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And it can come as an embarrassing revelation that saying a club's formal name and nickname together exposes you as a tourist. (So it's never ''Essendon Bombers'', but ''Essendon'' or ''Bombers''. An exception is the Western Bulldogs, because there's no such place as ''Western''.)
kosifantutti wrote:I love St Kilda.
I love the Saints.
but I hate St Kilda Saints.
And finally someone agrees.
And it can come as an embarrassing revelation that saying a club's formal name and nickname together exposes you as a tourist. (So it's never ''Essendon Bombers'', but ''Essendon'' or ''Bombers''. An exception is the Western Bulldogs, because there's no such place as ''Western''.)
It is really Footscray or the Bulldogs but it was found that people living in Footscray can't pronounce Footscray.
It was also found that their number one ticket holder is incapable of telling the truth.
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kosifantutti wrote:I love St Kilda.
I love the Saints.
but I hate St Kilda Saints.
And finally someone agrees.
And it can come as an embarrassing revelation that saying a club's formal name and nickname together exposes you as a tourist. (So it's never ''Essendon Bombers'', but ''Essendon'' or ''Bombers''. An exception is the Western Bulldogs, because there's no such place as ''Western''.)
It is really Footscray or the Bulldogs but it was found that people living in Footscray can't pronounce Footscray.
It was also found that their number one ticket holder is incapable of telling the truth.
Amen and welcome back bro!
As for their number 1 ticket holder, she will be relegated to the dustbin just like Disaster Bligh come next election.
GO SAINTS!
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ace wrote:
It is really Footscray or the Bulldogs but it was found that people living in Footscray can't pronounce Footscray.
It was also found that their number one ticket holder is incapable of telling the truth.
Amen and welcome back bro!P
As for their number 1 ticket holder, she will be relegated to the dustbin just like Disaster Bligh come next election.
GO SAINTS!
Is that the one who lied about people throwing their children overboard? Oh no, that was your pin-up.
Nice little racist dig at footscray fans too Ace, no wonder premiers welcomed you back - pathetic.
ace wrote:
It is really Footscray or the Bulldogs but it was found that people living in Footscray can't pronounce Footscray.
It was also found that their number one ticket holder is incapable of telling the truth.
Amen and welcome back bro!P
As for their number 1 ticket holder, she will be relegated to the dustbin just like Disaster Bligh come next election.
GO SAINTS!
Is that the one who lied about people throwing their children overboard? Oh no, that was your pin-up.
Nice little racist dig at footscray fans too Ace, no wonder premiers welcomed you back - pathetic.
Racist ?
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If I stop ten fans at the next Saints game at Docklands and ask if the St Kilda Saints are playing, how many people do you think say no? Not many, I would guess. StKFC is a harken back to the motherland as much as St Kilda Saints is a nod to our new imperial masters. Indicating a preference to either one tells me you're either an EPL loving Anglophile or you're mid-coronary with a cheeseburger lodged in your throat. Most people don't seem to care either way. While the current trend is toward snapping up soccer fans with 'FC' names, the AFL has gone the other way before:
On the pronouncation - if I stop 10 random people in St Kilda and ask them if it's pronounced Saint Kilda, how many of them do you think say no? Aside from a small minority of footy tragics, very few people would believe the 'St' to be anything other than Saint. The fact that the team is called the Saints at all suggests the people naming the club thought the 'St' was pronounced Saint. Places tend to be known as whatever the people call them, so if most people say 'Saint', it's hard to see how they're wrong.
vacuous space wrote:If I stop ten fans at the next Saints game at Docklands and ask if the St Kilda Saints are playing, how many people do you think say no?
If you're at the game and you have to ask people who's playing, their responses might be affected by their concern about your mental state.
Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year for 2023 "Kosi Lives"
kosifantutti wrote:If you're at the game and you have to ask people who's playing, their responses might be affected by their concern about your mental state.
I usually have my AFL membership hanging from a lanyard around my neck, which is a telltale sign that I have no idea what I'm doing. If anyone has remaining doubts, I'll tell them I have more than 2500 posts on a football message board (and more than 200 on BigFooty!). That should give them half an idea what's going on upstairs.
I'm also aware that me calling anybody else a footy tragic is akin to some sort of pot/kettle situation in which Matt Rendell would recruit neither of us. I just want people to be aware that conversations like these - the order of the names, the St in St Kilda, having a full stop after St - Are not normal people conversations. These are the sort of conversations where the denizens of the internet distinguish themselves society as a whole. If you maintain any sort of delusions of being the sort of shoe-wearing normal who can maintain a conversation with a dentist at a dinner party, you aren't reading this right now.
I take your point though. Less scaring strangers at the footy. I can't say I'll try, but I'll try to try.
vacuous space wrote:If you maintain any sort of delusions of being the sort of shoe-wearing normal who can maintain a conversation with a dentist at a dinner party, you aren't reading this right now.
Well said. This should be in the banner.
Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year for 2023 "Kosi Lives"
