The other night I noticed a news item about football ( okay I will call it soccer as you don't play proper football). It seems mothers have been seeing FIFA and US soccer people as they are worried their children may get concussion or something heading a ball. For the name of the wee man is this real? Countries right across the world have played the game for so long and now this? I do admit that I laughed at first then I thought how soft.
That explains a lot, rj! You got kicked in the head as a wee laddie; then went into government service (doing what "government servicers" do…). Now, you watch your telly and -as best you can- pontificate, about everything you never had the ability nor proclivity to understand.
We do seem to be becoming more like you… But looks (and opinion polls) can be deceiving: We may -some few of us- want to re-name the Redskins football team; some players may want to "play" nice, and avoid physical injuries, such as concussions. In the meantime (and likely in the end), we'll keep our games — violent as they are!
Except for some "inner city" fans, we constrain our sports violence to the field. In your neck of the woods, the term "hooliganism" refers to those who attended a game…
Perhaps we should air-drop handguns to your underprivileged populations, to see how well your moral fiber actually holds up under stress… :)
Fanatic brawling and exaggeratory faking of injuries. Y'all keep it...
L.A. has basketball teams.
Takes a Wally to come up with this anyway. When who plays what sport matters Jesus shall return!
Are you becoming softies over the pond?? (https://dndsanctuary.eu/index.php?topic=485.msg26532#msg26532)
What were you expecting from people that religiously wears a helmet for riding a bicycle...
What were you expecting from people that religiously wears a helmet for riding a bicycle...
I had thought this was a European innovation. But I was wrong. (see here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_helmet_laws_by_country))
Still, I think you're confusing San Francisco (with its religion of Liberalism…) with the U.S. :)
Here in California, the helmet requirement is put upon "commuters" not recreational cyclists; analogous to motorcyclists, I presume — the law is part of the vehicle code…
In my area, enforcement is quite lax. (But many Yuppies ride helmeted, trailing the duckling-children -helmeted, of course!- behind them.)
Now how blatantly bodyswerving is that from the 2 Yanks above?!
I recounted repeated suing over children that doesn't happen anywhere else in the world. Instead the two above cannot answer the point at all. Why are American children any more different than the world? Having stated a news item from the BBC, I did not make it up and these brain deads cannot give an answer to this softy stuff so go silly instead. It also affected authorities over there and international football ones as well. No proper answer so try to do a dance.
@Howie: Watching television makes you stupid! If you start with a deficit, even moderate viewing can — well, create a correspondent such as yourself… :)
RJ, it has nothing to do with us being "softies" and everything to do with being litigious in general.
We've become a nation set on the idea that you become rich by suing your neighbor. Court is viewed as a casino, the judge is a slot-machine. You put your legal brief in, pull the judge's arm down and money pours out. For very little more than your ability to say "Waaaahhhh!!!" in front of the court, you hope to cash in big.
I could wish we were becoming softies. That might be fixable. I'm not so sure there is a fix for greed though.
Yeah, I'm kinda disgusted by the whole sodden mess, but there doesn't seem to be any end in sight.
Meanwhile in Tennessee:
A man realizes he can have a more meaningful conversation with his twelve year old son than a man from Glasgow.
More on this as it develops...
Well I will say this mjsmsprt40. You at least have shown some common sense which is something ensb and Oakdale have not managed to generate yet. I do understand that it has been a sad development over odern times to find automatic excuses to file for big sums so no problem with your answer. That is a sensible one but the other two simply body swerved the terrible impression being given to the world. One wouldn't need a basically harmless ball that the whole world is fine with to damage those two as they couldn't even give a simple straightforward answer like yourself.
the terrible impression being given to the world
Have you considered,
Howie, the impression you make? (Ask around…) You're an "original" alright — and maybe the only Neanderthal left! (But I suspect they were both more intelligent and more comely…) Turn off the tube and write a book! You still have time…
(Had you more time, I suggest you read one…)
(But many Yuppies ride helmeted, trailing the duckling-children -helmeted, of course!- behind them.)
Those are who makes the laws. And governs you. After them, their children - already helmeted since childhood - will follow governing.
Only an handful of Free people still resist to them the rest being totally under the securitist new world. Everything can kill you so we are going to need more laws isn't it? more regulations, more control until we reach paradise on earth when everything has been prohibited so nothing can harm you.
Conform, consume, obey... it's for your safety.
Nazi pigs.
I do admit that I laughed at first then I thought how soft.
Surely you are running out of things to ridicule America and its citizens about. That the human brain is considered to be more precious here than where you live bothers you? :knight: ???
Oh I do not care a proverbial damn what you Yanks call me and anyone earlier on the old Opera Forums that was sniffy about the good ole US of A got polarized. Too many of you are emotional turnips and you all jump on the same bandwagon of slagging. Like a bunch of kids trying to be secure!
In any case the only ex-colonists who said anything practical and contributory was mjsmsprt40. He answered to a daft situation that doesn't happen anywhere else with football. You others couldn't even attempt an asnwer as such ludicrous bonsense.
Oh, and for running out of the negatives that would not be easy as there are so many of them. The greatest country in the world - an example of democracy - greatest army - yawn, yawn. When you look at what you have done in the world starting conflicts and being so hypocritical about things inside the country and the poor and disadvantaged there is no end in sight!Goodness, even the UN Human Rights people are worried about people in the State of Michigan and the nearly defunct city of Detroit where over 700,000 people have no water or sewage facilities. Yep in the land of the free and home of the brave (!).
