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Why Americans had to add padding to rugby and call it a completely different name. A wrong one at that. Because there already is a game called Football.Because gridiron football is a faster, more violent, dangerous game then rugby football, even with the pads.
It's also almost a decade older then association football.
American football takes 4 hours to play a one hour game... Rugby (both types) is faster and more violent and requires a higher level of fitness because they don't sub a player every 20 seconds...
It is called Soccer in Australia and New Zealand, because football is Rugby Union in NZ, Football is Rugby League in the Northern States of Australia, and in the Southern States Football is Australian Rules Football.
If a soccer supporter try's to tell us that soccer is proper football they get told to f*&% off for being an elitist prick.
Other things I just don't get: George Lucas and Tite Kubo. What did your continuity ever do to you?
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It is called Soccer in Australia and New Zealand, because football is Rugby Union in NZ, Football is Rugby League in the Northern States of Australia, and in the Southern States Football is Australian Rules Football.
If a soccer supporter try's to tell us that soccer is proper football they get told to f*#+ off for being an elitist prick.
Having seen Australian Rules Football (which I tend to think of as pro wrestling except someone forgot to tell them it's scripted, and with a ball seemingly thrown in as an afterthought), I think the players would leave most British football hooligans quaking in fear.
I'm tempted to believe the bit about scoring with the ball was added later, after discovering that punting a player's head through the goalposts led to difficulties in reviving them in time for the next game.
It is called Soccer in Australia and New Zealand, because football is Rugby Union in NZ, Football is Rugby League in the Northern States of Australia, and in the Southern States Football is Australian Rules Football.
If a soccer supporter try's to tell us that soccer is proper football they get told to f*#+ off for being an elitist prick.
Having seen Australian Rules Football (which I tend to think of as pro wrestling except someone forgot to tell them it's scripted, and with a ball seemingly thrown in as an afterthought), I think the players would leave most British football hooligans quaking in fear.
I'm tempted to believe the bit about scoring with the ball was added later, after discovering that punting a player's head through the goalposts led to difficulties in reviving them in time for the next game.
Why Americans had to add padding to rugby and call it a completely different name. A wrong one at that. Because there already is a game called Football.Because gridiron football is a faster, more violent, dangerous game then rugby football, even with the pads.
It's also almost a decade older then association football.
American football takes 4 hours to play a one hour game... Rugby (both types) is faster and more violent and requires a higher level of fitness because they don't sub a player every 20 seconds...
I see where you are coming from, but that depends on the position and the coach ofthe team. Also nowadays, on the contract the player has. Some are true prima donnas.
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Dads - it's more of the same crude humor of Family Guy. Seth macfarlane is, dare i say it, an acquired taste. :D
Things I do not get:
-How anybody could enjoy the program 'Dads' enough that it survived past the pilot
-How we first discovered that pineapples are edible. That is a fruit that seems to shout in big bold spines, "DO NOT TOUCH ME"
-The intelligent people I know who are also religious fundamentalists
Here's the thing, though: I like Family Guy. I love American Dad. (Honestly a far superior show.) I think even Cleveland Show wasn't really given its fair shake. I found Ted hilarious.
But even loving all of that, Dads is just godawful. The jokes are like 80's sitcom jokes that Family Guy would parody.
Pineapple - my theory is that, if it exists, a human has tried to eat it, shoot it, or have sex with it - or sometimes all three. Just like we figured out pineapples, coconuts, and psychedelic mushrooms, we also figured out from the Darwin Awards that eating nightshade is deadly, live crocodiles don't make good sex toys, and flinging yourself from a trebuchet is a bad idea.
Given, although that does bring up another point I don't think anybody gets.
Religious fundamentalism - contrary to conventional opinion, devout belief and scientific curiosity aren't mutually exclusive - otherwise, we wouldn't have Newtonian physics, genetic theory or certain key theories of electromagnetism (or we'd have had them much later than we did). It takes all kinds, and most importantly people understanding that ignorance and stubbornness is not the exclusive province of any group - idiots abound from Sea to Shining Sea. :)
Yes and no. Newton was a product of his era and was able to push the boundaries of what we knew at the time without running into any glaring religious inconsistencies. But how a person of an intellectual curiosity could believe that the earth is 5,000-years-old or that species do not evolve in the face of overwhelming evidence is mind-boggling.
