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Sports you wish you knew more about.

#21 Sparkimus

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Posted 15 January 2009 - 12:38 AM

America - FUCK YEAH!

QUOTE (Stalker @ Jan 23 2009, 01:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

So last night I was walking downtown for some pizza at like 1am with some friends of mine,
and someone said, "I'm so hungry I could eat a whole pizza."

I said, "I bet I could eat 100 pizzas," and no one understood me. I was sad.

#22 Slum

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Posted 15 January 2009 - 01:15 AM

THATS WHAT IM SAYING SPARK!!!!!!

Ignorant redneck Americans have a tendency to post all in caps, without any sort of punctuation aside from exclamation points. I have a feeling it's because they don't know what they're supposed to capitalize or punctuate - they'd rather just yell and make sure you know it.

#23 Cold Iron

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Posted 15 January 2009 - 02:29 AM

Go selfishly self-defacate on yourself somewhere by yourself.

#24 Slum

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Posted 15 January 2009 - 03:28 AM

Cold Iron, on Jan 14 2009, 09:29 PM, said:

Go selfishly self-defacate on yourself somewhere by yourself.

Oh, please, c'mon... I was merely playing along with the 'Americans are stoopid' mentality of previous posts...

Do you imagine all Americans are somehow unintelligent reprobates waiting for the next sale at Wal-Mart?

This post has been edited by Slumgullion Spitteler: 15 January 2009 - 03:30 AM

#25 Cold Iron

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Posted 15 January 2009 - 03:47 AM

Slumgullion Spitteler, on Jan 15 2009, 02:28 PM, said:

Cold Iron, on Jan 14 2009, 09:29 PM, said:

Go selfishly self-defacate on yourself somewhere by yourself.

Well yes but nothing I said could have possibly given that away.

#26 amphibian

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Posted 15 January 2009 - 03:56 AM

Sir Thursday, on Jan 14 2009, 04:47 AM, said:

Aussie Rules is one I'd be interested in learning a bit more about too, since from what I know of the rules I imagine defending is pretty difficult. I mean, how do you stop someone from kicking it through the goalposts from miles out?

Sir Thursday

You hit them in the face - before they kick it? Nip it in the bud.

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#27 Slum

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Posted 15 January 2009 - 04:06 AM

Cold Iron, on Jan 14 2009, 10:47 PM, said:

Slumgullion Spitteler, on Jan 15 2009, 02:28 PM, said:

Cold Iron, on Jan 14 2009, 09:29 PM, said:

Go selfishly self-defacate on yourself somewhere by yourself.

Well yes but nothing I said could have possibly given that away.

You didn't have to. It was evident in your response.

#28 Cold Iron

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Posted 15 January 2009 - 04:21 AM

Slumgullion Spitteler, on Jan 15 2009, 03:06 PM, said:

You didn't have to. It was evident in your response.

Hm. Evident hey? Response hey? It hey?

Hm.

#29 Slum

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Posted 15 January 2009 - 04:29 AM

Fine. You win. I'm drunk and have no intention of playing out this game.

I don't care all that much if you assume Americans are dolts...mistaken assumptions abound.

By all means, feel free to send me a PM, CI, if you want to debate this further at another time...

#30 Cold Iron

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Posted 15 January 2009 - 05:06 AM

Slumgullion Spitteler, on Jan 15 2009, 03:29 PM, said:

Thems sound like fighting words!

We were fighting?

#31 amphibian

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Posted 15 January 2009 - 05:29 AM

Cold Iron, on Jan 15 2009, 12:06 AM, said:

Thems sound like fighting words!

We were fighting?

Who's fighting?

I got winner. I'm about to start Thai boxing on Saturday (in addition to Brazilian jiu-jitsu). I know next to nothing about it - except for seeing Ong Bak and knowing the awesomeness of the clinch.

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#32 HoosierDaddy

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Posted 15 January 2009 - 05:46 AM

Cold Iron, on Jan 15 2009, 12:06 AM, said:

Slumgullion Spitteler, on Jan 15 2009, 03:29 PM, said:

Thems sound like fighting words!

We were fighting?

I think he thought you were saying all Americans are dumb. Well, 50% at least are anyways. Anyways, I've been in a drunken imaginary fight with my girlfriend before on New Years Eve. I made up a fight in my head and aplogized profusely over voice-mail, only to have her ask me what the hell I was talking about. So maybe that's it.

Who needs martial arts when you can run away?

Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....

