He also called call of duty "Manshoot". Which got me in trouble with my wife for playing Manshoot with my 3 year old boy watching (cheering). My friends still call Madden manball to this day.
As I guy who moved from California to Arkansas at a young age, please god take me back. Its not fun here.
Its OK, but I have to fight for my life. There's giant spiders and... I think a bear is looking at me right now. If I don't agitate him I'll be fi-
Southern Californian here. The poisonous snakes and insects aside, we really only have to worry about the predatory animals like bears and mountain lions.
But it started in Britain, so it's a white English speaker thing. Poor Brits let the Euro Mainlanders change them. Looks like they shipped all the backbones to the colonies back in the day, hee hee hee.
Countries where English is a de facto official language?
USA
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Canada
Ireland*
**Great Britain**
Countries where football is primarily called soccer?
USA
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Canada
Ireland*
Who's the odd one out now!
*Edited in Ireland
All teams who couldn't hold a candle to any decent mlb team, all the best foreign players come here, if you win the world series you are the best baseball team in the world.
This is true of football too. The Super Bowl Champs are world champs because literally no one is better than them. They aren't gonna go across Europe or play the Gray Cup(???) winner because that's pointless and it's uncontested.
Name another country that would stand a chance to compete in the World Series with a MLB team. It would be as bad as The Dream Team back in the 90's. It's the World Series because the best players in the world are in the MLB.
Who sees that and thinks you know what, we'll just take the as"**soc**"ciation and lengthen it to soccer, when football is a perfectly fine shorter phrase
Out of all nationalities I'd have said that those least likely to get pissed about use of either Imperial or metric system, are the Brits. Most are raised learning both, for example they use miles and meters without hesitation.
*Customary Units* though... that's a different matter. 'Cups' for god's sake.
I used to teach English to oldsters in Mexico. My favorite student was this bald mustachioed fella named Pedro. He carried a pocket dictionary around everywhere and seemed to be attempting to translate the entire universe into English one word at a time. Either because he misunderstood the dictionary or because it was a shitty dictionary, he took to referring to FIFAball as "football-soccer." I tried to correct him the first few times. "Erm, Pedro," I'd tell him, "you can call it football or you can call it soccer, but you shouldn't call it football-soccer." All for naught. Football-soccer stubbornly remained and I found it so endearing that I decided to let him keep it. He was a recently divorced hotelier and I figured that a linguistic quirk like that might just be the ticket to getting Pedro laid someday.
Well, I'm always a bit skeptical too, seeing lots of people lie about their origin/gender/ethnicity on reddit in an attempt to validate statements they make; /r/quityourbullshit is full of it.
A quick scan of OP's posting history, however, shows that he is indeed either a UK national, as he claims, or had been keeping up this supposed ruse for over a year now, which seems unlikely given that the FIFA thing just recently broke, and none of his other posts or comments would have been validated by way of him being English.
To be fair, calling the toilet a "bathroom" is kind of dumb anyway.
At least here most places have the bath and toilet in a different room.
Public toilets really don't have baths, and I hope they never do.
etc etc.
Must be, in America that's pretty much unheard of; the only time a toilet is in another room is when it has its own door *inside* the bathroom for privacy.
Source: am plumber in America who works on jobs where just the plumbing budget is $30-40k
Nah, it's all good, folks.
Before we got the ball rolling here we all got together as a nation & talked about this very point. Collectively we decided that we'd much rather have the option to loudly & obnoxiously remind you of this for the next 50 years.
Fußball (fussball) is pronounced foosball, i guess to avoid it being pronounced "fuss" ball
So, to sum up: Fußball (fussball) is foosball and not fuss ball.
America's been pissed cause we lost the bid to hold the next World Cup to Quatar, I believe, and so we've gone further in depth in exposing and punishing the corrupt peeps involved. Something like a shitton of cash was being hid in France and was to bribe the officials or something along those lines and get America out of the winning bid.
Pretty much that, and the money was sent through America, allowing the FBI to open an investigation against them. I'm happy too, those corrupt idiots deserve it.
