Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?
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@Jaloopa said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
@accalia but then what would we call rugby?
we call it rugby, because that's unambiguous.
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@FrostCat said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
Interesting--I didn't know that, although it makes more sense than "some guy playing association football picked the ball up and the other players were so shocked they fell over and pretended to have hurt their legs so nobody stopped him".
While my knowledge of sports in general is minuscule, my guess is that that the legend in question either relates to a similar one that exists for rugby-rules football, or else is a conflation of another legend regarding the development of the forward pass (which, as I understand it, is illegal in rugby but became the cornerstone of the now play-oriented American football).
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@ScholRLEA said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
@FrostCat said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
Interesting--I didn't know that, although it makes more sense than "some guy playing association football picked the ball up and the other players were so shocked they fell over and pretended to have hurt their legs so nobody stopped him".
While my knowledge of sports in general is minuscule, my guess is that that the legend in question either relates to a similar one that exists for rugby-rules football, or else is a conflation of another legend regarding the development of the forward pass (which, as I understand it, is illegal in rugby but became the cornerstone of the now play-oriented American football).
Passing forward is indeed forbidden by the rules of rugby. And if you drop the ball and it bounces forward, you get penalized for a "forward pass" (by a scrum for the opposing team).
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@Dragnslcr said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
Well, we are in New England, so.
Is Queen Elizabeth on your currency?
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@Jaloopa said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
@accalia but then what would we call rugby?
Something more polite than "sillier than football," (aka soccer).
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@FrostCat said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
@Jarry said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
why are you so angry with football?
I'm not! I just think soccer is a silly sport.
You're still having problems. You mean "American football", you need to add the clarifier, otherwise you'll continue to make a fool of yourself.
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@FrostCat said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
@another_sam said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
TLDR: You're wrong, silly seppo.
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word football is understood to refer to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears.
And since we're on the Internet, it always means the correct kind.
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@FrostCat said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
Wikipedia:
"In the United States, American football is referred to as "football."[3] The term "football" was officially established in the rulebook for the 1876 college football season, when the sport first shifted from soccer-style rules to rugby-style rules"You forgot to quote the rest of that sentence:
; although it could easily have been called "rugby" at this point, Harvard, one of the primary proponents of the rugby-style game, compromised and did not request the name of the sport be changed to "rugby”.
So I guess the blame for the name is on Harvard, for either or both wanting to change from playing the ball with the feet to playing it with the hands, and/or compromising on the name so that the game ended up with basically the wrong one. (Though rugby is properly “rugby football,” of course.)
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@FrostCat said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
@Dragnslcr said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
Well, we are in New England, so.
Is Queen Elizabeth on your currency?
On our official currency, no. We used to accept coins with her picture, though.
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@accalia said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
one has a ball that you kick with your foot. one has a weird egg shaped ball thing that you hold in your hand as you run down the field.
one is football the other is hand egg
is simple! and logical!
You must remember, though, that these hand-egg players are literally so stupid that they did not realize that repeated injuries to the brain over an extended period would cause long-term brain damage. Logic and reasoning is obviously not their strong suit!
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@Dragnslcr said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
n our official currency, no. We used to accept coins with her picture, though.
LOL! For some reason I thought I was replying to @accalia.
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@FrostCat said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
@Dragnslcr said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
n our official currency, no. We used to accept coins with her picture, though.
LOL! For some reason I thought I was replying to @accalia.
ara ara?
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@Dragnslcr said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
On our official currency, no. We used to accept coins with her picture, though.
I wouldn't actually spend it, but I've got a really awesome coin with her picture on it. (One of this series, though this listing only shows the one side, and Queen Elizabeth's image is on the other side.)
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@accalia I'm not sure how to break that down into one-syllable words.
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@FrostCat i operate a polysylabic vocabulary with maximal efficiency.
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@accalia Then you should be able to figure out what I meant, O annoying cartoon character the writers let us know is smart by making him use really big words.
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@FrostCat said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
@accalia Then you should be able to figure out what I meant, O annoying cartoon character the writers let us know is smart by making him use really big words.
.It just doesn't have the same effect though.
Imagine if the Daleks went around shouting,
DISAMBIGUATE! DISAMBIGUATE! DISAMBIGUATE!
...
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@accalia said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
i've literally never heard someone other than me say "American football"
You'd think Americans wouldn't stop themselves from making sure everyone knows it's AMERICAN FUCK YEAH football.
We in Poland just call it rugby, because there's literally no person who gives two shits about the difference.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
Imagine if the Daleks went around shouting, DISAMBIGUATE! DISAMBIGUATE! DISAMBIGUATE!...
Do we really want them to save time?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaLficIRInM&t=87
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This thread had 69 posts. I fixed that.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
This thread had 69 posts. I fixed that.
booooo! hisss! spoilsport!
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@accalia said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
This thread had 69 posts. I fixed that.
booooo! hisss! spoilsport!
Feel free to get someone to Jeff two posts.. erm, three now. ;)
And lock the topic!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
@accalia said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
This thread had 69 posts. I fixed that.
booooo! hisss! spoilsport!
