(06-26-2014 11:16 AM)ncbeta Wrote:  

(06-26-2014 11:09 AM)ClairtonPanther Wrote:  The world gets it, some of y'all don't like soccer, STFU and turn the channel. Nobody is forcing people to watch.

You're not going to believe me, but it's had a negative impact on me. I'll tell you how though.

Just try to type #ECU into twitter. The damn Ecuadorian flag pops up next to it b/c it's the world cup. We're moving conferences and hiring coaches but thanks to SOCCER all of our news is getting mixed up with some country in South America! No one will see our hashtags.

Bless your heart.

(06-26-2014 11:16 AM)ncbeta Wrote:  

(06-26-2014 11:09 AM)ClairtonPanther Wrote:  The world gets it, some of y'all don't like soccer, STFU and turn the channel. Nobody is forcing people to watch.

You're not going to believe me, but it's had a negative impact on me. I'll tell you how though.

Just try to type #ECU into twitter. The damn Ecuadorian flag pops up next to it b/c it's the world cup. We're moving conferences and hiring coaches but thanks to SOCCER all of our news is getting mixed up with some country in South America! No one will see our hashtags.

I can feel ya pain there... I'd be pissed off as well.

Simply go #ECUPirates

I'm tired of all the soccer commercials on television and other places I get my programming. I'm tired of the Internet ads as well. It's hard to escape.

The only thing I hate worse that soccer are soccer fans.

(06-26-2014 11:25 AM)ClairtonPanther Wrote:  

(06-26-2014 11:16 AM)ncbeta Wrote:  

(06-26-2014 11:09 AM)ClairtonPanther Wrote:  The world gets it, some of y'all don't like soccer, STFU and turn the channel. Nobody is forcing people to watch.

You're not going to believe me, but it's had a negative impact on me. I'll tell you how though.

Just try to type #ECU into twitter. The damn Ecuadorian flag pops up next to it b/c it's the world cup. We're moving conferences and hiring coaches but thanks to SOCCER all of our news is getting mixed up with some country in South America! No one will see our hashtags.

I can feel ya pain there... I'd be pissed off as well.

Simply go #ECUPirates

I like to call my rant jokingly serious. I don't really care, but it is annoying just because no one calls Ecuador ecu except for two weeks every four years...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/24/busine....html?_r=0

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-cup-20...owth-here/

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/...tml#page=1

US moves on the final 16...Okla weeps

(06-26-2014 11:13 AM)miztigers55 Wrote:  Besides being not at all related to soccer except for the fact that they are both foreign, the metric system is more rational. I can convert 147.2 centimeters to kilometers a lot faster than i can convert 147.2 inches to miles.
Also, whats tough about visualizing one foot as the length of a mans foot? I don't know, maybe the fact that people have different sized feet?

No, no divisible of 10 is never easier than divisible of whatever the hell we have.

The game against Portugal was kinda interesting, even exciting, even though I don't normally watch soccer and don't really understand it. Even for that one game though I got pretty tired of players flopping on the ground and acting like they have 2 broken legs and 2 broken arms. And then getting up and running off the field a minute later.

After watching real [/i]football with 240 LB guys who run a 4.5 40 colliding at top speed, it's like "Really?".

The metric system is a whole 'nother matter.

Three countries in the world still don't use it:

Myanmar, Liberia, and the US of friggin' A.

1 kilometer = 1,000 meters = 1,000,000 centimeters. Simple.

1 mile = 5,280 feet = 63,360 inches. How much more arbitrary and bizarre can you get?

(06-26-2014 01:10 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  US moves on the final 16...Okla weeps

No one really cares in the grand scheme of things.

(06-26-2014 01:30 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  The game against Portugal was kinda interesting, even exciting, even though I don't normally watch soccer and don't really understand it. Even for that one game though I got pretty tired of players flopping on the ground and acting like they have 2 broken legs and 2 broken arms. And then getting up and running off the field a minute later.

After watching real [/i]football with 240 LB guys who run a 4.5 40 colliding at top speed, it's like "Really?".

Watch the NFL a little more closely, youll see wide reciever fall over at the slightest contact when tehyre unable to catch the ball in order to get that pass interference call. Every sport has its feigning in order to sell a call.

Three countries in the world still don't use it:

Myanmar, Liberia, and the US of friggin' A.

1 kilometer = 1,000 meters = 1,000,000 centimeters. Simple.

1 mile = 5,280 feet = 63,360 inches. How much more arbitrary and bizarre can you get?


why doesn't any one use decameters?
would that be 1 decameter = 100 meters?

