Six Nations

[GingerBlokey 30]

Wow.

Wales won.

England lost.

Never been happier.

I love supporting Wales.

[belfastuniguy 18]

I'm so pleased.

Annoyed Ireland didn't do better, but Wales would have had my full support after Ireland. The BEST team won and the game was very well played.....fantastic game to watch

[wir3d 2]

Won in what?

[belfastuniguy 18]

Rugby.....

[GingerBlokey 30]

Originally posted by: wir3d Won in what?quote>

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Six+Nations&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

It's is an amazingly useful tool you know.

[Imprezza05 1]

Yea ecstatic that Wales won... we are now the "best" team in the northern hemisphere. Just why doesn't anyone like the english?

[Meg 368]

Originally posted by: GingerBlokey

It's is an amazingly useful tool you know.quote>

Yes, Google is an amazingly useful tool.

Still, it's nice for a thread to indicate some clue as to what it is about, for those not familiar with the topic.

[fern244 1]

*sniff* *sniff* Were Ireland really number two in the world this time last year? What has happened to them!?!?!

[GingerBlokey 30]

Originally posted by: SkiGeek

Originally posted by: GingerBlokey

It's is an amazingly useful tool you know.quote>

Yes, Google is an amazingly useful tool.

Still, it's nice for a thread to indicate some clue as to what it is about, for those not familiar with the topic.quote>

Yes, my mistake I admit it. But it does no harm to Google it.

Sorry. Just assumed people knew what the Six Nations was.

[6underground 11]

Oggy Oggy Oggy! I was screaming at the TV.

I am soo, soo, sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Happy, incredibly chuffed.

Cardiff/Caerdydd is absolutely ecstatic tonight!

[Maranello575 5]

Too bad Wales didn't play like this in the world cup but still, winning the six nations is one hell of a feat.

[TRNSTN 0]

I thought this was some issue regarding Canadian Aboriginals. hahaha

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: GingerBlokeyYes, my mistake I admit it. But it does no harm to Google it.

Sorry. Just assumed people knew what the Six Nations was.quote>

You Brits probably all do. But there are people here from all over the world. Things which are big in your culture may very well be completely unheard of elsewhere. So don't assume.

We Americans don't play rugby. We have our football instead.

The argument about google is supposed to be about googling something before posting to ask about it. When you're actually posting about something, it's common courtesy to provide a reference yourself.

[ilikehotdogsalot 308]

Yeah, I've never heard of this before. . .

[6underground 11]

You Brits probably all do. But there are people here from all over the world. Things which are big in your culture may very well be completely unheard of elsewhere. So don't assume.quote>

Or perhaps, it's a sign that your nations inhabitants need to learn more about the outside world. Not to sound offensive, but most of Europe is well aware of the six nations championship AND the superbowl. Perhaps it's just an indication that the environment you are raised in isn't very internationally diverse.

[beebs 129]

Originally posted by: 6underground

You Brits probably all do. But there are people here from all over the world. Things which are big in your culture may very well be completely unheard of elsewhere. So don't assume.quote>

Or perhaps, it's a sign that your nations inhabitants need to learn more about the outside world. Not to sound offensive, but most of Europe is well aware of the six nations championship AND the superbowl. Perhaps it's just an indication that the environment you are raised in isn't very internationally diverse.quote>

This is hardly indicative that North America isn't well versed in international happenings.. and using the superbowl isn't too good of a comparison either. American culture and events are very well known worldwide. Rugby (and other sports) don't have a very large foothold at all in the sporting community in North America. This would be pretty similar to me going on about the winner of the Champions Cup (National Lacrosse League) or the Calder Cup (AHL) and assuming that people would just know what I'm talking about.

In any case, congrats to Wales.

[KamiKaZantA 1]

Originally posted by: 6underground

You Brits probably all do. But there are people here from all over the world. Things which are big in your culture may very well be completely unheard of elsewhere. So don't assume.quote>

Or perhaps, it's a sign that your nations inhabitants need to learn more about the outside world. Not to sound offensive, but most of Europe is well aware of the six nations championship AND the superbowl. Perhaps it's just an indication that the environment you are raised in isn't very internationally diverse.quote>

 

Yay, mud-slinging. 

I live in sweden and I never heard about six nations (O_o)

[Deathtoall 28]

I love six nations! Excellent games (when i can watch them) I and i live n Sydney and know of it.

Ireland went way downhill. Congrats to the Welsh!

[GingerBlokey 30]

Originally posted by: Duke87

Originally posted by: GingerBlokeyYes, my mistake I admit it. But it does no harm to Google it.

Sorry. Just assumed people knew what the Six Nations was.quote>

You Brits probably all do. But there are people here from all over the world. Things which are big in your culture may very well be completely unheard of elsewhere. So don't assume.

We Americans don't play rugby. We have our football instead.

