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26th June 2014, 11:51 AM | #1 |
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America's interest in soccer a sign of moral decay/Ann Coulter
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26th June 2014, 12:01 PM | #2 |
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AC had one decent point maybe- my great grandfather (well, 3 of 4) were born in the USA and I have yet to watch any of the
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26th June 2014, 12:10 PM | #3 |
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It appears that she is trying to convince us that she knows little about football, soccer, baseball, basketball, hockey, African-Americans, the French, the metric system. The cherry on top is that soccer and immigrants suck because they are somehow connected.
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26th June 2014, 12:10 PM | #4 |
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Can't click that link, it'll make me feel dirty. Cliff's?
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26th June 2014, 12:34 PM | #5 |
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Other than that it's it a lot of Ethnocentric stereotypes about why American sports (American Football, Basketball, Baseball) are better. She even complains that the restriction of not using your hands (in a game called Football) makes it less challenging. I'm about as American as can be (although only one of my great-grandparents was born in the US) and I was raised on I remember 4 years ago, I would actually leave the TAM lectures to go downstairs to the sports book in order to watch the games. Heck I even bet on my favorite (Spain) and won a few bucks. Unfortunately, my team is not doing so well this year. |
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26th June 2014, 12:35 PM | #6 |
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26th June 2014, 01:53 PM | #7 |
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Why should anyone care what the xenophobic old hag has to say?
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26th June 2014, 01:59 PM | #8 |
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26th June 2014, 02:27 PM | #10 |
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26th June 2014, 02:39 PM | #11 |
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This column is proof positive that Ann Coulter doesn't believe a word she says, and she's been grifting the rubes with her faux outrageous silliness all along.
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26th June 2014, 02:46 PM | #12 |
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To be fair, almost everyone talks ***** about football. Listen to any phone-in; if your ears aren't bleeding after 30 seconds, there's something wrong with you.
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26th June 2014, 03:30 PM | #13 |
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26th June 2014, 03:47 PM | #14 |
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26th June 2014, 04:12 PM | #15 |
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26th June 2014, 04:14 PM | #16 |
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I quite like Ann Coulter. She's funny.
Problems only begin when people (either supporters or detractors) take her seriously. |
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26th June 2014, 05:18 PM | #17 |
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Come on, people. This is a decade in the making! I admire her for resisting so long the intense pressure she's been under to write about sports.
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26th June 2014, 05:45 PM | #18 |
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26th June 2014, 05:53 PM | #19 |
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To paraphrase American radio jock Don Imus, you have to admire Ann Coulter. She's created a career for herself as blogger, pundit and TV talking head despite having absolutely no discernible talent.
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26th June 2014, 07:17 PM | #20 |
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She's very obviously trolling. And not very well, either.
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26th June 2014, 08:46 PM | #21 |
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America's interest in soccer a sign of moral decay, support of socialism
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26th June 2014, 08:49 PM | #22 |
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26th June 2014, 08:53 PM | #23 |
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Shoot, this thread was created while I was writing the other one.
Good on moving it so quick everyone! |
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26th June 2014, 11:38 PM | #24 |
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Further proof that the Founding Fathers were a bunch of pinkos!
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27th June 2014, 12:15 AM | #25 |
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Why has my accurate title regarding this sport been altered to that abomination of a name?
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27th June 2014, 12:48 AM | #26 |
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Your original title said 'Euro commie fag-ball'?
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27th June 2014, 01:06 AM | #27 |
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27th June 2014, 01:13 AM | #29 |
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By the way can someone explain me what is exactly the technical prowess which individual player are showing in american egg-hand ? Controlling a ball with a foot is far more difficult than throwing stuff around with your hands.
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27th June 2014, 01:25 AM | #30 |
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Why do you say she is not trolling very well. She has chosen a very specific segment of the population and has gotten virtually all of those people to believe she is serious. I would call that successful trolling.
After all, she has written more than one book that reached the number one position on the New York Times non-fiction bestseller list. Shouldn't that be evidence of successful trolling? |
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27th June 2014, 02:43 AM | #31 |
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27th June 2014, 05:05 AM | #32 |
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As much as I don't give a crap about soccer, I find American football even worse, as it somehow manages to make violence boring.
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27th June 2014, 05:27 AM | #33 |
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27th June 2014, 07:07 AM | #35 |
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27th June 2014, 07:45 AM | #38 |
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Does Ann Coulter lie awake at nights wondering what is the most asinine thing she can say the next day? Talk about an attention whore! As to her assertion there are no stars in soccer, what does think Brandi Chastain was? Or does she dismiss the young woman because she took her shirt off?
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27th June 2014, 07:57 AM | #39 |
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I can find the center of a 5' - 9 5/16" board quick. In metric you have to actual math, introducing an additional source of error and operator fatigue that makes itself worse over a long day. America was headed toward metric adoption but then Reagan (spit!) was elected. |
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Hmmm. You realize you can as well divide by two easily in the metric system ?
Just because it is 5' 9'' it is not easier to divide by two than 59 cm... In fact I hold it is harder. What is half 5' 9'' It is 2.5' + 4.5'' ? I can do easily 59 cm within second : it is 29.5. |
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