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Eddies Wingman said:
I don't really have a problem with the Americans referring to their variant of football as "football". Only when they take it for granted that others understand that they are referring to that variant, and not Association Football. I mean, in all other countries in the world one knows that when one says "football", one is talking about "soccer" and not some form of rugby.
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Not always: in Australia "footy" can mean football proper, Aussie Rules, Rugby League or Union depending on what part of the country you're in.

But like Albie I really hate the word 'soccer', especially when I'm forced to use it to explain to someone what I'm talking about.
 
I was not even sure what soccer meant until late World Cup  :bigsmile:
American Football should be called American Rugby, that's all. It's a more difficult to perform version of rugby, so...
 
Soccer comes from Association football - socca, the mid part of Association (sort of).
 
I love how on Remembrance Day week, all the stations will play jingoistic war movies, but ignore the truly chilling ones like Paths of Glory.
 
national acrobat said:
Not always: in Australia "footy" can mean football proper, Aussie Rules, Rugby League or Union depending on what part of the country you're in.

But like Albie I really hate the word 'soccer', especially when I'm forced to use it to explain to someone what I'm talking about.
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Australia is a world on its own  :P
 
______no5 said:
American Football should be called American Rugby, that's all.
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Tell you what: we'll just continue to call it "football," and that's that, thank you very much.  You can call it whatever you want.  And we'll keep calling soccer soccer. 
Travis_AKA_fonzbear2000 said:
Not that it matters at this point, but the Vikings actually won a game.
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Congrats, and you're not out of it yet.  But the Packers are getting better and better, so it will be tough to catch them. 

(EDIT: Whoops, just realized these were in the 100,000-post thread instead of the [American] Football thread.  Sorry.)
 
Except it's still not soccer in most of the world. It's football. And it will probably always be confusing.
 
:)

In some other news, I took back my car. It goes like hell.
I'll have to change the rear springs soon, cause as the front are more tight than the existing back, the car has a rear suspension now. It turned out that the previous owner had the front springs cut (!!) to reduce the front suspension and give the car an (even) more sport look. But like this, he destroyed the chock absorbers.

Anyway. All absorbers changed now and as I mentioned, the car goes like hell. 
 
LooseCannon said:
Except it's still not soccer in most of the world. It's football. And it will probably always be confusing.
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[Playing the Ugly American]  It wouldn't be confusing if the rest of the world would shape up and get with the program and start calling it soccer too!  ;)

In all seriousness, I watch and enjoy both sports (well, for soccer, my knowledge is pretty much limited to EPL and major international tournaments), and I've never really been confused or put out in any way by the different nomenclature.  I get the sense, however, that some parts of the world are offended, or at least annoyed, because Americans use the term soccer and use "football" to describe our own sport.  Not sure why.  We really don't mean any disrespect.  It's just been called "football" since the game was invented somewhere in the Great Lakes area long before any currently living Americans were yet born. 
 
It can be annoying only when you have to explain it, I never explain, thus I'm never annoyed. Because I'm on the side of the majority, I guess.
Something like the metric system. I only talk meters* and usually English & Americans understand me very well -they have to, they are the minority.

Yet in some cases, like in piping standards, probably due to the huge work that ASTM has done over the years, it's common to talk inches.
Then of course I follow the general accepted rule and talk inches without any problem or embarrassment.
 
USE THE METRIC SYSTEM GODDAMMIT

Cab drivers are assholes. I'm arguing with one that most cab drivers don't drive safe, and while he argues that I have no idea what I'm talking about and that I'm condecending, he cuts three lanes in a very dangerous roundabout.
And after I point that out to him he agrees that it's dangerous and just doesn't give a crap.
 
You know, in the last 10 years, I haven't watched enough porn to get a feel for the actors.

I used to love the 80's porn stars--  the 'Lynns'== Amber, Portia, Ginger.  Ron Jeremy was the king back then.
 
Said by Arne Hegerfors, Swedish football commentator, during the '94 World Cup match between Sweden and Cameroon:

"Things are looking dark on the Cameroon bench"
 
Hahahahahahahahh  :lol: very bad, excellent!

Wasted CLV said:
You know, in the last 10 years, I haven't watched enough porn to get a feel for the actors.

I used to love the 80's porn stars--  the 'Lynns'== Amber, Portia, Ginger.  Ron Jeremy was the king back then.
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Porno, it's completely independent to my sexual life. Even if my life is full of sex, I will still watch.
Since the internet era, what I enjoy more that actually watching a movie, is to wiki /goole search info about the porn stars, who is hot at the moment, various stats, lists of the greatest, mainstream appearances, that kind of stuff.
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I thought that John Holmes was the king -never liked him though. But yeah, Jeremy is the absolute star for me, too.  :D
 
Eddies Wingman said:
Said by Arne Hegerfors, Swedish football commentator, during the '94 World Cup match between Sweden and Cameroon:

"Things are looking dark on the Cameroon bench"
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There are lots of classic Hegerfors quotes:

"And here we see Krutov, with a face that only a mother could love."
"If this was football he would have received a yellow card. In hockey, that risk is minimal!"
"Kennet Andersson has probably been the best Swedish player on the Swedish team."
"The puck goes a couple of decimetres outside the post, or approximately to be exact."
"He isn't just one of the greatest in sports history, but also one of the greatest in the history of table tennis."
 
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