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Yeah I generalise a lot but it was fascinating how strong the opinions was about soccer. Some didn't care, it just wasn't their thing, while other either hated or loved it with a passion. It's very much an outsiders sport and I can get why traditional sports fans gets upset about it, much like I do the one time of year people who usually hate sports go crazy over the Super Bowl.
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Europhilic Allure would be a good name change for someone
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blue footed boobie posted:And here wrestle fans are lowest common denominator rednecks. It's a funny old game. In the UK wrestling fans are pretty well social adjusted people and respected by their peers. I guess its because they appreciate the art behind it
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mynameisjohn posted:the smugness of the americans that arbitrarily chose to support liverpool 2 years ago because they are a "pretty big red sox fan/stathead and love the project they've got going on over there and the history and working class roots of the club" is the only reason I don't want them to win the title. Those people are seriously the loving worst. At least Chelsea and City supporters over here have no delusions. chuggo is BACK posted:Is Kylie not big in America
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chuggo is BACK posted:Is Kylie not big in America This is the article's big shocker.
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She blew up with Locomotion and Can't Get You Out of My Head but it didn't last. I do remember her being a musical guest on Saturday Night Live when Ian McKellan was the host and he actually sat on the floor next to the stage during her performance, smiling and clapping, which I've never seen anyone do in like 30 years of that show. This is my really off-topic Kylie anecdote.
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Taff posted:In the UK wrestling fans are pretty well social adjusted people and respected by their peers. I guess its because they appreciate the art behind it they are
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Baldo di Gregorio posted:She blew up with Locomotion and Can't Get You Out of My Head but it didn't last. I do remember her being a musical guest on Saturday Night Live when Ian McKellan was the host and he actually sat on the floor next to the stage during her performance, smiling and clapping, which I've never seen anyone do in like 30 years of that show. This is my really off-topic Kylie anecdote. I saw the smiling and clapping part and was hoping you were turning this into a shrek post
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Taff posted:In the UK wrestling fans are pretty well social adjusted people and respected by their peers. I guess its because they appreciate the art behind it It's true, I get lots of knowing glances and mutters of appreciation when I'm out and about in my John Cena™ You Can't See Me© official licensed t-shirt.
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Unsurprisingly, we're not the only people who find the article laughably bad
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Apr 17, 2014 18:15
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Sport of the American thinking class, in the US. Look at NFL fans...do they look any different at times than what is depicted in your picture of fat Newcastle supporters? NFL and NBA fanbases have their fair share of douchebags and illiterates. If you ever sift through comments by fans on ESPN's Facebook postings on the NFL or NBA...or even posts by NBA on TNT, you'll see for yourself how illiterate they are. If you ever read through comments on MLS's Facebook postings, the grammar is noticeably better in my point of view.
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Apr 17, 2014 19:04
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Baldo di Gregorio posted:Europhilic Allure would be a good name change for someone
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mynameisjohn posted:I never got my "straight up brolic" name change greg... This really would be a great name
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mynameisjohn posted:I never got my "straight up brolic" name change greg... Should give a Leeds a change to Straight Up Brolin too. 
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Beckerman's a python, and Bradley's a cobra. One helps his side sort of strangle a game incrementally, and the other one can mesmerize you and figure out exactly where to strike. Either way, you're dead.
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mynameisjohn posted:I never got my "straight up brolic" name change greg... Oh yeah sorry I'll do that tonight
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Baldo di Gregorio posted:Europhilic Allure would be a good name change for someone I'll take this.
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blue footed boobie posted:And here wrestle fans are lowest common denominator rednecks. It's a funny old game. Haha. Plenty of USA soccer fans love other sports. I also follow NFL, NBA, and MLB.
