<p>and he would apologize for calling you a pompous twit were he not so obviously one himself</p>
<p>dude, sorry if I offended you but really I was confused by your idea that the French do not have a concept of “trash talk” - the tone came over more harshly than I intended - chalk that one up to being tired (it’s late here) and typing instead of talking.</p>
<p>rorosen - thank you and thank you for the laugh. I needed it.</p>
<p>no worries. just didn’t get the obviously you don’t know french stuff. Never ever claimed to and is precisely why I asked for clarification. Sorry for my harsh attitude towards you and to sidetrack things here…</p>
<p>What about recognizing the reality that the two teams are unable to defeat each other and declaring them co-champions?</p>
<p>Ack. A Tie? Sorry to bring the sister stuff back here, but settling for a tie has been famously (and rightfully) pronounced to be the equivalent of kissing your sister, or an elderly grandmother like Rorosen. A useless endeavor.</p>
<p>Agree, eng_dude. A tie is a let-down.</p>
<p>Is rorosen female? Somehow I had a male in mind.</p>
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<p>someone has a little issue with females,…oh, maybe you put the dude in english</p>
<p>Dunno. The effeminate writing style always led me to believe she was a Rosanne, Roxanne, Rosy, Rose type of Rosen. I’m probably completely wrong of course!</p>
<p>Hmmm… Someone can only be effeminate if he is a male. A woman is feminine.</p>
<p>touche! +chars</p>
<p>you just keep discussing those manly sports, big guy
and leave the flowery language to us androgynous poster boys,…</p>
<p>haha. Carry on, then…</p>
<p>throwing in the beer-soaked towel then?</p>
<p>not until you do a beer bong and decry the futility of ties in World Championship deciding soccer matches…or I’ll even settle for a rationale as to why a tie is acceptable.</p>
<p>mmmm,…beer bong. No ties!!!</p>
<p>bowties maybe?-it’s a zany academic metrosexual thing. you wouldn’t understand.</p>
<p>Actually, we accept ties in high school championship matches in our state. The teams are declared co-champions.</p>
<p>A tie is acceptable when it is the just result, accurately representing the relative strengths and forms of the teams. </p>
<p>My return question is: why is it acceptable to overturn that just result by using a procedure foreign to the beautiful, continuous, team-oriented flow of soccer so as to arbitrarily annoint a team to be the winner?</p>
<p>I think the best solutions for resolving ties at the pro level are to either play another game the following (or next practial) day. Or to have a series of games with the winner winning the best 3 of 5 or 4 of 7, etc…Which very well might not be practical at all at the HS level but certainly could be at the top professional level. Realizing fully well that the individual games themselves may end in ties.</p>
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Doesn’t the “academic” negate the “sexual” in “metrosexual”: e.g. a pumping academic? Ey! Its a buzz-kill.</p>
<p>it’s all about appearances. If you look sexy, there’s no reason to go about having to prove it!</p>
<p>yeah…I’d go with that…[the poor ■■■■■■■ probably believes this #@!^&$…you’re not reading this part are you?:)].</p>