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| arctic |
| quote: | Originally posted by astroboy
heheh Americans are good at sports that they invented themselves baseball, basketball, gridiron.
Australia + Australian Rules Football = pwnage
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Afl doesn't do anything for me, and i'm victorian :conf:
Rugby & Cricket is where it's at :p |
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| astroboy |
| quote: | Originally posted by arctic
Afl doesn't do anything for me, and i'm victorian :conf:
Rugby & Cricket is where it's at :p |
Yeah i don't like AFL or cricket (2nd most boring sport to watch after lawn bowls)... Rugby's good fun tho! |
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| PhloTron |
| quote: | Originally posted by astroboy
heheh Americans are good at sports that they invented themselves baseball, basketball, gridiron.
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Basketball was invented by a Canadian in America...technicality :)...so we have some good atheletes that participate in sports other nations invent too. :D
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James Naismith was the Canadian physical education instructor who invented basketball in 1891. James Naismith was born in Almonte, Ontario and educated at McGill University and Presbyterian Cllege in Montreal. He was the physical education teacher at McGill University (1887 to 1890) and at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts (1890 to 1895). At Springfield College (which was then the Y.M.C.A. training school), James Naismith, under the direction of American phys-ed specialist Luther Halsey Gulick, invented the indoor sport of basketball.
The first formal rules were devised in 1892. Initially, players dribbled a soccer ball up and down a court of unspecified dimensions. Points were earned by landing the ball in a peach basket. Iron hoops and a hammock-style basket were introduced in 1893. Another decade passed, however, before the innovation of open-ended nets put an end to the practice of manually retrieving the ball from the basket each time a goal was scored.
In 1959, James Naismith was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame (called the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame.)
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| arctic |
| quote: | Originally posted by astroboy
Yeah i don't like AFL or cricket (2nd most boring sport to watch after lawn bowls)... Rugby's good fun tho! |
heh, I'm an avid cricket fan. Still remember my first game at the MCG; the match where dean jones scored that 300+, almost got sconned by a six to. What a match :p |
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| wookieslut |
| quote: | Originally posted by hardstyle
Ok this thread is about, what words you dont like what Americans say.
Ok for me, i dont like it when Americans call me stupid Europien ,becouse i call soccer -football.
Or they look at me mad, when i say, "I'm goin outside to smoke a fag." |
careful there, you almost spelled "Europenis". |
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| blazed it |
| quote: | Originally posted by astroboy
Australia + Australian Rules Football = pwnage
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do people outside of australia play australian rules football? |
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| Pheobius |
one thing i would like to point out is that the British (and more commonly the English) do seem to kinda 'own' certain sports (that by no means we're ne good at them) like cricket or Rugby, and the world cups in those sports we let other countries actually play.
However
In America you have your world series and you let how many other countries attend? |
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| Pheobius |
| >Blaze it< Australian football is a version of Gaelic (is that right?) football which is played in places like Ireland and Wales, plus it is a fantastic sport :D |
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| Vigilante |
| quote: | | you sayin Rugby makes any more sense? :P |
Hehe Rugby is named after a town in England called "rubgy"
(surprise surprise) where the game was invented.
Wasn't this thread supposed to be about american sayings/english?
The following things that Americans tend to say annoy me:
"Semi" as in "Semi-final", with the emphasis on the I. It's supposed to be pronounced like "semee" in proper English
"Buoy", which they seem to say like "boo-ee" instead of "boy"
I also hate the fact that all these white kids go around pretending they are black kids from the 'hood, saying stuff like "wassup" and calling each other "my nigga" or "dogg". I blame it on Eminem :) |
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| Vigilante |
| AFL (Aussie Rules Football) is only played in Australia. In Ireland they play Gaelic Football, and when Australia meets Ireland for a game, they play "international rules", which is a mix between AFL and Gaelic football. |
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| monoxide |
funny thread...
i myself don't have any complains about "mixing" words:D maybe cuz i'm not english nor american:p
but there are 2 exceptions:
i don't really like the sound of the word EITHER pronounced in american... and the word autumn sounds much better than fall, but it's just my opinion... |
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| superglo |
| lawn bowls rock .haha |
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