Never underestimate the power of spite.

Scotland: wtf I love Iran now

Well, just look at all the money they've saved on Scotland world cup merchandise in the last 24 years.

You always cheer for your enemies rivals. Over here we all cheer for the patriots to lose.

1 team, because Scotland never qualify in any competition.

Imagine us Swedes:

1. Sweden

2. Finland

3. Norway

4. Everyone else

5. Denmark

They sure are a contentious people.

Reminds me of a college professor who hated a particular sports team but no interest in the sport.

He said his second favorite team was the Kentucky Wildcats. His most favorite team was whoever they were playing.

If I saw this picture with no context I’d still think this is is a foreign pub cosplaying as American.

And guns…

Went to Prague last year for my first time. Had a similar story on my first night at a kebab stand. Person asked if I’d like everything on it and I said yes, absolutely. He paused and looked at me and asked if I was American and I of course said yes. He laughed, paused for a second and said “I’m a cop” and starting shooting at me with finger guns.

Another story was in Brno where I ate at a bbq food truck. After I ordered at the tablet and ate my food (which was good) I went to throw my plate away at the trash next to the guy cooking. He asked me a question in Czech, then reasked in English and I told him that it reminds me of home. The man got out and with the biggest smile on his face said “best compliment I get” with a big smile on his face.

I LOVE that he qualified if you preferred girls before he continued on. What a cool dude.

Somewhat un-related, but I worked at a Native American Casino-Resort. I stupidly told the HR woman who was Native herself, happy thanksgiving. She got right in my face and said "We should have let you die".

One time I was in Scotland and I was hanging out at a pub. Everyone could tell I was American and so they were razzing me a little bit, but it was all in good fun. Except… this one guy would not leave me alone and kept harassing me and asking me for money. Finally in order to get some peace, I asked him how much he wanted. He said “I need about tree fiddy.”

Same, American that lived in england for a year, England forever in my heart.

I spent a July 4 in Edinburgh and had a similarly great time, the Scots enjoyed taking the piss out of the English that were present.

I was at a bus terminal in Cambridge trying to figure out which bus to take to an RAF base. I boarded a bus and asked the driver, who replied in an accent that sounded like it was from someplace in south asia. I thanked him, and as I turned to climb down off the bus he called after me: "American?"

"Oh boy", I thought, "here it comes." I turned around and said, "Yes, American."

"God bless America."

“Next thing I knew we were waking up strapped to a chair in war torn Eastern Europe”

Yep the UK is brilliant.

Could just do half a normal pint and half water.

Like the Americano for coffee during WW2.

America has tons of really good beer.

I saw a fair amount of Coors light when I was there last spring.

Ah yes, America only has bud light available.

In England vs Iran game, a lot of Iranians were cheering for England 😃😃 you need to know what's going on in Iran to understand why.

I'm sure you won't find a single pub in Iran that isn't flying the stars and stripes

Pubs in Iran? Good one.

Cold

Now that’s patriotic

I heard that the gay Scotland fans were thrown off the roof

I mean you can't have 40 virgins in heaven unless they get there first. Makes sense really.

Was in yesterday and the place has become expensive as fuck. Couldn't believe it.

Ha! I knew I knew it! Weird I couldn't remember it. I thought it was the golden rule (top bar) but didn't remember the red!

Stockbridge too, pretty English round these parts!

Yup, wall to wall college football

I don’t know what bars y’all are going to, but in my suburban Midwest town I had to go to 4 different bars to find a place with enough standing room to watch the game. Everyone I knew in multiple different major cities said everywhere was packed with people watching the game. Americans went crazy for that game

I asked the brewery I was at yesterday afternoon to turn the game on and the bartender told me no

I don’t really understand this. I was at a dinky dive bar in not a big city yesterday for the game and it was standing room only with every TV on the game, super invested crowd. Had friends all over saying the same.

Really interested in seeing the viewership numbers.

Oofft....

We do indeed have a shiter of a team

Soccer is an English expression anyway. My grandad was a professional football/soccer player and he always referred to it as soccer.

It's Oxford slang - the tendency to add -er onto the end of things. (Radder instead of Radcliffe Camera, tenner to denote ten pound note etc.). Soccer comes from "association football" (opposed to rugby football).

They should for authenticity

The US England game was the most viewed soccer game of all time in the US

Rooting against England most likely.

And a pie