dave_rhino
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Basketball = girly netball? That I definitely do not agree with seeing as netball is a girls sport...
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Basketball = girly netball? That I definitely do not agree with seeing as netball is a girls sport...
Really. How about this: let's put on some pads and you can go head up with me. Then you can come and tell me how girly football is. We're not the ones who fall down and roll around on the grass for 5 minutes, pretending we've been mortally wounded, after someone touches us while we were chasing after a ball that looks like it was made from a Dalmatian. :2 cents:
Yes but we play basicallty the same game (rugby) without any pads.
The girlie argument is silly. We can't call soccer a brutal, physical sport because even though it takes more endurance than almost any other, and has very little protection, it's not about brutal physical strength.
However, soccer is the most exciting sport on the planet, me and about 4 billion other people think so, but hey, if you 300 million think that your sports are better than everyone else's and we just don't know, well, each to their own. (I'm not saying that you said that, but it's a common perception here that American sports are the best and that soccer sucks and is for girls - what do you think?)
NFL and NBA and NHL are all very exciting, especially in the Play Offs. But they cannot touch the World Cup, European Championships, or Champions League. That's a matter of opinion, but if we took a global vote you know that American Football, Basketball and Ice Hockey would probably not make the top 10 most loved sports in the world, and our football (soccer) would probably get 10 times as many votes as any other sport - literally. Cricket and Rugby and Athletics and tragically, Baseball, would be in the top 10.
As for motor racing - yeah, so the rest of the world watches the Grand Prix which is like, the best drivers in the world racing all over the world. Meanwhile in America, we have our own races and our own Nascar and so on, and don't pay attention to Grand Prix.
It's mind boggling. What, we just don't like stuff if it's globally popular? I dunno.
As for Baseball... what the hell? I cannot believe that sport is so popular here.
Well, personally I've never been interested in soccer. Even when I lived in Mexico, all my friends and classmates loved it, and I couldn't bring myself to liking it. Every once in a great while, usually during the World Cup, I'll watch about 10 minutes of a game, but I get quickly get bored of seeing a ball being kicked from one end of the field to the other without much of anything else happening. I played a few times at school because it was required for PE class, and my classmates would all tell me that I would be really good if I practiced, but I never really found much interest in it. I was more interested in seeing how many people's shins I could take out than I was in kicking the ball.
I agree with you that soccer is one of the most popular sports in the world, along with formula 1 racing and gymnastics, but I'm still not interested in it.
As for motor sports, I've never really been interested in any kind of motor sports. I don't consider these events "sports" because they require no physical activity. Sure, you have to be skilled to drive a vehicle at 200 mph, but you can see that on the freeway anytime. I guess I didn't inherit enough of my grandpa's redneck genes to like car racing.
I don't see what the big deal is with baseball either. I mean, I like the game, but it's too slowly-paced for me. 90% of the times when I go to baseball games I end up looking at the freaks in the crowd, or the girl with the nice tits that just walked by, or the wave that's gone around the stadium 4 times...
As a "Brummie" ie from Birmingham, i'm glad you say that ;-)
There is the stereotype of boring Brummie, but i try to dispel that
Compared to caber toss everything is girlie. If you can't throw an entire freakin forest, yer a wuss I sez.
Caber Toss
just don't call him a tosser...
Caber Toss
just don't call him a tosser...
Cockney accents can be difficult for non-British people to understand.
And sometimes even British people, you know the cockney accent where its so over the top. Sometimes I have trouble understanding everything being said :dunno:.
Ive often thought it would be class if there was a website that you could speak it told you were it thought you were from. You could try other accents and see if you could deceive it too.
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"By right she should be taken out and hung, for the cold blooded murder of the English tounge"
What a line.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKaoAfJWF0Y waat like this eh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH04i4eTrJk or this song hehe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH04i4eTrJk or this song hehe
Cerys Matthews, and the welsh accent in general, is absolutely bloody gorgeous.
Those people who indulge in this are called Mockney Cockney's.
Well, I like girls and I like sports, so maybe that explains my obsession. :1orglaugh :wave2:
As a "Brummie" ie from Birmingham, i'm glad you say that ;-)
There is the stereotype of boring Brummie, but i try to dispel that
Whenever I hear a Brummie accent, I think of two things..
'Barry' from Auf Wiedersehen Pet and 'Cup-a-Soup'
(you can thank Vic Reeves and his send up of Brummie band 'Slade', for that..)
Any of you guys ever seen a ghost?