed. If you cannot keep up, keep quiet.
No, the subject hasn’t changed. People are still talking about Brazil. Even you spoke (wrongly) about the US women’s team. I’m sorry that you still have a reading difficulty.
I am sure someone is still talking about the 2k election, but not in the thread we are in. The subject was changed. If you can’t keep up, shut up.
We were talking about the World Cup foo9tball in Brazil, and we are still talking about the World Cup football in Brazil. You have even offered to tell me what England did. Please tell me how many messages in the thread are about American football.
When in rome. Football in the USA is about 22 men on a gridiron in pads – NOT 22 men on a “field” with shin guards.
It is Soccer here. We do not make you go up in an Elevator. Don’t tell us that we have to use a lift.
So football in one country in the world is a game where you use your hands, and in all the other countries it isn’t. Got it.
I doubt you “got it”, but that is essentially true. Should you ever come to this country, and you want to see Soccer, you better not ask for football. You will be disappointed.
BTW: Goalies use their hands, so hands are used in all countries that play their brand of football.
Hands are used by 9% of the players, as opposed to 100%.
Non Sequitur (and place kickers do not use hands). The issue was using hands in football. I showed you where both versions do.
I can’t stand watching even a horse show. (Mule and donkey is another story, they are hilarious.) A spectator I am not, I rather participate. It is one of the reasons I have not watched the boob tube since 1974.
I love baseball – to play! But I can not watch it either (except the playoffs).
And yes, I do believe you played football – you are not one to stand on the sidelines.
The women’s teams are better because we were restricted to football (soccer) and softball as the only team sports we could play so that is where all the talent went and where the most development in sports happened. In the US basketball and US style football (not soccer) suck-up all the talented players with baseball getting the rest.
My sister had to play on the Boys JV Soccer team because they had no girls team.
But to your point, you are probably right. American Soccer does not get the talent because it does not pay as well as football or Basketball.
You are a better person. I can’t stand the mule & donkey shows, regardless how hilarious they get. But living here means I get the shows and the rehearsals. Hillary speaks in Broomfield on Monday.
I did not tally it but metric football may come in first. Rugby, footy and Gail’s aggressiveness will also register.
Funny thing, you can only argue about it by responding to Phil calling Gail a girl.
That is indeed the mentioned thread, where Phil suggested that we should not call it football; and that the women are worse than the men, because they lose when they play against the men. I still don’t know when they do that.
RIF Dick. – AMERICAN (or USA) Football. I do not care what you call it in England.
Get a first grade primer.
You mean that you don’t care what the international governing body calls it, or what the rest of the world calls it.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do. When in America, you go by THEIR terms. Again, you do not get a rise out of a lift in America. You get it from an ELEVATOR. Since you said “USA women’s football”, I corrected you. In America, there are no WOMEN’S FOOTBALL teams. There is an excellent Soccer team however.
Since you have not even learned English yet, it brings into question your claims of any other language as well.
I’m not in America, or have you forgotten already ? The USA women’s football team plays all over the world.
You are TALKING about an AMERICAN team. Use the correct term, or remain ignorant. I did not say you were “in America” (you actually are since this server is in America as is the host of this blog).
Go post on an Italian web site in English and then call the other posters stupid for not doing the same.
You must not use your brain very much,
So you didn’t say I was in America, but now you are saying that I am ? I’m sorry that you are so mentally confused. Do you mean that because (by your definition) people who post to Real Science are ‘in America’ that they should use American terminology ? That doesn’t sound really scientific to me.
No Dick, I already quoted what you said. You said “USA Women’s Football”. As I correctly pointed out, there are NO USA Women’s football teams. There are some damn good USA Women’s Soccer teams. I am sure you have a Woman’s football team. But the USA does not.
Your inability to understand your native tongue would be an embarrassment to most. But I do not think you have the capacity to grasp your handicap.
They also compete under the Federation Internationale de Football Association.
Which again is NOT an American institution. You said “USA”. In the “USA”, the “football” teams (pros anyway) are governed by the National FOOTBALL League (NFL for short). Last I checked, they did not tell you how to kick a ball, or rule on the Hand of God. At least they are smart enough not to try to remake the world in their own warped image.
The USA team are subject to the rules of association football, same as everybody else.
Non sequitur. You keep introducing straw men as you lost the debate. No one talked about rules until you just did. It is not the subject of the debate.
There is no debate. This is further evidence that the sport is recognised by 209 national associations around the world as association football.
Non sequitur again. We are not talking about 209 countries, just one. And you are right, there is no debate. You have no clue how to debate.
Yes, you are right. We are talking about the Federation International de Football Association World Cup taking place in Brazil.
No, you are still wrong. We are talking about A USA Football team. And the fact they are all male in the USA where we are talking about them.
Stop with the lies and misdirections.
I’m not talking in the USA, so you are wrong to say ‘we’re talking in the USA’. Where this website is hosted is totally irrelevant. Many British company websites use American hosting companies because they are cheaper or free of charge, for example. I’m talking in the UK about :-
(a) the FIFA World Cup in Brazil (remember you said you would like to see Mexico win ?), and
(b) the USA Women’s football team (which also plays under the jurisdiction of FIFA) and their performances in the Women’s FIFA World Cup.
