Post above nominated for the Unintelligeable Post of the Year Award Thanks Za, would that be in the WW2F category, or overall? Wait a minute, is that good or bad?
Post above nominated for the Unintelligeable Post of the Year Award Well I know what he said and so will anyone else who does not live in a county the size of a postage stamp.:p
Well it's MY f***ing postage stamp and if you want to take it you better bring a large f***ing envelope! We're slightly bigger than the state of Maine altogether, for crying out loud!
Well I know what he said and so will anyone else who does not live in a county the size of a postage stamp.:p Isn't England just a suburb of France?
Cad sir....Dangerous foreigners begin at Calais and dont stop till one gets to Bombay...where they speak English and play cricket...I cant spell Mirrimar or whatever it is..so it stays Bombay...
Is it just me though or am I the only one I know who was always tempted to set the little toggle on fire on top of the old French Beret thingy they used to wear? And Jugs...dont start..this forum had decorum until we arrived...but heres a question, why do you have a world series and only you lot are allowed to play?
Oh, that kind of football. I should have known better. Where did the name "soccer" come from then? Now, that is a good question ... We in the UK only ever seem to hear the beautiful game referred to as "soccer" when you Yanks are talking about it. So, a lot of us Brits (myself included) assume it's because you in the US stole the name Football for that game you (US) play with the funny ball and helmets and had to re-name our game Soccer ... But ... And it's a big "BUT"... After the rules of football where officially laid down by the Football Association (FA) in 1863 the sport was named association football. The term soccer first appeared in the 1880's in ... England ... as an abbreviation of the word "association". You had to ask didn't you :mellow: In countries were the sport is the most popular, it's referred to as Football as recognized by the FA, FIFA and the Olympic Body. In other countries they call it soccer, which is it's official name in Canada and the US. So there you go A-58 ... You had to make me spell it out didn,t you We invented the game we love so much, and the name we hate so much ... Sorry Jason, Urqh
Are the sceptics having a go at me....I'm awake now... Yes, we were. Jugs and I were attempting to enlighten you about some Americanisms, and Za piped in because he couldn't understand the slang....Then Slip came in and said that he understood what we said and then Za stated talking about the post office in whatever country he lives in, then you woke up....
And Jugs...dont start..this forum had decorum until we arrived...but heres a question, why do you have a world series and only you lot are allowed to play? We let Canada in : Expo's and Blue Jays The world Series began when the US still had an Isolationist Foreign Policy. You should Google "World Baseball Classic" there are quite a few teams from other nations.
Did you youtube urqh yet? He needs to know you know.... If you people learned to play baseball instead of cricket, we would let y'all into the Professional Baseball League, and then maybe, if good enough, win a pennant, then get into the World Series....
I will simply have to "Youtube" him some Yes, do bring him up to speed. I'm sure he's in the fartsack copping Z's right about now, so when he wakes up he will have something to read while dining on whatever they dine on for breakfast over here.... Here you go Za.... I will simply have to "Youtube" him some I must forward urqh a video posted on YouTube concerning the movie quote that we are talking about. Yes, do bring him up to speed Get him on the same sheet of music/in step/with the program/in the know fartsack military slang for sleeping bag/bunk/rack/bed copping slang for taking/snatching/sneaking/grabbing Z's slang for sleeping/sawing logs/napping/snoozing/siesta Any questions, comments, observations...Does that clear things up?
Is it just me though or am I the only one I know who was always tempted to set the little toggle on fire on top of the old French Beret thingy they used to wear? And Jugs...dont start..this forum had decorum until we arrived...but heres a question, why do you have a world series and only you lot are allowed to play? No, I think a lot of people think the same thing about the toggle thingee, so go ahead and fire'm up. By the way, I've seen old paintings of the old Scottish Clans wearing berets, and today I read in my latest Military History magazine about the Battle of Colloden, the last battle of the Jacobite Rising, and the clans were wearing berets in some of the paintings in the article. So who invented them, the Highlanders or the Frogs?
