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Should the US Adopt the Metric System?
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Originally posted by Chrawnus View PostRed herring."He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot
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Originally posted by Zymologist View PostThis reminds me of that time I saw a game of dominoes on ESPN."He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot
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The UK is half and half and has been for decades, no problem. Anything technical is metric. Motor car speedometers are calibrated both in miles per hour and km/hr and road distances are given in miles but not km. We buy pints of beer in the pub but litres of milk and fuel. Supermarket foods are metric but the butcher still understands lbs. Temperatures are nowadays consistently centigrade.
The 24 hour clock will live forever.
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Originally posted by Zymologist View PostThis reminds me of that time I saw a game of dominoes on ESPN.Veritas vos Liberabit<>< Learn Greek <>< Look here for an Orthodox Church in America<><Ancient Faith Radio
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Originally posted by One Bad Pig View PostThat's almost as good as watching a rousing game of Texas Hold'em, where you get to see everyone's hand!I DENOUNCE DONALD J. TRUMP AND ALL HIS IMMORAL ACTS.
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Originally posted by Teallaura View PostTranslation: Um, okay, so maybe there might be a reason it's called 'football' after all...
I already mentioned the fact that you occasionally kick the ball in American football. My point was that the time you actually spend kicking the ball as opposed to how much time is spent holding the ball in your hand/arm doesn't justify it being called football. Your comment about how American football players kick the ball so-and-so much farther than soccer players is completely besides the point.
IOW, your post was a red herring.
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Originally posted by Teallaura View PostLet's see you kick one fifty yards between two uprights that suddenly seem to be toothpicks. Or a hundred yards or more merely to watch the other guys scramble for it.
Soccer passes 20 - 30 yards at most - and usually when the game isn't much to watch...
Cricket is more like the UK answer to golf... and about as much fun to watch. Might be fun to play - I find that most games are better played than watched.
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Originally posted by tabibito View Post
Yeah, but what's good in football is usually bad in soccer - long range passes are a good way to give the ball to the other team in soccer."He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot
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Originally posted by Teallaura View PostTranslation: Um, okay, so maybe there might be a reason it's called 'football' after all...Veritas vos Liberabit<>< Learn Greek <>< Look here for an Orthodox Church in America<><Ancient Faith Radio
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Originally posted by Chrawnus View Post
I already mentioned the fact that you occasionally kick the ball in American football. My point was that the time you actually spend kicking the ball as opposed to how much time is spent holding the ball in your hand/arm doesn't justify it being called football. Your comment about how American football players kick the ball so-and-so much farther than soccer players is completely besides the point.
IOW, your post was a red herring.
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Originally posted by Teallaura View PostYeah, but what's good in football is usually bad in soccer - long range passes are a good way to give the ball to the other team in soccer.Veritas vos Liberabit<>< Learn Greek <>< Look here for an Orthodox Church in America<><Ancient Faith Radio
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What about kick-the-can?"I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill
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Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post...except that kicking in football is more often than not done to give the ball to the other team on purpose.
Like I said, bad in soccer can be good in football - the game sorta ends if there is no kick off."He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot
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Originally posted by Teallaura View PostUm, about equally to score an additional point. Punting and conversions messing up the stats.Veritas vos Liberabit<>< Learn Greek <>< Look here for an Orthodox Church in America<><Ancient Faith Radio
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