11 - Game of Two Halves

[thinkb4ublink]

[Filtered away from people who've murdered since Slater's arrival (November)]

Right. Football. That game where you use your foot to move the ball about, not that American nonsense where your foot hardly touches the bleedin' thing. [How can you in good conscience even call it that, people, really?] Any one you lot know how to play?

[OOC: If you fear that you can't remember or it was under wraps for whatever reason, feel free to have Slater either forget/not know about it.]

Comments

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

I do. Unfortunately, can't play.

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

Why not?

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

Stitches in my chest. Doctor's orders, basically.

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. That's too bad.

WOULD NANOMITES DISQUALIFY REX? Because if not, I'll throw an unathletic nerd in

[requiresssacrifice]

Actually, probably not.

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

Slater gets how much planning that took and figures that if he upset him, the chances that Rex will plan that long would be slim.

HAVE A NERD, THEN

[requiresssacrifice]

I don't know how to play, but I imagine it's easy to pick up. You just... kick it in the other team's direction, right?

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

Shoot in the goal, yeah. I mean, if you're madcap into it, ya could go into offside rules but eh... [He was never popular when he tried that. Well, that is, even less popular.] only three of us on each side.

[requiresssacrifice]

That sounds simple. [It's not.] I'd like to try. [He will be terrible.]

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

All right, then. I'll put you down for it an' let you know.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

I know rugby football...

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

Is that not just 'rugby', mate?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Technically, but it's similar, isn't it?

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

Not really? Only the goalie's allowed touch the ball with 'is hands.

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

I've never played, but if it's anything like hockeyball, I'll play.

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

What's hockeyball like, then?

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

Everyone has a stick and two nets and it's very violent.

[notiaraincluded.livejournal.com]

You mean where you kick the ball around for about half an hour til someone decides to kick it at the goal?

[Cause his football is still better, even if the name doesn't make sense.]

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

That's only if you get paid to do it, mate.

[what_ho_jeeves]

I haven't actually played it, being more of a cricket chap myself, but I've seen it done.

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

[Gordon Bennet, it's the toffiest toff that ever toffed.] Out in the wilds?

[what_ho_jeeves]

In Market Snodsbury. Some of the village children sometimes organized games in the street.

[failedcreator.livejournal.com]

What is this football?

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

I'm going to take that as a 'no'. It's pretty much what it says on the tin. Hit the ball with your foot.

[failedcreator.livejournal.com]

I know many games of this nature. What is the purpose of this one?