Both the USA men’s and women’s football teams operate under the jurisdiction of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football, which reports directly to FIFA.
If you want to talk about something else called football by some other people, then don’t talk about the USA women’s team competing against the men, and losing every time (for which you haven’t yet given any examples, by the way).
Stop lying Dick:
We are indeed talking about AMERICAN FOOTBALL. As everyone can see from the date, it is now 2 weeks old. But that does not change the SOURCE of your ignorance.
So stop lying. Do you have the memory of a goldfish? Or just hoping everyone else does?
Spot on. I don’t care what any international governing bodies call things and it serves me well.
Bingo! I frequently entertain my neighbors by acting and speaking the way it’s done somewhere else in the rest of the world but one can only take weird so far.
“Soccer” will do much of the time and even funny-speaking foreigners know this old English word. In the rare instances of confusion I switch to “metric football” or “fútbol” with a Spanish diction. Everyone I know will smile and raise a pint to that.
I prefer the German – Fussball. (pronounced like the table top game – foos)
The raw data shows much higher numbers. Never heard of “Hand of God”?
Yes indeed. His goal before that one was a cracker though !
Even us ignorant Americans have heard of that one. Must be why Dick hates hands. 😉
When I was 15 a girl told me she hated my hands.
They just told me they hated me. 😉
England and the USA will have trouble getting out of the Group stages. For the benefit of Gamecock, a World Cup is something that the USA had the honour of hosting in 1994, and nobody over there noticed.
Heck they do not even televise it here in the states. (At least not back when I watched TV decades ago.)
I used to play goalie in high school because I was the only girl aggressive enough to stop the ball.
Gail – you aggressive – I do not believe a word of it.
I do!
World Cup. Is that where everyone blows a plastic horn, creating a horrid drone?
That was Rugby. Actually more fun to watch and play. 😉
World Cup football 2010 South Africa – vuvuzelas. Very difficult to play.
You are right. I mixed up the Morgan Freeman movie.
And is that the vuvuzelas or Football that is more difficult to play?
Vuvuzelas are difficult to play – at least the commentators in South Africa found them so.
Truthseeker, I am/was very shy but not when it comes to physical sports.
After dealing with a crazy off the track thoroughbred who tried to kill me every day an ittty bitty ball was nothing. Also it was nice clean grass I was ploughing my face into unlike what is sometimes found in the horse arena dirt with which I developed an intimate acquaintance.
Actually we DID. next time I will speak for England and tell you what you did.
Good, I shall look forward to it.
I predict someone will dive and the ref will call it on the opposite team EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
The World Cup is simply the Oscars for diving. It’s where the best actors come out to show their embellishment skills and outright faking. They put porn stars to shame… and not in a good way.
Back when I was a kid, we played by some very simple rules: Are you awake? Can you still crawl off the field? You were not fouled. Play on.
Are you SURE you weren’t playing Rugby? My husband has a classmate who still plays rugby at age 71. By mistake they managed to match his team of old codgers with a young team. The young guys were so taken aback the old codgers manage to trounce them in the early part of the game.
Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill.”
At least until the young wake-up.
Rugby was the only sport I would voluntarily watch in college.
“Rugby was the only sport I would voluntarily watch in college.”
All of New Zealand and half of Australia understands. When I was at Uni NSW, one thing I noticed about girls and sport was that all the hot ones went to the rugby, almost none went to the league, soccer or AFL. Rugby was amateur and the rest were professional, but it was doctors, lawyers and engineers playing rugby and plumbers, sparkies and brickies playing league. Might be a reason.
Girls know to follow the money 🙂
DARN STRAIGHT!
Now why did I marry not one but 2 Physicists…. (A divorce between for the wiseA
sssscres.)Fusion, Fission, Fusion.
Ah! You spoil all the fun! 😆
ROTFLMAO {:>D
Darn funny!
“Fusion Fission Fusion”. – That is GOLD! LMAO.
Gotta be a T shirt in that somewhere. Maybe something like:
“Physicists don’t get divorced, they just go critical!”
Andy Oz says:
“Fusion Fission Fusion”….
“Physicists don’t get divorced, they just go critical!”
ROTFLMAO. It is almost worth having that made up and sending to my EX.
Darn! Funnier!
My (current) husband wants to make it up and send it to my EX now that I read that to him…
Be careful about critical mass of husbands …
Actually it might be freezing in Brazil especially i Southern Brazil by July. At the rate Antarctica is expanding the colder air is starting reaching us.
Look for all the supporters freezing in T shirts, shorts and flip flops 🙂
Brazil isn’t the only place that is cold.
MetService reports that temperatures at Auckland Airport were the lowest for May since 1976 with a frosty start of 0.9 degrees.
There are also snowfall warnings in place for Arthurs, Lindis and Porters Passes in the South Island.
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/coldest-may-morning-in-auckland-almost-40-years-5983750
The high temperatures in De Bilt reached only 12 degrees on Thursday, making it the coldest May 29th ever recorded since measurements began in 1901
http://www.telegraaf.nl/teleweer/22680775/__Koudste_29_mei_ooit_gemeten__.html
(via IceAgeNow)