Before our continental cousins get upset the subject is merely a parody of a famous spoof play "No Sex Please, We're British".
Thanks for your diatribe on soccer/football Brian - when this years literary awards, here's hoping that you pick up the 'Longest Paragraph' award!!
The original e-mail that you were commenting on was certainly not "boasting" that we Brits invent games for the world to beat us at - the author was merely stating a fact. Hopefully at some stage a British ME-PBM team will turn over you chaps, maybe we should burn the winning turnsheet and create a brand new 'Ashes'? Oh silly me, you won't have a clue what thats about will you?!
Not all Britons share my love for football (REAL football) but I felt compelled to write in defence of our national game. From what I've seen of American society (surely a misnomer?) you chaps like your thrills quick, fast and easy. Football, 'the beautiful game', is a game as much for the mind as it is for the body. The tactics and the skills surely put it as a game apart - certainly better than your "Football", a version of our rugby played by guys wearing more body armour than police in a riot zone! Also, thankfully, a football match can flow without advertising breaks - which help to make your poor mans rugby even more frustrating and boring!
Always makes me laugh when one reads about "the world series" or some such, when the competition is only open to Americans! Perhaps a sign of your growing national insecurity, not to mention your pre-occupation with self: burning all manners of obnoxious fuels without any regard to the damage done to the earth's atmosphere ... after all America IS the world - don't you know that?!
Apologies to any of our cousins with more brain cells than Brian has to rub together, but rarely has anything I've read on this forum annoyed me more!
Matthew
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Defended my favourite sport (With a touch of irony ... not enough
irony
anymore is there?)
Matthew
RD: enjoyed your reply, Matthew, and your defence of the beautiful game.
I know you were being ironic, but an award for the world's longest
paragraph? God forbid. Any fool who can write at all can write reams of
stuff without inserting a break. Mind you, nobody would read it!
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--- In mepbmlist@y..., "Middle Earth PBM Games" <me@M...> wrote:
Stand well away from the firework and ignite methinks. Please
keep
this in good humour folks.
You know Matthew, I am glad that you wish to defend a sport you love
to such a degree of overprotectiveness. I never said Soccer/football
was a lame or limp sport. What I said was that the sport was boring
to watch. Soccer is the thinking man's sport, I played Soccer on a
college and secondary educational level for numerous years. When I
stopped playing and tried watching for once, I figured out why my
significant others of the opposite sex never came to watch the game.
It was bleedin' boring. Football with all its pads and etc., is a
lovely commercialized, eye candy sport. Let's break it down, Half-
time show, cheerleaders that are gorgeous, and barbaric behavior.
What is there not to like? If you would have said baseball, I would
have agreed, that to me is the most boring sport to watch on the face
of the planet, I compare it to watching grass grow, although I will
probably get slammed by some of my fellow countryman for making such
a statement. I am glad, however, that Richard was able to see the
point I was trying to make. I was not trying to be derogitory towards
Europeans, other than many have a lack of teacher's compassion that I
find astounding. As far as your lovely little comment/title of No
brains please we're American, wow, how unfounded. You are right I
have no idea where your spoof came from. I could actually care less
to know. I do know this, the American team is kicking the Euro's asz
in the competition, the U.S. is one of the leading coutries in
research and development, we are also the home of the top ranking
colleges around the globe, and the largest economic powerhouse in the
world. I am so sorry your nation was a former military and economic
power that is now in decline. I am so sorry that somehow,England
always finds itself with somesort of calamity. Mad Cow disease, yet,
you, would criticize our use of hormones and steriods in our cattle.
And yes I intentially made this all one lovely long paragraph just to
upset you. Hope your eyes hurt when your done reading this. And if
you have any desire to keep this comical or lighthearted, ensure that
you use the term yank and not yankee, thank you for your correct
usage in your first post.
B
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Clint
> Oh dear.
> Matthew what HAVE you done!
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> Bobbins
(With a touch of irony ... not enough