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RAP ACTION HERO
#21 - 2013-02-20 09:16:26 UTC

mistakes were made dot

vitoc erryday
Arronicus
State War Academy
Caldari State
#22 - 2013-02-21 02:07:31 UTC
RAP ACTION HERO wrote:

mistakes were made dot


Rap kills another productive discussion! ;_;
Galenwade
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#23 - 2013-02-21 02:19:02 UTC
Josef Djugashvilis wrote:
Rugby Union Football is the only real football.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTpXymuwxNs


nuff said
FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#24 - 2013-02-21 02:19:22 UTC
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
Arronicus wrote:

Soccer (Football, to you Euros) is not a real sport. It is a game of actors and actresses, who flop about lacking real effort and enthusiam, until someone else bumps into them, and they are called on to make the performance of a lifetime, pretending like they are being violently murdered, in the hope of a penalty being inflicted on the other team. Soccer is a boring, slow paced game, played by pansies. Which race would win a football (soccer) match is irrelevant, because only the gallente would be silly enough to participate, and would still likely lose, with no other competitors.


The world outside of the US and Canada would beg to differ. Those countries have their own sports called football, so they refer to it as soccer. Pretty much everywhere else calls it Football, soccer is a derivative of Association Football, which is the game that is played internationally. While American Football (henchforth known as Handegg P) is played outside of the US it's very much a minority sport internationally.


Sir, you are the first individual I've encountered who actually knows the origins of the term "soccer". It's amazing how many Europeans become quite upset when a lowly American educates them on the history of "their" game. It should be noted that the earliest known use of "soccer" was in England, not America.

I take exception to American football being called "handegg" unless you opt to refer to Rugby by the same term. Both are games which fall under the category of a game played on foot with a ball, hence "football" (as opposed to games played on horseback).

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John DaiSho
LowKey Ops
Snuffed Out
#25 - 2013-02-21 02:30:26 UTC
Arronicus wrote:

Soccer (Football, to you Euros) is not a real sport. It is a game of actors and actresses, who flop about lacking real effort and enthusiam, until someone else bumps into them, and they are called on to make the performance of a lifetime, pretending like they are being violently murdered, in the hope of a penalty being inflicted on the other team. Soccer is a boring, slow paced game, played by pansies. Which race would win a football (soccer) match is irrelevant, because only the gallente would be silly enough to participate, and would still likely lose, with no other competitors.


You should stop watching how football is played in Italy.
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#26 - 2013-02-21 02:30:33 UTC
FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:
I take exception to American football being called "handegg" unless you opt to refer to Rugby by the same term. Both are games which fall under the category of a game played on foot with a ball, hence "football" (as opposed to games played on horseback).
…which would then also inlude hurling — a proper sport that makes all forms of handegg seem like a gentle fondlefest.
Calapine
Xeno Tech Corp
#27 - 2013-02-21 02:32:10 UTC
FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:


I take exception to American football being called "handegg" unless you opt to refer to Rugby by the same term. Both are games which fall under the category of a game played on foot with a ball, hence "football" (as opposed to games played on horseback).


That doesn't make sense. Actual handball is played on foot with a ball too. So...

If the only consideration were that balls are involved but not horses that would include pretty much everything! Blink

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Ryuu Shi
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#28 - 2013-02-21 02:56:53 UTC
Posting in a stealth 'I'm right and you're wrong plus soccer is for pansy actors' thread

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RubyPorto
RubysRhymes
#29 - 2013-02-21 03:04:00 UTC
FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:
I take exception to American football being called "handegg" unless you opt to refer to Rugby by the same term. Both are games which fall under the category of a game played on foot with a ball, hence "football" (as opposed to games played on horseback).


So, we calling Polo "Hoofball" now?

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FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#30 - 2013-02-21 03:07:19 UTC
Calapine wrote:
FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:


I take exception to American football being called "handegg" unless you opt to refer to Rugby by the same term. Both are games which fall under the category of a game played on foot with a ball, hence "football" (as opposed to games played on horseback).


That doesn't make sense. Actual handball is played on foot with a ball too. So...

If the only consideration were that balls are involved but not horses that would include pretty much everything! Blink

At the time the term originated (13th-14th century I believe) I don't think sports were diversified enough for this to be a consideration. I'm pretty sure that at the time all of their sports involving balls (stop snickering, this isn't gradeschool) were played on a field with goals of some sort.

Of course, that would still including basketball. I dunno, I don't make this stuff up. I just share it with the class.

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Tesal
#31 - 2013-02-21 03:13:06 UTC
This is how CAOD died.
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#32 - 2013-02-21 03:13:37 UTC
RubyPorto wrote:
FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:
I take exception to American football being called "handegg" unless you opt to refer to Rugby by the same term. Both are games which fall under the category of a game played on foot with a ball, hence "football" (as opposed to games played on horseback).

