J.A.W. Posted June 25, 2004 Report Posted June 25, 2004 C'mon John, 6 more posts and you'll be promoted... B) Quote
B. Goren. Posted June 25, 2004 Author Report Posted June 25, 2004 France 0, Greece 1! I wonder how the French will react... The French must start playing if they want to survive. I cant understand what they are waiting for. Quote
couw Posted June 25, 2004 Report Posted June 25, 2004 C'mon John, 6 more posts and you'll be promoted... B) can I have a beer then? Quote
J.A.W. Posted June 25, 2004 Report Posted June 25, 2004 C'mon John, 6 more posts and you'll be promoted... B) can I have a beer then? Hmm, that Stralsunder you posted a while ago looks very tempting... Quote
B. Goren. Posted June 25, 2004 Author Report Posted June 25, 2004 I cant believe it: The French players are standing! They are even not running! What (the fuck) they are waiting for??? Quote
J.A.W. Posted June 25, 2004 Report Posted June 25, 2004 did anyone take Rocky on on that bet? Wish I had. Quote
couw Posted June 25, 2004 Report Posted June 25, 2004 I cant believe it: The French players are standing! They are even not running! What (the fuck) they are waiting for??? language Bentsy, language! Quote
J.A.W. Posted June 25, 2004 Report Posted June 25, 2004 I cant believe it: The French players are standing! They are even not running! What (the fuck) they are waiting for??? language Bentsy, language! Quote
J.A.W. Posted June 25, 2004 Report Posted June 25, 2004 Full time: France 0, Greece 1 The Euro 2000 champions go home! Bad game. Quote
couw Posted June 25, 2004 Report Posted June 25, 2004 Bad game. but great winners. Brilliant management there really. Quote
J.A.W. Posted June 25, 2004 Report Posted June 25, 2004 What's going on?? First Italy, Spain, Germany and England out, and now France... Quote
brownie Posted June 25, 2004 Report Posted June 25, 2004 France is out. The French team won't be missed The Greeks have good reasons to celebrate! Quote
J.A.W. Posted June 25, 2004 Report Posted June 25, 2004 The stars playing in those great competitions (Spain, Italy, England, Germany, France) are probably too tired... Quote
J.A.W. Posted June 25, 2004 Report Posted June 25, 2004 What a disappoitment. Absolutely, but the French didn't play well in this tournament and deserved to lose tonight. Quote
Claude Posted June 25, 2004 Report Posted June 25, 2004 The tournament of the underdogs. Poor Marcus (marcoliv), he must feel terrible now. Quote
brownie Posted June 25, 2004 Report Posted June 25, 2004 The tournament of the underdogs. Poor Marcus (marcoliv), he must feel terrible now. Bet he'll overcome this. French soccer fans have a long history of major disappointments with their national team Quote
J.A.W. Posted June 25, 2004 Report Posted June 25, 2004 French soccer fans have a long history of major disappointments with their national team With the exception of the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000, of course. Quote
brownie Posted June 25, 2004 Report Posted June 25, 2004 French soccer fans have a long history of major disappointments with their national team With the exception of the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000, of course. Which make these disappointments so painful France has plenty of excellent players but they gather to make a great team all too rarely. Let's hope we have a good coach to replace Jacques Santini. He will not be missed. Neither will be Marcel Desailly who has been team captain for too long! Quote
mikeweil Posted June 25, 2004 Report Posted June 25, 2004 did anyone take Rocky on on that bet? Wish I had. The poor fellow probably has found some hole to hide ... Quote
Swinging Swede Posted June 25, 2004 Report Posted June 25, 2004 What I meant to say is, that people are often talking about England when they mean Great Britain (which also includes Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, of course) and the other way around. But that's not correct either. Great Britain is the island that includes England, Scotland and Wales. If you add Northern Ireland you get the United Kingdom. Quote
J.A.W. Posted June 25, 2004 Report Posted June 25, 2004 What I meant to say is, that people are often talking about England when they mean Great Britain (which also includes Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, of course) and the other way around. But that's not correct either. Great Britain is the island that includes England, Scotland and Wales. If you add Northern Ireland you get the United Kingdom. You're absolutely right! Officially it's "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". My mistake Quote
Swinging Swede Posted June 26, 2004 Report Posted June 26, 2004 It's just like calling the Netherlands Holland; Holland (= actually two provinces) is only part of the Netherlands. Sorry to jump in on another linguistic question (such things do fascinate me). I believe that in the English language the word ”Holland” means exactly the same thing as ”the Netherlands”. It’s the same in Swedish; ”Holland” and ”Nederländerna” are synonyms. Words may mean different things in different languages even if they have a common etymological origin. For example, ”Dutch” is the same word etymologically as ”Deutsch” (and ”duits” in Dutch, I believe?), but they have come to mean different things for historical reasons. Another analogous example would be the Finnish word ”Saksa” which means ”Germany” and not just ”Saxony”. Or for that matter ”German” in English which means something else than ”Germane” in German or ”german” in Swedish (sorry, don’t know the Dutch equivalent, but I suppose it’s something similar). Quote
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