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In the Washington Post this morning, sports columnist Sally Jenkins complains about the lack of popular outrage over America’s elimination in the World Cup: “Why is it that Americans expect to win in every sport we compete in except for soccer? How is it that a nation so obsessed with games seems abnormally lacking in ambition when it comes to the most popular one on the globe?” Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reports that the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta, New York, is shutting its doors. According to the Journal, the place never had more than 17,000 visitors a year, and “the hall’s passing seems to have gone almost unnoticed. The local newspaper barely covered its demise.” The world is crazy for soccer, but most Americans don’t give a hoot about the sport. Why? Many years ago, my former White House colleague Bill McGurn pointed out to me the real reason soccer hasn’t caught on in the good old U.S.A. It’s simple, really: Soccer is a socialist sport. Think about it. Soccer is the only sport in the world where you cannot use the one tool that distinguishes man from beast: opposable thumbs. “No hands” is a rule only a European statist could love. (In fact, with the web of high taxes and regulations that tie the hands of European entrepreneurs, “no hands” kind of describes their economic theories as well.) Soccer is also the only sport in the world that has “hooligans”—proletarian mobs that trash private property whenever their team loses. Soccer is collectivist. At this year’s World Cup, the French national team actually went on strike in the middle of the tournament on the eve of an elimination match. (Yes, capitalist sports have experienced labor disputes, but can you imagine a Major League Baseball team going on strike in the middle of the World Series?) At the youth level, soccer teams don’t even keep score and everyone gets a participation trophy. Can you say, “From each according to his ability…”? (The fact that they do keep score later on is the only thing that prevents soccer from being a Communist sport.) Capitalist sports are exciting—people often hit each other, sometimes even score. Soccer fans are excited by an egalitarian 0-0 tie. When soccer powerhouses Brazil and Portugal met recently at the World Cup, they played for 90 minutes—and combined got just eight shots on net (and zero goals). Contrast this with the most exciting sports moment last week, which came not at the World Cup, but at Wimbledon, when American John Isner won in a fifth-set victory that went 70-68. Yes, even tennis is more exciting than soccer. Like an overcast day in East Berlin, soccer is … boring. And finally, have you seen the World Cup trophy? It looks like an Emmy Award (and everyone knows that Hollywood is socialist). There are many more reasons soccer and socialism go hand in hand. You can read some of them here. Perhaps in the age of President Obama, soccer will finally catch on in America. But I suspect that socializing Americans’ taste in sports may be a tougher task than socializing our healthcare system.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Soccer is a socialist sport. A classic Mainstream American sports have revenue sharing, salary caps, the safety net that is the weighted draft, etc., etc.; compared to most of world soccer American sports are a socialist utopia
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I always love the participatory trophy argument. There are participatory trophies in every kiddy sport.
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Henderson is a very sealing player, I don't see what the problem is here.
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They really couldn't think of any better adjectives starting with an N, huh?
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Dunban posted:They really couldn't think of any better adjectives starting with an N, huh?
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When I think of Henderson, I think of a "Neighbourly Regulator".
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Just hit the Eastside of the LFC on a mission trying to find Mr Stevie G
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Blue Screen Error posted:Just hit the Eastside of the LFC on a mission trying to find Mr Stevie G Yesss!!!!
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Blue Screen Error posted:Just hit the Eastside of the LFC on a mission trying to find Mr Stevie G lmao
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Blue Screen Error posted:Just hit the Eastside of the LFC on a mission trying to find Mr Stevie G Really good
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goddamnedtwisto posted:At the youth level, soccer teams don’t even keep score and everyone gets a participation trophy. I was once on a team that didn't win a single game and we all got trophies that said "A Winning Season" on them.
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I played football as a kid in the US and scores were kept, wins and losses were recorded, and only the best team got medals at the end of the year, so it's definitely not a regular phenomenon.
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Sixteen in the clip and one in the hole N'Gog is about to make some bodies turn cold
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I got a bunch of trophies as a kid but that's because my team won things. Did get a free box of wagon wheels as a consolation prize for getting stomped in a tournament, though, maybe that counts.
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Ewar Woowar posted:Sixteen in the clip and one in the hole If he can hit the target...
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It depresses me where we are this season. It depresses me when I see David Moyes as our manager on the pitch. It depresses me when I hear David Moyes constantly making exuses for not getting things done. It depresses me when I see Ashley Young at United earning £125,000 a week. It depresses me we are paying that other fat boy £350,000 a week. It depresses me that Nemanja Vidic is leaving. It depresses me that Ryan Giggs might retire after this season. It depresses me that we have those Jews, the Glazers as our owners sucking United dry off all our money. They bought the club with no money and pure debt and we just let them do it. It depresses me Sir Alex Ferguson chose David Moyes because of his Scottish nature. That's like hiring every bald Indian because Gandhi was bald and Indian. It depresses me when I see Juan Mata on the left and Shinji Kagawa on the bench. It depresses me we kept Tom Cleverley and let go of Paul Pogba. It depresses me that Javier Hernandez might leave United. It depresses me that David Moyes will be in charge next season. It depresses me that Manchester United are so stubborn when 90% of the fans see who the main problem is at United this season. I smile a little when I think that one day it will all be over and we will eventually sack David Moyes for a better, world class manager we deserve.
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Thirteenth Step posted:It depresses me that we have those Jews, the Glazers as our owners sucking United dry off all our money. They bought the club with no money and pure debt and we just let them do it. Hahaha
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