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I don't think it's homophobic to say that the Euro's mascots are weird.

Anyone who is reading a geek comedy website is sure to be a cool guy, totally down with all the balls, foot or otherwise. Our readers are men’s men, the kind of men who like to be manly with other man’s men, while watching tertiary man’s men run about a field, like men do. But maybe you slipped through the cracks, and got past any one of our seventeen anti-nerd countermeasures, and wandered onto this site – how do you interact with all the real men’s men, like us here at Humourisms? Between long winded posts about European philosophers and filming Game Boys webisodes, there’s nothing we like better than cracking a beer or similar carbonated beverage, and sitting down with the lads to watch ‘the big match’.

So, it’s been left up to me to explain to you non-macho men how to cope in the football-themed conversations that are currently dominating the country, and that we here at Humourisms freely engage in while lifting weights, eating steak directly off the cow, or on our way to and from our most reliable prosititutes. So, here is Humourisms’ guide to bluffing your way through Euro 2012.

Firstly, you must identify if you are, indeed, a bluffer. Here is a quick test, that you can take, at home, free of charge;

1) What do you and your friends, as a group, look like?

Pictured: the photograph that sparked a Europe-wide campaign against racism towards chairs.

2) As a child, which of these costumes would you have been more likely to wear?

From different worlds, yet in later life the two fell madly in love.

3) Finally, and perhaps most concisely, which character from Revenge of the Nerds do you most identify with?

On reflection, really could have opened with this one.

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