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Thank you! American's game hardly has the grace nor the actual footwork to be called football.

It should be called catch.

Soccer.

Fight me.

It's football, don't need to fight it. Everyone but the States are on board with that!

Because everyone else is wrong and Canada calls it soccer too.

Right?! It's just a bunch of blokes crashing into one another!

I don't know what it should be called really but it shouldn't be called football. They don't even really use their feet?! Pointless.

I highly doubt that, that the would is wrong. Not about Canada. They're a strange sort anyway.

I'm Canadian. I'm tired. And I will literally take any reason to punch someone.

[Reiko giggled a little] And what fun is a team of bullies and thugs? At least in REAL football you have people of all sizes.

Some of the best players I've seen were small guys who looked like they'd get knocked over in a good breeze.

Don't think that sort of things worth coming to blows in any way, shape, or form.

Well I'm sure they're not all bullies and thugs, but they certainly seem to be that way right?

Oh yeah. I used to be alright at football. Probably couldn't do it now. But it was the only sport I used to do.

They may not be in the physical sense, but many seem to just play for the money. So they are in a way hired to beat the other team, is that not the definition of a thug? One hired to beat another?

I was always watching... I am more into singular sports, not really a team player.

I thought that, too, but then was corrected on it. Let me see how much I can remember:

Soccer, or 'Asoccer', is not only a European term for the sport, it's an older name for it than football. It only became "football" when the middle and lower classes started playing it, as it was previously considered a gentleman's sport. Around the 1800s when the Americans caught on to it, soccer was a legitimate name for the sport.

Yes it is. It so is.

Facts or not, I have to admit it's not right. Every time I hear it here it still messes with my head.

You know, I think you're right. Though I don't know if I'd call them thugs. They could probably eat a man like me for breakfast.

Well I'm not much into sports but I played footy as a kid.

I guess you can hit me then cause I'm not taking it back.

I played all through secondary school! I'm still unused to that term. Still, the facts were on Tori's side.

[She giggles] I took archery. I'd call them it if it fits... From fifty yards away.

I did that in school as well actually. I was alright at that. I doubt I could ever call it, given my eyesight, but I always thought it was fun.

Certainly didn't argue the facts. Still. It's football.

[She didn't learn it for fun...] It is calming for me. I feel less stressed before a target than in an operating room.

I agree.

[His was in no way survival. In fact if he actually tried to use it in that sense, well he'd be dead. Assuredly.]

I can see that. I suppose the whole act is very zen. It's been a long time since I've done it though.

Operating room?

[Her childhood was messed up anyway]

[She nodded softly.] Yes, I'm a medical doctor. Well still resident in Tokyo. Though I hope to have my own clinic. Staying with general medicine.

[That is something he can relate to though, not in the same senses. His, he supposes, was the normal sort of messed up.]

Oh man. I really have to admire that. I'd never be able to do that. To squeamish.

There are some things that Americans do I will always refuse to accept.

I've been doing first aide [Well kind of] To grandfather's men since I was fourteen so it was only the natural path for me.

What about you?

Still that's something to admire! I feel like a lot of people try and have a go about it but it takes a strong few to stick it out.

Well, uh, I'm unemployed technically which sounds sort of terrible. I'm in the process of trying to build stock for a record shop. Which also really pales in comparison to something like medical.

Music is just as important. I've helped some patients calm down by just playing soft music for them in recovery before. [She smiles]

But then again, I feel part of tending to the patient is both a mental and physical thing.

I've always loved music. It's truly been a passion. I used to teach and have a shop but things got a bit chaotic for a while and I focused on teaching but... I've retired from that and I've really gone headstrong into opening a new shop. Here's to hoping it does better than my last one.

It is, and if you can realise that then you'll be quite good at it. I don't think a lot of people get that.

It's not quite so bad in my case, I think, but I see where you're coming from.

It's great doing something you love.

It is common practice in eastern medicine. I try to use homeopathic cures as well as modern western medicines. Personally I do not like prescribing pills if I know there is something organic that does the job as well if not better. But for now... Have to continue the western prescriptions that we have startd to get too used to.