Anyway the others outside of the Chicago man show an intellectual deficit on such a simple question as to why it is the singular country for such utterly daft litigation. If you nigglers at me had a football hit you head you wouldn't notice apart from the echo, haha. Ah, wait a minute. Maybe as lot of your leaders had been hit with a soccer ball when young and that is why theye are as they are. Sorry, i should have considered that. :happy:
Ah, wait a minute. Maybe as lot of your leaders had been hit with a soccer ball when young and that is why theye are as they are. Sorry, i should have considered that. :happy:
You are the ones who have always played so much soccer. Your outward hatred of anything American is so obviously hidden envy and jealously it's not even funny. "A jealous person won’t come and tell you that he is jealous of you nor he will say it directly to anyone else, but instead his jealousy will appear in the form of hatred, resentment and gossiping. Not to hurt their Egos jealous people will never say it directly but the envy they have towards you will spill out of their mouths in the form of non-constructive criticism, rude treatment or disrespect for you"--sound familiar? :knight: :cheers:
(You can titter away the tension now)
even the UN Human Rights people
You mean, people like Pakistan, Venezuela, United Arab Emirates; China, Saudi Arabia, and Cuba? :)
We are way too litigious, and that may make us appear as "soft"
Right now, if I buy a cup of coffee-- either at McDonald's, 7-11 or at my favorite truck-stops, there is a warning that the coffee is hot printed right on the cup. Reason: an old woman burned herself at the drive-through at a McD's and sued the place because the coffee was too hot. Now, as we all know coffee is SUPPOSED to be hot, if they sell it to you lukewarm you'll probably reject it and complain that the coffee is not hot enough.
I have some power tools here, partly because of hobby interests and partly because of professional interests. Every last one of these tools come packed with warnings that they are dangerous, and the warnings are usually worded in such a way that you would think they were warning the mentally incompetent-- who shouldn't be allowed around such tools in the first place. These warnings are pure legal BS, designed to protect the toolmaker in case a mentally incompetent person-- meaning you, the person using the tool-- do something remarkably stupid and get hurt, then try to sue the tool maker.
Everything these days seems to come with some sort of warning-- when we're allowed to have some things at all. Seriously, if you look at the legal landscape right now, you'd wonder that we're allowed to feed ourselves. It's all because people will sue at the drop of a hat, hoping to get rich in court because, of course, they couldn't have gotten hurt due to their own incompetence-- it had to be the fault of the tool maker, the person serving them coffee, the playground equipment makers and so on.
RJH brings this up about soccer-- and at the moment it's hard to argue with him. Everybody around the world plays the game and they don't get hurt--- here, we have to bundle our children in body-armor before even thinking of sending them outside because they might get hurt-- and if they do, we'll probably sue the pants off of anybody we think we can stick it with.
(Geeezzzz. Did I actually ride a bicycle on a 60-mile round trip, no helmet or any other protective gear, and somehow I survived? My parents didn't even know where I was much of the time. How did we ever survive in my generation?)
A great many more Scotsmen wear skirts than Americans sue for silly reasons, proportionately. By that criterion, rj is an anomaly… (Wait: Is there any criterion by which rj isn't an anomaly? :) )
I have had a brilliant flash of insight.
For years I have wondered how rj can regard hundreds of millions of Americans as a homogeneous mass, not of individuals, but of equally culpable and equally inferior, less than human things.
He is a Scot! That is the only kind of society he has ever known.
Yup!
For years I have wondered how rj can regard hundreds of millions of Americans as a homogeneous mass, not of individuals, but of equally culpable and equally inferior, less than human things.
So by example, all Scots foam at the mouth over America and suffer through unrequited love of Putin.
For years I have wondered how rj can regard hundreds of millions of Americans as a homogeneous mass, not of individuals, but of equally culpable and equally inferior, less than human things.
So by example, all Scots foam at the mouth over America and suffer through unrequited love of Putin.
Simplifies things wonderfully!
So by example, all Scots foam at the mouth over America and suffer through unrequited love of Putin.
Simplifies things wonderfully!
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The only reason I have much in agreement with RJ here has nothing to do with soccer, and everything to do with the reason why we bundle our kids in armor before sending them out to play. Frankly, I'm rather disgusted with our tendency to sue each other at the drop of a hat, and given the legal landscape it's a wonder our children are allowed to play soccer at all.
Otherwise--- RJH's tendency to bash America and Americans every chance he gets is getting a little old. I understand he's visited here a few times already, but I make this suggestion. Since he hates America and Americans so much, it might be a good idea for him never to come to America again. Why visit a place you so openly despise?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeXQBHLIPcw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeXQBHLIPcw)
That was a gem mjm!
The English are just wicked, but good at it.
:happy:
Oh for goodness sake mjsmsprt40!
Just when you come out with something sensible and for which I cannot disagree you then as occasionally do go back to this rather daft, incapability of being able to discern the obvious! It seems that i haver to keep repeating my stance on what I think as you ex-colonists have a deep rooted difficulty being able to discern between the status of a nation and the people. To make it even simpler for the inherent problem many Americans have i will yet again (groan) say there is a difference. It is well known that i am no fan on what the RC Church stands for but I have no denying the individuals their rights. Can you work that out/ If so you ex-colonists then, hooray! It is the same on America. it boasts, thumps it's chest, spends half the world's armaments bill, creates international problems, starts conflicts on often dubious grounds. Supports dictatorships to get a base, had tens of millions who are left behind in their own land (even though they are loyal to it). So i don't have any time for your wonky political system or your world policies but NEVER ONCE have I say I hated individual Americans. i knew a man years ago who was an organiser in the tiny communist Party here. Had no time for the Reds but i acknowledged his rights as I have mine. Is it clicking yet without falling back easily on words like "hate"? So one can have little time for what your country does (there are plenty over there who are of the same stance as myself).
