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Post by TheUser98 on Sept 22, 2018 2:20:58 GMT 10
Well my interest in history goes back to when I was about 8 or 9 when my grandma used to tell me about her childhood memories of the early days of World War II when Britain was bombed by German air-raids. However I didn't become interested in other history topics until a few years later, when I saw the film Back To The Future for the first time. Not sure if you've seen it, but in the film he travels back in time from the 1980s to the 1950s and it showed the cultural differences between the two decades. When I saw this I wondered what the other decades of the 20th century were like and after doing some research, I soon became fascinated with 20th century history. Interesting to hear! It's good that you took an interest in history at a really young age. In regards to Back To The Future, I have watched the movie before, but I have only ever watched parts of it, to be honest. Did you study history as a subject in school? I didn't. Throughout much of school, I was in low grade classes, so I didn't have much of a choice of what I could study. So most of my knowledge of history I've had to research.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Sept 6, 2019 18:35:40 GMT 10
TheUser98 What's your opinion of Boris Johnson and the state of UK politics at the moment?
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Post by TheUser98 on Sept 15, 2019 1:48:32 GMT 10
TheUser98 What's your opinion of Boris Johnson and the state of UK politics at the moment? Sorry for late reply. To be honest I've always been sort of apolitical and tend not to be that interested or involved in politics, so as such I can't really say I have that much of an opinion on Boris, but I will say though that I'm anti-Brexit and would have voted against it but the referendum actually ended just one day before I turned the voting age (18).
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Post by SharksFan99 on Nov 28, 2020 20:29:11 GMT 10
I can't believe I haven't asked you this before since you are a Pommie (that's an Aussie slang term for an English person btw  ), but do you support a football team at all? Have you ever been to a Premier League match?
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Post by TheUser98 on Nov 29, 2020 8:15:10 GMT 10
I can't believe I haven't asked you this before since you are a Pommie (that's an Aussie slang term for an English person btw ), but do you support a football team at all? Have you ever been to a Premier League match? I haven't been to a Premier League game. Despite being British, my favourite sport is not actually football, but baseball. I enjoy watching baseball from all around the world, especially American, Japanese and British baseball (although it's known as rounders here), but funnily enough it's only recently I've actually re-gained an interest for sport, for the past 10 years I had almost completely lost interest with anything sport-related (though with that said, I do enjoy watching FIFA World Cup when it's on), and instead my interest was all for video games, movies, history, etc. and I think the reason I've only just got back into sport is probably because of COVID-19, while everyone now has to stay at home and social distance, I was already used to this kind of lifestyle being an introvert, and this made me want to go out more than I ever had before, and thus I suddenly started to think a lot about sport again. But in terms of Premier League football teams I support, I'd probably say Arsenal. The football team I supported as a child was Derby County FC, being that I was born in Derby, but have lived in the neighbouring city of Burton for almost all my life, which has no professional football team.
Also I hear football (or soccer) much like in the United States, is really unpopular in Australia, is this true? If so, why do you think this is?
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Post by SharksFan99 on Nov 29, 2020 10:14:07 GMT 10
I can't believe I haven't asked you this before since you are a Pommie (that's an Aussie slang term for an English person btw ), but do you support a football team at all? Have you ever been to a Premier League match? I haven't been to a Premier League game. Despite being British, my favourite sport is not actually football, but baseball. I enjoy watching baseball from all around the world, especially American, Japanese and British baseball (although it's known as rounders here), but funnily enough it's only recently I've actually re-gained an interest for sport, for the past 10 years I had almost completely lost interest with anything sport-related (though with that said, I do enjoy watching FIFA World Cup when it's on), and instead my interest was all for video games, movies, history, etc. and I think the reason I've only just got back into sport is probably because of COVID-19, while everyone now has to stay at home and social distance, I was already used to this kind of lifestyle being an introvert, and this made me want to go out more than I ever had before, and thus I suddenly started to think a lot about sport again. But in terms of Premier League football teams I support, I'd probably say Arsenal. The football team I supported as a child was Derby County FC, being that I was born in Derby, but have lived in the neighbouring city of Burton for almost all my life, which has no professional football team.
Also I hear football (or soccer) much like in the United States, is really unpopular in Australia, is this true? If so, why do you think this is?Ah okay, that's interesting to hear. How did you become interested in baseball? At least you're not a Man United supporter. Being an Arsenal fan, I guess you wouldn't be too pleased about where they currently sit on the Premier League table!
There's a lot to it, so I will try and keep it brief. Football does have a lot of support here in Australia, there are quite a lot of people who choose to support a Premier League club (mainly Man U, Liverpool etc.) and the Soccerroos receive a lot of mainstream attention when they are trying to qualify for the World Cup. The main reason as for why football doesn't receive the same amount of attention/support as the AFL and NRL is because the sport itself has a bit of a stigma to it, it has had a chequered history in this country. After World War II, hundreds of thousands of southern Europeans (e.g Greeks, Italians) migrated to Australia and as they did so, they established football clubs which had names, club badges and home strips based on their homelands. For instance, there were clubs with names like South Melbourne Hellas, Sydney Croatia, Preston Macedonia etc. These countries have traditionally had poor relations with each other throughout the course of their histories and as a result, the migrant southern Europeans mostly had those same attitudes. Whenever a 'Greek club' (eg. South Melbourne Hellas) played against a 'Macedonian club' (e.g Preston Macedonia), for example, the fans would get very passionate and if the result didn't go their way, they would start to riot against the opposition fans and even light flares. These clubs competed against each other in the NSL (the then-national 'soccer' competition in Australia), so it was the main exposure the overwhelmingly white-Australia had to the sport. Basically, in the eyes of most people during the '70s, '80s and '90s, "soccer = violence". The AFL also pushed that narrative as they are a competitor to football and they are the dominant sporting code in every state/territory in the country with the exceptions of NSW and Queensland. As a result, the mainstream media also hopped on board and they stigmitised the sport at every opportunity they could. This news report from 1996 is a pretty good example of it: It wasn't until the mid 2000s when the A-League was created and the Soccerroos qualified for the 2006 World Cup that attitudes have gradually began to change. The ethnic incidents have been a thing of the past for a long time now, and the A-League receives a decent amount of support. Melbourne Victory achieves over 25,000+ members each year and the Sydney derby achieved a 61,000 crowd back in 2016. Also, football has been the most participated junior sport in the country for quite a number of years now, so things are slowly changing and younger people are more receptive to the sport than previous generations were.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2020 10:39:07 GMT 10
Who's your favorite British comedian and why is it Eddie Izzard? (jk)
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), but do you support a football team at all? Have you ever been to a Premier League match?