The Differences between the US and UK
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well no because american football isnt the same as rugby lol so no rugby here isnt football there
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_American_football_and_rugby_union
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Which makes sense to call it that.
... you're not really helping with the whole 'americans have no sense of humour' thing
he was making a statement do we all have to be like HAHAHA about everything
It also comes from 16th century England and became popular in North America about a century later. I do like the aesthetic sound of "autumn," though...even if I do call the season "fall" myself.
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I don't think so. I was just pointing out that "rugby football" is the reason the gridiron sport in the US is called "football."
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Americans have a sense of humor! lol
Do you know what stupid things we do just to get people to laugh?
Have you ever seen Jackass? It's literally people doing the most idiotic things for 2hrs just because they can.
I laugh at the crap my people do everyday, it's entertaining.
See, when we think of British people the stereotypical thought is that they're snobs with a dry sense of humor, drinking tea all day with bad their teeth. But obviously that isn't the truth, because everyone has there own personalities. I don't think what country you live in really matters when it comes to things like that.
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Our stereotype is fat and laid back/rednecks who are obsessed with freedom
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I don't actually think they don't, haha. We have programmes exactly like that as well, but we like our sarcastic and self-deprecating humour too.
Basically that ^
I know that not all Americans are like that but whenever I see a news report filmed in America or generally something where they ask the public for their opinion, it feels like they make it their job to purposely find people who fit that picture.
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I would say you have a point but those are mostly all just reality TV shows and gameshows. Their only changes are often so that British people can take part in them, rather than unnecessarily changing entire scripts and butchering the original work...Almost all of them also turned out to be popular.
I think there's a reason almost nobody has mentioned regional variations of reality TV or gameshows already...Probably because there's more of an obvious reason for those, whilst 'IT Crowd US' or 'Inbetweeners US' were abortions that shouldn't have happened when the originals were already good enough to ship over.
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Plus, that list you posted is hilariously small compared to the US list...The US list has 'pilot' written so many times that you could mistake it for a list of staff in an airport.
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Like Tao said, that list is a lot smaller and is mainly games programmes, which makes sense for us to adapt so that our own people can play in them. We don't really rewrite the U.S's shows - we don't have a Friends UK or a Scrubs UK, etc. I guess for some reason original British programmes don't go down well in the US, although I've heard some shows like Doctor Who doing quite well over there.
Yes, I know that. I said soccer so Americans would understand as well. In Holland we call it "voetbal", which is clearly taken from the word football as well.
Its quite popular in Holland. Its nowhere near the level of popularity of football, hockey and iceskating, but it gets for European standards a lot of airtime. It probably helps we are relatively good in it, but I also think the sport is kind of spoonfed to us from highschool and further. We play a lot of softball (I know its quite different), so we get exposed to it.
Italy is also a traditionally strong baseball nation in Europe, so maybe its slightly bigger over there as well.
But yeah, England prefers to use a paddle.
I can think of more fun ways to use a paddle, but thats just me. They love their cricket.
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