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#163
Can anybody explain the logic behind the British Whitworth system? It has baffled me since I first started twisting wrenches in the '60s.

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All you need to do is memorize this chart and you'll be the envy of all engineers, gearheads, and knucklebusters (grease monkeys).

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Iridescentone said:
Exit question: As American-style football appears to be making inroads in other countries, what name will it be given by its adoptive homes?
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In Australia there are four main football codes - Aussie Rules, Rugby League, Rugby Union and Soccer. They are all called football by their various followers. Just like you, the game I grew up with - Aussie Rules - is football in my world. It will always be.
Your game is also played here on a smaller scale. I think most people here call it Gridiron.
 
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retslock said:
In Australia there are four main football codes - Aussie Rules, Rugby League, Rugby Union and Soccer. They are all called football by their various followers. Just like you, the game I grew up with - Aussie Rules - is football in my world. It will always be.
Your game is also played here on a smaller scale. I think most people here call it Gridiron.
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That makes sense, as Gridiron is short for Gridiron Football, the game played in USA and Canada.

In the States the term gridiron is widely used to define the field on which the game is played, but not normally the game itself. As in...football is played on "the gridiron". Not sure about Canadian colloquialisms. Cheers.
 
#172
Mike in Chicago said:
Yeah. But it's like watching paint dry.

Wait...let me add to that. When a soccer player runs by another soccer player and misses him by a foot (or whatever it would be called in the "good" countries of the world) and the soccer player falls to the ground and writhes in pain for 5 minutes...THAT'S pretty entertaining.
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I don't disagree with you, this part of football/soccer is what drove me awa
Iridescentone said:
Please allow me to explain the situation in simple terms....

> We (USA) have a long standing, and very popular sport that we call "football". We love our "football" sport and spend billions of "dollars" annually watching and playing our fun sport.

> Over the last few decades, we've (USA) become interested in the sport that the rest of the world calls "football". Even though it's more popular with girls than boys here for obvious reasons, we still have to call it something other than "football"...(stay with me now)...because we (USA) already have a sport that we call "football". With that, we decided to use the 200 year old British term "soccer" in deference to the origins of the game, and to differentiate between the two sports.

You see, we (USA) didn't make up the term "soccer", the Brits did centuries ago. It was derived from the official British name for the sport..."associated football". Blame them, not us okay? In future, please direct all derision and scorn to them. The Brits. Clear?

Exit question: As American-style football appears to be making inroads in other countries, what name will it be given by its adoptive homes?
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The funny thing is that as I grew up, I lost interest in football/soccer and became a big fan of (american) football and watch the games every Sunday night :D

We still refer it as american football and I dont expect it to change as its popularity in Europe though increasing is still miles (or kilometers? ) away from football/soccer.

My initial post just intended to show a different perspective: around here football/soccer is the universal sport and most kid aspire to becoming a football player. Football's superstars are incredible athletes who make close to QB money in salary to which you should add an absurd amount from various endorsements.

Oh and being French, we basically already blame the Brits for everything... So that's already covered :laugh:
 
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#173
macmanlou said:
Can anybody explain the logic behind the British Whitworth system? It has baffled me since I first started twisting wrenches in the '60s.
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As a bicyclist, I've had to deal with Whitworth -- it's the thread standard used on old 3-speed gear hubs. Fortunately, there are "close enough" SAE and metric wrenches, and replacement parts are still available. There are also some really weird standards, such as screw threads with metric diameters and imperial thread pitch, probably due to not wanting to set up a lathe for metric threading.
 
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This reminds me of people who care about 440 versus some other tuning reference. To me it doesn't really matter as long as everyone in the band is properly tuned to the same reference. Unless it's SO much different than 440 that it changes the string tension enough to change the neck curvature, affecting action and intonation. Same thing with scale length, measure it in cubits if you want, but unless its way too short or way too long for me to play comfortably, what diff does it make?
 
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saabfender said:
Football is a real man's game that leaves men battered and crippled for life. Soccer is what suburbanites take their not-particularly-athletic kids to play on the weekend. See the difference?
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The Name Football for the American game is a bit misleading, They play 2 hours and kick the ball about 4 times in the game. At least in Soccer (Football) they actually Kick it.
 

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