349
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

Imagine if the us switched to calling soccer football. What would the us call American football then? It would be weird to call it American football in America

[-] Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Rugby for cowards

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Gridiron it's a much cooler name anyway

[-] Elkot@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago
[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Handball is already a sport, albeit more an "in the park with your friends" kind of thing than "arenas and shit lol."

[-] Slovene@feddit.nl 1 points 2 months ago
[-] ziggurat@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago
[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

But then what would they call rugby which is also played with a prolate spheroid called a “ball” which can be carried in the hand or kicked?

Canadian and American football are descendants of rugby.

[-] ngdev@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

probably just keep calling it rugby

[-] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

But America also has rugby leagues. Rugby is not a foreign concept to most Americans.

[-] ziggurat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

If you hate the word handegg, then maybe call it American Rugby, instead of American Football

[-] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

But we don't call it American football. We just call it football.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

American Football is already taken anyway, great band.

[-] bitchkat@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

American gridiron football.

[-] Serpent@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago
[-] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 4 points 2 months ago

Gridiron football

Pitch football

[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 3 points 2 months ago

Helmet handball.

[-] tonywu@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago
this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2025
349 points (98.1% liked)

Star Wars Memes

13440 readers
39 users here now

Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.

==========

Other universes to visit:

!lotrmemes@midwest.social

!tenforward@lemmy.world

Separatist systems:

!prequelmemes@lemmy.world

Oh hey some real SW content for a change (perhaps):

!star_wars@lemmy.world

!starwars@lemmy.ml

!starwarstelevision@lemmy.world

==========

IMPORTANT

Please do not post the "good friend" or similar copypasta

==========

Our galactic citizens have requested more specific rules, so here are a few.

The general idea is, if you're looking here for rules, you're probably someone who doesn't need to have them spelled out. You're fine. But anyway:

  1. This is a community for Star Wars memes. This means typically screenshots of Star Wars media with some text or context that's meant to be funny and/or thoughtful. All SW media is welcome: movies, games, comic books, fanart... Other kinds of content, like video links or meta memes (about this community, or Lemmy), are fine as well, just keep it on topic.

  2. We are all friends here, and love (sometimes love to hate) Star Wars. Be nice to each other.

  3. As fans of fictional media, we can be passionate. If you very strongly disagree with something or someone, take a deep breath before reacting. Anger leads to the dark side!

  4. Everything in Star Wars has happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far away, and it's a rich universe of millions of words and millions of years of history. So current Earthly matters really shouldn't concern us here. In other words, leave politics, philosophies and convictions behind the door. This applies even if it's about something related to Star Wars.

  5. Original content is preferred. Reposts are fine, just please limit to a maximum of 3 per day, per citizen. It is recommended, but not required, to mark original memes as (OC) and reposts as (repost).

  6. Local mods are the Jedi council. They may take actions that are necessary to maintain peace and stability of the Republic, even beyond the rules outlined here. Follow their guidance.

  7. Regular rules of the Lemmy.world instance apply.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS