Just because I wear trackies and play sport does not make me a lesbian!

[cosmolinguist]

Dad wandered into the living room when I was watching a movie and asked "What's this?"

"Bend It Like Beckham," I said. I realized this gibberish wasn't very helpful to him, so I added, "It's a movie about a girl who plays football--I mean..." and then I couldn't remember the word soccer. Which I don't think is very fair. Stupid useless British words taking up coveted real estate in my brain.

I told stealthmunchkin about this and he was proud of me--naturally--and also told me things about other British sports, like that I can't play rugby because I have no testicles and grabbing them until the owner howls in pain is an integral part of rugby. Also I learned that it's played in countries with a longstanding tradition of having sex with sheep, such as Wales, Australia, and France.

But he also told me that France and Brazil were colonized by Spain. And he wonders why I can't believe him half the time.

Comments

[semperar.livejournal.com]

that movie was too British for me. Not the good kind of British, you know, the entertaining kind. This was the incomprehensible kind.

[cosmolinguist]

I'd not seen it until today. I liked it, even though it really seemed like the kind of thing my mom would like: pretty girl wants something her parents don't want her to have, despairs of ever getting it without pissing everyone off, gets it anyway, kisses cute guy at the end and lives happily ever after...

'Tis a bit ironic, if only because I seem to want things she doesn't wnat me to have, I despair of getting them without pissing her off, ...though I see no happily-ever-after in my future.

[soltice.livejournal.com]

Awww, come on Holly, join the lesbians. I hear they have a secret clubhouse and everything!

[cosmolinguist]

Secret? How do you know about it then?....

[soltice.livejournal.com]

Recuriters came to the MTF clubhouse. They brought pamphlets and cookies.

[ihavemanyskills.livejournal.com]

And they prey on straight girls from small towns. I know cuz they converted me!

[tenbaset.livejournal.com]

Women in this country play rugby (union) (http://www.scrum.com/womens/country/newzealand/default.asp).

What does 'football' mean over there (USA) anyway? I would have thought it meant grid-iron.

[cosmolinguist]

I told him that I had, in fact, seen girls play rugby, but he said if girls were playing it it's not rugby. :-) I accused him of hubris rather often in this conversation as well.

It doesn't mean soccer, that's for sure--it's why Dad was confused at my answer. Football's the game with the oblong ball and the stupid people who crash into each other.

[tenbaset.livejournal.com]

Aargh! I dearsay I wouldn't want to tangle with my high-school woman's rugby team (at the time.)

Unfortunatly, that description (of the ovid ball) summs up about four different games. Is that Rugby Leage, Rugby Union, Australian Football/Aussie Rules/AFL or Grid-Iron/American Football?

Probably grid-iron though, in the other games they actually try to get the ball not show off with macho postering... :-)



(yeah yeah, just 'cause Rugby is our almost (de facto) national game...)

[dawgdays.livejournal.com]

American football = grid-iron. Remember the World Football League and the London Monarchs? Or am I just showing my age?

[tenbaset.livejournal.com]

Yep, I know Grid Iron is American Football, but I'm afraid I've never heard of the World Football League nor the London Monarchs. However, being on the other side of the world to London means I'm unlikely to be have been ever exposed to them.

(Google-fu shows them to be NFL/Grid-Iron/American Football team in the UK though.)

[dawgdays.livejournal.com]

I gotta start reading userinfo instead of making assumptions about where people are.

[angel-thane.livejournal.com]

Unfortunatly, that description (of the ovid ball) summs up about four different games. Is that Rugby Leage, Rugby Union, Australian Football/Aussie Rules/AFL or Grid-Iron/American Football?

Six actually. Also Canadian Football, and Celtic Football.

[stealthmunchkin.livejournal.com]

Apparently Aussie Rules and Celtic are close enough in terms of rules that there's some sort of annual competition where teams that play both sports compete, using just those rules that are common to both sports.

It supposedly usually degenerates into a fistfight...

