[0758] Poor Choice Of Words
└ posted on Thursday, 4 February 2016, by Novil
Seriously. At least football players are trying to play a game instead of randomly bumping their heads into each other like in handegg.
- Thomas: I didn’t think you’d be such a big football fan. Is it your favorite sport?
- Luna: No. I still prefer real football to American football.
- Caption: ~ DEAFENING SILENCE ~
- Spectator #1: Blasphemy!
- Spectator #2: Burn the heretic!
- Thomas: Religious tolerance has its limits, Luna, even in America!
- Luna: I’ve noticed.
![[0758] Poor Choice Of Words](/comics/2016-02-04-0758-poor-choice-of-words.png "[0758] Poor Choice Of Words")
@ Tsunami:
Martial arts are not sports. If it’s a sport, then it’s not a martial art. Martial arts teach you to fight. How can you learn to defend properly and attack opportunistically when rules dictate what you can do and when you can do it?
@ shazz_smifff:
An alternative way of looking at it is that rugby is played without protective gear because Brits are complete morons that take stupid and unnecessary risks to play a sport.
Personally, I’d prefer to agree to disagree vis-à-vis the padding and helmets and whatnot.
NotASpy wrote:
The “defend properly and attack opportunistically” bit better describes what are known either as mixed martial arts or weaponless “combat arts” as taught in many armed forces. The development of martial arts as “a sport” derives from drills devised to enable practice – in the form of sparring – without making the participants too susceptible to injury, with predetermined point-scoring to enable comparisons in execution. You can’t tell if some form of instruction and/or action is improving or degrading performance unless you have a consistent method of metrology.
Safety measures as implemented in competitions do result in these activities becoming a form of sport.
I confess that the only sport I pay attention to is this one.
Strictly speaking chess isn’t a sport (and neither is the one I linked to). Apparently the definition of a sport is something that requires physical skill. The way to tell if it’s a sport or something else is to ask if you can subsititute someone for the original player. If you’ve got something like archery, tennis, pool, etc. If you change the player (but have the original person direct them) you get a different result. If you substitue the person at the desk in chess and have the orginal person direct them, you get the same result. Therefore, chess is not a sport.
@ MaxArt:
the root sport of football had nothing to do with the fact that you moved a ball around with your foot. It was a big, chaotic, mostly undefined sport. Association Football(aka soccer) arose to inject some order. Rugby Football came about because some people liked using their hands. Americans later hybridized Rugby Football and Association Football and just called it Football.
Soccer is actually a slang term created by the British and used by the British until as recent as 1980. They used both football and soccer since Rugby Football called its self simply Rugby; So there was no need to pick just one like in America. In fact, during post WW2, soccer was considered an innocuous alternative to football as a proper term for the sport.
It seems the main reason British people stopped using it was because it became too American to stomach.
NotASpy wrote:
And then you talk about US customary units when these were the measurement standards used all over Europe until relatively recently.
Wrong on just about every account on this one.
First: The system is based on the English units used in the British Empire. Them being the only power in Europe to use those particular units. Though other nations used some units with the same or similar name, they were different in length/weight/volume etcetera. Sometimes to a very significant amount.
Second: That system then was later changed in the US, making the US customary units a system that is and has been only ever used by the US and maybe some closely related nations.
And since I read it wrong in several comments now, once again people: It’s NOT a morning star. And it’s not a mace. What it IS, is a FLAIL.
A morning star does not have a chain.
Don’t worry. That’s actually a very common mistake. But consider yourself taught the difference now.
I enjoy both footballs, but Hockey is better. 😀
@ cariad:
Flail is the correct term XD A Mace and Morningstar are pretty much the same weapon XD
Thomas, remember, she’s your date, protect her!
Quick someone get the holy water!
(Go Panthers!)
Luna Rennt just popped into my head. Maybe it could be a spiritual sequel?
Religious tolerance?
Just try sacrificing your first-born to Baal and see what happens.
@ cariad:
No, flail
@ Lukkai:
Oh, please. The differences that you describe have nothing to do with the point of metric vs. US customary units. The implication was that anything other than metric is bizarre and that it makes no sense for the US to use anything else. You’re completely ignoring the context of discussion in order to inject pedantry into it. So congratulations. You’re so smart. Except when it comes to discerning context.
@ Tucci:
There are martial arts that, in and of themselves, teach self-defense. They’re rare, but you don’t have to go into MMA in order to know how to properly defend yourself. In fact, MMA is also a sport and many of the rules it forces on practitioners are rules shared by (or similar to) many of the more obscure fighting sports.
@ Shax:
Thank you for educating the ignorant hate machine. Not that many will care or notice, but I do appreciate the effort.
NotASpy wrote:
You’re right, they don’t have anything to do with the point of metric system vs. US customary units. That is because I wasn’t trying to inject anything into that discussion. I was merely correcting you about a fact that you got wrong on the side.
I ignored the context of discussion, because I wasn’t actively taking part in it. And because, as you say yourself, it was completely irrelevant for what I wanted to say.
Well, smart enough to know what you noticed yourself, but seemingly decided to ignore: That I didn’t actually take part in the discussion. But merely made a sidenote about a wrong fact brought forth.
Newsflash NotASpy: Not everyone is out to get you. Sometimes people will simply come across something, notice “Wait! That’s wrong!” and decide to write a small correction.
Now, the smart move if you end up on the receiving side of this (as long as it’s adequately polite) is to at least think about it, even if you then decide to ignore it. But treating it like this. As if it was some kind of personal attack on you or anything… Sorry, but… Not so smart.
“EVEN in America”…. right.
Oh no, someone likes one ball game better than another. Here’s why they’re wrong about that, and is deserving of scorn.
(I will say that if I say “soccer”, you know what I mean; if I say “football” with no modifier, you have to deduce from other clues, guess, or ask which one I mean if you care to know. Not that I specifically will talk about it much, but…)
I agree with Luna. Though, I don’t mind watching a good game of American Football, either.
One could argue that soccer is indeed the “real football”.
Why?
Simply because in a game of American football the ball has next to no contact with the players’ feet compared to a soccer game.
Of course that’s not saying anything about whether or not American football is better (or not) than “real” football.
Novil wrote:
Congratulations everyone, you’ve been trolled by a comic strip and you fell for it completely.
Novil, I salute you sir!
i will be honest, real foot is my personal favorite because it feel like you can become one with team and ball and all those skills i want to master by practicing over and over, Rugby’s good too but its just thar i … wel its not same to me, maybe because i am not an american citiizen.
Is know Rugby is a great game, but as long as soccer exist i know drugs will be less popular
I wouldn’t be a true American if I didn’t say this… It’s probounced “soccer”.
Joking aside soccer is really just a shortened name for association football that originated in Britain. Weird how where you grow up affects The terms you use for things even when speaking the same language.
EVEN in America?
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hooo
that was a good one.