{"id":574,"date":"2006-06-14T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/?p=574"},"modified":"2006-06-14T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T14:16:00","slug":"i-hate-fupball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/2006\/06\/14\/i-hate-fupball\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hate Fupball!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ravenfamily.org\/sam\/avatars\/tgtv.jpg\" alt=\"How can anyone justify paying someone so much for punting a ball around a field?\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" \/>While I appreciate that the desperate urges of the vast seething biomass to keep up with the world&#8217;s most important event of the decade &mdash; the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/world_cup_2006\/default.stm\">World Cup<\/a> &mdash; has meant an overload on the company servers; and that the various IT monkeys have a system to maintain; and that people with business needs might well be narked if they can&#8217;t get onto the internet because of all the football-obsessives trying to keep up with every twitch of every blade of grass on every pitch: is it really necessary to block every single vaguely sports-related site?<\/p>\n<p>I just wanted to look at a Mavic Ellipse lockring. Just out of interest. AlexB supplied <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscycles.com\/trpart.htm#lockring\">the link<\/a>. But I can&#8217;t go there because it&#8217;s blocked as part of my employer&#8217;s response to World Cup fever.<\/p>\n<p>Another good reason to hate fupball. 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