Things that shouldn't piss you off, but do.

Things that shouldn't piss you off, but do.

Feel free to add your own. I'll give two really quick.

1. This girl I'm friends with on facebook makes a post about how s

05 October 2009 at 05:44 AM
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When reviewing a restaurant on TripAdvisor, and they ask you to select whether it's "Cheap eats", "Mid-range" or "Expensive".

Then, one of the follow-up questions is, "Are prices at this restaurant mid range?"

They only need to ask once.


That some overzealous mod 20 years ago IP blocked many of the east coast ProtonVPN addresses.

What did that accomplish? Nothing. I guess it does serve as a minor inconvience to some regular users, so there is that, but actual troll posters blocked = zero


yeah i mean, lol

im the wholesome mod yo


A hockey goalkeeper takes up the entire goal space. Yet 6+ goals are regular. Soccer players aren't actually good at the game they play. It's a giant goal with a tiny guy.
You're 4 meters away put the ball in, the net is huge. Again hockey players do the **** regularly when the entire goal is blocked by a guy with 50kg of pads.


Um, good one for thread, I guess, as soccer balls are much larger and slower than hockey pucks.


txdome referencing kg


The use of blitzkrieg bop in advertisements.


calibrating for scale of playing field and if attempted by stick or foot shoud inform the required accuracy of your aim


Not to mention offsides rules. Can you imagine the soccer scores without that?


by Garick

Um, good one for thread, I guess, as soccer balls are much larger and slower than hockey pucks.

it’s like the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing one


Checking out the frozen meats section at the grocery store and seeing that 85% of the items are chicken or turkey. Take a flying ****!


hockey has offsides too


by All-inMcLovin

hockey has offsides too

and icing!


by All-inMcLovin

hockey has offsides too

True, but not once the puck crosses the blue line. In the attack, cherry picking is completely legal.


by Garick

Not to mention offsides rules. Can you imagine the soccer scores without that?

It would be an improvement! I love it!


by Garick

Not to mention offsides rules. Can you imagine the soccer scores without that?

3-2 then?


by Didace

It would be an improvement! I love it!

I agree. Wouldn't have to be a total abandonment allowing a full-time cherry picker. Instead, maybe the hockey rule might apply, so there's no offsides once the ball enters the penalty area.

by golddog

3-2 then?

lol


by amplify

and icing!

And ice, skates, and sticks!
Soccer players aren't good at playing their game.
And they sit on the grass expecting a post penalty for someone stepping on their foot while play is still happening. Putting their team a man down so they can pout about being pro athletes.


I think if you kill a guy with the stick it’s only a 5-minute penalty which is nice.


by txdome

A hockey goalkeeper takes up the entire goal space. Yet 6+ goals are regular. Soccer players aren't actually good at the game they play. It's a giant goal with a tiny guy.
You're 4 meters away put the ball in, the net is huge. Again hockey players do the **** regularly when the entire goal is blocked by a guy with 50kg of pads.

the best argument for demonstrating how worthless soccer goalies are is that for most of them, the key metrics used to differentiate them is not their saving ability, which is very subjective and high variance - but rather how good they are distributing the ball once they have possession - is this a guy who can deliver an accurate deep ball?

by Garick

Not to mention offsides rules. Can you imagine the soccer scores without that?

by Garick

I agree. Wouldn't have to be a total abandonment allowing a full-time cherry picker. Instead, maybe the hockey rule might apply, so there's no offsides once the ball enters the penalty area.

yes it drives me nuts that goals get called off because the guy's elbow was over the line or someone heads in a goal on a corner kick form 6 yards out but it's called off because it glances off a teammate who was onside on the kick but "offside" once teammate headed it

by Garick

True, but not once the puck crosses the blue line. In the attack, cherry picking is completely legal.

it wasn't earlier, they had a 2 line pass rule to prevent it, but then defenses figured out a formation that made breaking out nearly impossible which took advantage of the fact that they could only pass the puck for short distances in the middle of the ice

on removing that rule, offense went from 5 goals a game to over 6

what soccer really needs alongside your offsides rule, is to give a backboard behind the net, most shots never hit the target, so even though there's some pretty good long distance kickers, they usually hold and look for something to develop rather than take a long distance shot, which in order to have a chance at beating the keeper means they gotta aim for the edges and will miss a lot

having a backboard incentivizes risking it on long shots because then it becomes a 50/50 possession in a dangerous area rather than ending the attack

we'd for sure see much higher scoring games


Things said in the US that should be banned:
Pitch
Nil
Tables
"England are" (insert any country/team name)


by amplify

I think if you kill a guy with the stick it’s only a 5-minute penalty which is nice.

2 minutes if you don’t draw blood.


Soccer has too many fatalities.

Oh, never mind, the guy is now running full speed. All is good


by rickroll

(Re offsides not applying in the attack zone)
it wasn't earlier, they had a 2 line pass rule to prevent it, but then defenses figured out a formation that made breaking out nearly impossible which took advantage of the fact that they could only pass the puck for short distances in the middle of the ice

on removing that rule, offense went from 5 goals a game to over 6

Interesting. I learned something new today. When did the rule change? I remember seeing cherry pickers in front of the goal when I was a kid, though maybe that was when the puck was behind the goal?


by Garick

Interesting. I learned something new today. When did the rule change? I remember seeing cherry pickers in front of the goal when I was a kid, though maybe that was when the puck was behind the goal?

The puck behind the goal is likely the trapezoid rule, but that is for the goalie.

The two line pass went away in the the early-mid 2000s.

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