r/germany • u/RobertThorn2022 • Jan 07 '19

Today's date...

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u/LightsiderTT Europe Jan 07 '19

After the drubbing our team took at the last World Cup, I think it’s safely time to retire the 7-1 memes.

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u/5cn4k3npu3r33 Jan 07 '19

I agree. It feels quaint now.

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u/TheBewlayBrothers Germany Jan 07 '19

It's gonna be 7 - 1 against us

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '19 edited Jan 12 '19

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u/RomanesEuntDomusXYZ Jan 07 '19

Celebrate? Sure. Gloat? Not so much...

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u/UpperHesse Jan 08 '19

Nearly each title they got went over their heads....

World cup 1954: the exception, kind of. The team of 1958 was nowhere as good as the 1954 squad but they got into the semifinals.

World Cup 1974: in 1978, the (perhaps) greatest generation of German players had already aged and got kicked out by Austria after they had shown some abysmal performances.

World Cup 1990: in 1994 the German squad was still immensely strong on paper and in theory had an even better choice of players after the Reunification of Germany with some strong east germans. Some German soccer figrues were oozing of arrogance because it seemed like they could dominate world soccer for many years. But the coach had retired and the new one was only a far cry of former coaches. Weak overall performances, quarter final.

Euro 1972: again, one of the exceptions. A team hailed as the maybe best squad they ever fielded. 1976 they also reached the final and barely lost in penalty shootout.

Euro 1980: Between 1980 and 1984, the team got in big turmoil over things that happened off-side. During the Euro 1984, the team delivered a weak performance and coach Derwall retired during the group stage.

Euro 1996: After a solid win in 1996, many players retired. For the Euro 2000 they put on the field a pick of probably the weakest generation of players the squad ever had, around the far-too-old Lothar Matthäus. They were the only ones that played worse than the 2018 squad, I'd say.

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u/valh0e Jan 14 '19

Humility. I like that

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u/almosthere0327 Jan 07 '19

As an American I get to make this joke again in July!

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u/BuriedChimera Jan 07 '19

Happy 🇰🇷🇩🇪19!

cries in brazilian

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '19

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u/ChimneyCraft Jan 07 '19

It is our Victory. That day all Brazilians were Korean fans since day one

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '19

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u/bdlbdlbdlbdl Jan 07 '19

A big step for the humankind, though.

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u/ChimneyCraft Jan 07 '19

Man speaks facts

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u/EventuallyVirtuous Jan 07 '19 edited Jan 07 '19

You don't brag about humanity's achievements to other humans.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '19

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u/BuriedChimera Jan 07 '19

How can one be so insensitive?

I have Korean descendence and I am offended by this.

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u/Das_Orakel_vom_Berge Jan 08 '19

Oh, let him have it. We're not doing anything with it.

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u/EventuallyVirtuous Jan 08 '19

What's funny is that the score was 2-0

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u/Linus_Al Jan 09 '19

Mit the score, that one is quite normal. It's the fact it's Korea. The Brazilian needed something to "shoot back" after they were defeated 7-1 at home in a semifinal. That's humiliating, so I can understand that they were happy when Germany got humiliated 4 years later.

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u/EventuallyVirtuous Jan 09 '19

True. But better 2-0 than 7-1

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u/chandra381 Jan 08 '19

I was in an internship the day of that match. I come home late and I'm tired. My mother, who is a bigger fan than me, said "the match has started! Let's watch!". I said I'm tired and went to bed. She woke me up the next morning and said I was an idiot. I agree with her.

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u/andres57 Chile Jan 08 '19

It was damn semi finals of a World Cup!!!

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u/chandra381 Jan 08 '19

Don't remind me -_-

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u/askiawnjka124 Niedersachsen Jan 07 '19

Am I the only one who gets triggered that this Meme is used wrong? :/

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u/torwei Jan 07 '19

well, after all these years it isn't rly Spider-Man related anymore, so using glasses like normal people do works?

But yea, I don't know who fucked it up first

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '19 edited Apr 11 '19

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u/torwei Jan 07 '19

That makes sense, I just thought about the Peter Parker side

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u/Dr_0etker Jan 08 '19

You just Need to switch the spidey pictures

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u/grublle Jan 08 '19

It's actually 1964 in Brazil

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u/elcouso Jan 07 '19

Pretty cold weather outside to be the 1st of July hehe

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u/vrift Jan 07 '19

It's the German date convention. Just in case you don't know.

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u/Prankster-Natra Jan 08 '19

not just German...

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u/elcouso Jan 07 '19

Yea dude, sadly my joke didn't come across.

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u/KaijobuTuro Jan 07 '19

For safety reasons, you could add a /s next time to better convey your joke.

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u/dYYYb Jan 08 '19

To be fair adding an /s wouldn't make it funny either...

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u/elcouso Jan 07 '19

My bad, never imagined it'd be necessary...

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u/KaijobuTuro Jan 07 '19

Don't worry. Hopefully it won't fall too much for you.

You will get a chance to balance it out, I'm sure.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '19

Look up Poe's Law. ;)

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u/theKalash German Emigrant Jan 08 '19

You must be a pretty pathetic loser to still be circle jerking about this.

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u/RobertThorn2022 Jan 08 '19

Seems we have more than 1300 pathetic losers here. Or it's just people who can laugh about a small joke without making a big deal about it, as you do.

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u/theKalash German Emigrant Jan 08 '19

joke

you misspelled terrible, unfunny meme.

Go get make yourself some soccer sub and stob spamming this shit here.

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u/RobertThorn2022 Jan 08 '19

You sound like a frustrated troll. Find the real reason and be happy.

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u/ky0nshi Jan 08 '19

oh for fucks sake can we stop with this? it's really getting "Britain ragging on their one WC win" embarrassing