Football

The text reads: "Four long weeks of WORLD CUP FOOTBALL. From the 9th of June."

I'm envisioning some heated debate over this ad. Not over whether or not it's too risque, this being Europe, but I bet anything the women in the office made a case that no vibrator should have dust on it in the first place. Proper storage, people.

The other day, I got this text about calling up Euro updates on the phone. I'm loving that every citizen gets this automatically, LOL:

"Vse o deni na turnaji EURO 2008. Zpravodajstvi ve forme SMS- 2 az 4 zpravy denne. Pro aktivaci poslete ++EURO na 4616. Cena balicku 49 Kc. Vice chytejte.cz"

Using the logic of sentence structure to figure out "To activate send ++EURO to 4616" was also minorly thrilling.

From today's Czech newspapers:

EURO 2008 in Prague streets. Everybody who doesnt like soccer should leave Prague for some time, because you wont be able to avoid seeing it everywhere. Apart from the sports bar, there are going to be large screens installed on Václavské and Staroměstské squares where people can gather and support the Czech team. On Staroměstské square there is also going to be a rich cultural programme, bands like Žlutý pes or Divokej Bill will perform on stage there. The screen installed there is supposedly going to be the largest one in CR (size 7x5 m). It is not going to be used only for matches of Czech team, but for all matches so that tourist can come to watch and support their team as well. Fans watching on Václavské náměstí can take part in various soccer competitions and there is also going to be a soccer-school. Also on Anděl there is going to be a large screen and Prague 5 mayor Milan Jančík hopes that it will help drag young people to sports. (Lidové noviny, p. 6)

And here's a Nike commercial I saw at the screening for Indiana Jones, and thought was pretty cool. It puts you in the position of someone who just got signed to Arsenal. All I know about soccer is that Ronaldinho is in this clip, and that Ronaldo recently got busted with three tranny hookers. What a bad break. Anyway, if I were a player I'd want to be on a team called Arsenal. It has to be the most badass team name ever. Simple, swift and deadly!