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wannago
Joined: 16 Apr 2004
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| demi wrote: |
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| American Football ? *Shakes head* Jesus. If there's ever a gay parade Olympics, those camp as pancake Gridiron(ers) would clean up everytime |
American football.....what pussi*s! We laugh at that sport in Britain. Take off all the protection and come try rugby  |
No doubt rugby is a tough sport. BUT, because of the difference in the way the two games are structured, you don't get those vicious blind-side hits in rugby that you do in American football. If Americans were to take off the helmets and padding (which is minimal in professional ball), more people would die. Also, I have yet to see the average rugby team measure up to the the size of the average American football team. I've always wanted to see an all-star rugby team play one game of each sport with an all-star American football team and just see what happens. It would be interesting. |
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stevemcgarrett
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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demi wished:
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| American football.....what pussi*s! We laugh at that sport in Britain. Take off all the protection and come try rugby |
Yeah, keep smokin' that weed. I've watched some rugby and at its worst it's not as rough as American football.
As wannago has explained, the game is designed in such a way that speed changes the body impact. Despite padding, injuries abound, some even life-threatening. Same can't be said for rugby.
You take the NFL guys against the rugby guys and it would be no contest. Keep up the wishful thinking. |
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venus
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Location: Near Seoul
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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demi wished:
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| American football.....what pussi*s! We laugh at that sport in Britain. Take off all the protection and come try rugby |
Yeah, keep smokin' that weed. I've watched some rugby and at its worst it's not as rough as American football.
As wannago has explained, the game is designed in such a way that speed changes the body impact. Despite padding, injuries abound, some even life-threatening. Same can't be said for rugby.
You take the NFL guys against the rugby guys and it would be no contest. Keep up the wishful thinking. |
You actually really care about this sort of stuff don't you Mcgarrett? |
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Scouse Mouse
Joined: 07 Jan 2007
Location: Cloud #9
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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| I'll give you Baseball though. Baseball's cool. |
We have baseball in England. We call it rounders and it's played by girls! |
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demi
Joined: 23 Mar 2006
Location: London
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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Baseball is not American. The honest ones on here know very well it is an adaptation of rounders.
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| As wannago has explained, the game is designed in such a way that speed changes the body impact. Despite padding, injuries abound, some even life-threatening. Same can't be said for rugby. |
This is not worth commenting on. You clearly don't know about rugby.
Helmets & a ton of other protection = pussi*s  W
Rugby is for men my friend. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 12:36 am Post subject: |
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| Perhaps no one is seriously putting you guys down for the same reason no one feels comfortable insulting the mentally challenged. |
Ouch flakfizer! |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 2:08 am Post subject: |
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| Big_Bird wrote: |
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| Perhaps no one is seriously putting you guys down for the same reason no one feels comfortable insulting the mentally challenged. |
Ouch flakfizer! |
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R. S. Refugee
Joined: 29 Sep 2004
Location: Shangra La, ROK
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 2:38 am Post subject: |
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| flakfizer wrote: |
Perhaps no one is seriously putting you guys down for the same reason no one feels comfortable insulting the mentally challenged. |
flakkie, have you not noticed all these years of bush-bashing? |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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Those silly superfluous U's in words we Yanks spell like "color, flavor," etc.
I hate, hate, hate the pronunciation "shedule." I'd get past it if I ever heard a Brit pronounce "school" as shool. Both words have a Greek roots -- why the different treatment? I think it's just one of those things you guys do to make yourselves feel more different from Americans than you really are. At some conference a couple hundred years ago, you all got together and decided to come up with stupid ways of saying words that you could then mock us over. You are a linguistically evil people, that much is clear.
(Okay, though, I do appreciate the British pronunciation of "cretin," with the short E, as it helps me keep straight in my head when I'm talking about cretins and Cretans. If you happen to love -- or hate, for that matter -- a Cretan, this becomes important.)
Ummmm. I've only ever spent six hours in the UK, at Heathrow, but by all reports, I hate your weather. And just know this: it would be even worse if we didn't, in a staggering act of generosity, direct the Gulf Stream your way. So watch it. We have only so much patience for your linguistic evilness. Just one too many "shedules" could push us over the edge, and we'll give the Gulf Stream to Norway. |
And what about the way you nasty yanks forget the o in oestrogen or the a in medieaval? Damn you. And why can't you get the r and the e the right way around in words like centre?  |
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 2:14 am Post subject: ... |
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| You take the NFL guys against the rugby guys and it would be no contest. Keep up the wishful thinking. |
WERE THEY TO PLAY RUGBY, HALF OF THEM WOULD DIE FROM HEART ATTACKS.
What the British know about tea, they haven't a clue about when it comes to coffee. |
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daskalos
Joined: 19 May 2006
Location: The Road to Ithaca
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 6:18 am Post subject: |
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| And what about the way you nasty yanks forget the o in oestrogen or the a in medieaval? Damn you. And why can't you get the r and the e the right way around in words like centre? |
Again, more vowels than are needed. Extra O's, extra A's. Is there no end to your people's evil superfluity?
And as soon as you start pronouncing "centre" as "SEN-treh," we'll stop laughing at you for your spelling of it. Or are you really just FRENCH people, masquerading as English speakers? Damned closet Frogs.
I curse you!  |
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The Soju Hoju
Joined: 29 Nov 2006
Location: Bus 26, 200 yards past Lotteria on the left
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| I think one must ask in reply why many North Americans have such huge heads.......talk about the first moon on the man...it's a wonder you can walk...reminds me of a collection of baked potatoes waddling around on matchsticks...get that in ya large loaf |
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BS.Dos.
Joined: 29 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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| flakfizer wrote: |
| Perhaps no one is seriously putting you guys down for the same reason no one feels comfortable insulting the mentally challenged. |
No, but you're quick enough to elect one though...twice.
As for the NFL, I don't see how you can compare it with Rugby when you only play for about 15 seconds at a time before one of the 17 refs then blows his whistle and everyone high-5s each other.
Granted, the two games are different, inasmuch that you can only tackle the player with the ball in Rugby, but even so, double hits by a pair of mobile 250lb+ (18st) prop forwards is pretty dangerous, especially when you're not wearing a Village People outfit.
While we're at it, Maple Syrup over bacon and eggs, WTF is that all about? |
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BS.Dos.
Joined: 29 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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| The Soju Hoju wrote: |
| I think one must ask in reply why many North Americans have such huge heads.......talk about the first moon on the man...it's a wonder you can walk...reminds me of a collection of baked potatoes waddling around on matchsticks...get that in ya large loaf |
LOL |
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The Soju Hoju
Joined: 29 Nov 2006
Location: Bus 26, 200 yards past Lotteria on the left
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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| BS.dos...........at last someone who speaks the truth...rugby is a real sport..played by real men..not some steroid filled primate with a load of pillows stuck to him. Rugby doesn't have time outs, rest periods they just play ' full on ' for 80 minutes............ Try playing rugby without ' Michelin Man ' padding my American brethrin see how you like it.... and how can you a have World Series in your own country.....where do they get this s-it from? |
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