WWI Feels

you have football over there don't you? how do you expect us to tell the difference between football and football if football is football and also football?

the man has a point. probably.

Wat

exactly O_O

american football came after actual football. Who ever name american football football was either a fucking idiot or an evil genius.
like jelly. Jelly is already a thing, why name jam jelly? it means you had to come up with a new name for Jelly, and lets face it Jello sounds pretty damned gay.
And pants? What the hell? THEY'RE TROUSERS. If you're gonna rename something, use a new fucking name, dont just take one from something else!

Football had its origins from rugby football then a man named Walter Camp came along and made football more recognizably of what it is today by introducing rules such as the line of scrimmage and down and distance rules. Since these changes were so dramatic it couldn't really be considered rugby football, so they dropped the rugby part and BOOM. American football was born.

Soccer got the name back in the 19th century England when it was popular to and an 'er' among younger school boys (ex. rugby - rugger). So when it came to Assocciation Football, it was known as 'Assoccer' which eventually became 'soccer' because it was easier to say. So even though most people called it soccer, when Britian exported the sport to other countries, football was a more descriptive term of the sport and was easier to identify than 'soccer'

football is pre-medievil. "soccer" that is, not american football.

You sure? I thought it was because in football players use their FEET to guide and kick the BALL where as in handegg players use their HANDS to carry an EGG

HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE ONLY TIME I GET A BLOODY RESPONSE IS THE VERY SECOND I OPEN UP NSFW.

Anyway I don't actually know, it's actually copied from a really old post. My original goal was to ask if anyone could tell me if it was accurate or bull as this argument reminded me of it but when I tried to change the image to one which had a lower potential of being interpreted as rude i missed the box and changed the page to the image. I got annoyed, didn't feel like retyping, hit paste, and moved on.

Who named jam "jelly"? They're all different things. Also, Jello is a brand, not a name for the item.

Does it fucking matter? It's the same god damn sport.

For all Americans who don't get why we call it soccer, lemme give ya a history lesson.

American Football started in the late 1800s and was organized in the 1920s. Back then, kicking was considered more important that running, so a field goal was worth 6 points. As running became more important, its worth increased and kicking decreased, but the name never changed. Soccer is slang for Association Football.

seems about right

football, soccer, it's still mindless cunts kicking a ball around.

thank you.

foot=fuß ball=ball(duh)
how could you possibly get that one wrong?

If you'd call Fußball football, there would be no term for American football, except maybe "American football". By calling Fußball soccer and American football football, there's a term for every one of us.

though i agree that it is an unecassary (sorry about the spelling) correction to make, the direct translation of "fussball" would be "foot-ball", because german nouns are made of putting different nouns together.

There are different layers of meaning: First the convential meaning of a combination of graphems. In this case "Fußball" means "football", right so far. But on the second layer there is the habit of using, the pragmatical meaning, if you want it that way. And there we have a transition of "Fußball" to "soccer", because Americans use it that way and not in another way.
Of course I know that Fußball in British-English is "football" and not "soccer".

fair point, though even to "american" it translates foot-ball, but i get what you mean.

Yeah, right... the word "translation" is not quite accurate for that... it's rather a semantic transition or transformation of meaning.

im talking about the literal translation, whereas you are not. i think that best sums it up

Exactly.

that is one of the single most beautiful gifs ive ever seen

if it comes to you, tell me if you don't mind
sounds interesting

www.amazon.co.uk/Silent-Night-Story-World-Christmas/dp/0452283671/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1361569137&sr=8-1

Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce

it really is. I have a feeling it was Silent Night: The story of the World War I Christmas Truce but not 100% sure. Do a search on Google if you are not as lazy as me and let me know if you find anything

Found it, dude. Gonna buy it now! Thanks! It's called Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce

Nice! I knew it was similar to what I said but I didn't expect it to be the exact title lol :D

I'd have thought the Germans would have won on penalties.

lol I get the reference but they didn't tie lol

Yeah well...

1966.

That's my only argument.

only 4 to 2 though :P but
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imagine how he felt he send those guys to death

jesus i would of run over there unarmed to help them
and then go shoot the guy who gave the order

sad, but id like to point out that what you've just said would have you shot. at least thrice.

oh i realize that,would stop me from trying to do it tho

i salute you sir!

americans would bomb the shit outta you anyways.

You misspelled "liberate."

Humor really isnt your thing, is it?
Also, what regime? The last time america gained any territory not including small land compromises with mexico was the spanish-american war, and those nations are still sovereign for the most part.

*Almost every modern country in history was build on the backs of the defeated.

"America can't afford a bomb"

except for the thousands of nukes we have

I thought about this, a ten game series, best two out of three each. Of pokemon games, soccer, football, mortal kombat, etc.

Fuck that, put the kettle on, sit down and get things sorted out.

because would you want you're country's fate to end in a tie?

There are ties in war too.

Argentina, Brazil and England would rule the earth

I saw it... it was such a good/sad movie D:

>Grandpa Ace Navy pilot
>He deploys over Normandy
>gets shot down
>picked up by Nazi patrol
>The group he was with was all young, he knew he could kill them, but he wouldn't kill 16 year olds
>Gets brought to German outpost
>tells the group who picked him up why he didn't kill them (there were only 3)
>They become bros, as young Nazis don't care who wins the war
>Exchange addresses and promise to write
>Base gets overrun by allied
>Grandpa keeps his buds alive and has them surrender
>1946, Grandpa mails them
>Only one responds, turns out most got killed by allies
>They called each other every day until they both died 3 months apart 2 years ago

He was an ace from previous battles in which his company helped out the British before the U.S. joined the war

Dude... you made op have intense feels

Don't mean to be rude, but this seemed appropriate.

Fuck war, indeed.