r/SipsTea • u/Quenki • 15h ago

Gasp! Just American things

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u/Frequent-Coyote-8108 15h ago

This bit COULD be funny...if he used words that Americans actually used.

Also, squash and racketball are not the same sport. It's not like Americans have different words for sports like Golf or Tennis or anything.

Just a poorly constructed bit.

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u/Noble_Jerk 15h ago

or soccer

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u/LiquidSix- 15h ago

Americans didn’t invent the word soccer. Football used to be called Association Football, “soccer” is abbreviated slang of that.. which the English came up with, not Americans.

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u/Turducken_McNugget 13h ago edited 13h ago

It's still called Association Football. The governing body is FIFA which stands for (translated from French to English) International Federation of Association Football.

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u/RandomUsername78421 15h ago

Soccer is a British term.

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u/No_Bingo_Card 14h ago

Neither of these two twats are funny, it's moron TV

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u/GroteKneus 14h ago

This joke is incorrect, but you can't say Michael McIntyre is not funny given his massive success. It may not be for you, but someone who is not funny does not travel the world to perform shows that people visit because they think the performer is funny.

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u/No_Bingo_Card 10h ago

I can say he's not funny as much as I like thank you very much.