They're Flasks Not Beakers, People!!!

[Catharsis]

If you FLASK me? This is not even worth BEAKERING about....

That post was very comical. Or should it be conical?

Professional soccer is just a bunch of guys running from one side of a grass field to the other with a ball. And after 5 hours of running, if we're lucky, and only if we're lucky, there'll be a goal! Woohoo! What a game!

It is in North America, but that's just because you guys aren't very good at it.

 

[sydhe]

Why does the uranium in game looks like glowing green cristals? ( P.S I know the answer....( see spoiler below )

Or because some uranium ores are fluorescent and glow green under ultraviolet.
http://www.unitednuclear.com/fluorescent.htm
And Uranium glass is also green and fluorescent.
http://www.glass.co.nz/uranium.htm

 

[r_rolo1]

Or because some uranium ores are fluorescent and glow green under ultraviolet.
http://www.unitednuclear.com/fluorescent.htm
And Uranium glass is also green and fluorescent.
http://www.glass.co.nz/uranium.htm

I knew both of those issues.... but we don't point hard UV to the ground to see uranium ( BTW uranium phosphates are quite rare compared with the other uranium minerals ) and we don't mine uranium glass.... Almost all the uranium used in the world comes from Uranite that does not occur as fluorescent green quartz-like cristals ( like they appear in the game ).

BTW I think the green liquid in the erlenmayer/flask/beaker ( cut the unwanted options ) is the above-quoted fluoroscein.... ( oh, shiny.... )

 

[Kadasbrass]

Yes, technically it is a flask, however I don't expect the Civ community to change it terms suddenly. After all, hammers are really still "shields," ain't they?

I been playing Civ since civ2. My friends have started playing only with civ4. During lan parties they get confused when I use the term "shields". Thou I think we call it production instead of hammers

 

[MrWhereItsAt]

Why does the uranium in game looks like glowing green cristals?

TIBERIUM!

I still calls it all trade arrows, shields and beakers. I'm old and set in my civ ways. You'll have to pry those terms from my cold.....dead....hands.

 

[skallben]

Then we look at "American Football"..... and realise that you carry a lemon shaped object... and thus we can safely say..... that the game should be called Carry Lemon.

Post of the month!

 

[Quildavyr]

Of course it is! And it deserves it. What a boring sport to watch!
It's just like baseball: fun to play, but absolutely boring to watch.
Professional soccer is just a bunch of guys running from one side of a grass field to the other with a ball. And after 5 hours of running, if we're lucky, and only if we're lucky, there'll be a goal! Woohoo! What a game!

Here is some advise for you
Never come to Europe,especially to Turkey.You get killed and you cant realize it for 90 minutes. If you are lucky,someone scores and you know it

It is football
A man can live w/o sex,but w/o watching or playing football,the man probably dies.

 

[UnspokenRequest]

That post was very comical. Or should it be conical?



It is in North America, but that's just because you guys aren't very good at it.

I watch soccer once every four years... That should tell which soccer I'm talking about...
The only reason I watch it is because some of my friends are migrants (Europeans, Latin Americans and peole from the Maghreb) living in Canada. The only reason it is fun is because of the people I'm hanging out with. They are so passionate about it that their passion in itself becomes entertaining.
The games however are boring.
I never watch local soccer. Actually, this summer was the first time in history that there was local soccer on TV and I'm not even sure it got any decent audience. I'm sure some immigrants watched it, but since most of them have antenas they probably watch better through sattelite sports channels.

 

[UnspokenRequest]

Here is some advise for you
Never come to Europe,especially to Turkey.You get killed and you cant realize it for 90 minutes. If you are lucky,someone scores and you know it

Hehehe! Actually, I went to Europe a few times. I'm not sure I ever talked about Soccer there though.
I never went to Turkey however. Even though Istambul is definitely on my long list of cities I have yet to visit before I die.
Fortunately, we don't have that kind of violent passion for a sport over here. Hooligans, stadium riots and stuff like are just stories we hear on the news coming from Europe and Latin America.