If you and I mean on the broad use of the word have to be incapable of discerning the obvious then there is something you folk need to re-educate yourselves on! On the theme the other answers outside of mjsmsprt40's were just plain stupid compared to his proper answer. Unfortunately it is not just in soccer this head scratching softness appears. in the variation of the word 'football' all that armour and looking like something out of a Roman Empire gladiators shindig! Here and well-wisher where Rugby is played (I got it at school) there is none of that pansy stuff. My acknowledgement to the Chicago man for his honesty and I won;t single him out too much as it is an inherited lack racially! :lol: :whistle:
It seems mothers have been seeing FIFA and US soccer people as they are worried their children may get concussion or something heading a ball.
"Dr Michael Grey, a motor neuro-science expert at the University of Birmingham, called for children to be completed banned from heading the ball." (source (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2737492/Could-heading-ball-banned-football-Group-Soccer-moms-US-file-lawsuit-against-Fifa-saying-havent-protect-young-players-concussion.html#ixzz3C5x4K2GF)) (Also, see here (http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/oct/17/rugby-union-nfl-lawsuit-concussion)…)
One wonders how many hits to the head
Howie took… :) By "seeing FIFA" I assume he meant "suing FIFA" — and one wonders where they got the idea!?
Pull your blinders back, Dobbin! :)
For a more sedate rendering, see the FT story here (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/af22190a-2e83-11e4-afe4-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3C64SEkDv). And note that the class-action lawsuit was filed (of course, in California's Northern District, San Francisco! :) ) by
[…] plaintiffs, two former players and several parents, [who] claim that Fifa “has failed at the most basic duty of a governing body – to protect the health and safety of those that are governed”.
Had the headline simply been
Four U.S. "soccor moms" sue FIFA…" would
Howie's spleen have been quieted? Of course, not! :)
We're wasting our time but...
Strangely enough the extra padding that NFL players wear contributes to their shortened careers, because they have such extensive protection many players (consciously or subconsciously) have less regard for their, and other's, safety. A number of studies have shown that the impact force of an average tackle in the NFL is significantly higher than that of rugby (union and league). The padding and protection the players wear is only protective up to a certain point, especially when a tackle aimed to hurt even through the protection hits a relatively unprotected point e.g. the knee or lower leg.
http://www.quora.com/Why-do-NFL-players-have-such-short-careers-compared-to-rugby-players (http://www.quora.com/Why-do-NFL-players-have-such-short-careers-compared-to-rugby-players)
Irony level of this thread: Maximum
Typical example Oakdale of you lot.
Anyone who dares to challenge across the pond is venting their spleen or going ape. Would take more than a few ex-colonist to do in reality. It does give you a certain self-assessment no doubt of a positive feeling but is in fact, negative. Here we have not had the costly suing that goes on over in America about "oooh, our children might get brain damaged or hurt...oh time for a hug girl, oops, boy."." Mind you, Birmingham here has a population where only a minority are indigenous now. Anyway your softy stuff about football and the great sums being done in court says something. So too does all that other baloney about what you call "football." Running about like a crowd of scared cats and stopping every couple of minutes. Not a touch on our rugby players who don't run around like modern versions of armoured Medieval knights. If you played like that as a boy here in Glasgow either as a child or older you would have been laughed at for being a jelly baby. Rightly so, haha! :lol:
Mind you, Birmingham here has a population where only a minority are indigenous now.
Your indigenous have forgotten how to do
that, too!? :) (Of course, the University's leading lights are not your typical townie…)
Anyone who dares to challenge across the pond
But you don't "challenge" us,
Howie. You just watch your telly, hoping to find any example that jibes with the prejudices you imbibed as a child…
BTW: Dr. Barry O'Driscoll, after 15 years of service, quit the IRB as a medical advisor last year…in protest. Is he non-indigenous? Ignorant of the sport? :)
Showing your ignorance there my dear man. It has already been admitted in your country that the average Joe hasn't a clue about much outside the US of A and where there are conflicts they haven't a damn clue! So kind of pointless of you to take the high ground. They just go "duh" and follow what your television and press rabbits on and tends to be very selective rather than general. So do make sure you look over your shoulder before trying to stare into my eyes. :cheers:
In other words, RJ, your personal ignorance is excused, by our greater numbers…? :)
Greater numbers of what - brain dead nutjobs from the land of them?! I am more than happy to concede that unintentional slip by you. Have a tea or coffee for a wee change!
Howie, you well know that all Westerners are becoming "softies"… Why do you choose to pick on 4 Marin County matrons?
And, then, generalize to a nation of 300+ millions? I'd bet those four ladies would be more than a match, for you and any three of your chums!
Is your sports and military experience not so common, laddie-o? :) (If I'm wrong, that the former is minuscule and the latter non-existent — please correct me.) Take a long walk — off a short pier!
Having played football (the proper game) and rugby at Secondary School as well as coming from a family with a big military tradition serving HM you are scrabbling in the dark dear man. If anyone was to suggest here in a real man's land that rugby players should dress up like our American cousins they would get laughed at and chased. We used to have a television advert for our national soft drink my Irn Bru. It used to say was made from girders and if there was something similar over the pond it would be made from plasticine! :lol:
You played football when you were still in short pants, and your family has a military tradition... I'm impressed by your manliness!
My mother had a cousin who went down on the Thresher -- didn't make her a sailor, let alone a submariner. But perhaps you'd argue otherwise.
BTW: Can you swim? (Or -alternately- are you devolved from mermen?)
