r/USdefaultism • u/Myrandall Netherlands • 6d ago

Imagine getting unironically upset about the fact that 95% of the world calls a sport something different than you, in a subreddit poking fun at people who don't understand your hobby

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u/BaseballFuryThurman 6d ago

To be fair, it sounds like he's saying that people who insist on it not being called soccer are awful. And honestly, as someone who calls it football and has grown up in a country that calls it almost exclusively football, I agree that those people are insufferable. It's called either depending on what you've grown up knowing it as.

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u/CBennett_12 6d ago

The UK is the only anglosphere country where simply everyone calls it football and there’s no alternative

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u/Gone_For_Lunch 6d ago

Soccer was a nickname that came from the UK. So that’s bollocks.

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u/sjmttf 6d ago

Nobody ever calls it soccer here, though.

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u/Gone_For_Lunch 6d ago

Soccer AM?

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u/Jaggysnake84 5d ago

Sensible Soccer?

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u/WanderlustZero Europe 5d ago

Alliteration pass. Or would you prefer Sensible Software changed their name to F something?

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u/Jaggysnake84 5d ago

I didn't realise that was the only option for a football game.

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u/WanderlustZero Europe 5d ago

It was the only option for a football game made by a company called Sensible Software, yes. Sorry I don't make the rules