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Withnail

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disgusting

/dɪsˈɡʌstɪŋ/

adjective
  1. arousing revulsion or strong indignation.

  2. appertaining to English football fan culture.
 
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Withnail

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f*ck
/fʌk/

VULGAR SLANG
verb
  1. 1.
    have sex with (someone).
  2. 2.
    damage or ruin (something).
noun
  1. an act or instance of having sex.
exclamation
  1. used alone or as a noun or verb in various phrases to express annoyance, contempt, or impatience.

  2. in usage with "me" - used when England finally play well in an International Tournament.


See also -ing hell
 

BobClay

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...... and of course, repeating nasty vicious crap from a small group of moronic twats like that on here is such a good idea. :bum:
 
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Withnail

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home
/həʊm/

noun
  1. 1.
    the place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household.
    "the floods forced many people to flee their homes"
  2. 2.
    an institution for people needing professional care or supervision.
    "an old people's home"
3. where 'it' is coming.
 
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Trumpet

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Well, I reckon we invented it, kicking inflated pigs bladders around in medieval times so I am led to believe.
 

Thehooperman

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I believe that, like everything else these days, it is Chinese.

So if I order a Chinese meal delivery, they send it to a place that I call my home, therefore my food from China has come home so on the same train of thought if England win I do believe that football will have truly come home :)
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
So if I order a Chinese meal delivery, they send it to a place that I call my home, therefore my food from China has come home so on the same train of thought if England win I do believe that football will have truly come home :)
Only if you order a takeaway on Sunday night.
 

Noah

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kicking inflated pigs bladders around in medieval times so I am led to believe

Called Camp Ball in those days. You can still find odd fields scattered around the country called Camp Ground or Camp Field from those days. It is rumoured that the first two references to futball are a law banning it and an account of crowd violence, but that is probably just urban myth.
 

littleme

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So if I order a Chinese meal delivery, they send it to a place that I call my home, therefore my food from China has come home so on the same train of thought if England win I do believe that football will have truly come home :)
Now I want a Chinese...
 

BobClay

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I often wonder where this obsession with nationalism comes from for some. The territorial bit might be explained by ancestral evolution, but I personally think it's dangerous since we became 'intelligent and civilised' and should know better. But that's just an opinion born of observation.:hmm:

If the anthropologists are right, the human race emerged out of Africa many tens of thousands of years ago. One day somebody down that way possibly stood up, pointed North and said: "Let's go over there." There may way well have been tribal territories, but there were no lines on maps ... hell there were no maps !!
Whoever it was probably got told: "But nobody has ever been over there !!"
Whoever it was might have replied: "All the more reason to go." :|

:eek::heyhey:
 
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Noah

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like everything else these days, it is Chinese.

Most places probably had some sort of game where a round object, inflated pigs bladder, animal skin stuffed with wool or grass, rubber made from tree sap, human head ..., was kicked around. I guess England can claim to be the place where Association Football rules were first codified - on Parkers Piece in Cambridge. The place where colleges played football, trouble was that students coming from different schools played to completely different rules so organisers would pin up the set of rules that a particular game was to be played to on one of the trees around the Piece, often several games being played at once, each to the rules on the nearest trees. Organisers eventually got together and formulated a single set of rules that all could agree to. These filtered back to the public schools which then formed an intercollege association all playing to the same rules. So, basically soccer is the lowest common denominator of all the forms of football traditionally played in Britain
Pity some of those rules pinned up on trees didn't survive, if they had then we could see what really traditional English football was like. Probably some of the games resembled things like Gaelic Football, Australian Football or American Football, and Rugby.
 

Withnail

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I often wonder where this obsession with nationalism comes from for some.
How often?

Weekly? Or weakly?

To what extent do you think that -

nationalism
/ˈnaʃ(ə)n(ə)lɪz(ə)m/
noun
  1. identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
- the 'exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations' plays in to my wanting my national football team to do well?

Do you think we should immediately issue a cease and desist order on all Italian nationals to curb their nasty jingoism lest Il Duce pops out of the grave?

Utter bollocks.
 
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