If anyone was to suggest here in a real man's land that rugby players should dress up like our American cousins they would get laughed at and chased
Completely different strategies/techniques involved. Silly to even try to compare them, not that one or the other gets any extra on your man-card credentials or anything.
Backyard football does favor rugby a bit more than any league play. Lax rules, also worrying about a lateral can keep you from over committing to a tackle and hurry up offense keeps the game in motion more.
You played football when you were still in short pants, and your family has a military tradition... I'm impressed by your manliness!
Yes, but have you seen his sporran!
LOL! (But he's a low-lander — likely keeps it up his a — Oops! Don't want to offend anyone… Never mind.)
Well talking about freedom and rights in the land of the free and home of the brave (titter) doesn't make you automatically a believer just look at your history! As for everyone becoming soft that is a neat dance step. Your "footballers" in their armour and our Rugby players showing you what real sports men are. No comparison chappie. You did get one thing right about me being a lowlander and my ancestors fought "Bonnie" Prince Charlie and his Jacobite wasters. As for tt92, his lot got talked into joining the South Vietnam fiasco which the good ole US of A made such a damn mess of (someone else could have won!). We didn't. Says something for him to think about on a walkabout victimising the Aborigines.
the South Vietnam fiasco which the good ole US of A made such a damn mess of (someone else could have won!)
Hey, DS,
we did win, militarily — then our politicians gave away our victory; for what, I've never understood…
(As to "someone else could have won": The French didn't; the British had already managed to
lose an entire Empire! Those few who joined the U.S. in 'Nam are notable and noble examples of allies in the cause of freedom.
But your ilk prefers the "cause" of Rugby… Go figure! :) )
You cannot be sober Oakdale - you won that war militarily? No you blinking didn't and even President Nixon tried to salvage your pride on that fiasco. That old hoary excuse about the politicians letting you down. When I think back to the time of abuse and protest going on over 'Nam that says something else. When the time came to gradually demit the Empire we did but you aren't with your Empire even though you are strangling yourselves in debt and a far too big military. Kind of typical all the military pontificating is about the same as the big Jessies done up in their nicr protective gear. Compare that to real men in rugby. No comparison old chap.
RJ, it has nothing to do with us being "softies" and everything to do with being litigious in general.
I could wish we were becoming softies. That might be fixable. I'm not so sure there is a fix for greed though.
Yeah, I'm kinda disgusted by the whole sodden mess, but there doesn't seem to be any end in sight.
It also has to do with softness. Just look at
freerangekids.com at the many examples of stupidity. So many worrying about every little thing and just begging or approving of governmental laws and regulations for control and restrictions
hoping to ensure an absolutely risk free environment.
You cannot be sober Oakdale - you won that war militarily?
Howie, teetotaler that you are, your intellectual laziness alone must explain your lack of knowledge… We're talking about fairly recent times!
But I forget: You only know what your Telly shows you. (I'd wager you think the Tet Offensive was a big win for the North… :) ) Read a book, if you have no remembrances!
RJ, it has nothing to do with us being "softies" and everything to do with being litigious in general.
I could wish we were becoming softies. That might be fixable. I'm not so sure there is a fix for greed though.
Yeah, I'm kinda disgusted by the whole sodden mess, but there doesn't seem to be any end in sight.
It also has to do with softness. Just look at freerangekids.com at the many examples of stupidity. So many worrying about every little thing and just begging or approving of governmental laws and regulations for control and restrictions hoping to ensure an absolutely risk free environment.
It's impossible to make anything "foolproof". Just as well, because the instant something becomes foolproof, only a fool would want to use it.
You are bordering on making a terrible ass of yourself and not a very good apostle for your country. in this thread mjsmsprt40 has shown a more concerned and informative stance and quite separate from your self-appraisal negativity. Do hope you are sober enough for you to understand. If not do try rugby and go home for a cry.
Howie, there are indeed wimps in this country. (We used to just call them Red Coats… But then we won our war of revolution; since, they've been those who followed the lead of the Brits on all things "civilized"…) There may indeed be men in yours… But the games children play (including the "professional" athletes, whatever the sport) don't mark that kind of distinction: Real-world endeavors do.
When you say such as "You are bordering on making a terrible ass of yourself and not a very good apostle for your country" it's hard know what you're talking about: Did I not spout the usual media pap? Am I not a "good" Marxist? Is appeasement not my first impulse?
Well, laddie-o, you should surely be used to that!
I don't particularly care about what ignorant or easily led people think. Not for argument's sake.
Yet I "argue" with you — on the Net.
I've made many mistakes in my life. But making an ass of myself or being a not very good apostle for my country — these ain't them!
I've often made an ass of myself, and enjoyed doing so. (I talk to you, as if you were an adult…)
But I've never considered my country to be a god, nor myself an elect… That sort of thing was rejected and repulsed by our revolution: The "crazies" of Europe can deal with them, on their own.
Have we intervened when perhaps we shouldn't have?
Maybe. But our ancient, decrepit and degenerate forebears deserve -at least- a comfy retirement. No? :)
One where they can kick each other in the shins -or heads, should they fall- and bounce a ball… (You can't convince me that ballgames are important, on their own.) What else have they left to do?
I hear-tell Scotland wants to devolve further… Maybe not. The election hasn't happened yet.
You're agin' it, I recall. I have no opinion, really. And no vote!
Nor should I have a vote. You're another kind of animal: You think you should have a vote on everything!
Yet you're so out-spoken that anyone can easily know what you think about almost anything: They know who and what you are, since you never provide actual reasoning…
Hey, I just noticed there's a new TV show: "Fifteen pioneering Americans move to a remote location where they begin the process of creating their own civilization from scratch."