I went to Argentina and Brazil in the fall 2006. While my girlfriend and I were in Buenos Aires, we decided that we'd like to see a Soccer game (we thought the atmopshere of an actual stadium would actually be worth experiencing) in La Boca (a legendary team in the popular/poor neighbourhood of the city). One of our friends told us we shouldn't go, because it was a big match with a rival and things could very likely heat up... We didn't go...
That kind of thing is pretty sad. It taints the sport.

It is football
A man can live w/o sex,but w/o watching or playing football,the man probably dies.

In Canada, replace football by Hockey and the statement stands.

On the word soccer, I usually have no problem calling it football. I just call it soccer on purpose, because I know many Europeans can't stand it.

One last thing out of topic: why is American/Canadian football called FOOTball: the reason is that the best way to make points used to be done by kicking the ball between the bars "H". That was a few decades ago. Since kicking the ball was crucial to win the game, calling it football made some sense. Now, however, the points system has been changed and the kicks are not as rewarding as they used to compared to touchdowns.
This of course, makes the name a bit ridiculous, since there aren't more then a few kicks left in an entire game.

 

[sylvanllewelyn]

Flask, beaker, I really don't know. It just seems like a glass container to me, and glass wasn't invented in the ancient era. Although, it's equally ridiculous that commerce would be spent researching techs in the ancient era too. I'm sure no tribal chieftien ever decided to spend his savings, currency in seashells, into trying to create a transportation device that was round, and then later calling it "the wheel".

As for football and soccer, I stick with "soccer" for the black and white ball and "football" for the brown object for disambiguation.

 

[Nikis-Knight]

Well really, why is everything from monotheism to writing to military tradition to the laser discovered by collecting green liquid anyway, regardless of what it is stored in?

 

[Venger]

Ah, soccer... the sport of international poverty. Yes, American's suck at it, because they are busy playing sports that require expensive equipment like football, baseball, hockey, basketball... whereas soccer only requires the severed head of a tribal enemy to play.

Some think using the term soccer insults those who play it - no my friends, it is an insult to call that third world waste of time football. Football is a sport played by insanely powerful humans that is a combination of chess, rugby, and bloodsport. It is not a contact sport, it is a collision sport. It is played by men who endure broken bones and separated joints, and that's during the game.

If there is any sorrier display of pansified rump-buggery than a soccer player falling to the grass in an overdramatic display of preening cowardice like he was shot during a top-down ride through Dealey Plaza, I have not seen it. Anyone playing real football who fell to the ground like a schoolgirl seeking an advantage from a referee would have his genitals stapled to the back of his own head. And that's by his own team.

Yea, the Lord sayeth unto the Canaanites, go forth and play sports that require more than a rolled wad of palm husks.

Venger
P.S. Nods to rugby and australian football, evolutionary predecessors which helped give the world the greatest contest seen without deliberate fatalities...

 

[Dubzilla8]

If there is any sorrier display of pansified rump-buggery than a soccer player falling to the grass in an overdramatic display of preening cowardice like he was shot during a top-down ride through Dealey Plaza, I have not seen it. Anyone playing real football who fell to the ground like a schoolgirl seeking an advantage from a referee would have his genitals stapled to the back of his own head. And that's by his own team.
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Darnit! Not only did you beat me to it, but you said it 10 times better than I could have said it. Seriously, football is completely bush. Beckham (sp?) is a major joke to me, every time I see him on the tube he is rolling on the ground like a whining 8 year old. Its just a joke how they act after extremely minor collisions.

Ill go ahead and throw myself under the bus though. Im not a fan of American football either. All you need to play is a very large body or swift feet. Anyone can catch a football and only the quarterback needs to have a brain. I personally think a lot of its popularity comes from the scheduling: one game a week, everyone sits around and analyzes who will win in ridiculous detail and every game matters since the season is short (compared to other sports). Sounds like fun, if you enjoy the sport.