So, we calling Polo "Hoofball" now?

The real problem comes when we start calling employing the term skatepuck, and then realise that field skatepuck is actually football.
Psychotic Monk
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#33 - 2013-02-21 03:20:32 UTC
FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:

Of course, that would still including basketball. I dunno, I don't make this stuff up. I just share it with the class.


Basketball wasn`t invented until the early 1900`s.

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RubyPorto
RubysRhymes
#34 - 2013-02-21 03:25:52 UTC
Tippia wrote:
RubyPorto wrote:
FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:
I take exception to American football being called "handegg" unless you opt to refer to Rugby by the same term. Both are games which fall under the category of a game played on foot with a ball, hence "football" (as opposed to games played on horseback).

So, we calling Polo "Hoofball" now?

The real problem comes when we start calling employing the term skatepuck, and then realise that field skatepuck is actually football.


So we need "Movement-Utensil-Object" "HoofStickBall" "SkateStickPuck" "FootStickBall"

Dang it. That last once covers Lacrosse, Field Hockey, Cricket, Baseball...

More Modifiers, STAT.

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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#35 - 2013-02-21 03:29:09 UTC
Arronicus wrote:
No.

Eve is not an ecosystem. We, the players, are the only non-static entity. Nothing revolves around us, changes, or relies on us, that would continue to exist if we were not here.


No.

An ecosystem constitutes a landscape and all the flora and fauna that interact in that landscape. Fish, polyps and plankton in a coral reef. Trees, monkeys, birds, ants and spiders in a jungle.

No.

An ecosystem is not "us". That is an anthropocentric perspective and fails to account for everything else which is not "us".

No.

Just No.

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Calapine
Xeno Tech Corp
#36 - 2013-02-21 03:33:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Calapine
Well, humans are a part of the ecosystem though, n'est-ce pas?

I am somewhat dismayed by the absence of immature comments here. Someone used horsies and balls in the same sentence, godammit! Has everyone but me grown up?What?

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dark heartt
#37 - 2013-02-21 03:42:34 UTC
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
Daft question, I've seen some Aussie rules football, it looks fairly similar to Rugby and Gaelic Football, what are the differences?


Between rugby and AFL, rugby is played in more or less of a line, whereas AFL is more akin to soccer in the positioning of players. Rugby is about getting over a line with the ball to score a try, whereas AFL is about kicking it through two posts to score a goal or two outer posts to score a point. Goals are 6 points.

There is a rift in Australia as to which is more skillful. I feel AFL is more skillful but rugby needs the guys to be harder. At the end of the day they are both as bad as American football for the whole handegg situation (all though AFL less so as they kick it a whole lot more).

Now what was this thread about again?

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RubyPorto
RubysRhymes
#38 - 2013-02-21 03:44:35 UTC
Calapine wrote:
Well, humans are a part of the ecosystem though, n'est-ce pas??

I am somewhat dismayed by the abscence of immatures comments here. Someone used horsies and balls in the same sentence, godammit! Has everyone but me grown up?What?


Because of your corp name, I present Zeno's paradox of testicular fondling:

Before a hand can travel to fondle a horse's scrotum, it must travel half that distance. Before it can travel half the distance it must travel 1/4 the distance, etc. This sequence goes on forever. Therefore, it seems that the original distance cannot be traveled, and equine testicular fondling is impossible.

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Super spikinator
Hegemonous Conscripts
#39 - 2013-02-21 03:54:50 UTC
dark heartt wrote:
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
Daft question, I've seen some Aussie rules football, it looks fairly similar to Rugby and Gaelic Football, what are the differences?


Between rugby and AFL, rugby is played in more or less of a line, whereas AFL is more akin to soccer in the positioning of players. Rugby is about getting over a line with the ball to score a try, whereas AFL is about kicking it through two posts to score a goal or two outer posts to score a point. Goals are 6 points.

There is a rift in Australia as to which is more skillful. I feel AFL is more skillful but rugby needs the guys to be harder. At the end of the day they are both as bad as American football for the whole handegg situation (all though AFL less so as they kick it a whole lot more).

Now what was this thread about again?


Aussie rules amuses me greatly when I watch it. If I am going to watch a bunch of burly, sweaty men playing a game of catch it might as well use a seemingly incomprehensible ruleset. I prefer League to Union for Rugby Football though, Union tends to be scrums and lineouts while league looks like a rucks and mauls version of touch.

Also, Soccer is terrible at a professional level. Going and watching my cousins play in their primary and intermediate games are more entertaining. I'm surprised Oscars weren't awarded for particular soccer matches I have watched.

now, onto the slightly less important things

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Lugia3
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#40 - 2013-02-21 04:20:48 UTC
RubyPorto wrote:
This thread is going fun places.


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