Now that there are only 3 mins left, I can actually agree without jinxing it. Karma's a bitch.

ZDF already calling it das Wunder von Belo.

Touché.

Crazy stuff.

5!!!! Rooting for Germany here, but I feel for the Brazilian fans. I started out cheering for Switzerland, so I know how it feels when your team takes 5 goals in the teeth.

Holy crap, what just happened???

The Russians changed from a spring-fall to a fall-spring model a couple seasons ago, and now actually take a break from December to mid-March. That's probably the closest league I can think of in terms of weather. No suggestions, just my 2 cents on mid-winter (or all winter) season breaks.

And buying a meal outside the lounge isn't that expensive! Four of us had a sit down meal at one of the traditional- ish restaurants and 4 hot meals + 8 beers came to less than 80€.

I have no idea what the ref was doing, but he clearly wasn't in control of anything. The game had some vicious fouls and, so far, the WC has racked up at least 3 fractures resulting from nasty fouls that I can think of. I wonder whether they shouldn't implement something like a high stick rule in hockey. There's…

Really nicely written! My little anecdote: I live in Switzerland with my German husband, and you're pretty spot on. We can see it in things as simple as putting out flags during football tournaments and on national days. Everyone here hangs out their flags. Swiss, Chilean, Italian, Brazilian, Spanish, Portuguese,…

It's kinda lightly gamey, like guinea fowl, but with darker meat, like duck. I think they're wood pigeons though, and not the regular old bluey-grey urban ones. But I really have no idea. If it's tastily prepared and doesn't harbour diseases, I'll give pretty much anything a go, even city pigeons.

RBF v RPF: misogyny?

Yep.

I knooooooow!!!! Maybe the squint's because he's lost his specs?

Considering it seems to be his default expression I'm going to go with chronic Resting Bitch Face.

Not usually, no!

Feghouli agrees

I just watched it yesterday and loved it! Tilda and Hiddles are just perfectly cast. Awesome, awesome film.

It's a shame that some people always feel the urge to ruin it for others. It was a Saturday afternoon friendly, so there were a lot of families, and then you get a few assholes singing dumb chants (you'll never get the Falklands back, har har), destroying things and generally being total dicks. I would not have…

Dunno. I've been to an Argentina v England game, and the English fans were pretty much behaving like what you've just described. I think you'll always find a contingent of assholes, unfortunately.