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Eldorion wrote:

Norc wrote:then why is it called football ?

Because it's just a variant of rugby football that has gone off on its own direction due to the cultural and geographical distance from countries where association football is more popular. It's the same reason that Australia, Canada, and Ireland also have their own versions of the game that they also simply call "football".

Edit: this response works to Petty's most recent post too.

it's called isolation. never a good thing.

You just dont like that Ive cracked your cultural code Eldo!

And I still dont get how Americans can often support more than one team- how are you ever going to get proper crowd violence with that sort of attitude?

Amarie- you missed out that the crapest team always wins the Super Bowl- so long as they have been downtrodden, written off as underdogs but show pluck and courage. If the whole team can be from the same orphanage so much the better.

That's because sporting events in America are usually frequented by mature adults. Sometimes they even bring their children along.

We take our children along Eldo- where else will they learn how to hate the opposition and take care of themselves in a riot?
I dont know, its like Americans dont even care about their childrens welfare.

Probably has something to do with the FDA saying that you can't put buckie in baby formula.

Pettytyrant101 wrote:We take our children along Eldo- where else will they learn how to hate the opposition and take care of themselves in a riot?

Exactly Norc- its like they dont care at all!

Probably has something to do with the FDA saying that you can't put buckie in baby formula.- Eldo

So not only do you not care about the well being of your young, you are cruel to them too!!

Pettytyrant101 wrote:You just dont like that Ive cracked your cultural code Eldo!

And I still dont get how Americans can often support more than one team- how are you ever going to get proper crowd violence with that sort of attitude?

Amarie- you missed out that the crapest team always wins the Super Bowl- so long as they have been downtrodden, written off as underdogs but show pluck and courage. If the whole team can be from the same orphanage so much the better.

PETTY!! I left that out on purpose, you just spoiled every American football movie ever made!! Spoiler tag! SPOILER TAAAAAAAG!!!

Well at least I didnt mention that the team they beat will always be owned by the evil man who wants to destroy their home/orphanage/school.

If there's one things that the movies got right, it's that actual NFL quarterbacks really are (sometimes) pretty boys.

Pettytyrant101 wrote: Well at least I didnt mention that the team they beat will always be owned by the evil man who wants to destroy their home/orphanage/school.

Yeah, thank God for that! Also, we must not mention that the quarterback on the evil team is dating the underdog-quarterback's dream girl.

Always.

Eldorion wrote:If there's one things that the movies got right, it's that actual NFL quarterbacks really are (sometimes) pretty boys.

Hm, he sort of looks like he could be Jack Dee's son.

Here to help you ignorant non-Americans understand real sports, is George Carlin:

Great news on the weather front! The temperature is back down to almost freezing, and it started snowing! It actually started while I was in the car and it was very pretty.

Australia is such a big place.

Haha, that's pretty cool.

Snowing here too- must be a lot of it circulating about the northern hemisphere at the moment.

glad ti hear you get some snow it's been storming here and been around zero so all kind of snow xD and wind xD our christmas tree was set out tp be picked up by the garbage truck but it blew away omg..

okay. I know we snow people tend to tease americans and brits and you name it for just loosing it completely when it snows and yeah, no road grip and everything? well.. there has been three buschrashes here this week.. two of them in film (linking them). though in defence, there are only foregin or southerners bussdrivers so they don't know a thing about snow or putting chains (chains? correct?) on the tires.

[url]http://www.vgtv.no/#!/video/60464/leservideo-her-mister-bussjåføren-fullstendig-kontroll[/url] (ingore the comercial)
http://www.nordlys.no/nyheter/article6456618.ece

I loved the northern bus drivers! The strangest ride was the tour bus from Honningsvag to Nordcapp in a heavy snowfall about this time of year. It was 30 or 40 km with no road visible at all . A large snowplow carved a road ahead of us for all but the first few km, and when we came back an hour later they had to carve a new road for us for us to get back to the ferry. All the time it was dark (of course) and snowing heavily so you could barely see the lights on the snowplow ahead. I think the driver was mostly driving by feel.

I think I saw a programme on Discovery? about loony truckers on glaciers and ice flows in Canada/Alaska/cold places.

David H wrote:I loved the northern bus drivers! The strangest ride was the tour bus from Honningsvag to Nordcapp in a heavy snowfall about this time of year. It was 30 or 40 km with no road visible at all . A large snowplow carved a road ahead of us for all but the first few km, and when we came back an hour later they had to carve a new road for us for us to get back to the ferry. All the time it was dark (of course) and snowing heavily so you could barely see the lights on the snowplow ahead. I think the driver was mostly driving by feel.

The road was newly plowed and a there was a light to follow ahead. Generally that bit comes after:
"It was snowing like crazy and the roads were slippery, but ...."
Then the other Fjordian would go: "Oh, so no trouble then."