Its Not Called that you Dumbass its called this!

[Mr. Walters]

Sounds like a state full of Special Olympians. "Landed up"?, "What kind of Coke"? whew.

Yeah, but who am I to talk? I'm from Boston. I pahk my cah.

 

[Mr. Walters]

Actually Soccer traces its roots to Asia

Vietnam, right?

 

[Super_Child]

Soccer and football are both American sports, so I dunno what Stuper Child is on about.

Sorry what you call Soccer is actually football, and it was created in England.

 

[wolfsfang]

Vietnam, right?

Actually the earliest records are matches of something resembling Soccer/Football between Japan and China

 

[Mr. Walters]

Actually the earliest records are matches of something resembling Soccer/Football between Japan and China

Well paint me green and call me Shulkie, I never knew that. Is soccer (or football for my sensitive European friends) big in China and Japan?

 

[Super_Child]

Actually the earliest records are matches of something resembling Soccer/Football between Japan and China

I refuse to believe!!!!

 

[Slipknot]

ITS NOT SOCCER ITS FOOTBALL FOR GOD'S SAKE!

So why don't you call our football your soccer. That way you'd have our football, your soccer, our soccer, your football. So instead of having football and football you'd have football and soccer just like us, but the reverse, you know? Avoid confusion.

 

[wolfsfang]

Like all sports Football has evolved and we English probably did reinvent the game as we know it today, but it was China and Japan who invented the basics

 

[Ronny Shade]

Actually I do dislike it when those Hayseeds call soda, pop.

**** you then, Erz

 

[U.S War Machine]

Actually Soccer traces its roots to Asia

I thought it was the greeks?

 

[Super_Child]

Although the game we all know today was created in England. I will admit that they used to play something similar to 'Keepy upy' in Asia.

 

[Superman79]

Actually I do dislike it when those Hayseeds call soda, pop.

it's better than in the South where everything is "Coke"

 

[Erzengel]

**** you then, Erz

Go shuck some corn.

 

[Leto Atrides]

It's soda. It's not pop and I swear to God, it's never ever "Soda-pop".

And what are you talking about, that soccer was invented in Asia? It wasn't really invented at all. People have always played games with balls, and many involved kicking, since ancient times, all over the world. In Medieval times and on in Europe, any games played on foot with a ball were called "football". It was a catch-all term.

Sometime in the 19th century in England they wanted to make standardized rules so that they could have interscholastic competitions for students. So they took a variation popular among the youth at the time, formalized it, and Association Rules were written based on it.

So football in general is just a concept that has always been around. Modern "Football" i.e Soccer i.e. Association Football was concretized as a game by the English.

 

[Holly Goodhead]

I say pellow not pillow
melk not milk
baaag not bag
pop not soda
Chikahgo not Chikuhgo (West Coasters)
I think that;s it

 

[black_dust]

faucet is a tap
And yes soccer is football! as my sig stated throughout the worldcup

 

[Da Docta]

Actually I do dislike it when those Hayseeds call soda, pop.

 

[AnimeJune]

I despise people who use the word "lay" when what they should be saying is "lie" - i.e.: "I hate people who lay on the couch and watch football all day".

HENS AND ****ES 'LAY' - PEOPLE LIE!

There endeth the rant.

 

[Super_Child]

Tomato not Tomayto

 

[Da Docta]

I've always wondered about the whole "forget" and "forgot." Why do people use "forget" in the past tense?

 

[Mr. Walters]

You mean you've heard people say things like, "I forget to pick up the dry cleaning today."?

 

[Lurk]

Tomato not Tomayto

what, you pronounce it toe-mah-toe?

it's toe-may-toe

 

[Lurk]

There's no 'r' in 'wash'. I HATE when people say "warsh."

 

[Rac]

ITS NOT SOCCER ITS FOOTBALL FOR GOD'S SAKE!

Well Americans hafty make everything different. Metric system/Inch system?, PAL/NTSC, dd.mm.yy/mm.dd.yy etc.

 

[Mrh7448]

Okay in the spirit of the thread

It's Jelly not Jello and Jam not Jelly

Ack, call it whatever you want. It makes no difference, it still is what it still is. People get too worked up about stupid trivial things like this.

Jam, Jelly and Jell-o are 3 different things.

You have Strawberry Jam or Grape Jelly, you don't have Grape Jam and Jell-o is gelatin, but a brand name.

I don't get how "american football" can be football when they use their hands. but I don't care soccer or football it's all the same to me.

Funny story, the difference in the usage of Toss between canada and Britian. I had a work placement in London and I was told to get rid of the junk and fan mail. So I wrote a sign please toss and left it for the janitorial staff to throw out, needless to say they got a good laugh as the word toss over there is used as a euphimism for...uhh...well let's just say self gratification....HEHE...it was kinda funny.