Does anybody really give a sh*t about the Beckhams?

[Bake]

(a) It's SOCCER. Not like it's a real sport or anything, as far as Americans are concerned.

(b) She's a washed up pop diva.

Who cares?

Bake

[Blue-Jay]

1. I'm not really into "human foosball" or giant fake boobies.

So, no. I don't give a shit about either of them.

[The Straight Story]

2. He has money and a nice body, she has money and is blonde

They are in Southern California.

Add all that up and it's another day here in shallowville :)

[Donnachaidh]

11. err -- even her blondeness is FAKE.

Remember the Spice Girls? She probably doesn't want anyone to remember she was a brunette. Now the hair is FAKE, the boobs are FAKE, and the last facelift is godawful!

[The Straight Story]

22. She fits right in here in sunny southern California, hell, even our deserts are fake

Bakersfield used to be a swamp back in the 1800's. Drained it over the years. Go figure.

[last_texas_dem]

56. I thought she looked better as a brunette

I'm not sure why so many good-looking brunettes decide to go blonde, as it rarely looks better on them. And yet, millions of them keep doing it... Oh well, I guess it's kind of a dumb thing to actually waste any time thinking about on my part! haha

[skygazer]

3. But.. but... Post and Becks are friends with TomKat!

How can you not care about THAT?! :wow:

[NaturalHigh]

4. I like soccer...

and I think that Beckham will soon realize that there are plenty of good players here in the U.S. who will give him a schooling or at least match up well with him. Other than that, I don't care about Posh and Beck.

[Divameow77]

5. I hope he gets more American's

interested in the sport. Oh and he's super hot, but other then that I don't care.

[chaska]

6. Fuck the useless parasites. Eat the rich.

$250,000,000 contract. WTF?!?!?!

[BlueCollar]

7. It's SOCCER...Not like it's a real sport or anything....

and bowling is?

and golf is?


Give me a break....

[Bake]

28. I said nothing about bowling or golf.

I made a derisive comment about a sport that in decades has failed to catch fire in America, except with pre-teen kids and their minivan-driving suburban moms.

And it was said in jest, IN THE LOUNGE, so whatever.

Having said that, I repeat, does anybody really give a fat rat's ass about the Beckhams? What was his contract again, $250 MILLION????

I ain't buyin' the hype.

Bake

[BlueCollar]

39. Your response

is reflective of an attitude that the rest of the world perceives as arrogance.

If it's not popular in America it must somehow be wrong or insignificant...

$250 million...Far less than your political leadership raised from its banking and insurance donors.

Yes...I think Beckham's arrival in the US is of interest...

Important enough to start a whining thread about...No..

[Bake]

44. Pele would have kicked Beckham's ass.

Arrogance? I don't think so. I just don't care for it. Several hours with no score? Not my bag. But I guess Americans are just "arrogant" by definition, eh?

And for third worlders who live for years on what he makes in about a minute, Beckham says "suck it, baby, I'm going to L.A."

Bake

[BlueCollar]

47. Pele would have kicked Beckham's ass?

You really don't know the first thing about football do you?

Let's make a deal and just drop this discussion...

on edit: ciao

[Bake]

49. Football? Or soccer?

Beckham definitely ain't NFL material. A little scrawny for a linebacker (or any other position, for that matter) ...

And no, I don't know shit about soccer. Don't care to. I tried once, during the World Cup. It bored me to tears. Pele's the only other soccer player whose name I know ... so if you're a soccer snob, EXCUUUUUUUUSE ME.

Bake

[BlueCollar]

50. like I said

let's agree to drop it

[idgiehkt]

8. The Beckams do

lol, I think that's about it. They are really young souls, I guess.

[S n o w b a l l]

9. One of the most useless news stories of the year

Who cares is right.

I was more interested in Anna Nichole Smith.

[MonkeyFunk]

10. as long as Dave poses like this:

I'll be interested.

[Skittles]

36. meh

I've seen much better

[supernova]

12. Not really, but I will say

they do seem to be a real, live functioning couple. So there's something I guess.

I wish him well trying to turn us murkins into footie-mad fanatics.

[NC_Nurse]

13. My husband works for a soccer catalog company.

Therefore, I care. I hope that he gets a LOT of people interested in soccer.
Otherwise, not so much.

[jobycom]

14. That movie he made was pretty good, but I don't know what he was bending.

I hear he played soccer as well as acting? :shrug:

Seriously, just ignore it if you don't care about it. It's like when you are in a restaurant and you hear a goofy discussion about something you have no concern about. Just don't listen, and let those who do have their conversation. It's not like the MSM is relevant beyond entertainment news, anyway.

[trof]

15. In a word: No.

But then I'd have a long list (if I bothered to keep one) of 'celebrities' I don't give a shit about.

Most of them I have no idea about what it is they actually do.

[militaryspouse]

16. they're

good friends with the 'Cruises' or so I hear...

[steelemagnolia]

17. about as much as I give a sh*t about Paris Hilton

ZERO!

[Redstone]

18. Not me, cool. Who ARE "the Beckhams," by the way?

Redstone

[Bake]

45. Soccer star and his washed-up wanna-be pop diva wife.

Certainly celebrity material, for sure.

Bake

[femmocrat]

19. Not me.

I had barely even heard of them before last week and wouldn't recognize either of them without an ID.

