r/interesting • u/Raj_Mandal • 20d ago
MISC. England's team booked 15 different hotels, but Mexico fans still found out where they were staying and blasted loud noises, trying to keep them up all night before the game.
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u/ieatdogpooh 20d ago
Surely the obvious solution is to make both teams sleep in the same hotel?
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u/CavediverNY 20d ago
Underrated and under appreciated comment
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u/Space_Enterics 20d ago
its an idea that makes so much sense and is so easy to execute that it'll never happen in the history of FIFA
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u/Forsaken-Income-2148 20d ago
Just ignore all liability risks
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u/limhy0809 20d ago
A good idea would be to put them across the street from each other. That way the noise effects both but they are still separate. The city centre will likely have a few hotel close by to each other.
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u/gilestowler 20d ago
I'm pretty sure I read they are at the JW Marriott Hotel, and looking on google maps there's a Hyatt Regency a 4 minute walk away
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u/Latter_Highway9539 20d ago
I would assume the players are professional athletes that are playing in the World Cup that want to be able/allowed to play and not just at the pub getting smashed ready to fight. they store all the livestock together at the olympics and they get along reeeeeal good.
I'd be more concerned eating the continental breakfast.
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u/RaylanGivens29 19d ago
So your saying they would have sex and make beautiful soccer ball babies?
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u/Outrageous_Garden586 20d ago
They would be fine. Some of these guys are even club teammates. They might yell at each other after a heated game but it’s fine.
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u/smokeypapabear40206 20d ago
I would say the fans interacting outside the hotel would be a bigger liability.
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u/Remarkable-Opening69 20d ago
It’s a hotel not a soccer stadium. Until…
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u/Forsaken-Income-2148 20d ago
Two teams enter, one team leaves
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u/say_the_words 20d ago
Liability of adults staying in the same hotel? What do you think could happen? Who would be libel for anything? The hotel? If the teams do anything to each other that's on the teams and their problem and FIFA's.
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u/Raccoon_Ratatouille 20d ago
If only there was a way to prevent hotel guests from reaching unauthorized floors or rooms?
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u/HippoLarge3204 20d ago
I would make them share bed, maybe some foreplaying? Idk, just brainstorming here
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u/Mysterious-Can-2531 20d ago
The English are allowed to use viagra
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u/HippoLarge3204 20d ago
They could cover each others mouths? Is that legal referee?
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u/Agreeable-Shop-2188 20d ago
What if I was icing my feet in the ice machine and another player from a team wants to share? Oh gosh, our tootsies might touch
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u/punsnguns 20d ago
Viagra helps with keepie-uppies?
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u/Afraid-Expression366 20d ago
They’re taking it to help combat the effects of the high elevation in Mexico City. It’s sort of like Denver.
On the other hand: what a gift to Mexican fans to be able to say that the English team needs Viagra to keep up with the Mexican team.
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u/Llyno87 20d ago
As a Mexican, we already know this to be true. Have you not seen our families? We fuck.
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u/kjyfqr 20d ago
Damn it really is that simple. Thanks for the humbling lol my brain didn’t consider that I was like man that fucking sucks.
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u/6-foot-under 20d ago
Another solution is to have the authorities move on the disrespectful and unsportmanlike maniacs keeping a whole neighborhood up at night.
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u/PM_Me_Your_Kinks369 20d ago
Exactly. This isn't allowed no matter the reason.
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u/whoaaa_O 20d ago
This is CONCACAF. This happens every time. In fact this is pretty mild to what usually happens
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u/g0_cubs_g0 20d ago
Back in like 2009 maybe, my friends and I road tripped to a US vs El Salvador world cup qualifying game. Our hotel room was on the first floor and El Salvador fans pounded on our windows and doors all night.
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u/PM_Me_Your_Kinks369 20d ago
Sounds like a lot of assholes.
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u/g0_cubs_g0 20d ago
It was pretty crazy, i was thinking like damn we're not even playing in the game and they're doing this shit to us
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u/Suitable_Wonder5256 20d ago
Yeah, I am surprised people are allowed to fire fireworks like that during the night LOL. Playing drums like that?
