tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19661405.post59375342103106880..comments2023-10-20T09:13:15.862-04:00Comments on Swedish Meatballs Confidential (pNSFW): Blasphemous BallsM1http://www.blogger.com/profile/05394503964463278951noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19661405.post-21546053168797935492007-09-04T12:14:00.000-04:002007-09-04T12:14:00.000-04:00Hi AnonThe article is from a British rag, ergo its...Hi Anon<BR/><BR/>The article is from a British rag, ergo its usage of the word <I>football</I> which means means <I>soccer ball</I> in our American English. Soccer balls, as far as I know, are made out of cowhide, not pigskin as is the case with many a Yankee football. If all of the above wasn't indeed the case at hand then sure, I'd also be grasping for the more conspiratorial approach to explaining this f*ck up. (Now of course, I'm assuming they dropped soccer balls and not American footballs, American football being a sport completely alien to the various folks of Afghanistan.<BR/><BR/>BTW, ain't there a Paris in Texas? ;)M1https://www.blogger.com/profile/05394503964463278951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19661405.post-59761622124680338622007-09-04T11:02:00.000-04:002007-09-04T11:02:00.000-04:00Rather, who is the genius who thought that droppin...Rather, who is the genius who thought that dropping pigskin playthings onto Muslim populations<BR/>would not give offense? Or perhaps they didn't really want to avoid offense?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19661405.post-68976967268402582252007-09-02T22:25:00.000-04:002007-09-02T22:25:00.000-04:00-BlueberryHopefully a rookie - but you can't be su...-Blueberry<BR/>Hopefully a rookie - but you can't be sure of such things these days.<BR/><BR/>-thebhc<BR/>"Did not realize": this seems to be excuse enough these days. Little wonder conspiracy theories flourish when incompetence seems so ubiquitous in matters of great import. <BR/><BR/>Who can believe so much systemic and systematic retardation isn't actually the work of evil genius. <BR/><BR/>These days it takes a truly convoluted imagination to accept that our brightest are not necessarily our heralded best.M1https://www.blogger.com/profile/05394503964463278951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19661405.post-37880914271567743032007-09-02T17:37:00.000-04:002007-09-02T17:37:00.000-04:00"they did not realise it would cause offence."A sh..."they did not realise it would cause offence."<BR/><BR/>A short, benignly worded summary of US foreign policy.theBhchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14822148672764530941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19661405.post-28383426211577311982007-09-02T11:45:00.000-04:002007-09-02T11:45:00.000-04:00Who is the genius who came up with the idea of put...Who is the genius who came up with the idea of putting the name of Allah on a sports ball? There must be a Faux Pas Hall of Fame somewhere.Blueberryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17357299403457746440noreply@blogger.com