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19 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

There are a lot of people though, there's always going to be at least some who simply like rugby more, even when the very significant amount of money one could earn in American football is taken into the consideration.

Obvously yes, but let's don't overthink the room. Rugby is a niche sport in USA and nothing changes that. Call me when a rugby player gets on the cover of Sports Illustrated and then we can talk

Just now, Olympian1010 said:

Yes, some are Samoan I believe. A few Hawaiians as well. However, we also have a really good grassroots rugby program. A lot of guys on the team are white and African American, and some actually grew up playing rugby. Rugby is one of the sports experiencing the biggest growth in America right now. Most of our resources are put into 7s (just like Fiji and Samoa), and we’ve seen great returns so far. Rugby and American Football seem to both be able to attract good talent. In fact there are even universities that gather to play the College Rugby Sevens Championship that is broadcast on ESPN yearly. Currently our best player is Carlin Isles (not sure how to spell last name), and he is African American. He grow up as a football and track athlete, and then switched to Rugby.

Rugby is still nothing compared to gridiron. I recall boxing journalists moaning about the decline in US heavyweight boxing few years ago because no big guy wants to do boxing anymore with so much money in football. I seriously doubt anyone would choose rugby over football in US given the chance unless you were spit out by the machine already. With XFL coming up, there's gonna be more demand for these players.

I thought most of the US rugby players come from Samoa or Hawaii? Obviously the rugby is no real thing in the USA when gridiron football rules the house. One can say the rugby players are former gridiron washouts in first place

Btw, Fiji has its own war dance. They don't need a haka.

5 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Speaking for the United States, and only for the United States, people often think of thier states as countries. All the time Americans will accidentally list other states as foreign countries. Most Americans don’t want to split up, but they don’t realize how wonderful it would be to get rid of Alabama, Arkansas, and Mississippi. The US is generally United, even if I personally hate that. But there is most certainly aggressive state pride. Alabamians hate Californians, Californians hate Alabamians. Everyone hates Florida (sorry @dezbee2008). No one gives three shits about Oregon . The five people that live in North Dakota hate everyone else. That’s just how it is.

Yeah, I realize the liberal parts of the country don't give a damn about Montana or Idaho. USA is far less united then you pretend to be.

47 minutes ago, intoronto said:

It was not the Canadian government that made the decision, it was the Provincial Quebec government. There seems to be a high insecurity there about French identity.

This sounds like the old "British when they win, Scottish when they lose" tune in the UK. Whenever something stupid or negative comes up the Canadians are quick to point out "It's not Canada, it's Quebec!"

4 hours ago, intoronto said:

Quebec is another animal in itself. The leadership there is definitely questionable. You cannot put the blame on Canada...

What do you mean questionable? Last time I checked Canada was supposed to be a democratic country? I don't believe in this take Quebec isn't Canada or Texas isn't USA. It's just a very weak excuse to flush something you dislike down the toilet. Either you protect your country's integrity or you don't?

Canada is such a lousy place (maybe Kellie Humphries was right after all ).

A 31-year old French woman was deemed not French enough to be granted immigrant status in Quebec.

I hope the liberals are proud of this shit. Canada seems even more lost in the dark than the supposedly inferior conservative countries they so happily throw under the bus.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50241254

7 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Intense debate in my house right now about Kamala’s plan. Both my parents are teachers, one is for, one is against. I’m against, and my younger sister is in the middle. This is the biggest problem with the education debate. Too many opinions, and no good solutions. Educators are so divided on how education should work, that we can’t even get a plan with more than 40% support. Students and teachers also want two different things, which more complicates the situation. The college debate just compounds the issue.

Looking from outside, American education system is based on private education. The rich will only get richer and they most certainly won't allow anyone to rattle their cage. I read that Kamala's plan includes those schools looking & securing the financial support by themselves. Well, that's great. She has this idea but the schools will have to do all the heavy-lifting? Who is going to invest a penny for some no-name public school in the middle of nowhere just to help those working parents? You can invest in Harvard or Yale but not in Red Rock High School in some forgotten place in Wyoming

2 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

I thought she had children. Learn something new everyday I guess.

