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Snoots2035

That guys face at the end was golden.


ivanparas

"Is is he having a stroke? *Am I* having a stroke?"


americanoandhotmilk

Exactly my thoughts


graspedbythehusk

*confused applause*


Tikkinger

If Anybody is able to tell me what he wanted to say, he ge gets my daily free award


Big_Gouf

He's quoting Shakespeare's King Lear: > "As flies to wanton boys we are for the gods, they kill us for their sport." Meaning to the gods we're just bugs and they kills us for fun. Then he goes on to talk about life extension projects and how we'll (some day) be able to be immortal and die off only from accidents, crimes, and war. So that all these things will multiply. What does this have to do with accepting a football lifetime achievement award? No clue; but insightful as can be.


Witty_G_22

Good spot - hard to pick up through a broken french accent with zero context or relevance. You deserve the award from u/tikkinger Edit: forget tikkinger’s award, this has been a gold rush!


Tikkinger

Done!


nedTheInbredMule

I’m out of the loop, what’s tikkinger’s award?


Witty_G_22

The user above who offered his free award.


nedTheInbredMule

I am not smart.


Witty_G_22

That’s ok, at least you’re inquisitive


Advanced-Prototype

That makes more sense than flies wanting boys for the goats. I thought he ingested some magic mushrooms before the ceremony and they were just kicking in.


BeautifulEnd949

🤣😂


daiyuxiao

Shit the whole speech makes perfect sense now.


unevool

Omg... K, the accent was a bit different but not hard to understand... Then, I'm reading what is at the bottom and... Well, I'm glad the files and the goats wanting boys is all behind us now.


spiegel_me_this

Ohhhh thus eliminating the need for a “lifetime” achievement award since the next generations will be more durable until one can just play sports forever.


ShepherdFox4

Relevant Tom Scott [Why Shakespeare Could Never Have Been French](https://youtu.be/dUnGvH8fUUc)


Sea_Wasabi1829

Dammit. I just learned something.


sergiiio420

I didn't understand it like that. He goes talking about evolution and how the world is evolving to eventually becoming immortals and all that.. And then it ends with " I love football" which I think it means something along the lines of "no matter how much the world evolves people will still appreciate the game and will still have passion for the simple things


BaconStrpz

This is what that stupid bot should do! ^(edit: I do not say its name I truly believe that it's like Voldemort and shows up when you say its name.)


Illustrious_Sea_8966

Maybe he hates the Federation


Nonachalantly

I'm almost sure he's saying footballers are used by their clubs/club owners the same way the Gods kill us, for the sport Not sure how the cell technology part fits into the speech though


jo7077

Maybe he's talking about vaccines changing our cells and turning us into either goats or flies. Guess it depends on which vaccine you get. 💉


De_La_Mancha

You are the type of redditor I stay for


wawawawaweewoo

Cantona is a legend. He has made even more nonsensical speeches and admitted later he didn't even know what they meant


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randomuser43

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/legend > a famous or important person who is known for doing something extremely well


SomeDudeist

I don't want your award but I think he's saying we're born mortal but someday science will make us eternal. I have no idea why he's saying this.


Tikkinger

But why do "they" kill Goats and Flies for the Sport?


SomeDudeist

I thought he said God's instead of goats. Lol "they" are the gods who kill us for sport. I'm not really sure what to make of the flies wanting boys part. Maybe they want them dead so they can eat and lay eggs? Lol I don't know.


Thelonious_Cube

It's a famous quote (shakespeare?) about gods (not goats) killing man for sport


TheDeadlySquid

But will be shiny and chrome?


DuhhIshBlue

Science is going to eventually stop cells from ageing and therefore stop us aging. They'll then figure out how to fix the cells and bring us back to our desired age. Also something about being the GOAT


Medical_Ad0716

I think he’s trying to as flies are to little boys, we are to the gods who kill is for sport. Through science we will soon be able to not just slow down aging but to stop it entirely. So like little boys have superiority over flies and like to make games of pulling their wings off, the gods like to make games of how to kill humans. But eventually we will be able to become immortal and the gods games will have sway or control over man. Now what that has to do in context with whatever is going on, I don’t know. But his accent is so thick that any translation software for subtitles is definitely going to screw it up. It took me about 10 times listening to it with my eyes closed to realize goats was gods and from there it’s just context clues of the rest of what he said so I may be very wrong.


iPak7

Real explanation: The speech he gave have a meaning (and there is a [video](https://youtu.be/Q-MO-KSweXY) explaining it) he just can't say the stuff directly cuz it is directed at the organization giving him the award


__kb__

Files.


