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Post by Aj_June on Sept 28, 2017 23:16:33 GMT
I don't think so. Here in Australia today we have got a public holiday because we have AFL grand final tomorrow. So we are going to enjoy a free Friday (and I don't have to work!) just so we can celebrate the Australian favourite sports - Australian Rules Football. Do you guys get any holiday because of a sporting event? If not then Australians are clearly more sporty than you guys.
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Post by marsexplorer on Sept 28, 2017 23:31:50 GMT
We have the Thanksgiving Holiday. A day we all stuff our face and give thanks that there is football. A NFL game from 11 am to 10 pm. I love it.
And we get a 4 day weekend. So Americans are much more sporty.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2017 23:35:17 GMT
You could take a fairly well educated guess on how sporty the average American is by watching an episode of Jerry Springer. The snooker world final is always on a bank holiday Monday, but I'm guessing that holiday wasn't designated specifically so that us Brits could watch the snooker all day. And there is loads of sport normally on other bank holidays. I think I heard that England got a free bank holiday when we won the World Cup (the proper World Cup that is), but I may well have dreamt that! I remember there were high level talks that we should get a holiday if England won the WC back in the Tony Blair days, I'm not sure if it was actually going to go ahead though, we never got far enough to find out.
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Post by Aj_June on Sept 28, 2017 23:36:54 GMT
We have the Thanksgiving Holiday. A day we all stuff our face and give thanks that there is football. A NFL game from 11 am to 10 pm. I love it. And we get a 4 day weekend. So Americans are much more sporty. I like the fact that on Super Bowl day all you guys enjoy the day with some good chicken wings or something tasty. isn't it? Last I read your country consumed over billion chicken wings on one day.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2017 23:39:16 GMT
We have the Thanksgiving Holiday. A day we all stuff our face and give thanks that there is football. A NFL game from 11 am to 10 pm. I love it. And we get a 4 day weekend. So Americans are much more sporty. Last I read your country consumed over billion chicken wings on one day. That's a lot of chicken they're eating. But you'd never be able to tell.
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Post by Aj_June on Sept 28, 2017 23:39:43 GMT
You could take a fairly well educated guess on how sporty the average American is by watching an episode of Jerry Springer. The snooker world final is always on a bank holiday Monday, but I'm guessing that holiday wasn't designated specifically so that us Brits could watch the snooker all day. And there is loads of sport normally on other bank holidays. I think I heard that England got a free bank holiday when we won the World Cup (the proper World Cup that is), but I may well have dreamt that! I remember there were high level talks that we should get a holiday if England won the WC back in the Tony Blair days, I'm not sure if it was actually going to go ahead though, we never got far enough to find out. Brits create their own holidays it seems whether they get a holiday or not. When I used to live in Leicester, the evenings Leicester Tigers played was all about fun for entire town (that is for all bar the cricket loving Indians like me).
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Post by granny on Sept 28, 2017 23:41:39 GMT
What does the AFL have to do with sports? Stick to your boomerangs and kangaroos, kid.
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Post by marsexplorer on Sept 28, 2017 23:48:36 GMT
We have the Thanksgiving Holiday. A day we all stuff our face and give thanks that there is football. A NFL game from 11 am to 10 pm. I love it. And we get a 4 day weekend. So Americans are much more sporty. I like the fact that on Super Bowl day all you guys enjoy the day with some good chicken wings or something tasty. isn't it? Last I read your country consumed over billion chicken wings on one day. That's fewer than 3 chicken wings each. We're all starving over here.
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Post by theauxphou on Sept 29, 2017 2:53:35 GMT
Not to take away from what you said, but wasn't the Grand Final holiday to make up for something we lost? It may have been Anzac Day falling on a weekend day and us not getting the holiday on the following Monday, or maybe it was Show Day in September (remember that?), that was done away with years ago. We may have had a Moomba Day holiday, too, but I can't remember; that was also many years ago.
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Post by weststigersbob on Sept 29, 2017 9:54:14 GMT
Melbournians get a day off for a horse race too. In fact nearly every public holiday Australians get there is some major sports event tied into it except Christmas Day.
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Post by weststigersbob on Sept 29, 2017 9:55:25 GMT
What does the AFL have to do with sports? Stick to your boomerangs and kangaroos, kid. A bit rich coming from an American. Whatever mud you can sling at the AFL as a sport can be slung just as easily at the NFL.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Sept 29, 2017 11:50:01 GMT
What does the AFL have to do with sports? Stick to your boomerangs and kangaroos, kid. A bit rich coming from an American. Whatever mud you can sling at the AFL as a sport can be slung just as easily at the NFL. But in your case it'll just come right back to you.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Sept 29, 2017 14:24:59 GMT
You could take a fairly well educated guess on how sporty the average American is by watching an episode of Jerry Springer. The snooker world final is always on a bank holiday Monday, but I'm guessing that holiday wasn't designated specifically so that us Brits could watch the snooker all day. And there is loads of sport normally on other bank holidays. I think I heard that England got a free bank holiday when we won the World Cup (the proper World Cup that is), but I may well have dreamt that! I remember there were high level talks that we should get a holiday if England won the WC back in the Tony Blair days, I'm not sure if it was actually going to go ahead though, we never got far enough to find out. I am pretty sure France got a holiday on the Monday after their World Cup win 19 years ago. Bloody Hell, I can't believe it's been 19 years.
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Post by runie on Sept 29, 2017 16:51:01 GMT
we have football on boxing day, which is reason behind no winter break, which is detrimental to the competitiveness but a sign of the UK's 'sportiness' embedded in the culture.
all 3 nations are as sporty as the next.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Sept 29, 2017 17:26:01 GMT
Using the word 'sporty' makes one inherently not so.
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Post by Aj_June on Sept 30, 2017 0:09:00 GMT
Not to take away from what you said, but wasn't the Grand Final holiday to make up for something we lost? It may have been Anzac Day falling on a weekend day and us not getting the holiday on the following Monday, or maybe it was Show Day in September (remember that?), that was done away with years ago. We may have had a Moomba Day holiday, too, but I can't remember; that was also many years ago. I hope it becomes a regular annual public holiday. Though I don't think non-Victorians get it. What does the AFL have to do with sports? Stick to your boomerangs and kangaroos, kid. Shut up Britney Foxx.
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Post by granny on Sept 30, 2017 0:29:13 GMT
Australia is for criminals.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Sept 30, 2017 0:46:20 GMT
I hate the word sporty.
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Post by theauxphou on Sept 30, 2017 1:24:12 GMT
I hope it becomes a regular annual public holiday. Though I don't think non-Victorians get it. NSW, QLD & WA or SA get their holiday (called something else) on Monday.
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Post by Aj_June on Nov 6, 2017 20:35:56 GMT
I hope it becomes a regular annual public holiday. Though I don't think non-Victorians get it. NSW, QLD & WA or SA get their holiday (called something else) on Monday. What about today? I got another holiday from work as it is Melbourne Cup. Wow I am so happy that I don't have to go to work today. So is it an official public holiday or they just give you leave?
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