mrandyk

Thank you for the responses everyone. I'm watching the US play El Salvador in the Gold Cup quarterfinals and another false offside erased a goal, reminding me that I had posted this lol. I don't quite get why this rule is enforced so strictly when everything else seems so lenient in the game.

You've helped me get a better understanding of how these wildly foreign concepts work. Stoppage time still seems like an inefficient rule though. A stopping clock makes way more sense to me, I hope that FIFA is looking into that.

Soccer. It's something I've tried to become more familiar with the past few Summers when the only other sport on TV is baseball, mainly tuning in to watch the USMNT in the World, Gold Cups and a few MLS matches, but no matter how much I watch I'm left with unanswered questions because I know zero fans of the sport. So I'm turning to the one forum I belong to that certainly has some Europeans who can enlighten this uninformed American.

Multiple Concurrent Competitions - How do teams prioritize their lineups for these? England is the model I am most familiar with, and it seems at any given time during your EPL schedule you can have Champions/Europa, FA Cup, and EFL Cup games. There is nothing remotely similar to this in American sports. Managers can't use their best players for every match, so which competitions do they hold above the rest of their schedule? Someone please rank the EPL, Champions, Europa, FA Cup, and EFL Cup titles in order of importance. (Also, the EFL Cup seems redundant with the FA Cup already being in place - am I wrong?).

Stoppage Time - What the hell is this? I'm led to believe it is added time to make up for breaks in the action (injury time, time until play resumes after a goal, time wasted when ball goes out, etc.), but it never makes any sense to me. Yesterday during the 2nd half of the US-Nicaragua game two different players were taken off on stretchers, two goals were scored, two (blocked) penalties occurred, and in the end they added 3 minutes. 10 minutes would have made more sense to me if they are actually trying to add all wasted time back. Why doesn't the sport just adopt a stopping clock for the prolonged breaks in action?

Ties - Another thing that basically doesn't exist in America. What's the consensus on these? To compete for 90 minutes and still have the potential to end precisely where we started is maddening to me. Just hold a shootout and name a winner while still giving the shootout loser their point for a draw at full time. That's how the NHL scores their regular season games after eliminating ties about 10 years ago.

Promotion/Relegation - Is it about the best/worst thing ever for a fanbase to be promoted/relegated? Moving up or down, I could see this leading to a completely uninteresting season the following year for the team as they either flounder in the top league or get stuck with a wholly uninspiring league schedule. I wish this was a thing in America. Team owners would actually have incentive to succeed and the Cleveland Browns would permanently reside in an amateur league.

Offside - I understand the rule and its importance to the game, but its enforcement seems so incredibly arbitrary to me. Who cares if the attackers nose was beyond the defender? You don't call the ball out unless it is entirely past the line, why doesn't that apply to offside too? I see great scoring chances waived off for a false offside more often than I'd like. It's like the one rule with no leniency in a game that is so loose in every other regard.

If anyone feels this should be in the existing Soccer thread go ahead and move it. Didn't think I should muck it up with posts on the game itself instead of its current events.

I'll have my MBA soon. Rather proud of that and my Bachelor's as I am the first college graduate from my family and had no financial support outside of federal financial aid. Someday my greatest accomplishment will be paying off that student loan debt staring back at me (really it's only like $35-40k).

Continuation. Maybe if I hadn't seen that bizarre sight of Slash playing Chinese Democracy I would think differently.

Melissa and Dizzy aren't really fair responses considering they are doing exactly what they are asked of. I think. I can't really tell. They aren't ruining any songs while others allegedly are.

Velvet Revolver never really broke up. Scott Weiland left but the rest of the guys were auditioning singers to replace him. It sounded like they nearly went with Corey Taylor to replace Scott Weiland but they came to realize he wasn't a good fit and then Slash's solo career took off, shelving the whole thing.

Can't completely eradicate gun crime? Better not even try! Cancer is never going to be completely cured, so we better stop trying on that front too.

What's with all the Blue Frogs in India?

