The Off Topic Topic

[celedhring]

I think buzzfeed lied about this being hard.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/robinedds/the-hardest-name-that-country-quiz-youll-take-today

Well, I'm probably not going to take another Name That Country quiz today, so technically they'll be correct.

Well, I took this other one earlier http://www.triviaplaza.com/world-countries-1-quiz/ and I can affirm it was even easier, so indeed it was the hardest Name That Country quiz I took today.

[Eddie Teach]

I guess it's two factors:
- relatively easy rules
- you can play it almost anywhere and with anything, even if you only mark the goals with bricks on either side and use an empty can for a ball

It makes sense for Africa & Latin America, but Europe has plenty of money to spend on equipment for more interesting sports. /shrug

[Liep]

I guess it's two factors:
- relatively easy rules
- you can play it almost anywhere and with anything, even if you only mark the goals with bricks on either side and use an empty can for a ball

It makes sense for Africa & Latin America, but Europe has plenty of money to spend on equipment for more interesting sports. /shrug

But it didn't when football was established as the most popular sport.

[Syt]

I guess it's two factors:
- relatively easy rules
- you can play it almost anywhere and with anything, even if you only mark the goals with bricks on either side and use an empty can for a ball

It makes sense for Africa & Latin America, but Europe has plenty of money to spend on equipment for more interesting sports. /shrug

But it didn't when football was established as the most popular sport.

Those things can evolve, though. In the early 20th Century, baseball ruled supreme in the U.S.

However, I can say it's a lot easier to play a quick game of football with a tennis ball or similar with a bench as goal in a 10 minute recess at school than most other sports.

[Valmy]

However, I can say it's a lot easier to play a quick game of football with a tennis ball or similar with a bench as goal in a 10 minute recess at school than most other sports.

Well if you are going to be that loose with the gear you can pretty much do this with any sport.  We played American football virtually every day in recess.  Just need a ball.

[celedhring]

When I was a kid we weren't allowed balls during recess, so we played football with a plastic bottle and our backpacks marking the goalposts. You can always play football. Anytime, anywhere.

[Barrister]

I think buzzfeed lied about this being hard.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/robinedds/the-hardest-name-that-country-quiz-youll-take-today

Yeah.  The only one I even paused on was Paraguay vs Uruguay.

There was one two others I might have gotten wrong (Turkmenistan, Mali) except of the two options it was obvious which one it was.

[Valmy]

Mauritania is the country where arabs are racist towards black people.  That usually helps remembering the location.

[Liep]

When I was a kid we weren't allowed balls during recess, so we played football with a plastic bottle and our backpacks marking the goalposts. You can always play football. Anytime, anywhere.

You weren't allowed balls? That's just cruel. I mean, we got our leather ball banned when someone hit someone in the head (that wasn't playing), but we got a plastic ball instead.

[Eddie Teach]

Mauritania is the country where arabs are racist towards black people.  That usually helps remembering the location.

Arabs are racist towards black people everywhere.

[celedhring]

When I was a kid we weren't allowed balls during recess, so we played football with a plastic bottle and our backpacks marking the goalposts. You can always play football. Anytime, anywhere.

You weren't allowed balls? That's just cruel. I mean, we got our leather ball banned when someone hit someone in the head (that wasn't playing), but we got a plastic ball instead.

Teachers were afraid we would break something. There were lots of glass windows facing the playground.

[Syt]

When I was a kid we weren't allowed balls during recess, so we played football with a plastic bottle and our backpacks marking the goalposts. You can always play football. Anytime, anywhere.

You weren't allowed balls? That's just cruel. I mean, we got our leather ball banned when someone hit someone in the head (that wasn't playing), but we got a plastic ball instead.

The school invested in soft foam balls at one point, but they were falling apart after a week of use to the point they looked like under construction Death Stars. Made ball handling and aiming shots pretty tricky.

[celedhring]

When I was a kid we weren't allowed balls during recess, so we played football with a plastic bottle and our backpacks marking the goalposts. You can always play football. Anytime, anywhere.

You weren't allowed balls? That's just cruel. I mean, we got our leather ball banned when someone hit someone in the head (that wasn't playing), but we got a plastic ball instead.

The school invested in soft foam balls at one point, but they were falling apart after a week of use to the point they looked like under construction Death Stars. Made ball handling and aiming shots pretty tricky.

They tried that too, but the balls had zero weight to them and it was frustrating trying to direct the shot, plus they lasted like a week.

Once a week they allowed us to go to the beach during recess, we were allowed balls then. That was the time we would sneak to the liquor store to buy gin though. 

[Liep]

Yeah, we tried the foam balls too, but it rains too much in Denmark and being hit in the face by a soaked ball is not so funny.

[CountDeMoney]

I so do not get the complete world love for Soccer.

You would think a sport so mind-numbingly boring and sleep-inducing would have much less violence attached to it.  Or is fan violence related to it because they're just bored?