I am stumbling my way around this site and I found this. it is a really neat idea! my family is taking a vidio lecture course on great authors in western literature and in finding suggested reading we found this site. can't wait to find out more.
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I am stumbling my way around this site and I found this. it is a really neat idea! my family is taking a vidio lecture course on great authors in western literature and in finding suggested reading we found this site. can't wait to find out more.
hello :wave: it is great isnt it?
You are welcome here.
those are the primary ones. i'm fascinated by ancient cultures (the greeks in particular), religion and the human drama. i also have a distinct weakness for football, foreign climes and fancy old buildings.
lots of interesting old buildings in India...especially in Delhi(the capital),
The architecture's fascinating.
oohh, don't i know it!
seems the only criteria india doesn't satisfy in that brief list of interests is football - but hey, 5/6 ain't bad, and neither is cricket ;-)
britain and India...have always had good relations haven't they?....:D
i'm south african - so guess we were both colonised by the british!
no guessing.....Im sure we were!!
ur location made me think u were British.
Nice to have you with this forum. Welcome. Is your weakness for American football, or that other game where they just kick that thing around with no scoring? :p ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tiresias
Aren't those the same thing? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
the boring one - where several dedicated old fans are still waiting for their teams to score the fabled 'goal'.
i believe in the american version obese, helmeted juggernauts smash one another into submission in a desperate attempt to clear a path for the fleet footed one to carry a hardened pigs bladder over the line? according to others who have gleaned pieces of the myth this occurs many times in a single game (!), and once a team has suceeded in this quest they get to kick a creature called a field gole? apparently the game also has ritualistic significance as a thanksgiving spectacle, during which time the entire american populace grinds to a halt and assembles on couches across the continent, giving praise to the almighty "quarterback" and pouring libations of budweiser to the football gods?
frankly i can't imagine why it hasn't caught on on this side of the atlantic??!
thanks for the welcome, glad to have discovered this place :-)
LOL. Touche.
I love that word touche. I hate the football, whatever it is called anywhere with a passion.Guys running about wearing tights and slapping each other on the derriere is revolting. Smashing one another being loud, crude and disgusting. And that is just the fans!. No way.
But welcome, I too am colonized I suppose, being from Canada. I still love the queen anyway even if the royals have rather flipped out the last decade or so.
LOL. Rachel, have you lived in Canada all your life?