Times Square Billboard Featuring Gareth Bale..

[Misfit]

Well North American then Mr. I'm Shitting on the American Geographical Knowledge stereotype. Gaw!

Also I think SJ is about halfway down the map. Pretty much in line with St. Louis in fact. And Denver.

Why the phuck Phoenix has an NHL team I don't know.

 

[Misfit]

The Scots-Irish wish to complain about your lack of consistency in linguistics. Scotch is a drink and a tape.

Don't make fun of hith lithp. It's a legitimiate dithability you uncaring bathtard.

 

[StartingPrice]

The Scots-Irish wish to complain about your lack of consistency in linguistics. Scotch is a drink and a tape.

Not so.

Scotch-Irish is a particular term used to denote those members of the Ulster Presbyterian community who originated in Scotland, and not a composite term for anyone originating in Scotland or Ireland

 

[Misfit]

Both are acceptable, depending on where one is from I guess. Peculiarly I actually go the NA way of Scots-Irish but that's only because it's where I was first introduced to the term. Growing up slap bang in the middle of "the Troubles" I didn't hear the term used much in Blighty. Even on Auntie Beeb.

Grammatically, Scotch-Irish does seem to make more sense though as Scotch is an early contraction of Scottish.

 

[StartingPrice]

Both are acceptable, depending on where one is from I guess. Peculiarly I actually go the NA way of Scots-Irish but that's only because it's where I was first introduced to the term. Growing up slap bang in the middle of "the Troubles" I didn't hear the term used much in Blighty. Even on Auntie Beeb.

Grammatically, Scotch-Irish does seem to make more sense though as Scotch is an early contraction of Scottish.

Just to clarify:

1) The original paraphrase mentioning the Scotch-Irish was from The Sopranos (amazed no-one made the connection). The topic of convo is the Hollywood mis-representation of Italian-Americans as all being mobsters and mafiosi.

2) Your edited derivation is quite correct. I am using the term in a specific historical context. It was used most often to refer to those members of the Ulster Presbyterian community of Scottish decent who settled on the American frontier, at a time when Scotch was not less correct than Scots. This was the descent of many of the famous frontier families - the James's, Elders, Clancy's, I believe, not to mention the Clinton's, were all of this derivation. Most particularly, in academic debates concerning the representation of this community on the American frontier, often indeed as gunslingers and cattle-rustlers, they are referred to as the Scotch-Irish. The Scots-Irish would mean anyone from Ireland or Scotland

You are right, you would hardly here the term used nowadays, except in history books (hence my familiarity with it), and it is an academic in The Sopranos who uses the term

 

[Berglad]

 

[Deuce23]

Sorry to burst a lot of people's bubbles but Times Square is like 90% tourists 10% Americans

It looks good as a gesture though.

 

[Yid-ol]

Sorry to burst a lot of people's bubbles but Times Square is like 90% tourists 10% Americans

It looks good as a gesture though.

So it is really going global by putting it there, I like it even more!

 

[Danners9]

Are there any desktop-wallpaper sized versions of the image around?

 

[StartingPrice]

Sorry to burst a lot of people's bubbles but Times Square is like 90% tourists 10% Americans

It looks good as a gesture though.

WHAT?
You mean that it is Times Square isn't filled up with real people it is filled up with counterfeit people pretending to be real people with real American passports? Just sneaky folk trying to sneak in? Nah, don't want them scum supporting the team
Why is Daniel Levy even targeting Times Square then? Is he stupid? Didn't he do any research? Didn't he know there would only be fake people there? I bet that wasted £35 million that we would have used buying a new striker, who we have needed since 1387 B.C.
Daniel Levy is ruining this club. Spending our only transfer funds on a midfielder when everyone knows we need a miner striker! I bet he sits and laughs at us while paying his doppelganger to run around Spain on the last day of the transfer window with a wheelbarrow filled with monopoly money, pretending to try to buy players! I bet he ritually sacrificed Halilovic, dismembered his body and hid it in Jurgen's Beetle rather than pay the extra fifty pence to get him. He offered Barca 10 times more than Athletico in a desperate bid to not get him (sorry, I know that somehow sounds wrong but maths not my strong point ). I bet he said he wasn't paying £5 million for that Crap Chuff fella when he can pick up a card in any phone box in Lahndahn for a cheap tart for a tenner! Daniel Levy is ruining this club!

 

[easley91]

Happy, I've always spelled it 'tele' and never 'telly'.

 

[Revan1882]

I have a smaller circle living in coastal Rhode Island and watching games mainly in my home. However, I think the Americans I know who follow the PL still consider Spurs as an upstart with a glass ceiling and no real staying power.

Having said that, most still consider Liverpool as missing one or two players before ascending to their natural perch alongside Manu.

So they arent all that bright then

 

[Revan1882]

I would have to say that I don't see the ownership having any bearing. People here tend to gravitate towards the clubs that are doing well when they take interest in the league.

I think John Henry has made the most concerted effort by an American owner. Granted I work across the street from Fenway so see more evidence than I would with Sunderland, Villa, United or Arsenal, whose owners are in Florida, Ohio, Texas and Colorado if I recall correctly. But he has a fairly robust sports channel here called NESN and he heavily promotes Liverpool on that channel, which is dedicated to the Red Sox and the Bruins. But I don't think it has really made any impact. It might if Liverpool get back to the UCL, but at the moment he is doing more courting of current supporters and little in creating future ones.

So we do a few tours and get into the CL and we might make a dent in the US market, maybe we should sponsor a nascar

 

[Revan1882]

My mate (a gooner) used to boast that they were the only team that were called "The" as in The Arsenal.

Until I told him - you don't say The God though do you? You say God. Just as we say Spurs, no need for that "The" shit.

I know but every time I have seen us on ESPN they call us The Spurs, does my head in. Though I do love the way they always get the plays names wrong, Gary Bale played up front for us last summer.

 

[Deuce23]

So they arent all that bright then

I'd say Spurs are the "cool alternative" team, with people in certain places knowing enough now to realize supporting MU/Chelsea/Liverpool is cliche. Arsenal less so, cause they don't win anything. Doesn't mean the vast majority of newbies still don't pick one of them. Americans haven't embraced the romanticism of suffering yet, and probably never will.

 

[HappySpur]

I'd say Spurs are the "cool alternative" team, with people in certain places knowing enough now to realize supporting MU/Chelsea/Liverpool is cliche. Arsenal less so, cause they don't win anything. Doesn't mean the vast majority of newbies still don't pick one of them. Americans haven't embraced the romanticism of suffering yet, and probably never will.

I think you just called me a hipster douche bag.

 

[johnnyallen]

 

[Deuce23]

I think you just called me a hipster douche bag.

If you say you liked Spurs before they were cool, would this infinite circle of hipster-logic cause a minor explosion somewhere?

 

[Rupstoh]

If logic determines adverts and marketing potential, this is a masterstroke by THFC, UA and HP.

Adverts ask people to ask questions.

 

[Rupstoh]

Having spoken to some Spursites today we think it will be called the White Hart Lane NBC Arena