cm0002@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 23 hours agoHow many hands long do they get?lemmy.mlimagemessage-square107fedilinkarrow-up1670arrow-down136
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minus-squareBerengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·17 hours agoCalled football everywhere except north America where you use the term football for the game you play with your hands…
minus-squaretigeruppercut@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·13 hours agoAlso called soccer in Australia, South Africa, Japan, and a couple other places
minus-squareBeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·16 hours agoi just want to call soccer “footie”. i still prefer sepak takraw though.
minus-squareBeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 hours agonah i just know a good time when i see it. played soccer (as I’m statesian) for ten or so years, but my team started absolutely dominating the local rec league when we’d start and end every practice with 15 minutes of sepak takraw.
minus-squaretakeda@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·17 hours agoWell, at least it fits the theme with the ass backwards imperial system.
minus-squareTetsuo@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·13 hours agoIn the same theme I think they can now add the Gulf of America…
minus-squareJavi@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·17 hours agoSoccer was only ever a nickname tbf, It stood for a(socc)iation football. I guess an equivalent would be like calling your police the bobby force.
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 hours agoAnd was mostly used by public schoolboys who called rugby “rugger”.
So same as soccer
Called football everywhere except north America where you use the term football for the game you play with your hands…
Also called soccer in Australia, South Africa, Japan, and a couple other places
i just want to call soccer “footie”. i still prefer sepak takraw though.
You Malaysian?
nah i just know a good time when i see it. played soccer (as I’m statesian) for ten or so years, but my team started absolutely dominating the local rec league when we’d start and end every practice with 15 minutes of sepak takraw.
Well, at least it fits the theme with the ass backwards imperial system.
In the same theme I think they can now add the Gulf of America…
Soccer was only ever a nickname tbf, It stood for a(socc)iation football.
I guess an equivalent would be like calling your police the bobby force.
And was mostly used by public schoolboys who called rugby “rugger”.