 

*slumps down in chair and says quietly* I went to private school my entire life until university this year. It’s nearly impossible to have any major society without attending private school, which is obviously one of the biggest issues with the American education system. We actually have a satirically name for public schools “the school to prison drainpipe”. It’s not completely true, but Baby Boomers and Gen X created the issue. They thought everyone should just settle for the standards of their time. Then, when they tried to create change. They changed a system that was completely foreign to them, and only made the education system in America worse. 
 

Tbh the majority of issues in America right now come down to two generations, Boomers and Millennials. 

Her husband has two adult children from previous marriage. She has none.

Her parents were working at Berkeley & Stanford. If she wants to sell an image of coming from the folk then it's a disaster. She's pretty much upper class herself. Hell, even Beto O'Rourke who I thought was selling the image of 'boy from the hood' attenteded all-male private high school and then Ivy League. How in the world you expect to win blue collar votes when you've been part of the privileged side of the society? Yeah, Trump is from the lucky sperm club but at least he doesn't pretend to be anybody else.

1 hour ago, Olympian1010 said:

Kamala is trying her hardest to loose this election 

 

I'm not surprised. She has no children of her own so has no idea how it's like to raise them while being a working parent.

Besides probably every single politician sends their kids to private schools anyway? How do they know anything about public schools in first place?

40 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

Yeah that was the whole point. 

 

By the way, you can in fact get jailed for doping in some countries, like Germany. Even more so, supplying athletes with doping (which is what she 'admitted' she 'thought' she was doing) can give you up to 10 years in prison.

https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-anti-doping-law-comes-into-force/a-18928499

I believe that affects the medical personel for distribution of non-prescribed drugs and such. So they want to battle doping by scaring off the providers. Let's face it, you can get busted for illegal distribution of non-PEDs as well based on this law.

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Yeah, which she said she thought was doping. Admitting doping to get away with smuggling drugs, that's a new one.

You don't get jailed for doping tbh. This is one of the rare instances that admitting to doping was actually the lesser crime. Guess it didn't work

4 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

I’m just saying that singling out Calgary is strange. That’s like saying, I hope Kamil Stoch gets booed in Wrosaw, but not Wroclaw. Or I hope Sun Yang gets booed in the Shanghai, but not Beijing.

Calgary & winter sports is kinda a natural connection. Besides neither Stoch nor Sun changed nationality so your comparison to Humphries makes no sense whatsoever.

5 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

That’d be a bit hard, since the track no longer exists.

But the city exists? I realize Canada is just an excuse for jokes for Americans so that figures

Just now, heywoodu said:

I think the fans in Calgary do know how to treat her after all she gave them, no worries. 

Whatever. I've made my mind up on this egoist already.

Just now, heywoodu said:

Defending her egoism, lol. If any female bobsledder deserved the right to try something else, it's her. The shit some morons are pouring over her, unbelievable. I hope she gets some excellent results again.

Deserved? Seriously? She's full of the entitlement shit that runs wild in the modern society. I hope she gets booed in Calgary for the rest of her life

22 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Yeah, not in general, but this is about the bobsleigh world only of course. I'm very sure in all her years she's seen and heard quite a lot about other teams as well and if she moves to the US, that probably is because she's confident the situation is better there. Again, in the bobsleigh team.

She had issue with ONE person and you're talking about bobsleigh world You don't have to defend her egoism so much   Thankfully USA is not immune to verbal & mental harrasement so it doesn't really matter.

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

She basically killed every baby in the country with her move!  What a horrible human being! How dare she try and move to a place where she does feel appreciated?!

 

Pitchforks, torches!

Yet Todd Hays is actually American. So she left Canada because of an American to become an American citizen?   I hope she struggles a lot under the new flag.

Patriots are 8-0 and they play Ravens in Baltimore tomorrow. Should be a good game

Meanwhile the league's most famous alcoholic Josh Gordon has been claimed off waivers by Seattle Seahawks.

First time in history the World Cup winner has lost a group stage match (23-13 to New Zealand).

wins 32-12!!! Well done!

Farrell got his clown suit on that play! That's some burst after 75 minutes of play!

Kolbe jokes for another try! England are dead!

Mapimpi was a massive play and Am scores a try!!!! 25-12!!!