Thursday September 10th (aka Are You Ready For Some Football?!)

[Cleo]

Wow do I hate the middle seat. Actually I just hate flying. It's no fun anymore

[MeatPounder]

Originally Posted by Cleo

Wow do I hate the middle seat. Actually I just hate flying. It's no fun anymore

Actually THIS is fun

[ecchi]

Off for the weekend, leaving about 11:30 tomorrow morning, spending the weekend with my father, then back Sunday night. Travelling by coach, because the train service to where my father lives, sucks.

Originally Posted by Greenguy

Dragon Tattoo Trilogy: Extended Edition (the original version with subtitles) It was very good & worth watching, but I can see why Parts 2 & 3 have never been redone in English, because Part 1 was the best of the 3 (and 2 & 3 are kinda the same plotline).

Kinda answered your own question there. If the first is the best, and the next two are samo-samo, why bother?
(My sister will kill me if she reads that, she is a big fan of all three).

Originally Posted by Cleo

Odd that it's called football since it isn't a ball and is mostly held in the hands.

Originally the game was played with a ball and only kicked. Then some preppy cheat picked up the ball and carried it, and a new game was invented where cheating was allowed. When this new cheat's game went to America, Americans wanted to back pass, which is against the rules, so they started cheating at a game that was already cheating. Thus the game developed into what only Americans call football. (No idea how the ball became sort of egg shaped thought).

If you want to see a game called football which is played by kicking a real ball with the feet, look for the game that every fucking country on the planet except America calls football!

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by ecchi

(No idea how the ball became sort of egg shaped thought).

It's that shape because it was originally an inflated pig's bladder which is also why it's called a pigskin.

I just call it that annoying thing playing on the TV.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Cleo

It's that shape because it was originally an inflated pig's bladder which is also why it's called a pigskin.

Then I'm guessing that the egg shaped thing is the original, and the ball shaped thing used in real football is a newer innovation!

Although in England we have a traditional dance that involves an inflated pig bladder (don't ask) and although it is decades since I have ever watched it performed, I'm sure the bladder was nearer ball shaped than that thing on an American football pitch (not quite round, but nearer round).