Hey Cules!

Here we have our own Cule Corner, where you can discuss anything. Doesn't necessarily have to be about Barça, or football in general. The forum needs a bit more activity so this will get us all regularly posting even when there aren't any major events in general going in the football side of things as, well, our team is almost perfect. It also gives us a chance to get to know each other a little better in this community we spend a fair amount of time on.

Here's some confessions first off;

• Idea taken from threads such as Macari's Chippy, and the Boot Room. What can I say, they're good for the community
• No instigative posts please, be it from Barça, Madrid, or any other fans. This thread is specifically a place where everyone can just post whatever they feel like and get to know other Barça fans, other fans are welcome of course.
• Please follow the TOS, we wouldn't want to get closed down for some stupid reason.

Good idea Siempre, so how do we get the ball rolling?

Can I ask the first question? What's your name or nickname?

Yeahhh Chipdela gets the privilege of being the first poster after me to post here

My real name is Mauro, my dad named me after some F1 driver He was playing football at the time of my birth so, thanks for the name?

Yours? And where did "chipdela" come from?

Mauro eh...? Didn't think you were a Mauro, anyway, my real name is David but everyone calls me Chip. Actually the only time I get called David is when my mom is really pissed actually she says my complete name when she gets really angry, but it's only sometimes, I think I'm a good son

and dela Calzada(off the road) is my last name hence the name "chipdela".

Ahh, not many people would catch me out as a Mauro. Don't worry about your mum, mine's the same. The whole street hears when she gets pissed off at me, always for the same reasons.

So what are the Phillipines like?
Here in Australia we get plenty of Filipino's and they're all great people, but I never talk to them much about their country.

My name is Lauri and I`m from Estonia. Actually the name comes from Finland but it is very popular in Estonia too. What can I say...probably you don`t know where Estonia is?! Well Russia is our biggest neighbour. My english isn`t the best but I hope you all understand majority of my posts

I am a Greek-Cypriot living in America....Yeah, I know. My real name is Eleftherios. But Lefteris for short.

I enjoy your posts very much Lauri, your English is accomplished

I know of Estonia, Portugal played them in WCQ's, good matches both of them.



Eleftherios I never would've picked, i'm not imaginative with my names . Were you born in America?

Our country is beautiful, very tropical and we have 7,107 islands so there are many beaches to choose from. The most popular tourist beach is called "Boracay" it has white sand and clear blue water, picturesque stuff. A lot of foreigners come to visit all year round. In fact, some of them have moved to Boracay permanently, that's how beautiful it is. You get spell bound, I had my honeymoon there when I got married last November.

Unfortunately right now our country is going through some political instability, and there is a lot of poverty so it kind of takes the shimmer of the Philippines' appeal. We have been in the news recently for all the wrong reasons, but in spite of that "Pinoys" are still one of the happiest, warmest people in the world (really ask anybody)

Lauri your english seems fine to me!

Lefteris I would've never guessed your name, where is Cyprius(sp)...?

Great idea mate. My name is Alex (like my brother and father) Weird, don't ask why ahah, but my nickname is Sasho (Bulgarian) I am from Bulgaria but I live in the United States.



It's actually considered to be in Europe. It is an island if I am not mistaken?

Good idea Barcelonista Siempre even though i'm not a Barca fan, I do post here on the occasion. I also think I will post in this thread quite a bit. So I'll just fill you guys in aboutme. I'm a Liverpool fan who follows Valencia. So yes, Valencia is my favourite Spanish team, yet I conceed that Barca is the best Spanish team and the best team in the world at the moment I appretiate good football thats why I watch a lot of Barca games. My name is Jesse, but you can refer to me as de Bruyn too(My old username) and if you have/want to you can call me Zoidberg. I am a South African which lives in New Zealand. I've discovered New Zealand people don't really like football luckily for me I can discuss football on this forum and with the other immagrants here or the odd local.

Looking foward to posting here in the future.

We don't want any Liverpool fans here! Go away! Just kidding of course. You were De_Bryun before right?

Yes, thats me Your Sasho10 right??? If so your a pretty good guy

haha yep and thanks so are you

No. I was born in Cyprus but I moved here before I even turned one.


Cyprus is an island near Greece. It is little island in the Mediteranean that is to the south of Turkey and north of Egypt.

Haha, good! I was right

Great idea Mauro

It's nice to see all the diversity in here.

Most of you know my name, it's Kostas. I currently live in Los Angeles, but I'm Greek/Russian. I came to America when I was 10 and have been here since. I plan on moving back to Greece eventually, and one day hope to live in Barcelona (just for a year or so).

Cheers mate, everyones welcome

Ahh NZ aye, did you follow the NZ Knights A-league run or no? I wouldn't blame you if you didn't



So would Cypriots consider themselves part of Greece as from what I know the dialects are similar. I know you have an independant status but strangely enough many people here from Greece/Cyprus just consider themselves Greek for the most part. Not knowing enough of the countries political history, I wouldn't be able to comment on it much.

I love the quote you have in your sig Mauro, mate.

"To the point of being applauded by the Madrid supporters, in that one moment, he symbolised the switch of dominance in Spanish Football."

