Need a wee during the World Cup final? Just bring your PSP

I really, really wish you guys would stop using Comic Life to add word ballons to every bloody image you include on this site. It's getting old fast, especially considering that the jokes the average Joystiq blogger makes tend to be less funny than when my sister died of tuberculosis.

Oh, and check out unpopularculture.net, my new favorite webcomic. It's much funnier than you guys.

I though you ment "Need a Wii"...

That picture wasn't bloody.

Joystiq, nevermind what this idiot, Blarry, has to say. Keep up the humor no matter how you do it. Clearly, Blarry's site is not as popular as your's and he is jealous of that fact.

Keep up the good work!

How about an on-topic comment?

Watching soccer on a small screen doesn't seem very helpful. The camera is too far away during live coverage to really see what's going on. I would suggest pissing in your pants. No one will notice.

I have a better solution than not drinking, or blowing tons of money so you can watch video on a tiny screen in the toilet. Adult Diapers.

Yeah i can just see a load of pissed-up footie fans in the cream and crack strain to see their psp screens through the smokey haze instead of lurching themselves at the pubs 60 inch screens. That would be such a cool idea for the UK.

I have a PSP imported from Japan, and my P-TV works great. The site is in Japanese, and at the moment its quite slow, but I can't wait for the experience of the World Cup on the john. Now, Sony, heal Rooney's foot...

I can just imagine a spate of drunk people dropping their PSPs into the toilet, or drunk people watching and slamming their PSP to the ground, and of course, trying to hit reset once their team goes down 2-nil, a la Zangief's "Quick, change the channel!" moment from Street Fighter: The Movie.

So it's like VOD but streaming it, hmm.. As long as there are reliable internet connections that don't have to buffer ever 10 seconds it might be worthwhile.

Could they do this for a real sport?

... yea for a "sport" like... oh I dunno... Rugby with armour? what's that called again?

You mean a sport that requires actual strategy and fore thought. US Football is the thinking man's sport, soccer is for kids, simpletons, and Europeans (but I repeat myself).

Please don't hate on me too bad, I'm just messing with you guys, I just don't see how soccer is appealing to anypone, it's so boring compared to football basketball, hockey, rugby, hell even baseball.

Maybe for the Euro tournament they'll have that service in the UK.

@brian
how the hell is soccer boring its basically the same as bball
u have to goals that each team tries to score on each others goal
u have defense offense and centers
and one thing bball or any other sport has.........fans basically killing each other on the field
now.... how is that boring

fuking americans

this is nothing more than abilty to download high lights from p-tv. THIS IS NOT LIVE TV! people should start reading the actual print instead of just ASSuming things next time.

Yeah but in basketball possession is changed every 24 seconds and many times that ends with a score. I can't watch 90 minutes of soccer to see three goals.

Saying soccer isn't a real sport is the most naive thing I've ever heard. It's the oldest sport still played, the base of most sports these days. It's a sport played the world through-out (name one chinese hockey club), and is by far the most testing sport on an athlete's body. Saying there's strategy in football is pathetic. They run plays that their coach stole from somewhere. Soccer involves actual reaction times, paying attention to your teammates, setting up the goal, etc. Pretty much every time a Bball or football play happens, there's a goal scored. What fun is that? Strategy in soccer prevents it from being scores of like 17 to 12. One goal takes a lot of hard work, struggle and effort. It's a shame that you can't enjoy watching a good play unfold.

And oh yeah, I'm an American for the record.

You really think a score happens everytime a football play is run? It happens in basketball, butin football it doesn't - but it's still fun because it's clear what;'s going on. I like it because the playcalling is so much clearer and it's much more of a matchup of coaches than any other sport. It's like a chess game played out with athletes.

Brian,

So you like 'football' because it satisfies your inherent war-like conquest instincts, and you like basketball because it caters for your desperately short attention span ("I cant watch something for 90 minuites")?

You don't seem to understand that the beauty of a sport is not in the constant repetition of 'scores' or in the clanging of helmetted bodies in proxy 'battle of wits' (is it true that they need to have the coach piping instructions into their earpieces cos the have so little idea what to do?)

A sport is defined by the finesse. The craft. The skill. Leaping into the air and connecting your head with a ball soaring across the goalmouth to direct it past the keepers flailing arms is a hard thing to do, and not only looks impressive, but is immensly satisfying to pull off. Similarly, there is a delicate glory to putting just the right amount of swerve on the ball as you arc a freekick from outside the box around the defending players and -slot- right into to net.

Its beautiful, and something that your crass hot-dog fueled-advert-centric-statistic-obsessed american sports simply cannot emulate. Which is why they have so little global appeal.

Good day to you, sir.

is,

Have you ever seen Barry Sanders or Bo Jackson run? Have you ever seen John Elway or Joe Montana throw a pass? Have you ever seen Jerry Rice catch a ball and do something impossible afterwards? Have you ever seen Deion Sanders come flying out of nowhere to snatch an interception and run it down? Those are all things of beauty but there is also strategy behind them.

Football is much more confrontational than soccer, but don't dissmiss it. And there are radios in quarterback's helmets because the plays are so complex. In a system like Mike Martz you can have offensive playbooks the size of phonebooks.

Trust me, come to Tuscaloosa, Alabama and sit in Bryant-Denny Stadium and watch the Crimson Tide, the greatest team in the history of college football, take the field and you will get it. Stand in the Horseshoe at Ohio State and you will find an environment to rival any soccer game (sans the rampant racism). Come to Dallas or Washington or better yet, go to Cleveland where they haven't fielded a decent team in decades but they still command fanatical devotion. Go anywhere in Wisconsin and people worship Brett Favre like a God.

Football is an amazing game where an athlete's body is taken the the limits and gladiators do battle in a savage display that belies the subtle dance of head coaches.

You sports fanboys are hilarious.

Nobody scores every time down in basketball. There is DEFENSE, you know. In basketball, the offense has the advantage, so if they're playing well, more often thatn not, they will score. But it's not like there's no strategy or skill involved. Just go down to your local park, and so how few people can hit a routine jumpshot.

Soccer's no lame sport, either. Running for 90 minutes with 2 subs and no (official) timeouts is hard work. Not to mention that's a HUGE effing goal for the goalie to keep the ball out of.

Of the three, I'd say American football is the least draining, and that's because of the fact that of the positions in football, a large number of them do nothing for 90% of the game. Neither basketball or soccer have players that come off the field for offense or defense. What good is the place kicker on non-field goal plays? What good is the offensive line after their 1-2 seconds of exertion? That being said, it's still an impressive sport, and tough to play, but I'd say the average basketball player and the average soccer player are in much better shape than the average football player, just taking into account the sheer number of guys that weigh in over 350 pounds in the NFL.

Brian, you have no idea what you're talking about. Soccer* is one of the most strategic sports ever, not to mention the most popular sport in the world.

Of course, what no one's realised is that us Brits can watch the World Cup for FREE off the BBC website (only games being shown by the Beeb- but there will be 4 min highlights from every game)

Motherfuck soccer.

Brian, you're one of the best examples of the stereotypical ignorant, arrogant American image that other countries have of us. It's about time we start calling "soccer" football, and our football to something more fitting to the sport (maybe handball or something, because feet are used the least in American football).