[matcom]

20. I LOVE soccer and yes, HE is a big deal

I don't care that 'Murica is the ONLY country who could care less about International Futball. Beckham (for his futball abilities) is a "soccer" gawd

[Bake]

29. Matcom is NOTHING if not a contrarian!

I applaud you.

But you're wrong, of course.

:rofl:

Bake

[AlCzervik]

21. if they were to improve the quality of my everyday life then yes i would care.

i'm in the "Meh" category with them but i will give them credit for making the media look more foolish than usual.

[Joe Fields]

23. The media has to make such a big goddamned to do about everything,

I cannot stand it. And I'm sure that the couple's publicists are pushing the envelope of hype. They can both piss off.

[mitchum]

24. White trash with money

[jakefrep]

25. David, yes - Posh, not really....

The soccer haters can a)kiss my ass and b) subject themselves to a continuous news real of the ultimate talentless bimbo - Paris Hilton.

[Bake]

30. I put them in the same category as Paris Hilton, actually.

The one entitled "Worthless Celebrities Who Contribute Nothing to Society."

Bake

[BlooInBloo]

26. Fringe-sports people do...

("fringe sports" is in relation to *America*, of course.)

[wildhorses]

27. yawn

boring

blip on the radar

[mitchum]

31. C'mon, it's not every day a talking racehorse and a bleached monkey marry and move to America

this is news!

[Mad_Dem_X]

61. Ha ha!

Talking racehorse and bleached monkey - priceless!

[Wapsie B]

32. No not really.

I can see where some women might be fawning over his good looks and athleticism, but damn, she needs some beer and pizza in her before she shrinks to nothing.

[SeattleGirl]

33. I sure don't.

I'm sick of the celebrity-obsessed media we have in this country.

[WCGreen]

34. I mean they, the media, actually snikered about the whole thing

basically saying "look at what shallow ass holes we are. No seriously, we think you people are shallow ass holes so we show you this stuff...."

[SammyWinstonJack]

35. I tend not to care about over paid sport celebrities. But that might just be my problem.

$250 million for playing soccer? :wtf: Something is just wrong with that.

[Norwood]

37. Whos Beckham?

Jk,but no I dont really care. Although $50 million a year is ridiculous.

[Drum]

38. I respect talented athletes, and kinda like washed up pop divas

what can i say??

[KatyMan]

40. For the E! type media

It's a big deal, because Becks is probably one of the (if not THE) most well known athletes on the planet. Alex Rodriguez would kill for his fame, I'm sure.

Even though he sounds dumb as a post, I think Becks is a fairly genuine person, who know he's lucky to be where he is (not that he didn't work hard, etc). Posh, on the other hand...I don't know. WAY too skinny, WAY too untalented. She is definately very close to Paris Hilton status.

[Darth_Kitten]

41. But the media is telling you to care, so CARE, dammit!

:crazy:

She freaks me out. I don't know on what planet her look is even remotely attractive.

[MissB]

42. He has an amazing body.

Other than that, I don't give two shits one way or another about their existence.

[elshiva]

43. I LOVED "Bend it Like Beckham," but that had little to

do with him, though...

[Radical Activist]

46. Not in the least.

But I don't care about Paris Hilton or Britney Spears either.

[Dervill Crow]

48. Nobody I know, or if they do care they don't tell me about it.

I'm woefully ignorant about pop culture and sports.

[nedbal]

51. Posh is coming on NBC NOW !!!!!!!!!

[tammywammy]

52. No I really don't care

And her fake boobs look like hard half grapefruits on her chest. Ick.

[ikojo]

53. No, not at all...David Beckham is

this generation's Pele. In the 70s Pele was brought to the US with great fanfare to make soccer popular with the Americans, it didn't work then and I don't think it'll work with Beckham. The one thing that will happen is he will become even more obscenely rich.

[sanguinivorous]

54. Celebrities should only be in the news if...

a) ...they're promoting a new project. Even if I'm not interested in them, it's part of their business, so it's forgivable.

b) ...they're arrested.

c) ...they die.

Other than that, I could really care less.

[last_texas_dem]

55. I don't, really...

Then again, I did click on this thread which may indicate that deep down in my heart of hearts, to some minute, nearly unmeasurable, smidgen of a degree, I do. But I don't really think so... :-)

[Fox Mulder]

57. I don't.

[Zech Marquis]

58. not a real sport huh?

soccer, aka the global football, is NOT a real sport?

Why is it that 2 of the biggest teams in england(Manchester United and Liverpool) are owned by Americans?

and when did you speak for MY sporting likes and dislikes?

Becks isn't a god, but he IS quite a sincere person who wants to grow soccer here in the states. And I'd rather have him and Victoria (aka Posh) posing about that seeing Pacman Jones getting arrested every 5 minutes (along with the entire Bengals team roster)

[Bake]

62. C'mon, I was joking about the "not a real sport" thing!

Of course it's a real sport. I said that just to be irritating and did not intend to speak for anyone other than my own smartass self. It is true that it has never been terribly popular here in the USofA, and I doubt Beckham will be able to change that.

kthxbai

Bake

[T_i_B]

59. Footy beats the heck of of almost all American sports

But that said you can keep the Beckhams.

[Mad_Dem_X]

60. Nope.

She's fugly, I don't follow soccer, and I couldn't give less of a shit about either one of them.

[underpants]

63. Primetime NBC reality show started.... last night

Yep last night. They must have been following them for the whole "Coming to America" last week. Great DU'er review on this thread.
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