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Frazzled wrote:You're saying parachuting is not a manly activity? Try it.

edit....NM reading fail!!

Parachuting is not manly??!!


I think those blokes might have something to say about that...Jumping out of a perfectly good aeroplane THEN killing everyone stupid enough to be still hanging around as soon as you hit the ground? That's ALL kinds of manly.


p.s. I like vuvuzelas, they sound grimdark.

It's not parachuting if you forget the parachute.

I've gone skydiving, and IMO, It's pretty manly. I almost gak my pants every time because I'm afraid the parachute wont work (it works 99.99% of the time, but you never know) but it sure as hell is fun. There's nothing like the wind against your face and spinning in the air.

WARBOSS TZOO wrote:

mattyrm wrote:American sports are not more "manly" than anyone else's.

I want some of what you're smoking if you don't think it takes more guts to play gridiron than basically any other sport. Getting tackled in it is like getting hit by a truck.

haha! Boxing? I used to box, try getting the feth punched out of you for 12 rounds.

We used to play gridiron on the industrial wastes of post apocalyptic Middlesbrough when i was a teenager, and it was jungle rules with neck grabs and flying kicks. The oil company tried to make it big here, and you used to collect merchandise for petrol money, my mam got me 4 pint glasses, a scarf and some stickers for my bedroom window.. you guys must remember that? I used to like the Dolphins cos they had cool helmets.

And rugby? Its basically the exact same.

I shall counter your stirling argument, by simply saying that if you think getting tackled is like getting hit by a truck, you are an absolute jessie!

I will also add that i doubt armour would help you much if you got hit by a speeding 40 tonner.

Simple test.

US football lots of pads and lots of steroids.
How many rugby players have had brken limbs, been paralyzed or killed. Now compare to US football. The one with the most wins (or loses depending on perspective). If its even close US football it more tough because thats through all the pads.

1) I like Vuvuzelas

2) Jumping out of a plane is manly, with or without a parachute. Just ask James Bond.

3) Compared to Rugby, American Footballers A) play by a radically different set of rules, B) have radically different intentions for what they want to achieve when blocking/tackling (not the same thing) C) use utterly different techniques due to the equipment used, relative starting positions and likely relative motions at the point of impact and D) experience FAR HIGHER IMPACT FORCES. I wish I could find a decent reference, and I'll try to later, but you are looking forces almost double in American Football. All of these things make a significant difference. I've never played rugby in my life, so I can't personally make direct comparisons, but I've dragged two of my rugby playing friends along to training sessions and they have both cried off ever coming again. I am sure the same would happen in reverse if I played Rugby, as I would not have right techniques, and while the hits would be softer, they woudn't be padded.

There are very very hard men playing both sports, and both will take their sports to the maximum physical extremes, because if they don't, someone else will come along, go to the max, and beat them. Try telling either Lawrence Dallaglio or Lawrence Taylor they aren't both hard men. Nonsense. It is two intense physical sports, both at the limit of what can be done.

(On a personal note, if American Football isn't a physically punishing sport, care to explain to me why I had to spend six months learning how to walk again after having my knee rebuilt? Why, now that I am playing again, I stood on the sidelines for 40 minutes last Sunday waiting for play to restart while the medics tried to move a guy off the pitch without causing further irrepairable damage to his knee and ankle? Why I once saw a guys foot on backwards? Why one of my team-mates is hooked on Tramadol? Why his brother has missed the first half of the season because he still can't lift his arm above his shoulder, and yet will be back playing in two weeks time?)

Who said it WASNT a physically punishing sport? Of course it is.. the Most? Who knows... theres lots of them.

Plus i was only taking the piss, the threads about vuvzelas, not a cock measuring contest.

Sure American footy is hard graft, but so are lots of contact sports..

Now to get back on track...

Albatross wrote:Parachuting is not manly??!!


I think those blokes might have something to say about that...Jumping out of a perfectly good aeroplane THEN killing everyone stupid enough to be still hanging around as soon as you hit the ground? That's ALL kinds of manly.


p.s. I like vuvuzelas, they sound grimdark.

Paras arent manly, Royal Marines are manly cos we strap dogs on so it can maul birds on the way down!

fair point.

And I think Vale Tudo is the most manly sport.

Speak o' the devil, my vuvuzela just came in the mail.

The only use for a fething vuvuzela is to hold it upside down and pour a pint down the bastard!

mattyrm wrote:The only use for a fething vuvuzela is to hold it upside down and pour a pint down the bastard!

and after you slam the pint like its a beer bong, you can blow it and let everyone know you finished your beer lol

http://www.theonion.com/articles/south-african-vuvuzela-philharmonic-angered-by-soc,17625/