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Really minor annoyances

AmblerThorn said:
That's a compliment that. Park next to a better car so yours doesnt get nicked.

Am sure that was some sort of thinking in about the 80s when you could get into any car with just a wire coat hanger
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Our lass always wants to park her car next to more expensive cars on the assumption that the other cars’ drivers will be considerate and not scratch or ding her car.

Aye, cos BMW and Audi drivers are so world-renowned for being kind, caring and considerate.
 

People who get upset about other people calling ‘football’ Soccer. Football is a generic term and covers loads different of sports - literally a sport played on foot with a ball - Soccer is short for Association Football so is correct (SAFC). In this country, no issue, but ‘football’ means an entirely different thing in Ireland, Australia, USA etc etc. so distinguishing it as Soccer seems fair enough to me.
 
People who go into a pub or restaurant and take an age deciding where to sit down

"How about here Colin"
"Oh.. I don't know. What about that table over there?"
"Or maybe the one in the corner?

Oh, just sit down FFS .It makes no difference.
 
Temp0101 said:
People who get upset about other people calling ‘football’ Soccer. Football is a generic term and covers loads different of sports - literally a sport played on foot with a ball - Soccer is short for Association Football so is correct (SAFC). In this country, no issue, but ‘football’ means an entirely different thing in Ireland, Australia, USA etc etc. so distinguishing it as Soccer seems fair enough to me.
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Growing up in Sunderland absolutely NOBODY used the term ‘Soccer’ it was purely used by posh southerner ponces and people on TV. Who were to a man posh southerners!

The only time it was in anyone’s vocabulary it was when referring to ‘Soccer Stars’ which is the old version of Panini sticker book collections.

My first experience in America was working on kids’ ‘Soccer Camps’ during my summer breaks from uni and whenever you said ‘football’ you’d be met with a chorus of pre pubescent voices loudly whining “it’s naaat football it’s saaaaacrrrrrrr!”, so eventually you have to change your vocabulary or else you go mad.

I’ve tried in the intervening decades living in America to ‘code switch’ the term depending on who I’m speaking with and have done so with moderate success even though a little bit of me dies inside whenever I have to say ‘soccer’ cos I’m not a posh southern ponce!
 
Temp0101 said:
People who get upset about other people calling ‘football’ Soccer. Football is a generic term and covers loads different of sports - literally a sport played on foot with a ball - Soccer is short for Association Football so is correct (SAFC). In this country, no issue, but ‘football’ means an entirely different thing in Ireland, Australia, USA etc etc. so distinguishing it as Soccer seems fair enough to me.
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Really?
 
Harry Gates said:
Really?
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Yup.

The rules of association football were codified in England by the
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in 1863. The alternative name soccer was first coined in late 19th century England to help distinguish between several codes of football that were growing in popularity at that time, in particular
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. The word soccer is an abbreviation of association (from assoc.)
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Tex said:
Growing up in Sunderland absolutely NOBODY used the term ‘Soccer’ it was purely used by posh southerner ponces and people on TV. Who were to a man posh southerners!

The only time it was in anyone’s vocabulary it was when referring to ‘Soccer Stars’ which is the old version of Panini sticker book collections.

My first experience in America was working on kids’ ‘Soccer Camps’ during my summer breaks from uni and whenever you said ‘football’ you’d be met with a chorus of pre pubescent voices loudly whining “it’s naaat football it’s saaaaacrrrrrrr!”, so eventually you have to change your vocabulary or else you go mad.

I’ve tried in the intervening decades living in America to ‘code switch’ the term depending on who I’m speaking with and have done so with moderate success even though a little bit of me dies inside whenever I have to say ‘soccer’ cos I’m not a posh southern ponce!
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Fully agree, like I said people in this country excluded, I don’t have an issue with a Yank or Kiwi calling it Soccer.
 
