It was a compliment and also a bit of a rant - it's difficult to see past the English side of things when you live amongst it. Personally I hate football as I think it's just a hooligan's sport, and blokes only get 'patriotic' over it as it's something simpleton's can get their heads together about and use it as an excuse to fight. Every ---steaming pile of meadow muffin----thick football think's they're being 'proud to be English' by hanging flags from their house Windows on council estates, putting the St. George cross all over their cars or bodies by tattoo when all they do is look a dick and represent everything that's wrong with this country.
I didn't know football (or soccer as we call it here) was considered a patriotic sport over there. That seems weird to me, since the origins of football wasn't even created by the English, but modernized and organized. But then, what else would be considered an English sport? Cricket, rugby? Yeah, I'd take soccer over those two any day. But I still can't stand soccer/football either, but only because it's FRICKEN BORING. It's like 2 hours of a bunch of "geezers" (see what i did there?
) running around, with the occasional "sliding trip" and/or/maybe a goal. zzzzzz...
In Canada here, ice hockey has been brain-washed into our minds as kids that it's the Canadian national sport, and Canadian pride. There are people here that resisted that suggestion as kids, but a vast majority of people here are hockey fans. I'm definitely one of them, as I sometimes get cranky if I don't get my hockey fix. It makes sense though, since it was actually an invention by Canadians (native or first-nation people created it). Though there's argument that it may have been a variant from field-hockey...but i digress. It's the one things that we pride ourselves for creating, as all the other great ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- Canadians created barely gets mentioned or is even known about (like: the zipper, the telephone, the wonder-bra, the pacemaker...
the list goes on).
Oh, and a 'chav' is a more recent term that came up in the last 10 years to describe low-lifes who live scummy lives on benefits, have low intelligence, low standards, low manners and usually criminal lifestyles, yet use their ill-gotten gains to dress in what they consider cool - Burberry check, caps, expensive trainers and gawdy gold, which is ironic as they usually drive round in £50 ---steaming pile of meadow muffin----heaps that are about 1 flat tyre from being scrapped, drink on the streets, get seriously under-age girlfriends pregnant and live in homes on estates that make beirut look like the bahamas.
Haha, I think I get it. It's like you say, white-trash/trailer-trash...or even worse IMO: white-trash and like to act like African-american gangstaz. We call them "wiggers", a play on the "n" word...(is that derogatory? my apologies if it is...)
I asked my english buddy about Chav, and he gave me kind-of the same answer. Though he mentioned that fruit machines and also those pub trivia arcade games are more likely the chav choice of pub gaming, rather than a retro arcade cabinet. That was funny to me, I was like "wtf is a fruit-machine?? does it give you fruit?!"...later learning that it's like a gambling machine, or slot machines as we call it here. I "busted my gut" over that one
We have a lot of people here from the UK, and it's always great learning new English terms.
In any case, awesome rant Turnarcades and thanks for the compliment!
I love how this is coming together. If you're still looking for input on the CPO, my vote would be for the stadium theme. While I love the action shots of the net cam, I don't like where the controls (and labels) line up on the photo. You're right on top of faces (and a near "crotch" button) in the net shots. The stadium shots just work better.
Both are great themes, I just like how it lays out better in #1.
Thanks for the input spOOf. I might play around with the net-cam images a bit more, as well, I'm thinking about using clear buttons with continuing artwork in them to keep the cp overlay showing. I might get rid of the button labels, or perhaps place them into the clear button cutouts. I'll cross that bridge when I get to it (hopefully soon!)
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