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Thanks China!
China has had over 3000 deaths. Italy over 1000. Iran nearly 400. The US has now had 41 (France and Spain and S. Korea have had more than the US.). But now, apparently China has it about licked...due to extreme measures taken by that country.
And perhaps the best hospital in the world, the Cleveland Clinic, is making strides while being at the forefront of the fight against this virus.
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No fans at golf tourney starting tomorrow
And, yes, European football is soccer
Then spell it right....it is futbol, not football.
Then spell it right....it is futbol, not football.
Fútbol is in Spanish, football is the English term, thus the correct one in this case.
You're making me work too much.
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Disney has been closed now ......... Sneezy has been diagnosed with the Coronavirus
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Combat sports in Cali are cancelled.
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Then spell it right....it is futbol, not football.
Fútbol is in Spanish, football is the English term, thus the correct one in this case.
You're making me work too much.
Fútbol is in Spanish, football is the English term, thus the correct one in this case.
You're making me work too much.
It is the English that invented the term "soccer"....so, the correct name is "soccer".
Today I found out the origin of the word “soccer”. For all you out there who love to complain when Americans, and certain others, call “Football”, “Soccer”, you should know that it was the British that invented the word and it was also one of the first names of what we now primarily know of as “Football”.
In fact, in the early days of the sport among the upper echelons of British society, the proper term for the sport was “Soccer”. Not only that, but the sport being referred to as “Soccer” preceded the first recorded instance of it being called by the singular word “Football” by about 18 years, with the latter happening when it became more popular with the middle and lower class. When that happened, the term “Football” gradually began dominating over “Soccer” and the then official name “Association Football”.
In the 1860s, as in most of history- with records as far back as 1004 B.C.- there were quite a lot of “football” sports in existence being played popularly throughout the world and of course, England. Many of these sports had similar rules and eventually, on October 26th, 1863, a group of teams in England decided to get together and create a standard set of rules which would be used at all their matches. They formed the rules for “Association Football”, with the “Association” distinguishing it from the many other types of football sports in existence in England, such as “Rugby Football”.
Now British school boys of the day liked to nickname everything, which is still somewhat common. They also liked to add the ending “er” to these nicknames. Thus Rugby was, at that time, popularly called “Rugger”. Association Football was then much better known as “Assoccer”, which quickly just became “Soccer” and sometimes “Soccer Football”.
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Fútbol is in Spanish, football is the English term, thus the correct one in this case.
You're making me work too much.
It is the English that invented the term "soccer"....so, the correct name is "soccer".
Today I found out the origin of the word “soccer”. For all you out there who love to complain when Americans, and certain others, call “Football”, “Soccer”, you should know that it was the British that invented the word and it was also one of the first names of what we now primarily know of as “Football”.
In fact, in the early days of the sport among the upper echelons of British society, the proper term for the sport was “Soccer”. Not only that, but the sport being referred to as “Soccer” preceded the first recorded instance of it being called by the singular word “Football” by about 18 years, with the latter happening when it became more popular with the middle and lower class. When that happened, the term “Football” gradually began dominating over “Soccer” and the then official name “Association Football”.
In the 1860s, as in most of history- with records as far back as 1004 B.C.- there were quite a lot of “football” sports in existence being played popularly throughout the world and of course, England. Many of these sports had similar rules and eventually, on October 26th, 1863, a group of teams in England decided to get together and create a standard set of rules which would be used at all their matches. They formed the rules for “Association Football”, with the “Association” distinguishing it from the many other types of football sports in existence in England, such as “Rugby Football”.
Now British school boys of the day liked to nickname everything, which is still somewhat common. They also liked to add the ending “er” to these nicknames. Thus Rugby was, at that time, popularly called “Rugger”. Association Football was then much better known as “Assoccer”, which quickly just became “Soccer” and sometimes “Soccer Football”.
It is the English that invented the term "soccer"....so, the correct name is "soccer".
Today I found out the origin of the word “soccer”. For all you out there who love to complain when Americans, and certain others, call “Football”, “Soccer”, you should know that it was the British that invented the word and it was also one of the first names of what we now primarily know of as “Football”.
In fact, in the early days of the sport among the upper echelons of British society, the proper term for the sport was “Soccer”. Not only that, but the sport being referred to as “Soccer” preceded the first recorded instance of it being called by the singular word “Football” by about 18 years, with the latter happening when it became more popular with the middle and lower class. When that happened, the term “Football” gradually began dominating over “Soccer” and the then official name “Association Football”.
