Also wasn’t Cars 2 rated G? The bad cars brutally murder other cars in that movie. That shit was fucked up.

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        Messi is the Toy Story of soccer.

        Edit: Ah, never change lemmings. 🙄

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            Could you be more specific? Do you mean rugby football? Gridiron football? Gaelic football?

            Oh! Maybe you meant association football. But that’s kind of long-- maybe we can just say “asoc football” to save time.

            Actually now that I think of it, people just say “rugby” instead of “rugby football,” so maybe we can drop the “football” part as well, and just say “asoc.”

            There we go, now we have a nice, unambiguous way to refer to the style of football that we’re interested in. Now I just hope the school children don’t mess it up the way they did with rugby, calling it “rugger…”

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              To be fair, pretty much anybody who’d use Messi’s name in context is gonna say “football” and never “soccer”.

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                He plays for Inter Miami in the MLS. I assure you, plenty of Messi fans use the term soccer.

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                    Yes, that’s the Major League Soccer team I’m referring to. As I said, there are plenty of Messi fans that call the sport soccer. Your claim is objectively false.

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                To be even more fair, the British started calling it soccer, so the Americans called it soccer. If they want to fuck around with the English language, they’ll find out when Americans try to speak it.

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                  You hardly can fuck around with language more than calling a sport played primarily by hands, using a prolate spheroid “football”, mate.

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                    “Football” is a term used to describe a wide range of field sports played on foot, as opposed to on horseback. It has nothing to do with whether or not you handle the ball with your hands.

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              Obviously you know I was referring to association football. I’m aware of the etymology of soccer and ruggers, but thank you for your insightful comment. It genuinely was a nice read. While etymology is interesting. It doesn’t dictate the current usage of language.

              On the topic, I used to play Aussie Rules (Australian Football).

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                Obviously you know I was referring to association football. I’m aware of the etymology of soccer

                It’s pretty annoying when some rando on the internet pretends not to understand what you were referring to, isn’t it?

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                Thank you! There are two wolves in my heart: One favors being snobby toward the way Americans say things. The other favors being pedantic about term specificity.

                “Soccer” causes these wolves to fight.

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              If one of those types of football was by far the most popular sport in the world we might just call it “football” without any qualifier.

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              The one with your foot and a ball. Not your hand and an egg.

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      Three is definitely better. I just have to defend two because it gets hate