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Off the Record / Re: Football (Soccer) Thread

Last post by Josquius - Today at 11:04:15 AM

Senegal might be gunning for France with history et al too?

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Off the Record / Re: Football (Soccer) Thread

Last post by Norgy - Today at 10:59:31 AM

Grupo I : França, Senegal, play-off intercontinental 2, Noruega

Not so good for les Bleus I guess.

I don't know, Norway usually buckles under pressure in tournaments. Senegal is a strong side.

I have watched the first half of Everton vs Nottingham Forest, and I wonder why Everton's Tarkowski still is on the pitch. Should've been sent off.
Not that it excuses the extremely poor performance by Forest. The team sorely lacks Chris Wood. Jesus, while energetic, has little end product.

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Off the Record / Re: Facebook Follies of Friend...

Last post by Darth Wagtaros - Today at 10:16:12 AM

Especially if the federal government was mean to the drug lord in question.

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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Grey Fox - Today at 09:45:04 AM

He probably told someone to get rid of some emissions rules. Those rules and how the manufacturers are respecting them is why we don't have smaller pickup trucks anymore.

[Dec 4, 2025, 2:05 PM ET]

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Off the Record / Re: A Navy warship mistook US ...

Last post by grumbler - Today at 09:42:40 AM

This is way-old news.  Why bring it up now, and why associate Hegseth with it?

Hegseth is my mistake, I admit.

But old news?
 Dec 4, 2025, 2:05 PM ET

It just got published yesterday.  I don't recall hearing about this one, but you do have other, better sources than me for military news than I do.

Here's Ward Carrol describing this on Dec 22, 2024

. It was thoroughly covered at the time. The only new news is that the official report has come out (which didn't really tell us anything new).

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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by grumbler - Today at 09:38:53 AM

Nobody calls rugby football. Calling American Rugby football is just extremely silly. It adds insult to injury that because of it you call the sport which you actually play by putting foot to ball "soccer".

The parochial view that the terminology of your group must be the correct terminology because you use it doesn't withstand any scrutiny. Football was a term used to distinguish the sport from similar games played on horseback. Soccer is an English term that apparently originated to distinguish the kicking-oriented game from "rugger," the hand-and-foot version of the same basic sport.

The rules formalizing Rugby football, Association football, and American football were all developed at about the same time.

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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by The Brain - Today at 09:16:46 AM

Hear the tiny auto horns, when theý tiny blow?

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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Syt - Today at 08:37:40 AM

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Off the Record / Re: Facebook Follies of Friend...

Last post by Syt - Today at 08:22:08 AM

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Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by garbon - Today at 08:06:20 AM