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I think we've been had (startrek.website)

submitted 8 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This is true only in the vaguest sense.

"Europe" didn't invent the term soccer. A specific group of people in England did.
Those people were upper class posh boys, the same ones who call rugby "rugger". They are not the people who support football today or made football what it is around the world.
If you can't tell, it's an obvious nickname for something. The equivalent of one nation deciding to exclusively call basketball "shootin' hoops".

[–] ashok36@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

"Hoops" is an objectively better name for the sport ever since we got rid of the baskets.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

why did you have to ruin my funny with logic and reason?

jokes aside i realize it's a little more complex than i let on, but it's the same spirit as the original post so meh.