Quote:You will notice that this man is going to use his "foot" to kick the funny shaped ball so it IS football here in America. We just do more than kick it. Sometimes, we throw it down field or even tuck it under an arm and run with it.
That thing looks more than a pine apple than a ball if you ask me. But if it's supposed to be a ball, I'd call the sport Armrunkickthrowfootball.
Now if only we could find a way to decrease our outstanding debt, our sheep like decision making, and our social structure which depends on compelling each and every type of person to play or particular role while steady making futile, predictable and well regulated "change" then we could take a shot at cricket next.
' Wrote:I have respect for any game that takes five days to complete. Also, in a one day setting, it's kinda fun to play.
My gym teacher last year was British, and made us learn about Cricket. He showed us a vid of a Pakistan-v-India game, I think it was, and they stopped to have tea. I'm srs.
"Things will not calm down, Daniel Jackson. They will, in fact, calm up."
' Wrote:The English invented this game and called it FOOTBALL - period.
I heard we developed a different dialect across the channel. I think you should just shutup and start badgering the Germans for not calling it football but instead calling it Fussball (and I do know quite a bit of German, before you jump on me). England didn't get everything right, you know.
See: Driving on the right side of the road (you can draw your own conclusions), maintenance of an empire, and articulation of consonants.
EDIT: I'm sorry for not laughing at this awesome joke about the English and this sport, but, seriously, it's not funny to even try and make fun of it. And the English only claim the game as their own because they standardized the rules. Any four year old could make up football. "Hey, lets not touch the ball with our hands!" It's just as easy as "The floor is lava!", if you weren't deprived as a child. Jeez Louise...
[8:32:45 PM] Dusty Lens: Oh no, let me get that. Hello? Oh it's my grandma. She says to be roleplay.
[12:49:19 AM] Elgatodiablo: You know its nice that you have all that proof and all, Bacon... but I just don't believe you.
::rereads the posts & attempts to reply again, only to stop abruptly once more::
"Meh!" he finally concludes with a dismissive wave of the hand as he turns & exits the thread.*
*This note is provided under the advisement of my attorneys: that I make clear that by my exiting the thread, it should in no way be misconstrued as rude in any way, shape or form to anyone of any race, color or creed...and that I simply walked out of the thread in order to continue my research in the field of time travel and I was simply working in tandem with my future self in order to convince the present me (the me you all know) to stay away from the thread in order to minimize distractions during the research process. I'm sorry if my exit seemed in any way rude, but I remember what happened the next time I got distracted & let me tell you...it will not be fun at all.