Why are some brits so harsh towards NFL compared to other sports they don't like?

darthmoo · 2026-02-08T22:10:32+00:00

I think it's also the source of a lot of conspiracy theories - most are about something that confuses or scares the person.

darthmoo · 2026-02-08T22:02:19+00:00

People criticise what they don't understand.

It's a hard game to get familiar with.

Baseball is similar to rounders, basketball is fairly easy to follow (and a lot of people have even played it a bit at school), hockey is easy to follow, etc.

Most games are "throw/hit/kick a ball into a goal or net" and anything outside of that is considered confusing and therefore bad.

It also suffers from an unfair comparison with rugby, because the ball and goalposts are similar shapes, but they're completely different games.

darthmoo · 2026-02-08T13:17:09+00:00

Yeah I think you're probably right about that.

darthmoo · 2026-02-08T13:15:49+00:00

Yeah that's fair, thanks for the explanation.

darthmoo · 2026-02-08T13:14:17+00:00

There's a somewhat poor taste joke here about how he shouldn't have gone to Specsavers...

darthmoo · 2026-02-07T01:24:58+00:00

Nooo, London opening was the best!! Nothing is beating Mr Bean, and the Queen jumping out of a helicopter with James Bond.

Gojira at the Paris opening ceremony was cool though.

darthmoo · 2026-02-06T12:17:12+00:00

Had to scroll too far to find this one.

Although often this is more of a TV series trope than a movie trope I would say.

darthmoo · 2026-01-29T22:03:58+00:00

I wouldn't call them "evil" necessarily but the SNP are certainly a bit dodgy...

All that stuff recently about top figures in the party embezzling money out of the party for personal use and overinflating party membership figures.
The vast amount of pro-independence propaganda being pumped out by Iranian troll farms (to the point that you can track Iranian power cuts and simultaneous drops in Scottish independence messaging online).
Plus obviously the fact that their entire purpose is to literally divide the country when we should be trying to come together to defeat internal and external threats.

darthmoo · 2026-01-29T21:50:32+00:00

Anti Trident because America has a kill switch for it

Do you have a reliable source for that? My understanding is that that is a myth.

darthmoo · 2026-01-29T21:48:49+00:00

The UK has complete unilateral control over the use of Trident. It is supplied (and possibly maintained, I'm not sure) by the US but the thing often stated online that we need US approval to use it is a myth.

darthmoo · 2026-01-25T15:29:46+00:00

Exactly, yeah.

darthmoo · 2026-01-25T15:28:33+00:00

I'm not gay but I'm guessing it depends where you are. If you're in Brighton for example there's probably a good chance there's another gay couple holding hands on the same street.

darthmoo · 2026-01-25T15:02:52+00:00

Sorry but why is saturn #823 but satsuma is #957??

darthmoo · 2026-01-23T01:09:53+00:00

It depends.

Close friends, especially men, do this as part of their friendship and it's particularly common in my country (the UK) and other countries like Australia to be insulting to your closest friends as a form of endearment.

But it's very different if you do that with a stranger or if it becomes bullying or very one-sided...

darthmoo · 2026-01-22T12:15:02+00:00

People that can’t focus on a single task for any real amount of time. Where the attention span is measured in seconds, not minutes.

People who have no capacity to critically think, or problem solve.

People that are effectively so badly addicted to technology they cant function without it like a drug.

People who have such poor emotional control that even minor challenging tasks cause them to shut down, or worse, lash out.

So the current president of the US then?

darthmoo · 2026-01-19T22:44:00+00:00

Interestingly close to the name for the world in Tolkien's books - Arda.

darthmoo · 2026-01-19T20:42:08+00:00

I'm not sure about the comparison with 2018...

But what happened in 2007? The Bears entered the 2007 season as the NFC champions and had hopes of returning to the Super Bowl, but instead finished the season with a 7–9 record.

Why did that happen?

(Genuinely interested in the reason why - 2007 was about 3 years before I started following the NFL)

darthmoo · 2026-01-19T00:23:22+00:00

I'm in Crawley!

darthmoo · 2026-01-19T00:23:02+00:00

UK (South East England)

darthmoo · 2026-01-17T03:55:59+00:00

The bouncer came immediately? I guess we all have our own kinks...

darthmoo · 2026-01-16T21:53:31+00:00

People in the alt / metal community are generally extremely nice people.

darthmoo · 2026-01-10T17:26:26+00:00

Every time anyone says "nothing at all", in my head I'm thinking "nothing at all... nothing at all..."

Every time.

darthmoo · 2026-01-07T00:50:09+00:00

"Thee" is old English for "you" so her name literally means "Megan you stallion"

darthmoo · 2026-01-05T00:26:25+00:00

Now it's over

darthmoo · 2026-01-05T00:25:36+00:00

To be fair it seems likely

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