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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
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Caerulea
But snow!
—Caerulea
We have snow down here! It snow problem, that snow big thing, it snow big deal, etc etc.
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
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Peelee
We have snow down here! It snow problem, that snow big thing, it snow big deal, etc etc.
There was snow on the ground almost cospatially with me the day before my birthday. This is the closest to having it snow on my birthday it has ever come. oh, bliss!
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
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Peelee
I, for one, ain't complaining about my weather. All y'all can gripe about yours, but I like it just fine down here!
I'm not complaining... yet. Once the 100+ degree days start rolling in I might do a little bellyachin'.
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
I was really bad at soccer as a kid, because I was told "don't kick with your toes; that'll break them!" so then I kicked with the top of my foot, and when I was told not to do that either (because it would break my ankle, though they didn't give that as a reason) and that I specifically need to kick with the inside of my foot, I turned my leg 90 degrees and swung it forward, then complained about how I felt like my hp was going to dislocate.
Apparently you're supposed to rotate your entire body before kicking... but the coaches never said that so I didn't learn about it until a few days ago, when I explained my confusion to my brother.
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
The world has been avenged, and I am tired.
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
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enderlord99
I was really bad at soccer as a kid, because I was told "don't kick with your toes; that'll break them!" so then I kicked with the top of my foot, and when I was told not to do that either
:smallconfused: I was always taught in school that you should always use the top of your foot when passing the ball, because you get better control that way?
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
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factotum
:smallconfused: I was always taught in school that you should always use the top of your foot when passing the ball, because you get better control that way?
I mean, it gives better control than the toes, and roughly on-par with "rotating your body and using the inside of your foot" so... I dunno.
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
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enderlord99
Could people stop brag-complaining about the weather? It's getting kinda annoying.
Bit what else am I supposed to talk to people about!? You're repressing my culture!
Weather's also give here, although I'd like it a tad warmer.
P.S. inside of the foot for football. It's like, the first thing they teach you, same as 'no forward passing in rugby'.
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
Forget about the spring sun.
We have recieved spring rain and snow.
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
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Anonymouswizard
P.S. inside of the foot for football. It's like, the first thing they teach you, same as 'no forward passing in rugby'.
It's the first thing they teach you because it's generally useful and easy for a beginner to learn. It's not the whole of it by any means, and there are real advantages to using the top, outside, and even front of your foot in certain situations. Plus there's the occasional chest or head hit.
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
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FinnLassie
Forget about the spring sun.
We have recieved spring rain and snow.
It snowed to the degree up here that I couldn't even tell it's Spring. It literally looks like Winter out there now.
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
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Knaight
It's the first thing they teach you because it's generally useful and easy for a beginner to learn. It's not the whole of it by any means, and there are real advantages to using the top, outside, and even front of your foot in certain situations. Plus there's the occasional chest or head hit.
Obviously the only way you should pass is to use the bottom of your toes to roll it back to you, then quickly but smoothly dig your toes underneath the ball and swing your leg out and up. Practice gets you control, and then your teammates can just head the ball to each other down the field, and you do y have to worry about this silly "ground" or "kick" nonsense.
Theres a soccer version of the Globetrotters, right?
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
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Knaight
It's the first thing they teach you because it's generally useful and easy for a beginner to learn. It's not the whole of it by any means, and there are real advantages to using the top, outside, and even front of your foot in certain situations. Plus there's the occasional chest or head hit.
I was taught inside for passing, to for striking, but it's been years since I played any sport. Want to get back into rugby though, it's like a civilised version of American Football.
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
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Anonymouswizard
rugby... civilised
Well there's two words that don't belong together. :smalltongue:
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
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Peelee
Well there's two words that don't belong together. :smalltongue:
Don’t you know the saying about football, rugby, gentlemen and hooligans?
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
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Peelee
Well there's two words that don't belong together. :smalltongue:
You've never been to the after match cream tea and masquerade ball I take it?
