The Off Topic Topic

[Sheilbh]

So just seen that apparently this will be the first UK census that asks questions about sexuality and gender identity - interestingly they've set up a way for each individual to request an access code so everyone can provide that information without revealing it to other household members. Which seems like a good idea and it'll be interesting to see the results (though I imagine there'll be a lot of under-reporting still).

[grumbler]

Also: terraced houses have as much with terraces as American football with actual football.

We had association football and rugby football. Both were football. We have been over this.

We and the Brits decided to name them in the opposite way. Our version of the later became football, and their version of the later became Rugby.

Tamas doesn't quite understand that all forms of football are game with a ball, played on foot.  Or that what he thinks is called 'football" is actually "Association football" as opposed to "Rugby football" and "American football" (and now, of course, "Australian Rules Football").  Someday, he will learn. 

The original football was more like Rugby than anything that came later.

[Jacob]

Tamas doesn't quite understand that all forms of football are game with a ball, played on foot.  Or that what he thinks is called 'football" is actually "Association football" as opposed to "Rugby football" and "American football" (and now, of course, "Australian Rules Football").  Someday, he will learn. 

The original football was more like Rugby than anything that came later.

And Gaelic rules football too.

I saw a great game in Ireland years back that was a mix of Gaelic and Aussie rules with an Irish team playing an Aussie team. Seemed like total mayhem to me. Very entertaining.

[Grey Fox]

The worse thing is that the Brits used to use Soccer but they are traitorous assholes so it didn't last.

[Sheilbh]

The worse thing is that the Brits used to use Soccer but they are traitorous assholes so it didn't last.

This is true - and now get ignorantly outraged about it

[Tamas]

What do you mean played on foot? Is basketball football?

And on flats: if I hear my neighbour across a common wall, that's a flat if nothing else than in quality of living and every other name is a dress-up :p

[HVC]

Brit houses just need better insulation.

[grumbler]

What do you mean played on foot? Is basketball football?

Basketball started as an indoor winter version of soccer.  It used a soccer ball and mostly soccer rules, except that the ball was carried and thrown rather than kicked because of the smaller indoor space.  Dribbling came later.

[PDH]

I thought early basketball was all passing when you had the ball, movement only when you didn't have it.

[DGuller]

I thought early basketball was all passing when you had the ball, movement only when you didn't have it.

Technically it still is, you're just passing the ball to yourself when dribbling.

[jimmy olsen]

The bed of the FUTURE!

https://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian/status/1368654090176192515

This got no responses and Piers Morgan got two fucking pages! Outrageous!

[Eddie Teach]

Ok, Tim.

1 Adjustable mattresses exist, both for incline and hardness.
2 Beds with attached cabinets have existed for centuries.
3 I wouldn't want a tea set in my bed
4 Zomg, advertisers subtly undermining traditional values by showing a lesbian couple in bed!

[garbon]

Amazing that Piers Morgan story is being spin by some as an attack on free speech.

[Maladict]

Ok, Tim.

1 Adjustable mattresses exist, both for incline and hardness.
2 Beds with attached cabinets have existed for centuries.
3 I wouldn't want a tea set in my bed
4 Zomg, advertisers subtly undermining traditional values by showing a lesbian couple in bed!

I make my morning coffee without leaving the bed. 

[Admiral Yi]

The lebiangs are pretty cute but that neck masturbation was not convincing.