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Temp0101 said:
People who get upset about other people calling ‘football’ Soccer. Football is a generic term and covers loads different of sports - literally a sport played on foot with a ball - Soccer is short for Association Football so is correct (SAFC). In this country, no issue, but ‘football’ means an entirely different thing in Ireland, Australia, USA etc etc. so distinguishing it as Soccer seems fair enough to me.
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‘Soccer’ is the posh public schoolboy term to differentiate Association Football from Rugby Football (Rugger). As the original form of football - just ‘football’ was later referred as association football

I think it’s ok to call it simply ‘football’ because 1. It’s mainly about kicking a ball with a foot 2 Rugby Football is so called because some lad at Rugby school decided to pick up the ball with his hands. And all the other forms of ‘football’, post-date that and are simply different versions of rugby/non football.

As such I think it’s perfectly fine for people who like to participate or spectate at a game with people using their feet to play with a ball, to refer to it as ‘football’ and for all the other games to use other titles in order to distinguish the form they like which is more about mostly using their hands to play with a ball, albeit occasionally kicking it.

So there.
 
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BiG said:
‘Soccer’ is the posh public schoolboy term to differentiate Association Football from Rugby Football (Rugger). As the original form of football was later referred as association football, I think it’s ok to call it ‘football’ because 1. It’s mainly about kicking a ball with a foot 2 Rugby Football is so called because some lad at Rugby school decided to pick up the ball with his hands. And all the other forms of ‘football’, post-date that and are simply different versions of rugby/non football.

As such I think it’s perfectly fine for people who like to participate or spectate at a game if people using their feet to play with a ball, to refer to it as ‘football’ and fir all the other games to use other titles in order to distinguish the firm they like which is more about mostly using their hands to play with a ball, albeit occasionally kicking it.
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Fully agreed. In this country. But I don’t really get vexed about someone from Ireland referring to it as Soccer because ‘their’ football is Gaelic Football or the Aussies because ‘theirs’ is AFL.
 
Darlo1973 said:
People who go into a pub or restaurant and take an age deciding where to sit down

"How about here Colin"
"Oh.. I don't know. What about that table over there?"
"Or maybe the one in the corner?

Oh, just sit down FFS .It makes no difference.
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Doesn’t matter which one you decide on, you’ll be moving seats due to noise/draft before your drinks turn up anyway.
 
That eBay advert with the woman with the long face staring at the tiger lamp, she just annoys me.

There was an advert on radio there other day that just droned on ‘ we used to go to do the parties’ ended with ‘do you want to see my vol au vents’
I will kill because of that advert.
 
Preordering an ebook on playstore (new James Patterson book on the Idaho 4 murders) using credit you have that expires on 27th of July only to realise the book doesn't get released until the 31st :confused:.
Had to cancel the order, grrrr.
 
look out piano said:
Preordering an ebook on playstore (new James Patterson book on the Idaho 4 murders) using credit you have that expires on 27th of July only to realise the book doesn't get released until the 31st :confused:.
Had to cancel the order, grrrr.
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Are you sure about that? I thought with a pre-order, the credit was spent the moment you confirm it, so as long as it's not expired at that point, you're ok.
 
chelt_mackem said:
Are you sure about that? I thought with a pre-order, the credit was spent the moment you confirm it, so as long as it's not expired at that point, you're ok.
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I'm only going on what I've read, if the points are expired at the time of release it'll be cancelled. Apparently it doesn't matter if they're valid at the time of preorder which sucks really.
If someone knows otherwise for certain please let me know 😉
 
Dodged a bullet there. Patterson is absolutely wank. The stock aitken waterman of writing just churning shit out for the masses. I see he’s trying a new angle now with true crime. Must be ona. Mission to occupy every single place on the bestseller lists.
 
Darlo1973 said:
People who go into a pub or restaurant and take an age deciding where to sit down

"How about here Colin"
"Oh.. I don't know. What about that table over there?"
"Or maybe the one in the corner?

Oh, just sit down FFS .It makes no difference.
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Why don`t you just make the decision and tell Colin where to sit??
 
Gentwo said:
That eBay advert with the woman with the long face staring at the tiger lamp, she just annoys me.

There was an advert on radio there other day that just droned on ‘ we used to go to do the parties’ ended with ‘do you want to see my vol au vents’
I will kill because of that advert.
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I'll raise you that one with the stupid dopey faced puppet type 'thing' dancing round a train to Weapon of Choice.
 
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