# Hey, Red Furry! STFU about Spain and that silly ass game, OK? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 11, 2010, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-red-furry-stfu-about-spain-and-that-silly-ass-game-ok/546332 "2010-07-11T21:48:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-red-furry-stfu-about-spain-and-that-silly-ass-game-ok/546332/21 "2010-07-12T15:40:14Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > Not a huge sports fan, I’ve worked in a diverse group for years & enjoy watching the Cup. Now I know what my Spanish co-worker’s kids will get for [Christmas](http://www.amazon.com/Vuvuzela-South-African-Plastic-Collapsible/dp/B0031DGU2K/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=sporting-goods&qid=1278947820&sr=8-2)! What are you getting for the kids whose parents you don’t hate? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-red-furry-stfu-about-spain-and-that-silly-ass-game-ok/546332/22 "2010-07-12T15:43:51Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > I believe that **elucidator** is being witty! RedFury was definitely behind his team. But he hasn’t posted in the World Cup thread since before the Final. I’m hoping he enjoyed watching his side win as part of a big crowd! No doubt nursing the great-great-grandfather of all hangovers. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-red-furry-stfu-about-spain-and-that-silly-ass-game-ok/546332/23 "2010-07-12T16:04:48Z")
Can we still talk about the octopus? The octopus is cool! I want a psychic octopus\* of my very own. \*Band name! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-red-furry-stfu-about-spain-and-that-silly-ass-game-ok/546332/24 "2010-07-12T19:30:23Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Which sports mean something? Because I can’t think of any. :smack: Uhhh, yeah; that’s where the wheels fall off for me, too, now that you mention it. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-red-furry-stfu-about-spain-and-that-silly-ass-game-ok/546332/25 "2010-07-12T20:05:00Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Which sports mean something? Because I can’t think of any. Well, Didier Drogba is credited with single-handedly ending the Ivorian civil war, so apparently soccer means something. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-red-furry-stfu-about-spain-and-that-silly-ass-game-ok/546332/26 "2010-07-12T20:35:56Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Don’t even start! Think of this as a preemptive effort to prevent your being crushed under an avalanche of disdain and contempt. Clearly, if the “sport” were worth playing, America would have won, we didn’t, so that’s that. > > See the monitor? Good! See the keyboard? Unplug it. Turn off the computer, disassemble and remove various key parts to disparate locations. This is for your own good. Better you should get drunk and goad a bull. > > But we just don’t want to hear about it, OK? Love ya too dipshit! ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-red-furry-stfu-about-spain-and-that-silly-ass-game-ok/546332/27 "2010-07-12T20:56:51Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > I believe that **elucidator** is being witty! RedFury was definitely behind his team. But he hasn’t posted in the World Cup thread since before the Final. I’m hoping he enjoyed watching his side win as part of a big crowd!.. Meh! **'luc** knows better than to try to get a rise out of moi. Besides, he reads any of my posts, my title ought to get him fuming over and over. And yep, thanks, [I did](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/OwnRules/RedFury/Photo0023.jpg?t=1278967585) \<—that was about an hour b4 kickoff. SRO by the time match started. And [my son](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/OwnRules/RedFury/BillyParty.jpg?t=1278968037) went [nuts as well](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/OwnRules/RedFury/BillyParty2.jpg?t=1278967957). ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-red-furry-stfu-about-spain-and-that-silly-ass-game-ok/546332/28 "2010-07-12T23:12:57Z")
Well, I tried. Texans are widely admired for our modesty and humility, so I thought to offer some avuncular advice and guidance. To no avail, it seems. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-red-furry-stfu-about-spain-and-that-silly-ass-game-ok/546332/29 "2010-07-12T23:31:47Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Well, I tried. Texans are widely admired for our modesty and humility, so I thought to offer some avuncular advice and guidance. To no avail, it seems. How wide? About the size of, say, Texas? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-red-furry-stfu-about-spain-and-that-silly-ass-game-ok/546332/30 "2010-07-12T23:58:37Z")
Of course, the term “universally” leaps to mind, but one hesitates at the brink of a superlative. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-red-furry-stfu-about-spain-and-that-silly-ass-game-ok/546332/31 "2010-07-13T00:18:21Z")
