Looking like a very solid prediction right now!!!

Yeah true enough but I more felt Germany kicked it up a gear fearing the worst.

Solid first half of extra time. Nobody’s playing for penalties anyway. :D

Same

Well deserved.

Beautiful goal. Beautiful. What a cross. Perfect finish.

His positioning is always perfection though. Experience in action.

Top quality football in fairness.

Good first half. Fouling aside (4 yellows was it!?), really glad to see plenty of solid tackling and people just getting on with it.

Really tidy football so far (fouling aside). Germany just slightly tidier but the Spanish marking is incredible.

edit: How long is it since Neuer’s leg break?

The segfault at the end was perfection.

71 seats with only 2 left to declare.

Oh it’s on my to-do list. I’m just an ocean away. Closest I’ve gotten so far is Southern California but I’ll make it!

My wife and I currently have two plans for when we retire:

1. Tour the US by road with a focus on national parks
2. Take a year to tour Italy, find our spot and settle there. Olive tree essential. The kids and grandkids can come visit. We’ve been telling all the kids about this forever so they don’t get upset when it happens.

Texas with fireworks and alcohol definitely part of #1.

Happy independence day!

You make me want to visit Texas. They should sign you up for the tourist board.

the bad eye could see clear underwater he’d say.

Well that’s fuckin’ fascinating! I want an amphibious uncle.

My fear now is that if military leadership falls into the wrong hands

Rome intensifies

Me either! It’s on Netflix and scores well on IMDB.

We’ve had one Poland, yes…

Where it should say Russia.

We got a new TV while in lockdown. For about 4 months I would randomly say “Nice TV though”.

I’m not sure your side of the conversation is being had in good faith at this point.

I can’t speak for the French. You’d have to ask them. I know there have been integration issues there. The very fast swing towards the hard right is one sign to me that integration has failed badly though. We had no such swing to the right in last month’s elections here thankfully though there is a definite increase in the number of vocal hard right lunatics here unfortunately.

I think a fair question is - are some cultures less open to integrating when they move to a new country? Another fair question is - are the people in the country where folks are immigrating to less open to integrating with the new arrivals?

If the answer to either is “yes” then the societal cost of that lack of integration (or ways to mitigate it) has to be looked at lest we end up in a very undesirable situation that we are rapidly moving towards.