VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoThis guy has a ton of 13yo fansdiscuss.onlineimagemessage-square157linkfedilinkarrow-up1933arrow-down134
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minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down3·1 month ago Football distinguishing it from games played on horseback The problem with this line of argument is that basketball would also be football, as would baseball, cricket, hockey, and even cycling.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 month agoYou had me until cycling. Which would clearly be “ball-less tech polo” or something like that 🤷🏻
minus-squarewieson@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoWe sometimes call bicycles “wire donkeys”
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoOnly in the US, though. It’s yet another of their silly regionalisms that confuses everyone.
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoCars are horseless carriages. Does that mean they are more or less likely to fall into the football category?
minus-squareTachyonTele_Esq@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoThose are wheelies in America
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 month agoCounterargument. I’ve never seen cycling done on horseback. Therfore it is football. Unless we classify a bike as a mechanical horse. Then we have mountain horsing, road horsing. Trick horsing. And all the velodrome horsing events.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month ago I’ve never seen cycling done on horseback. Therfore it is football. I’ve never seen it done on foot or with a ball either, though. Two-wheel chasies? Or as a compromise, Wheelhorsing around?
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThere are not many sports left to invent. Bike Football Horse Rugby (as seen in rambo)
minus-squaredroans@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 month agoYou mean football, football, football, knifeball, and wheelball?
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 month agoMay I suggest:- Bouncy-football, hotdog-football, 5day-football, ice-football, wheel-football
The problem with this line of argument is that basketball would also be football, as would baseball, cricket, hockey, and even cycling.
You had me until cycling. Which would clearly be “ball-less tech polo” or something like that 🤷🏻
We sometimes call bicycles “wire donkeys”
Only in the US, though. It’s yet another of their silly regionalisms that confuses everyone.
Cars are horseless carriages. Does that mean they are more or less likely to fall into the football category?
Those are wheelies in America
Counterargument. I’ve never seen cycling done on horseback. Therfore it is football.
Unless we classify a bike as a mechanical horse. Then we have mountain horsing, road horsing. Trick horsing. And all the velodrome horsing events.
I’ve never seen it done on foot or with a ball either, though.
Two-wheel chasies?
Or as a compromise, Wheelhorsing around?
There are not many sports left to invent.
Bike Football
Horse Rugby (as seen in rambo)
The fuck did I just watch?
You mean football, football, football, knifeball, and wheelball?
May I suggest:-
Bouncy-football, hotdog-football, 5day-football, ice-football, wheel-football