Belief in the supernatural, I grant, is a philosophical difference that by its definition cannot be debated on an empirical foundation. But it's the obviously, plainly false things that get me.
Injury is not a good indicator of intensity or violence, lawn bowls has the highest death rate of any sport.
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Why Americans had to add padding to rugby and call it a completely different name. A wrong one at that. Because there already is a game called Football.Because gridiron football is a faster, more violent, dangerous game then rugby football, even with the pads.
It's also almost a decade older then association football.
pretty much this, if you played american football at the professional level without pads...people would die.
Eventually, I think someone will even with the pads.
It happened just last week to a high school kid, in a game the team was losing 60-6, here's the Link
Some Australian Rules football for you..
I have played soccer, rugby(league not union) and Aussie Rules, I have to say as Aussie Rules is the most fun.
You can't be sent off, you can be suspended after a game but if I punched my opponent in the head like big bad Barry Hall does in the video above the umpire can give the other side a penalty and that's all.
There are 22 players 18 on the field and only 4 subs, once you come off the field you are off for the rest of the game.
It's man on man like basketball, you can shepherd, bump, shirtfront, and jumper punch, you need to either be super cool like Adam Goodes or a mongrel like Barry Hall.
The only problem I found with Aussie rules is that I was too short and too slow and couldn't get the distance on my kicks, I had the mongrel part down though.
It's a messy game to watch and I prefer to watch rugby union.
Some Australian Rules football for you..
I have played soccer, rugby(league not union) and Aussie Rules, I have to say as Aussie Rules is the most fun.
You can't be sent off, you can be suspended after a game but if I punched my opponent in the head like big bad Barry Hall does in the video above the umpire can give the other side a penalty and that's all.
There are 22 players 18 on the field and only 4 subs, once you come off the field you are off for the rest of the game.
It's man on man like basketball, you can shepherd, bump, shirtfront, and jumper punch, you need to either be super cool like Adam Goodes or a mongrel like Barry Hall.
The only problem I found with Aussie rules is that I was too short and too slow and couldn't get the distance on my kicks, I had the mongrel part down though.
It's a messy game to watch and I prefer to watch rugby union.
fascinating. Is this rugby or football? Some of my fellow carribean kids growing up whi were more English/Caribbean than I was (I'm from Brooklyn) would take one look at me and swear I was a rugby player.
The link may not be American football, but o sure as hell enjoyed it. Brutal in its own way. Reminds me of arena football for some reason. And before anyone grouses, note that you can't run off sides I arena football and the field is quite smaller- you've got to put your shoulder down and get hit or get someone out of the way.
Some Australian Rules football for you..
I have played soccer, rugby(league not union) and Aussie Rules, I have to say as Aussie Rules is the most fun.
You can't be sent off, you can be suspended after a game but if I punched my opponent in the head like big bad Barry Hall does in the video above the umpire can give the other side a penalty and that's all.
There are 22 players 18 on the field and only 4 subs, once you come off the field you are off for the rest of the game.
It's man on man like basketball, you can shepherd, bump, shirtfront, and jumper punch, you need to either be super cool like Adam Goodes or a mongrel like Barry Hall.
The only problem I found with Aussie rules is that I was too short and too slow and couldn't get the distance on my kicks, I had the mongrel part down though.
It's a messy game to watch and I prefer to watch rugby union.
fascinating. Is this rugby or football? Some of my fellow carribean kids growing up whi were more English/Caribbean than I was (I'm from Brooklyn) would take one look at me and swear I was a rugby player.
The link may not be American football, but o sure as hell enjoyed it. Brutal in its own way. Reminds me of arena football for some reason. And before anyone grouses, note that you can't run off sides I arena football and the field is quite smaller- you've got to put your shoulder down and get hit or get someone out of the way.
It's a combination of Caid or Gaelic football, rugby, basketball, and Marngrook - Australian Aboriginal football.
What of rugby union? Any links you can suggest? And what are the differences between league and union?
