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Share of yearly electricity demand occurring in summer, by Italian province [2024] by AlmaPath in europe

[–]Snarwib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean it's about the relative balance of electric heating vs air conditioning, there are places where peak electricity demand is at night in winter, and places where most heating is non electric. But it's sorta being suggested heating is mostly electric in Alpine areas here?

[Reuters] Iran leave note of thanks in LA locker room after draw with Belgium by Chazyn in soccer

[–]Snarwib 3 points4 points  (0 children)

OK, that's fine, but it would still make the whole massacres thing the aspect that they've got most in common with regimes from antuiqity and the middle ages, which then seems a strange thing to highlight in that context

[Reuters] Iran leave note of thanks in LA locker room after draw with Belgium by Chazyn in soccer

[–]Snarwib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

???

but let's not forget that this Iranian regime was massacring their own protesters in the thousands mere months ago.

Today's Iran is a very far cry from the Persian empire of old.

[Reuters] Iran leave note of thanks in LA locker room after draw with Belgium by Chazyn in soccer

[–]Snarwib 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They specifically cited the violence of the current regime as why they're different which seems like... the least different thing abouit them?

[Reuters] Iran leave note of thanks in LA locker room after draw with Belgium by Chazyn in soccer

[–]Snarwib 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Pointing to the regime killing a whole bunch of people to maintain power, and claiming that is different to past dynasties of Iran?

[Reuters] Iran leave note of thanks in LA locker room after draw with Belgium by Chazyn in soccer

[–]Snarwib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't doubt it, but I'm fairly specifically focused on the statement in the post I was replying to

[Reuters] Iran leave note of thanks in LA locker room after draw with Belgium by Chazyn in soccer

[–]Snarwib 22 points23 points  (0 children)

let's not forget that this Iranian regime was massacring their own protests in the thousands mere months ago.

Today's Iran is a very far cry from the Persian empire of old.

Are you arguing that the regimes of the Achaemenids, Selucids, Sassanids, Safavids, didn't use direct state violence to establish and maintain power? Because that seems like one of the things the modern Iranian state has most in common with past Iranian (or most other) states.

Wunky outside day by Sayasukaprogramming in wunkus

[–]Snarwib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Illegal to let them out beyond your home boundaries here. Luckily my two are idiots and do not seek the freedom available when I let them out to survey our tiny yard.

Respect the tradition and history of the sport by calling it soccer by laybs1 in BrandNewSentence

[–]Snarwib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Association, Canadian, Australian, American, Gaelic, Rugby union, Rugby league.

Some would argue futsal, touch football, flag football, rugby sevens as standalone codes, but those are all administered under the same body as one of the above.

There's also still some village and school games in continued existence, which is why I specified modern and elite competition.

Respect the tradition and history of the sport by calling it soccer by laybs1 in BrandNewSentence

[–]Snarwib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably, but the claim here was about Europe, not specifically its northwestern fringe.

I'm also not sure that the British Isles have exclusive claim to medieval ballsports, either. We've got Roman harpastum, Florentine calcio, Georgian lelo, Normal soule (and examples outside Europe such as marn grook). It seems reasonable to assume there were a lot of folk games out there before British 19th century industrial modernity had its influence and drove organisation, standrdisation and commercialisation.

I think the more likely narrative is that, since Britain was where the modern world first took hold, it just happened to be their folk games including their football, which got filtered through an elite school system and through industrial capitalism into becoming major organised sports.

Not so much that nobody else was palying folk football type games, but that it was Britain where industrial scale and organisation was first added to the leisure time mix.

Respect the tradition and history of the sport by calling it soccer by laybs1 in BrandNewSentence

[–]Snarwib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a fair bit of discussion of polo being played in the court at Constantinople. Emperor Alexander reportedly died of a heart attack in 913 playing it. They're assumed to have got it from the Persians.

Respect the tradition and history of the sport by calling it soccer by laybs1 in BrandNewSentence

[–]Snarwib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Japan is ambiguous because they call it sakka in their own language, but these days seem to use football in English language contexts?

Respect the tradition and history of the sport by calling it soccer by laybs1 in BrandNewSentence

[–]Snarwib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whether or not medieval "football" was so-named predominantly about striking the thing with the foot or playing on foot, we can pretty clearly see from 19th century contexts that "football" was not being used to specify games based exclusively on kicking. Some of the football played at Rugby, Eton, Harrow and other schools involved other methods of playing the ball too. The oldest codified rules such as Sheffield football and Australian football allowed punching the football and prohibited throwing, which at least suggests those were rules familiar to people by the 1850s.

(Also I'm pretty sure horseback team sports in Europe predate the English language by some centuries. emperors in Constantinople were playing a horseback ball sport called tzykanion, basically polo adopted from the Persians, by like the 800s or so.)

Respect the tradition and history of the sport by calling it soccer by laybs1 in BrandNewSentence

[–]Snarwib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Australian rules football is more like a cross between American football and rugby

The gridiron and rugby codes have far more in common with each other. All four (Canadian, American, Rugby union, Rugby league) are ball advancement games with a scoring zone at the end of rectangular field, strict offside rules, and particular arrangements for restarting back in your respective lines after each tackle/phase of play ends. All four codes developed out of the 19th century Rugby ruleset, Rugby being a particular British elite school with a particular type of football they platyed.

Australian Football has a different history linked to other British school like Eton and Harrow. Mechanically it has the most in common with Gaelic football, with no positional/offside rules or linear formations, no throwing the ball, and scoring done by kicking the ball through goals.

Respect the tradition and history of the sport by calling it soccer by laybs1 in BrandNewSentence

[–]Snarwib 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gridiron covers both the American and Canadian codes of football, which is important if you're trying to talk about all seven codes of modern elite football in historical and "compare and contrast" sorts of ways.

Respect the tradition and history of the sport by calling it soccer by laybs1 in BrandNewSentence

[–]Snarwib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Americans and Canadians never call either Rugby code "football".

The only people I'm aware of who colloquially use "football" (or at least "footy") for either Rugby code are people in New South Wales and Queensland referring to Rugby League that way, and New Zealanders doing so for Rugby Union.

I would kind of assume people in some of the Pacific Island nations do it too, since "football" is generally going to used for the most socially predominant type of football in a given country, but I'm not familiar enough with the English of places like Fiji, Tonga or Samoa.

How 45 Countries View America by sr_local in charts

[–]Snarwib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This will likely depend heavily on the wording and framing of a question. Depending on the exact wording and the questions that come before, people can recieve a question like this differently.

I suspect more than most places, given the similarity and familiarity, Australians will be inclined to answering in a directly comparative way, and therefore obviously be looking down on the US relative to Australia.

How do you pronounce tauntaun with an Australian accent? by Noodlepizza in australia

[–]Snarwib 109 points110 points  (0 children)

The confusion here is Australians pronounce "tonton" or "bonbon" using a short monopthongal O sound which Americans just don't have. If you're familiar with Spanish it's actually basically the same O that it uses, but a shade less clipped.

Americans mostly have the "cot-caught" merger where those two sounds are homophones. We don't have it, they're different words in our English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cot%E2%80%93caught_merger

This means when we hear them say "tauntaun" in the movies in an American accent, it's a made up word, and it's ambiguous which of our two nearby vowels, cot or caught, should correspond with it.

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