[angel-thane.livejournal.com]

Yup. Same deal with Canadian and American football, same basic game, but with enough rule differences that you'll easily know which one your watching.

Players switch between the two fairly frequently though.

[cosmolinguist]

For someone so pedantic on what language they speak in Brazil, you should be able to use the right "you're."

::grins and runs away before you can catch her::

[angel-thane.livejournal.com]

bah, I was writing quickly, and not paying attention.

*chases and tackles you*

[cosmolinguist]

::pulls your hair::

[angel-thane.livejournal.com]

*pinches your bum*

[cosmolinguist]

::grabs your testicles, but stops short of making you howl in pain...probably::

[angel-thane.livejournal.com]

lol.

*BITE*

[tenbaset.livejournal.com]

Argh!

No wonder the word "football" means (to me) "any physical contact team sport where there are people running around and kicking and/or carrying a ball around a field."

Of course, I missed out touch rugby too.

[angel-thane.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't that include Lacrosse then as well? And possibly hurling? ;)

Yup, I'm an evil one...

[tenbaset.livejournal.com]

[wait until I find a dictionary please]

Refining my definition, I guess the game has have kicking the ball. It's gotta make contact with the foot occasionally. (And as part of the rules, not as I can imagine mad Irish men running around on a field with sticks doing..)

[angel-thane.livejournal.com]

Girls don't need testicles for Rugby, they have pigtails instead.

Same effect.

[cosmolinguist]

That's what I told him. He didn't buy it. Obviously he's not as mean to girls as I can be.

But, considering I want to live with the guy this summer, that's not such a bad thing, maybe...

Also not bad that I have short hair!

[angel-thane.livejournal.com]

Its still long enough to pull a fistfull of it darling.

[cosmolinguist]

I know. :-) Don't see me playing rugby now, do ya?

[stealthmunchkin.livejournal.com]

I don't think he meant in that way...

[cosmolinguist]

I'm sure he didn't. :-)

[parakleta.livejournal.com]

You're confusing Australia with New Zealand... they're the one with the sheep... :)

[cosmolinguist]

He mentioned New Zealand too, actually. :-)

[dawgdays.livejournal.com]

I loved the movie, once I got around to seeing it. It took a while. I thought of it as a "chick flick".

Brazil wasn't colonized by Spain? That's not just a Spanish dialect they speak? ¡Ay, caramba! :P

[cosmolinguist]

It did indeed have chick-flick tendencies--to the degree that I think my mom would like it...if I explained who David Beckham is and that "football" means "soccer"--but I liked it quite a bit myself. Movies both of us can watch are rare; I should tell her about this one. :-)

[angel-thane.livejournal.com]

Nope. Portugese.

[dawgdays.livejournal.com]

Actually, that was a joke.

Now I KNOW France wasn't colonized by Spain, no matter what anyone says. :)

[ihavemanyskills.livejournal.com]

The subject of this cracked me up! Thanks for a good laugh at the start of my work night!!

[cosmolinguist]

I know, I think it's a great line (it's from the movie, in case you haven't seen it and thought I was just randomly asserting things).

[ihavemanyskills.livejournal.com]

Haven't seen it yet, but it's on my list!

[stealthmunchkin.livejournal.com]

I did not claim that France has a tradition of having sex with sheep - I merely pointed out that they are French, which is almost as bad.

[stealthmunchkin.livejournal.com]

Oh, and Into Me is a Stew solo track, not the Negro Problem :-p

[stealthmunchkin.livejournal.com]

The person who wrote that has obviously met my brother and sister...

[cosmolinguist]

It's not me anyway. :-) It's a line from the movie; one of the girls' mother's is convinced she's a lesbian because she's seen her "kissing" one of her teammates. But I could see my mom doing the same thing, if I were lucky enough to get to play sports.

[paninogirl.livejournal.com]

Heh, there's lots of flirting and random conversation on this post.

I just wanted to say that I'm glad you saw (and enjoyed) that movie. I watched it again recently and enjoyed it immensely. I think it's kind of like the Indian version of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which I also enjoy. :)