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Itsmedudeman
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States19229 Posts
December 19 2011 17:40 GMT
#41
And a ball is still a ball regardless of whether it's spherical or egg shaped.
LanTAs
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1091 Posts
December 19 2011 17:41 GMT
#42
On December 20 2011 01:20 gwaihir wrote:
for gods sake....you god damned americans name a sport that ALREADY HAD A NAME (football) SOCCER....are you retarded and dumb????? and dont want to comment on any of the posts all retards have posted, like the handballthing because of 1 single goalkeeper per team....you guys are dumb dumb dumb and EVEN MORE DUMB!!!!! football is older than your cheap stolen defiled copy of rugby called "american football".....only because there is a ball kicked very few times in your shitty game, you stole a name form another sport? while 99% of this game you carry the "ball" in your hands? and you really are wondering why everybody else in the world thinks that americans are retarded dumbasses. and the only thing they do right is raping countries with oil or other resources in the name of "democracy".....god this makes me so angry andf i have the feeling im on the verge of getting banned.....god i hate you all so much

User was temp banned for this post.



Calm your tits dude, just chill out because american football won't be changing its name anytime soon i think ._.
drag_
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
England425 Posts
December 19 2011 17:44 GMT
#43
Both are correct. If you really want to be technical, football (soccer) is association football, so as to avoid confusion with rugby football. SOCcer is an English abbreviation of association, which was a common trend in England during the late Victorian era. In the US the use of soccer caught on as opposed to Europe where we used football.
American football is a development from rugby football, which was also often referred to as football, and so the name stuck.
samw
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
England443 Posts
December 19 2011 17:45 GMT
#44
Because egg is a shape...
"You will walk in the garden of his turbulence"
iGrok
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States5142 Posts
December 19 2011 17:49 GMT
#45
I will henceforth refer to futbol as footsphere.

That is hilarious and is clearly the solution to everything.
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Steveling
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Greece10806 Posts
December 19 2011 17:50 GMT
#46
[QUOTE]On December 20 2011 02:36 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
[quote]

Re:Football v Handegg v Soccer, I think mdb had the right say: It's a different language. And while futbol (to distinguish the two ) may be more popular in most of the world, Football is more popular in the US - so, inside the US, why should it matter that we call it Football?


A logical approach. But when you are addressing a resident of the rest of the world about this topic how would you refer to it?
You can call it however you like across the sea, but when speaking with us you shall call soccer football.
Oh and btw our players are much more handsome and get better dates. Your players look like oversized gorillas while Pique dates Shakira. Dat ass!


Are you seriously going to make the statement that football players don't date/ marry hot girls?

Not only is that ignorant (http://www.athleteswives.com/rankings/hottest-football-nfl-wives-girlfriends/), but that goes against the stereotype for football players (not soccer players, rofl), and it's also just causing more random problems. That's just plain stupid.

That's like someone defending American football over soccer by saying, "Our players could collectively punch a hole through your players, so we're a better sport than you." What the heck?


I challenge you to post some handsome eggballers and their hot wives.

Way to not read my post. I already presented a website. It includes frickin supermodels.

Try again please. [/QUOTE]

From the same site you provided me.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/alP1A.jpg[/IMG]


What a keeper dude. Dat elegance.
Feel free to take a look here.http://girls.gunaxin.com/top-100-footballers-wives-and-girlfriends/16979
We got Shakira, Ilari Blassi and ofc the cutest woman on earth Cheryl Cole!
Is that all you got?
My dick has shrunk to the point where it looks like I have 3 balls.
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States46179 Posts
December 19 2011 17:52 GMT
#47
On December 20 2011 02:37 gillon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 20 2011 02:24 Antoine wrote:
if you insist on calling it handegg, why not call it footsphere? after all, "ball" is not a shape.


Irrelevant, as a 'ball' is still an object, much as an 'egg' is an object (as well as a shape).


Egg isn't a shape. Things can be egg-shaped (which only means it has the same shape as an egg), but please find me a geometry book that uses the word Egg as a proper figure. Ball isn't a shape either, for that matter, for the same reason.

That's like saying that a Table is a shape because I might be able to find something table-shaped -.-'

As it is, a football (the object) is a ball, by definition. It is the shape of a ball (round or ovoid), and so the object that best defines a football is a ball, not an egg. An egg has multiple definitions, none of which properly relates to the game of football. And guess what? The makers of the football didn't feel like calling it a handball, because then it would probably get confused with a fucking handball. In America, you play baseball with a baseball, basketball with a basketball, soccer with a soccer [ball], and football with a football. Et cetera. Do as you please elsewhere, but seriously, all this grief about a sport being called something else in a different country is totally unwarranted.

