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What annoys you most?; Rant here if you need to!
Topic Started: Mar 3 2013, 08:45 AM (309,491 Views)
Yi Qi
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Diabloceratops
Jan 3 2015, 06:09 PM
Just get over it and call your version soccer.
Make me. :P

"Soccer" was called Football before, so if anything american "football" should be renamed.
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Admiral General Aladeen
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Naming American football soccer would have at least made sense since "soccer" doesn't give anything of the game away while "football" indicates a ball and feet.
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Stephen
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Stuck on Earth

Austroraptor
Jan 3 2015, 07:25 PM
Diabloceratops
Jan 3 2015, 06:09 PM
Just get over it and call your version soccer.
Make me. :P

"Soccer" was called Football before, so if anything american "football" should be renamed.
Actually, soccer was an earlier term :p (18 years to be exact)
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Kaleb
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Zebrasorus is teh best evur11

The term football actually had nothing to do with kicking the ball with your feet. At the time that the sport originated, most sports were played on horseback. The term football was used because the sport was played, well... on foot. The term soccer originated in England and is merely a shortened name for association football. Rugby football was also called rugger for a time, but that didn't really stick. The two different sports were usually seperated info the names soccer and rugby football or just football to avoid confusion as they were played in the same places. In the US, American football evolved from Rugby and eventually was just called football. Calling association football soccer remained popular in the states while it lost popularity in England and consequently most other places.

So actually, calling American football football and calling "everyone else's" football soccer makes plenty of sense, if not more because that's the way it originally was.
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Jules
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Mihi est imperare orbi universo

Soccer is oddly comparable to Farenheit and the imperial system in general :P
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Rezcall
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Lack of praise when you work hard to help someone ...
A "hey keep up the good work" goes a loooong way...
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Iron Man
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I am Iron Man

When dog hair gets on your freshly painted model parts -.-
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Admiral General Aladeen
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^Bird feathers are worse xD

And on that note, how easily two birds can make a mess.
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Posted Image Drax
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Austroraptor
Jan 3 2015, 05:36 PM
Incinerox
Jan 3 2015, 05:29 PM
You know what annoys me?

American Football.

Why on EARTH do Americans call THAT football?! THEY SPEND MOST OF THE GAME USING THEIR HANDS!

*AND THEN*

The game in which the use of one's foot to manipulate the ball is MANDATORY ie. FOOT BALL, is called "soccer" to them?

WHY? IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SEEEEEENSE! ; ;
I wondered that several times aswell.

I mean , american "football" is bastardized rugby if anything.
This type of attitude from foreigners about one of the greatest sports on Earth :3
(Next boxing of course)
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Similis
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Rezcall
Jan 3 2015, 09:09 PM
Lack of praise when you work hard to help someone ...
A "hey keep up the good work" goes a loooong way...
Learn to never expect anything in return when helping someone or spending your time or resources on other people. It might be hard at first but once you don't need it, doing this is so much easier and more enjoyable. Works pretty well for me :P
Edited by Similis, Jan 4 2015, 12:51 AM.
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Taurotragus
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Primal Carnage Extinction annoys me. The stupid game should run smoothly but no, the stupid team of stupid devs had to make a game where almost everyone has lag, their shop is screwed up, and you have near invincible dinosaurs. This game better get a patch or I'm going to very very mad. :implode: :implode: :implode:
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Flower
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eternal finessé

When some teacher all of a sudden asks me a question. It always leaves me in a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious condition, and they think I didn't study that, or don't bother to. Just say before you ask, 'I am going to ask you all some questions from 'X' chapter'. It's not going to kill you.
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Incinerox
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti

Crooky
Jan 3 2015, 08:55 PM
Soccer is oddly comparable to Farenheit and the imperial system in general :P
Oh god, FAHRENHEIT!

WHY! >_<
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Furka
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great, my floor is erupting once again.
It almost looks like the Locusts are trying to invade my house.
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Ulquiorra
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Incinerox
Jan 4 2015, 04:03 AM
Crooky
Jan 3 2015, 08:55 PM
Soccer is oddly comparable to Farenheit and the imperial system in general :P
Oh god, FAHRENHEIT!

WHY! >_<
Then they're imperial weight measurements.

Why does there have to be an imperial ton and metric tonne. When someone talks about tons/tonnes, how are you supposed to know if they are talking about imperial or metric measurements?
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