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I quite enjoy all the trans-atlantic sniping in the backroom, so thought I'd throw this in for discussion :juggle2: (Lights blue touch-paper and retires to watch fireworks...)
Can't remember who said it originally, but it made me chuckle anyway.
"Europeans think 100 miles is a long way.
Americans think 100 years is a long time."
Asia thinks neither
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@ Tiberius: :bow:
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Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube
This is no way to start a backroom thread ! Both sides agree !
Yeah, not much arguing is gonna happen here. In the words of my bible belt american granny; "it's true as gospel"
It would be a more interesting conversation if we were to discuss the differences between American and European women! :eyebrows:
There isn't one European woman though, or one type. UK and French women are vastly different, not to metnion Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Greek, etc. women.
Of course, the US has its diversity too (probably even more).
You make some valid points and I think much more research is required on the subject. ~DQuote:
Originally Posted by doc_bean
I have an idea on how to fix that :evil: - what is worst: to think time goes fast or think distances are short? :laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by doc_bean
For Americans, mostly decendants of Europeans - it is 2 generations. After 2 generations most give up their longing for their father's lands left behind to cross that vast pond - the Atlantic. They become more self-centered and less social.
Well, european women are half the women of their americans counterparts.Quote:
Originally Posted by yesdachi
in weight.
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Originally Posted by Fragony
You mean this:
http://www.surfnewquay.co.uk/gallery....php/photo/197
Found it with google when searching for american+women with image search... I was hoping to find some babe pics for this thread, instead I found this ~:( Now I'll try to search for american+babes and european+babes instead... edit: bah that didn't work well either... I **** at googling it seems...
Without going down the road of weight and armpit hair, I would say that the difference between some Europeans are bigger than say, the difference between the US and some European countries... if that makes sense? Basically there is more diversity in Europe, so a generic question about the difference beween "Americans" and "Europeans" is difficult to answer. :dizzy2:
Actually, Legio, you did a wonderful job. That pic pretty much tells it all. :laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by LegioXXXUlpiaVictrix
Isn't that hitting below the belt as it were, Legio ?
Soccer and American football.
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No, seriously. Apparently some scholars think the two socialize people into very different kinds of situational awareness, analysis and problem- and conflict-solving approaches.
Or, well, at least one.
And he's an American.
Who, according to his own theory, are socialized to a somewhat, uh, linear and dualistic approach.
Which, apparently, also shows in his theory, or at least that's what a curious-but-critical review observed.
...am I the only one getting a bit of a headache from this kind of tailchaser...?
No difference.
Actually soccer is football...:dizzy2:
American football.
"Association football, soccer, or simply football".
I would say there's a bit of difference.
American Women...European Women. As long as I'm not getting skanky vag I don't really care.
Maybe I am wrong, but I think americans don't like football because they aren't the best at it. Playing it save with national sports nobody else likes, you don't have to leave the country to become a world champion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube
Ok, makes sense. Sooooo, you got the stomping as well, I thought that was a strictly european phenomenom :2thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube
I wasn't being sarcastic ~:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube
I just thought I'd mention that in the rest of the world "soccer" is known as "football". This is the correct name for "soccer". Football was invented in England, as was Rugby which is a derivative of football. Rugby was supposedly perfected at Rugby School in Warwickshire, hence the name. "American Football" is another version of Rugby which it evolved from.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football
Here's an American take on "football".
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...any game which prohibits the use of the hands is contrary to nature. Opposable thumbs allow humans to grasp things (thumbs on other primate hands such as chimps and orangutans are splayed out the side and are not truly opposable.) This is why the games human beings play involve holding things such as baseball bats, golf clubs and hockey sticks, or to grip and throw objects like a ball or a Frisbee.
Soccer denies its players this most basic human ability. Players cannot catch or throw the ball. But they can hit it with their heads. If one were to set out to invent a game fundamentally at odds with human nature, soccer would be it. Place the head with its big brain in constant danger, and prohibit the use of the hands. Soccer denies to its players the very attributes that make human beings, the thinking toolmaker, human.
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Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube
Perhaps - they were all bad. I liked the book in spite of the characters. Sort of like a Tom Clancy novel. But we digress...Quote:
Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube
Now that's quite an insult to 'soccer' imho. Basketball is very different from football in two other areasQuote:
Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube
1. the constant scoring
In football you get excited when a goal is in, there is disbelief, their is joy, their is excitement. Have you heard/seen the clip with all the people cheering in the streets in france after Zidane scored ? You don't get that when it's 20 points per minute like in basketball
2. the tallest player is always the best
Granted, an exageration. But how many players in basketball are just tall and have very little technique ? A lot of them still have to learn a lot of stuff when they're already playing in a major team. But they're in because they can dunk without jumping.
As for American football: It's just a bunch of guys that dress up in body armour to play rugby isn't it ? :laugh4:
Are there many objectivists in Europe? I'm curious. Especially female objectivists? I've always wondered how any woman with any self respect at all could be a fan of Ayn Rand, whose captains of industry quite clearly didn't include and weren't meant to include women. :wink:
Americans should look at the game more, I think most don't understand what is really going on. It's playes like a battle, just as I expext american football to be. A lot of the critism, like football being 'sissy' sport would be quikly watered down after seeing one match, these guys make terrible falls, and unlike american football, where you falling is part of the game, players don't expect to fall so they move differently and have worse injuries.