Of course, that's TV… In Scotland it's called politics!
Good luck, dealing with the post-civilization civilization… Since you've rejected literacy and the acquisition of knowledge, you must have some other plan?
I hope you and your countrymen aren't becoming revolutionaries… :)
We used to have a television advert for our national soft drink my Irn Bru. It used to say was made from girders and if there was something similar over the pond it would be made from plasticine!
What are you blathering about now, Howie? In America, that stuff would a little girl's drink. You need to man up to Arrogant Bastard Ale, especially formulated for us arrogant bastards. I'm enjoying some right now. Unfortunately, I'm afraid that a poor, weak constitutioned Scots would rendered unconscious in short order by it. No, better stick your sweet, fizzy stuff for safety reasons. It would be even more dangerous for a Scotsman to try out for American Football.
And may i remind you dear kindergarten brain ex-colonist that your land wallows in Cocoa Cola and Pepsi Cola! Maked yourself look a right fool with that one and I avoid such language and leave it to wee boys trying to be men. Oh and by the way, Irn Bru give Coke and Pepsi a run here. The land of fizzy drinks getting a dig at Irn Bru, haha, brilliant own goal softie.
Yeah well, my car has a radio!
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Ah, well done finally catching up with a radio in the car!
You're right rjhowie and our American friend 's reaction demonstrates it totally.
The problem is that if it only affected the US that would be seen just as another folkloric characteristic but unfortunately it affects the entire western civilization.
All that started with the cigarettes banning and the hysterical paranoia about forcing people to be healthy. Mental health excluded of course.
Life it's a sexually transmitted disease, with no cure and one hundred percent mortality. They think not.
:eyes:
http://media.smh.com.au/news/national-news/swans-surf-kirra-5013546.html
Thinking on health issues touched by Belfrager it is a hoot that over in America there are States chasing freedom to take previously illicit dugs. Small wonder psychiatry is big business over there. Goes to show how down under there is so little worthwhile going on that flying swans are a wow factor. :)
The land of fizzy drinks getting a dig at Irn Bru, haha, brilliant own goal softie.
I'd like to see a thin-blooded Scot endure months on end of 40 degree Celsius plus temps (in fact in July, August and the first part of September that's relatively cool.) I'd be afraid a poor Scot's weak blood would evaporate owing the blood's thinness and his weak constitution. Poor soft Scotsman :( Poking one is rather like poking a marshmallow. It's shame really, What happened? Is it genetic?
:eyes:
http://media.smh.com.au/news/national-news/swans-surf-kirra-5013546.html (http://media.smh.com.au/news/national-news/swans-surf-kirra-5013546.html)
Clearly not Scottish swans, who are no doubt emulating the soft behavior of the Scottish humans.
I don't know how my post ended up here.
It was supposed to go into "weird, wacky, and wonderful" or something.
I imagine rj would have misunderstood it there, too.
A Rugby Player was banned for SIX Weeks for playing the heinous [glow=blue,2,300]'tip-tackle' [/glow] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNgyCjgk5fA)-- oohhh my! (https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/lolfun.gif)
Another Rugby player was banned from playing for a very, very dangerous action (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMNGifiRXUw)
He blatantly & dangerously charged an opposing player -- oohhh my! (https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/chuckle002.gif)
(https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/big%20laugh%20007.gif) Yet, another Rugby player gets a 2-3 week suspension (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg032gLfTdE)for a simple tackle --- a tackle that a NFL player would laugh off as mere child's play ..... & use similar tackles 5 times again during a game, for in the NFL such trivial tackles, most all tackles for that matter,
are perfectly legal.
[VIDEO]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icQasr61aEM[/VIDEO]
Yes, Rugby is by far the much, much more violent game....they should have the common sense to
ban such 'barbarian' activity, before they lose all their teeth, & become
walkin', gruntin', knuckle draggin', zombies by the tender age of 25!
Not only that, from the Rugby Player vs the NFL player, Rugby does appear to be approximately 42.69 percent gayer.
Yet, another Rugby player gets a 2-3 week suspension (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg032gLfTdE)for a simple tackle --- a tackle that a NFL player would laugh off as mere child's play .
Hrm, from the official's pink shirt, I'd have to revise the relative gaiety calculation to 59.69 percent.
I don't think I have to be too fazed about Sanguinemoon's stuff about us. The Germans were more scared of us in the First World War than they were of your lot. You lot trained the Iraqi Army and look what they did they ran away! We have always been a natural tough breed and that is why the Romans gave up trying to get beyond southern Scotland having taken the whole of England and Wales.In fact they had two defending walls. Years ago i remember an old school pal of mine who became a commissioned officer in HM Forces. They were doing a night exercise with American troops. However in the middle of the winter night they got out of foxholes and decided to go back as it was too cold an uncomfortable for them. In the middle of the night a US colonel arrived with a couple of other officers to check how things were and where his men were. My friend saluted and informed him they had gone back due to the cold and the colonel said they were Goddam right. Just as well the Bolshies didn't come over the Berlin wall, eh? Half a million men and you couldn't even save S. Vietnam, hahha you do give a laugh so three out of three for that!
If your players are so tough men why the armour? They are big but it doesn't automatically follow their brains are!
(https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/biglaugh023.gif) Hey 'Cooney, I think ya got ta RJ there lil fella!! (https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/big%20laugh%20007.gif)
Notice the lack of any retort regarding the Relative Gaiety Calculation of Rugby. (https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/biglaughlg9.gif)
I mean you hit pay-dirt there my furry friend, he skedaddled away from that one like a shot out of a AK-47, like you caught him mid-lisp! (https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/lolfun.gif)
Not only that, from the Rugby Player vs the NFL player, Rugby does appear to be approximately 42.69 percent gayer.
