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Rukia wrote:OH I forgot my sports

Hockey (whoooo hoo strikes over)
(American) Football
Baseball (But only when The Cards are playing)
And the occasional Football game (unfortunately the only place to catch it is on the spainsh channel so I don't watch it all the often)

Corrected for you

It's spelled Soccer here, dearest.

One place on the planet it is.

Yeup we're fucked, but we like it this way.

No, New Zealand calls it soccer too, I've heard.

Because they call rugby football.

I've heard some Aussies call it soccer but that was up around Darwin.

Isn't it still called soccer in the UK, too?

Edit:

Batman wrote:Isn't it still called soccer in the UK, too?

No.

And also:

It has much more of a right to be called Football. The foot actually interacts with the ball for the vast majority of play. Rather than the other sport(s) called Football where the main aim is to pick up and carry the ball... much like Rugby. But in armour.

Batman wrote:Isn't it still called soccer in the UK, too?

Where the hells did you hear that :stupid:

I heard it from some bloke in a pub
So even the grand British Empire has succumbed to conformity and calls it Football now. Oh how the mighty have fallen...
SOCCER! SOCCER, I say!

Methinks Batman has it the wrong way around.

Wrong way round, upside down, who cares? The fact remains that the Valendamned World Cup is GETTING ON MY NERVES!!!AARGH!!!

Why? It's only once in 4 years when I'm legally allowed to be a caveman infront of my TV.

Topic moved upon request.

Why? Germany during soccer world cup is bad enough. The thing happening here? Pandemonium squared. You can't go anywhere without some World Cup-related merchandise or other being on display, 70% of the TV program are soccer-related, and that without the thing even having started...

Batman wrote:Why? Germany during soccer world cup is bad enough. The thing happening here? Pandemonium squared. You can't go anywhere without some World Cup-related merchandise or other being on display, 70% of the TV program are soccer-related, and that without the thing even having started...

I don't blame you. Nigeria hosted the African Nations' Cup one year along with Ghana. Eurgh.........

Actually it did start today.

And Germany kicked Costa Rica's ass! YEAH!!! 4-2 Germany! Team Germany, Fuck Yeah! Here to win the motherfucking world cup yeah!

*does a victory dance*

My hope is... Whoever wins, it had better not be bloody Brazil, that bloody country has won too many times for my tastes.

That said, I hope that the events of 1966 repeat themselves...

Oh great Valen please no. Anything but a German victory. Things are bad enough as it is.

1966 was an English victory over Germany.

I was referring to B4's post. Sorry.
And frankly I don't care who wins as long as it isn't Germany. I'd find it hilarious if it were some tiny country nobody ever heard of but that's it. Germany in World Cup mode is bad enough. Germany in World Cup here mode is hell. Germany in 'We WON the World Cup' mode? May Valen have mercy on our souls.

Actually kinda hoping for a US victory. It would be a first wouldn't it?

frigidmagi wrote:Actually kinda hoping for a US victory. It would be a first wouldn't it?

Yes, at least to my knowledge, and that would be almost as good. Around here, the US are considered a complete and utter nonentity where soccer is concerned.

We are improving I'll have you know, been improving and getting stronger for some time now.

Good for you I think. What I wanted to get across was that the US winning the World Cup would be almost (possibly more so) as unexpected as some nobody ever heard of it country doing it.

Bah. Germany for the win, ftw