Then how is hand-egg a pejorative? You’ve refused to answer that, except by pretending that I couldn’t question that it was without arguing disingenuously.
It was your attempt at a perjorative.
You can keep trying to play gotcha with every sentence typed by everyone who has responded to you, but most people aren’t upset with your funny little name. They just don’t like when someone deliberately tries to get a rise out of them.
If you think that asking why you claim it is pejorative is some sort of gotchya, then this conversation has become boring again.
Add me to the list of those who couldn’t care less about the Super Bowl.
Well then can you write down that standey-slidey joke and send it to me through the mail, because that shit was funny.
In response to the OP, I live in Boston. Will very much be rooting for the Patriots, although I tend to wander in and out of the family room during the game, whereas my husband and daughter will be stuck to the TV. And at 9:00, I’ll be wanting to turn to Showtime to put Shameless on. Not likely to win that one, though. (Not likely to try. There will be other chances for me to catch my show).
Aw, that’s too bad. I’ll say hi to Mickey for you!
To be honest, if you don’t act like you have the vapors when I refer to it as hand-egg, I just refer to it as hand-egg for the rest of the conversation without further comment. Everyone involved knows what I mean, and knows I’m not the best person for further conversation on the subject. If you do act like I’ve insulted the pope (I live in Texas, after all), I just explain that the game has three plays that involve the foot, one that excludes the hands, with every other play (including two of the aforementioned “foot” plays) involving the hands and the ovoid ball. The conversation usually ends there, with even the most stringent believers admitting that it is an article of faith.
Seriously, it’s common name couldn’t be more poorly conceived.
Well, I personally find those kind of jokes alternately amusing and infuriating. My drummer has a love for puns that forces me to remember that there’s no other I’d rather play with. I suppose I may loathe most what I secretly am, and the thing that makes him a great drummer may make him the most evil with word play. Ugh, I get a headache just considering it. I will never have peace.
I have had people in conversation refer to “Football” and then have to clarify that they meant “American Soccer”, and it wasn’t immediately apparent by their accent, but it is rare.
But I stand by my claim that it is ambiguous. “Football” is as malleable a term as “Barbecue”. As you start to widen the group of people you’re talking to, it begins to lose all meaning. You might get anything from amazing slow-cooked meats to run of the mill char-grilled hot dogs and hamburgers. It needs a better name, if it becomes hand-egg, I will be proud.
ETA: And by proud, I am serious. I enjoyed playing the game. Nothing was more fun than standing up a linebacker that had 5-6" on me and driving him around as I pleased. It’s fun to play, but boring to watch, IMHO.
I could not care less about the Super Bowl. Never watch it. I honestly don’t even know who is playing.
It’s Monday morning over here when it’s on, and a lot of bars open for it and serve breakfast. A lot of Bloody Marys are consumed.
ETA of the ETA, but after the window. That was hyperbole. For me, playing music beats running a guy bigger than you around, even if you’re playing a cover for no-one but the band members present (hey, one of the many reasons I quit hand-egg was the propensity for finger injuries in return for little gain). But running a guy who was bigger than you around like he was a puppet was awesome, nonetheless. If the game can bring itself some international notoriety, it’s going to have to figure out how to ditch the name of the other international sport.
I too am totally sure that line is in the movie. May even have been in the book. The Israeli’s bafflement is certainly in the book.
‘Hockey’ in America or Indian subcontinent - wildly different.
I don’t hear pejorative names for hockey to clear it up. And yes, hand-egg is pejorative. How in the world is it not? You are deliberately calling a sport something else that no fan of the sport uses to express your obvious contempt. Textbook pejorative.
Me? What are you talking about?
Well, for those who’ve posted approvingly on this topic, Keith Olbermann agrees with you. (Though his perspective is less a dislike of the sport itself per se, and more a dislike of the league and those who run it.)
Hockey in India appears to be the same as “Field Hockey” here. Call Ice Hockey pucky-puck. See if I care. They’re still more closely related to each other than the various games referred to as “Football”.
To put a finer point on it: Is everyone who uses the term Soccer using a pejorative term?
Where have I expressed any contempt for hand-egg other than to say it falls short as entertainment?
I live for the Super Bowl. No, just kidding, but I watch it on TV the same as I ritualistically view other once-per-year events such as the New Years countdown.
I wouldn’t say I don’t know what sports are, but my knowledge base of the topic is very limited.
I’ve learned a little more, but for the longest time I knew very little about various sports. I would say it’s mostly because I was homeschooled and didn’t grow up with sports. My dad wasn’t into any of them and overall I just wasn’t exposed to them. As far as I remember I’ve watched one football game in my life (It was thanksgiving day at an ex’es house and his family was watching a game) and I’ve been to one baseball game. I’ve picked up some of the basics over the years from hearing people talk about them, but even now I couldn’t reliably tell you what sport each of the pro teams plays. (Though I’ve gotten most of them now I think) It just isn’t part of my world.
You picked the right username.
Spoiler alert! No one cares about this but you.
Thanks for coming along and posting to let me know, really. I totally made all of those posts spontaneously, with no one on the other end conversing with me.
Sorry, I guess that was kind of bitchy. But you did have a post in which you quoted yourself, and then 2 in a row where no one had replied but you were still talking. It just seemed over the top.