Soccer is a British shortening of 'association football.' Aka association rules football.
In the 1860-90s, one of several competing games / variants of the same gsme all called football including rugby, then called rugby football (rugby being the name of the town/ school that game was popularized in)
American and canadian football are variants off of this version of 'rugby football,' Eventually dropping the name rugby (as they no longer had much association to that locale) british rugby, and its other variants, eventually dropped the football from their name.
And there are still other similar games that use football in the term, including american/ gridiron, Australian rules/ footy, and Gaelic football
Just calling it football is technically using a term for all of those sports. Association football, or 'soccer' is the actual sport and rules we all mean.
The US education system has been hollowed out for decades now with the single goal of being able to put fascists into power. Only with a dumb population can you pull off such horrendous shit and still get away with a dumb excuse
The good thing about this is that there is so much incompetence going around that these fuckers will eventually break their new system by themselves.
To make a trump like expression that is actually true; The US economy is already a bubble the size like nobody has seen before. I for one can't wait for that economy to pop, maybe then Americans can be bothered to do something about trump
As a Latin American I find this deeply offensive and would like to clarify to people that when you talk like that... you make a woman go mad... So be wise (SĂ!) and keep on (SĂ!) Reading the signs of my body.
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cypherpunks@lemmy.ml · 96 pts · 236d
for anyone wondering if this actually happened, it did. (in 2019)
West_of_West@piefed.social · 34 pts · 236d
I was just thinking posters should include the dates for the Trump posts.
matlag@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 235d
And given the age of absurdity and stupidity we live in, they should also include a "certified not fake and not satire".
Hazor@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 235d
It really is frustrating how hard it can be sometimes to tell the difference. Nothing sounds too ridiculous anymore.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 235d
Back when Drinky Pete was just an alcoholic fascist stooge and not Secretary of 🙄 “War” . . and also an alcoholic fascist stooge.
becausechemistry@piefed.social · 58 pts · 236d
“Archipelago” is kind of a big word for their typical viewer, huh?
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 236d
Arch-i-pelago.
Isn’t that the doorway into Mar-a-lago?
RamSwamson@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 235d
Yes, the area you get pegged by an Archie lookalike.
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 235d
Literally where can I sign up
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 5 pts · 236d
Get them to pronounce it.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 235d
I know Arch-ipelago, BTW.
Typotyper@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 235d
cygnus@lemmy.ca · 38 pts · 236d
This is still far too generous - it assumes that they:
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 4 pts · 235d
Malvinas son de Argentina!
crapwittyname@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 235d
Just because Argentina landed there 500 years ago doesn't mean it's theirs
selokichtli@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 235d
Lol. Exactly.
carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 235d
The best part of this was how none of the "three Mexican countries" were Mexico.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 235d
Sad AgustĂn de Iturbide noises
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 236d
lillardfair@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 236d
Soccer Mexico's endless meat buffets would also like a word
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 236d
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 17 pts · 235d
Last time I checked Argentina was wold cup champion and Brazil got humiliated by Germany 7:1. So it's Soccer Mexico and Samba Mexico.
Lauchmelder@feddit.org · 10 pts · 235d
Oh come on, give them a break. Brazil still has the most world cup wins under their belt, Argentina doesn't even make the top 3
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 13 pts · 235d
Germany didn't give them a break at 6:0 and neither will I.
RidderSport@feddit.org · 6 pts · 235d
Germany definetly slowed down after the 5:0, the rest was training
NannerBanner@literature.cafe · 4 pts · 235d
Poor brazil. They have gone up against germany since then, and definitely cleared away the poor results from that one match.
bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 234d
Don't these scores just mean that one country had better luck in the international player trafficking market that year?
thorhop@sopuli.xyz · 16 pts · 235d
I laughed when I saw "Soccer Mexico".
It's called football. Let's do the math.
Foot + ball = football
Rugby + kicking = footrugby.
Don't @ me.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 235d
Rugby + kicking = Australian rules football
axexrx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 235d
Soccer is a British shortening of 'association football.' Aka association rules football.
