What you up to tonight?

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February 3, 2013 at 5:34 pm #1266207
Dark Train
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I guess I’ll be watching the Superbowl with housemates. Hoping it’ll be a laugh though never quite caught on to American football. It’s just start-stop start-stop all the way through. Maybe I’m just not used to it :s
February 3, 2013 at 5:46 pm #1266217
Deez
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Eating dominos and watching crap TV. What a fun life I lead
February 3, 2013 at 6:09 pm #1266194
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@Dark Train 522174 wrote:

It’s just start-stop start-stop all the way through. Maybe I’m just not used to it :s

No it really is a crap slow version of rugby. But i hear it makes people a lot of money.
February 3, 2013 at 6:28 pm #1266218
Deez
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@photographthesun 522178 wrote:

No it really is a crap slow version of rugby. But i hear it makes people a lot of money.

This. Even the name doesn’t make sense.. FOOTball, yet they play it with their hands? I don’t get their logic.
February 3, 2013 at 7:24 pm #1266208
Dark Train
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John Cleese rants – Soccer vs Football – YouTube

Wish I could rant like that.
February 3, 2013 at 7:37 pm #1266219
Deez
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@Dark Train 522186 wrote:

John Cleese rants – Soccer vs Football – YouTube

Wish I could rant like that.

Guy is a genius and all his points are valid. Nothing gets me as annoyed as Americans calling football soccer.
February 3, 2013 at 7:56 pm #1266206
MC G-Tek
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@DeezNuts 522192 wrote:

Guy is a genius and all his points are valid. Nothing gets me as annoyed as Americans calling football soccer.

Soccer is a stupid term, but it is actually an English word. It came about when a public schoolboy was one day asked if he was ‘going to be playing rugger’ that afternoon. In an attempt to be clever, he shortened the name ‘Association Football’ to ‘soccer’ just so he could say ‘no, I’m playing soccer instead’. I think we should dig up his bones and spit on them!
February 3, 2013 at 8:07 pm #1266209
Dark Train
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@DeezNuts 522192 wrote:

Guy is a genius and all his points are valid. Nothing gets me as annoyed as Americans calling football soccer.

Tell me about it! There are lots of little sayings and phrases that don’t really say what they mean. I find it quite interesting.

I love this one George Carlin pointed out – ‘take a shit’. Say wha? You don’t TAKE a shit… you LEAVE a shit!

“I’m gonna take a shit!”
“Don’t take one of mine!” :lol_fast:
February 3, 2013 at 8:11 pm #1266220
Deez
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@MC G-Tek 522198 wrote:

Soccer is a stupid term, but it is actually an English word. It came about when a public schoolboy was one day asked if he was ‘going to be playing rugger’ that afternoon. In an attempt to be clever, he shortened the name ‘Association Football’ to ‘soccer’ just so he could say ‘no, I’m playing soccer instead’. I think we should dig up his bones and spit on them!

Argh cheeky cunt hope he got a detention! Seriously though i’m glad it hasn’t cottoned on here.. even if it wasn’t some faux American term it would still piss me off!

I’ve actually ended up watching Ricky Gervais.. he’s class, my favourite comedian by far as he by and large has the same views as me especially on religion.
February 3, 2013 at 8:45 pm #1266195
General Lighting
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Unfortunately the English public school / Oxbridge lot invented a whole fuckload of these abbreviations and amongst the rest of the atrocities inflicted them on the entire world courtesy of the British Empire.

Oxford “-er” – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(do people still speak like that in Oxford today?)
February 3, 2013 at 9:38 pm #1266203
Savvydravvy
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@Dark Train 522186 wrote:

John Cleese rants – Soccer vs Football – YouTube

Wish I could rant like that.

As far as rants go, thats a pretty mild one! He’s just taking what is a ridiculously obvious point….and pointing it out.

The fact that American Football has the word American at the front kinda gives it away as well, somehow i cant see them inventing it first and feeling the need to put their countrys name in front of it! Now im off to play some European Baseball…..i mean Cricket!
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