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The ECB Is Delighted That Three Of Its Sponsored Teams Have Made It To The Euro2012 Semi-Finals
They may not be doing much of anything else lately (except for now proudly accepting Spiderman towels are collateral of course), but the European Central Bank sure is a fan of football, and the fact that three of the four teams in the Semi-finals come from countries officially funded by the ECB. We do have the feeling that letting Germany slip into the congratulatory tweet below was a mistake that will cost someone their taxpayer funded job.
Congratulations to Germany, Spain, Portugal and Italy #euro2012
— Eur. Central Bank (@ecb_europa_eu) June 24, 2012
Ironically, while it has been the world against Merkel in bailoutnomics for the past several months, the key battle for Europe has now shifted to the football stadium as well.
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Art mirroring life; Germany vs PIGS in Euro 2012 finals.
I'm rooting for the German taxpayer.
Hillarious. Germany will win.
Never underestimate the spaniards!
Just checking but that still spells PIGS right?
Panem et Circenses bitchez!
Mondiali 1970, semifinale : Italia-Germania 4-3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPdVXb0p2P4
Mondiali 2006, semifinale : Italia-Germania 2-0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzI4uX0DnXo
Mirroring it, what is being implied is clear:
EUR CENTRAL BANK:
@ecb_europa_eu
The ECB is delighted to say tough shit to France, England and Greece
#euro2012
Technically it's Germany vs. the PISs.
Tyler is definitely not a yank!
WE NEED SOCCER PLAYERS WHO EARN 500 MILION A YEAR TO IN BELGIUM!!
No wonder we couln't play in the EK... The ECB isn't sponsoring us YET
Thank you for calling it football as opposed to soccer, it means a lot.
How do they decide when a game ends? Does one of the teams or their country run out of money and they have to dash off for another bailout?
The defensive back collides with the wing right and they both fall down to the turf and pretend to be in complete anguish whilst cursing one anthers mothers further enraging the other defensive back who is the brother of the wing right who forgot to take his meds and begins kicking the downed defensive back in the face drawing a red card. Meanwhile the visitor's goalie takes off his prosthetic leg and hops about waving it in the air hollering some shit about sending all the Muslims back to Karachistan where the line judge comes from who then sticks his whistle in the goalies eye socket.
At that point, the chain link fence enclosing the British thugs gives way and the skin heads begin terrorizing the small villages just outside the stadium portals causing the host country to call upon the EU's rapid response military battalion to come restore order who in turn have to request transportation from the Yanks via NATO headquarters in Belgium which is closed (the country, not the headquarters) for National Reconciliation Day between the Flemish and Walloons which has failed due to the lack of interpreters.
By this time the August vacation celebration time has arrived and everybody takes the month off except the poor bastards whose accounts are still frozen at the RBS who in turn burn Edinburgh to the ground thereby alleviating the tabloids from consuming further ink debating who won the unfinished EU championship.
Oh fuck me knucks, you outdid yourself on this one!
Never a problem with those injuries... Just like with the banks, all they have to do is apply some magic spray and the player gets right up off the ground...
All the stoppage time on the ponzi clock must be why the real game isn't over yet. Funny thing about stoppage - you never know how much time is left.
I bet you the twat that tweets for them gets paid more than most privet sector employees, doesnt pay taxes, and will have a sweet pension.
Brot & Spiele - Gewalt und Unterhaltung im antiken Rom 1/3
You need to understand the german language to examin this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyGo5464qOo
#winning!
wot a surprise - Central Banking supports the distractions of NationState Sports Teams.
go team spirit!!! we know whose side yer on!!!
To bad the troika can't make it to greece this week...
I guess they have to go to Spain first on monday when they'll demand money by asking for it.
pic.twitter.com/TtkQTJgL
The ECB gives out the bread.
Now, they sponsor the circuses.
My, how you've come full-circle, serfs of Europe.
What a shame the Greeks didn't prevail against the Germans. Then the tweet would have been thoroughly PIGS-centric!
PIGS in that order: Portugal champion, Italy second, etc.
Then everything else is solved.
Euro now imploding yet the average joes in Europe could care less, they are totally enamoured with football right now.
Always a distraction, the crisis will come and go and 80% of the people will never even know there was a crisis.
:)
We are living with the internet.
80% is long gone :)
Now you're not even trying. Are you tired?
The Affair Between Europe, Mobile Phones Is Ending
http://www.minyanville.com/dailyfeed/2012/06/22/the-affair-between-europ...
in the USSA they want the phones to make love to them.
That's going to be one reliable index of increasing poverty. Unless the state starts paying for mobile plans wholesale...
Once in a lifetime :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1wg1DNHbNU
I don't want to demean any victories here, but a thought that has been in my mind is whether or not these are "rigged" games in some way.
Why let them win? Well, of course a little morale boost.
It's actually a pretty stupid plan if somebody did attempt it. In the original state, when a country gets thrown out the fans would have to transfer their allegiance to another remaining team, which would have fostered more a realistic, non 'participation prizes for everyone' type sympathy between nations in Europe.
hm interesting
Anyways, the thought came when I read about how some shady dealings were going on with FIFA?
Just a quick search:
http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2002/06/the_man_who_ruined_the_world_cup.html
They need their own rating agency..oh wait.
ECB tweeted about Football!
what's next?
Bernanke twee.. oh wait...
Fucking Monty Python-Esque.
Not enough to generate a distraction. We need an all-month gladiatorial season to be sure.
"who's got the football"
Tylers, I am currently being denied my right to vote up and down. I get much better enjoyment out of my day if I expressed my opinion about individual posts and how they made me feel personaly. I am also too lazy to spend time diagnosing the problem although I am aware it could be my own PC. So IF this is a site issue... I am anxiously awaiting for my voting rights to be restored :-)
Lucky, I voted you down just to test and exercise my own rights, no hard feelings:-)
When I think of the ECB now, I see an image of a group of people drinking beer and eating chips while watching soccer games and tweeting about it. Occasionally getting a phone call about some urgent monetary matter they shake off with a 'sorry we're busy now'.
PIGS = Portugal Italy Germany Spain
Gary Lineker:"Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win"
Merkel:"Economy is a simple game: 27 members discuss and at the end, the Germans always win"
http://agstock.blogspot.co.uk/