In the 1860s, as in most of history- with records as far back as 1004 B.C.- there were quite a lot of “football” sports in existence being played popularly throughout the world and of course, England. Many of these sports had similar rules and eventually, on October 26th, 1863, a group of teams in England decided to get together and create a standard set of rules which would be used at all their matches. They formed the rules for “Association Football”, with the “Association” distinguishing it from the many other types of football sports in existence in England, such as “Rugby Football”.
Now British school boys of the day liked to nickname everything, which is still somewhat common. They also liked to add the ending “er” to these nicknames. Thus Rugby was, at that time, popularly called “Rugger”. Association Football was then much better known as “Assoccer”, which quickly just became “Soccer” and sometimes “Soccer Football”.
Thus the correct name for American Football is Grindiron. Nice smoke screen, Gip. Take your 0.0000000000002% of reason to try to fight back the fact that you are wrong about something. Because no matter how much you want to cover it with make up... Fútbol is only a Spanish term.
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It is the English that invented the term "soccer"....so, the correct name is "soccer".
Today I found out the origin of the word “soccer”. For all you out there who love to complain when Americans, and certain others, call “Football”, “Soccer”, you should know that it was the British that invented the word and it was also one of the first names of what we now primarily know of as “Football”.
In fact, in the early days of the sport among the upper echelons of British society, the proper term for the sport was “Soccer”. Not only that, but the sport being referred to as “Soccer” preceded the first recorded instance of it being called by the singular word “Football” by about 18 years, with the latter happening when it became more popular with the middle and lower class. When that happened, the term “Football” gradually began dominating over “Soccer” and the then official name “Association Football”.
In the 1860s, as in most of history- with records as far back as 1004 B.C.- there were quite a lot of “football” sports in existence being played popularly throughout the world and of course, England. Many of these sports had similar rules and eventually, on October 26th, 1863, a group of teams in England decided to get together and create a standard set of rules which would be used at all their matches. They formed the rules for “Association Football”, with the “Association” distinguishing it from the many other types of football sports in existence in England, such as “Rugby Football”.
Now British school boys of the day liked to nickname everything, which is still somewhat common. They also liked to add the ending “er” to these nicknames. Thus Rugby was, at that time, popularly called “Rugger”. Association Football was then much better known as “Assoccer”, which quickly just became “Soccer” and sometimes “Soccer Football”.
Thus the correct name for American Football is Grindiron. Nice smoke screen, Gip. Take your 0.0000000000002% of reason to try to fight back the fact that you are wrong about something. Because no matter how much you want to cover it with make up... Fútbol is only a Spanish term.
Thus the correct name for American Football is Grindiron.
No, it isn't. No one ever has called it that. Eurofags only made that up to distinguish real football from soccer. Americans certainly didn't invent that term (for the name of the game) ....and you would never find any American referring to the game by that name. "Gridiron" is the name of the field the game is played on, not the name of the game. It would be like calling soccer "Pitch" (Isn't "pitch" what they call the field they play on? Or do the Spanish have another term for that). Or calling basketball "Court", or baseball "Diamond". Or calling hockey "Rink".
Nice smoke screen, Gip. Take your 0.0000000000002% of reason to try to fight back the fact that you are wrong about something.
But...I am NOT wrong. Per that article, Soccer was the name given to that sport before the English ever called it football. The lower and middle class began calling it football later as a nickname, kind of like we call basketball "Hoops".
Because no matter how much you want to cover it with make up... Fútbol is only a Spanish term.
Well, not only a Spanish term....it is now an American term that you gave to us that we now use. Like the French gave us the term "Lacrosse", but as far as I know, that is a game that is basically played in North America..though like most sports there are contingents on other continents. FYI....Lacrosse is overtaking soccer in popularity in many instances.
https://laxcamps.com/the-rapid-rise-of-lacrosse-in-the-united-states/
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Thus the correct name for American Football is Grindiron.
No, it isn't. No one ever has called it that. Eurofags only made that up to distinguish real football from soccer. Americans certainly didn't invent that term (for the name of the game) ....and you would never find any American referring to the game by that name. "Gridiron" is the name of the field the game is played on, not the name of the game. It would be like calling soccer "Pitch" (Isn't "pitch" what they call the field they play on? Or do the Spanish have another term for that). Or calling basketball "Court", or baseball "Diamond". Or calling hockey "Rink".