If you want a truly violent sport, check out stick ball. It was called "little war" back in the day and was used to settle disputes between the tribes. It is toned down in the modern age considerably, but it can still be incredibly violent. I have a friend who plays (who is a professional boxer), and his team was challenged by a more traditional team that had a beef with them and they refused the challenge (and in so doing looked like wimps) because the traditional team was out for blood. Literally.Most people will have more luck looking for lacrosse, since stickball is usually used for an urban baseball variant.
It was also a devotional activity, and there's records of games played on 'fields' several dozen kilometers long.
Try hurling.
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People who seem proud of their inability to understand math, or computers, or history, or literature, or anything really.
People who berate someone else for seeking higher education.
The appeal in eating durian, balut, oysters, or crawfish.
Why every time I forget to shave, it looks like someone skinned a pair of hamsters and pinned one to each of my cheeks.
Why would you shave? Grow a beard.
Mostly because it only ever grows on my cheeks, not to mention the striking resemblance to most hamster pelts.
What about it?Try hurling.If you want a truly violent sport, check out stick ball. It was called "little war" back in the day and was used to settle disputes between the tribes. It is toned down in the modern age considerably, but it can still be incredibly violent. I have a friend who plays (who is a professional boxer), and his team was challenged by a more traditional team that had a beef with them and they refused the challenge (and in so doing looked like wimps) because the traditional team was out for blood. Literally.Most people will have more luck looking for lacrosse, since stickball is usually used for an urban baseball variant.
It was also a devotional activity, and there's records of games played on 'fields' several dozen kilometers long.
To quote Jason Statham: "A cross between hockey and murder."
To quote Jason Statham: "A cross between hockey and murder."What about it?Try hurling.If you want a truly violent sport, check out stick ball. It was called "little war" back in the day and was used to settle disputes between the tribes. It is toned down in the modern age considerably, but it can still be incredibly violent. I have a friend who plays (who is a professional boxer), and his team was challenged by a more traditional team that had a beef with them and they refused the challenge (and in so doing looked like wimps) because the traditional team was out for blood. Literally.Most people will have more luck looking for lacrosse, since stickball is usually used for an urban baseball variant.
It was also a devotional activity, and there's records of games played on 'fields' several dozen kilometers long.
Hurling is insanity - it's field hockey and lacrosse and Gaelic football without padding. I was watching a Cork vs Limmerick game and one player whacks another player in the head with a hockey stick, the injured player falls to the ground, the whistle blows and the commentary team sounds like this "Penalty, about time, what do you think about that Patrick", "the Cork players have been getting away with this type of thing all match" , "yes Patrick they have been playing offside all game".
The penalty wasn't for the guy having his face smashed in it was because a player on the same team was offside.
What of rugby union? Any links you can suggest? And what are the differences between league and union?
The difference between league and union.
There is a quote and I don't know who said it "League is a gentleman's game played by barbarians and Union is a barbaric game played by gentlemen".
There was a class divide, the rich played union and the poor played league. Union used to be an "armature" game, not armature in skill but nobody got paid to play and you looked after your own injuries.
League came about because poor people could not afford to pay for doctors or be off work with broken arms and so on. So the league was formed to introduce professionalism (ie pay) into the game.
It it's base both are rugby:
League is stripped down, pure, simple, fast and good tv. Australia dominates the game that only 3 or 4 countries play.
Union is complicated, arcane, tactical and slower, when the magic happens it's better than league to watch. Sadly the magic usually only happens once or twice a game, unless it's New Zealand playing then they bring all the magic and you get to sit half depressed and half in awe at the skills, power and dominance the Kiwis bring to the field.
Why we aren't all doping.
Seriously, if Lance armstrong can go from cancer patient to world champion through chemistry why NOT break out the HGH and steroids?
- People who give money to disaster victims, but otherwise don't care for their fellow humans and never say hi to anyone they meet.
- Soccer, and what's so special about it...
- Why people still buy stuff from that monster called Miley Cyrus.
- Dutch Policy...
- Why people still like overused stuff like Dragons, Orcs and Vampires and never crave for something new.
Because the stuff he uses won't damage his system too much. It also costs insanely much.Why we aren't all doping.
Seriously, if Lance armstrong can go from cancer patient to world champion through chemistry why NOT break out the HGH and steroids?
It only costs a lot because its illegal and has a small market base (because its illegal) open it to everyone and walmart will have it at 5 bucks a bottle.