Now, that is a good question ... We in the UK only ever seem to hear the beautiful game referred to as "soccer" when you Yanks are talking about it. So, a lot of us Brits (myself included) assume it's because you in the US stole the name Football for that game you (US) play with the funny ball and helmets and had to re-name our game Soccer ... But ... And it's a big "BUT"... After the rules of football where officially laid down by the Football Association (FA) in 1863 the sport was named association football. The term soccer first appeared in the 1880's in ... England ... as an abbreviation of the word "association". You had to ask didn't you :mellow: In countries were the sport is the most popular, it's referred to as Football as recognized by the FA, FIFA and the Olympic Body. In other countries they call it soccer, which is it's official name in Canada and the US. So there you go A-58 ... You had to make me spell it out didn,t you We invented the game we love so much, and the name we hate so much ... Sorry Jason, Urqh Thanks for the lesson blacksnake, much obliged. So we call your football soccer because the Canadians do, and that we stoled that name and gave it to our football that was derived from rugby....makes sense to me I guess....Funny how things work out you know.... I never got into soccer. Maybe it wasn't properly introduced in the US. When I was in elementary school (grades 1-6), we played what we thought was soccer. Nobody knew how to play really. Coach had us line up in two opposing teams on the football field, with a slightly deflated basketball at midfield. Coach would blow the whistle, and we'd charge at each other to get to the ball first. We would pile into each other, fighting, biting and kicking to get the ball loose, and then one boy would break away, running towards the goal, kicking the ball along, with a couple of blockers running along with him, knocking down the opposing players that were chasing them. When the ball was kicked across the goal line and into the endzone, coach blew the whistle and declared a goal (no goalies). We didn't run around like your people do after scoring a goal, we just layed on the ground, trying to recover from the play. After that, we'd line up with the ball at mid-field, waiting for the whistle to go again. The only break in the action was when someone touched the ball with their hands. When that happened, coach tooted the whistle, declared "hands," and a free kick was awarded at the point of the foul to the team that didn't get the penalty. The free kick was like a place kick or field goal. If the ball was kicked into the endzone, it was a score, if it didn't reach the goal line, the ball was declared live, and there was a mad dash by both teams to get the ball. It wasn't really soccer, but we didn't know any better. Years later, I watched soccer on TV during one of the Olympics. It didn't resemble anything that we played. To tell you the truth, it looked downright boring. Of course, we never knew what soccer really was. Later on in the 80s, there was a movement to indoctrinate the youngsters to the game that the rest of the world played. A lot of Brits and English speaking Euros were imported to teach the kids. It never caught on real big. Come the fall, all attention went back to the gridiron, where it belonged. Us older types saw soccer as a liberal plot to undermine the American way of life. Soccer was Un-American we thought, after all, soccer was "Charlie's Game" (quote from "The Boys From Company C"). Nowadays, kids that are too small to play football play soccer, and in high schools and colleges, girls play soccer as a counter to football. And now we have about 20 million Mexicans in country, playing soccer.
........ In countries were the sport is the most popular, it's referred to as Football as recognized by the FA, FIFA and the Olympic Body. In other countries they call it soccer, which is it's official name in Canada and the US. ....... Nope it's Kickball.........only played by little girls, metro sexuals and the offspring of generation "X" matings. Ranking only slightly lower than Golf and Basketball
Isn't England just a suburb of France? Yes, but the cultural influence (half the English language is French) did not reach cooking. A pity. :p Here you go Za.... I will simply have to "Youtube" him some I must forward urqh a video posted on YouTube concerning the movie quote that we are talking about. Yes, do bring him up to speed Get him on the same sheet of music/in step/with the program/in the know fartsack military slang for sleeping bag/bunk/rack/bed copping slang for taking/snatching/sneaking/grabbing Z's slang for sleeping/sawing logs/napping/snoozing/siesta Any questions, comments, observations...Does that clear things up? Ah, the art of decoding!
Yes, but the cultural influence (half the English language is French) did not reach cooking. A pity. :p Ah, the art of decoding! Glad to be of assistance. If needed in the future, I will be available for translating US slang....
Nope it's Kickball.........only played by little girls, metro sexuals and the offspring of generation "X" matings. Ranking only slightly lower than Golf and Basketball You are not going to make any Christmas Card lists like that....
