Thaksin at the game

[CitizenYank]

I always have a chuckle about the "S" word usage.

In England there was football. Ithad no national set of rules but usually/often it allowed some form of ball handling. Rules were often set by the colleges. As a dribbling game became popular it was necessary to discriminate between the two. It was the pracyice of the English upper middle classes to shorten words and add "ER" on the end....The rules of the form of football played to the rules adopted by the Rugby School was shortened and with the "ER" on the end...it became RUGGER>
Association Football took on the name soccer in the same way.

As soccer or the dribbling code gained power it became the generic football in England. The Americans simply took the word that was a popular term already used in England SOCCER IS NOT AN AMERICANISM.

THANK YOU!

[Im_Spartacus]

I always have a chuckle about the "S" word usage.

In England there was football. Ithad no national set of rules but usually/often it allowed some form of ball handling. Rules were often set by the colleges. As a dribbling game became popular it was necessary to discriminate between the two. It was the pracyice of the English upper middle classes to shorten words and add "ER" on the end....The rules of the form of football played to the rules adopted by the Rugby School was shortened and with the "ER" on the end...it became RUGGER>
Association Football took on the name soccer in the same way.

As soccer or the dribbling code gained power it became the generic football in England. The Americans simply took the word that was a popular term already used in England SOCCER IS NOT AN AMERICANISM.

There is still no excuse for calling it saaaaacker though

[BlueinBosnia]

This is what I love. Me being classified as just another dumb Yank. It doesn't matter how much Keats, Coleridge, Lord Byron, Shelley or Shakespeare I have read. I will never be uptight enough or stiff-upper-lipped enough for those from Albion. Nothing short of T.S. Eliot is enough for me to be on the same intellectual page as you. Maybe I should just take that copy of Ulysses I have and knock on the door of the nearest Irish pub. This is why I gave up on trying to appease the 'all knowing' smugness. Once born in the land of drive-ins and waffle houses, always born in the land of drive-ins and waffle houses. And by the way, I'd take Hart Crane over Shakespeare any day.

Sorry, from reading this thread, I thought it was because you'd made some glib statement about a guy being a despot, while admitting a couple of posts later that you actually knew sod all about the situation. But that makes much more sense considering the context.

My bad.

[ronk]

Wonder where he's holed up now. Think Abu Dhabi would be the right place actually. It is a retirement
home for former despots.

Despot? He was a democratically elected leader who was removed by the army because he was attempting to free the majority from opression and poverty. How does that equate to a despot please?

He lost

[CitizenYank]

This is what I love. Me being classified as just another dumb Yank. It doesn't matter how much Keats, Coleridge, Lord Byron, Shelley or Shakespeare I have read. I will never be uptight enough or stiff-upper-lipped enough for those from Albion. Nothing short of T.S. Eliot is enough for me to be on the same intellectual page as you. Maybe I should just take that copy of Ulysses I have and knock on the door of the nearest Irish pub. This is why I gave up on trying to appease the 'all knowing' smugness. Once born in the land of drive-ins and waffle houses, always born in the land of drive-ins and waffle houses. And by the way, I'd take Hart Crane over Shakespeare any day.

Sorry, from reading this thread, I thought it was because you'd made some glib statement about a guy being a despot, while admitting a couple of posts later that you actually knew sod all about the situation. But that makes much more sense considering the context.

My bad.

Good point. End of replies.

[Socrates]

This is what I love. Me being classified as just another dumb Yank. It doesn't matter how much Keats, Coleridge, Lord Byron, Shelley or Shakespeare I have read. I will never be uptight enough or stiff-upper-lipped enough for those from Albion. Nothing short of T.S. Eliot is enough for me to be on the same intellectual page as you. Maybe I should just take that copy of Ulysses I have and knock on the door of the nearest Irish pub. This is why I gave up on trying to appease the 'all knowing' smugness. Once born in the land of drive-ins and waffle houses, always born in the land of drive-ins and waffle houses. And by the way, I'd take Hart Crane over Shakespeare any day.

Sorry, from reading this thread, I thought it was because you'd made some glib statement about a guy being a despot, while admitting a couple of posts later that you actually knew sod all about the situation. But that makes much more sense considering the context.

My bad.

Good point. End of replies.

Damn, I was enjoying myself too :D

[Chopper]

Wonder where he's holed up now. Think Abu Dhabi would be the right place actually. It is a retirement
home for former despots.

America would be a good place. After all Good ole George Dubbya lives there and his history of rigging elections and ordering the murder of thousands of people while milking billions helped make America great.

[Dingus McDouchey]

So Citizen Yank apologizes yet continues to get talked down to. Amazing. You should really stop embarrassing yourselves.

[Chopper]

Could have sworn this was a messageboard.

[Rag_hater]

I like Frank.Some say the deal with the Sheikh nearly didn't happen because of him,from what I see it did and if he played hardball trying to get the best deal he could I don't think thats a bad thing.

[lets all have a disco]

Im still shocked he sat in the normal seats.

WHY?

[Im_Spartacus]

Im still shocked he sat in the normal seats.

WHY?

The club revoked his life presidency i think. Persona no grata?

[lets all have a disco]

Im still shocked he sat in the normal seats.

WHY?

The club revoked his life presidency i think. Persona no grata?

Still bonkers though you'd have thought one of his helpers would have got him at least in one of the lounges.

[Im_Spartacus]

Im still shocked he sat in the normal seats.

WHY?

The club revoked his life presidency i think. Persona no grata?

Still bonkers though you'd have thought one of his helpers would have got him at least in one of the lounges.

Yeah, the guy (rightly or wrongly) has a place in the history of the club and for all his faiilings, is still remembered fondly by the fans. I suppose in the past the issue was that he was a fugitive of the law, but now his travel restrictions have been lifted I would really have thought he be treated just like any other former owner of the club - especially as he did not leave on bad terms (just rather hastily it seems).

Who knows though, it could be a whole lot murkier than we will ever know

[Buffalo Soldier]

Love this picture on so many levels...

[Im_Spartacus]

Love this picture on so many levels...

Is thatt Di Canio behind him?

[Yffi_88]

Love this picture on so many levels...

Is thatt Di Canio behind him?

Kevin Spacey i think. MASSIVE blue.

[ruralblue]

Love this picture on so many levels...

As the gimp just to his right come out of Picc's shed?

[one man army]

brilliant pic.

[Dameerto]

Get bent. Dickweed.

Don't get me started on the things you do to my language, you wouldn't like it...

You noticed that. I used those Americanisms especially for you. I love it when the English get uptight about how we
use their language.

Dare I mention the evil S- word to describe your beloved game.

I expect you will anyway, and loudly too...

This is what I love. Me being classified as just another dumb Yank. It doesn't matter how much Keats, Coleridge, Lord Byron, Shelley or Shakespeare I have read. I will never be uptight enough or stiff-upper-lipped enough for those from Albion. Nothing short of T.S. Eliot is enough for me to be on the same intellectual page as you. Maybe I should just take that copy of Ulysses I have and knock on the door of the nearest Irish pub. This is why I gave up on trying to appease the 'all knowing' smugness. Once born in the land of drive-ins and waffle houses, always born in the land of drive-ins and waffle houses. And by the way, I'd take Hart Crane over Shakespeare any day.

A country that gave us Harper Lee can't be all bad.