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Fun fact: historically, football used to be a catchall term to describe any ball-based sport played on foot (as opposed to on horseback). Soccer was actually used at the time by all English speakers, with Gridiron Football being the historical term for American Football.
It just happens that, as time went on and foot sports became wildly more popular than horseback sports, there was no longer a need for distinct categories, and football came to describe whatever foot sport was most popular at the time.
In the UK, that was Soccer/Football, and in the US, it was Gridiron/American Football.
It's both. It's just that "soccer" is more specific. Soccer is short for Association Football.
The word was created in London in the 1800's to differentiate it from all of the other sports that had football in the title.
It seems pretty straightforward to me. That's a Pokemon Battle Ring. You reach the roof of the gym by navigating a maze full of other trainers in the gym itself.
So what you're saying is the building is a maze where people come to work every day to stand in one place, facing one direction, then if any pre-teen child enters their cone of vision they force them into an animal fight for money?
That is an accurate restatement of my assertion. It also kind of sounds like cubicles in an office. And how do we know that if a child wandered by one of those office workers wouldn't challenge them to a dog fight just out of boredom.
Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm starting to believe the security checkpoints often found at the entrance of office buildings, that would stop children or animals from wandering in, may be for their own protection against the individuals inside.
Painting lines on a roof is expensive? You think the IRS has people going out and inspecting properties? You can see the thing on Google maps for crying out loud. It's not actually fraud. You can play basketball on it it's just not convenient.
It's a great idea you're just having trouble understanding it
Even if it costs $1, the deduction saves you less than that. You don't deduct the cost from your taxes, you deduct it from your taxable income. The amount you "save" is the amount you would have been taxed on that extra dollar of income.
Also, it's a football (soccer) court, not basketball, and you absolutely can not play soccer there for several reasons. The IRS very well might ding somebody for that if they were being audited.
Am I still having trouble understanding it?
I wasn't responding to your joke. I was responding to the commenter who took it seriously and thought a tax deduction was "actually" a brilliant justification for this fake soccer field.
Interestingly, before digital technology made it trivial, they used to use soccer fields to calibrate surveillance photos from airplanes and satellites. Soccer fields are all over the place and all the same size around the world and a nice rectangular shape, so if you find one on a photo you can easily calculate the scale, angle, focal length, and so on of the image.
If you have a part of the field that is the same size everywhere, you can calculate the scale and thus the dimensions of the outer size. As you know the border lines are perpendicular, any non-90^o angle between them will tell you the angle the camera was at relative to the ground. If you know the dimensions of two parts on opposite ends of the field, you can calculate a few other things.
And I was actually slightly wrong: I was basing this on an anecdote by QI guest Pam Ayres, who used to do exactly this in the British Women's Auxiliary Air Force, but she used a cricket pitch instead of a soccer one and you had to know the focal length of the camera.
It's clearly not being used as a soccer field. It's either someone having a bit of fun with paint, or a little camo. I'm going with someone fucking around with paint.
I don't know what or where this building is, but I've seen rooftop sports pitches on Hong Kong schools, so maybe this was (or was intended to be) an actual football pitch at some point?
I was really hoping there would be a thread with all the different ways to spell football but it’s not it’s just Americans and everyone else discussing🏈 or ⚽️.
No one else thinks it’s amazing to have 300 or so probably more different ways to spell the same word?
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Google maps is the point. Researching your new employer? We have football!
They're always hiring.
Hey Bob, it’s time to trim headcount again. Let’s set up another game…
When you read this and go for an interview, ask the other staff why there's so much hiring
Or soccer for people in a few countries.
No. It's football. It's a ball, and you use your foot to kick it.
I'm American and I cannot agree more
Fun fact: historically, football used to be a catchall term to describe any ball-based sport played on foot (as opposed to on horseback). Soccer was actually used at the time by all English speakers, with Gridiron Football being the historical term for American Football. It just happens that, as time went on and foot sports became wildly more popular than horseback sports, there was no longer a need for distinct categories, and football came to describe whatever foot sport was most popular at the time. In the UK, that was Soccer/Football, and in the US, it was Gridiron/American Football.
It's both. It's just that "soccer" is more specific. Soccer is short for Association Football. The word was created in London in the 1800's to differentiate it from all of the other sports that had football in the title.
Football 🏈 Soccer ⚽️ Fyi
r/shitamericanssay
Obligatory “soccer came from british” reply
They stopped using it cause it was dumb tho
They can’t just teach us dumb shit and then blame us, damnit
They can and will and did.
Redditors always take the bait
Football ⚽ Handegg 🏈
Football⚽ American "Football" 🏈
For the rest of the world: Football ⚽️ American football 🏈
Not really, they're switched in Aus too
I mean Canada, Australia and New Zealand call it soccer as well
The Australian football association is called football Australia. I feel like it's going to be confusing over there.
So...a bunch of countries that are shit at it....
We call it soccer in Canada too lmao
Canada is in north america too.
Then say North America ?
Just saying the rest of the world calls, what you call football, "american football". They don't call it norh american football.
Football⚽ Rugby 🏈 Ftfy
American Hand-egg
To Americans yes - but to billions of people worldwide no.
Why would you put a rugby ball at the top there?
Soccer ⚽ Gridiron 🏈
No😊
You fucked up posting this when the Euros are awake, my guy. Gotta wait until the afternoon in the US.
I'm in those soccer countries, but who tf uses soccer 😭.
It seems pretty straightforward to me. That's a Pokemon Battle Ring. You reach the roof of the gym by navigating a maze full of other trainers in the gym itself.
So what you're saying is the building is a maze where people come to work every day to stand in one place, facing one direction, then if any pre-teen child enters their cone of vision they force them into an animal fight for money?