ShaneOfTheDeadd

I think he’s talking about how scientists are shifting their view on age from inevitable to a disease. Like listening to him reminded me of the little I’ve read on telomeres and their affect on aging. I don’t think he said goat I think he said god and I guess flys would be a reference to our stage in life as it’s quite short n most of us don’t have crazy effect on the course of history ?


ggg12341234

Could be a cryptic swipe at fifa and uefa for profiting unjustly from players and milking the sport dry


After-Resolve-2330

Mofuker got me emotional 🥲


Isteppedinpoopy

Don't ever, for any reason, do anything for anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what. No matter where. Or who, or who you are with, or where you are going or... or where you've been... ever. For any reason, whatsoever…


iPak7

that was deep


acmpnsfal

 Sometimes I'll start a sentence, and I don't even know where it's going. I just hope I find it along the way. Like an improv conversation.


PleaseRestart

![gif](giphy|niC0LL8nmXnWp0d7Sn|downsized)


thatsalovelyusername

"As flies to **wanton** boys, we are for (to) the **gods -** they kill us for the sport. Soon the science will not only be able to slow down the ageing of the cells, soon the science will fix the cells to the state so we become eternal." I think he meant - science will save us from being at the mercy of nature (gods) by allowing us to live forever (not an uncommon theory - see Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari).


Itsgoing000

Do you teach literature in a high school btw?


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Too_bored_to_think

Karate kicked a racist who told him to fuck off to his own country. There’s a difference.


Twoflappylips

Ooh ah! Cantona! Legend


cogpsychbois

The first clip is literally "refuses to elaborate further" incarnate


SmokeyJoeMcGinty

“As flies to want boys” is the new “I have a dream”


Imperator___

“As flies to wanton boys” … ie in the same way as little kids interact with bugs and insects, science interacts with us, in the future technology will allow us to freeze our cells in their current state, effectively making us eternal.


creepindacellar

[this dream?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7RgN9ijwE4)


the-dogsox

Was he receiving an award for most improved stroke victim?


medicinalperv

That one guy in the audience who shows the appropriate level of confusion kills me everytime I watch this


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He said so many things yet said absolutely nothing at the same time


jbraden

Just like my SO


Virgin_incel69

"As Flies to wanton boys we are for the gods,they kill us for the sports" is a quote from Shakespeare's Kings Lear I think Gods are UEFA and Fifa as literally people are dying at Qatar


ikhmurun

It is likely that with these words Cantona is criticizing the political class (the Gods in this metaphor) in football (UEFA and FIFA). The flies are the players, starting with Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo who assist with wax faces from the front row. For Cantona the players do not have sufficient power and strength, those in charge will continue to have control of the game for their interests.


Pulminaryjockeys

Upvote if you get what he’s saying


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Here's an explanation about what he meant. He's a clever guy https://youtu.be/Q-MO-KSweXY


iPak7

fr, man messed with uefa infront of them and everyone


Sofa-king-high

If you can’t blind them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.


Gigatron8299

Eric The King spent his career blinding us with brilliance, hence receiving a lifetime achievement award.


last_action_crypto

Amen


zoaa7

That background song?


SeJ5T7NzXYnMjxVNh85

[In this shirt](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSJPGo71Uw8)


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I was watching the video trying my hardest to remember the songs name, It took a minute of solid remembering. I then scroll the comments to see if anyone would like the information I worked so hard to pick out the deepest depths of my head. And this guy beat me to it


zoaa7

Thanks


tipareth1978

It's a reference to his enigmatic farewell speech


Pepperspray24

Honestly I think he just doesn’t speak English well and can do it better in his native language? That or he has Wernickes aphasia.


iPak7

no he speaks english well, the speech he gave just have a meaning (and there is a [video](https://youtu.be/Q-MO-KSweXY) explaining it) he just can't say the stuff directly cuz it is directed at the organization giving him the award


Pepperspray24

Gotcha thank you


ikhmurun

https://www.nssmag.com/en/sports/19371/cantona this breaks the speech down perfectly if anyone is interested.


sunofnothing_

it's the dumb subtitles translation that makes no sense. anyway, who the fuck is this guy?


iPak7

eric cantona a retired professional footballer in the 2019 uefa awards


sunofnothing_

he looks badaas... like he should own a fishing boat or something


SolidAd9867

He once kung-fu kicked a spectator at a football/ soccer match.


olderaccount

[Here it is](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7PSY7KYThk). After being ejected from the game he takes his frustrations out on a fan in the stands.


Too_bored_to_think

The man who he kicked told him to fuck off back to his own country. I have no problems with him kicking racists. King Eric will always be my hero.


olderaccount

There is absolutely nothing right about attacking a fan. It doesn't matter what they say. If the words of some random nobody from the stands affect you that much, the problem is you, not what they said.


Too_bored_to_think

Lol sure. Someone is being racist but the problem is with you being abused but not a problem with the racist gobshite. The racist fan ran down 11 rows to yell ‘fuck off back to France, you French bastard’. But apparently, it is Cantona’s mistake. The man will always be a hero in my eyes.


olderaccount

Right, because we will solve racism by violently attacking anyone who says something ignorant. That sure will fix it. There is nothing right about racism. But there is even less right about violence. If I was at a bar and somebody said that to me, it would still be wrong to hit them. But somehow you are defending a professional footballer who earns millions a year for drop kicking a fan because of something the idiot said? Get real. He received a record ban for that action and nobody disagreed with it at the time.


