(I barrack for whichever team has the nicest uniforms.)

[deird_lj]

I really do live in the wrong town.


All around me, people are discussing the footy, the soccer, the latest... err... other game that people play...

See - I'm so un-sporty that I don't even know what other sport they'd be discussing at this time of year. And yet, I live in Melbourne. Melbourne where "Who do you barrack for?" is a standard question the first time you meet someone.


Somewhere in the world, there must be a town where people don't care about sport - but get into extremely passionate discussions of novels over the morning coffee. And someday, I'm going to go live there.

Comments

Barrack

[1c2k3p4p5c.livejournal.com]

Check out international differences in the term "to barrack".

Re: Barrack

[jl-in-the-lane.livejournal.com]

I was about to post the same thing!

In my linguistics course 'English around the world', one of the phrases we discussed was
'NO BARRACKING ALLOWED',
which sounds party-pooperish in Australia, but actually means, kinda,
'You are not allowed to boo and heckle the team opposing your team of choice.'

Put that together with the whole 'Sit on your fanny and root for your team!' fiasco and you've got a nice little pot of confusion gong...