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
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Anonymouswizard
You've never been to the after match cream tea and masquerade ball I take it?
No, I'm not one for getting a concussion just to join a hallucination. :smallamused:
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I know I'm technically the one who brought it up in the first place, but:
"Also, I..."
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
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Anonymouswizard
Seasons lasting more than a day? The English are confused.
Your seasons last a whole day? That sounds like some southern nonsense.
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enderlord99
Could people stop brag-complaining about the weather? It's getting kinda annoying.
But it's the British national passtime. Stop oppressing my culture, you ethnocentric so-and-so!
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
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SZbNAhL
But it's the British national passtime. Stop oppressing my culture, you ethnocentric so-and-so!
I stand with my Brummie brethren!
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
Rugby and snooker, they are the only true sports.
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
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FinnLassie
Rugby and snooker, they are the only true sports.
Isn't Hockey just ice-rugby? Is that acceptable or not?
Personally I think none-contact sports are better to play but less interesting to watch, which is why they have slowly given way to contact sports in the US. Soccer and Baseball are safer and more fun to play yourself, so where local participation is more common they are more popular.
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
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Tvtyrant
Isn't Hockey just ice-rugby? Is that acceptable or not?
Now I really want to see men in shorts, helmets and skates throw a rugby ball.
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
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Tvtyrant
Personally I think none-contact sports are better to play but less interesting to watch, which is why they have slowly given way to contact sports in the US. Soccer and Baseball are safer and more fun to play yourself, so where local participation is more common they are more popular.
Whoever told you soccer is a non-contact sport is a lying b******, I suspect there are more serious injuries in soccer than in USA football.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_foul
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Soccer is the sport leading to most competitive injuries in NCAA female college athletes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argent...Hand_of_God%22
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
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halfeye
According to the NCAA soccer has 7.7 injuries per 1,000 exposures, AF has 9.7 per 1,000.
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
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SZbNAhL
Your seasons last a whole day? That sounds like some southern nonsense.
I mean, I was going for the record, not the standard three hours.
In all seriousness one of my favourite Jones to tell immigrant friends is that the English have four seasons, and tend to go through them in a day. Generally if they laugh at that I know they 'get' English humour.
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Tvtyrant
Personally I think none-contact sports are better to play but less interesting to watch, which is why they have slowly given way to contact sports in the US. Soccer and Baseball are safer and more fun to play yourself, so where local participation is more common they are more popular.
Rugby is an interesting one. Full contact Rugby is significantly more enjoyable to play than tag Rugby, and it's relatively safe if everybody's learnt to tackle properly and in proper kit (those rugby jerseys? Incredibly durable). I remember reading somewhere that while the chance for a rugby player to die from game related injuries is sky the same as an American Football player (I believe this is due to Rucks and Mauls), they're less likely to receive long term injuries (due to tackles being a drag to the ground and restricted to the person who has the ball). While Rugby players will often finish a game with cuts and covered in mud I think I've only ever seen one player have to leave the pitch.
Man, I really want to find a local rugby club. Although I should probably try to relearn my flat passes first.
(Note: my feelings on American Football are complex, boil down to me thinking that it's a worse game than Rugby due to overcomplication. Then again, I like Cricket*, but that flows completely logically and doesn't require terms like 'linesman' and 'quarterback'.)
* And baseball, although it very much feels like Americanised Rounders to me. Even the bats are bigger!
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
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enderlord99
Could people stop brag-complaining about the weather? It's getting kinda annoying.
This is Los Angeles. I can brag-complain about the weather, or I can complain-complain about the traffic. Your choice.
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
The best sport is clearly table tennis, though I do enjoy football.
—Caerulea
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
Well because I've forgotten to go to sleep, May the Fourth be with you all.
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
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Anonymouswizard
Well because I've forgotten to go to sleep, May the Fourth be with you all.
oof - I forgot all about that!