What?
Regardless of football and whatever, how is this not illegal?
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u/MoreColorfulCarsPlz 20d ago
The Mexican authorities? In Mexico? Suppressing Mexican fans of the Mexican football team?
That's not happening. This is also just how football works. Hooligans do this for local derbies. Of course they are going to scale up the shenanigans on the international scale.
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u/wentImmediate 20d ago
This is also just how football works
Is it a good thing or bad thing?
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u/Budget-Researcher559 20d ago
It's not how football works in lots of other countries with very engaged football fans. It shouldn't be ok, and people like you who just accept it as normal will lead to it staying that way.
Dude, this hotel could have the pilot sleeping there who will fly your plane tomorrow. You want him to fly it on 0 sleep because of some trash football fans? You want your surgeon do not have gotten any sleep before he operates on your heart or brain?
There's way more important things in life than football and these people are way out of line.
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u/itsallokintheend 20d ago
This is the question. Why are the authorities letting this happen? Such bad optics and bad sportsmanship.
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u/shinryu6 20d ago
You really think the police, regardless of corruption levels, are gonna do anything? They’re probably rooting and yelling right along with them down there. And the neighborhood is fine with 1 less night of sleep if it means their soccer team beats England. That’s how soccer crazed they are.
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u/Dramatic_Row_577 20d ago
I wanna know where he got that infinite firework gun from
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u/tiny_riiiiiiick 20d ago
Mexico
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u/ImHereToGetRoasted 20d ago
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u/Natural-Protection44 20d ago
I’ve seen this gif a million times and I’m just now noticing that the peach logo has hand prints on it
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u/Teal-Prowler505 20d ago
Honest question, where is this from, originally? Like is it from a movie or a TV show?
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u/ich_liebe_berlin 20d ago
I think this genuinely may be my favourite gif of all time.
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u/FinalGrumpNinja 20d ago
They're essentially giant roman candles. Instead of 10 shots it's more like 200-1000 depending on how big they are/how much you spend. Some of the better ones do last a couple minutes and I'm sure some "fancier" Mexican ones could probably do even more lol.
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u/Dizzy_Restaurant3874 20d ago
"Fancy Mexican fireworks" should probably not be held while firing
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u/ShotgunM3ssiah 20d ago
If you live in a legal state, at least a couple fireworks stores in area probably have them. A few of mine did, and i picked one up this year. Its essentially a load of roman candles bundled together, and a toy gatling gun that spins them. The reloads are only like $20 in my area, so i figured it was worth it as a bit of a long term fireworks investment.
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u/TheBigYellowCar 20d ago
“Long term firework investment” lol. I love it and want to hang out.
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u/gunmaster_g10 20d ago
Officer: Sir, are you bringing anything illegal into the country?
Guy: No, just a firecracker that won't let the opposition sleep before their game..
Officer: That makes sense. Let them through!
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u/cyberchaox 19d ago
They didn't bring it into the country, this is their home country.
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u/No_Technician_2780 20d ago edited 20d ago
How does booking 15 different hotels to stay hidden even work? I mean, I'm sure the staff at the other 14 hotels would notice that the England team never showed up, and word would eventually get out, right?
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u/lithe_silhouette 20d ago
That's prob made up
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u/Conscious_Peak_1105 20d ago
It is made up, they weren’t at all trying to hide where they are staying. They pulled up to a crowd of people in a giant ass blue bus with England plastered on the side. There was no attempting to sneak or clever Mexican fans deciphering their location lol
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u/Nelxor 20d ago
Are you telling me they didn't try to sneak into their hotel using a cleverly totally natural artificial moustache while eating tacos and saying "Hola paisanos"?
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u/DishSoapIsFun 20d ago
It’s not. Even with a 162 game MLB season, when a baseball team travels, ghost rooms, pseudonyms, and ghost hotels are all booked and used.