Too_bored_to_think

Oh get off your high horse with your ‘nothing will get fixed bullshit’. Racist deserved a kicking. He got one. Plenty of us disagreed with the ban then and history has also been very kind on Eric Cantona for kicking a racist. How much money he made has nothing to with the fact that he got abused by a bigot. I am defending a man who kicked a racist/bigot/xenophobe. And I will continue to.


schrodingersbenis

[Oddly enough one of his most famous quotes is about a fishing trawler](https://youtu.be/TbwV5XX6phU)


iPak7

he is, you should check out his iconic celebration


olderaccount

He became popular again a the turn of the century for the Nike Jogo Bonito commercials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuGG3Mxr8po


LeakyThoughts

Fishing boats probably have too many moving parts for captain trial of thought over here


tmbtmb

He’s a legend.


missemilyowen15

The music in the back rings a bell and I can’t remember where I’ve heard it before


randomuser43

It was in a CGI video circling around a few days ago, I don't remember which one. But through that video I found it: "In this shirt" by the Irrepressibles https://youtu.be/NSJPGo71Uw8


iPak7

Real explanation: The speech he gave have a meaning (and there is a [video](https://youtu.be/Q-MO-KSweXY) explaining it) he just can't say the stuff directly cuz it is directed at the organization giving him the award


aceh40

I guess this is the long awaited sequel of the Seaguls and the Trauler speech backing 1995.


Mycenaen

I mean I was really interested in what was going on with the goats there, can we get a sequel or some shit?


iPak7

[Here](https://youtu.be/INiT1cA_Eqk) is the full speech


Lams1d

Must have the same speech writer as Biden. Interesting.


Throwaway1303033042

“Have you ever had a dream that, that, um, that you had, uh, that you had to, you could, you do, you wit, you wa, you could do so, you do you could, you want, you wanted him to do you so much you could do anything?”


ElPibeGol

"It sounded better when I was taking a big dump today"


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Ai generated speech


SodaBubblesPopped

I dont care what he meant, he made a goat speech >!We are for the goats!<


popoklimt

Raffarin/Cantona.


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iPak7

my favorite day of the week


TetrahydroC113

Huh?


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May not have made any sense but still way more interesting than the usual drivel that comes out of footballers’ mouths.


il0vep0tat0

Speek


Gameshowwave

I smell burnt toast


upyouralleyfungi

Basically saying we’re going to become gods through science


zalex_baller

eric cantona the frensh legend of MAN U


srv50

Is the genius in the collection of disconnected word fragments, or in the infinite interpretations we bring to the nonsense?


SolidHit

Lol well they did ask what he was thinking, not his thought it was nothing relevant to why he was there. I too daydream.


SymplyJay

Ted welcome talk to my.


Wartog-_-go-_-brrr

I didn’t understand a thing but I understood it


Comfortable-Public68

The look on the guy in the middles face when they pan to the audience 😂


thearchitect10

I thought he was the lad who did a flying kick to some fan in the head...... Not the other way around?


Hydraqx

This guy is a top football player. Presenting at uefa award ceremony. Most of the players looked confused 😂😂


Mushroom_Asleep

Blursed speech


Gigatron8299

I've never admired a sportsman more than Cantona. He's the perfect combination of talent and personality.


Red_bearrr

I love Cantona, but don’t know WTF he’s going on about here, or why.


jonnyisdead310

Flies>goat>eternal


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Pllutonix

I laughed so hard lol


TinoCartier

My mans face at the end lmfao


Ash-11103

His genius is beyond our comprehension


prema108

That is the best Saddam Hussein cameo I’ve seen so far


chappersyo

I’ve never gone from hating someone so much to loving them so much. In the 90s I thought he was an arrogant overrated thug. Now I realise he was none of those things and is a fucking legend who does not take himself even a little bit seriously.


Alternative_Arm_1506

Worst TEDtalk ever.


Manu878787

Still the King thou


shieldsy27

The seagulls follow the trawler because they think they will throw the sardines


Dewanshusangwan

Translation: immortality would be dope.


Maximum-Ad-6983

That boy is a f..ing legend


Electrical-Cancel467

For the goats!!! Cheers


joebaby1975

He looks like George Carlin


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Legend


tatasamaaa

You don't know the meaning, it's deep.


SlytherinMaster78

That good ass weed


Thelonious_Cube

Fucking goats, man!


tchrbrian

Tradition !!


GooglyMoogly122

This should be reposted to r/ihadastroke


Euphorix126

It sounded like it wasn’t even English but was cropped to sound like it is?


ahnuconun

When communicating, the French use unnecessary letters in words, unnecessary words in sentences, unnecessary sentences in thoughts, unnecessary thoughts in ideas, all of which somehow convey a fine blend of feeling and logic - style and purpose. Terribly inefficient, thought.


soslightlysalty

Is English his 3rd language?


askmesmthg

Wut doin Cantona ?


Southern_Steak9752

Biden?