Literally LMAO! I wasn't prepared for such precision.
Bear in mind that all 22% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Make that 26%.
You do wallow of waffle Smiley but there again in a land of nut jobs bolstered by Audie Murphy dreams so immature! You even have the gall to call your game "football." No comparison with football at all and a lot of bolstered pansies in their wonderful protection. You lot are so soft over there. They have tried to bring it here but it is a minority interest as we all left Primary School (5-11 years) long time ago. At one of my boys' Brigade camps when I was a captain there were a group of late teen American youths staying nearby and were watching our lads playing real football. They asked if they could show our teenage youths their game and our lads being rough and ready Scots were not impressed at all so the ex-colonist youths had to return deflated.
Anyway play your laugh thing and help keep the minds off the brained from the mess the country is in. Just shows how easy it is to do that! :lol:
Anyway play your laugh thing and help keep the minds off the brained from the mess the country is in.
Fools such as yourself have been blathering such nonsense about the US for over 200 years--it's a wonder we ever achieved the status and respect that we have on this planet. How did we ever accomplish anything without your super powers rj?
The story of Braer Rabbit and the Tar Baby is a tale about a fool such as you who madly punches away at the object of his disdain, only to hopelessly entrap himself while doing nothing to the oblivious Tar Baby. Come on 'n hit us with your best shot rj--fire away!! So far, all you're shooting are blanks. :knight: :cheers:
(If you so much as stood next to an NFL football player, you would piss the little pink panties under that skirt of yours).
Howie, have you been playing American Football, because you post like you're severely concussed and possibly hallucinating. It's one the most dangerous mainstream sports on the planet, if you don't count events such as Ultimate Fighting Championship and it's ilk mainstream (and there is an argument to do, with it being televised.) Say, you have anything like it over there? I think American men bashing each other's heads against a steel cage might even satisfy the ancient fans in the Roman Coliseum.
But back to football. This (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/opinion/bruni-footballs-devastating-harvest.html) writer for the New York Times, is favor better safety equipment and possibly even weight limits to the players. To make his case his notes:
But it was also one of the most discomfiting football games I’ve ever seen, a blunt reminder of how much pain we fans endorse in the service of our pleasure. All in all five players for the Chiefs went down, exiting before the end of the fourth quarter, and the team’s defeat was inextricable from its physical devastation. In the N.F.L., the spoils often go to the squad that needs the fewest X-rays, crutches, sutures and surgeries.
...
t has been a sickening season that way. At least eight of the league’s 32 teams were without their first-string quarterbacks before October was over. Some of the quarterbacks who went the distance seemed to do so mainly because their teams’ entire architecture had been designed around their protection.
...
So many other players cracked. Before mid-December, 41 had fallen to season-ending knee injuries,
American football is a soft game because the players wear safety gear under their uniforms? Did someone slip something funny in your Irn Bru? Did you order pizza and the shop gave you some special mushrooms? Did someone ask you to lick stamps for them? Or maybe you're posing a teatotaler, but in fact enjoy stronger drinks than Irn Bru? Maybe, Alike like, you fell down a rabbit hole and witnessed a Sacrastaball match. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcastaball) Your brain soften by years of Irn Bru abuse confused it with Football?
A ramble of elementary comment there dear laddie. You need to wear that stuff because you are softies. :up:
You need to wear that stuff because you are softies. :up:
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/index.php?action=reporttm;topic=485.68;msg=28175)
Voilá. Simple as simple can be.
Besides Americans getting softies - a strange form of softness by the way, in opposition with the way that people at particularly precarious situations of social vulnerability are treated - they are also getting into a state of wild fantasy about their own idea about themselves.
An international team of expert psychiatrists should address the problem before it's too late.
You need to wear that stuff because you are softies.
Roman gladiators wore protective armor and helmets the same as American footballers do today, so I suppose you consider gladiators softies as well. There is no more violent team sport on the planet than NFL football and only the finest athletes in the country are selected to play, and get well compensated to demonstrate their skills against rival teams. They are the strongest, fastest and most nimble athletes anywhere and the Brits just love them. A quarter of a million British citizens will pay to watch live American football over there this year and upwards of 5 million Brits will tune into the Super Bowl Feb. 1st, along with 1/7th of the world population (1 billion viewers)--you will sneak more than a peek or two yourself simply because there is no greater show on earth than this. :knight: :cheers:
Staged train wrecks are kind of fun to watch too.
OK--- I'm a bit strange, here in the heart of Bears country, I don't watch much (if any) football and only have the slightest interest in the Superbowl on the rare times the Bears manage to get there.
I don't watch much (if any) football and only have the slightest interest in the Superbowl on the rare times the Bears manage to get there.
As with all sports, one has to thoroughly understand the game to appreciate what is being done by the athletes on the field. American football appears to be just organized chaos until the function of each player on each individual play is understood. The beauty of a long completed pass, for instance, is often accomplished across the span of several other plays, to set that play up perfectly. The game of football, coaching-wise, is not so unlike a game of Chess when it comes to strategy. :knight: :cheers:
OK--- I'm a bit strange, here in the heart of Bears country, I don't watch much (if any) football and only have the slightest interest in the Superbowl on the rare times the Bears manage to get there.
That's one of the great things about the good ole U.S. of A.
You have the right to tune into what you want, or tune out of what you don't want. Whenever you want.