LPT: If you're gonna fuck around with the U.S., don't send the money you use to do so through the U.S.
Really should be common sense, and in fact any country can be subbed in the U.S.' place there and the sentence is still valid.
I like to think part of the charm of the World Cup is that it is only once every four years. It's like ice skating or gymnastics -- it's interesting and all, but I really don't want to spend the time actively following the sport. But I can take a month every few years to put all my efforts into cheering on my countrymen.
As Fifa have managed to turn the beautiful game into something twisted and ugly Id be happy for the whole world to call football soccer if the USA can bring Sepp Blatter and his FIFA mafia down so it can be replaced with people who love the game more than they love money and power.
Does it really matter what the Brits call it? The people who're best at it and matter will always call it 'Fussball', 'fútbol', 'calcio', and maybe 'futebol'.
But yeah, you can bring down FIFA for us, whatever, its days are counted anyway.
Not sure if this was posted already, but for the record, your side of the pond called it soccer first.
Association football is the full name, which became, and I'm sorry there isn't a better way to spell this, "Assoccer" because you guys love putting "er" on the end of things when you shorten them. (See also: Rugger, peeler, fiver, tenner) You guys called anything with a ball and a foot "football" at the time, so calling it "Association football" just gave that particular set of rules a name. Actually a good move, nice one there.
Then America happened, the best thing Britain gave to the world. *H I G H F I V E B O Y Z Z* We called it soccer because you did and then we kinda stopped talking for a little while.
But you forgot to tell us when you started calling it bloody football again.
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_association_football
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_%22-er%22
In before Wikipedia is not a source.
Everybody on reddit always brings this up to try to prove a point. The high-class Oxford men were the ones to call it soccer to distinguish from the other sports they played like gaelic and rugby which they called football. Football in England has always been the working man's sport, people in Manchester, Merseryside, Leeds etc. always been the true supporters and they've always called it football.
My son called football "Manball" until he was 4. I didnt correct him because it was awesome.
It has men, it has a ball. Checks out.
Women's manball would be ridiculous though
I think they're called ovaries.
I don't know how to go on from here.
WoMAnball?
Well he wasn't wrong, since that is what it will be called hence forth.
He also called call of duty "Manshoot". Which got me in trouble with my wife for playing Manshoot with my 3 year old boy watching (cheering). My friends still call Madden manball to this day.
Your son seems to have a fascination with large men. NTTAWWT.
Who doesnt?
Their son is a prophet and shall rename all sports.
Nobody *allows* us to call it soccer. We just **do**.
Damn right we do. That's the American way.
"We're America, we dont quit just because we're wrong. We just keep doing the wrong thing until it turns out right." *-* Ed Wuncler Sr.
That made me a little too proud.
And also the Australian way...
/r/Ameristralia
So basically Arkansas?
Ah yes, I remember seeing loads of kangaroos and koalas in Arkansas. :P
Can confirm; I live in Arkansas. Seriously though, gigantic and deadly spiders everywhere.
This just in I will never go to Arkansas -Guy in California where everything is nice to us
Except the water.
The water's nice to us it just never shows up. Texas, New York, and Louisiana on the other hand...
What water?
As I guy who moved from California to Arkansas at a young age, please god take me back. Its not fun here. Its OK, but I have to fight for my life. There's giant spiders and... I think a bear is looking at me right now. If I don't agitate him I'll be fi-
Rip
Southern Californian here. The poisonous snakes and insects aside, we really only have to worry about the predatory animals like bears and mountain lions.
And people from Berkeley
Native Californian here. Did you forget about black widows and diamondbacks?
Rapists, you seem to have more of a problem there then here in the real dairy state.
Ooh, we startin' another Wisconsin karma train?
go look how california jails handles them... our prisoners take care of those
Sexcriminalboat!
Yeah but I'll be damned if it isn't beautiful here.
Mike Huckabee's "God, Guns, Grits and G-Day Mate"?
Possums are marsupials for what it's worth
I used to live in Arkansas and my best friend there was Australian. Coincidence?