The argument about google is supposed to be about googling something before posting to ask about it. When you're actually posting about something, it's common courtesy to provide a reference yourself.

quote>

Yes, yes. I get the idea. I know these things

[belfastuniguy 18]

Originally posted by: beebs

Originally posted by: 6underground

You Brits probably all do. But there are people here from all over the world. Things which are big in your culture may very well be completely unheard of elsewhere. So don't assume.quote>

Or perhaps, it's a sign that your nations inhabitants need to learn more about the outside world. Not to sound offensive, but most of Europe is well aware of the six nations championship AND the superbowl. Perhaps it's just an indication that the environment you are raised in isn't very internationally diverse.quote>

This is hardly indicative that North America isn't well versed in international happenings.. and using the superbowl isn't too good of a comparison either. American culture and events are very well known worldwide. Rugby (and other sports) don't have a very large foothold at all in the sporting community in North America. This would be pretty similar to me going on about the winner of the Champions Cup (National Lacrosse League) or the Calder Cup (AHL) and assuming that people would just know what I'm talking about.

In any case, congrats to Wales.quote>

 

Actaully most people the world would know what the 6 nations is, Rugby after all is played as  World Cup as well as in the Commonwealth games, indeed the United States plays at the Rugby World cup, so its hardly as if no-one in the states has no clue what Rugby is.

[Joesocwork 4]

Just great. I love the irony of a thread that purports to be about the competition between nations in a sport done in such a matter that it highlights the divisions of nations within SimTropolis. I say that if this thread remains open then we keep the subject about the former and not the latter.

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: belfastuniguy Actaully most people the world would know what the 6 nations is, Rugby after all is played as  World Cup as well as in the Commonwealth games, indeed the United States plays at the Rugby World cup, so its hardly as if no-one in the states has no clue what Rugby is.quote>

Rugby in the US is like soccer in the US- it's there, but nobody notices because nobody cares. There's a lack of interest in such things.

Originally posted by: 6underground Or perhaps, it's a sign that your nations inhabitants need to learn more about the outside world. Not to sound offensive, but most of Europe is well aware of the six nations championship AND the superbowl. Perhaps it's just an indication that the environment you are raised in isn't very internationally diverse.quote>

Meh. Our nation's inhabitants need to learn more about a lot of things. Trouble is, we have a critical mass of stupidity combined with a culture of apathy: "don't know, don't care". And it's not just international culture. It's also politics, religion, math, science, history... basically everything besides local contemporary pop culture. That, for some reason, everyone cares far too much about.

And, honestly, I can share some of that sentiment at times. So now I know what Six Nations is. Great. I still don't give a damn about it.

But hey, there are a lot of aspects of American culture that I don't give a damn about, either. It's not about where it's from, it's about whether the subject matter interests me. Rugby does not interest me.

Originally posted by: beebs This is hardly indicative that North America isn't well versed in international happenings.. and using the superbowl isn't too good of a comparison either. American culture and events are very well known worldwide. Rugby (and other sports) don't have a very large foothold at all in the sporting community in North America. This would be pretty similar to me going on about the winner of the Champions Cup (National Lacrosse League) or the Calder Cup (AHL) and assuming that people would just know what I'm talking about.quote>

Just to point something out- I'm an American and I don't know what you're talking about. All I know about Lacrosse is that it involves nets on a stick that you chuck a ball around with. And, well, repeating what I mentioned earlier- "don't know, don't care". Sure, the Super Bowl isn't a good comparison, but there really is no good comparison. Everything is either really well known here and well known elsewhere, or not very well known here and not known at all elsewhere. We really don't have a big thing that other people don't know about.... though I guess that comes back to the point of Europeans being much better versed in international culture. They've got a bunch of small to medium countries all close together. It's hard not to be internationally aware. America is one big huge nation bordered by two big huge nations- a prime breeding ground for an insular attitude since all of that international culture we're ignoring is far, far away- if it's close, it's not international. We can get away with being ignorant a lot more because of that.

[Meg 368]

Originally posted by: Duke87 \

We really don't have a big thing that other people don't know about.... though I guess that comes back to the point of Europeans being much better versed in international culture. They've got a bunch of small to medium countries all close together. It's hard not to be internationally aware. America is one big huge nation bordered by two big huge nations- a prime breeding ground for an insular attitude since all of that international culture we're ignoring is far, far away- if it's close, it's not international. We can get away with being ignorant a lot more because of that.quote>

Most Europeans live very close to an international border.  Most Americans do not.  It does change the way people think about other countries.

It shows up in weird ways.   Once, in a discussion with my British friends, I made the comment that Dallas, Texas was only a three hour flight from Washington, DC.   They kinda freaked out.  "What do you mean, only!"    Apparently one of them had taken a two hour flight and "couldn't imagine how far afield" three hours would take her.

I pointed out that I used to travel between Dallas and DC on business on a fairly regular basis.   I mentioned that I was going to Seattle to visit relatives and they were surprised I was taking an airplane.  Well, it's about 3,000 miles away.  Driving there would take days; by plane it's about 6 hours flight time.

We figured that the distance between DC and Seattle was roughly the same distance as from London to Baghdad.  It came as a surprise that "ordinary citizens routinely hop airplanes just to get around."   It takes up too much time otherwise.