The only way that football can have anything to do with eggs is if there's a game on in the background while you're egging on a soon-to-be mother hen and lizard while eating scrambled eggs.
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Mattchew
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States5684 Posts
December 19 2011 17:55 GMT
#48
I completely missed the part where someone explains to me how the name of a sport impacts the fun one has while playing/watching it, thus causing all the anger in this thread
There is always tomorrow nshs.seal.
Steveling
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Greece10806 Posts
December 19 2011 17:56 GMT
#49
On December 20 2011 02:52 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 20 2011 02:37 gillon wrote:
On December 20 2011 02:24 Antoine wrote:
if you insist on calling it handegg, why not call it footsphere? after all, "ball" is not a shape.


Irrelevant, as a 'ball' is still an object, much as an 'egg' is an object (as well as a shape).


Egg isn't a shape. Things can be egg-shaped (which only means it has the same shape as an egg), but please find me a geometry book that uses the word Egg as a proper figure. Ball isn't a shape either, for that matter, for the same reason.

That's like saying that a Table is a shape because I might be able to find something table-shaped -.-'

As it is, a football (the object) is a ball, by definition. It is the shape of a ball (round or ovoid), and so the object that best defines a football is a ball, not an egg. An egg has multiple definitions, none of which properly relates to the game of football. And guess what? The makers of the football didn't feel like calling it a handball, because then it would probably get confused with a fucking handball. In America, you play baseball with a baseball, basketball with a basketball, soccer with a soccer [ball], and football with a football. Et cetera. Do as you please elsewhere, but seriously, all this grief about a sport being called something else in a different country is totally unwarranted.

The only way that football can have anything to do with eggs is if there's a game on in the background while you're egging on a soon-to-be mother hen and lizard while eating scrambled eggs.


Busted.

'''In technical drawing, an oval (from Latin ovum, 'egg') is a figure constructed from two pairs of arcs, with two different radii (see image on the right). The arcs are joined at a point, in which lines tangential to both joining arcs lie on the same line, thus making the joint smooth. Any point of an oval belongs to an arc with a constant radius (shorter or longer), whereas in an ellipse the radius is continuously changing.''

You got any real arguments?
My dick has shrunk to the point where it looks like I have 3 balls.
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States46179 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-19 17:58:33
December 19 2011 17:57 GMT
#50
[QUOTE]On December 20 2011 02:50 Steveling wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
On December 20 2011 02:36 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Show nested quote +


Re:Football v Handegg v Soccer, I think mdb had the right say: It's a different language. And while futbol (to distinguish the two ) may be more popular in most of the world, Football is more popular in the US - so, inside the US, why should it matter that we call it Football?


A logical approach. But when you are addressing a resident of the rest of the world about this topic how would you refer to it?
You can call it however you like across the sea, but when speaking with us you shall call soccer football.
Oh and btw our players are much more handsome and get better dates. Your players look like oversized gorillas while Pique dates Shakira. Dat ass!


Are you seriously going to make the statement that football players don't date/ marry hot girls?

Not only is that ignorant (http://www.athleteswives.com/rankings/hottest-football-nfl-wives-girlfriends/), but that goes against the stereotype for football players (not soccer players, rofl), and it's also just causing more random problems. That's just plain stupid.

That's like someone defending American football over soccer by saying, "Our players could collectively punch a hole through your players, so we're a better sport than you." What the heck?


I challenge you to post some handsome eggballers and their hot wives.

Way to not read my post. I already presented a website. It includes frickin supermodels.

Try again please.


From the same site you provided me.

[image loading]


What a keeper dude. Dat elegance.
Feel free to take a look here.http://girls.gunaxin.com/top-100-footballers-wives-and-girlfriends/16979
We got Shakira, Ilari Blassi and ofc the cutest woman on earth Cheryl Cole!
Is that all you got?


You realize I can pick and choose too, right? You picking one out-of-date photo and generalizing to everyone is as ridiculous as me saying that all soccer players are ugly because of this:
[url=http://www.damncoolpictures.com/2011/08/top-10-ugliest-soccer-players.html]http://www.damncoolpictures.com/2011/08/top-10-ugliest-soccer-players.html[/url]

I'm done with you, as you're probably trolling. Even if you aren't, you're just wasting my time. Have a good day.
"There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love." ~Day[9] Daily #100
Steveling
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Greece10806 Posts
December 19 2011 17:59 GMT
#51
[QUOTE]On December 20 2011 02:57 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
[QUOTE]On December 20 2011 02:50 Steveling wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
On December 20 2011 02:36 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Show nested quote +


Re:Football v Handegg v Soccer, I think mdb had the right say: It's a different language. And while futbol (to distinguish the two ) may be more popular in most of the world, Football is more popular in the US - so, inside the US, why should it matter that we call it Football?


A logical approach. But when you are addressing a resident of the rest of the world about this topic how would you refer to it?
You can call it however you like across the sea, but when speaking with us you shall call soccer football.
Oh and btw our players are much more handsome and get better dates. Your players look like oversized gorillas while Pique dates Shakira. Dat ass!


Are you seriously going to make the statement that football players don't date/ marry hot girls?