So can the man claim Rape by Deception when the woman takes her makeup off?

No, he can claim psychological damage and take her to court: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3186785/Groom-sues-bride-damages-one-day-wedding-seeing-without-make-time-feeling-cheated-wasn-t-pretty.html

It's been a decade since I lived over there but I no longer see the country I once knew. It has become a place of fear and loathing.

If you just watch the news it is.

Kiss, Love Theme From Kiss

Black Sabbath Vol.4, FX

ACDC, Black Ice, Wheels

Led Zeppelin IV, Four Sticks or Dancing Days (Houses Of The Holy)

and of course, Revolution 9

There is nothing wrong with Dancing Days. The only thing that isn't perfect about Houses of the Holy is how the first side ends.

Does anyone ever consider how much fast food drives the economy yet workers don't get paid jack fucking shit?

Menial jobs are menial, but when the middle class has enough actual income to spend - everyone wins.

Same case with Walmart. Another organization that could easily afford to pay their employees a decent wage but simply don't have to.

Here's Eruption & You Really Got Me from Kimmel in case anyone wants to see it

Dave sucks on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loCSuOovbnE

LOL at 3:12 where the Cabo Wabo sign is in the background next to Alex's head.

I hear the airport nearest to me really sux http://flysux.com/

Dave has to be the most disappointing live performer in rock, sounding absolutely nothing like the studio albums. Dude just gets on stage to dance and try to ad lib in the place of actual lyrics.

To be fair, would a nugnr live album be any better? I think not. Which I haven't received my copy yet, so I haven't heard the entire album. But I have watched plenty of nugnr live recordings, and while Dave might be the weak link here, at least the rest of the band is pretty on point. While "the band" that is nugnr, are usually pretty on point, except for Ashba on occasion, Axl tends to be the weakest link as well. But VH gets extra credit for actually being the band that wrote these songs, minus the worst original member of course...

Worst original member? Michael Anthony's backing vocals were a very large part of the Van Halen sound and it's weird to hear the band without him. If anyone is disposable it's Alex.

Dave has to be the most disappointing live performer in rock, sounding absolutely nothing like the studio albums. Dude just gets on stage to dance and try to ad lib in the place of actual lyrics.

I played nearly all the Zelda games up until Skyward Sword (because I completely gave up on the Wii and the controls), and my favorite would either have to be Windwaker or Link to the Past. So few series are so consistently great. LoZ, LttP, MM, OoT, WW, and Link's Awakening are all among my favorite games of all time.

Has anyone played Link Between Worlds? I'm intrigued by that one, since it sounds like it's supposed to be in the same vein as Link to the Past.

I was ten years old, the school didn't bother informing all of us what was going on (and why would you? what is a ten year old supposed to make of that situation?). I remember my mother made it a point to pick me up from school, which never happened, and I just had no idea what the hell she was talking about when she said planes hit some buildings I had never heard of. What really made it clear that terrible things had happened and people were terrified was that all the gas stations in town had huge lines at the pumps (the ones that remained open at least), and so many of the channels on my tv cut their broadcast due to the events that day. Actually seeing the footage later that day was something my mind certainly wouldn't fully comprehend until years later.

I still wonder how only 3,000 people died. It's baffling.

He sincerely believes he will release more music, but he is also the reason why he will never release anymore music. Man is stupid crazy.

How can anyone justify giving a child something that is only meant for taking lives?

Gun laws in this country are so fucked. No one in the private sector should have access to a god damn uzi.

Axl should just replace the whole band with a studio track.

The officer came away with a swollen face after Brown assaulted him, and autopsy shows that Brown was only shot straight on (consistent with the claim that Brown charged the officer). Unless it comes out that the officer killed Brown execution style, these protesters look like a bunch of idiots.

ill go for a polish Beatles tribute we saw in Ibiza, so funny but really crap

The Shitty Beatles?

I like classic country music, because it's actually country music. Anything you hear on the radio today is better classified as Nashville Pop.