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Some British soccer team uses Macs and everyone wants me to know

Started by fakestevejobs · 5 months ago

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46 comments

  • Kris

    5 months ago

    Sad blogger - quick bit of research via wikipedia and you would have lifted yourself from ignorance - if you are blogging to the world it does help
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  • le poisson

    5 months ago

    I've heard it said that it takes leather balls to play rugby.
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  • mikeperry

    5 months ago

    The game in question is Rugby Union, not soccer, you uneducated design freak ;-)

    Plus *real* men play Rugby - MMA star appreciates hard men of rugby - http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/sport/garethdavies...
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  • Stuart Willard

    5 months ago

    Difficult to know where the supposed ignorance of SJ and the actual ignorance of Secret SJ cross here.
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  • anon

    5 months ago

    No it's not. Really, it's not.
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  • nickpt

    5 months ago

    Bad fsj.

    One only talks about graceless rugby when referring to English Rugby.
    Welsh rugby is passion, fluid and full of flair.

    Ta for highlighting our Grand Slam success...
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  • Keith

    5 months ago

    I don't know what made me laugh the most, the article or the sense of humour donors who replied.
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  • bryce

    5 months ago

    Snitty apple polishers like Keith are what make me laugh.
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  • woz

    5 months ago

    Actually, these are the commentators at my recent Segway polo match in Sydney.
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  • ceedoubleu

    5 months ago

    80 minutes and the windoze machine still hasn't booted up.
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  • anon

    5 months ago

    They would have won sooner but:
    Taff: "how do we win the grand slam blodwyn?"
    Blodwyn: "you need a Mac"
    Taff: "okay boy-o, but what if it's not raining? Do I still need to wear it?"
    (Repeat each year until, etc.)
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  • Phelim

    5 months ago

    I know it's probably been said and i know Daniel likes to make lots of factual errors for us to laugh about etc. but seriously....it's not soccer/football it is the mind-numbingly boring and ridiculously dangerous game that is, unfortunately, rugby (your American football).

    To Nick, "Welsh rugby is passion, fluid and full of flair." The Welsh have a passion for blood do they? I always knew it.... :D
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  • nickpt

    5 months ago

    Come on Phlem, don't be silly now, of course rugby is violent but it is kept on the pitch as opposed to the wendyball playing soccer/footballers who get their fans to do their talking.

    Mines a pint of Rhesus Negative.
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  • Rachel

    5 months ago

    OK, you now know you will never, ever be welcome in Wales? I'd love to see a rugby team take on your 'world champions' of American football and beat them out of the park. Even the local county team, never mind one of the national teams. Rugby is you football without the protection and a far more fascinating game to watch.

    And with reference to soccer - most other countries do refer to it as football, soccer is a poor substitute.

    Whilst you can wind us up over your attitude to mac vs PC, just don't touch the beautiful game, you'll always be in the minority.
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  • Michael

    5 months ago

    It's the Welsh RUGBY team. Footballers aren't cool enough for Apple.

    Remember the Red Dragon on a field of green
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  • oakling

    5 months ago

    Who knew this crowd would turn out to be so passionate about sports?
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  • Aaron

    5 months ago

    here is some more love for the air
    http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2008/03/18/char...
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  • M

    5 months ago

    We call it football as apposed to "soccer" because the game is played mostly with your feet in contact with the ball. Unlike American football in which players pick up the ball and run with it. It makes a lot more sense when you actually use your brain and think about it :-)
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  • Soccer Database

    3 months ago

    So what is the connection of the game Soccer to MAC? For what reason their using it? Does it help their player to win over the game?
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  • Anthony D

    5 months ago

    Usually winning the "Six Nations Rugby Championship" involves playing Rugby...
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  • simon

    5 months ago

    thanks for the laughs commentards
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  • Film izle

    5 months ago

    ehehe :) great post thanx.
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  • GimliNZ

    5 months ago

    Of course it took a New Zealand coach (Back row, centre) and Apple hardware to help them actually win the championship!!
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  • BigAl

    5 months ago

    Maybe New Zealand should try a Welsh coach for the next World Cup - they've tried everything else ;-)
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  • maxliving

    5 months ago

    I love that now we can vote down the commentards. Where was this feature when we need it (during the FSJ shutdown drama)?
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  • Symbiantard

    5 months ago

    You got it wrong. Vote up the commentards, not down. Make my day funnier, not more gloomy.
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  • steveballmer

    5 months ago

    I'll bet anything that this team has won 0 games!
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  • Phelim

    5 months ago

    the whole point of this is that they did win. im not Welsh im just not stupid
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  • Paul

    5 months ago

    "your mindless, graceless headbanging sport"

    You must've been watching New Zealand play not the home nations.
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  • nef

    5 months ago

    The blog is written 'in character' of course.
    What would SJ know about rugby?

