Just for fun..... "I could never marry anyone who..."

[Hoosier_Daddy]

I love American football, but here in Australia there are four (maybe even five) other sports people would assume you were more likely talking about if you said “football”. And all of them involve using the foot a lot more than does American football.

I can understand that in an international setting. And had I courted a young “shela” (is that what you call them?) I would have overlooked the distinction, but had I met a nice young American woman, and I said I played football, and she said “american football”? Or if my nice young fiancee introduced me to her family and friends as “This is hoosier Daddy, and he likes American Football, his favorite American Football team is the Beastly Beasts.” Then, I would leave that NPR listening, wine snobbing, social situation faster than you could say touchdown!

 

[underacloud]

Yes, sheila is the classic Aussie slang for a woman.

Blokes and Sheilas.

PS I have a mate (there’s some more classic Aussie for you) who always corrects me when I say soccer…“you mean football”. And he’s not even Eurpoean. Just a mad soccer - err, I mean football - fan.

PPS How are he and I mates? We’re both wine snobs.

 

[Hoosier_Daddy]

Yes, sheila is the classic Aussie slang for a woman.

Blokes and Sheilas.

PS I have a mate (there’s some more classic Aussie for you) who always corrects me when I say soccer…“you mean football”. And he’s not even Eurpoean. Just a mad soccer - err, I mean football - fan.

PPS How are he and I mates? We’re both wine snobs.

Classic. My kids play soccer. If they called it football they would be abandoned.

 

[SnowAngels]

I could never marry anyone who smokes, drinks, doesn’t like music or dogs, and isn’t Catholic.