They're Flasks Not Beakers, People!!!

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While I personally hate football, I'm a rugby player myself (notice how you don't need expensive equipment for that either, but its a damn sight more manly than wearing armour so you don't scratch your nails, spoil your good looks, or lose your perm, ducky! :p )

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.


OH YES!....let's equate sporting quality to monetary expense!! :lol: Let's scratch all the Olympic sports (utter freebies!!) and swimming (one can do it in the buff!)... oh and all those other sports that have been played consecutively for thousands of years in favour of a bunch of jocks wearing WAY too much protection.... just what do they think's going to happen to them.... a mid-play terrorist attack? :lol:


Basketball requires expensive equipment? :rolleyes: BASEBALL?? :lol: A stick and a rock.....


The real reason why these American sports are not played round the world is because they're utter poop.... even on the poopiest day of all poop, with scoops of poop laying around knee-deep everywhere, you can still detect American sports a mile away by their utter poopiness! :lol:


Please note that the real reason for the evolution of American sports has been clearly researched and examined and it has been discovered that the rest of the world has more than a 12 second attention span - that's the real reason why real football has never been popular for you guys! :goodjob:


Ice Hockey is different - that's a real game.... not like these sports with 5 second plays with repeated 25 minute breaks re-explaining all the rules again to the knuckledraggers between each one.


"Whaddya mean boss... I gotta pick up dis here brown lemon and den what? You want me to carry it AND run.... hur hur hur, very funny boss... dis smart guy.... hur hur hur, funny guy!!"



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.


Let's redefine that "third world" as... "the rest of the world" - you know? That big lump of land and populace that exists outside of the USA.... it might be a surprise to you that not everyone's trying to illegally immigrate there! :p So, that vast majority of the world ubiquitously play a sport where you kick a ball with your foot.... thus we call it in our rustic, quaint manner... FOOTBALL. While you send out testosterone-filled, metal welded lumps of meat to run up a pitch carrying a lemon shaped object....


The reason why Carry Lemon (a.k.a. American Football) is a collision sport is that you can't find an intelligent enough player to understand the concept of dodging while also remembering to move his feet. :D


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.


To understand football, you need to put Swan Lake on in the background, as the twirls and pirhouettes rise and fall, you will notice they do it in time with the music.... it's actually a carefully orchestrated and choreographed fusion between ballet and rugby. You guys just don't know culture when you see it! :cool:


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


And then the Lord did see men wearing equipment equal to the GNP of a small country, with half the intelligence of a small wad of palm husks... and unhappy was he! "What utter cack" he boomed "this is worse than Cricket!", and flipped the channel to watch Ping Pong instead.


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


There are always evolutionary dead-ends.... backwaters where organisms have over-evolved following strange and unusual environmental pressures and are just waiting for someone to come along to lay some extinction down on them and put them out of their misery.... Cricket and Carry Lemon are both such examples! ;)
 
By the way, just to clarify, Brazil has the best volleyball team in the world right now(for years). But who cares? :rolleyes:
 
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....:confused:


The answer here is beer, albeit the American Making-love-in-a-canoe kind of beer, but still beer.
 
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

Oh, I thought it was rugby league with extra padding and forward passes?
 
[..]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". [..]

Actually it's more to do with the fact that all these sports are derived from football originally. American football is derived from rugby, which in turn is derived from football, the old english footeball (where cutting the other guys head off with an axe was an acceptable tackle) and finally that Roman sport I can never remember the name of. Which may explain a few things: when you've been playing a sport for ~2000 years you tend to get pretty obsessed over it

[..]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.[..]

Diving's a bookable offence.

Incidentally, if you think football can't get violent, watch this
 
Caus americans get excited about high scores and such (even though american football has to be the slowest most boringest sport in the world..) we had a house party in the build up to the superbowl then watched it after and 2 of my friends fell asleep, i got bored waiting for the last 20 minutes to finish caus it took 15 minutes to play 2 minutes... whats that about?

Anyway, i think for football in america they should make each goal worth 20 points. Then suddenly americans who dont get football would be "ohh wow, my team just won 20 to nothing!!! Stoked."

Well just an idea since that gaylord beckham wont manage to turn everyone onto football there i doubt.
 
This is a flask, (or to be precise an Erlenmeyer Flask or Conical Flask):

I have only ever known Civ 4 - BtS. I have no emotional baggage from previous incarnations of Civ and do not feel bound by current conventions. Therefore, I call the research units "flasks". To call them beakers is simply ridiculous and stupid! It annoys me no end to see them referred to as beakers! Which muppet christened them "beakers"? I would like to punch him! Maybe this "beaker" thing is a USA thing, I don't know?

