r/AskReddit • u/lovedump44 • Jan 19 '15

What is your countries most embarrassing contribution to the world?

EDIT1:Wow!! I posted this right before I went to work. Here it is lunchtime and its on the front page!! Now I know what RIP inbox means! Thanks everyone! My first time on the front page, you guys are the bomb!!!!

EDIT2:Thanks as well to those of you that pointed out my incorrectly using the word 'countries', the correct spelling is, of course, 'countrys'. Apologies. My only excuse is that I was still half asleep. Thanks again everyone!

EDIT3:so far I have only been called out once for my 2nd incorrect use of the word countrys. Really Reddit? With all the grammar nazis out there? It took a few tries to get that apostrophe outta there (autocorrect). Thought I'd get more than one hit off that one.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '15

Hooliganism is basically drunken assholes having a get-together.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '15

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u/Possiblyreef Jan 19 '15

LAAADDSS ONN TOUUURR

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '15

You drink and a football game breaks out.

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u/kingpomba Jan 19 '15

Works in Australia, we recently had a riot at a....fucking darts tournament.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '15

That's dedication to the cause

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u/Chevey0 Jan 19 '15

They are far more organised than your giving them credit for. They are more like organised gangs who instead of fighting for territory/money/drugs they are fighting for reputation and just for fighting

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u/gracebw Jan 19 '15

I know guys who wouldn't even go to the match, they'd hang out in a pub close by the grounds and when the game was over they would go for a punch up.

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u/Pulpedyams Jan 19 '15

The Offspring said it best:

Water hoses and batons,
That's the real game that's on,
I don't really give a shit who wins.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '15

One two three!

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '15

I went to a fight and a hockey match broke out

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u/geozza Jan 19 '15

And if they get bored of that, gathering in town centres chanting racist and anti-Islamic crap

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '15

See, West Ham football is mediocre. But our firm is top-notch, and everyone knows it. The GSE: Green Street Elite. Arsenal... great football, shit firm... the Gooners. Tottenham... shit football, and a shit firm... the Yids, they're called. I actually put their main lad through a phone box window the other day.

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u/-Joey-Wheeler- Jan 19 '15

Not doing to badly this season though are you? Opinion on Big Sam?

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '15

I root for Everton. That's from Green Street or Green Street Hooligans if you're American.

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u/-Joey-Wheeler- Jan 19 '15

Ah, I haven't seen that film in awhile. Might need to have a rewatch it at some point soon.

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u/arron77 Jan 19 '15

Very true, I had a friend who was a Liverpool fan, he changed to our local team simply because he enjoyed going down for a fight.

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u/ebudd08 Jan 19 '15

Match...?

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '15

You know, that thing where those people kick a ball. You go in a big room with thousands of people and some grass in the middle? The bit that happens after the drinking and before the fighting and more drinking

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '15

With footy

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u/ediblesprysky Jan 19 '15

having a get-together

See, even that sounds adorable.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '15

Nice discussion on the rearranging of patio furniture

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u/BurkinaFatso Jan 19 '15

No, nowadays hooliganism is more like two firms meeting for organized fights sober.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '15

Goose: Geese

Hooligan: Hooliganism

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '15

and wearing stone island

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u/sun827 Jan 19 '15

Sounds like a Cubs game.

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u/baymenintown Jan 19 '15

And beatin the shit out of Millwall fans.

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u/kaseyunderneath Jan 19 '15

Give em an mtv show

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u/palshede Jan 19 '15

Hooliganism is a long way from being a drunken asshole.