#33 Cold Iron

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Posted 15 January 2009 - 05:51 AM

HoosierDaddy, on Jan 15 2009, 04:46 PM, said:

I think he thought you were saying all Americans are dumb.

I didn't think he was serious until the last post. He's the one who said it first, I told him to stop!... oh well

#34 Bhurnae

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Posted 15 January 2009 - 10:56 AM

The Drum, on Jan 14 2009, 10:16 PM, said:

The sport i'd like to know more about is Ladies Beech Volley Ball, looks like a very interesting sport. Can anyone recommend a team to follow.

On the subject of Rugby, i once had a big argument with a mate who was adamant that all rugby players are failed football.WTF. There's no way a pro footballer could play rugby, 1 tackle and they'd be off on the stretcher.
Any way being a true blooded Welsh Man, there is no other sport than Rugby, although i have heard some strange rumours of some sort of 'league' version of the game, sounds a bit far fetched to me though

I have drunkenly promised to take my Cofi wife to watch Wales play at Cardiff...........................

Mezla PigDog, on 28 September 2009 - 09:34 PM, said:

I have been entertaining tourists for many years now.... A girls gotta make a living.

#35 Slum

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Posted 15 January 2009 - 11:04 AM

Cold Iron, on Jan 15 2009, 12:06 AM, said:

Slumgullion Spitteler, on Jan 15 2009, 03:29 PM, said:

Thems sound like fighting words!

We were fighting?

Nah, no fight. I don't know why I was getting ornery. Mainly b/c I was drunk and tired and couldn't keep up with online banter, I imagine...

All is cool.

#36 Arthur Dayne

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Posted 16 January 2009 - 04:58 AM

This thread is rapidly going off topic. Besides, after buying my first beer boot, competitive drinking sounds like a sport to truly follow. And for my money, I'd love to know why the referees at rugby match feel the need to announce their pecker size after a score in rugby? Perhaps they just haven't caught on that filthy americans such as myself giggle their asses off every time they're drunk and watching rugby.

If your cat wasn't meant to fly, why wouldn't they make them bigger?

#37 Cold Iron

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Posted 16 January 2009 - 06:40 AM

Slumgullion Spitteler, on Jan 15 2009, 10:04 PM, said:

Nah, no fight. I don't know why I was getting ornery. Mainly b/c I was drunk and tired and couldn't keep up with online banter, I imagine...

All is cool.

For the record, i don't think americans are generally dumber than any other nation. You do like to pass some dumb laws though...

Arthur Dayne, on Jan 16 2009, 03:58 PM, said:

That would be Aussie rules football. Not rugby.

For the uninitiated.

The world has 4 footballs:

Rugby Union: gods game
Rugby League: thugs game
Aussie rules (and international rules): pansy game
Soccer: girls game

#38 Use Of Weapons

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Posted 11 February 2009 - 10:02 AM

There is also Gaelic football, you realise? Like a cross between soccer and Aussie rules.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
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#39 Skywalker

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Posted 11 February 2009 - 11:02 AM

Cold Iron, on Jan 15 2009, 03:11 AM, said:

Ok since there have been a few mentions of wanting to know more about cricket I will repeat my performance:

Crickt: sport of gods when it's too hot for rugby.

One word: sledging. Look it up. It's like trash talk without the your mama jokes. It's like phyche outs without the your mama jokes. You think Shane Warne could spin a ball? You should have heard him sledge.

It's a battle of wits. Who can outlast the others, who wants it more, who has the mental stamina to stand in one spot for hours on end doing nothing and then at 5:30 in the afternoon after playing all day take a one handed over the head sprint-then-dive catch in the outfield landing on grass that's harder than concrete and catching a ball that's harder than your mama.

Five days is the only true cricket (and the purists *ahem* even dispute that - unlimited). One day (that's 50 overs of 6 balls each) and 20/20 (that's 20 overs each) is just to give the average punting public a spectacle to drop some cash to pay for the real test matches.

Here comes the hard part. You need to know the terms.

(snip)

Field Positions:
Wicket Keeper
Slips
Gully
Point
Cover
Mid-off
Mid-on
Mid-Wicket
Square leg
Fine leg

After you've learned all of these, all you need to do is find out if they've got a sister and tell them she should take lessons from their mother

I must say you missed...

Long On
Long Off
Silly Mid On
Silly Mid Off
Silly Point
Leg Gully
Leg Slip(s)
Fly Slip
Third Man...

Sigh: see - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fielding_(cri...s_and_locations