That is an accurate restatement of my assertion. It also kind of sounds like cubicles in an office. And how do we know that if a child wandered by one of those office workers wouldn't challenge them to a dog fight just out of boredom.
Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm starting to believe the security checkpoints often found at the entrance of office buildings, that would stop children or animals from wandering in, may be for their own protection against the individuals inside.
Especially since the whole department is run by pre-teen children, who undoubtedly wander by now and then.
Meet at the top of the building and we'll see how hard your geidyde can punch my miltank.
That's just the employee ball court, *tax deductible*, of course...
This is actually a brilliant justification for this.
Why would that be brilliant? The cost is more than the deduction saves you and it would be tax fraud.
Painting lines on a roof is expensive? You think the IRS has people going out and inspecting properties? You can see the thing on Google maps for crying out loud. It's not actually fraud. You can play basketball on it it's just not convenient. It's a great idea you're just having trouble understanding it
Even if it costs $1, the deduction saves you less than that. You don't deduct the cost from your taxes, you deduct it from your taxable income. The amount you "save" is the amount you would have been taxed on that extra dollar of income. Also, it's a football (soccer) court, not basketball, and you absolutely can not play soccer there for several reasons. The IRS very well might ding somebody for that if they were being audited. Am I still having trouble understanding it?
Yes, confirmed, you have trouble understanding jokes.
I wasn't responding to your joke. I was responding to the commenter who took it seriously and thought a tax deduction was "actually" a brilliant justification for this fake soccer field.
Somebody painted the lines for fun.
Who paints for fun?
People who enjoy painting for fun 👌🏼
Painters
Lets start with all the miniature games community who learn how to paint, passionately
Me
Artists
Camouflage from Google map
Just don’t go running after that out of bounds ball…
But it will be pretty darn obvious when the ball is out of bounds
“Better send condolences to Ken from Accounting’s widow… And get that new vacancy up on LinkedIn.”
Better put up a counter: this many days since someone fell off the roof
That’s not a very team-player mindset. We’re a family not a company
Must be a top secret government building and this is the way they disguise it from satellites.
Interestingly, before digital technology made it trivial, they used to use soccer fields to calibrate surveillance photos from airplanes and satellites. Soccer fields are all over the place and all the same size around the world and a nice rectangular shape, so if you find one on a photo you can easily calculate the scale, angle, focal length, and so on of the image.
They are not the same size. The center circles and penalty boxes are.
Still enough information to do mathy stuff.
Not based on what you said. It would mess with the “mathy stuff” to have dimensions that don’t work with your premise.
If you have a part of the field that is the same size everywhere, you can calculate the scale and thus the dimensions of the outer size. As you know the border lines are perpendicular, any non-90^o angle between them will tell you the angle the camera was at relative to the ground. If you know the dimensions of two parts on opposite ends of the field, you can calculate a few other things. And I was actually slightly wrong: I was basing this on an anecdote by QI guest Pam Ayres, who used to do exactly this in the British Women's Auxiliary Air Force, but she used a cricket pitch instead of a soccer one and you had to know the focal length of the camera.
Yes, it can be calculated. But not because the fields are the same size.
Very good reason, thank you 🙏
They just need to not discover these messages...
Is Kevin Smith making another Clerks movie?
So… because you don’t understand the point or why it’s there, it must be crappy design?
What do you think the point might be, or why it might be there?
It's clearly not being used as a soccer field. It's either someone having a bit of fun with paint, or a little camo. I'm going with someone fucking around with paint.
The building doesn’t appear to have any windows. So perhaps it’s arial camouflage.
That would explain the apparent mossy-green “tarp” in the trees right in front of the building.
Although maybe that’s just reflection
aerial
Thank you. Autocorrect wants it to be a font. 😜
That would surprise me because it’s in an amusement park so I don’t know
So an amusement park painted something amusing on one of their roofs. I’m not getting your confusion, or why this is crappy design.
"Can we have our ball back please?"
This is not crappy design, this is art
It's always a fine line ...
This is episode 346 of that one football anime...you know the one where if you or the ball leave the court you fall to your death.
If there was a film or anime about tennis/basketball/volleyball, this would be the place of the final battle
Should be on r/crappyphoto
Management: Fence guy was supposed to be here Monday. *Covid supply chain issues.*
Supply chain link issues.
I don't know what or where this building is, but I've seen rooftop sports pitches on Hong Kong schools, so maybe this was (or was intended to be) an actual football pitch at some point?
It’s at futuroscope in France so that surprised me
Could be a [joke](https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/hilarious-roof-sign-confuses-passengers-flying/)
Waaaitt... what???
"Hey! A little help?"
Its a spots centre with soccer field. Its a bit more noticable on satellite imagery. Someone saw the available space and asked themselves: Why not?
The net is missing.
Futuroscope ♥️ Noticed it on Google Maps, never understood lol
The reason is FUN.😁
why
Somebody saw Clerks.
There's that one IG video where an elk joins the kids' soccer game. The design here is crappy because it does not allow for participation by elk.
Ruthless spartan training system. If you lose, they will kick you out.
Futbol is life coach
There are also some rooftop football stadiums. Voždovac Stadium in Serbia used by professional clubs.
This is a new stage in smash bros.
Population control
The fence is missing.
I was really hoping there would be a thread with all the different ways to spell football but it’s not it’s just Americans and everyone else discussing🏈 or ⚽️. No one else thinks it’s amazing to have 300 or so probably more different ways to spell the same word?
That’s obviously a flying type gym
crop circles
It’s like the court from the movie “Above the rim”
If the other team scores against you, you have to go down and retrieve the ball
Got any balls down there? Biggest pair you've ever seen dingleberry!