"A good example of american vanity, self-centricity, & ignorance is how they call their baseball cup as the 'world-series'. HAHAHA. Err guys, sorry to say but ONLY americans play baseball as a major sport. Rest of the world (and thats a LOT of people) doesnt even know anything about baseball. Sure a few others might play it as a hobby but for sure its not among the major sports in any other place other than USA. Now the football world-cup is something worth calling that. Its truly a world-sport (except of course...yeah u guessed it..america where they want to be different and call it soccer for some unexplained reasons). So calling your baseball thingy a world-series is simply laughable. Sure, be proud of your sport but at least dont give it fake titles."
Did you really just try to make that point? The sport of baseball is played in SEVERAL other countries besides the US including those in Latin America, the Caribbean and East Asia. In fact, in Olympic Baseball, the United States has won only one gold medal since the sport's inclusion in the games - the winner being Cuba, with three gold medals. Other countries in the games have been Australia, Japan (who has had a professional league there since 1920), Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain. So before you try to make a point, look up the facts - it's a common practice used to make yourself not look idiotic.
'English public schoolboys love to nickname things, then as much as now. The tendency is to add "er" to the end of many words. Rugby [Union] Football became "rugby", and then "rugger". Association Football was better know as "assoccer" and naturally evolved into "soccer" which is much easier for a schoolboy to say...'
That's why people say soccer - hmmmm....the English thought that one up did they?? - and, also, it is used in nations where there are other sports called football already. In America, we have football on the Gridiron, not on the pitch, so we use the term soccer.
"Agreed that this movie wasnt possible without showing cliches their exaggerations. And it was fun...not denying that. Go on, make all the fun of people you want. But its really annoying how most of you guys know about other countries ONLY in terms of cliches - everthing on the other side of the ocean is europe. Below somewhere is africa. Then its asia full of *beep* And somewhere down is australia."
Seems like you do the same thing to me. You do say "most of you guys", but the film did not show everyone in Europe either. And I bet you all the money in the world there are ignorant people in your country who don't know Iran from Iraq and so on. America may not be the smartest country, but we're not as dumb as people make us out to be.
So, if you'll excuse me, I have to go now to get on a plane, fly to your hometown, wear my hideous fanny pack, look for David Hasselhoff and Hitler, and yell in the streets about where I can find some beer and sausages to make my ass so large I'll have to buy THREE seats on the plane ride home.
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briankgeorge
18 years ago
Your reposte about the world series doesn't hold water. Sure, baseball is played around the world, but if you want to call your competition th 'World Series', surely you should let the rest of the world enter, not just a couple of Canadian teams along with those of the USA. It'd be like the football competition in England chancing its name from the FA Cup to the World Cup, even though only English and a handful of teams from Wales are allowed to enter!
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