The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XIX

[Verarde]

Because you're American.

False. I'm American, and I love European football.


Quackers, that is an excellent run down of how the system works! Bookmarked and saved for future reference!

 

[salty mud]

There are exceptions to every rule.

 

[bhsup]

Do the people that complain about long posts with "tl:dr" also complain about Presidential elections being about sound bites?

 

[Farm Boy]

Hopefully not?

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I would hope that your country's elections would be more relevant to you than some post about German jurisprudence in the late 19th century or whatever gets discussed around here in long form.

 

[bhsup]

I wasn't really asking for myself.

 

[Cutlass]

Do the people that complain about long posts with "tl:dr" also complain about Presidential elections being about sound bites?

Almost certainly.


Or perhaps there's a happy medium.

 

[Dachs]

I would hope that your country's elections would be more relevant to you than some post about German jurisprudence in the late 19th century or whatever gets discussed around here in long form.

Nope!

 

[metatron]

So the German constituitional court has ruled that armed forces can be used on home soil for the first time ever under certain conditions.

4th Reich coming?

Ok... i'll try to make this not tl;dr...

1. Armed forces could be used on home soil in the past, too. The verdict is about the use of distinctly military means.
2. Said verdict was the result of a necessary reconciliation between the two chambers of the constitutional court who have disagreed on the matter in the past. And if anything the first chamber has prevailed. For example the verdict still holds that you can't shoot down a passnger jet hijacked by terrorists (the original point of disagreement).
Essentially they allowed the use of military means in principle and then issued a list of exceptions that covers virtually everything i presume conservatives would like to do.
Oh and the situation has to be "highly exeptional" as well as "of catastrophic proportions" and the means of police have to be exhausted first.
I am not really sure what that is, short of a civil war. I suppose if police forces get their asses handed to them at a German Waco, they can call the army.
3. Even in the case of such an exceptional catastrophic event military means have to be approved by the Federal Diet first. The ministers of defense and the interior can't legally make such a decision.

Why is European soccer so boring?

Cause it doesn't matter as a sport?
The point is that brainless men can drink and have fist fights. Why should the sport be interesting. That would only be distracting.

Seriously: It's probably a result of the large field and the necessity to run a lot and the fact that soccer has the possibility of stagnation, where an offensive can repeatedly take cautious stabs at a defensive without any real plan to crack it.
Most American sports either have mechanisms of automatic resolvement (you can't really stall) and/or are played on a smaller field and with other rules that enforce action.
In soccer you can have stagnation, stalling etc. which soccer fans consider highly entertaining. And as i said: People essentially have to run about for 90 minutes and that also shows.

 

[salty mud]

Why does Johnny Foreigner not understand the beauty of the beautiful game?

 

[Farm Boy]

Too similar to sitting down to watch Nascar.

 

[Verarde]

Too similar to sitting down to watch Nascar.

So maybe Southerners would like Euro football then.

 

[say1988]

So maybe Southerners would like Euro football then.

Not unless there is the chance of horrible flaming death.

 

[madviking]

In English class, why can't the author's purpose ever just be to turn a profit from his works? Why does it always have to be some altruistic, higher reason for writing? Do people not just write because it's their chosen way of making money? Or less cynically, just because they enjoy writing and don't have a deeper reason?

As a relatively honest answer, in most cases, it is because the author more or less consciously added the specific nouns, adjectives, etc. for a reason. There is something intrinsically different from saying "the curtains" versus the "the blue curtains". The author felt it was worth mentioning and, thus, the color of the curtains carries some meaning with it. From there, you get into the question "Who the hell has blue curtains?". "Because the person is sad and/or depressed!". Now you have an idea that a certain character feels a certain way without the author having to say "Jim is a sad, sad man.". It also adds ambiguity is may or may not be the goal of the author (to add different interpretations). It's kinda the same with movies. A director choose to not disclose the briefcase to allow the viewer to use their own imagination for what obviously valuable contents are within the briefcase.

Hope that helps.

 

[Quackers]

Not unless there is the chance of horrible flaming death.

We had a heart attack in English football last season! Plus a few horrific broken legs and collapsed ankles over the years.

 

[Farm Boy]

We had a heart attack in English football last season! Plus a few horrific broken legs and collapsed ankles over the years.

Not loud enough and needs more fire I think.

 

[ELITEOFWARMAN8]

Who are the most popular people on this forum?

 

[Verarde]

downtown is loved by all.

 

[ELITEOFWARMAN8]

DownTown seems like a cool fellow. Who else?

Who's the top admins here? I need to know all of this stuff !

 

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