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Stupid Merkel is stupidly happy.
This is just wrong.
The commentator says, “This must be disappointing from the Argentinean point of view.”
Who else’s point of view is there? The whole world is rooting for Argentina!
I’m the most considerate wife in the universe. My husband fell asleep during the World Cup final, so I now yell in my head and jump up very quietly. Which isn’t easy for a person of my natural graces.
I will never forgive my handyman for calling right when Argentina scored. Maybe it’s just as well if it was an offside anyway.
Germans are definitely the champions in falling down beautifully and wriggling in pain convincingly.
The speed of the Germans is about twice the speed of Argentineans. And that’s not good.
Argentineans play well but they could definitely get more awake.
A character in Rafael Chirbes’s novel Crematorio says:
The worst was discovering that democracy puts an end to politics. That was the worst. To spend 20, 30 years under Franco, demanding democracy, only to discover that when democracy arrived, its first message to you was that it had no use for you because democracy is the best way of destroying politics.
Chirbes is one of the best writers currently writing in Spain.
So who’s with me in rooting for Argentina in the World Cup finals today? Argentina is the world’s only chance to show the Germans that they don’t own the universe. Plus, if there are both Germans and Argentinians living in your area, you know that Germans celebrate by getting sulkily and moodily drunk and trashing the neighborhood. Argentinians, in the meanwhile, celebrate by filling the neighborhood with the delicious smell of parrilladas.
It’s a no- brainer, folks. When was the last time Germans did anything for you? OK, there is the sausage. And I vaguely suspect my car must be German. And, in all fairness, they did come up with the word Bildungsroman. But that’s it!
Argentineans, in the meanwhile, have the best meat, the best movies, the best music, and the best version of Spanish anybody has been able to come up with.
Argentina totally deserves to win also because times have been tough and people need cheering up. And it isn’t like anything can cheer up a German anyway.
And if I haven’t been able to convince you by now, you must be German. In which case, with all due respect, I hope you lose.
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