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Footegg?
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True facts
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That’s the strangest spelling of Soccer I’ve ever seen.
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It’s actually Association Football, from which football and soccer were derived
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While I realize the nature of your comment but some people don't realize that soccer is actually derived from the term association football as it was first called
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I heard some weird myth that in some far off part of the world they call Handegg, Football. Must be bollocks though since in Handegg you use your hands and don’t have a ball. That said I’m very curious about this mystical place. Apparently they store their cheese in cans which can be used in a spraying fashion which sounds very convenient.
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Those annotations are terrible. That’s clearly a ball & ankle and hand & elbow.
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From TodayIfoundout.com
For all you out there who love to complain when Americans, and certain others, call “Football”, “Soccer”, you should know that it was the British that invented the word and it was also one of the first names of what we now primarily know of as “Football”.
In fact, in the early days of the sport among the upper echelons of British society, the proper term for the sport was “Soccer”. Not only that, but the sport being referred to as “Soccer” preceded the first recorded instance of it being called by the singular word “Football” by about 18 years, with the latter happening when it became more popular with the middle and lower class. When that happened, the term “Football” gradually began dominating over “Soccer” and the then official name “Association Football”.
In the 1860s, as in most of history- with records as far back as 1004 B.C.- there were quite a lot of “football” sports in existence being played popularly throughout the world and of course, England. Many of these sports had similar rules and eventually, on October 26th, 1863, a group of teams in England decided to get together and create a standard set of rules which would be used at all their matches. They formed the rules for “Association Football”, with the “Association” distinguishing it from the many other types of football sports in existence in England, such as “Rugby Football”.
The term football has quite a broad application even if it is only rarely kicked.
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We’re also a belligerent bunch that love bombing other countries to improve our self-esteem. So. You know.
Watch out.
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You’re also trying to make us keep our 2% defense spend, rather than letting us reduce it. I don’t think we’re in any danger from the big bad ol’ US of A.
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A Rugby ball is more like an egg, a Football is too pointy.
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Well how about this. You pull out of NATO, and then you no longer have to worry about the 2% military spend.
Or better yet - and this is the option I like - we pull out of NATO, and let you Europeans fend for your military selves for once, instead of relying on us to spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year to keep up military expenditure so you guys can decrease your military spending to naught.
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Okey dokey.
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It’s the same with the word aluminum. That’s the original spelling as well.
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Technically the US needs NATO to provide a coalition force in case Russia loses the rest of its mind
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Two different Beckham’s... But only one can bend it...
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This is a silly argument, the guy on the left would die playing this and the guy on the right needs body armor to play this. Just say’n.
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Ah, no. Alumium was the original but that sounded too dumb so they changed it to Aluminum which sounded too posh so they went for Aluminium since it fitted in with all the other elements. That Year 9 science knowledge finally being used there.
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It’s a prolate spheroid. Get it right.
![]() 06/09/2015 at 22:34 |
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A football is a ball that is one foot long. A soccerball is something lazy Europeans and communists dick around with to kill time.
'Merica.
![]() 06/09/2015 at 23:06 |
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Yes, but this is neither football nor handegg. This is “kill the fucker holding the ball”
![]() 06/10/2015 at 02:29 |
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Lol. So much this. i wish to give to you all the internets you need.
![]() 06/10/2015 at 09:28 |
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More like “permanently disfigur the guy with the ball because death is too quick”.