    (daft game anyway if you ask me, unlike, say, cricket)
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  • Ryan

    5 months ago

    Rugby has nothing on American Football.

    Show me something comparable to the poetry in motion that is a Brady-Moss hookup. You can't.

    Fookin slags.
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  • Phelim

    5 months ago

    you want something comparable? how about some real poetry:

    Death is nothing at all,
    I have only slipped away into the next room.
    Whatever we were to each, that we are still.
    Call me by my old familiar name.
    Speak to me in the easy way which you always used.

    Laugh as we always laughed
    at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
    Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me.
    Let my name be the household word it always was.
    Let it be spoken without effort.
    Life means all that it ever meant.
    It is the same as it ever was;
    there is absolutely unbroken continuity.
    Why should I be out of your mind
    because I am out of your sight?
    I am but waiting for you, for an interval,
    somewhere very near just around the corner...
    All is well.
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  • Hywel

    5 months ago

    Haha. If this was anyone but Fake Steve, I'd be completely offended. Commentards indeed.

    http://homepage.mac.com/hywel.thomas/bendigedig...
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  • Nick

    5 months ago

    I feel this urge to educate you (you didn't vote for Bush did you?)

    The esteemed gentlemen in the photo are the coaching team for the Wales RUGBY Team not (spit) soccer. ;o)

    Wales is a Principality adjacent to and Governed by England having been invaded back in the 15th Century. King Henry VII (father of King Henry VIII) of England was actually Welsh.

    You really are determined to show you countrymen in a poor light aren't you!
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  • Dobby

    5 months ago

    Nick, Nick -- I thought you Brits prided yourself on your irony-skills. And yet you fell for the flametard troll!

    For all you n00bs out there, FSJ always makes a point of inserting lots of geographical/linguistic/cultural "mistakes" into his posts. This always provides much entertainment in the Comments section, as a surfeit of outraged euros rush to correct the mistakes, usually with a large dose of smug anti-American comments sprinkled in. Good Times!
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  • nickpt

    5 months ago

    Dobby, Dobby .... thanks for pointing that out to us thickos from over the pond. I have been reading FSJ for some time now and had you not mentioned irony I might well have not picked up on it .... you tool.

    I like this from Martin Johnson of the Telegraph ... "When you hear thousands of people belting out: "feed me till I want no more" you can only be in one of two places. Waiting for the ninth course at an American restaurant, or inside a rugby union stadium watching Wales heading for victory."

    nice bit of yank bashing...
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  • sean

    5 months ago

    Or the nightly susurration of a million Welshmen dreaming of servicing their sheep.
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  • nickpt

    5 months ago

    Sean thats a baaaaare faced lie and you mutton do it again.
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  • tommy

    5 months ago

    Oh my god...if anyone form Wales is reading this blog, you're in deep trouble : )
    Never take rugby for soccer and, 1 million times worse, Wales for England. It's like if you said to a mexican playing soccer that he's a spanish playing american football!
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  • Gazmaz

    5 months ago

    I have seen this image with lots of different Welsh coaches over the past, why weren't you made aware then. ?
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  • trex67

    5 months ago

    Who are ed and shurely? Ex-convicts?
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  • yo

    5 months ago

    This blog used to rock. Now it sucks.
    Daniel, please euthanize it! Don't let your interns write the posts!
    Don't let the brilliant FSJ become the equivalent of a fat, grumpy old man.
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  • Richard Earney

    5 months ago

    They use ProZone game analysis software which is only available from on one true platform.

    And it is rugby - like American Football but played by proper sportsmen and women.
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  • Anthony D

    5 months ago

    Indeed like American Football. Without all the protective gear :)
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  • richardmnixon

    5 months ago

    You know when you can consider yourself a success, Jobso? When people stop being amazed to spot a Mac user. "Oh, look! A Scientologist! Where's my camera?"
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  • acap.

    5 months ago

    Does Apple also sell some little usb-dust-suckers (usb-vakuum-cleaners)?!?
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