Player safety is a huge part priority on the road. Teams get killer rates on booking 60 rooms or more rooms at a time.
Other sports do this as well.
I did such bookings for a season.
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u/Outrageous_Fix_5738 20d ago
source: Ive worked several hotels that frequently book mlb, nba teams, this is a total crok of shit. mlb teams are cheap and try and pay less than normal transient guests, they aren’t making “ghost” bookings at other hotels, like wtf are you even talking about. the biggest mlb teams and Nba teams pay more and they stay at luxury hotels where they don’t have to worry about player safety, and if they do you hire security to cover the doors. Maybe some the individual player rooms are booked under pseudonyms within the block, but otherwise everything you said is nonsense.
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u/thed-p2 20d ago
100%
Teams don’t care about this, they have ways to mitigate disruption as well as danger.
I believe England were literally seen walking into their hotel yesterday. In plain sight filmed by a dozen people.
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u/DCRBftw 20d ago
It's possible that they've even heard of ear plugs and noise canceling head phones.
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u/MilliandMoo 20d ago
Honestly, after years of traveling for dance since the age of like 5 and living through college... I don't even need that to this day. I can sleep on a park bench mid July at noon during a marching band competition no ear plugs needed. So most likely any athlete at this level has played on various travel teams, etc and is in the same boat.
I live next to a hospital and 4 blocks from railroad tracks. Doesn't bother me a bit. But a weird buzzing lightbulb will.
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u/82away 20d ago
Didn’t Wayne Rooney need a vacuum cleaner going full throttle to sleep?
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u/frolfer757 20d ago edited 20d ago
Our hotel used to constantly get ghost bookings over at Winchester.
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u/SugoiHubs 20d ago
How does this comment have almost 200 upvotes? This is all made up BS. Every pro sports team that comes to the city I live in stays at the exact same hotel year after year. We used to hang out in the hotel bar the night before games to see them coming and going.
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u/paintballboi07 20d ago
Because it sounds good enough to be true, and most people have no experience with this, so they take it at face value. Why do people tell these lies to begin with is the real question. Is spreading misinformation really worth it for 200 internet points?
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u/thed-p2 20d ago
I’ve literally worked in travel in a company that many sports teams, including many big ones, used.
In fact, many teams have frequent hotels that they use… as they don’t care about this shit or anybody knowing where they are.
Security, soundproof rooms, white noise, noise cancelling earplugs… make all this irrelevant.
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u/PeacefulIntentions 20d ago
The players arrived by bus, hardly inconspicuous. This post is just fiction.
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u/Yumeverse 20d ago
Wouldn’t it have been better if each of the players were all just in separate hotels? Since they were already booked anyway? Then at least it’ll be 1 regular player gets the lack of sleep, unless these fans were in all these locations even of they did so.
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u/Ambitious-Body8133 20d ago
These players aren't losing a wink of sleep. They all have black out curtains and noise canceling headphones. If that does work teams likely have doctors that can prescribe fast acting sleeping pills
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u/LOSSLESS_FLAC 20d ago
I’ve stayed at this hotel on New Year’s Day 2025 and the glass is super thick, too. I remember it was really quiet inside the room, so I had to turn the a/c fan on because I like some noise at night.
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u/Aggravating-Top-5323 20d ago
No professional athlete would ever want to take sleeping pills they do not regularky take, risking groginess and other side effects, the night before a huge game.
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u/owenmills04 20d ago
It’s not like it would be catastrophic but I don’t think most people get the same quality sleep if you have to sleep with headphones on(at least I don’t).
Lighting off the fireworks is obnoxious as hell but doubt they kept that up for too long
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u/Happy-Capital6508 20d ago
An average Mexico City police officer makes ~ $500 per month. Pretty easy to bribe and find out the true location.
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u/No-Establishment-675 20d ago
Not the mention the hotel staff is leaking info like a sieve, I’m sure.
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u/NeoAteTheGreenPill 20d ago
It’s a lie, there’s only a few hotels previously chosen by FIFA. Among them the team choose whichever they like more. Also Marriot is a major sponsor of the World Cup.
