Raider of the lost Ark

LOL. Looks like Infantino finally crossed a line by trying to sell shares of FIFA to investors. Well, it was probably the final nail so speak considering all the corrupt bullshit he pulled before. UEFA has now said they will boycott everything FIFA related. This might be the end of FIFA or the end of Infantino. I can't wait to see everything crashing down.

Sure she could. BUT the sun goes down relatively late in Summer in London. And I suspect she and the audience want a proper light show as part of a pop concert? Isn't this also one of the reasons why she prefers arenas to stadiums because the show can be performed without having to take external conditions into account?

Maybe authorities could grant an exception to extend the curfew to midnight? I suppose this is mostly about noise pollution. It's not like such festival is taking place every weekend. It seems kind of archaic. I still remember the time when the London tube stopped operating at around midnight and the infamous last call at a pub. Well, there were still night busses and cabs. But those were hardly running or in case of cabs very expensive. And this was at a time other big cities were running their underground or trains 24 hours for many many years. At least on weekends. I think London only changed that in 2016?

Yes, he is dead. Unfortunately no event will ever be 100% safe. What happened in Berlin is evidence of this. Ever since the terror attack on one of the Berlin Christmas market 10 years ago and the attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg big events are heavily secured, street closures, bollards, tons of police. The attack yesterday did not happen on the street where the final event was taking place or the demonstration through the city itself. The attack happened inside the park grounds of Tiergarten (which is almost as big as Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens combined) which lies left and right of Strasse des 17. Juni, where Brandenburg Gate and Victory Column are located. At the moment, it is unclear how the perpetrator managed to get inside the park grounds with the van. I hope, you all enjoy World Pride in wonderful Amsterdam. And yes, don't let any of those assholes scare you. The LGBTQ+ community in Berlin will not be intimidated as well.

The perpetrator has been shot allegedly. A second alleged perpetrator is in arrest. This is officially investigated as an islamistic terror attack. One person dead, 29 injured. Current information is all injured are out of life threatening conditions. The city is in shock. People are angry, people are sad, people are furious. Especially now that information is coming in about the dead perpetrator, a German citizen, of lebanese heritrage, a known radicalised islamist, who tried to go to Syria to join ISIS, someone who already comitted crimes (assault and extortion) but was charged under juvenile law to probation and de-radicalization training. Almost 24 hours have passed since the attack. No word from the muslim community and the AfD. The silence is deafening. Although official events have all been cancelled for Sunday, there have been parties around the city. But this is Berlin. This is an act of of defiance, of resistance, an act of freedom.

Here in Germany, I do not hear anything negative about Madonna in particular. It was more about the halftime show as a concept itself. The majority of people deemed in unnecessary. But this was already the situation when it was announced that there will be a halftime show. So, no big deal. Nothing gained, nothing lost.

Yes, it's ridiculous. Some people even say, those videos are propaganda made for US Americans by US Americans. After all those years with videos of Americans in Europe telling US Americans how fucked up living in the US is, they thought it's a good idea to have "french" and "german" people going to Costco and Walmart being stunned how big those shops are and amazed about free refills and those beverage dispensers provided gazillion options. Gazillion options is the point anyway. An aisle with dozens of variations of cereals. Which in the end is basically all the same but a different packaging. It's all the most superficial stuff that is presented here and much of it is ragebait or harvesting views. Especially this German (allgedly) going to a small town in Ohio declaring it the epitome of American living. Even US people were ripping him apart, telling him not even people from the US would want to live there. Again, all very superficial, wheras videos from Europe are usually about the good public transport, food quality and expats clearly mention all the social stuff, affordable healthcare, workers rights etc., things which are far more relevant than free refills and the outstanding service at Waffle House.

At least Infantino pulled him away at some point. Wasn't at some other championship where Trump stayed with the team the whole time and everyone was irritated?

Well, it was curated by Chris Martin. So no surprise here.

LOL. Trump looks so pissed. And of course, he and Infantino got booed. Well deserved!

So happy that thing is over. I hope I will no longer have those pesky "Europeans in America realize they have been lied to" videos in my YT recommendations. Which were mostly US Americans pretending to be french or german with very bad accents. Or some UK content creators doing ragebait.

I suppose this was soemwhat the point anyway. Some people here clearly underestimate the reach those footballers have. I suppose their following exceeds Madonnas by far. For the first time, non-traditional promo seems to work.

Spain won. Well deserved. They dominated the game. The put Argentina in their place, especially some of their players who were really not playing fair (to put it mildly).

Because it was the only part that was somehow related to football and the world cup. The rest? I don't think so.

She can always say, it was for a good cause. And again, the fact that all she had to do today was walking onto the field is hilarious.