What are the TV series you're enjoying, current or past?

and also, what's wrong with passing forwards? I think that's a great benefit to the game.
RE:

 

Ha, my team Leeds is playing your lot tonight. A win will leapfrog us over Arsenal before we play them on Sunday.

 

American football fans


Rugby fans

Spoiler

In England you could tell if someone's posh or not by if they watch rugby or football.

American football's a game for the people while rugby's a game to flaunt your social class.

 

Regularly or just occasionally?
Rugby is a dangerous game too but we went the route of outlawing the most dangerous aspects of the game like neck tackles or the spear tackle where you lift the player off his feet and drop him on his head.
I winced last night when I saw a player grab a man's helmet grill and pull him to the ground. I'd be interested to see the statistics for serious injuries comparing the two games.
Sometimes trying to nerf a sport with protective equipment just makes things worse.

 

They do say soccer is a gentleman's sport played by hooligans but rugby is a hooligan's game played by gentlemen.
I'm not a toff by a long shot but I'd sooner play or watch rugby any day of the week. It's just a more entertaining sport and it doesn't have any of that dying swan dramatics anytime a player comes within 6 foot of another. Bloody pansies.

 

In 2017, 13 players died. None in the NFL. 9 in High School. 4 in college.
Between 2015 and 2017, 42.
Can you imagine, before protective equipment?
I couldn't find this info, though, in my Google search. I did find the information that many of the ones who died, were deemed to have died due to faulty equipment. Therefore, one concludes that the non-faulty equipment does protect.

 

You mean football, no one here calls it soccer.
Just saying/with that out of the way...

Does not compute.
lol, sorry, but, you saying that makes you posh.

I bet you're all like
"I'm going to Twickenham this weekend"

 

An interesting article comparing the two games. Inconclusive due to the differences in the game but the Canadian writer came to the conclusion that he'd rather his kids played rugby than football. Partially due to the fact a helmet makes the players more reckless in tackles.

https://www.thesportsgeek.com/blog/rugby-football-more-dangerous-989/

 

I have to call it soccer or it confuses our American cousins who insist on calling their game football despite the fact they almost never kick the ball in open play.

I think you may be confusing being posh with having class and us rugby fans call it Twickers.

 

Twickers eh?
Sounds posh to me.

Going to Twickers.

 

America has the Super Bowl, England has the FA Cup.
That's how I see it.

 

I found one article from 2008 claiming there have only been 71 deaths in 110 years of playing rugby and another from 2013 saying there had been 12 in the last decade. Most from broken necks and head injuries.
I suspect that a lot more people play rugby around the world due to it being a truly international sport but it's hard to prove that rugby is less lethal due to the differences in the game or the lack of protective equipment especially helmets.

 

Actually I liked it better than the first episode, or at least it had a few more funny scenes, so I've decided to stick with it.

 

No joke. A pick up truck pool is a real thing in Florida.

 

When did Florida become the new New Jersey?

 

Sometime in the late 80's or 90's; when the nation's kooks stopped heading to California and started moving to Florida.

 

I liked the third episode, but more the earlier part (when it seemed they'd, finally, decided to make it farcical & funny) than the later part (which reverted to serious scenes). The two styles often don't live well, side by side. Did you notice it keep shifting between almost tongue-in-cheek scenes to stuff that was bone-dry dramatic? Though I like the lighter, comedic scenes, they detract, for me, from my ability to take the other parts seriously; kind of like when a lightweight comedy series tries to do an episode about some "serious" issue, like childhood cancer.

For this show, though, I think the problem is that I don't connect the two variants of each character. To give an example, I was receptive & sympathetic to the nurse's story in the first episode. And I can imagine getting to know the character better, through either a fairly dramatic millieu, seasoned with bits of intrigue, excitement, & dark humor; or in a quirky, comical, farce. But when it cuts from the latter to, say, scenes that try to fill in her back story (about the baby she gave up, or her & the bar maid's earlier years), the connections just get cut, and so it's like I'm seeing a new character. The problem is that those scenes are not strong enough, on their own, to interest me in the character; they seem to be relying on that bonding that occurred in the lighter scenes, which doesn't carry over for me. Can you see what I mean?

 

I still say the best tv series ever was Kung Fu, NOT the sequel which bit the big one (though it did have David Carradine and they tried) but the original. An Eastern Western and the only Western ever which even tried to show how truly ethnic the Olde West actually was going by all accounts. Also, it wasn't about gunplay but showed better than any other show how the kind of gunplay seen in the 19th century was really the highest development of mano a mano combat with guns that ever was

I'd love to see a remake and what does anyone think of my variant, where Caine or an analogue is in AUSTRALIA?

 

I watched the old Kung Fu series and liked it. I'm not aware of an Australian analogue.

 

There wasn't any, I'm pitching it, whattaya think?

 

P.O.S.H.

Port Out Starboard Home Right?

Best cabins on the old "Grand Tour" as it remained in the 19th century.

 

UFO

Where science-fiction meet disco

 

Oh, OK. Yep, Mad Max meets Kung Fu. Should be good.

 

I know Forced Unlawful Carnal Knowledge...

 

Almost. It was the journey out to the Raj, the Grand Tour was generally around Europe taking in Ancient Rome and Greece. The point being to avoid the heat of the sun when going to India.
Although it is actually a backronym ie an acronym assigned to a word that already existed. The word's actual etymology is unknown, but more likely related to Romani påš xåra ("half-penny") or to Urdu (borrowed from Persian) safed-pōśh ("white robes"), a term for wealthy people.
Acronyms were actually quite rare in the English language before the 1930s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym#POSH