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[JustaNobody]

I really don't think we would win soccer every year if we played.

Not if we participated, but if our culture obsessed over the sport the way we do over the big three, it would probably make a difference. Of course, I just see that as a sign that we put far too much energy into ball games already. But that's a very long rant.

 

[WriterDom]

100,000 people or more turn out for College football. Half the town turns out for high school football, in the south anyway. The only people watching soccer are their girlfriends and gay guys who like tanned legs.

But anyway. Hijack over.

 

[chauderlos]

I don't agree with your above comment, WD. Not the last one, the one before.
Some countries are putting millions of dollars on the table, buying the best soccer players, the best coaches, and are still way behind the leading countries.

And your implication that soccer is for gays is just... pathetic.

/highjack

 

[WriterDom]

I don't agree with your above comment, WD. Not the last one, the one before.
Some countries are putting millions of dollars on the table, buying the best soccer players, the best coaches, and are still way behind the leading countries.

And your implication that soccer is for gays is just... pathetic.

/highjack

It's just satire. Jesus, you euro's take this soccer shit seriously. To me it's more boring than hockey. At least with hockey you have a stick and it breaks out in fights all the time.

 

[Homburg]

Right, this coming from the country that couldn't handle playing rugby the way it was meant to be played so you had to change the rules? "If you have a vagina" my pasty white arse.

We do actually play rugby. American football is it's own weirdness.

While I am not a soccer hater, soccer really is way behind on conditioning. While there are exceptions, soccer athletes are comparatively under-trained. Beckham may be a phenomenal soccer player, but he is not the physical specimen that you see in other sports. Compare them to basketball, rugby, Aussie football, etc. Scrawny git Becks is the norm, not the exception. It is tough not to look at him and think "Weed."

That said, I would want to stand in the way of Zidane's head, or get in any way close to calling Vinnie Jones a pussy. I prefer my balls unsqueezed.




NOTE: I am using "soccer" simply because the default for "football" on a predominantly US board refers to American rules football.

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It's just satire. Jesus, you euro's take this soccer shit seriously. To me it's more boring than hockey. At least with hockey you have a stick and it breaks out in fights all the time.

Don't be bad-mouthing hockey now.

 

[jockdom]

100,000 people or more turn out for College football. Half the town turns out for high school football, in the south anyway. The only people watching soccer are their girlfriends and gay guys who like tanned legs.

But anyway. Hijack over.

I thought a game with a tight end and wide reciver would be more to their liking?

And yes Football has less conditioning because more time is spent on skills training not banging each others heads together.

 

[WriterDom]

Our girls have three shiny gold medals and a silver. That's my only soccer interest.

 

[chauderlos]

I thought a game with a tight end and wide reciver would be more to their liking?

And yes Football has less conditioning because more time is spent on skills training not banging each others heads together.

Or maybe because they take less steroids and other drugs?

I'm not taking this seriously, but stating that soccer is for gays is simply insulting for the gay community. How would WD, and other board members have reacted if I had said that cycling is for sissies? Lance Armstrong won the tour de France 7 times, does this make him gay?

 

[00Syd]

I thought a game with a tight end and wide reciver would be more to their liking?

My ex was a big football fan, and I would hang out with him when he watched games. I couldn't pay much attention to the game, but I would listen to the commentary, and so much of it is just so... gay.

"The tight end just got balled from behind!" "Wide receiver takes the ball!" "he's gripping the ball tightly!"

And watching all these "tough" guys prancing around in these skin-tight pants slapping each others asses while listening to how they all get balled, and catch each others balls, and how their tight ends really went the distance, and all this gay-sounding shit, all I could think about was gay porn.

I would sit there and just laugh.

 

[WriterDom]

Or maybe because they take less steroids and other drugs?

I'm not taking this seriously, but stating that soccer is for gays is simply insulting for the gay community. How would WD, and other board members have reacted if I had said that cycling is for sissies? Lance Armstrong won the tour de France 7 times, does this make him gay?

I didn't say soccer was gay. I said a gay guy might like to watch because of the tanned strong legs.

Of course those football pants are pretty tight too.

 

[00Syd]

Of course those football pants are pretty tight too.

Very tight.

 

[Homburg]

I thought a game with a tight end and wide reciver would be more to their liking?

And yes Football has less conditioning because more time is spent on skills training not banging each others heads together.

Oh, absolutely. Watching highlight reels of serious pro players do truly frightening things with the ball is good stuff. The skill level is undeniable.

And then there's hockey. Do everything a soccer player does while wearing armor, carrying a stick, focusing on a puck that is a tenth the size of that ball, and all while balanced on a pair of razor blades shooting across the ice at twice the speed a man can run.

It has nothing to do with needing more time for skills, and it has everything to do with the culture of the sport. There are lots of sports out there with complex skillsets that still have time to work on all around conditioning of players. Soccer doesn't care because they want fast feet, and that is pretty much it. I am just of the opinion that soccer coaches catching up with the rest of the world on conditioning would produce even more amazing players.

And less comments about soccer players being pussies

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Our girls have three shiny gold medals and a silver. That's my only soccer interest.

I enjoy women's soccer more. Mia Hamm kicked ass.

 

[Keroin]

Chewing gum also aids in relief of stress.

Yep, my dentist "ordered" me to chew gum. I'm a clencher and a grinder. I've fractured six molars because of this. You could often tell what kind of stunt I was preparing for by how many packs of gum I burned through that week.

 

[unpredictablebijou]

In the word "facetious" all the vowels appear in order.

 

[MisterSir]

In the word "facetious" all the vowels appear in order.

And you may know that "Typewriter" is the longest word that can be written on the top line of the keyboard exclusively, but did you know "bookkeeping" is the only word to have three simultaneous pairs of letters?

 

[WriterDom]

The state of Florida is bigger than England.

 

[unpredictablebijou]

And you may know that "Typewriter" is the longest word that can be written on the top line of the keyboard exclusively, but did you know "bookkeeping" is the only word to have three simultaneous pairs of letters?

I did not know the first, (cool!) but I knew the second.

I'm a bit of a word geek.

If you add the suffix -ly you can include the sixth vowel too.

 

[jockdom]

Boiling water will turn into ice in the freezer quicker than cold water.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

Did you know that its always about 2 degrees warmer in Manhattan than it is in New Jersey, just across the river?

That's from all the hot air coming out of the financial community.

And you may know that "Typewriter" is the longest word that can be written on the top line of the keyboard exclusively, but did you know "bookkeeping" is the only word to have three simultaneous pairs of letters?

And the longest word that can be typed with one hand using only the "normal" letters keyed by that hand (on a QWERTY keyboard) is "stewardesses."

 

[00Syd]

That's from all the hot air coming out of the financial community.

Hardy-har har.

Its actually just from the sheer density of people! How cool is that?

 

[DVS]

Hardy-har har.

Its actually just from the sheer density of people! How cool is that?

Concrete retains heat, too. More concrete, more heat.

But, I prefer the hot air statement, myself.

 

[midwestyankee]

The coastline of the state of Maine, if stretched out into a straight line, would reach from Bar Harbor to San Diego.

 

[unpredictablebijou]

The number 108 is the hyperfactorial of 3.

*lurks to perv on Yankee's AV*

 

[midwestyankee]

The number 108 is the hyperfactorial of 3.

*lurks to perv on Yankee's AV*

Careful, if it attracts too much attention it morphs into a pizza. Just ask LilyBart.

 

[unpredictablebijou]

Careful, if it attracts too much attention it morphs into a pizza. Just ask LilyBart.

I gleefully stole, and still use your description of New York pizza pretty frequently:

"ketchup on a saltine"

heh. But we mustn't hijack the thread...

The ancient Greeks considered beans a possessed vegetable, which contained the souls of the unmourned dead. The "atmos" expelled after eating beans was thought to be ghosts, since air was considered the "world soul" into which our own breath would be absorbed after our death.

Round our house, if someone has an unfortunate digestive moment, we all shout "GHOST!" and run away.