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BasketofPuppies · Nov 28, 2005, 02:55 AM

Twenty-two large men wearing tight pants jumping on each other and slapping each other on their butts whenever someone scores.

Ω · Nov 28, 2005, 03:19 AM

Gaelic wrestling

nredman · Nov 28, 2005, 03:33 AM

Fonzie · Nov 28, 2005, 03:39 AM

I agree that it's totally gay. I don't even look at the game as a sport - after having looked at it on Danish TV2 Zulu it looks more like a show than a sport. Maybe this is because I have no idea what the hell the people are doing other than falling and running all the time. And what's with the name "football" it hasn't got anything remotly to do with feet and ball as such. Now real football is something cool to look at.
RANT: Americans has got their terminology all wrong. When exactly are you switching to real-world standards such as Kilometers and Centimeters even Celcius ?

moonmonkey · Nov 28, 2005, 03:43 AM

Originally Posted by Fonzie

I agree that it's totally gay. I don't even look at the game as a sport - after having looked at it on Danish TV2 Zulu it looks more like a show than a sport. Maybe this is because I have no idea what the hell the people are doing other than falling and running all the time. And what's with the name "football" it hasn't got anything remotly to do with feet and ball as such. Now real football is something cool to look at.
RANT: Americans has got their terminology all wrong. When exactly are you switching to real-world standards such as Kilometers and Centimeters even Celcius ?

The worst thing is they still use feet and LB's, the USA and Hong Kong must be the last places left that insist on doing this.

Judge_Fire · Nov 28, 2005, 04:11 AM

There's plenty of kissing, hugging, stripping and piling up going on in regular footie (Soccer), too. Team sports are like that. At least the American football players use more protection

Personally, I find American football the most interesting sport around, but perhaps thats because Finland has a decent local history in playing it and even teaching it in schools (among other sports). I thought Denmark would, too?

J

Jens Peter · Nov 28, 2005, 04:33 AM

Originally Posted by Judge_Fire

There's plenty of kissing, hugging, stripping and piling up going on in regular footie (Soccer), too. Team sports are like that. At least the American football players use more protection

Personally, I find American football the most interesting sport around, but perhaps thats because Finland has a decent local history in playing it and even teaching it in schools (among other sports). I thought Denmark would, too?

J

I can only speak for my self, but I have newer heard about any school here in Denmark teaching american football. My only experience with it, is also from Tv2 Zulu where I saw a little, but all the breaks made it really boring to watch compared to our kind of football.

Railroader · Nov 28, 2005, 04:47 AM

Rugby.

Wrestling.

WNBA.

Curling.

Leap frogging.

Gymnastics.

Soccer.

His Dudeness · Nov 28, 2005, 04:49 AM

Any game of cards that is on tv. Poker, especially. Now THAT is gay.

Kr0nos · Nov 28, 2005, 04:51 AM

JoshuaZ · Nov 28, 2005, 05:36 AM

Ice skating? Wait... I mean figure skating.

How about most broadway plays?

rozwado1 · Nov 28, 2005, 06:27 AM

The only thing more gay than football is grab-ass.

ShotgunEd · Nov 28, 2005, 06:34 AM

Originally Posted by BasketofPuppies

Is there anything more gay than football?

Bumsex?

Oisín · Nov 28, 2005, 07:15 AM

Originally Posted by ShotgunEd

Bumsex?

Damn, you beat me to it!

Originally Posted by Jens Peter

I can only speak for my self, but I have newer heard about any school here in Denmark teaching american football. My only experience with it, is also from Tv2 Zulu where I saw a little, but all the breaks made it really boring to watch compared to our kind of football.

You speak for me as well: I've never heard of any schools teaching American football here, either—nor have I ever heard of anyone here who ever even tried playing it. Come to think of it, I don't think I know anyone other than my father who can even make sense of the game, and knows the rules more or less.

Note, however, that this does not in any way imply that football proper (viz. what you 'Muricans insist on calling 'soccer' in an utterly strange twist of abbreviation) is any less boring to watch. Indeed, I think I might fall asleep faster to a match of football than a game of American football. At least with American football, I can focus on the “men wearing tight pants jumping on each other and slapping each other on their butts” to keep me awake.

rickey939 · Nov 28, 2005, 07:27 AM

Originally Posted by BasketofPuppies

Twenty-two large men wearing tight pants jumping on each other and slapping each other on their butts whenever someone scores.

Imagine all of that...but with grown men skating on some frozen water to spice it up a bit...

H-O-C-K-E-Y.

Randman · Nov 28, 2005, 08:19 AM

Is there anything more gay?

