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Re: Mr. England
Well I can easily see how he was a shoo-in for head of our diplomatic service...Straw called American football "rugby with commercials"
To be fair to Alabama I think I had forgotten he was our foreign secretary (in fact my immediate reaction was "surely its Robin Cook" who not only resigned years ago but is now dead) so I don't see why they are supposed to have known.
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Re: Mr. England
Oh, no you don't. He's out of here as soon as possible. I'll never forgive him for the 2 days I had to spend in Croydon getting my visa renewed in '99. Back across the pond with you, good sir!Originally Posted by GonZ
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Re: Mr. England
This is one of his titles, though. isn't it? Her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs...They also mangled his title, appointing him secretary of state to the commonwealth of the United Kingdom.
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Re: Mr. England
I can name him! Do I win?
Funny, probably accurate, but not so diplomatic...Straw called American football "rugby with commercials"
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Re: Mr. England
He forgot paddingStraw called American football "rugby with commercials"
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and armourHe forgot padding
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Re: Mr. England
No, not possible. That would mean CNN is wrong- can't happen.
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Re: Mr. England
Put your Rugby boys in with our Football boys, and they'll see why pads are necesarry right-quick.
Get real , Football is for pussys and advertising .
Re: Mr. England
I just love the Alabamian ignorance.
I just hope most people understand that these displaced idiots are not representative of the American public.
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Re: Mr. England
I'm sure you could find Brits who don't know who he is either.
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Re: Mr. England
who is he?
......Liddies' dad?
Last edited by InsaneApache; 10-25-2005 at 09:10.
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Re: Mr. England
There have been rugby players who have switched to american football, and visa versa. I believe everyone of them has said there is more violence in one game of rugby than in a whole season of american football.
American football is just fat blokes waddling in body armour for 30 seconds between advert breaks.
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Re: Mr. England
No, that would be baseball.
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Re: Mr. England
Keep telling yourself that and someday it might come true.
American football is rugby for wimps.
Re: Mr. England
I would agree if you weren't being so defensive.
That implies a level of caring that I don't have, are you saying that rugby doesn't have those same complexities?Someone who is pre-disposed to hate all things american could not possibly appreciate the subtleties of Football that are hidden behind it's seemingly brutish appearance
Re: Mr. England
Meh, I'm an American and I agree. Football is Rugby for wimps. To be fair though, Cricket is Baseball for the sociopathic.
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Re: Mr. England
and it's NOT football if you pick the damn thing up, using your HANDS and run about with it. It IS football when you kick it with your FEET, and get penalised for using aforementioned HANDS, hence the name. The clue is there if you look close enough.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
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Re: Mr. England
LOL - ever see how many of those people are carried off of the field with torn ligments and broken bones?
The only part you got right is about the advertising. The rest of your comment and many of the other comments concerning football is typical BS. Edit: to complete a sentence that was only half done.
Last edited by Redleg; 10-25-2005 at 13:13.
O well, seems like 'some' people decide to ruin a perfectly valid threat. Nice going guys... doc bean
Re: Mr. England
I've never played rugby but football is all about violence. Pads only increase the level of violence by allowing the tackler to smash into someone running at full speed. The man being tackled is also wearing pads but the impact is still incredibly jarring. The short duration of the plays does lead to Sumo type lineman but if you have ever seen a receiver go up for a catch over the middle knowing full well a 250 lb linebacker moving as fast as a sprinter was about to crash into his exposed ribs, you wouldn't call him a wimp.
I would say Rugby is the better sport because you can play it at the club level and still go to work on Monday. Few Americans play TACKLE football outside of School or the Pro's unless they're still in there twenties and don't know any better.
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Re: Mr. England
So says the Euro who's probably never played football in his life.
Notice the key word "probably" , care to guess how many other US sports I have "probably" never played ? (though most are not really American in origin )
and it's NOT football if you pick the damn thing up, using your HANDS and run about with it.
No Apache , that is soccer , and that really is for pussies , try Gaelic , Aussie or Compromise for a bit of fun .
Re: Mr. England
Rugby players are taken off with broken collar bones, ribs, and open lower leg fractures (where the bone sticks out), and that's just in Dundee between secondary school.
I think he is just making the point that calling it football is wrong, because they also use hands, unlike proper football in which it is illegal to use one's hands
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It was not theirs to make reply,
It was theirs but to do or die.
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"For God, For King and country, For loved ones home and Empire, For the sacred cause of justice, and The freedom of the world, They buried him among the kings because he, Had done good toward God and toward his house."
-Inscription on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior
Re: Mr. England
I believe that is called a compound fracture here in the states and yes people are taken off the field in American Football for the same type of injuries - minus the collar bone because of the shoulder pads - but they tried it off for cracked neck bones - all in all I rather break my collar bone - verse break in a neck vertebrae.
And all this happens in Junior High School - which would be your secondary equilvent to your secondary schools also.
Plus there are others out there every-year with even worse injuries all in the name of a contact sport.
People trying to say the either game (rugby or American football) is for pussies either attempting to get your goat - or just are plain stupid.
BTW soccer is not a pussy sport either - lots of hard running and many leg injuries happen in that sport also - to include compound fractures of the legs because of contact. Again calling any sport that involves physical endurance and exertion is for pussies well shows a lack of character in that individual.
Last edited by Redleg; 10-25-2005 at 18:47. Reason: To correct spelling and add a sentence
O well, seems like 'some' people decide to ruin a perfectly valid threat. Nice going guys... doc bean
Re: Mr. England
What about the Eton wall game.
What the hell is that about?
Re: Mr. England
I think he is just making the point that calling it football is wrong, because they also use hands, unlike proper football in which it is illegal to use one's hands
But wouldn't "Proper" football be "Real" football , that game where the whole town is the pitch , they use their hands in that .
Any way American football isn't American , it is really an ancient Irish traditional game (or adaption thereof) , and I can prove it
believe that is called a compound fracture here in the states
Open fracture over here .
Re: Mr. England
Yeah I'm just on a wind up. I actually quite enjoy watching american football - just wish they would get on with it sometimes.
As for soccer - I have sprained both ankles 3 times playing as well as having fist fights with total strangers and best friendsI don't play anymore!
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Re: Mr. England
Yes, American football bores me with its constant stopping and starting (and ad breaks). Yet I'll enjoy the long days of a test match. Weird.
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