Comments on: #95 Rugby

By: sago1

sago1 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:28:02 +0000

erm… this isn’t the appropriate response. tell him about your proud imperialism or how you rule the world. ANYTHING but the nature of american spelling, cos the rest of the english speaking world just views it as lazy (why not just keep the “U”, is it too much effort? serious question this, i’ve always wanted to know)

By: sago1

sago1 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:22:10 +0000

Heh. Rugby does what it always does then, even in places like America (where one always thought it was virtually unknown): cause people in the comments section to theoretically much each others ears off. You thought Mike Tyson was tough because he viewed his opponents ears as tea-time snack? He should try that in a scrum pile, with someone’s boots raking his skull, while someone else cops a feel in all that warmth and intimacy.

Rugby in SA = a lot of neandarthals rushing around after a weirdly shaped ball as an excuse to feel each other up. All of them graduates of boys schools, so not surprising really.

or maybe i’m just bitter cos no one came to the girls’ school matches.

By: jason

jason — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:48:34 +0000

booranga

By: Ash

Ash — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:31:36 +0000

It’s already been said, but in New Zealand and Australia it’s the opposite. Especially in NZ, where we have so many Maori and Islander rugby players that all the cool white people aren’t allowed to like rugby anymore.

By: Don

Don — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:40:38 +0000

I think someone took your balls in their hands playing rugby and you got caught out, you’re not a man after all.

By: JB

JB — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:38:59 +0000

Pretty poor attempt at speak Afrikaans.
Close the door when you get your coat will ya!

By: JB

JB — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:37:29 +0000

You thick racist, now feck off back to your cave and hang yourself. Don’t comment on a country that you have never lived in.

By: MickGJ

MickGJ — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:04:27 +0000

Thanks for using the English language into make that comment, via the world-wide web, invented by Tim Berners-Lee (English) using your computer, invented by Alan Turing (English). Some people say it was Charles Babbage, but then he was English too. And “colour” does indeed have a “U” in it.

These bright chaps aside, England is positively brimming with racists and stupid people. Try googling “chav” and “BNP” if you want to get rid of that lingering sense of cultural inferiority.

By: Jay Mann

Jay Mann — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:36:01 +0000

I fucking hate you Marcus.. for being a kiwi and hating rugby… I think that you aren’t really a kiwi.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:40:04 +0000

You might even get more kudos for knowing there are TWO types of Rugby Rugby Union and Rugby League.
In the UK Rugby Union is played by the upper / middle classes* (it used to be an amateur game ie the players not supposed to be paid – yeah right). It is generally slower and more violent, it used to consist of 30 men fighting in a big heap – called a ruck. But they have tried to speed it up lately.
Rugby League is played by working class men in the North of England. It is faster as they aren’t allowed to roll around with each other. But the shirts are made of nylon and start at size XXXXXXXL – so would be suitable for your average American.

* Note Rugby Union in Wales is played by working class people as there are no posh people in Wales.