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This is the blog of Katie Penny. Attorney and rabid television fan.

I only watch four shows, but I am really passionate about them. (Update: Some of those shows got cancelled. So now I watch other shows. Look, I do other stuff too.)

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11th June 2010

jamsque: katiepenny (I) wrote: LOTS OF BLASPHEMY More coherent and humorous response than other (mean) reblogs I have inadvertently attracted thus far.  I appear to have poked a sleeping (rousing? violently aggressive during mating season?) bear by even bringing this up, and I am heartily sorry, let me tell you.  I suppose the fact that the US plays England tomorrow may have something to do with it, maybe?  My blog was, I think, about 70% joking, and 30% an honest attempt to explain why I, an American girl, for some inexplicable reason (I really like “gridiron” and baseball and, particularly, swimming and tennis) am not terribly interested in “football” (under protest, I will call it “football.”  I must say that I feel we have as much a right to call it something else as someone who speaks Croatian has a right to have a different word for it.  The word for “football” in Croatia is not “football,” and that does not seem to inspire the allegations of ignorance that Americans calling ”football” “soccer” seems to, as if by simply calling it something else, we have proudly displayed our crude and aggressive lack of sophistication.  But after the angry beatings I have taken today for exemplifying American stupidity and callowness, I will relent.  I don’t have any more fight in me, jamsque.)  However, my “70% joking” was evidently taken by my illustrious readers in England (all 2 of you) as 70 more% stupid Americans.  Look, it doesn’t make sense that Americans don’t like football.  There is no particularly good reason for it.  There are a lot of really stupid reasons people have come up with, trying to explain a phenomena that has no good explanation.  (And seriously, I was KIDDING DEAR GOD about the “skinny” comment.  Have you seen David Beckham?  I’m just a girl, jamsque.  I’m no more immune than the rest of the world.)  I find the fact that Americans have not traditionally paid much attention to football rather amusing, since there’s no particular reason for it.  It’s like, about 15 years ago, everyone in the States kind of realized that everyone else in the world was nuts about this game that we barely knew existed.  Whoops!  We’re still catching up.  It’s barely on TV here.  I cannot IMAGINE the frustration of MLS (Major Leage What I do to a barmaid when she brings me the wrong kind of beer?) trying to drag the American public into the same UNIVERSE as the rest of the world.  A lot of people here seem pretty psyched about the match (I keep typing “game.”  Boy, THAT would be embarassing, huh?) tomorrow, though, more than I’ve ever seen about SOCCER here, so maybe I’ll tune in.  For the last 15 minutes.  And if it ends in a tie, I’m going to be pissed, and blame you.

jamsque:

katiepenny (I) wrote:

LOTS OF BLASPHEMY

More coherent and humorous response than other (mean) reblogs I have inadvertently attracted thus far.

 I appear to have poked a sleeping (rousing? violently aggressive during mating season?) bear by even bringing this up, and I am heartily sorry, let me tell you.  I suppose the fact that the US plays England tomorrow may have something to do with it, maybe?  My blog was, I think, about 70% joking, and 30% an honest attempt to explain why I, an American girl, for some inexplicable reason (I really like “gridiron” and baseball and, particularly, swimming and tennis) am not terribly interested in “football” (under protest, I will call it “football.”  I must say that I feel we have as much a right to call it something else as someone who speaks Croatian has a right to have a different word for it.  The word for “football” in Croatia is not “football,” and that does not seem to inspire the allegations of ignorance that Americans calling ”football” “soccer” seems to, as if by simply calling it something else, we have proudly displayed our crude and aggressive lack of sophistication.  But after the angry beatings I have taken today for exemplifying American stupidity and callowness, I will relent.  I don’t have any more fight in me, jamsque.)  However, my “70% joking” was evidently taken by my illustrious readers in England (all 2 of you) as 70 more% stupid Americans.  Look, it doesn’t make sense that Americans don’t like football.  There is no particularly good reason for it.  There are a lot of really stupid reasons people have come up with, trying to explain a phenomena that has no good explanation.  (And seriously, I was KIDDING DEAR GOD about the “skinny” comment.  Have you seen David Beckham?  I’m just a girl, jamsque.  I’m no more immune than the rest of the world.)  I find the fact that Americans have not traditionally paid much attention to football rather amusing, since there’s no particular reason for it.  It’s like, about 15 years ago, everyone in the States kind of realized that everyone else in the world was nuts about this game that we barely knew existed.  Whoops!  We’re still catching up.  It’s barely on TV here.  I cannot IMAGINE the frustration of MLS (Major Leage What I do to a barmaid when she brings me the wrong kind of beer?) trying to drag the American public into the same UNIVERSE as the rest of the world.  A lot of people here seem pretty psyched about the match (I keep typing “game.”  Boy, THAT would be embarassing, huh?) tomorrow, though, more than I’ve ever seen about SOCCER here, so maybe I’ll tune in.  For the last 15 minutes.  And if it ends in a tie, I’m going to be pissed, and blame you.

Source: katiepenny

  1. katiepenny reblogged this from jamsque and added:
    Go team America! To be perfectly honest, jams, I’m not sure my eyes have ever made it
  2. jamsque reblogged this from katiepenny and added:
    mention perhaps the most important thing:...am supporting the USA tonight,
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