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Glyn.Of course it matters if he doesn't accept the result and calls on his base to back him. That is how civil wars start.
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on August 27, 2020, 11:42:56 pmI was in small town Florida a few years ago. Flew in from Atlanta and was waiting for someone to pick me up and take me to my hotel. Stood outside the terminal. It was raining heavily.A beautiful young woman came out if the terminal and stood a few feet from me, waiting for her own lift. We smiled and nodded. After a couple of minutes, she looked at the skies and said, "Global warmin', huh?" The only three words we exchanged but it spoke dozens of volumes.Slightly different slant but I often wonder what it is about football that the Americans don't get .It's good enough for the rest of the world because the facts are its the best sport of them all bar none .How insular is it possible to be ? .You may as well say oh sorry the internet isn't part of who we are and we reject it .It also leads to the question of why that may be , US sports and franchises are phenomenal money makers for owners .Feed them baseball , the NFL and basketball as their only real sports and you control the dollars .You know , I know the reality is football would blow the US sports to smithereens and whats more importantly it would have them competing on a world stage and lead them to a more global world .No the Boston Red Sox aren't World Champion's and neither are the Chicago Bears , they are the best in the US and absolutely nothing more .
I was in small town Florida a few years ago. Flew in from Atlanta and was waiting for someone to pick me up and take me to my hotel. Stood outside the terminal. It was raining heavily.A beautiful young woman came out if the terminal and stood a few feet from me, waiting for her own lift. We smiled and nodded. After a couple of minutes, she looked at the skies and said, "Global warmin', huh?" The only three words we exchanged but it spoke dozens of volumes.
Quote from: tyke1962 on August 28, 2020, 12:21:12 amQuote from: BillyStubbsTears on August 27, 2020, 11:42:56 pmI was in small town Florida a few years ago. Flew in from Atlanta and was waiting for someone to pick me up and take me to my hotel. Stood outside the terminal. It was raining heavily.A beautiful young woman came out if the terminal and stood a few feet from me, waiting for her own lift. We smiled and nodded. After a couple of minutes, she looked at the skies and said, "Global warmin', huh?" The only three words we exchanged but it spoke dozens of volumes.Slightly different slant but I often wonder what it is about football that the Americans don't get .It's good enough for the rest of the world because the facts are its the best sport of them all bar none .How insular is it possible to be ? .You may as well say oh sorry the internet isn't part of who we are and we reject it .It also leads to the question of why that may be , US sports and franchises are phenomenal money makers for owners .Feed them baseball , the NFL and basketball as their only real sports and you control the dollars .You know , I know the reality is football would blow the US sports to smithereens and whats more importantly it would have them competing on a world stage and lead them to a more global world .No the Boston Red Sox aren't World Champion's and neither are the Chicago Bears , they are the best in the US and absolutely nothing more .I was watching an old episode of the brilliant ‘Modern Family’ yesterday. Jay, the patriarchal member of the family, was asked why he didn’t like ‘soccer’. He said he preferred sports where ‘something happens’. He then confirmed his thoughts about nothing happening in a game because it ended 1-1.That’s why they don’t like ‘soccer’ - because the only thing that can ‘happen’ is for lots of goals to be scored. I think most Americans would prefer football games to consist of nothing but penalty shootouts.
Football is not 'the' sport in Oz either it probably ranks maybe third after Rl and AFL but could be lower, which I would put down to it being 'new' and has been poorly managed over the years.
Quote from: SydneyRover on September 01, 2020, 09:36:19 amFootball is not 'the' sport in Oz either it probably ranks maybe third after Rl and AFL but could be lower, which I would put down to it being 'new' and has been poorly managed over the years.You forgot cricket and Pom bashing Sydney.😉
He went into the crowd with an assault rifle. And apparently he's the victim. Bad, bad times.
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on September 01, 2020, 01:59:57 pmHe went into the crowd with an assault rifle. And apparently he's the victim. Bad, bad times. He drove across state lines to walk into a crowd with an assault rifle. Doesn't get more premeditated than that.The Right will now condone first degree murder as long as the victim is someone they don't like. In the US, at least. Although the refugee crisis over here shows we're not too far behind.
Quote from: MachoMadness on September 01, 2020, 03:17:25 pmQuote from: BillyStubbsTears on September 01, 2020, 01:59:57 pmHe went into the crowd with an assault rifle. And apparently he's the victim. Bad, bad times. He drove across state lines to walk into a crowd with an assault rifle. Doesn't get more premeditated than that.The Right will now condone first degree murder as long as the victim is someone they don't like. In the US, at least. Although the refugee crisis over here shows we're not too far behind.Not the best example to use to compare the UK the the US, Macho. On this score alone and with the leader of the country condoning it I would say we're light years behind, thankfully.
In your eager rush to be a clever dick Belton, you might have missed that I never mentioned the Tories. I said the Right. There are plenty of prominent figures on the right who'd condone it, including in this country. Considering we had the British Union of Fascists in London last week, I'd say it was a fair comparison.
MM That appears to be Belton conflating the Tory party and the British Union of Fascists. I think he's gone into daft mode again.
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on September 01, 2020, 07:34:23 pmMM That appears to be Belton conflating the Tory party and the British Union of Fascists. I think he's gone into daft mode again.Billy, I never mentioned, or considered fascists.If I were you, I would be very, very careful to steer well away from any more racial implications towards me.
Who mentioned the far right?I didn’tMacho didn’tEven Billy didn’tJust you then.
Quote from: belton rover on September 01, 2020, 09:10:27 pmWho mentioned the far right?I didn’tMacho didn’tEven Billy didn’tJust you then.So in your world the British Union of Fascists as mentioned by Macho and then Billy in posts to which you replied are not far-right!So err, where on the political spectrum would you place the British Union of Fascists then Belton?