Not only is that ignorant (http://www.athleteswives.com/rankings/hottest-football-nfl-wives-girlfriends/), but that goes against the stereotype for football players (not soccer players, rofl), and it's also just causing more random problems. That's just plain stupid.

That's like someone defending American football over soccer by saying, "Our players could collectively punch a hole through your players, so we're a better sport than you." What the heck?


I challenge you to post some handsome eggballers and their hot wives.

Way to not read my post. I already presented a website. It includes frickin supermodels.

Try again please.


From the same site you provided me.

[image loading]


What a keeper dude. Dat elegance.
Feel free to take a look here.http://girls.gunaxin.com/top-100-footballers-wives-and-girlfriends/16979
We got Shakira, Ilari Blassi and ofc the cutest woman on earth Cheryl Cole!
Is that all you got?


You realize I can pick and choose too, right? You picking one out-of-date photo and generalizing to everyone is as ridiculous as me saying that all soccer players are ugly because of this:
[url=http://www.damncoolpictures.com/2011/08/top-10-ugliest-soccer-players.html]http://www.damncoolpictures.com/2011/08/top-10-ugliest-soccer-players.html[/url]

I'm done with you, as you're probably trolling. Even if you aren't, you're just wasting my time. Have a good day. [/QUOTE]


How convinient that you dodge my last post.
Also this is about the woman in the picture not the player.
My dick has shrunk to the point where it looks like I have 3 balls.
Complete
Profile Joined October 2009
United States1864 Posts
December 19 2011 18:06 GMT
#52
AMERICA FTW
shell
Profile Joined October 2010
Portugal2722 Posts
December 19 2011 18:24 GMT
#53
Please guys take a chill pill!!!

this was a very funny blog and there is no need for USA bashing when we have so many things we can bash them for (kyoto, wars, more wars, did i mention yet another war?, what was the name of the last war? and the one after that?, polution, guns, bush+wars,bus+elections,lady gaga, macdonals, kfc, etc..)

why would we bash them for their poor choice in sports names?

I think it's ok the americans call their eggball/handegg game football and call our football soccer, but you have got to admit this blog is funny
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FryBender
Profile Joined January 2011
United States290 Posts
December 19 2011 18:30 GMT
#54
On December 20 2011 02:59 Steveling wrote:

How convinient that you dodge my last post.
Also this is about the woman in the picture not the player.


Ehh this argument can be won in 3 seconds flat... Giselle Bundchen. Bam!!! America wins. Argument over.


Juliette wrote
I would watch handegg, lol. But is called soccer in EU too.

Messi too good (but handegg mvp would be brees)


In an effort to derail this thread further handegg MVP has to be Manning. And I'm talking about Peyton not Eli (yes even after last night's victory Peyton still should be the MVP).
Steveling
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Greece10806 Posts
December 19 2011 18:49 GMT
#55
On December 20 2011 03:30 FryBender wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 20 2011 02:59 Steveling wrote:

How convinient that you dodge my last post.
Also this is about the woman in the picture not the player.


Ehh this argument can be won in 3 seconds flat... Giselle Bundchen. Bam!!! America wins. Argument over.




Not that, I meant the one about the egg being a legit shape.
Giselle is a strong argument. However we have bigger numbers!
My dick has shrunk to the point where it looks like I have 3 balls.
ComaDose
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada10357 Posts
December 19 2011 18:58 GMT
#56
On December 20 2011 03:24 shell wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
Please guys take a chill pill!!!

this was a very funny blog and there is no need for USA bashing when we have so many things we can bash them for (kyoto, wars, more wars, did i mention yet another war?, what was the name of the last war? and the one after that?, polution, guns, bush+wars,bus+elections,lady gaga, macdonals, kfc, etc..)

why would we bash them for their poor choice in sports names?

I think it's ok the americans call their eggball/handegg game football and call our football soccer, but you have got to admit this blog is funny

Whats wrong with lady gaga?
BW pros training sc2 is like kiss making a dub step album.
English
Profile Joined April 2010
United States475 Posts
December 19 2011 19:11 GMT
#57
Soccer is a much cooler name anyway.
Lemonwalrus
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States5465 Posts
December 19 2011 19:25 GMT
#58
OMG, this post is so original and funny.

I've literally never heard this before.

You should have your own tv show.

:|
Wik
Profile Joined July 2010
United States125 Posts
December 19 2011 19:38 GMT
#59
On December 20 2011 04:25 Lemonwalrus wrote:
OMG, this post is so original and funny.

I've literally never heard this before.

You should have your own tv show.

:|


Ah I see we're on the same page here, which means you and I can work together to get a spot for him on TV, and profit from it! We will make trillions...
Homo for Lomo
SgtCoDFish
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United Kingdom1520 Posts
December 19 2011 20:14 GMT
#60
Wot wot, I only play association football.

*removes top hat*

*bows*

Good day, sirs.

+ Show Spoiler +
EU calls association football "football", US calls it "soccer". Really not that big of a deal.
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