Nice smoke screen, Gip. Take your 0.0000000000002% of reason to try to fight back the fact that you are wrong about something.
But...I am NOT wrong. Per that article, Soccer was the name given to that sport before the English ever called it football. The lower and middle class began calling it football later as a nickname, kind of like we call basketball "Hoops".
Because no matter how much you want to cover it with make up... Fútbol is only a Spanish term.
Well, not only a Spanish term....it is now an American term that you gave to us that we now use. Like the French gave us the term "Lacrosse", but as far as I know, that is a game that is basically played in North America..though like most sports there are contingents on other continents. FYI....Lacrosse is overtaking soccer in popularity in many instances.
https://laxcamps.com/the-rapid-rise-of-lacrosse-in-the-united-states/
Well, American tough boy. You were pretty much wrong, the term we use is football and we only indicate European Football when we are around 'muricans.
Because actually our game is played 99% of the time with the foot, unlike American one. I know the story of the term soccer, and it makes sense that it spread around America because it was developed around the same time rugby and American Football spread there, BUT the rest of Europe (bear in mind England doesn't want anything to do with Europe) didn't embrace that term and ended up using the correct term, which is football, and that developed to the Spanish fútbol which is simply a phonetic adaptation to Spanish ortography.
So don't worry, nobody really cares about that anymore, because you tried to be picky on somebody and it backfired. The end.
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Well, American tough boy. You were pretty much wrong, the term we use is football and we only indicate European Football when we are around 'muricans.
Because actually our game is played 99% of the time with the foot, unlike American one. I know the story of the term soccer, and it makes sense that it spread around America because it was developed around the same time rugby and American Football spread there, BUT the rest of Europe (bear in mind England doesn't want anything to do with Europe) didn't embrace that term and ended up using the correct term, which is football, and that developed to the Spanish fútbol which is simply a phonetic adaptation to Spanish ortography.
So don't worry, nobody really cares about that anymore, because you tried to be picky on somebody and it backfired. The end.
Well, American tough boy. You were pretty much wrong, the term we use is football and we only indicate European Football when we are around 'muricans.
Because actually our game is played 99% of the time with the foot, unlike American one. I know the story of the term soccer, and it makes sense that it spread around America because it was developed around the same time rugby and American Football spread there, BUT the rest of Europe (bear in mind England doesn't want anything to do with Europe) didn't embrace that term and ended up using the correct term, which is football, and that developed to the Spanish fútbol which is simply a phonetic adaptation to Spanish ortography.
So don't worry, nobody really cares about that anymore, because you tried to be picky on somebody and it backfired. The end.
Nothing backfired on me at all not at all. I know that the English use the word football or soccer never said he didn’t. It’s still soccer. And your Spanish phonetic adaptation is simply something that we also adapted. So everything I said is right But that does not mean anything you said is wrong. No one not one person in this country calls that game gridiron. But we do call at soccer and we do call it futbol. If anyone here says football we all know what we are talking about. And you never answered the question what is the Spanish word for the pitch.
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And pool is sometimes called billiards. Now that we’ve settled that different sports can be called different things, l’ve never seen a reaction like this to an infectious disease. It’s almost like we’re treating it like the like a disease that turns people into zombies.
We are not only cancelling sporting events, but also rock shows, antique shows, quilting gatherings and girl scout meetings. This is going to affect some serious bottom lines if it continues for a chunk of time.
It almost feels like a trial run, or a fire drill for when the real zombie apocalypse virus hits us.
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And pool is sometimes called billiards. Now that we’ve settled that different sports can be called different things, l’ve never seen a reaction like this to an infectious disease. It’s almost like we’re treating it like the like a disease that turns people into zombies.
We are not only cancelling sporting events, but also rock shows, antique shows, quilting gatherings and girl scout meetings. This is going to affect some serious bottom lines if it continues for a chunk of time.
It almost feels like a trial run, or a fire drill for when the real zombie apocalypse virus hits us.
And pool is sometimes called billiards. Now that we’ve settled that different sports can be called different things, l’ve never seen a reaction like this to an infectious disease. It’s almost like we’re treating it like the like a disease that turns people into zombies.
