It's nights like this I feel sorry for yanks.

[Sean]

Because no-one else plays your weird sports, you miss out on the stuff like the Six Nations. The patriotism, pride, anticipation, joy and despair.

 

[Lancecastor]

Because no-one else plays your weird sports, you miss out on the stuff like the Six Nations. The patriotism, pride, anticipation, joy and despair.

"Six Nations"....England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France and Italy.

Now that's funny!

 

[thør]

I'm off to watch hockey tonight at the arena with a cold IPA in my hand. It's a tough life, but someone has to man up and do it.

 

[Sean]

"Six Nations"....England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France and Italy.

Now that's funny!

Off you go and watch the curling team, mummy's boy.

I'm off to watch hockey tonight at the arena with a cold IPA in my hand. It's a tough life, but someone has to man up and do it.

No beer in the house. Which is probably against the law for watching a rugby match.

 

[pink]

This was something special, Sean.

The Ohio State University National champions!!!!!


https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRxe5ZoBN6al2U-Xc6UetP2pNT1QoC9te3FJvbDbOssqit9YNo2

 

[pointless]

patriotism? how quaint.

 

[Sean]

patriotism? how quaint.

It's allowed when you're playing the next door neighbours.

 

[pink]

Enjoy Six Nations, Sean.

 

[Sean]

Enjoy Six Nations, Sean.

That will depend if we get beat by the taffs.

 

[pink]

That will depend if we get beat by the taffs.

OH good lord, I just remember septics. What the hell is a taff?

 

[thør]

No beer in the house. Which is probably against the law for watching a rugby match.

I'd expect a summons.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Because no-one else plays your weird sports, you miss out on the stuff like the Six Nations. The patriotism, pride, anticipation, joy and despair.

And rumor has it that all six nations were formed in the period of time it takes two sides to play almost half of one of these matches.

http://i.imgur.com/AUepSea.jpg

That's not sport. It's cruel and unusual punishment.

 

[Lancecastor]

Sharpen your teeth in honour of Sean....this 6 Nations thing is a hoot...sounds like a Monty Python sketch!

Plus...there's like ten different trophies...crazy.

Played annually, the format of the Championship is simple: each team plays every other team once, with home field advantage alternating from one year to the next. Two points are awarded for a win, one for a draw and none for a loss and unlike most other rugby union competitions the bonus point system is not used.

Victory in every game results in a 'Grand Slam' and back-to-back Grand Slams have been won on five occasions. Wales achieved the first one in 1908 and 1909, England have done it three times in 1913 and 1914, 1923 and 1924 and 1991 and 1992 while France did it in 1997 and 1998. England hold the record for the number of Grand Slams won with 12, followed by Wales with 11, France with nine, Scotland with three and Ireland with two.

Victory by any Home Nation over the other three Home Nations constitutes as a 'Triple Crown'. The Triple Crown has twice been won on four consecutive occasions, once by Wales between 1976 and 1979 and once by England between 1995 and 1998. England hold the record for the number of Triple Crowns won with 23, followed by Wales with 20 and Scotland and Ireland both with ten.

Although this achievement has long been a feature of the tournament, it was not until 2006 that a physical trophy, commissioned by the Royal Bank of Scotland, was awarded. Meanwhile, the last-placed nation at the end of the tournament is said to have won a purely figurative Wooden Spoon.

Several individual competitions take place under the umbrella of the Six Nations tournament. The oldest is the Calcutta Cup, which has been running since 1879 and is contested annually between England and Scotland.

The Millennium Trophy has been awarded to the winner of the game between England and Ireland with the first presented in 1989, and in the same year, the Centenary Quaich was contested between Ireland and Scotland for the first time.

Since 2007, France and Italy have also contested for their own silverware - the Giuseppe Garibaldi Trophy. It was created to honour the 200th anniversary of the birth of Giuseppe Garibaldi, who helped unify Italy and was also a French military general.

 

[Sean]

Sharpen your teeth in honour of Sean....this 6 Nations thing is a hoot...sounds like a Monty Python sketch!

Plus...there's like ten different trophies...crazy.

You don't read so well, do you, mummy's boy?

 

[Sean]

Wales 16 England 21.

Cracking game.

 

[Saint Peter]

Is this the sport where they fake injuries and roll around in the grass seeking sympathy calls from the ref or is it the other one?

 

[Sean]

Is this the sport where they fake injuries and roll around in the grass seeking sympathy calls from the ref or is it the other one?

This is the one that's like your American football but without the girly body armour and the stopping for a bit of a rest every ten seconds.

 

[Saint Peter]

This is the one that's like your American football but without the girly body armour and the stopping for a bit of a rest every ten seconds.

Oh. Soccer.

Got it!

 

[rimmy]

Off you go and watch the curling team, mummy's boy.


No beer in the house. Which is probably against the law for watching a rugby match.

You can rip into Lance all you want but don't you dare make fun of curling.

 

[snugglestruggle]

The English must be expert at getting grass stains out.

 

[KingOrfeo]

OH good lord, I just remember septics. What the hell is a taff?

I think it means Welsh. "Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief . . ." "Taffy" being a Welsh rendering of "David" and St. David being the patron saint of Wales.

PISTOL: The king’s a bawcock, and a heart of gold,
A lad of life, an imp of fame,
Of parents good, of fist most valiant.
I kiss his dirty shoe, and from heartstring
I love the lovely bully. What is thy name?

KING HENRY: Harry le Roy.

PISTOL: Le Roy? A Cornish name. Art thou of Cornish crew?

KING HENRY: No, I am a Welshman.

PISTOL: Know’st thou Fluellen?

KING HENRY: Yes.

PISTOL: Tell him I’ll knock his leek about his pate
Upon Saint Davy’s day.

-- Henry V

 

[lovetoread]

Oh. Soccer.

Got it!

I laughed.

 

[Liar]

And rumor has it that all six nations were formed in the period of time it takes two sides to play almost half of one of these matches.

http://i.imgur.com/AUepSea.jpg

That's not sport. It's cruel and unusual punishment.

I think of it as performance art. Nobody really understand what it's supposed to be, but it sure looks intentional.

 

[Sean]

I think of it as performance art. Nobody really understand what it's supposed to be, but it sure looks intentional.

Actually, the only people that find cricket boring are those that don't understand it. Test cricket is a game of chess where you're allowed to fire a rock hard missile at 100mph at your opponent's face.

 

[rimmy]

Actually, the only people that find cricket boring are those that don't understand it. Test cricket is a game of chess where you're allowed to fire a rock hard missile at 100mph at your opponent's face.

Did you hear about the Aussie that died from a ball in the face a while back? Nasty stuff.