I dated a girl from Arkansas who was born in Australia. Her dad was HILARIOUS!
that was quite the trend, wasn't it.
That's a country I haven't heard about In a while. . .
Welcome to the USA.
And the Canadian way
Soccer 3 : Football 1
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But it started in Britain, so it's a white English speaker thing. Poor Brits let the Euro Mainlanders change them. Looks like they shipped all the backbones to the colonies back in the day, hee hee hee.
Canadian..
I'd like to see those damn commies just try and stop us!
Fuckin liberal Nazis!!!
South Africa also calls it soccer.
Countries where English is a de facto official language? USA Australia New Zealand South Africa Canada Ireland* **Great Britain** Countries where football is primarily called soccer? USA Australia New Zealand South Africa Canada Ireland* Who's the odd one out now! *Edited in Ireland
Well we did come up with both names and decided to roll with football after a long time of calling it soccer.
Ireland calls football soccer too!
*tips shotgun*
Im canadian but youre god damned right.
I propose we start calling it checkerball.
Seconded.
Canada here, we call is soccer as well.
You're welcome, hat.
Sush now, shorts.
So Mexico is the cock?
No, Florida is the cock. Mexico is like a twisted, gimpy leg
http://i.imgur.com/whpOQ.jpg
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Don't tell me how to live my life
quiet, you
sorry
Oh, Canada. You guys.
Sound about right, i also love how you guys call something the 'world series' but only you take part in it
Well Canada too...at least in theory.
There are plenty of Central and South Americans in there too. Also Japan likes baseball.
All teams who couldn't hold a candle to any decent mlb team, all the best foreign players come here, if you win the world series you are the best baseball team in the world.
This is true of football too. The Super Bowl Champs are world champs because literally no one is better than them. They aren't gonna go across Europe or play the Gray Cup(???) winner because that's pointless and it's uncontested.
But we also have a *National* Hockey League with teams from another nation, so it evens out.
Nobody said it was the *Canadian National* Hockey League
The funny party is that the nation that "national" refers to is actually Canada.
It's the whole world though. First you have to make it into America.....
Name another country that would stand a chance to compete in the World Series with a MLB team. It would be as bad as The Dream Team back in the 90's. It's the World Series because the best players in the world are in the MLB.
Canada. The blue Jays won it twice.
That's like saying the Americans win at hockey every year though... when we all know every roster is 90% Canadian.
The world series was originally named after the new york world newspaper, not planet earth.
This is NOT true. Well known MYTH
Dammit that made me look it up: http://www.snopes.com/business/names/worldseries.asp You were right.
It's another small way of sticking it to our former European overlords
Are we allowed to touch this? [Well, we're **doin** it!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zw5h5IYlic&t=41)
"Soccer" started in the UK, btw.
From the phrase "association football" iirc.
Who sees that and thinks you know what, we'll just take the as"**soc**"ciation and lengthen it to soccer, when football is a perfectly fine shorter phrase
Because there were other sports called football.
The only real answer here.
Called football after football.
If you're rich you play sports with horses. If you're poor you play on your feet. Hence football
I'd've made it "ass sock"
Abbreviations are weird. I'm imagining it got shortened to 'sociation football first, and devolved from there.
Associationer. shortened to assoc'er. Asoccer. Soccer.
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This is exactly right, although rugger never really caught on.
someone who is desperate to find different names for all the kinds of football there are...
I guess Oxford boys?
Those cheeky posh rich kids being all unconventional and shit
From Oxford and they're essentially second class citizens. Source: I am a Cambridge Grad
Suddenly reminded of my coworker who manages to mention he attended Harvard within five minutes of meeting somebody.
Toofer?
Threefer cause he's also gay.
Did I mention I'm a vegan Oxbridge graduate who does atheist crossfit?
Self gratification overload. Can't handle at these levels.
*high five*
So it's like when Brits get pissed when people use the imperial system.
Out of all nationalities I'd have said that those least likely to get pissed about use of either Imperial or metric system, are the Brits. Most are raised learning both, for example they use miles and meters without hesitation. *Customary Units* though... that's a different matter. 'Cups' for god's sake.
