Yes, but if you prod those bellies, they're probably solid. I looked like that once, and also ran cross-country for the Army.
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classical_hero
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No fat players at any level? I played youth rugby and there was always a fat one, usually the prop. Sure, in the professional game its rare to see a fat player but having a bit of fat is a good stop-gap untill you can create an extra bit of muscle; after all muscle is heavier than fat and it gives you more explosive strength.
I can definitely see a couple of bellies here.
Just look how thick their necks are. That is a sign of them working hard. While you don't have to super fast to be in the front row of a Rugby team, you still need some athleticism to be able to get around the park.
In American Football the need for the OT and DT to be as fit is not needed since it is mostly a game of strength, so mass is much more vital since it is harder to push heavier weights around than lighter.
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Very true. Just for pedantic clarity: the premeditation required for the most major counts of murder is a little slippery and variable. Some states/districts require pretty clear planning to kill. Some classify the act of reaching for a gun and aiming it as enough to satisfy premeditation. Almost all(?) districts classify being in the act of committing a felony sufficient premeditation to satisfy "premeditated murder" even if the killing itself is accidental. Example: you mug somebody and they have a non-apparent heart condition, suffer a heart attack from the stress, and die. Now you're all the way up into felony(premeditated) murder. Another example, you are a getaway driver for a bank robbery. Your cohort shoots somebody inside, who dies, while you are in the car. You are also guilty of felony(premeditated) murder. Another example: you are a getaway driver for a bank robbery. A cop shoots and kills your accomplice. You are guilty of the felony(premeditated) murder of your accomplice.
madviking
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Quackers
The Frog
What is the drinking culture like in the states?
Do you have the European disease?
Do you have the European disease?
What's this?
Quackers
The Frog
It's my own invention. Basically Europeans and Britons each have some of the highest alcohol consumption per capita anywhere. Only a handful of non-European nations make it to the top 30.
What's next? Canadians and Newfoundlanders?
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Until 1949, actually, yes.
Oh well in that case the question makes no sense, since europeans and americans are the same thing. Alteast until 1492..
The drinking culture in the US is very different than in the EU. Especially compared to GB, where they have the so called "pub culture".. Think of the spectators to a soccer game in primier league an compare it to the spectators in a NFL game. Its really noteable that in the US going to a sports game is primarily a familily event, while in GB it can be dangerous to bring kids. Drinking culture is a huge factor in this.
...you are aware that people lived in America before Columbus, right? You are also aware that the 'drinking culture' varies wildly across the EU - compare Ireland, France and Poland - as I'm sure it does across the US?
Traitorfish
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I'd put it closer to around 1780. Most Americans saw themselves as Britons inhabiting the colonies, provincial rather than foreign, and its only when they found themselves with an independent government that they began to start thinking of themselves, or to be thought of, as something other than British. French-Americans, likewise, saw themselves as Frenchmen, and only developed distinct Quebecois, Louisianais and Acadien identities when isolated from the metropole by British and American annexation. It's a slightly more complex case in Spanish America, of course, because on the hand there's a formal Peninsulare/Criollo distinction going back to the 16th century, and on the other there's a tendency to think of Spanish culture as something unbounded by geography (tied, to some extent, with the universalising ideals of Spanish Catholicism), but very broadly we'll see a similar association between explicit identification as non-European and calls for political autonomy or independence.
Because if you can take off-hand comments too seriously, so can I.
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Dunno really what I'm comparing it to. Lot of people here don't drink at all. Some of them are really snotty to people who do. Some aren't. It varies by town and state a lot. In Wisconsin you can walk around in a lot of places in public with an open container of alcohol. You can't in Illinois, that's illegal. It's normal to drink some at a sports game or golfing or camping or (sometimes stupidly)with some people while hunting. Bear in mind our public transportation is largely absent. We have to drive everywhere. So if you didn't arrange for a group that contains a mostly sober driver you probably aren't getting sloshed. Binge drinking is not uncommon in college. I dunno. If I had to guess I would guess that public intoxication is less socially acceptable in the US on the whole than it is in much of Europe.
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There is a joke that I heard said by an American comedian, "The British drink like the Americans eat".
Good way of saying it
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