USA!! USA!! USA!!

[Gob]

[Lord Jim]

Well, in any event, I'm glad to see that the US soccer team is doing well...

As a loyal and patriotic American, I always root for my fellow countrymen, no matter how obscure or irrelevant the sport may be....

Anybody happen to know how the US Women's Beach Volleyball Team is doing?

[Gob]

As a loyal and patriotic American, I always root for my fellow countrymen,

In Aus "to root" means "to have sex with". Was there any particular member of the US soccer team that caught your eye Jim?

no matter how obscure or irrelevant the sport may be....

You must be thinking of them American sports, (?the one where fat men bump into each other so a skinny guy can throw the ball away?), as soccer is the most popular sport in the world, and another great British invention.

[Lord Jim]

You must be thinking of them American sports, (?the one where fat men bump into each other so a skinny guy can throw the ball away?)

I understand that real American Football has become quite popular across the pond, Strop....

http://www.bafa.org.uk/artman2/publish/index.shtml

I hear they draw some pretty good sized crowds....

When NFL teams play in the UK they sell out Wembley Stadium....

It's time you got with the program....

[Sean]

I didn't realise that there were quite that many US ex-pats in London LJ...

[Lord Jim]

As a matter of fact, it's even catching on Down Under:

http://www.clubsonline.com.au/site/inde ... 6201055143

Get your season tickets....

[dales]

Anybody happen to know how the US Women's Beach Volleyball Team is doing?

I'll root for them one at a time.

[Gob]

I'd prefer two at a time, more fun..

[Gob]

The England soccer team visited an orphanage in Cape Town today. "It's heartbreaking to see their sad little faces with no hope"; said Jamal, aged 6.

[The Hen]

I'd prefer two at a time, more fun..

Oh my god.

NO.

Their arses would snap your cock off, or seriously wound you in some other way. Too much steely strong and firm muscles there.

I know it wouldn't be in your best interests.

[rubato]

"... as soccer is the most popular sport in the world, and another great British invention.

Back in the day, 200 years ago or so in your glory days, you were quite inventive for a small island nation.

"
http://www.my-youth-soccer-guide.com/so ... eline.html
1830

* England, the modern form of soccer originated. The sport grew among working-class communities and was seen as a way of keeping young and energetic kids out of trouble at home and in the school; they could let off steam and learn the values of teamwork.

"


Or was it just a minor tweaking of something which had already been around for a while?

"
1820

* USA, football was played among the Northeastern universities and colleges of Harvard, Princeton, Amherst and Brown.

1827

* USA, freshman and sophomore classes at Harvard had instituted an annual intramural football contest in 1827, played on the first Monday of the new school year. These games were evidently quite rowdy, as the event was known as "Bloody Monday".
"

Oh, much longer than that.

"
1600

* Alaska & Canada, the native Eskimos played aqsaqtuk or soccer on ice. Balls were stuffed with grass, caribou hair, and moss. One legend tells of 2 villages playing against each other with goals 10 miles apart.
"

Longer than that too ...

"
B.C.

* Rome, Greece, Japan, and the Italians played a game called "harpastum" which they introduced to the British.
"


Well you added something to it, I'm sure.


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[Gob]

Yes we were, we invented the USA too...

[Andrew D]

Well, except for that making-thirteen-colonies-into-one-nation bit. But other than that ....

[@meric@nwom@n]

Yes we were, we invented the USA too...

If being so irritating you forced us to leave the mother country is considered inventing....

[rubato]

The United States is the invention of Russian Jews, German Anabaptists, French Huegenots, Norwegians, Swedes, Danes, Italians, Irish Catholics, Sikhs, Armenians, Vietnamese, Japanese, Ukranians, Czechs, Poles, Africans, Hopi, Navajo, Tlingit, Hoopa, Sioux, &c.

The English component is only a fraction of the whole. It is blended into a much larger whole.

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[Big RR]

To a certain extent rubato, you are right. But our basic insitutions, our courts and the common law, our bicameral legislative system with a fairly powerful (imperial?) executive and an upper house that was appointed on basis of position and not elected by the people (until recently), and our main language come from England. The so-called American "Revolution" was more of a civil war than a revolution in that we neded up with a system very similar t what we had before the war.

[Gob]

You had a war to get exactly what you had before the war, our system!! (Now that is American!)

[Crackpot]

And you faught a war and ended up saying:

"You know they really did have a point"

[loCAtek]

To which, we (and I mean us Native Americans and it's immigrants) saved your asses in WWII, so you could say how democratic you were!

[rubato]

You had a war to get exactly what you had before the war, our system!! (Now that is American!)

"your system" was to kiss George III's ass and give -0- rights to the average person.

And we had the balls to reject it.

It took you more than another 100 years to give any political rights to only 60% of males in England, and 140 years to full suffrage for all men (and women).

"your system" was to allow the propertied classes to use you like farm animals.


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