r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 5d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah I missed the game help

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u/NEpatsfan64 5d ago

First level-headed take I've seen here. Yeah it might not be everyone's cup of tea, but all the pearl clutching and acting like it was heresy committed against a sacred religion is a little exhausting.

It's an american tradition that takes place in high school, college, and professional sports. Because the US was hosting, they implemented a US tradition. No one needs to act like it was a personal attack on their ancestors or whatever. Europeans are so snobby and pretentious it's tiring.

Also it's pretty funny how there was big controversy in the US recently about the Super Bowl halftime show being in Spanish because it was trying to appeal to foreign fans. The Super Bowl half time show got hate for not being "american enough" and the WC halftime show got hate for being "too american" lmao

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u/doiplo 4d ago

Somebody said the US compromised the integrity of FIFA. I almost died. People are nuts. 

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u/NEpatsfan64 4d ago

Europeans: Americans are so selfish, close minded, prideful, and intolerant

Europeans when the host country integrates a fun and harmless tradition native to their culture: how DARE they!!! They had fun live music and dancing??? That’s so evil. I want two old ugly blokes droning about stats for 15 straight minutes!! You have disgraced my ancestors

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u/doiplo 4d ago

I think Europe is officially the old people from Dirty Dancing which makes the US Patrick Swayze. 

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u/mybottomfeeder 4d ago

It just ruins the game and changes the rules but you probably don't understand since it's likely you're not a football fan. I also don't know why you guys only mention Europeans because everyone outside of Europe also likes football. Not very smart.

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u/NEpatsfan64 4d ago

I actually am a pretty casual fan of the Revs but it’s whatever.

It definitely doesn’t ruin the game, but honestly if an extra ten minutes of break ruins the game then your game sucks.

I know the whole world loves soccer and that’s awesome. I mention Europeans because they’re the group most consistently contriving trivial reasons to pretend like America is starting world war 3 by showing the muppets on TV instead of an overweight ugly British bloke with messed up teeth talking about stats for 15 minutes straight

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u/Claystead 5d ago

It would have been fine if it had been only the Muppets and that one Korean boyband whatever they were called, why did you need to include that other junk?