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Re: Chris Whitten interview
« Reply #150 on: February 21, 2022, 04:37:15 PM »
The GOAT quarrel has become the highlight of the week to me. Reminded me of this tennis thread when a guy said Federer was the goat and a Nadal fan replied with the following question: bulls are stronger than goats, are you admitting Nadal is stronger than Federer?

For the record Rafa’s nickname is miura, which happens to be a bull breed… I laughed for hours.
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Re: Chris Whitten interview
« Reply #151 on: February 21, 2022, 04:40:08 PM »
sam, i meant "Greatest of all times" it is a standard (American english mostly i presume) saying to describe the best

Maybe it's the standard saying for kids who use the phone H24, not surely for 100% of the people or most of the people
possible. still, before i would say such definitive things as Sam did, i would maybe try and double check.
he has known me for ages, so i think i can claim the benefit of doubt.
i am still flabbergasted by the reaction. totally unnecesarry.

I'm the only one or nobody on Earth even uses "goat" as an insult in English? We use it in Russia (meaning the animal, which this word represents, like "kozel" in Russian), but I never heard anybody insulting anyone with "goat" in English, that's not even a thing. So it must be something else, then it also written in capital letters, also a clue... Also, "the" goat. So yeah, Sam, I think you may find this situation hilarious and don't take it too seriously. A bit of research never harms.

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Re: Chris Whitten interview
« Reply #152 on: February 21, 2022, 04:44:16 PM »
The GOAT quarrel has become the highlight of the week to me. Reminded me of this tennis thread when a guy said Federer was the goat and a Nadal fan replied with the following question: bulls are stronger than goats, are you admitting Nadal is stronger than Federer?

For the record Rafa’s nickname is miura, which happens to be a bull breed… I laughed for hours.

Man, this really reminds me of this saying in English, when instead of saying "yes" you say "Is the pope Catholic?", it's like a rhetorical question. And people who don't get it answer "I don't know". And this phrase is quite popular, also they use "does a bear shit in the woods?" and even combined with the first phrase, "does the Pope shit in the woods?". Gotta love English. Imagine how some people can interpret that!

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Re: Chris Whitten interview
« Reply #153 on: February 21, 2022, 05:38:41 PM »
The GOAT quarrel has become the highlight of the week to me. Reminded me of this tennis thread when a guy said Federer was the goat and a Nadal fan replied with the following question: bulls are stronger than goats, are you admitting Nadal is stronger than Federer?

For the record Rafa’s nickname is miura, which happens to be a bull breed… I laughed for hours.
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Re: Chris Whitten interview
« Reply #154 on: February 21, 2022, 05:39:37 PM »
The GOAT quarrel has become the highlight of the week to me. Reminded me of this tennis thread when a guy said Federer was the goat and a Nadal fan replied with the following question: bulls are stronger than goats, are you admitting Nadal is stronger than Federer?

For the record Rafa’s nickname is miura, which happens to be a bull breed… I laughed for hours.

Man, this really reminds me of this saying in English, when instead of saying "yes" you say "Is the pope Catholic?", it's like a rhetorical question. And people who don't get it answer "I don't know". And this phrase is quite popular, also they use "does a bear shit in the woods?" and even combined with the first phrase, "does the Pope shit in the woods?". Gotta love English. Imagine how some people can interpret that!
exactly. love that phrase too
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Re: Chris Whitten interview
« Reply #155 on: February 21, 2022, 07:01:21 PM »
The GOAT quarrel has become the highlight of the week to me. Reminded me of this tennis thread when a guy said Federer was the goat and a Nadal fan replied with the following question: bulls are stronger than goats, are you admitting Nadal is stronger than Federer?

For the record Rafa’s nickname is miura, which happens to be a bull breed… I laughed for hours.

I'm Spanish and I never ever heard Nadal to be called Miura, lol

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Re: Chris Whitten interview
« Reply #156 on: February 21, 2022, 07:09:35 PM »
This has been a rough week around the forum!

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Re: Chris Whitten interview
« Reply #157 on: February 21, 2022, 08:39:59 PM »
sam, i meant "Greatest of all times" it is a standard (American english mostly i presume) saying to describe the best

Maybe it's the standard saying for kids who use the phone H24, not surely for 100% of the people or most of the people


The term GOAT has been around for at least 30 years and is used regularly by millions of tennis fans when talking about, in particular, Roger Federe, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.

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Re: Chris Whitten interview
« Reply #158 on: February 22, 2022, 06:38:15 AM »
I never heard the term Goat, but I'm not in any other forums in internet, further than Spanish City, and we talk Spanish there.
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Re: Chris Whitten interview
« Reply #160 on: February 22, 2022, 09:21:48 AM »
Why can't people just say "greatest of all time" does it really take that long to say? also, it is clear for people who don't know about the Goat thing.
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Re: Chris Whitten interview
« Reply #161 on: February 22, 2022, 09:54:26 AM »
Why can't people just say "greatest of all time" does it really take that long to say? also, it is clear for people who don't know about the Goat thing.

Just the same as any abbreviation I guess, although usually they don't cause such controversy!
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Re: Chris Whitten interview
« Reply #162 on: February 22, 2022, 09:59:58 AM »
Why can't people just say "greatest of all time" does it really take that long to say? also, it is clear for people who don't know about the Goat thing.

Just the same as any abbreviation I guess, although usually they don't cause such controversy!

Americans love acronyms and acronymify everything... NASA, NASCAR, NATO, job titles, CEO, CFO, CAO, airports, technology, LAN, FTP, SMS, associations, all sorts of things, no wonder acronyms would get their way into emails. ASAP may be the most famous acronym in the world which is probably universally known and a word on its own by this point. My personal favourites are LMAO and GG (Good Game). I think the world is changing and these acronyms are in the wild for decades now, so people who don't get it, it's their problem really. They are living under a rock or something? It's like I recently saw Jeff Goldblum's video and he doesn't know what 5MP means in photography.

The problem sometimes arises when people acronymify song titles on this forum and sometimes you really need to switch on your inner Sherlock Holmes to figure out what it means. But some are already classics like PONO (Planet of New Orleans), SOS (Sultans of Swing), ATRR (All The Roadrunning), STP, RPD and so on.

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Re: Chris Whitten interview
« Reply #163 on: February 22, 2022, 10:36:33 AM »
This thread is FUBAR. (military acronym from 1940s ...)

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Re: Chris Whitten interview
« Reply #164 on: February 22, 2022, 10:42:55 AM »
Why can't people just say "greatest of all time" does it really take that long to say? also, it is clear for people who don't know about the Goat thing.

Just the same as any abbreviation I guess, although usually they don't cause such controversy!

Well, sometimes, people usually wask, why do you mean with SFFTC?

I tend to ignore those abbreviations as I'm not going to spend a second trying to get that meaning... abbreviations for album titles work very well, but for individual songs, considering the hugh number of DS and MK songs existing... It is difficult.
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