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USA Wins World Cup Game 1-1 Wait, erm...

#21 Raymond Luxury Yacht

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 06:09 PM

I read somewhere that the name soccer is slang derived from asSOCiation football, anyone know if this is true?

Also, maybe it's silly to act like we won a tied game, but I saw an awful lot of English people acting like they lost.

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 06:24 PM

Yeah, it's true. The slang was Assoccer apparently which devolved into soccer over time. It was actually the English who invented the word, funnily enough.

Hehe...ass soccer. :thumbsup:

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 06:27 PM

@ HD: That's because it did feel like a loss. It'd be like you guys losing to us at a handegg game, unthinkable. We don't play it, you do, therefore you should beat us.

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 06:48 PM

MTS, on 15 June 2010 - 06:24 PM, said:

Yeah, it's true. The slang was Assoccer apparently which devolved into soccer over time. It was actually the English who invented the word, funnily enough.

Hehe...ass soccer. :thumbsup:

Or in your case...., ass ocka

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 07:24 PM

Thelomen Toblerone, on 15 June 2010 - 06:27 PM, said:

@ HD: That's because it did feel like a loss. It'd be like you guys losing to us at a handegg game, unthinkable. We don't play it, you do, therefore you should beat us.

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 07:29 PM

I tried to watch one of the games, but it pissed off a nest of hornets I didn't know lived behind my TV.

All I could hear was a very load buzzing, so I ran out of the house until it was over.

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 07:39 PM

Ya bubba, don't worry thats happened to me many times, just call the hornet people they'll get everything under control.
Also, the world cup is always a great chance to bet on brackets, and potentialy make money, always turn situations like soccer around, so you can make CA-CHING! or not... Do whatever you want.

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 08:38 PM

H.D., on 15 June 2010 - 07:24 PM, said:

Thelomen Toblerone, on 15 June 2010 - 06:27 PM, said:

@ HD: That's because it did feel like a loss. It'd be like you guys losing to us at a handegg game, unthinkable. We don't play it, you do, therefore you should beat us.

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What's the matter, Mcfly? Chicken?

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 08:38 PM

Oh dear, I do apologise, I appear to have mixed up my Americans. I blame alcohol. I haven't had any today, that must be it.

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 08:43 PM

Nobody calls me chicken.

Also, it's too dangerous round these parts. I might be mistaken for KFC.

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 09:39 PM

Gotta love them hornets...

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 10:19 PM

All right, I'll give it another go - someone recommend a game that should be more exciting than Cameroon/Japan. :thumbsup:

And yes, my first post was trollish but I did it for humor, not to wind anyone up. I used my Aussie friend's example because I agree that disparaging sports is silly. Because personally, I don't care a whit for Rugby or Cricket either.

And Gothos, your description of ~~soccer~~ footsie and drinking is exactly how I think about baseball. My friend who is a radio announcer once said "baseball is a conversational game" and realized that he's right.

I think I've said this before, but I think Americans enjoy sports that feed an apparent cultural mindset/need for statistics/numbers/tangible evidence of something happening even when goals aren't being scored. Baseball is chock full of statistics, as is ~~handegg~~ football. And all that standing around waiting means we have time to go to the bathroom... If I watched soccer, I would have a genuine fear that the moment I leave the room to pee, the only goal of the entire game will be scored.

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 10:34 PM

H.D., on 15 June 2010 - 08:43 PM, said:

Nobody calls me chicken.

Also, it's too dangerous round these parts. I might be mistaken for KFC.

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 10:34 PM

No no, you wait til half time to go, when 60,000 people simultaneously try to go. New stadiums are more or less ok for this, but at Highbury there used to be ridiculously long queues for every toilet, with people pissing in every sink and often two to a toilet bowl, and cramped up at the urinal troughs.

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 10:38 PM

Illuyankas, on 15 June 2010 - 10:34 PM, said:

H.D., on 15 June 2010 - 08:43 PM, said:

Nobody calls me chicken.

Also, it's too dangerous round these parts. I might be mistaken for KFC.

Some people call me a chicken. Others call me a space cowboy.

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 10:46 PM

Shinrei, on 15 June 2010 - 10:19 PM, said:

I think I've said this before, but I think Americans enjoy sports that feed an apparent cultural mindset/need for statistics/numbers/tangible evidence of something happening even when goals aren't being scored. Baseball is chock full of statistics, as is ~~handegg~~ football. And all that standing around waiting means we have time to go to the ~~bathroom~~ burgerstand.If I watched soccer, I would have a genuine fear that the moment I leave the room to pee, the only goal of the entire game will be scored. :thumbsup:

Is this due to short attention span ?

As for going for a pee during the game ? Suck it in man !

Watch a game with Spain in it, they are my tip to win.

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 10:51 PM

Thelomen Toblerone, on 15 June 2010 - 10:34 PM, said:

Or even worse at the end of the game there are hundreds of coke bottles/ pint glasses filled with piss everywhere from all the lazy bastards who couldn't be arsed to go and piss in a sink.

Now all the friends that you knew in school they used to be so cool, now they just bore you.
Just look at em' now, already pullin' the plow. So quick to take to grain, like some old mule.