I imagine that the beakers/flask thing will not change. However, "flask" doesn't sound too bad.

 

[sennomulo]

Well really, why is everything from monotheism to writing to military tradition to the laser discovered by collecting green liquid anyway, regardless of what it is stored in?

Lasers are tested by shooting them through green liquids.
Militaries use green poisons in chemical warfare.
Writing sometimes uses green ink.
A cold glass of green Kool-Aid on a hot summer day is Heaven.

 

[UnspokenRequest]

If all you are interested in is violent sports or as others say "manly sports", hockey would be for you.
Just watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HerZdQmigLs&mode=related&search=

This is a particularly nasty one, but this kind of dirty hit happens at least a few times a year. Two years ago, in Vancouver a all-star player was prosecuted for a hit which ended a career.
This doesn't even take into account the fact that players are expected to hit eachother and that dozens of hits happen during each games. Fights are common (not every game but close) and all the players get is a 5minute off the game penalty.
2 minutes for a common "non-legal" hit (using sticks)

Also, keep into your mind that most of these hits occur at high speed compared to games played on grass...

Just an anecdote. Steve Begin a forward for the Canadiens of Montreal, was hit badly on the mouth during a tournament game (stanley cup). Many of his teeth were crushed by the impact. The mouth was filled with blood. Many teeth could barely be kept in place.
The guy had them glued (he also allegedly used duct tape) and went back into the game. The simple fact that he came back into the game changed the momentum and the Canadiens won that game.

For my part, I don't like this side (violence) of the game that much. Hockey doesn't need it to be great (it's a very exciting game when it is played on the offense. It's so fast and a well orchestrated offense is just beautiful to watch. There really is a Wow factor that occur once in a while. You're often just left there wondering: "how did this guy do that at that speed")

 

[BYC]

"Any moron with a pack of matches can start a fire. Raining down sulfur takes a huge level of endurance. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer"

 

[Arlborn]

In football(the only one) you are not required to be a strong monster to be good. The good defender is the one who takes off the ball from the foot of players without actually touching them you know...

Look Ronaldinho(ye, I still call him with the diminutive!) as an example. One of the best players in the world. You see him using strength a lot, don't you? Oh, so violent!

Yes, football(the one played wit a ball! WoW) is surely the most violent sport of the bunch!!


PS: Europe is third world? Wow, nothing surprise me anymore coming from the the ultra-supergreat-morethanperfect Americans!

 

[Quildavyr]

Hooligans, stadium riots

Well i have to correct that,because it is Blasphemy.They are not hooligans,they are Templars.And it is not Riot,we call it Crusade.

La Boca (a legendary team in the popular/poor neighbourhood of the city).

Consider yourself unlucky.This match,Boca vs River at La Bombonera is the biggest sport thing on this Universe.But you have chosen wisely.It can be dangerous.

I dont like violence in sport,that is why i dont go to Stadium since 5 months.But there is other less tensioned leagues.Like Icelandic,swedish

Look Ronaldinho(ye, I still call him with the diminutive!) as an example. One of the best players in the world. You see him using strength a lot, don't you? Oh, so violent!

He is the Genghis Khan on the Pitch.But for the most violent player;i would vote for Luca Toni.That guy is incredibly strong.And violent of course

 

[Horace]

I'll give you that and it's fun to play, but during professional games, nothing happens.

The same can be said for any sport which you dont understand. Im taking a wild stab in the dark here that your North American, the standard of football is not high there and from the commentary ive heard from matches broadcast in the us, there seems to be little understanding of the skill & principles.

People should not insult my beloved game

 

[Arlborn]

The same can be said for any sport which you dont understand. Im taking a wild stab in the dark here that your North American, the standard of football is not high there and from the commentary ive heard from matches broadcast in the us, there seems to be little understanding of the skill & principles.

People should not insult my beloved game

I also don't see much happening in American Lemon Carry. Everytime the game seem to stop and they go positionate themselves for dancing pairs....