Classic.

Cheers Sasho.

It used to be a longer paragraph when I first wrote it, detailing his two goals against Madrid, but I just singled it down to the one line.

Whats McDonalds like where everyone lives, I hate it, really do, but today my sister brought it home so I didn't have much choice and I just wondered what the other countries are like. I know in America it's insane with Supersize and all that.

LOL. I actually like McDonalds. I live in the states, unfortunately. I like the fries, not the meat, just the fries haha. They are just good, whereas the burgers are just pure shite, and that's being nice too. In Bulgaria.... it's much better because every country has their own different way of cooking food and different spices and such so they just make it different.

I don't know, when I was younger I enjoyed it too, now I can't stand looking at it and thinking of the oils and fat and all the damage it can do to your body with regular eating of it. Once in a blue moon no problem, all the time for me is just not happening

I know what you mean though Sasho, i've had McDonalds in Germany, Spain and Portugal and each one is different. German McDonalds is strange, never got my head around it really

Embarrassing really, this was before everything had switched to Euro and I was too young to know anything about currencies and the like, so I just had a handful of money, and I gave it all to the lady at the counter. Luckily she gave me back most of it rather than take it, or... well, I think she did

Mauro Baldi? I don't think there were many Mauros' as F1 drivers but that one came to mind.

No idea to be honest, maybe it was a fleeting excuse as he ran off to play his football match

uh oh…here comes a madridista to disturb the peace. I couldn’t possibly let you guys have all the fun by yourselves now could i? My name is Greg and i’m Spanish – American. Interesting stuff. Born in America though…so not so interesting. Here is a rather weird fact. Pretty much all of my family in Spain are….Cules! lol I’m the only one that loves Madrid and my brother loves Mallorca (where my family lives). So I have learned to become a bit tolerant of barca throughout the years.

Aha, all Madridista's are welcome, just don't cause trouble aye

So you're the only one weird enough to support Madrid? Good stuff Where is your family from? Mallorca, or are they just lving there?

I consider them the weird ones. The older ones (mother, grandparents, uncles/aunts) are from malaga and my brother and cousins are from Mallorca. Very beautiful place.

Ahh interesting, so how did you come to support Madrid, do you check up Malaga/Mallorca results?

Yeah, a friend of mine who's Filo/Italian went there over the summer holidays, she was just as admiring of it. Congratulations on your marriage chip! Good stuff. I'd love to travel there sometime, Spain held the country as a colony for quite a long time, so the similarities in language are noticeable and well, the women tend to be as beautiful as the country itself.

I loved Madrid for a long time now. As a kid in Mallorca everyone either loved Real or Barca. Then they supported Mallorca. It was as if it was an obligation to support Mallorca no matter how bad they were doing in the league. Anyways, I can’t remember exactly how I began to like Madrid but I know I loved their style of play and just the aura around them back then. Its kinda hard to explain. What about you? how you come to support both Barca and Benfica? (it sucks to be you during the quarters)

Yeah I follow Mallorca every once in a while. Though I’m a bit nervous since they are dancing around relegation zone. It’s also a bit weird watching them play because I know the goalkeeper.

How you end upliving in Australia?

Barcelonista Siempre, I don't follow the Knights or any other team in the A-League. I can't stand it. I think that it is really boring and the quality is quite low. I understand it is still a developing league and the strongest it has ever been but its just not for me. I hear the the Knights are really awful, one of the worst teams in the competition.

I can't stand McDonalds and I've only had it in South Africa and New Zealand. They taste equally horrible in my opinion.

The Knights are so bad that there are more New Zealanders queing up for there dole tickets at the local centerlink then queing for tickets.

Anyway great topic.
Carles Puyol is APOEL the team that Bernd Stange coaches? And of course everyone is Aus knows about Cyprus after Baghdatis's performance in the Aus open, plus I think that Melbourne has the biggest Greek population outside Greece.

Well i'm of Portuguese/Spanish descent, and my father (who is Portuguese) is a commited Benfica member. He's supported them throughout their glory years when they beat Barcelona and Real Madrid to win their two European cups, and has never stopped. My mother, whose mother is from Vigo whilst her father is from Barcelona, follows those two herself. Vigo and Barça, Barça first. When I was young, I really had a strong love for Benfica due to my father and his influence, but I was still a Cule. When I aged a little that's when I made the choice for Barça, and although I hold a place for Benfica in my heart and of course follow their progress and support them in domestic/European competition, Barça was the team I myself chose, and have never let go of since. Now of course it sucks because well, I myself want Barça to go through, and believe they will, but there'll be hell in my house with me and my father against each other

EDIT: Celta de Vigo, for those who don't know what club comes out of Vigo.

I came here when I was two years old, at the time we were living in Portugal with my grandmother and it was a time when Australia was seen as a land of opportunity, work wise. So we made the move here, I lived in Darwin for a period of time, then Melbourne, and finally to Sydney, where i've lived since. I've been back to Portugal/Spain a number of times, and am absolutely in love with both countries and plan on moving back in a few years.