In the 1860-90s, one of several competing games / variants of the same gsme all called football including rugby, then called rugby football (rugby being the name of the town/ school that game was popularized in)
American and canadian football are variants off of this version of 'rugby football,' Eventually dropping the name rugby (as they no longer had much association to that locale) british rugby, and its other variants, eventually dropped the football from their name.
Technically though, for the game we generally think of as football, association rules football, (which again, soccer is just a shortening of) is the proper name. For instance, If you look up fifa, their name is Fédération Internationale de Football Association literally the international association football federation.
And there are still other similar games that use football in the term, including american/ gridiron, Australian rules/ footy, and Gaelic football
Just calling it football is technically using a term for all of those sports. Association football, or 'soccer' is the actual sport and rules we all mean.
thorhop@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 234d
...hermano, who listens to the British? FUTOBOOOOOOOOOOL!!! ⚽🥇🎉
Every đź‘Ź damn đź‘Ź language đź‘Ź in đź‘Ź the đź‘Ź world đź‘Ź calls đź‘Ź it đź‘Ź football đź‘Ź
Get your yankie "call to authority" britishisms tf outta here. We ain't colonies no more. Smh.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 235d
It's like those people who call all sodas "Coke."
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 235d
The US education system has been hollowed out for decades now with the single goal of being able to put fascists into power. Only with a dumb population can you pull off such horrendous shit and still get away with a dumb excuse
The good thing about this is that there is so much incompetence going around that these fuckers will eventually break their new system by themselves.
To make a trump like expression that is actually true; The US economy is already a bubble the size like nobody has seen before. I for one can't wait for that economy to pop, maybe then Americans can be bothered to do something about trump
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 235d
I LOLed at "Soccer Mexico"
It's funny how Brazil is just ingrained in my subconsciousness as "The Soccer Country" along with like Spain I think
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 235d
It's hard for racists to differentiate people with brown skin. They just all come from Brownskinistan.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 235d
Referring to the Mexican states?
axexrx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 235d
My head was having trouble not correcting it to 'mexican counties'
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 236d
I’d go with Tex-Mexico myself
Can anyone pick out what Ecuador is in this map? The compression is keeping me from deciphering it. The rest are pretty funny.
IggyTheSmidge@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 236d
I think it's MS13...
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 235d
In this slightly higher-res copy, it does appear to be "MS13". (Which makes about as much sense as labeling Uruguay "west"...)
human@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 236d
Looks like "72$83 Mexico"
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 236d
I would go with “Turtle Mexico” cause of the Galapagos. I know they’re not turtles, but I think that adds to the effect.
myotheraccount@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 235d
Somewhere in "poor mexico" there is a bit of european rocket mexico 🚀
someguy3@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 236d
Wait until they hear about the mexistans.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 236d
Is that battle plan leaking secretary of WAR Peter Hegsheeth? Hoo rah?
selokichtli@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 235d
Wait... Are we going back to call it the Gulf of Mexico?
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 234d
Canada: Ice Mexico
frostysauce@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 234d
USA: ICE Mexico.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 236d
..is Uruguay marked "worst Mexico" or "West Mexico"?
I kinda doubt that EITHER is true, given that it's located to the East of Argentina and probably is MUCH better than those Paraguayan bastards!
human@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 236d
Maybe they are the worst at being Mexico
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 236d
Could be!
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 235d
West Mexico which is funny because it's like the second most eastern Mexico here
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 235d
I found a slightly higher res version; it's west 🙄
AquaTofana@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 235d
Goddamnit we're so fucking stupid.
Pudutr0n@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 234d
As a Latin American I find this deeply offensive and would like to clarify to people that when you talk like that... you make a woman go mad... So be wise (SĂ!) and keep on (SĂ!) Reading the signs of my body.
robocall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 235d
¡Viva México!
selokichtli@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 235d
¡Cabrones!
prime_number_314159@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 234d
Whoever made this picture doesn't know about Fishing Mexico, and I'm disappointed by that.
trager_bombs@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 236d
Taco Bell Mexico is the US, me thinks, but otherwise WHAT
Vandals_handle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 234d
GladiusB@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 234d
There's a New one
Vandals_handle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 233d
It's so small and lacks many features of the original, it's like the Wish version of Mexico.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 231d