World Cup World Cup World Cup and RUGBY

[carnelle_scott]

Just to recap, so far

Magda after round 1 won against no one
Magda lost to Luke*
Jenny won against no one
Caroline and Moriarty drew, but everyone thinks it's as good as a win [to Moriarty], and
Lola beat Anne

Tonight
David plays Tom*

Monday
Abby plays Jess*
Jeff* plays Gabrielle*
Ro plays Jack

* means I've decided you're this country -

Comments

[the_moriarty]

Nice pick on Tom for Iran.

Tonight I thought "okay, I'm not really that interested in the teams playing - maybe I'll take this moment to watch the movie I've been saving up."
But now that 8:30 is just an hour and three quarters away, I'm thinking "boy, wouldn't it be great to watch some football tonight?"
Are you having this problem too?
I never thought I'd be so hooked!

[carnelle_scott]

I'm taking a break and watching the Rugby. I'm not interested in either Serbia or Netherlands, so I'm going to do some exam practice instead.

[the_moriarty]

Exam practice. Sounds like a wise plan of action. And my intentions for my night were to do me a bit of that myself. But study -> study background noise wishes -> turn on TV -> world cup. It's the circle of life.

[carnelle_scott]

I've found A THIRD friends game on ebay. I might place a bid. Currently, $0.99c.

[the_moriarty]

I'm sure Friends games are things you can never have too many of. Are they all pretty different, or will you not know until you play?

[carnelle_scott]

This is based on the idea of the game Ross made up that they play in TOW The Embryos when the C&J are trying to prove they know more about M&R than the other way around - and in the end the boys win the girls' apartment.
A unique aproach, I think.

[the_moriarty]

So, is it about the Friends characters or do you actually play it with your friends as a "how well do you know each other?" game? I'm assuming it's the former, but I thought I'd ask anyway.

[carnelle_scott]

Actually, I was wondering that myself, because it says it's to be played in two teams of two; boys and girls.

[the_moriarty]

And to completely change the subject:
I just turned on the TV and the guy said "something something talking still about the gallantry of Trinidad and Tobago"
Yeah!

Boy, your birfday's really soon. Hmm!

[carnelle_scott]

Yes, he did. Not that I'm watching it or anything :S

But you should stick with replacing country names with people's names.

ie. still talking about the gallantry of Moriarty
people in David City are getting right behind their team

Did you watch the Germany game? I thought, for a long time, they were calling the striker "One Shot" rather than Wanchope - because he had one shot at goal and scored :P

[the_moriarty]

You're quite right. I like the thought of the TV talking about my gallantry.
That old man history, he just sings praise for you!

Yep, I did see that game - and I agree, it really sounded like "One Shot".
Aha, and that's suddenly triggered what I keep meaning to ask you! If it won't take up too much time. How does being 'offside' work? I've never heard this rule explained, and therefore I keep getting confused in matches.

I just opened the T+T news site and at the top it says "Football is not mathematics."
This is funny, because I'm trying to do maths study.

[carnelle_scott]

What old man?

Offside - you need to watch Bend It Like Beckham, there's a great little scene with KK and her parents where they use condaments to demonstrate the rule.
Don't worry about asking, it's a pleasant distraction. I'm even going to draw pictures to demonstrate.

[the_moriarty]

The old man who's meant to be "history", in those ads where the Socceroos are playing and kick the ball at him.

And thanks hoards, that does make sense. The diagram helped a lot and what helped even more was just as I finished reading, someone was offside in the game I've got on in the background, and they did the slow-motion thing to make your point.
Haha, your story is funny - I used to be friends with the goalie in hockey (I was full back) so we were always talking just like that. I've never played a "proper" soccer game. I wish we had it at my school. No, we did. I wish I didn't avoid it because I had a reputation for disliking sports and am bad at soccer.

[carnelle_scott]

Ah yes.

I don't know about offside in hockey - do they have it. Rugby is the craziest. You're offside if you're infront of the ball! Always behind.

[the_moriarty]

I don't remember there ever being any offside rules in the games we played, but we might not have been playing with all the rules. In fact, there definitely wasn't offside when we played, because you could just practically run right up into the goals.
I remember doing rugby in PE a few times. Definitely crazy rules. All I remember is "whatever you do, don't throw it forward."

[carnelle_scott]

That's based on the offside business. If you're throwing it forward then the person is infront of you (and the ball), and therefore offside.

PS you can run right up to the goals in soccer too, as long as you have the ball, or it's already been kicked forward.