This is one of the reasons I hate America

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  1. Raven Evernight

    Raven Evernight But they never just accepted me for the way I was…

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    As a British person this really annoys me the top picture is a football the bottom isn’t and the names stupid American football? Don’t you kick it once then hold it for the rest of the game and run isn’t it called football out of spite for us British people? F6A1330A-3FF7-4915-B060-CE9D5E9FA30A.jpeg
     
  2. reagents 11

    reagents 11 disaster personified

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    Handegg.

    Pssst it's called soccer.

    *runs away
     
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  3. Raven Evernight

    Raven Evernight But they never just accepted me for the way I was…

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    Looks like I’ll have to put you on my hit list now you will be killed by the very football you mocked I’ll have some kids kick a football at your face have you fall into the road and be isekaied to a football anime world and forced to play football for the rest of your life as punishment for your blasphemy
     
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  4. Blitz

    Blitz ⛈️ awakened from the reverie❄️

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    The British were the one's who originally called it soccer.
    Now enough with this dull and old debate and go watch the England vs Croatia game:blobhero:
     
  5. otaku31

    otaku31 Well-Known Member

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    Might I point out that football originated in Britain and that various early iterations of the game in Britain allowed "handling" of the ball before unified football rules were established. And football is also a reference to the fact that it is played on foot, as in requiring running, rather than kicking the ball around. It's what the British decided, anyway, and the Americans just picked up that discontinued legacy.

    And yes, as Blitz says, it was the British that shortened Association Football to the current soccer.
     
  6. Frozen ink

    Frozen ink Legally had harem『Cathulu』Power of Love & Evil』

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    on the flip side its WATER not WAHTAHR innit
     
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  7. unnamed5

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    hello, i'm brazilian and i must say you're right.
     
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  8. Walter vi Britannia

    Walter vi Britannia Well-Known Member

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    I believe it's because the size of the "ball" is a foot long so it's called football.

    ...in other words, it's all due to that stupid imperial system. The root of all American problems can probably be traced back to their use of the imperial system.
     
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    Xertz Well-Known Member

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    But if most of the world is calling it football then them not changing it is like they are being a stubborn child.
     
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    Don't worry, we hate Americans as much as we hate English people~
     
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  11. Sproutling

    Sproutling We are the Sproutlings

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    Only in america they call football, Soccer.

    The rest of the world, Football
     
  12. Raven Evernight

    Raven Evernight But they never just accepted me for the way I was…

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    What did I do to you for you to hate me :blobfearful::blobsob::blobsob::blobsob::blobsob::blobsob::blobsob::blobsob::blobsob::blobsob:
     
  13. natsume142

    natsume142 だが、断る

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    remind me of the whole Celcius and Farenheit.. why America.. why so difficult, everyone else in the whole world use Celcius..
     
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  14. simak

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    Dear Airstrip One:
    In Overseas football, the goalie uses their hands, and the other players can throw the ball in. Players also use their chest and their head. So if you want to accurate, call it foot-head-chest-throw in-ball. Otherwise realize it's just a name.
     
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    We're using a nickname the people who invented the game gave it. If you have problems with that then take it up with the British. What the rest of the world calls it is irrelevant. It is literally what people call a game. It doesn't matter.
    Having come up with the name soccer the British people are literally the last people who should be complaining about us calling it that.
     
  16. simak

    simak Well-Known Member

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    We have perfectly serviceable words in our borders. It's our language. it's American English, and we don't care.
     
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    BigBadBoi Well-Known Member

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    shut up I bet you don't even have a NUF posting loicense
     
  18. Sutad Aatma

    Sutad Aatma Well-Known Member

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    meh who cares
    it's not like it's gonna change :blobpopcorn:
     
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    Inuzuka Well-Known Member

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    We call it Soccer in Australia too. Football tends to refer to aussie rules footy here.
     
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  20. PotatoZero

    PotatoZero Well-known Potato

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    Fun fact: Almost all sports that originates from the traditional football, and the traditional football itself, are closer to the American football than they are to soccer.
     
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