Yes.

http://forums.macnn.com/members/basketofpuppies/

ort888 · Nov 28, 2005, 09:58 AM

What about men having sex with each other. That's pretty damn gay.

BasketofPuppies · Nov 28, 2005, 10:01 AM

Originally Posted by rickey939

Imagine all of that...but with grown men skating on some frozen water to spice it up a bit...

H-O-C-K-E-Y.

But hockey players never pile on one another.

Originally Posted by ort888

What about men having sex with each other. That's pretty damn gay.

But it's rarely 22 of them simultaneously. Nor are they (usually) wearing matching outfits.

tooki · Nov 28, 2005, 10:03 AM

Originally Posted by Fonzie

RANT: Americans has got their terminology all wrong. When exactly are you switching to real-world standards such as Kilometers and Centimeters even Celcius ?

Our measures and weights came before the metric system, and because every calculation changes the numbers, you don't lose your decimal point...

tooki

the_glassman · 10:18 AM

Oisín · Nov 28, 2005, 10:23 AM

Originally Posted by tooki

Our measures and weights came before the metric system

Obviously. That doesn't mean they make sense. Well, okay, they do make sense in the way they're built up. But it doesn't mean they make sense as a means of calculation. There's a reason we stopped using them, you know. Just like there's a reason the British stopped using the farthing/ha'penny/penny/shilling/pound system: apart from inflation making most of these units useless, it was far too complicated!

and because every calculation changes the numbers, you don't lose your decimal point...

No, but you lose more or less everything else

Edit:

Originally Posted by the_glassman

How the hell did they manage that one?!?

d4nth3m4n · Nov 28, 2005, 10:54 AM

i'd think man faye is significantly gayer than football. yet you always post pis.

Oisín · Nov 28, 2005, 10:57 AM

Originally Posted by d4nth3m4n

i'd think man faye is significantly gayer than football.

Gee, thank a lot for that Google search.

d4nth3m4n · Nov 28, 2005, 10:59 AM

he usually spams pics of man faye in normal threads, be glad you had the benefit of thumbnails.

lavar78 · Nov 28, 2005, 02:17 PM

(American) football is the best sport there is.

Dark Helmet · Nov 28, 2005, 02:19 PM

Strange you think I would like it then.

BasketofPuppies · Nov 28, 2005, 02:44 PM

Originally Posted by Dark Helmet

Strange you think I would like it then.

Are you're into sado-masochism? Hockey would be more your thing then.

You know, with the masks, sticks, and blades.

Dark Helmet · Nov 28, 2005, 02:45 PM

Originally Posted by BasketofPuppies

Are you're into sado-masochism? Hockey would be more your thing then.

You know, with the masks, sticks, and blades.

Any sports that involve hot male models comparing penis' and making out?

Cuz I would like a season pass.

Oisín · Nov 28, 2005, 02:58 PM

Originally Posted by Dark Helmet

Any sports that involve hot male models comparing penis' and making out?

Cuz I would like a season pass.

One for me too, please.

And don't make me send the apostrophe police to get you.

ShortcutToMoncton · Nov 28, 2005, 03:26 PM

Originally Posted by BasketofPuppies

But hockey players never pile on one another.

Or...wear tights.

Yeah, you're right. Nothing similar, at all.

greg

tooki · Nov 28, 2005, 03:39 PM

Originally Posted by Oisín

No, but you lose more or less everything else

Well, maybe you would!

For me, it's easier to remember that 1 square foot is 144 square inches than that 1 square meter is 10,000cm^2, or 100,... no, 1,000,000 square millimeters.

tooki

strictlyplaid · Nov 28, 2005, 03:47 PM

Originally Posted by tooki

Well, maybe you would!

For me, it's easier to remember that 1 square foot is 144 square inches than that 1 square meter is 10,000cm^2, or 100,... no, 1,000,000 square millimeters.

tooki

My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!

Fonzie · Nov 28, 2005, 04:25 PM

@tooki, but why complicate things with uneven numbers ? What ever was wrong with a nice round number ? you Americans you. Just because you were first with whatever you were first with doesn'y matter that that always works the best. for instance do you think the first car ever build was better to ride in than any conventional car today ? I know it's pretty far fetched - you can tell me - I aint got rabies, if I ever should bite you

Weyland-Yutani · Nov 28, 2005, 05:08 PM

Originally Posted by tooki

For me, it's easier to remember that 1 square foot is 144 square inches

How many square inches per square yard? There are pretty many combinations to remember.

How many fl. oz. in a gallon? How much do 14 fl. oz of water weigh in pounds? How many fl. oz. in a pint? Or a cup? So you're holding 3 gallons, six pints, one cup and 2 fl. oz. of water. How much would that weigh? 14.5 kg - because it is 14.5 L of water.