It's something us Americans take for granted --- buy a TV ... plug it in ... turn it on ... sit back ... you're watching
free TV.
There are so many sports & other programs competing for your attention your case isn't at all
'strange' or
'unusual'. The other thing is you just might not have any desire to use your
'free' TV Service.
I say
free, because there are backward developed countries in this world
that actually charge it's citizens a hefty fee to watch what we call
'free tv'! (https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F9qQhpZS.png&hash=908f9821e88104efaad71c4397014d3a" rel="cached" data-hash="908f9821e88104efaad71c4397014d3a" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/9qQhpZS.png)
That's right, you even need a license to watch
live, free TV. (https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FDR8BNZA.png&hash=2a3c1d3dceb720329f84d864152049ee" rel="cached" data-hash="2a3c1d3dceb720329f84d864152049ee" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/DR8BNZA.png)
And, God forbid, if the TV Police ever catch you watching TV without a license it will cost ya a hefty fine! (https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FN9HSwvT.png&hash=64641ba6e8eacc8e9bf724b57c4ef0d3" rel="cached" data-hash="64641ba6e8eacc8e9bf724b57c4ef0d3" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/N9HSwvT.png) (https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F980niXn.png&hash=a2eccc60dbc473a589c405f71f82f1dc" rel="cached" data-hash="a2eccc60dbc473a589c405f71f82f1dc" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/980niXn.png)
Check it out here. (http://bit.ly/1yEObmB)
So, if you're fortunate enough to be an American, or live in one of the other
free TV watching Countries in the World, please count your blessings the next time you flip that TV on......pause a moment of silence for those unfortunate souls! (https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/biglaugh023.gif)
OK--- I'm a bit strange, here in the heart of Bears country, I don't watch much (if any) football and only have the slightest interest in the Superbowl on the rare times the Bears manage to get there.
That's one of the great things about the good ole U.S. of A.
You have the right to tune into what you want, or tune out of what you don't want. Whenever you want.
It's something us Americans take for granted --- buy a TV ... plug it in ... turn it on ... sit back ... you're watching free TV.
There are so many sports & other programs competing for your attention your case isn't at all 'strange' or 'unusual'.
The other thing is you just might not have any desire to use your 'free' TV Service.
I say free, because there are backward developed countries in this world that actually charge it's citizens a hefty fee to watch what we call 'free tv'! (https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F9qQhpZS.png&hash=908f9821e88104efaad71c4397014d3a" rel="cached" data-hash="908f9821e88104efaad71c4397014d3a" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/9qQhpZS.png)
That's right, you even need a license to watch live, free TV. (https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FDR8BNZA.png&hash=2a3c1d3dceb720329f84d864152049ee" rel="cached" data-hash="2a3c1d3dceb720329f84d864152049ee" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/DR8BNZA.png)
And, God forbid, if the TV Police ever catch you watching TV without a license it will cost ya a hefty fine! (https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FN9HSwvT.png&hash=64641ba6e8eacc8e9bf724b57c4ef0d3" rel="cached" data-hash="64641ba6e8eacc8e9bf724b57c4ef0d3" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/N9HSwvT.png) (https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F980niXn.png&hash=a2eccc60dbc473a589c405f71f82f1dc" rel="cached" data-hash="a2eccc60dbc473a589c405f71f82f1dc" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/980niXn.png)
Check it out here. (http://bit.ly/1yEObmB)
So, if you're fortunate enough to be an American, or live in one of the other free TV watching Countries in the World, please count your blessings the next time you flip that TV on......pause a moment of silence for those unfortunate souls! (https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/biglaugh023.gif)
Funny that you should mention that. Didn't I read recently that you have to have a license to have a TV in the UK? At least to pull in the BBC.
Now, about that "free". Here, I can buy a set of rabbit-ear antennas for my TV and pull in whatever is on the air. Once I've got my TV and rabbit-ears set up, I'm good to go and the only thing I pay for after that is the electricity to run the thing.
Cable and satellite TV--- well, that's another matter. You pay for cable-- a lot. The more premium channels you subscribe to, the more you pay. Upwards of a couple hundred a month, depending on what you're subscribing to.
I don't even bother with Tv. If there's anything I want to watch, I'll get it from Netflix or Hulu
Didn't I read recently that you have to have a license to have a TV in the UK? At least to pull in the BBC
You only need a license if you are watching live/as-live broadcasts. Perfectly reasonable in this day and age with catch up TV services, not to require a license. (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/253164678/Wink.gif)
If you don't have a license, they send you threatening letters which go straight to the bin. They can even turn up at your door, demanding to be let in. But unless they are accompanied by a police officer with a warrant, you can tell them to F-off. (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/253164678/EvilGrin.gif)
If you are fortunate to own your own home, you can even withdraw the “implied right of access” to your home by writing to TV Licensing, then their "officers" may not even approach your property.
Gee-- I don't have to write letters to anybody. Just go to Radio Shack, buy a TV and a set of rabbit-ears, and I'm good to go on over-the-air TV. No police, no TV license, no nuthin'.
Don't like Radio Shack? OK, go to Wal-Mart and get the same things, probably cheaper.
Gee-- I don't have to write letters to anybody.
I know and that's how it should be here too, but it's not. The license fee is nothing more than a tax and should be abolished.
Y'all leave rj alone. He's not clever enough to see what he's doing to himself. :awww:
About an hour or so back I just watched a short report on rugby and how challenging, rough and at times dangerous it can be. That was on Sky News. Says it all for real men.
About an hour or so back I just watched a short report on rugby and how challenging, rough and at times dangerous it can be. That was on Sky News. Says it all for real men.