In the case of Texans, the hesitation arises out of the difficulty of spelling them, I imagine. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-red-furry-stfu-about-spain-and-that-silly-ass-game-ok/546332/32 "2010-07-13T08:42:06Z")
Americans, why do you hate The Rest Of The World? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-red-furry-stfu-about-spain-and-that-silly-ass-game-ok/546332/33 "2010-07-13T11:45:25Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > Americans, why do you hate The Rest Of The World? It’s full of communist furries, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![kim\_jung\_il](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@kim\_jung\_il](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kim_jung_il)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-red-furry-stfu-about-spain-and-that-silly-ass-game-ok/546332/34 "2010-07-13T15:37:50Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Clearly, if the “sport” were worth playing, America would have won, we didn’t, so that’s that. America are shit. The sport is the most popular game in the world. American football is a game that is just a more shit version of rugby, with girlie pads in case you get hurt. Ice hockey is Canadian. Baseball started off as a playground game called rounders, which you eventually grow out of playing. Basketball is slightly more boring than watching cricket, which is only slightly better than someone digging their nails into your eyeballs. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-red-furry-stfu-about-spain-and-that-silly-ass-game-ok/546332/35 "2010-07-13T16:00:20Z")
> [@kim\_jung\_il](#): > > America are shit. > The sport is the most popular game in the world. > > American football is a game that is just a more shit version of rugby, with girlie pads > in case you get hurt. > > Ice hockey is Canadian. > > Baseball started off as a playground game called rounders, which you eventually grow out of playing. > > Basketball is slightly more boring than watching cricket, which is only slightly better than someone digging their nails into your eyeballs. Chill, dude. The OP was just joshing w/me. No need to make this The Mother Of All Dumb Battles. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-red-furry-stfu-about-spain-and-that-silly-ass-game-ok/546332/36 "2010-07-13T22:21:34Z")
> [@RedFury](#): > > Chill, dude. The OP was just joshing w/me. No need to make this The Mother Of All Dumb Battles. I don’t care! Who’s gonna get me the 20 bucks I lost betting on Holland! ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-red-furry-stfu-about-spain-and-that-silly-ass-game-ok/546332/37 "2010-07-13T22:34:14Z")
> [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > I don’t care! Who’s gonna get me the 20 bucks I lost betting on Holland! Now see? That’s the very meaning of “dumb.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-red-furry-stfu-about-spain-and-that-silly-ass-game-ok/546332/38 "2010-07-14T00:17:32Z")
I’ve got to say, **Red Fury** , I was not expecting your eyes to be able to focus on anything smaller than a windmill for–like–a week. I can only assume that the victory party was limited by somebody setting fire to the bar. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-red-furry-stfu-about-spain-and-that-silly-ass-game-ok/546332/39 "2010-07-14T00:50:14Z")
> [@RedFury](#): > > Now see? That’s the very meaning of “dumb.” 😉 Ese insulto sólo se lo olvidaré con un kilo de jamon pata negra (jugaron bien, carajo, acepto la derrota) _(I’ll only forget that insult with a kilo of ham)_ ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-red-furry-stfu-about-spain-and-that-silly-ass-game-ok/546332/40 "2010-07-14T01:32:05Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > I’ve got to say, **Red Fury** , I was not expecting your eyes to be able to focus on anything smaller than a windmill for–like–a week. I can only assume that the victory party was limited by somebody setting fire to the bar. 🙂 Well yeah. That and getting on in years both had something to do with it. Still, I feel like I’m walking on a cloud. Haven’t felt this happy since I got divorced. > [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > Ese insulto sólo se lo olvidaré con un kilo de jamon pata negra > (jugaron bien, carajo, acepto la derrota) > > _(I’ll only forget that insult with a kilo of ham)_ Joerrrrr macho! Pata Negra no less?! Conformarte con un Ibérico y vas que chutas! Y gracias hermano. (No Pata Negra for Ají de Gallina unless I’m there to share) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-red-furry-stfu-about-spain-and-that-silly-ass-game-ok/546332.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-red-furry-stfu-about-spain-and-that-silly-ass-game-ok/546332.md?page=3)