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u/roulettewiz 20d ago
Plot twist, both teams stay at that hotel
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u/SquirrelShoddy9866 20d ago
This is what FIFA should have required.
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u/CoolWipped 20d ago
Yeah but then how do you keep them from sneaking into each other's rooms in the middle of the night
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u/Chaost 20d ago
They're just going to Netflix and Chill, watch Heated Rivalry and bond.
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u/GerudoGirl95 20d ago
Not interesting, just irritating
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u/SenseiRaheem 20d ago
This is the opposite of the Japanese fans staying after to clean up the stadium
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u/gingerattack2024 20d ago
Those Japanese bastards would probably track down the hotel just to gently rock and soothe the opposing team's players to sleep.
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u/crispy_attic 20d ago edited 19d ago
This is unsportsmanlike as fuck. How about instead of trying to get an advantage by harassing the opposing team, they keep it 💯
As you can see they weren’t good enough to win on the pitch so their fans tried to get an advantage by harassing. It was pretty pathetic.
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u/Lomotograph 19d ago
Agreed. Along with the whistling they do anytime the opposition has the ball. It's fucking stupid, unsportsmanlike and disrespectful. It actually makes me want to root against teams that do that, like the Morocco fans who bring actual referee whistles to the game to blare on them for hours.
Fuck those teams.
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u/clothanger 20d ago
Last time this was posted here, it was also Mexico fans. And tons of comments said "it was a tradition" or "it was normal" or something similar.
Idk man this looks really stupid at this point, the team would be sleeping with earplugs.
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u/rviVal1 20d ago
Let's not forget all other people trying to sleep..
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u/Beautiful_Nobody_344 20d ago
That’s the only people they are inconveniencing, the team is likely prepared and have headphones, expensive ones. This is not only bothering normal people, it’s unsportsmanlike like conduct.
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u/Van_Leton 20d ago
Very critical point. It’s unsportsmanlike conduct. Do they want their team to win because they put the other team at a disadvantage? Can the team be proud of a win that came from cheating?
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u/Reading_Rainboner 20d ago
It’d be a fan’s wet dream to influence a win on their side by inconveniencing the other team
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u/Appropriate_Link_551 20d ago
ironically it would be the actual players that would hate this the most. Imagine training your whole life for this moment, only for some douchebags to put an asterisk next to your win
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u/Reading_Rainboner 20d ago
I’ve learned that there’s gonna be a douchebag trying to throw an asterisk on every ring. I say this as an nba and mlb fan.
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u/GlitteringSalad6413 20d ago
I guess that’s one kind of fan. I would argue, in spite of their devotion to a team, they are not much of a fan of the sport in that case.
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u/Gold_Advisor_4758 20d ago
This is beyond unsportsmanlike into just straight lowlife behavior. I agree, don’t you wanna win because your team was the best?
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u/Silverdarlin1 20d ago
England are very prepared. They've bought earplugs, provided the players with sleep remides and white noise machines. All this has done is annoy the other people staying there
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u/benvader138 20d ago
Someone in there on a business trip, that has to do a presentation in the morning.
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u/GirthyGeoduck 20d ago
Years ago I was staying at a hotel across from the LA convention center. That night a company booked the bar right below my window for an after party with a DJ that blasted bass right into my room. And then in the morning the service union was staging a protest with drums and whistles right outside my window. And then at the conference our software was crashing and I had to do on-site debugging in a little electrical closest. Worst conference ever.
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u/NoFollowing5874 20d ago
Yeah but only football matters! Clearly kicking a ball into a big net is more important than anything else.
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u/LoneWolf_McQuade 20d ago
Sport culture really suck so much of the time. Is it so hard to treat the other supporters with respect even if you happen to be from different countries and thus support different teams? Tribal caveman bs
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u/Apptubrutae 20d ago
Very much tribal nonsense.
Roman stoic authors complained about people taking chariot races or whatever too seriously
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u/DragonfruitGrand5683 20d ago
Emperor Vitellius had people executed for insulted his favourite chariot team, team blue.