Yeah the Knights had a horrible season, and although the league quality isn't top notch, I feel it's important to nurture the sport in it's developing stages and get as much interest going as possible, especially now that they're planning to implement a Youth system which will do wonders for the game at grassroots levels.

Barcelonista Siempre's Cule Corner, sounds a bit like the 'Real Madrid Discussion Corner', this thread stinks of copyright infringement.



Only joking Barcelonista Siempre, good idea for a thread.

If you wanted copyright infringement, look no further than the Official Barça Discussion Thread. But then again we all know that the Madridista's took this from us, Carlos deleted our original thread, created the Real Madrid one, and then we were forced to start a new one.

Shady dealings I say.

ًWell well well...King Cule got his own thread.

You can all call me god or master or master god.

This is all jdmgreg's fault. I say everyone is welcome, but I really mean everyone except the Madridista's

Now it's not my thread, it's open to all. (Read Above)

So God/Master/MasterGod, can your heavenly powers lift Madrid from the depths of hell it is in, and since when were Cules allowed in heaven, cause that's where I am now with our progress this season

I just wanted to say that our (Estonian) league last year top scorer Tarmo Neemelo made a new 3+1 year deal with Swedish Helsingborgs IF. And like we all know Larsson is going there too after this season. Great stuff . Estonian league quality is quite shiet. Our players are going all the time to others leagues but they fail mostly. Probably you know only Mart Poom. Andres oper is our best striker who plays in Holland (Roda). Others are going away and then coming back .
Tarmo Neemelo is very very powerful striker who scored 41 goals in domestic competitions last season but has really bad finishing when he plays in national team. I hope he improves a lot while playing with Larsson. I`m really looking forward to see how they play together (altough I actually don`t SEE them playing but maybe he scores etc then it is shown in TV).

And about the McDonald`s. I live in a little city and can you belive it - here is no McDonald`s, but when I go to the capital or others bigger citys then I sometimes buy some stuff from McDonald`s and I like it but I will never ever gonna eat that unhealthy crap regulary

As far as what I remember from the Estonia-Portugal games, the problem seemed to be the attitude. It's one of the things that allow Chelsea to dominate the league the way they do, teams don't believe they can take points off them. Now that that's changing, they're drawing/losing more often than last season, and that does alot to a team. If Estonia had taken those games against Portugal as "We can take these bastards down" Then results would've proved different I believe.

Wow one La Liga and you consider yourself to be in heaven?!
I really pity you.


So is this basicly a spamming thread??

1 La Liga in recent times, many more to come.

What don't I have to look forward to.

Two time WPOTY, African POTY, Young POTY. Xavi, Deco, Puyol, Valdes, relatively young core of players that will only get better in time, aside from Deco but still has quite a bit of playing years in him.

Quarter-Finals of the CL, beating a much harder team than what a certain Spanish team got knocked out against

Hey, our striker runs, much more than I can say for the starting Brasilian forward at Madrid.

This is pretty much a talk about anything thread, no insults though.

I'm having pizza for lunch.

I also went to the bathroom 15 minutes ago.

Top stuff, Pizza's one of the worst things you can eat you know? In terms of health and such.

You are just mad because it is Italian and not Portugese.
And prove that it isn't healthy

Back on topic:

I am listening to Under th Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers, and i have a huge Chemistry exam tomorrow and I am yet to study.

RHCP is a class act of a band, top songs, top albums. They're hitting Australia in a couple of months.

On another note, studying may do you some good mate. I should be studying as well actually

I hate McDonalds. I went once with my brother and sister. We all had the same thing and we ended up throwing up and doing diahrea for two days. It really sucked because we were on vacation in Greece and we coouldn't do anything.

Wow that would've totally sucked. I remember going to Spain/Portugal and being stupid enough to read in the car while we were on one of our long late night drives from city to city, was sick every single time. Stupid

Lucky, i wish i can see RHCP, they rock live.

Btw since i am thin i need more calories, so it is good for me, meaning you are wrong....again.


Studying I must, farewell Culeros.


I might go to the bathroom again if you are interested.

Well i think i introduce myself aswell
I'm Erik and i love in Holland .. i was born here and i'm not really planning on moving anywhere.
Like most people around here .. i'd like to live in Barcelona maybe for a year.
I loved Barcelona since i was small .. but my love went stronger for the club since i got the internet (like 2 years ago) cause i could finally watch the Barca games.
And about McDonalds .. i love McDonalds Especially the fries LOL

There's a difference between what you could call good calories, and bad calories. Assuming you're a male, you have more lean body mass than a woman would have, so fatty calories only harm you in the fact that the weight you're putting on doesn't become muscle mass, just fat. Saying you're thin, i'm assuming you have a fast metabolism, only way to fix that is to eat regular meals in small portions, rather than say three big meals a day - Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Instead you should eat small amounts throughout the day, and not go more than two hours without food. Of course has to be food of a healthy nature, foods high in protein and calcium and low in fat are your best bet.

Just looking out for you man, wouldn't want you to have health problems in the future



Hey Erik, good to hear you can watch Barça games now

There had to be one who loved McDonalds!

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EDIT: I lost my hat F*ck.