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@goblin0: Sorry, but “football” is wrong. If you’re going to be so anal as to correct people who say “soccer”, then the least you can do is give the CORRECT name of Association Football. “Football” alone originally meant what people call rugby, which is why Americans call their game football – it was derived from football, aka, rugby. In Australia, rugby is still called football.
That wouldn’t happen in America, but if it ever did they’d probably call it a wardrobe malfunction and sue everyone. Also, the one on the far right is the hottiest
@ goblin0: NoOneInParticular was pretty clear; that “AS” is the proper title.
Who cares people from England do not use the proper title. You’re also to lazy to pronounce half of the letters in the good chunk of the names of your towns. Your just pissy because someone from Australia (I assume) proved (again) that Americans speak more traditionally correct English with less slang in daily speaking. In the same sentence he managed to point out that Australians are smarter to.
Haha, how did anyone prove that Americans speak more traditionally correct English with less slang. NoOneInParticular isn’t Australian, but you’re a pretentious ass.
Hey guess what, the only reason why you have a problem with him is because you feel insulted because you’re American.
Technically Association Football also derived from Rugby (Somehow). That’s why they’re ALL called football. It’s simply a matter of title. In America, American Football is more common, therefore, it is simply called football.
The Majority of the world call Association Football simply Football (or Futbol). The name of the game is a vernacular. It changes wherever you go. In the United States, Football would refer to American Football. England, Football would be “soccer,” and in Brazil, Football would be corrected to FUTIBOL (depending on where you are, I believe in Sao Paulo there’s a 98% chance FUTIBAL will be directly followed by a MANO!).
Since the name of the sport is more a vernacular then it is an actual term, then we must assume a majority wherever we are. Since this is the internet (There are no particular bounds to it), we must opt for the majority of Internet users. Since the highest number of people accessing the internet comes from China, at around 298 million, compared to the 228 million in the U.S, then we must assume we must use the vernacular for “soccer” in Chinese. Therefore, from now on “soccer” will now be referred as 英å¼è¶³çƒ. Hope that answers any further discussion.
Also, stating the Chinese are a majority on the internet is kind of misleading since the Chinese government won’t allow its people to have unfettered access to it and that really dilutes their contribution to the medium. Except, of course, in the area of internet crime and espionage, there the Chinese government actually encourages it.
football.
fuck this is why “soccer” in the US is fucking retarted… i would go to for games if this was there
Yes please.
football chicks ftw
@goblin0: Sorry, but “football” is wrong. If you’re going to be so anal as to correct people who say “soccer”, then the least you can do is give the CORRECT name of Association Football. “Football” alone originally meant what people call rugby, which is why Americans call their game football – it was derived from football, aka, rugby. In Australia, rugby is still called football.
That wouldn’t happen in America, but if it ever did they’d probably call it a wardrobe malfunction and sue everyone. Also, the one on the far right is the hottiest
I’ll take two! If only their legs were painted too. They halfassed it.
@stavross: Happens in American College sports.
@NoOneInParticular: Association Soccer?
They are England fans btw and it’s called football over here.
@ goblin0: NoOneInParticular was pretty clear; that “AS” is the proper title.
Who cares people from England do not use the proper title. You’re also to lazy to pronounce half of the letters in the good chunk of the names of your towns. Your just pissy because someone from Australia (I assume) proved (again) that Americans speak more traditionally correct English with less slang in daily speaking. In the same sentence he managed to point out that Australians are smarter to.
@GrandAdmiralThrawn:
Haha, how did anyone prove that Americans speak more traditionally correct English with less slang. NoOneInParticular isn’t Australian, but you’re a pretentious ass.
Hey guess what, the only reason why you have a problem with him is because you feel insulted because you’re American.
Laughable.
Oh and here we call it, ‘Fussball’, which makes at least sense.
Technically Association Football also derived from Rugby (Somehow). That’s why they’re ALL called football. It’s simply a matter of title. In America, American Football is more common, therefore, it is simply called football.
The Majority of the world call Association Football simply Football (or Futbol). The name of the game is a vernacular. It changes wherever you go. In the United States, Football would refer to American Football. England, Football would be “soccer,” and in Brazil, Football would be corrected to FUTIBOL (depending on where you are, I believe in Sao Paulo there’s a 98% chance FUTIBAL will be directly followed by a MANO!).
Since the name of the sport is more a vernacular then it is an actual term, then we must assume a majority wherever we are. Since this is the internet (There are no particular bounds to it), we must opt for the majority of Internet users. Since the highest number of people accessing the internet comes from China, at around 298 million, compared to the 228 million in the U.S, then we must assume we must use the vernacular for “soccer” in Chinese. Therefore, from now on “soccer” will now be referred as 英å¼è¶³çƒ. Hope that answers any further discussion.
@Thrella: I love you.
英å¼è¶³çƒ shall it be, then.
In Japan, soccer is also called soccer.
Also, stating the Chinese are a majority on the internet is kind of misleading since the Chinese government won’t allow its people to have unfettered access to it and that really dilutes their contribution to the medium. Except, of course, in the area of internet crime and espionage, there the Chinese government actually encourages it.
@gor: Nobody cares.
Also, Wikipedia says the Chinese were the first to have played it, as we know it.
The Japanese don’t call it soccer either, try again.
football and soccer
Another reason for someone to be a dick over the interweb
and yet somewhere in the world….no one cares
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That’s why I gave up bowling for sex: The balls are lighter and you don’t need special shoes. ;P
In b4 Football and Handegg