Feel free to get someone to Jeff two posts.. erm, three now. ;)
And lock the topic!
you know..... i will!
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@accalia said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
you know..... i will!
the problem is that the number of posts to jeff seems to be increasing ... I wonder how that comes
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@Maciejasjmj said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
@accalia said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
i've literally never heard someone other than me say "American football"
You'd think Americans wouldn't stop themselves from making sure everyone knows it's AMERICAN FUCK YEAH football.
We in Poland just call it rugby, because there's literally no person who gives two shits about the difference.
Never heard anyone in Poland talking about about American football referring to it as rugby.
Well, I've never heard anyone in Poland talking about American football, for that matter.
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@kt_ said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
Well, I've never heard anyone in Poland talking about American football, for that matter.
This seems fair. I've never heard anyone in America talk about Polish soccer.
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Obviously we just need to call one of them 0.3048metersball and the other association soccer.
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@FrostCat said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
Imagine, if you will,
Manchester UnitedMansfield Stags cupcakes next toArsenal onesChesterfield.FTFY ^.^
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@PleegWat said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
@FrostCat said in 🎂The cupcake thread of celebrations.:
@accalia It's not hard to find. Just google "football" and notice you don't get taken to the Wikipedia page for "Soccer".
Well, it's not the wikipedia page, but still...
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@DoctorJones said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
@FrostCat said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
Imagine, if you will,
Manchester UnitedMansfield Stags cupcakes next toArsenal onesChesterfield.FTFY ^.^
I hope you don't think I'm going to bother remembering those names. :)
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@DoctorJones First off, you're signed in. But even then I see half a dozen of what I would call footballs in that GIS. :)
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@DoctorJones do you have every thread on the forum in its own tab?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
Imagine if the Daleks went around shouting, DISAMBIGUATE! DISAMBIGUATE! DISAMBIGUATE!...
We're more likely to shout "EXPLAIN! EXPLAIN! EXPLAIN!" in these kinds of situations
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@fbmac said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
Imagine if the Daleks went around shouting, DISAMBIGUATE! DISAMBIGUATE! DISAMBIGUATE!...
We're more likely to shout "EXPLAIN! EXPLAIN! EXPLAIN!" in these kinds of situations
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
@fbmac said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
Imagine if the Daleks went around shouting, DISAMBIGUATE! DISAMBIGUATE! DISAMBIGUATE!...
We're more likely to shout "EXPLAIN! EXPLAIN! EXPLAIN!" in these kinds of situations
Imagine if the comic author had used lojban. Then the Daleks would go around shouting
.i.ue'icu'i ko ciksi .i.ue'icu'i ko ciksi .i.ue'icu'i ko ciksi
lojban is such a beautiful language
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@accalia said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
we call it rugby, because that's unambiguous.
Rugby League or Rugby Union? They are somewhat different, although closer to each other than to other types of football.
Of course here "football", unqualified, means Australian Rules football. Which is very different from both the American version and soccer (and either form of rugby, for that matter).
Possibly there are too many footballs?
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
Possibly there are too many footballs
My point exactly!
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
Possibly there are too many footballs?
There are too many sports in general. The Olympics go on for weeks, then before you know it there's a whole load of other sports in the Winter Olympics.
Then there's several types of motorsport, which is pointless because they're all basically "watch the men go round and round in circles really fast"; and there are even people who keep up this charade that tennis and golf are anything other than hours of monotony that disrupt the normal TV schedules.
I propose we combine them all in one sport which has elements of all of these. There can be one tournament a year and the rest of the time we can get on with other stuff
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@ben_lubar said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
Then the Daleks would go around shouting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaLficIRInM&t=89
Of course, that hot mess I didn't bother quoting wouldn't save time.
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@Jaloopa said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
one sport which has elements of all of these.
Calvin Ball!
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@Jaloopa said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
There are too many sports in general. The Olympics go on for weeks, then before you know it there's a whole load of other sports in the Winter Olympics.
"before you know it" = "two years later"??
Then there's several types of motorsport, which is pointless because they're all basically "watch the men go round and round in circles really fast"; and there are even people who keep up this charade that tennis and golf are anything other than hours of monotony that disrupt the normal TV schedules.
Have you seen the normal TV schedules? I'm all in favour of disrupting a large majority of the content with sport; in most cases it can only be an improvement.
I do tend to agree with you on motorsport. But my wife enjoys watching it, so live and let live I guess. Personally I think soccer is usually more boring than either tennis or golf, but I know there are a great many people who disagree; and I enjoy cricket which many people find boring. So I support having a wide array of sports programming so that everyone can find something to their taste — but not to the extent that I would be willing to pay for Foxtel.
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@Jaloopa said in Uh, I think there are some foots... and uh... perchance a balls?:
Then there's several types of motorsport, which is pointless because they're all basically "watch the men go round and round in circles really fast"
Not always men, sometimes women.
Not always in circles. The best racing has no circles. NASCAR is as boring as watching dog shit dry, rally is awesome, the Dakar is incredible. Many off-road races, especially enduros, don't even finish where they started let alone go around in circles.
Not always fast. See: Motorcycle trials.