It Could Get A Bit Messi In Here - The Football Thread.

Yea but there's this other fucking game called football that happens to be 20x more popular than foot in the US, so there's a need for disambiguation, and here we are. I prefer football now anyway (see you can't tell which one I prefer from that sentence). Live with it, the word is your lot's fault anyway.
 
Turbo said:
Yea but there's this other fucking game called football that happens to be 20x more popular than foot in the US, so there's a need for disambiguation, and here we are. I prefer football now anyway (see you can't tell which one I prefer from that sentence). Live with it, the word is your lot's fault anyway.
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America is not the world…

Also if you go back 100 years everything is legitimately Britain’s fault for the same reason everything now is currently America’s fault
 
Joe Mac said:
America is not the world…

Also if you go back 100 years everything is legitimately Britain’s fault for the same reason everything now is currently America’s fault
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Yeah yeah... neither is Europe. Bottom line it's a local thing and that's that. The NFL makes more money than all the top european football clubs combined, so we're stuck with it for a while. Sports just evolved differently over the last 120 years in different places. If I go around and say I'm watching a football game around here, either in english or french, everyone thinks I mean the game with the oblong ball. The only salvation is I can say "foot" in french and people know I mean the round ball. Maybe when those oblong ball players concuss themselves out of a game, the word can be reappropriated.

Local colloquialisms can be odd right? For one, you guys use what we consider a nasty racial slur to refer to cigarettes.
 
Turbo said:
Yeah yeah... neither is Europe. Bottom line it's a local thing and that's that. The NFL makes more money than all the top european football clubs combined, so we're stuck with it for a while. Sports just evolved differently over the last 120 years in different places. If I go around and say I'm watching a football game around here, either in english or french, everyone thinks I mean the game with the oblong ball. The only salvation is I can say "foot" in french and people know I mean the round ball. Maybe when those oblong ball players concuss themselves out of a game, the word can be reappropriated.

Local colloquialisms can be odd right? For one, you guys use what we consider a nasty racial slur to refer to cigarettes.
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I know. I know. Frustrating given the armour clad lads that charge at each other almost never actually use their feet. Even the rugby lads have a better claim on the word football!

Racist slur? The one I’m thinking of I thought would have been more of a homophobic slur in US slang?
 
Joe Mac said:
I know. I know. Frustrating given the armour clad lads that charge at each other almost never actually use their feet. Even the rugby lads have a better claim on the word football!

Racist slur? The one I’m thinking of I thought would have been more of a homophobic slur in US slang?
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That’s the most mind boggling thing about american football… it’s almost all hands! I guess the game was different historically.

Yeah that’s the word I meant. Homophobic slur is more accurate. The first time I heard a foreign student say he wanted to “bum a f..” my jaw dropped. I had no clue! My mind went, well, elsewhere.
 
Turbo said:
That’s the most mind boggling thing about american football… it’s almost all hands! I guess the game was different historically.

Yeah that’s the word I meant. Homophobic slur is more accurate. The first time I heard a foreign student say he wanted to “bum a f..” my jaw dropped. I had no clue! My mind went, well, elsewhere.
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Wait until I tell you that a faggot is either a bundle of firewood sticks or a regional dish that’s a bit like a lamb offal meatball. Although that particular Americanism probably has permeated into an offensive term with the current generations.
 
Were the Dutch poor again today? I thought they got off really lucky against Senegal the first time out, very lucky. I don’t see them going too far.
 
Ecuador were strong in midfield and wanted it more. The Dutch lack of a striker is a big hurt for them too.
Now to the main event..ere we go, ere we go, ere we go llalalalalal!!!
 
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