How many inches per mile? It is 1*10^6 mm in a km and there are 1000 mg in a g. There is no fluid gram to complicate things.

Then there is the Imperial pound and the US pound. Many things to remember. Even NASA gets these things confused every now and then.

cheers

W-Y

Kevin · Nov 28, 2005, 05:10 PM

Your mom uses the metric system in college.

tooki · Nov 28, 2005, 05:11 PM

To me, it's reassuring to see the numbers themselves change as I multiply things, rather than just see a decimal point move around.

NASA didn't get confused with conventional measures: it got confused because it was in the process of transitioning from conventional measures to the metric system. Someone forgot to write the proper unit, and it was assumed that it was metric (like the rest of the project) when in fact it was not.

tooki

teknopimp · Nov 28, 2005, 05:22 PM

neck-car and women's pro sports are gay.

Oisín · Nov 28, 2005, 05:28 PM

Originally Posted by Weyland-Yutani

How many fl. oz. in a gallon? How much do 14 fl. oz of water weigh in pounds? How many fl. oz. in a pint? Or a cup? So you're holding 3 gallons, six pints, one cup and 2 fl. oz. of water. How much would that weigh?

*cries and runs away, hands covering ears*

ShortcutToMoncton · Nov 28, 2005, 05:49 PM

Originally Posted by tooki

To me, it's reassuring to see the numbers themselves change as I multiply things, rather than just see a decimal point move around.

Clearly a sociology issue. It's how you were nurtured, etc. etc. etc.

From what I have seen there are few in the scientific community who do not think that the metric system is far easier to implement and use, and convert between measurements.

How can you argue a 10-based system is more difficult to work with than a collection of unrelated "measurements"? I'm just still pissed that those damn Babylonians (was it them?) decided to put time on a 6-based system...it throws off everything!

greg

analogika · Nov 28, 2005, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by Fonzie

you Americans you. Just because you were first with whatever you were first with doesn'y matter that that always works the best. for instance do you think the first car ever build was better to ride in than any conventional car today ?

<whisper>

psst: bad example - that one was German! You don't want to make it harder on them than it already is. You know how they get when they feel in the wrong...next thing, they'll invade someplace metric just to show 'em.

</whisper>

Oisín · Nov 28, 2005, 06:14 PM

Originally Posted by ShortcutToMoncton

I'm just still pissed that those damn Babylonians (was it them?) decided to put time on a 6-based system...it throws off everything!

Précisément!

Oisín · Nov 28, 2005, 06:25 PM

*looks under bed*

Where's my post? Yoohoo? It shows up on the front page...

*expects post to suddenly appear out of nowhere at some point*

Kevin · Nov 28, 2005, 06:33 PM

The forum is doing that "thing" again. Posting this to make the last post show up.

Oisín · Nov 28, 2005, 06:57 PM

Ah, there they are! So nice to see you again, posts

JHromadka · Nov 28, 2005, 08:38 PM

Originally Posted by BasketofPuppies

Twenty-two large men wearing tight pants jumping on each other and slapping each other on their butts whenever someone scores.

Your place last weekend?

MacMan4000 · Nov 28, 2005, 09:03 PM

the biggest high-school football game in the country* (USA) is going down this friday at 7:30... I'll be there tailgating at 4:30 to support my school/team.

The regular season match up between Trinity High School (my school) and rival Saint Xavier High School (St. X for short) drew a crowd of over 38,000... and this is a regular season HIGH SCHOOL game...

Were meeting up again on friday for the state championship game. It's gonna be massive.

USA today article about the rivalry

*arguably

Salty · Nov 29, 2005, 12:24 AM

One of the kids in our youth group didn't want to go swimming in a pool. When asked why he showed me his legs, I said... yes? He then pointed out that he'd shaved them. I said... OK... and he said, people will think he's gay. I said, no they'll think you're gay if they see you having sex with a man

.

That said, I really don't get why sports, an area normally dominated by hetrosexual males, has so much bum slapping, pinching etc.

Big Mac · Nov 29, 2005, 01:35 AM

Fonzie · Nov 29, 2005, 03:44 AM

^is somebody feeling left out ? awwwww. the only thing he can do is post an image because that's all he can do

BasketofPuppies · Nov 30, 2005, 10:17 AM

Originally Posted by Dark Helmet

Any sports that involve hot male models comparing penis' and making out?

Cuz I would like a season pass.

I saw some DVDs with that in the back room of my local video rental store.

Apparently it's also popular among pizza delivery boys and plumbers.