As the saying goes, the biggest difference between Brits and Americans is that Brits think 100 miles is a long way and Americans think 100 years is a long time.

[belfastuniguy 18]

As the saying goes, the biggest difference between Brits and Americans is that Brits think 100 miles is a long way and Americans think 100 years is a long time.quote>

LOL like that one

[beebs 129]

Originally posted by: Duke87

Just to point something out- I'm an American and I don't know what you're talking about. All I know about Lacrosse is that it involves nets on a stick that you chuck a ball around with. And, well, repeating what I mentioned earlier- "don't know, don't care". quote>

I know. But most Canadian sports fans would have some idea of what I'm talking about (AHL moreso than NLL). Which was the point of my comparison to that and the Six Nations.

In any case, lets get back to talking about Six Nations.

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: SkiGeek Most Europeans live very close to an international border.  Most Americans do not.  It does change the way people think about other countries.

It shows up in weird ways.   Once, in a discussion with my British friends, I made the comment that Dallas, Texas was only a three hour flight from Washington, DC.   They kinda freaked out.  "What do you mean, only!"    Apparently one of them had taken a two hour flight and "couldn't imagine how far afield" three hours would take her.

I pointed out that I used to travel between Dallas and DC on business on a fairly regular basis.   I mentioned that I was going to Seattle to visit relatives and they were surprised I was taking an airplane.  Well, it's about 3,000 miles away.  Driving there would take days; by plane it's about 6 hours flight time.

We figured that the distance between DC and Seattle was roughly the same distance as from London to Baghdad.  It came as a surprise that "ordinary citizens routinely hop airplanes just to get around."   It takes up too much time otherwise.quote>

My dad was telling me about some patient of his who works for some big company and is always setting up business visits to the US for people oversees- and that one thing he likes to do in order to give them some perspective is if they're flying into Kansas City or Denver or someplace like that for their meeting, recommending that rather than simply getting back on a plane and going home afterward, that they rent a car and then just pick a direction and start driving- give them an appreciation of just how big this country is. How you can drive out of the city and then drive for hours and hours before reaching any other significantly sized town, passing nothing but cornfield after cornfield on the way. There's an awful lot of "middle of nowhere" out there- and it really does freak people out. But, see, that's part of the reason for having the EU. The entire continent of Europe is about 10,180,000 km² (3,930,000 mi²)- only marginally larger than the US, which is about 9,826,630 km² (3,794,066 mi²).

As the saying goes, the biggest difference between Brits and Americans is that Brits think 100 miles is a long way and Americans think 100 years is a long time.quote>

Yeah, okay. That one's a keeper.

[Hamish 1,369]

So why the six nations?

Shouldn't their be a super 14 thread instead?

Or a Tri-nations thread?

I mean, Six nations is good and all, but wouldn't you want to see the 2 almost 3 of the worlds best countries (South Africa and New Zealand. Not saying Australia is bad, but they haven't played good rugby lately) Play each other, rather than 6 semi professional teams play each other?

Yes I do realize what teams made it to the semi-finals/finals of the world cup last year (sadly the All Blacks were no where to be seen.), But they only did it because they are good in world cup situations.

Or even 2 almost 3 1st class teamed countries use their provincial teams to face each other?

Just a question, Is the Tri-Nations and the Super 14 popular in europe and/or America?

And is ti just me, or do they countries that play cricket also like rugby?

And why hasn't any one started a cricket thread? New Zealand lost this morning to England in their 2nd test.

[GingerBlokey 30]

Originally posted by: hamish So why the six nations?

Shouldn't their be a super 14 thread instead?

Or a Tri-nations thread?

I mean, Six nations is good and all, but wouldn't you want to see the 2 almost 3 of the worlds best countries (South Africa and New Zealand. Not saying Australia is bad, but they haven't played good rugby lately) Play each other, rather than 6 semi professional teams play each other?

Yes I do realize what teams made it to the semi-finals/finals of the world cup last year (sadly the All Blacks were no where to be seen.), But they only did it because they are good in world cup situations.

Or even 2 almost 3 1st class teamed countries use their provincial teams to face each other?

Just a question, Is the Tri-Nations and the Super 14 popular in europe and/or America?

And is ti just me, or do they countries that play cricket also like rugby?

And why hasn't any one started a cricket thread? New Zealand lost this morning to England in their 2nd test.quote>

Why don't you just start one?

[Boggy1 45]

Obviously, being Welsh, I was totally ecstatic! This is the first time that I have actually watched the Six Nations in full. Wales has done absolutely brilliantly..a total grandslam. Well deserved. We didn't lose a single game, and for it won the two main cups of the championships. I was almost screaming at the TV on Saturday whenever Shane got the ball (best player; he is like a ferret...so fast and nimble), and Martin Williams who ran 90 metres right through the French defence, at speeds approaching 25 miles an hour. Fantastic. This new coach has really worked them hard, I really hope they keep this up.

Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi!!!! Cymru am byth! (wow, this is the first time I have actually felt patriotic )

[purpledaddy 6]

I just checked out the RBS website. I think Italy has the coolest looking uniforms.