I don't understand how can you even call it football as it obviously is handball. Unless you refer to the sport that is the most popular in the world, the only true football, also known to you as soccer. Stop calling American football true football, you can call it true handball if you like. You can ask Cleese about that if you like :)
Vesku Wrote:I don't understand how can you even call it football as it obviously is handball. Unless you refer to the sport that is the most popular in the world, the only true football, also known to you as soccer. Stop calling American football true football, you can call it true handball if you like. You can ask Cleese about that if you like :)
There's room for both in the nomenclature. We can respect the true masters of that sport where men dance and jig around for 90 minutes in short pants, often for little or no results, and spell it "futbol." After all, 90% of the best players have Spanish or Portuguese as their first language. The sport that most closely resembles organized combat and requires a pain threshold to make a Spartan cry we spell "football." ;)
Truth is, I love futbol and rugby. Great sports. But football is in a league of its own. You probably have to see and hear the game up close to get it. Hockey has a similar problem; it's hard to appreciate if you've only seen it on video.
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zeiss Wrote:lol. This thread has really leapt off subject. Where's that iron-fisted brute Weasel when you need him to restore order? 
Well I have just been sitting back watching you silly folks argue about what is good coffee when after all we all know that only YOU can make good coffee at home. Or which beer is best when we all know that it is Canadian beer (except for that big name Molson and Labatts stuff, yuk) and it has the alcohol to go along with it.
As for budweiser....yuk. I would rather drink nothing then that stuff. I went to a comedy club once when I was in the US and as part of the admission we got tickets for free beer. Well of course the only beer they had was Bud, which I had not had before. Got myself a beer, took a drink, and brought the other ones back to the bar. No thanks.
Sam Adams is good beer, or MISSISSIPPI MUD.
Spain just won the European Championship. They beat Germany by 1-0 in the final. A well-deserved victory by the tournaments best team.
Viva España!
Hmm.. when discussing great American "sports" we must not forget their croquet variant. Where beer-bellied men shuffles around 4 doormats for 4 hours in front of a sleeping crowd. ;)
seabolt Wrote:Hockey has a similar problem; it's hard to appreciate if you've only seen it on video.
I'm not even going to dignify this nonsense with a remark. Sheesh.. an
American lecturing us about hockey. :P
Weasel Wrote:Sam Adams is good beer, or MISSISSIPPI MUD.
Once upon a time, Sam Adams was great beer. I visited Boston in 1986 when it was still a wonderful microbrew. Got kicked in the head so hard, that same night, that my left ear stuck out at 90 degrees like Clark Gable's for a week. I was quite upright at the time. True story. Great night.
Ever since Sam went corporate, it's only been decent. You want great U.S. beer, you're talking Sierra Nevada, Stone, and Saint Arnold. Maybe Anchor Steam, if the bottle's havent sat too long.
zeiss Wrote:Spain just won the European Championship. They beat Germany by 1-0 in the final. A well-deserved victory by the tournaments best team.
Being of Deutsch descent, I'm not with you on this. Was not happy at all. But I admit the Spaniards deserved it, the swine. ;)
zeiss Wrote:I'm not even going to dignify this nonsense with a remark. Sheesh.. an American lecturing us about hockey. :P
Who's lecturing? I said you can't appreciate hockey unless you've seen it live. You know I'm right. TV murders the game. Until they can get a camera in the middle of the trench in football, no nonplayer will really understand that game, either. Says the former tackle and current youth coach ...
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Baseball's screened on Brit TV fairly regularly but nobody over here understands the rules, so ratings figures are pretty low. I tried to learn by watching it for a while but still hadn't a clue, there are no wickets for a start, and sometimes the batsman doesn't even bother to swing at the ball, crazy..
I then trawled the net looking for tuition videos and came up with this one which didn't help much-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPrm6luPmME
Walrus Wrote:I have traveled far and wide and it is hard to get good coffee no matter where you are on this planet.
Walrus
Jason,
Italy comes to my mind as a good place to start searching...
Nearly impossible to get bad coffee over there.
The real problem starts when you want coffee AND beer in one place. You may end up with terapist. Now, having said that, that would explain so many therapists in US, when you take their beer and coffe into consideration LOL
Hi Maciej
I just got an email from my mum who is in Asti, Italy.
Lucky her eh
I'll have to get her to find a nice coffe and have one for me.
Hurrah!
I have stopped drinking beer.
It makes me fat.
I now drink only whiskey.
It destroys my liver, but I cannot see that with my eyes, so it is all good :whis:
Every now and again I have a beer when it is hot and I deserve one from working hard...and that is very occassional!
...working hard that is
hahahahaha
Cheers lads
Ah, very good after all we agreed that SPWAW is teh best game :)
I don't think anyone's agreed with anything LMAO