Doh! Becks gets the boot

[ultragaijin]

Doh! Becks gets the boot (http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/11/1049567854020.html)

Doh! Soccer star David Beckham has been kicked into touch for a cameo role on The Simpsons - because he is not famous enough.

[Gaisaradatsuraku!]

Doh! Becks gets the boot (http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/11/1049567854020.html)

Doh! Soccer star David Beckham has been kicked into touch for a cameo role on The Simpsons - because he is not famous enough.

Well, frankly, he isn't famous enough to be on the Simpsons. This guy is a soccer ball kicker. Soccer is not a real sport. If it were it would be popular in America. I will tell you why soccer is played around the world but not in America. It is because about all the non-Americans can afford is a grass field a pair of sneakers and one ball for twenty guys (or however many - believe me I don't care). If they had any talent or imagination they could have come up with a more interesting sport than this "just don't touch the ball with your hands, running up and down the field nonsense."

Soccer is the product of weak and lazy minds.

[American Oyaji]

Gai, as a basketball player and a soccer player, I have found it takes a heck of a lot more stamina and concentration to play soccer.

[ultragaijin]

Tony Blair takes time out from Iraq war to star in "The Simpsons" (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030412/en_afp/us_television_simpsons_030412024742)

[ramchop]

The post is missing but Gai wrote something like:

"Rugby (a sport of poor horse thieving whores) is only a college sport in Japan, with not many more players than American football."


Currently there are 450 high school, college, and corporate football teams (http://www.packers.com/news/releases/1998/07/07-30.html) in Japan with a total of more than 16,500 players.

With 48 affiliated provinces, a surprisingly large number of 4,785 clubs who boast 77,166 senior players, rugby (http://www.rugby2003.com.au/the_teams/japan.asp) at the grassroots in Japan is very buoyant. And with 6,540 accredited coaches and 3,890 qualified referees guiding the 63,250 junior players, prospects for the game in the future look good.


I guess the Japanese "football" players much prefer the sport of the horse thieves. :wink:

[AssKissinger]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060226/od_afp/fblengespbritainpeopleoffbeatbeckham

England football captain David Beckham confessed he is befuddled by his six-year-old son Brooklyn's maths homework in an interview.

Beckham, 30, admitted to being baffled when Brooklyn recently asked for help with a school assignment and had to turn to his former Spice Girls pop star wife Victoria to help out.

"Their homework is so hard these days. I sat down with Brooklyn the other day -- and I was like, 'Victoria, maybe you should do the homework tonight'.

"I think it was maths, actually. It's done totally differently to what I was teached when I was at school, and you know, I was like, 'Oh my God, I can't do this'.

[maraboutslim]

I believed "teached" is fairly common usage in British English, even amongst educated folks. And I know what he means about kids' math homework. The problem isn't the answers - it's the method they are using to teach kids certain concepts((stuff like drawing stupid diagrams and whatnot instead of just producing the answer the old-fashioned way.) It's unlike anything I've ever experienced and I often end up telling my 10 year old that I have no idea what they are asking him to do. (college education, good math sat score, etc.)

[samuraiwig]

I believed (sic) "teached" is fairly common usage in British English, even amongst educated folks.

It is commonly used, but not by 'educated' Brits (unless they're trying to ingratiate themselves with someone who speaks in that way).

I often end up telling my 10 year old that I have no idea what they are asking him to do. (college education, good math sat score, etc.)

Is that in Japan, Europe, the U.S.? (no location in your profile/sig)