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Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 21, 2026

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This is a dumb "question" I'm just flabbergasted in a low key situation. Going to Mexico for my wife's friend's wedding. Taking my small kids, gonna be something...

Happens to be down in Mexico for Mexico's first World Cup knock out match. I don't like soccer it's for the poor's but this is falls under "few in a life time opportunities" in my mind. The one guy I kind of know on the trip turned me down going out to watch the game (at a bar, or sport garden) because he hates crowds and sports. I've always struggled not to judge this guy as a loser (sulks around and whines a lot), this really doesn't help. Literally I don't think any other person I know would turn down an invite like this. Am I being too harsh?

I'd go and I feel like it's weird not to go. Clearly I'm in the minority here.

Same for me. I wouldn't mind if someone doesn't want to go (it's his loss), but if I was going to be in town during a world cup game I would absolutely go.

Seconded.

You are not in the minority of people I know in real life. As I asked here, I asked many people in real life and it was unanimous that it's - at best - odd not to go. Something to keep in mind with certain takes on this board.

Are any of your friends named Barney Stinson, by any chance?

(I kid, of course.)

I literally was thinking about the hot crazy scale and thinking about some kind of skill coolness factor. Like if you're really high skill in specific areas you're still cool even if you're lame in a bunch of others. Doesn't quite fit.

Just a question:

Why?

For me not getting into it is a little like this meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-wish-i-was-at-home-they-dont-know

You're in the party even if you stay in your room. Every goal, every attempt, every penalty or lack their of you're going to hear. Don't just stand in the corner.

Because to me it's a festive, rare event, important enough that it's televised worldwide. Plus it sounds fun, and even if the time is shitty it will be a memory to share, or recount, years from now.

A moment of social weirdness pales in comparison to literal hours of figurative torture.

There's nothing torturous about going to a sports event, even if you don't enjoy the sport. I've been to games which I couldn't care less about; still had an enjoyable time.

I'd consider a World Cup game easily worth it to go if I had the opportunity to do so without paying, but I'd say that basically any public entertainment event as intrinsically torturous, due to proximity to crowds. Doesn't mean it's never worth it, but the positives better be high enough to outweigh the significant figurative torture.

I like soccer as far as it goes and I like seeing people enjoy sports. Plus I bet there will be beer.

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