Altered Maps ΙΓ: To make a map larger than what it maps.

[gay_Aleks]

What's Gaelic football, and why is it so popular in Ireland?

 

[Kyriakos]

Maybe it's that 'rugby' thing?

 

[gay_Aleks]

Nah, there's an entry for Rugby. We'd better investigate this.

 

[really]

What's Gaelic football, and why is it so popular in Ireland?

Gaelic Football is one of the four Gaelic Games (Hurling, Handball and Rounders (a sort of baseball) are the others)
Unlike soccer you can use your hands but you can only take four steps with the ball before you have to do something (bounce or kick the ball). You get one point for putting the ball over the bar and three points for putting it in the goal.

Australian Rules football is a cousin - every now and then Ireland plays Australia in a compromise rules series.

Soccer and Rugby are played in Ireland but every village has a Gaelic Football team.
For a long time it was associated with nationalism and soccer and rugby were considered garrison sports.

The headquarters of the GAA Croke Park is Europe's third largest stadium.


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Hurling

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I think I went to one soccer game while I was in school. I have never been to a rugby match. I have been to plenty of Gaelic matches.

 

[Borachio]

Yes. It looks to be a more sophisticated game, requiring much more technical skill.

I think, too, that high scoring sports favour skill over sheer luck.

Soccer could do with some radical reform. Yet its appeal largely rests in its simplicity.


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An egg and spoon race, eh? A training and substitute for warfare, more like.

 

[cybrxkhan]

And now a World Cup map

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[cybrxkhan]

And another football related map, this time on what different countries call it. Dunno how accurate some of them are, I believe the Vietnamese one is wrong (the words should be the other way around), but eh interesting anyways.

 

[Domen]

In Poland there should be: piłka nożna. This is a more frequently used name:

http://en.bab.la/dictionary/polish-english/piłka-nożna

 

[NedimNapoleon]

Only Croats say Nogomet, in Bosnia its football (fudbal) as well.

 

[Arakhor]

In the UK, we certainly do not call association football 'soccer'. We call it 'football', like any sensible person would.

 

[cybrxkhan]

In the UK, we certainly do not call association football 'soccer'. We call it 'football', like any sensible person would.

It does say football over the UK though. Or, well, at least England

 

[madviking]

map of wikipedia articles of geographical stuff based on date of creation

 

[Tee Kay]

What's with Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania?

 

[madviking]

zealous wiki users?

(idk)

 

[Domen]

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[Domen]

Spoiler :

 

[dominatr]

Seriously? Pan's Labyrinth?

That movie is a joke

 

[Kyriakos]

Seriously? Pan's Labyrinth?

That movie is a joke

The map itself (which was posted before, maybe even in this thread- or the one before it) is a joke too For starters the movie it has as most popular here is another run-of-the-mill 60s comedy which never was one of the popular ones either (and of course it is utter crap). As suggested the other time, if the map is about movies set here/produced here, then likely the Mandolin of captain Corelli (not anything special, but a main holywood production with decent actors), or the older 'merican films like 'Guns of Navarone', or that pitiful 'Zorba' movie :\

I wouldn't say that any of them are locally popular either, though. Maybe the first 300 or other recent blockbusters would fair better.

As for local directors, most people outside the country would at most have heard of Theodoros Angelopoulos (died a couple of years ago, won some Cannes festival awards).

 

[gay_Aleks]

At least they hit properly in Bulgaria - "Yesterday" is a great movie.

 

[Weik]

The criterias for the film map are explained and verifiable.
Pan's Labyrinth and Tis kakomoiras are the highest rated films according to the criteria.
The Danish film Jagten should be The Hunt in English, The Celebration is another film by the same director.