American to British Translation needed

Not to mention:

• Baseball = Rounders
• Basketball = Netball
• Ice Hockey = Just plain silly

daryl1968

SteveStrummerUK


Not to mention:

• Baseball = Rounders
• Basketball = Netball
• Ice Hockey = Just plain silly

and the first 2 are only played by birds in blighty

 
Very true Daryl
 
 
And I almost forgot: 10-pin Bowling = (poor man's) Skittles
 
 
 

football is also rugby football and the AFL...i suppose they all have some kicking in them...unlike handball which has no kicking...and dodgeball has no cars... confused i Am

daryl1968


Why do you call it Football? The game is predominantly used with the hands and the ball is mainly thrown not kicked
 
 
 

Oh man, not the F-word again, Wookiee ........................................................

A quick history lesson for those of (obvious) lesser education from the UK.  (Evidentally, most of the public school funding goes to buy new bonnets for your Queen, eh?  )

Anyway, everything we do here in America is based on one simple, little principal:  Will it piss off the Brits?

Got it?  Good.

School's out.

SteveStrummerUK


Not to mention:

• Baseball = Rounders
• Basketball = Netball
• Ice Hockey = Just plain silly

Hey there, Hockey rules! 


Well, it used to. 


Nowadays, I guess you're right, it's as lame as, baseball and basketball - mostly a bunch of kids piling up millions before they even accomplish anything and rarely doing more in their career than parading a variety of jerseys for a bunch of teams, indifferently.


What's left? 

craigb


A quick history lesson for those of (obvious) lesser education from the UK.  (Evidentally, most of the public school funding goes to buy new bonnets for your Queen, eh?  )

Anyway, everything we do here in America is based on one simple, little principal:  Will it piss off the Brits?

Got it?  Good.

School's out.

That explains the immigration paperwork every 2 years

bitflipper

Ice Hockey = Just plain silly

Wait a minute, we're not taking the rap for hockey! That's the neighbors neighbours next door.

Don't make me mention cricket.

:)

We call it football for obvious reasons.


Because we can.

Because that's what it's called.

Because kicking is an integral part of the game.

Because for some unknown reason other people get their panties all in a wad over it, and we enjoy that.

Because other people call their game "football" even though they also hit the ball with their heads. (Apparently they sometimes get their heads and feet confused, but I suppose this is understandable in some cases.)

daryl1968


How can it be called the world series when there are no other countries taking part?

What is the American translation for this "other countries" you speak of?

......at the end of the Superduper Bowl, the announcer said 'and the world champions are the New York Giants'

How can they be world champions? Last time I looked New York was a city.

bitflipper

Ice Hockey = Just plain silly

Wait a minute, we're not taking the rap for hockey! That's the neighbors neighbours next door.

Don't make me mention cricket.

THE LAWS OF CRICKET

• You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.
  
• Each man that’s in the side that’s in goes out, and when he’s out he comes in and the next man goes in until he’s out.
  
• When they are all out, the side that’s out comes in and the side that’s been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out.
  
• Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
  
• When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in.
  
• There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.
  
• When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!
  

 
Simples!!

And what the heck is "curling" ? 

Nothing I see about that is curled.   

Isn't that thing they slide down the ice called a STONE..... so it should be called "Stoning" .... but then it might be mistaken for a middle eastern sport.... I'm so confused.... 

daryl1968


...........and what is the 'World series of baseball' all about?
How can it be called the world series when there are no other countries taking part?

As I recall, there are a couple of Major League Baseball teams from Canada.  Do they count as being from another country?

How can it be called the world series when there are no other countries taking part?

Three reasons. First, we do invite Canadians. Some of them even drive down if it's not too far and they can take a chance on a couple days without health insurance. Second, the vast majority of our players come from Central America, and a few from Japan. Third, most involve at least one of the teams that are based in New England. So there.