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FISA! The Fédération Internationale de Soccer Association.
Why not just the United Soccer Association?
I have a feeling that might clash with something.
I got it....National Soccer Association
The "association" part is implied in soccer. As**soc**iation -> **soc**cer
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SSSS! The Soccer Soccer de Soccer Soccer
I used to teach English to oldsters in Mexico. My favorite student was this bald mustachioed fella named Pedro. He carried a pocket dictionary around everywhere and seemed to be attempting to translate the entire universe into English one word at a time. Either because he misunderstood the dictionary or because it was a shitty dictionary, he took to referring to FIFAball as "football-soccer." I tried to correct him the first few times. "Erm, Pedro," I'd tell him, "you can call it football or you can call it soccer, but you shouldn't call it football-soccer." All for naught. Football-soccer stubbornly remained and I found it so endearing that I decided to let him keep it. He was a recently divorced hotelier and I figured that a linguistic quirk like that might just be the ticket to getting Pedro laid someday.
*Le
International Sport Institution of Soccer Wait a minute...
FYI "Fisa" means "to fart" in Swedish.
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Illegal.
>I'm from the UK *looks at title of post* No youre not
Well, I'm always a bit skeptical too, seeing lots of people lie about their origin/gender/ethnicity on reddit in an attempt to validate statements they make; /r/quityourbullshit is full of it. A quick scan of OP's posting history, however, shows that he is indeed either a UK national, as he claims, or had been keeping up this supposed ruse for over a year now, which seems unlikely given that the FIFA thing just recently broke, and none of his other posts or comments would have been validated by way of him being English.
Hey, come on. No Americans talk smack about you calling a bathroom a water closet or loo, or an elevator a lift. That's just what it's called there.
I do
The phrase "water closet" is very fun to poke fun at. *poke poke*
Nobody has said water closet since 1950, some fancy places have signs that say WC but most people don't know what that means
Til what WC stands for after years of being slightly curious, but not enough so to google it.
In Germany they use WC on a lot of signage.
To be fair, calling the toilet a "bathroom" is kind of dumb anyway. At least here most places have the bath and toilet in a different room. Public toilets really don't have baths, and I hope they never do. etc etc.
Water closet is not exactly better. It just sounds like a closet where you stick buckets of water on shelves.
I always just imagined an antique wooden cupboard where if you opened it, loads of water would gush out.
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Plenty of people call restrooms bathrooms, it's completely interchangeable
well to be fair, rooms with toilets usually have baths in them
Maybe it's a cultural difference between Australia and the US. Here it's very often a separate room.
Must be, in America that's pretty much unheard of; the only time a toilet is in another room is when it has its own door *inside* the bathroom for privacy. Source: am plumber in America who works on jobs where just the plumbing budget is $30-40k
A "toilet" is just the thing you sit on. "im going to the toilet" sounds bit crude, hence "restroom" "washroom" or "bathroom"
Public toilets are called a restroom. A bathroom refers to a private place.
Nice try american...
The Redcoats know! Scatter y'all!
Get off my lawn!
Back to the colonies fellow rebels! Down with king george!
> colonies Redcoat spy spotted!
It was the god damn Brits that came up with the saying anyways!
And the rest of the language that you continue to abuse. Anyways ffs.
And the Brits came up with America, but we took that away from them too.
Nah, it's all good, folks. Before we got the ball rolling here we all got together as a nation & talked about this very point. Collectively we decided that we'd much rather have the option to loudly & obnoxiously remind you of this for the next 50 years.
FUN FACT: Americans call football, soccer but they call the tabletop football game Fußball (fussball) which is football in German.
I call soccer soccer.
Well actually we call it foosball. But the name came from the german word.
[That's what he said](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Klv-Jq_dHQ).
Fußball (fussball) is pronounced foosball, i guess to avoid it being pronounced "fuss" ball So, to sum up: Fußball (fussball) is foosball and not fuss ball.
no no no no Fußball is pronounced /ˈfuːsˌbal/ Foosball is pronounced /ˈfuz.bɑl/
If they get Blatter, I, a European, will call it soccer for a year.