Who the hell cares? I learned this in 7th grade. I couldn't possibly care less what people call the little symbol that means 1 point towards research. And I think of flasks as great little metal containers for my whiskey to be brought out when in socially unacceptable situations. ;)
 
Caus americans get excited about high scores and such (even though american football has to be the slowest most boringest sport in the world..) we had a house party in the build up to the superbowl then watched it after and 2 of my friends fell asleep, i got bored waiting for the last 20 minutes to finish caus it took 15 minutes to play 2 minutes... whats that about?

Anyway, i think for football in america they should make each goal worth 20 points. Then suddenly americans who dont get football would be "ohh wow, my team just won 20 to nothing!!! Stoked."

Well just an idea since that gaylord beckham wont manage to turn everyone onto football there i doubt.

American football is vastly more strategic than most sports i can think of. It is a slow moving, time based strategy game that relies evenly on the physical ability of its players AND strategic strength of coaches and quarterbacks. Yes, it is slow moving, but I would think that most civ fans would enjoy watching a game that relies so heavily on strategic thinking. I could be wrong , though, but I don't think I am ;)
 
American football is vastly more strategic than most sports i can think of. It is a slow moving, time based strategy game that relies evenly on the physical ability of its players AND strategic strength of coaches and quarterbacks. Yes, it is slow moving, but I would think that most civ fans would enjoy watching a game that relies so heavily on strategic thinking. I could be wrong , though, but I don't think I am ;)


So...if American football is like civ...does that mean injured players has to wait weeks and weeks to get patched up?;)
 
Actually, yes :)

Injuries can cause players to miss anything from 1 week to the rest of their career and everything in between. My team (Jets) loses access to their starting quarterback for a quarter of every season, it seems like :lol: :(
 
Well just an idea since that gaylord beckham wont manage to turn everyone onto football there i doubt.

That gaylord is a perfect player.He always gives his best.Any manager would have him.Going USA was a big mistake.And the reason is a big slut.

American football is vastly more strategic than most sports i can think of.

Football is strategic too.You have to plan most of things.Every freekick,every corner must be good decided.Even a player has no physically strength can play good.Even a fat one.(ronaldo:p )
A fat player has buzzed all Chelsea fans for twice 4 years ago.:lol:
 
Oh, I know football (soccer to americans) is strategic as well, however, the entire game of American Football revolves around multiple strategies playing out simultaneously as well as tactics specific to each position. I'm not sure if this counts as on topic tho ;)

And Beckham is a slut. A big fat hollywood slut. His wife is cool tho ;)
 
But Beckham isn't exacly a football ( or soccer ) player.... :sarcasm: He is more a metrossexual dude that dyes his hair of blond, that has a ex-pop star wife and that used soccer to get seen ..... I know personally some far better soccer players than him ( from the Portuguese national team ). If soccer allowed unlimited substitutions, Beckham would only enter to shoot corners of faults ( the only thing that he can do well in soccer ) and would run ASAP to to the bench ;)
 
But Beckham isn't exacly a football ( or soccer ) player.... :sarcasm: He is more a metrossexual dude that dyes his hair of blond, that has a ex-pop star wife and that used soccer to get seen ..... I know personally some far better soccer players than him ( from the Portuguese national team ). If soccer allowed unlimited substitutions, Beckham would only enter to shoot corners of faults ( the only thing that he can do well in soccer ) and would run ASAP to to the bench ;)

He is a good player. Or at least he was in his best.

If he "made" my team win, I could care less about his hair! :crazyeye:
 
actually beckham is one of the best passers in the game too. he is an easy target to slag off because of his "celebrity". he is also coming to the end of his career..he isnt as good as he once was, but still nearly all the top teams in europe wanted him. this includes madrid who tried to buy him out of his la contract after realising it was a mistake to let him go.
the only real players of note in the portugeuse football team are ronaldo, simao & quaresma. plus you have a good manager.
 
actually beckham is one of the best passers in the game too. he is an easy target to slag off because of his "celebrity". he is also coming to the end of his career..he isnt as good as he once was, but still nearly all the top teams in europe wanted him. this includes madrid who tried to buy him out of his la contract after realising it was a mistake to let him go.
the only real players of note in the portugeuse football team are ronaldo, simao & quaresma. plus you have a good manager.

You're forgetting Deco, Nani and two of the best centre backs in the world. What Portugal doesn't have is a proper striker. And Scolari is seriously overrated.
 
just to continue being off topic....7 in a row the only 100% record in english footie


woot woot \o/\o/\o/
 

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nani looked pretty crap the other night. still totally unproven in my book. im not a very big deco fan to be honest. he is a player i think is seriously overrated. yes i did forget carvalho :) i hear pepe is good but have never seen him play.
 
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