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[-] PoliteDudeInTheMood@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Most Commonwealth countries, Canada is different because of our close connection with the US.

There's a group of Indians near me who play cricket every weekend so sometimes I'll go by and bother them. "You're playing the game wrong, you know. Have you guys never watched baseball before?" They're always super nice and will spend ages explaining everything about the sport. They have a level of zeal for the sport which cannot be matched by even us hockey fans. Last summer we went down to the Galapagos and our group was mostly Brits and I would wait until late in the evening after they had started drinking and ask if they play soccer over there, and that is just as much fun to me.

ask if they play soccer

I mean, that is where the word came from originally.

[-] PoliteDudeInTheMood@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I know the story: “association” → “assoc” → “soccer”, but they apparently didn't get the memo, and there was much arguing.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

We have Rugby and Gaelic Football as our sports from the Commonwealth. We just suck at them because there's only 3 months a year to play it.

[-] PoliteDudeInTheMood@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I'm a big guy, so someone decided that I'd be good at Rugby, and I got invited to the high school rugby practice. I had a good time even though the practice was in March and there was a foot of snow on the ground, but to this day, I have zero idea of how to actually play the game.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

The worst part of snow is how hard the ground is.

Move ball from one end to the other, touch it down. Don't throw it forward.

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