Uhhh Huuuuh ........... (https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/chuckle002.gif)
..... Sky News started broadcasting at 6 pm on 5 February 1989........
......Sky News was the only UK 24-hour news channel (aside from CNN International on Astra 1A, BBC World Service Television started in 1991 but has never been broadcast in the UK) until November 1997 when BBC News launched a new 24-hour channel, BBC News 24, now known simply as BBC News.......
Yes RJH, your unbiased source is the supreme & definitive source of all knowledge when it comes to defining manhood. (https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/biglaugh023.gif)
About an hour or so back I just watched a short report on rugby and how challenging, rough and at times dangerous it can be. That was on Sky News. Says it all for real men.
The different is in the hits. Rugby requires form tackling, but the NFL allows tackles that effectively neutralize the padding. See those helmets on NFL players? They're weapons and not just shields. In the 2013 New England Patriots Running Back was injured in a helmet to helmet hit. The "armour", as you put it, is as much offensive an defensive, but in your ignorance you think it's a sign of "softness." No, a player that's 350 pounds of solid muscle is not soft, except in your imagination. You're lambasting a sport you know nothing about - because it's American.
Oh, ya, rugby is tough.
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmVG31m6lMU&channel=UC5ksbPUK9-sd9XjmMrhsHYA[/video]
Says it all for real men.
Perhaps, as a father, I have a different definition of what a real man is. Brutishly beating the piss out of someone for sport is most surely cavemanish. But I prefer a bit more finesse. I know, far too civilized for Glasgow.
I'm thinking of what the end result would be if you put RJHowie on the field in typical Rugby gear up against an American football linebacker in typical NFL gear.
Oh, I can't watch. The train-wreck would be unbelievable, even if the NFL guy "pulls his punch" so he doesn't hit so hard. It would be like watching a battleship plow through a rowboat. No contest.
But I prefer a bit more finesse.
In truth, so I do. I've haven't seen much Rugby, but what I've seen many of the individual plays are more intricate. Do you remember the Titan's last drive when the won Superball their first year? It was a sophisticated play, with passing back and forth, etc. Something like that seems to be the norm (or close to it) in Rugby. That isn't to discount strategy in football, but to note there seems to be a significant in how the games are played. Football is like slowly, but steadily advancing armies with most plays set to win maybe 3 or 4 yards at a time until you can get set up for the Hail Mary pass or the long running play. Or maybe if you note the opposing team's defense lacks endurance, wear them out and come in for the kill in the second half. Rugby is faster moving, more like Blitzkrieg type warfare.
Neither are sissy games, but football's padding isn't "softness" , it's gear for the type of game that it is.
What a daft thing to say Sanguinemoon that you cannot understand what passes for 'football' because it is American and therefore one wouldn't fathom it. We do see it here from time to time you kno but doesn't really catch on.
Apart from my view of the ex-colonist thing being boring rugby is a tough man's game and learning it at secondary school was great! :D
Apart from my view of the ex-colonist thing being boring rugby is a tough man's game and learning it at secondary school was great! :D
Nevada was never a colony of Britain, you do realize that ;) Nope, Battle Born and proud, we were never contaminated with British softness.
we were never contaminated with British softness.
Spanish softness. *grins*
But at least we get to sprawl our half-naked bodies by the poolside sipping sangarias, instead of Irn Bru. Mayor Goodman notes that sangarias are approximately 16.39 percent more manly and less soft than Irn Brus. Governor Sandoval made the trip from Carson City (all the way across the state mind you) just to disagree, citing his calculation of 18.47 percent. Republicans :rolleyes:
Softness was built into ex-colonists Sanguinemoon and no doubt why it tends to make a mess up of military invasions and such. It is a built-in macho thing rather than natural strength like the stiff upper lip. You lot are getting so soft in the head and spend billions on"security" and spy organisations like a demented fool. It does cover the natural softness but a damn expensive way of wasting money. :insane:
From the home of
'manly men', Britain is rock solid in the lead --
head & shoulders above all -- in their most prolific political export:
[VIDEO]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1wv4U7Ypv4[/VIDEO]
"......A natural strength like the stiff upper lip......"
"Quit you like men:be strong"
Oh, and you think you are immune do you? We are not talking about someone's corner as you are trying to do but general tradition. With all the damn ex-cxlonist influences here and on television the stiff upper lip is being eroded by the mawkish, softy, softy emotion Americanism. Me? I will maintain the lip and my quotation comes from the Bible. :P
Stiff upper lip? Your America bashing comes from fear and emotionalism from the loss the British Empire. I can feel your lip trembling from here. It creates a wind, via the butterfly effect, that sweetly kisses my skin and would alert a man of less moral fortitude than myself of the presence of prey.
Nr a possible victim of Yankee prey.? Just as well there is such a thing as a sense of humour. All the wars you lot have been creating have been a mess and a bunch of boy Scouts would have been better. You lot are the traditional emotionals. Mawkishness is at a premium over there. Flags needed everywhere shows just how mawkish, weak and emotional you are as a national race of people! My Boys' Brigade company was more strong than you Hollywood lappers up. Instead of acting like actual definitive and in depth people you do the opposite. Tens of millions of poor and you still spend half the world's armaments bill. Ha;f a million in S. Vietnam and the real men ran circles round you. National and international hypocrisy replaces real depth and strength although i do concede something. How you managed to get by when Aury Murphy and John Wayne departed this world is something else! :cry: :lol:
Quivering so that you can't even type. Easy now, this little piggy built a brick house. When your straw house gets blown away you can come stay here. And bring your boys too... I'll tell you all nursery rhymes to ease your little minds.