(06-26-2014 01:38 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(06-26-2014 01:10 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  US moves on the final 16...Okla weeps

No one really cares in the grand scheme of things.

What about the 25 million people who watched the last match?

Games featuring Mexico have also pulled good ratings in the US.

(06-26-2014 01:38 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(06-26-2014 01:10 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  US moves on the final 16...Okla weeps

No one really cares in the grand scheme of things.

You keep saying that, when it's patently untrue.

If you don't care, say, "I don't care" and leave it at that and stop speaking for the rest of mankind.

(06-26-2014 01:40 PM)hoopfan Wrote:  Three countries in the world still don't use it:

Myanmar, Liberia, and the US of friggin' A.

1 kilometer = 1,000 meters = 1,000,000 centimeters. Simple.

1 mile = 5,280 feet = 63,360 inches. How much more arbitrary and bizarre can you get?


why doesn't any one use decameters?
would that be 1 decameter = 100 meters?

I don't know. I guess it's just a matter of application.

(06-26-2014 01:39 PM)ODUChm Wrote:  

(06-26-2014 01:30 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  The game against Portugal was kinda interesting, even exciting, even though I don't normally watch soccer and don't really understand it. Even for that one game though I got pretty tired of players flopping on the ground and acting like they have 2 broken legs and 2 broken arms. And then getting up and running off the field a minute later.

After watching real [/i]football with 240 LB guys who run a 4.5 40 colliding at top speed, it's like "Really?".

Watch the NFL a little more closely, youll see wide reciever fall over at the slightest contact when tehyre unable to catch the ball in order to get that pass interference call. Every sport has its feigning in order to sell a call.

I've watched both and it isn't NEARLY as bad in the NFL. For one thing, in soccer, the slightest contact results in a player acting like he hit a brick wall, and then flopping around on the ground for a few minutes like they just had their leg chopped off. And this happens practically every time they collide, not just occasionally.

On the plus side, in soccer, at least in the World Cup, they settle things on the field, which is better than how college football does it.

(06-26-2014 01:40 PM)hoopfan Wrote:  Three countries in the world still don't use it:

Myanmar, Liberia, and the US of friggin' A.

1 kilometer = 1,000 meters = 1,000,000 centimeters. Simple.

1 mile = 5,280 feet = 63,360 inches. How much more arbitrary and bizarre can you get?


why doesn't any one use decameters?
would that be 1 decameter = 100 meters?

I'm not sure why people don't really use decameters, but one decameter is actually 10 meters.

Meanwhile, our national team had some good performances against some tough teams in the "group of death", and advanced to the knockout stage in consecutive world cups for the first time ever.

(06-26-2014 01:50 PM)Smaug Wrote:  

(06-26-2014 01:40 PM)hoopfan Wrote:  Three countries in the world still don't use it:

Myanmar, Liberia, and the US of friggin' A.

1 kilometer = 1,000 meters = 1,000,000 centimeters. Simple.

1 mile = 5,280 feet = 63,360 inches. How much more arbitrary and bizarre can you get?


why doesn't any one use decameters?
would that be 1 decameter = 100 meters?

I don't know. I guess it's just a matter of application.

Shouldn't a centipede really be called a hectopede? And a millipede should be a kilopede? Inquiring minds want to know.

(06-26-2014 01:50 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  

(06-26-2014 01:39 PM)ODUChm Wrote:  

(06-26-2014 01:30 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  The game against Portugal was kinda interesting, even exciting, even though I don't normally watch soccer and don't really understand it. Even for that one game though I got pretty tired of players flopping on the ground and acting like they have 2 broken legs and 2 broken arms. And then getting up and running off the field a minute later.

After watching real [/i]football with 240 LB guys who run a 4.5 40 colliding at top speed, it's like "Really?".

Watch the NFL a little more closely, youll see wide reciever fall over at the slightest contact when tehyre unable to catch the ball in order to get that pass interference call. Every sport has its feigning in order to sell a call.

I've watched both and it isn't NEARLY as bad in the NFL. For one thing, in soccer, the slightest contact results in a player acting like he hit a brick wall, and then flopping around on the ground for a few minutes like they just had their leg chopped off. And this happens practically every time they collide, not just occasionally.

On the plus side, in soccer, at least in the World Cup, they settle things on the field, which is better than how college football does it.

Some players and countries tend to do it more than others, be glad then youre fromt he good ole US of A where your star foward can get his face busted open from an elbow, gets up to get patched up on the sideline and is back in the game like nothing happened