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@stickmarionette replied to your post: “@atlasblue85 and I were talking earlier about how sports merch and...”

I have a Catalunya NT shirt that's just a gorgeous piece of design https://media.e-subsidesports.com/sites/us/media/images/product/large/CatalunyaASS1011a.gif I also have a Barca centenary shirt with Guardiola on the back that I love tho it's far too big for me

AHHH I’m so glad you brought that NT shirt up because that reminds me of Barça’s 2015/16 away kit! That was the first time I ever really wanted the away jersey instead of the home jersey—in general, but Barça’s 2015/16 jersey was so ugly too. We’ve had senyera-styled/colored jerseys before, but I loved the idea of the stripes went down the back symbolizing the Catalan flag that (usually Catalan) Barça players drape over their shoulders and back during celebrations! LOVEEEEE. I could have gotten it, but I chose not to because I hate that Qatar Airways logo so much and didn’t want to get a jersey with it. :/

Lol and speaking of too-big jerseys, I finally got a Barça jersey and I hate myself for going all, “Well, maybe I can get away with a men’s small. It can’t be that bad even if it is baggy on me!” and uh. LOTS OF REGRET. I caved in because it was a jersey I had been and still am hunting down for TOO MANY YEARS at this point, and it’s impossible to find when it’s not like...adult men’s L/XL or something. :(

OH WAIT! You know what other jersey I like? France’s 2014 World Cup ones. I hate collars on jerseys, but if one team could pull it off, it would be the French obviously...and they did. And their away jersey was nice as well. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a buttoned collar on a jersey before, but again, of course it’s the French who went for it. I also liked how subtle the Marinière design was on this one. It was very tasteful and beautiful!

#stickmarionette #i'm very mad about the jersey situation i mentioned because i was obsessed enough to contact vintage football jersey companies #and THEY SAID THEY'D CONTACT ME IF THEY EVER FOUND IT BUT THE LIKELIHOOD WAS EXTREMELY SLIM #BECAUSE IT WAS TOO RARE DUE TO A LOT OF FACTORS #AND THEN I FOUND OUT THEY FOUND AND SOLD IT MONTHS AFTER IT WAS SOLD #SEETHING!!!!!!!!!!#damn i know i talked about the korean one in the original post but i really really want it #and i don't think i should buy it right now considering i bought a jersey just now #actually two because the first one i made a mistake on and now i have to figure out what to do with it #but we have NEVER had such a beautiful kit before :((((((( I WANT ITTTTTTTTTT

There used to be an amazing comment under here from Phil [LaMarr] about how he’s convinced Lin’s not a real person and so he was just gonna relate to him like a great cartoon character, but sadly it’s gone.

From @stickmarionette’s sadsadconversation master post, on this 8/14/11 video

#lin manuel miranda #is lin real #sadsadconversation #phil lamarr #stickmarionette #cartoon characters #fictional characters

@stickmarionette replied to your post “Can people actually learn about Asian politics and history so we don’t...”

jfc that was infuriating. also lol at the bit about the war fading from memory, not in China it hasn't (I bet it's the same in Korea), we talk about it all the time, it's a really popular subject for TV/movies, people still feel super strongly about it.

RIGHT?! And besides the fact that the severity of Japan’s cultural and physical violence against Korea and China prevents people from forgetting about it (and, you know, there are people who lived through Japanese occupation and WWII and generational trauma is a thing even if they were born after the war), Japan doesn’t let anyone forget because the government aggressively and vocally refuses to apologize with any form of sincerity or even acknowledge its wrongdoings TO THIS DAY. Lol wrongdoings is such a mild term. Japan committed war crimes.

They flip out every time people in a different country want to acknowledge the existence of comfort women by putting up statues for those women, regardless of whether that’s in Korea or in the U.S. Elected officials including the Prime Minister continue to visit a shrine strongly linked to Japanese imperialism and infamous for including Class A war criminals among the honored dead. This isn’t something they did half a century ago! They do this now! Both those examples I pointed out have occurred as recently as the past two to three years—in fact, the shrine visit literally happened three days ago on August 15th. These are just two examples; Japan has a notorious record for being terrible about the atrocities they committed during the imperialist era and WWII.

And you expect people to forget and get over what Japan did lmao???????????????? The audacity of that writer.

#stickmarionette #why is this so hard for people to understand?#oh wait sorry i keep forgetting that asians aren't people and japan is so nice and polite :))))) of course :)))

stickmarionette replied to your post “Belgium going from Marc Wilmots to Roberto Martinez is going from 0 to...”

I have the biggest soft spot for Martinez even though he's clearly a flawed manager. Hope it works out for him.

Yes, exactly, me too!!

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@stickmarionette replied to your post “I cant believe youre celebrating this disgusting match fuck you i...”

ah yes, how dare we celebrate our team's unprecedented impossible miraculous comeback win. how dare.

how dare we get excited over our disgusting cheating ref paying team. how dare we. we should henceforth accept all results passively and celebrate as little as possible or not at all. that’s the only way it’ll be respectful

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stickmarionette replied to your post “for the ask meme: 2, 15, 16, 17”

I am unspeakably jealous that you watched Pep's last game as Barca manager. :D

My best friend, whom I was there with, is a Barca fan and really killed my Bielsa-frenzy mood with her gloom, lol (”only you spoilt lot would get this depressed over a win and a trophy!!”).

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…When he first played for Cruyff the Dutch master gave him a severe rollicking at half-time. “You were slower than my granny,” Cruyff told the teenage Guardiola. […]

“I was in a bad way because it was my first friendly in the first team. It was in the summer against a team [Banyoles] in the third division. I wanted to play the second half and Cruyff said: ‘No.’ Just like that. I sat there and thought: ‘Never again will I play for the first team at Barcelona. It’s over.’

“I didn’t understand it then. This was how Johan Cruyff worked. He was demanding a lot, but when you got there, and you were in his team, he was an incredible protector. He would push and push you and then he would protect you. He was a master at handling players. He knew when you needed to be pushed or protected.” [...]

“He was the most influential person in football history. He changed not one club. He changed two clubs – as a player and a coach. It’s impossible to find another guy like this. OK, he did it at Ajax and they won the European Cup when Michels was there – but the player was Johan. After that he was a coach there and then he came to Barcelona. It was a big club but it didn’t have a specific football culture. We had one Argentina coach who played an Argentinian style, then came a German coach who played a German style. But then Johan arrived and he said: ‘Guys, now we play this way.’

“When I was there you see seven‑year-old kids doing the same training session, with the same patterns, as the first team. He created something from nothing and you have to have a lot of charisma and personality. Everybody knows about football but you need the charisma to say: ‘You must go in that way,’ and everybody follows. That’s so difficult to find.”