I Love The 80's

[ajoknoblauch]

Ah yes those pesky soccer fan taxi drivers. Have you tried one of your killer one-liners on them, like "Peronists are the Republicans of the south"? I'm sure that will reduce them to an instant cower.

I only tell them how boring soccer is when actually they ask me about it. They are rarely surprised.

 

[Matiasba]

I only tell them how boring soccer is when actually they ask me about it. They are rarely surprised.

it is a surprise indeed. Consider soccer the king of sports, the most popular sport worldwide. By far. Thousands of millions, and this number is growing since is conquering Asia...

 

[Gringoboy]

I only tell them how boring soccer is when actually they ask me about it. They are rarely surprised.

Ajoknob, you must be a barrel of laughs at a party!

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Ajoknob, you must be a barrel of laughs at a party!

I would never bring up the topic on my own, simply because it's so hopelessly soporific.

 

[internationalguy]

I would never bring up the topic on my own, simply because it's so hopelessly soporific.

Have you ever tried going to a Monday Night football party in the US and told all the people there that the game they love is primitive, violen, and only apt for dumb people (not my words, your words)?

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Have you ever tried going to a Monday Night football party in the US and told all the people there that the game they love is primitive, violen, and only apt for dumb people (not my words, your words)?

I've never used those words to describe either, but US football is no less boring than soccer. Fortunately, I'm almost always out of the country at that time and, when I'm not, there's usually still baseball left. At least we can agree on the Flatlanders and Robert Earl Keen.

 

[sleslie23]

This French hit from the 80's is often heard here (like 80% of the times it's a French song... odd)

https://www.youtube....h?v=6PDmZnG8KsM

I heard this one a lot as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgHGU8gqz9U

 

[ajoknoblauch]

If we're going to listen to the French, I might prefer

http://s3.amazonaws.com/bo-assets/production/tiny_mce_photos/18570/original/garcons.JPG

 

[HeyHeyJose]

I love asking about fútbol and politics! There is so much to learn about the topics themselves, and they way people construct their arguments in favor for one or the other -fútbol or a political party. It is priceless to learn about their first hand experiences through the different governments and parties, and how those policies have affected them beyond the eye catching headlines we read in the US of good/bad or friend/foe.

The driver from the airport during the 1-hour ride to my place told me his entire working life for 35 years first with the military rule, the first democratic government, the Menem years when he was laid off, the swings of the peso, and the last decade.

It was such an informative, illustrative and entertaining story about his life through fútbol and politics. Even if you are not that fluent in Spanish, I'd say ask and be willing to listen as they love to talk down here.

 

[Gringoboy]

If we're going to listen to the French, I might prefer

http://s3.amazonaws....nal/garcons.JPG

That's a little hi-brow for my taste.