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09 Jul 2024, 6:35 pm

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I have never watched an American football game or soccer game and don’t fully understand either.


In association football the object is to put the ball in the net, in gridiron football one only needs to get it across the goalline. :nerdy:

Japan just recently beat the Yanks in a IFAF U20 game.

Yeah, but there’s also lines on the ground with numbers, strange shaped balls, and butt slapping/weird sexual tension. It looks complicated.

I DID watch a baseball game once at the Little League World Series. I didn’t like it. Despite whatever Tom Hanks might say, there was lots of crying (in baseball) and crazed parents yelling at the umpire.


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09 Jul 2024, 6:56 pm

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I have never watched an American football game or soccer game and don’t fully understand either.


In association football the object is to put the ball in the net, in gridiron football one only needs to get it across the goalline. :nerdy:

Japan just recently beat the Yanks in a IFAF U20 game.

Yeah, but there’s also lines on the ground with numbers, strange shaped balls, and butt slapping/weird sexual tension. It looks complicated.

I never watch Super Bowls because they never go my way. I always want both teams to lose.

I DID watch a baseball game once at the Little League World Series. I didn’t like it. Despite whatever Tom Hanks might say, there was lots of crying (in baseball) and crazed parents yelling at the umpire.


The ball is shaped that way to improve how it flies.

The lines are to tell you if you've covered enough distance within the number of downs allowed (4 for American, 3 for Canadian). If the team on offence moves the ball 10 yards before they run out of downs they're back to being on the first down. If the team on the offensive fails to move the ball 10 yards before running out of downs possession goes to the other team and they go on the offence.

I don't really get the buttslapping either.


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09 Jul 2024, 7:08 pm

That’s good to know - the ball and lines thing, that is. :lol:

I think my knowledge of sports is so limited because I didn’t have a gym class when I was growing up, and sports didn’t interest me. Well, I liked watching gymnastics sometimes.


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09 Jul 2024, 7:30 pm

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That’s good to know - the ball and lines thing, that is. :lol:

I think my knowledge of sports is so limited because I didn’t have a gym class when I was growing up, and sports didn’t interest me. Well, I liked watching gymnastics sometimes.


I only know the basics of how football works from having played it during recess in elementary school. It wasn't part of gym class ever and I've never watched a game.


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09 Jul 2024, 8:07 pm

My brother and male cousins played it together when we were kids, but they weren’t allowed to tackle. I’m pretty sure they still did it when the adults weren’t looking.


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09 Jul 2024, 10:54 pm

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My brother and male cousins played it together when we were kids, but they weren’t allowed to tackle. I’m pretty sure they still did it when the adults weren’t looking.


Yup, that sounds like how we played. :lol:


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10 Jul 2024, 1:44 am

I should make a Buldak liveried car.
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10 Jul 2024, 1:52 am

some unimportant distraction,
this new 'artsite' proposition, the login hurdles, do i use my name or something else? and?screen name,password
most likely after all that you'll have the phone hurdle too, why bother?, again


first artsite that got nuked was interesting
too good probably, lots of too good sites have been shut down,
but back , that site showed irt who looked at your uploads
always the same, mountainview-sunnyvale- two other techhubs in sf -and 00 in china :huh:
back to silk roads
the vault in Gansu ?

wait...what's this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogao_Caves



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10 Jul 2024, 8:56 am

My new protein shaker cup that I got from Aldi this morning is well good


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10 Jul 2024, 9:26 am

From the good old 'mad aisle' I would guess. Birdtables and torches.. :lol:


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10 Jul 2024, 9:58 am

Too right. I love it :lol:

I got a posture support thing the other week and it's worked wonders for my back


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10 Jul 2024, 10:13 am

Middle of Lidl is better.


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10 Jul 2024, 10:23 am

When NTs lie and jerk us around is it because they can sense our vulnerability, or is that their normal way?


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10 Jul 2024, 10:39 am

When I was at school and we moved house I had a pretty bad time in my new school. I'm pretty sure the kids picked up on my vulnerability and used it to abuse me verbally. It's happened less since I've become an adult but still rears its head occasionally.


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10 Jul 2024, 10:47 am

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Middle of Lidl is better.


Oh I don't get to lidl anymore because it's out of the way for me


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10 Jul 2024, 10:58 am

Come on England! Eng-er-land eng-er-land eng-er-land. :mrgreen:


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