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CShell said:
Football? You mean "soccer"?
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Nah.
I know to tell soccer from football when using english.
But it reminds of a Simpsons' episode, when in Springfield there was a soccer game, and all players stood statically on the field, just passing the ball between two players, only, and the commenator with some latin accent was extremely enhusiastically announcing, how the ball was only passed between those two players, and all Springfielder were bored to death. And I thought by myself:"Yeah, right. Look at your own boring games!" 😂
I am a huge fan of Matt Groening btw., and among good friends it's allowed to have a joke on the other, as long as it comes from the heart, based on respect, and both are equally allowed on each other, of course.
In german we say:"Wer austeilt, muß auch einstecken können." - If you can’t take it then don’t dish it out.
Not everybody is a good sport.

And I wasn't completely honest. I do watch sports. Once a year, but I do: Golf. And I am fully aware of for many this must be most boring thing to watch, while to my wife and me it's always a most thrilling weekend.
It's just if you know a game, or not.
 
“Foosball screwed up my perception of soccer. I though you had to kick the ball and then spin around and around. I can’t do a back flip, much less several simultaneously with two other guys who look exactly like me.” A joke by Mitch Hedberg.
 
CShell said:
They are famous for winning a game against England
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So were these guys from my town (St Louis):
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdx6cN03uNg&list=PL6WAxym74loe2xhDZSLv-f3-kTXz5hU3b


I'm in it. And if you knew who to look for, you'll see me.
I grew up down the street from the park where this was filmed and would regularly go there to play softball.
The funny thing is, my son is a professional actor but, because he was only 14 at the time, I had to accompany him. So I became an extra. His scene in the opening shots got cut (though he can still be seen) but you can see more of me throughout the film than of him. :)

Another funny story. Gerard Butler is in it and I had his personal cell number to bring something to him. Later, we'd played catch with a softball for a film he was going to be in. (He throws a ball like a girl. :) )
 
Maturin said:
Dude, those are war stories way back from the trenches! I was still in elementary school back then! 😂
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Oh wait... you mean Germany didn't have television yet when you were in elementary school? My god! How did your country learn how to become capitalists?

When Diego Maradona died on 25 November, at the age of 60, Maradona suffered cardiac arrest and died in his sleep at his home in Dique Luján, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Maradona's coffin – draped in Argentina's national flag and three Maradona number 10 shirts (Argentinos Juniors, Boca Juniors and Argentina) – lay in state at the Presidential Palace, the Casa Rosada, with mourners filing past his coffin. On 26 November, Maradona's wake, which was attended by tens of thousands of people, was cut short by his family as his coffin was relocated from the rotunda of the Presidential Palace after fans took over an inner courtyard and also clashed with police. The same day, a private funeral service was held and Maradona was buried next to his parents at the Jardín de Bella Vista cemetery in Bella Vista, Buenos Aires.

Link: Wikipedia - Diego Maradona

The entire country of Argentina nationally "shut down" for 5 straight days in mourning over the loss of Deigo Maradona. (Today) you can go to the house where Diego Maradona lived before he died and sit in his very house with (large crowds?) and watch live football/soccer games on (maybe ?) his TV. But I would guess they have installed a better TV to watch games on now -- but... I don't know.

So... what happens in Germany when a football/soccer player dies/passes away?
 
CShell said:
Germany didn't have television yet when you were in elementary school?
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Dude, we germans practically invented modern TV.
It's always the same: We germans invent it - car, aircraft, light bulb, computer, TV - but others make it popular, getting rich and famous with it. Must be some kind of savant syndrome my folk posses.:-/

I am fully aware of the biography of Maradona, and his outstanding rank in Argentina.
I neither said 'I didn't know' nor 'I can't remember', I just said 'It was a very along time ago.'
And I still can remember that in his active time back then Maradona was a one man soccer team of its own who played any other team at the wall - unique!
So,
CShell said:
So... what happens in Germany when a football/soccer player dies/passes away?
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Nothing much. Maybe some short story in the news, maybe some headline on the yellow press, if it was a real grandness, but for sure no national mourning.
You see, besides the spare time amusement soccer, we have more important things to do (hedge clipping, or waxing cars for example.) And we do not have only one great soccer player in a century we cling on for decades.
Having a national mourning everytime a good soccer players dies our country would stand still.
CShell said:
How did your country learn how to become capitalists?
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I'm not quite sure, but I think it was the Americans who brought it to us in 1949:"Here! You better try this!"
 
drhowarddrfine said:
I'm half German. From my mother's side. Whole bunch of German family names I'm related to. So we might be related!
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I love my German roots too. And hey, 25% of American population has German roots to some degree nowadays. So geil!

It's so beautiful how America has so much European heritage to a significant degree. Just so really beautiful. Americans will understand this, and more people should experience it because it's impossible to verbalize quite.
 
drhowarddrfine said:
So we might be related!
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I know, from USA every country looks small - especially from somewhere more in the middle, like St. Louis (I've been on the arch.) And apart from many of your countrymen you actually travel outside the states, so you know, there is whole world outside the states. But we are in fact a multipeople folk - even if some alas still don't get it - of over 80M. So, not that I don't like the idea to have an unkown rich uncle in the USA I may unexpectedly inherit some day, but I highly doubt it. I know my small pedigree pretty much back to the early 19th century, and there was nobody ever emigrated to the new world.
But if you ever come to germany, send me an IM. We see if we can meet. And even if we are not related, I'm sure we will have a great time not talking about FreeBSD, only. :cool::beer:
 
Maturin said:
Dude, we germans practically invented modern TV.
It's always the same: We germans invent it - car, aircraft, light bulb, computer, TV - but others make it popular, getting rich and famous with it. Must be some kind of savant syndrome my folk posses.:-/
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The car, fair enough, but light bulbs, computers and aircraft were all done in the US first from what I can tell. Or at least those were the first instances of any of those things being practical and from which the more modern versions were derived.

It's always problematic to try to measure these things as there usually isn't a first, which is why you get "the first practical ..." being used as you've got cases like the light bulb where there were lightbulbs before Edison, but his was the first practical one that could be manufactured. Similarly, AFAICT, the first actual computer was in the US.
 
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