USA vs Scotland football match.

[Weeto]

Says the man from the only first world country in the world that has not adopted Metric yet.
and puts Months in front of Days when writing dates

actually given the popularity of HandEgg and Basketball its kinda strange that Handball is not huge in the US

Actually, the UK doesn't fully use metric either.

People still tend to talk about their height and weight in Imperial measurements. I would tend to say that I'm 5'8" and 16 stone in weight (stones are 14lbs each) which is 224lbs rather than 170cm and 103kg or whatever. Miles are also favoured over km too. Almost everything else is metric though.

[K-DoG7p7]

Actually, the UK doesn't fully use metric either.

People still tend to talk about their height and weight in Imperial measurements. I would tend to say that I'm 5'8" and 16 stone in weight (stones are 14lbs each) which is 224lbs rather than 170cm and 103kg or whatever. Miles are also favoured over km too. Almost everything else is metric though.

but thats only because the Metrication in the UK has been a long drawn out process.. All of the UK is officially metric now
the only "official" thing left to change is the roadsigns

[Weeto]

Up until 1971 our money was pretty strange. We had pounds (£), shillings (-/) and pence (d) and there were twelve pence in a shilling and twenty shillings in a pound. It confused the hell out of everyone who didn't come from a Commonwealth country that had used the system.

[K-DoG7p7]

The woman singing the US anthem is f@&£ing awful!

yeah its gone viral (in as much that i didn't go looking for this video on youtube .. it found me)

[Weeto]

yeah its gone viral (in as much that i didn't go looking for this video on youtube .. it found me)

YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G2dYaAEO0g

The UK did terribly at the Eurovision Song Contest (second last with Engelbert Humperdink singing) but he would have beat that American singer by a mile.

[K-DoG7p7]

second last is better then last

[zemo]

The UK did terribly at the Eurovision Song Contest (second last with Engelbert Humperdink singing) but he would have beat that American singer by a mile.

Let's be fair, that anthem is actually quite a hard piece to sing. And she could enver be worse than Roseanna Barr when she did it.

[Lester C.]

Have any of you guys heard of Hurling? Ken Bruen describes it as a cross between Hockey and Murder so I'm very interested all of a sudden.

[Weeto]

Have any of you guys heard of Hurling? Ken Bruen describes it as a cross between Hockey and Murder so I'm very interested all of a sudden.

I've watched a bit of hurling over the years. It is massive in Ireland along with gaelic football and Scotland play Ireland every year at a mixed shinty / hurling match or series while the Austraians play Ireland in a series at Australian football / gaelic football..

Hurling is less like field hockey than shinty and is a little more like lacrosse at times as the ball is held up on the hurley although there are also features of hockey and shinty present.

Shinty and hurling are closely related as shinty is apparently descended from an early form of hurling, which took off in a different direction from the Irish game.

[K-DoG7p7]

Shinty and hurling are closely related as shinty is apparently descended from an early form of hurling, which took off in a different direction from the Irish game.

In the same way that Football, Rugby and HandEgg all come from the same sport