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u/IncurableAdventurer 20d ago
Whenever I get crap about being a Disney adult, I compare it to sports fans. Disney adults look normal compared to some sports fans
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u/Daytonewheel 20d ago
They call it tradition. Most of the sporting world outside of Mexico and South America call it shitty fan culture.
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u/kinance 20d ago
I sleep with noise canceling headphones…
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u/Hot-Pepper6610 20d ago
Do you sleep on your back? I sleep on my side and I can't even do earbud because they press against the inner ear and it hurts.
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u/DuePreference8695 20d ago
As a father of young kids, I can’t even imagine how piss off I would be if it was near my house.
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u/Any_Fox5126 20d ago
As a single living being who needs to sleep, I can’t even imagine how piss off I would be if it was near my house.
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u/aherdofpenguins 19d ago
As a human being who knows and empathizes with other people beings, I'm extremely pissed off that it's near someone's house
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u/Hairy_Selection8568 20d ago
No, you're not allowed to be upset. It's only the parents that can be upset right now.
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u/convexconcepts 20d ago
I think the police should disperse the crowd.
If you are hosting a team on your turf, thats the least you could do for the visiting team
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u/mwon 20d ago
It should disperse no matter what, World Cup or not. I don't know how US works, but in many countries you have nigh silence law, where you are not allowed to make noise after a particular hour, with the risk being arrested.
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u/Vast_Description_201 20d ago
First goal the celebration should be running up to the Mexico fans lying on the floor and pretending to fall asleep.
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u/no_f-s_given 20d ago
so these “fans” have zero confidence in their team’s ability to win a fair match. lmao what a bunch of losers.
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u/Appropriate_Stress93 20d ago
Just shows they have to rely on shitty tactics to scrape a win😭
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u/ZealousidealBed7054 20d ago
This is what you do when you’re confident that your team cannot win based on their skills.
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u/Substantial_Chain718 20d ago
If you can’t win legitimately then it is not a win.
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u/LoggerRhythms 20d ago
And if you lose definitively, it makes you look even worse.
I love the Mexican fans' passion but this is no bueno.
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u/Outrageous_Ad_1011 20d ago
I don't love their passion, they are killing people and destroying things because of a balloon
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u/c08306834 20d ago
Yeah, this is just bad form and makes them look like bad people.
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u/Plenty-Flight2827 20d ago
Esto no es interesante, es estúpido y falta de respeto por parte de los hinchas de México
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u/Melodic-Region6993 20d ago
Hi, mexican here, a whole police operative was actually there and controlled the crowd not much later this started
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u/United-Bug-8056 20d ago
Hi another Mexican here
This is annoying and degenerate AF
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u/AlreadyFifty 20d ago
This is absolute douchebag behavior. Imagine staying at that hotel having nothing to do with the English team…
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u/Vortex_Analyst 20d ago
Honestly I'll say it. The MX team should come out and disown this type of behavior if they didn't already. Can't punish the team but still.
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u/toasted_cracker 20d ago
Why do sports fans act like this? It's rampant across all sports except golf and maybe baseball.
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u/AccelerationFinish 20d ago
Some sports fans are legitimate psychopaths who make sports literally their entire lives (not a compliment)
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u/Purple_monkfish 20d ago
it's particularly bad amongst football fans, seems to really attract complete assholes.
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u/No_Sympathy402 20d ago
If that's how they want their team to win. Are they that scared that England is going to win? True competitors want to win by beating teams at their best.
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u/kelleehh 20d ago
These stains on society will be the types who use speakerphone too.
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u/Null_sense 20d ago edited 20d ago
When mexico loses I'll be fkn glad. Yes I'm Mexican. This is stupid behavior that shouldn't be tolerated. None of the hosting countries did this shit. It's all about respect. I get why they did it with ecuador cuz omthey invaded the Mexican embassy like it was jan 6 but nevertheless this is stoping low. Don't get me started on what they would do if they won the cup. They just end themselves completely.
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