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[Fyxe]

Effeminate? O.o''

[Zythe]

Ned? Non educated delinguent? I only knew one douche that said that. Call them townies or chavs.

Still, most English are vainer than the French.

[SOAP]

Effeminate? O.o''

Two words: David. Beckham.

[Goose]

He's a poof, get over it. most english blokes just sit around and watch the cricket all day, and then cry. Not all British men are like David beckham, the jurys out on whether he is a man.

[Nevermind]

"Poof" isn't exactly very diplomatic unless you're talking about the footstool...


And they don't cry..........they just go into denial and say they're better at it than we are =P

[Goose]

i wasn't trying to be diplomatic there, but good point. However, the aussies better get theier act together.

David Beckham is more of a Hamaphradude. (I believe thats the term they'r e using these days.)

[Fyxe]

We don't cry, we just snap out of it and realise cricket is boring anyway.

Then kick your ass at rugby.

[Nevermind]

Good point. I gotta agree, cricket is pretty boring despite the fact that we just absolutely rock at the game.

But it could possibly mean something that cricket is bigger over here than rugby, cos I'm gonna take a stab and say that rugby is more popular over there than cricket?

[Fyxe]

Actually it totally depends on whether we're doing well in one or the other, it seems.

It's hard to guage it. Football is so unbelievably far ahead of both.

I'd guess that rugby is slightly more popular in most of the country.

[Goose]

Rugby is football. What you call football is called Soccer.

[Nevermind]

Soccer is now officially called football in Australia too. Rugby League is NRL, and Rugby Union is just Rugby. We are slowly joining in.

[Fyxe]

Football is called football because it's football.

[Nevermind]

Yeah but there are so many different games in which a foot and a ball are used in conjunction that different names have to be applied to the different sports.

[Fyxe]

Except, football came first, and it's the game that by far and away most extensively uses foot in conjunction with a ball. That's the whole point. The only other thing you hit it with is your head. Nobody ever CARRIES the damn ball, they always KICK it.

[Nevermind]

Maybe it's just us. Footy = all types of football other than soccer, since soccer is soccer. These include, Rugby Union/League and AFL (Australian Football League). Although there is also NFL....

[Fyxe]

Except, in all those games, as a general rule, you carry and throw the bloody ball and on OCCASIONS, you boot it.

So call them football if you like, but you're so so wrong.

[Nevermind]

Hey, hey, calm down princess. I just call them as I've been accustomed to.

[Fyxe]

Don't go Dr. Cox on me.

[Nevermind]

Haha. Well, that's quite an honour, having you see me as analogous to him of all people XD

[Fyxe]

You just said 'calm down princess'. Very Dr. Cox, that.

Man that show is good.

[Wolf O'Donnell]

Except, football came first, and it's the game that by far and away most extensively uses foot in conjunction with a ball. That's the whole point. The only other thing you hit it with is your head. Nobody ever CARRIES the damn ball, they always KICK it.

Not to mention that it's called "Le Foot" by the French, indicating that a foot is involved in a game with a ball; Fussball by the Germans, once again indicating foot and ball; futbol by the Spanish; voetbal by the Dutch, futebol by the Portugese; fotbal by the Rumanians...

Basically, everyone from the Old World, except for the Italians (who call it pallone) call it Football, so clearly everyone who calls it Soccer is getting onboard the train of wrongness.

Furthermore it's not spelt jail, it's spelt gaol. It's not cookies (unless it's made American style), it's biscuits. They're not French Fries, they're chips. And... darn it, I forgot the other one I was going to say... Oh well...

Wasn't this a debate on advertising sexuality?

[Fyxe]

Gaol? I'm with you on the other ones, but gaol?

[Wolf O'Donnell]

Um, yeah.

Jail is an Americanisation.

Just type in Gaol into goole and you get links to places such as Cork City Historic Gaol, Wicklow's Heritage Gaol etc. etc.

http://www.answers.com/gaol&r=67

Okay, you got me. Gaol is the old way of spelling, but it got Americanised and everyone preferred the American way of spelling it so it's now a part of the British English language.

[SOAP]

And I have NO idea what you people are talking about. Is it too late to strike my david beckham comment?

[Korhend]

Rugby is football. What you call football is called Soccer.

Rugby is Rugby. Football is football

[Korhend]

And I have NO idea what you people are talking about. Is it too late to strike my david beckham comment?

Yes.
"David Beckham is the manliest guy in this country, and he's not allowed to use his hands"--Ed Helms

[Fyxe]

DAMN YOU ED HELMS. DAMN YOOOOUUUU.

[SOAP]

Thanks for rubbing it in Korhend! XP

[Zythe]

Not to mention that it's called "Le Foot"

No, the french call it le football. They shorten it to le foot.