We are not only cancelling sporting events, but also rock shows, antique shows, quilting gatherings and girl scout meetings. This is going to affect some serious bottom lines if it continues for a chunk of time.
It almost feels like a trial run, or a fire drill for when the real zombie apocalypse virus hits us.
This is serious if we did nothing it would overload our current hospital systems. True most people would hardly notice getting it but it spreads like wildfire and the elderly sector is particularly vunerable. My wife is SO glad she retired two years ago from the hospital.
On the effect on all business particularly on smaller businesses will be significant. Governments around the world are getting prepared with billions in necessary aid.
This is like preparing for a world war without the war. Stay tuned.
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And pool is sometimes called billiards. Now that we’ve settled that different sports can be called different things, l’ve never seen a reaction like this to an infectious disease. It’s almost like we’re treating it like the like a disease that turns people into zombies.
We are not only cancelling sporting events, but also rock shows, antique shows, quilting gatherings and girl scout meetings. This is going to affect some serious bottom lines if it continues for a chunk of time.
It almost feels like a trial run, or a fire drill for when the real zombie apocalypse virus hits us.
And pool is sometimes called billiards.
Actually, pool and billiards, and snooker are different games, though they are played clearly on similar surfaces, similar balls, cues, etc. but they do have different rules.
Now that we’ve settled that different sports can be called different things, l’ve never seen a reaction like this to an infectious disease. It’s almost like we’re treating it like the like a disease that turns people into zombies.
We are not only cancelling sporting events, but also rock shows, antique shows, quilting gatherings and girl scout meetings. This is going to affect some serious bottom lines if it continues for a chunk of time.
It almost feels like a trial run, or a fire drill for when the real zombie apocalypse virus hits us.
Well....I don't know about zombies, but serious pandemics have hit this planet before. The Black Plague wiped out 1/3rd of the population. The Spanish Flu during WWI (Thanks Nero) killed 500 million....many more than the war actually did. Don't forget AIDS, which killed 25 million worldwide, but of course people didn't care about that because it supposedly only killed "gay people". Two that I know of from my high school class died of it.
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And pool is sometimes called billiards.
Actually, pool and billiards, and snooker are different games, though they are played clearly on similar surfaces, similar balls, cues, etc. but they do have different rules.
Now that we’ve settled that different sports can be called different things, l’ve never seen a reaction like this to an infectious disease. It’s almost like we’re treating it like the like a disease that turns people into zombies.
We are not only cancelling sporting events, but also rock shows, antique shows, quilting gatherings and girl scout meetings. This is going to affect some serious bottom lines if it continues for a chunk of time.
It almost feels like a trial run, or a fire drill for when the real zombie apocalypse virus hits us.
Well....I don't know about zombies, but serious pandemics have hit this planet before. The Black Plague wiped out 1/3rd of the population. The Spanish Flu during WWI (Thanks Nero) killed 500 million....many more than the war actually did. Don't forget AIDS, which killed 25 million worldwide, but of course people didn't care about that because it supposedly only killed "gay people". Two that I know of from my high school class died of it.
The Spanish Flu during WWI (Thanks Nero) killed 500 million....many more than the war actually did.
I hope you know why it was called the Spanish Flu, because if not you're loading a gun ready to backfire.
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The Spanish Flu during WWI (Thanks Nero) killed 500 million....many more than the war actually did.
I hope you know why it was called the Spanish Flu, because if not you're loading a gun ready to backfire.
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The Spanish Flu during WWI (Thanks Nero) killed 500 million....many more than the war actually did.
I hope you know why it was called the Spanish Flu, because if not you're loading a gun ready to backfire.
I hope you know why it was called the Spanish Flu, because if not you're loading a gun ready to backfire.
I saw documentary on television that believes that the so called 'spanish flu' actually started at an army base in the United states during WW1.
"You planning on having a long relationship with that glass or are you going to drink it? Drink up, man. Maybe we can get another.” - Janis Joplin, 1970. -
I saw documentary on television that believes that the so called 'spanish flu' actually started at an army base in the United states during WW1.
First cases were in mainland US, and it ended up being called the Spanish Flu because during the WWI it was the only country reporting it's evolution, as other countries taking part in the war almost didn't give any notice about it.
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I saw documentary on television that believes that the so called 'spanish flu' actually started at an army base in the United states during WW1.
PBS had a great show about this WWI era pandemic influenza.
This is what our government and those across the world are trying to combat now.
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