BP,

Three times, this exchange has happened?

"Where are you from?"

"Tennessee"

"Tunisia?"

I'm impressed/amazed.

Maybe BigPoppa's mouth is always full of marshmallows.

fyp

Carnivore,


One could also reasonably think that people who use the term "the states" only visit westernized countries and/or only talk to ex-pats/westerners

When you're in developing nations talking to locals, America or USA is where you're from. And many people will also know New York, California, Texas, etc. But "the states" is often something they won't understand.

I agree.

****ty foreign sport is ****ty lol

Yeah, if I told a chinese person "I'm from ‘the states’ there's a better than even chance they'd be confused.

I must just start saying I'm from America to piss people off.

Also the literal translation of 美国 (USA) is "beautiful country". USA#1.

Trump #1

Football is a sublimely designed sport. Strikes the perfect balance between having suspense (as opposed to, for instance, basketball) and being flowing and constantly moving (as opposed to, for instance, American football). Rugby's a pretty good sport in that regard too. The only American sport which really seems to come close to striking that balance is ice hockey.

Also, something which pisses me off is when people shorten 'ice hockey' to 'hockey' - naturally, when you say 'hockey', I'm going to understand you as meaning the original field hockey, rather than an adaptation of that game. It's like being invited to a poker game and finding out they're playing open face.

Yes, absolutely correct.

No, completelely wrong. Field hockey is for schoolgirls.

Soccer would be a sublime sport of 7-6 was a more common score than 0-0 or 1-1.

They should just make the goals a foot wider all around

Soccer is flowing and constantly moving?

75% of the time they're kicking the ball back towards their own goal or falling down acting like they just broke their leg.

There's maybe 10-15 mins of actual exciting action in a +90 min game.

Some indoor forms of soccer use a much smaller field and I believe much higher scores.

When the **** did "USian" creep into our language. I've seen it on Facebook a couple of times in the past month.

France + Italy = ignorant Southern Europeans.

I figured it's because they've got a metric ****ton of immigrants from the barren deserts of North Africa and relatively few visitors from the verdant hills of Middle Tennessee. So when they hear T-vowel-n-vowel-s-vowel they're more likely to assume "Tunisia".


Or maybe it's the marshmallows.


Back on topic: the spelling of "marshmallow" pisses me off

I could believe that saying you're from Tennessee could be misconstrued as Tunisia in southern Europe. But that's why you just say you're from the States and not Tennessee.

And El Diablo, yes, if I'm talking from locals in a not European country I say I'm from America. Anything else usually just leads to confusion.

Also when I'm traveling, Israelis probably annoy me the most. They always speak excellent English, and when you're with one who's solo they're totally cool. But as soon as they find anyone speaking Hebrew, well then that's it. Goodbye, nice knowing you.

I mean I can understand why the French, Spaniards and Italians form their own little cliques, because usually their English sucks. But the Israeli's they all speak good English, but they seem to have no desire to mesh with other travelers when there's other Israelis around.

This is a common complaint made by Americans, who like BIG NUMBERS in their scorelines but don't consider that a goal in the first example is far less exciting/significant than in the third example.

Not as ignorant as people who think France is in Southern Europe.

Yeah, 5 is a really big number.

by that logic, shouldn't we it even more difficult to score in soccer, to increase the excitement/significance of the goals even more?

I'm Dutch, everything south of the Rhine = Southern Europe.

If it ain't broke..

The 2016 Euro tourney is on at the moment. Watching England win last night with a last gasp goal was amazing. I feel kinda bad for Americans who don't get to have the pleasure and the pain of football in their lives.

A national sport that you could actually play against other nations adds a whole extra level of enjoyment

Didn't the US make it further in the World Cup than England?

nobody said we were any good at it!