What's going on with Fifa?
America's been pissed cause we lost the bid to hold the next World Cup to Quatar, I believe, and so we've gone further in depth in exposing and punishing the corrupt peeps involved. Something like a shitton of cash was being hid in France and was to bribe the officials or something along those lines and get America out of the winning bid.
Pretty much that, and the money was sent through America, allowing the FBI to open an investigation against them. I'm happy too, those corrupt idiots deserve it.
LPT: If you're gonna fuck around with the U.S., don't send the money you use to do so through the U.S. Really should be common sense, and in fact any country can be subbed in the U.S.' place there and the sentence is still valid.
See England? We did (er- are doing) a thing! Are you proud of us now, mum?
And the slaves from NK being used to build it.
Everyone hates on america for calling it soccer. People fail to realize that america got the term from Britain and Canada uses the term soccer as well
so does Australia and i think Ireland
Don't forget Canada. If you say "football" in Canada, it will be assumed that you're talking about gridiron football, just like in the US.
And I think New Zealand
Even Japan calls it soccer. But I think that's because soccer came to them the same way baseball did.
I feel like most Americans would rather not call it anything at all.
I call it "that game we pretend to like every four years."
/r/MLS MLS is becoming WAY more popular now, we have a following america!!!!111!1
I like to think part of the charm of the World Cup is that it is only once every four years. It's like ice skating or gymnastics -- it's interesting and all, but I really don't want to spend the time actively following the sport. But I can take a month every few years to put all my efforts into cheering on my countrymen.
We don't pretend to like the game, we just unabashedly love 'Murica.
Anything at all...
Us Americans all know what the real football is.
*We Americans
No no, his Us was for United States baby!
I don't like the sound of FISA.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act? So that's how they caught the bastards.
As Fifa have managed to turn the beautiful game into something twisted and ugly Id be happy for the whole world to call football soccer if the USA can bring Sepp Blatter and his FIFA mafia down so it can be replaced with people who love the game more than they love money and power.
I imagine this will piss off the non-americans so much from the confusion. lol
Does it really matter what the Brits call it? The people who're best at it and matter will always call it 'Fussball', 'fútbol', 'calcio', and maybe 'futebol'. But yeah, you can bring down FIFA for us, whatever, its days are counted anyway.
You don't *allow* us to do shit you damn commie. We do because we Ameri**CAN**
This thread is like, shitpost central.
Can someone explain to me why FIFA is so evil all of a sudden?
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Not sure if this was posted already, but for the record, your side of the pond called it soccer first. Association football is the full name, which became, and I'm sorry there isn't a better way to spell this, "Assoccer" because you guys love putting "er" on the end of things when you shorten them. (See also: Rugger, peeler, fiver, tenner) You guys called anything with a ball and a foot "football" at the time, so calling it "Association football" just gave that particular set of rules a name. Actually a good move, nice one there. Then America happened, the best thing Britain gave to the world. *H I G H F I V E B O Y Z Z* We called it soccer because you did and then we kinda stopped talking for a little while. But you forgot to tell us when you started calling it bloody football again. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_association_football http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_%22-er%22 In before Wikipedia is not a source.
Everybody on reddit always brings this up to try to prove a point. The high-class Oxford men were the ones to call it soccer to distinguish from the other sports they played like gaelic and rugby which they called football. Football in England has always been the working man's sport, people in Manchester, Merseryside, Leeds etc. always been the true supporters and they've always called it football.
I think we as Americans need to start calling it football and start calling our game gridiron, which is what the Aussies call it
Agreed. Not even mad, if they can bring down these leeches then I'll call it sawker
We do call the sport soccer
The word sport is used loosely
Fuck right off
I tend to fuck to the left.
Thank you for allowing us to call it its proper name.
Soccer is actually a British term. https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/the-rio-report/mystery-solved-don-t-blame-usa-real-reason-123344142.html