I imagine France and Italy would object to being lumped in with the UK and the Commonwealth. Rugby is strong in both of those countries, as well as in Argentina.
how very much rugby is a regional phenomenon. With the exception of the Paris team, all of the teams in the French league, iirc, are from the southwestern part of the country, and if you watch a game on French television, the accents of the commentators make it fairly clear as well.
Firstly - "With the exception of the Paris teams" would be what you need in there. Secondly - Lyon and Toulon are in the south but I wouldn't call them western.
Rugby is mostly a sport of the southwest but it spreads right across the south.
*MySmiley*
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Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
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General knowledge!
08/07/2011 02:04:51 PM
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I prefer pot luck
08/07/2011 02:25:22 PM
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I'm docking you for spelling!
08/07/2011 02:34:25 PM
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Bad joke, very bad joke!
08/07/2011 02:36:09 PM
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I missed Question 4. I think that's hardly general knowledge.
08/07/2011 03:13:22 PM
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I knew it.
08/07/2011 03:18:20 PM
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Let's not get ridiculous here.
08/07/2011 11:04:14 PM
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Yes, but the way certain Kiwis around here gush over them we should all know the All Blacks.
08/07/2011 04:56:21 PM
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Or it's 94 of the world's countries.
08/07/2011 05:52:54 PM
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I don't know about Italy, but it's interesting in France...
08/07/2011 07:07:16 PM
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not exactly
08/07/2011 07:20:58 PM
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Don't make me laugh at your silly sport even more.
08/07/2011 11:11:55 PM
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Not quite
08/07/2011 11:45:08 PM
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Asking a non-Rugby fan about the All Blacks ...
09/07/2011 12:15:24 AM
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Bad analogy.
09/07/2011 03:21:23 AM
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Actually, it's a pretty good analogy...
09/07/2011 09:44:50 AM
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So you're saying NZ culture is as relentlessly projected as American?
09/07/2011 03:00:33 PM
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Obviously not, but then American culture is projected in so many ways.
09/07/2011 04:37:27 PM
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7/10, missed 2, 3 and 4. Number 6 was a lucky guess and I've no idea how I knew Motown *NM*
08/07/2011 04:56:14 PM
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All of them. Although Motown was a guess and I tossed a coin for souvlaki. *NM*
08/07/2011 05:54:30 PM
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10, although I didn't actually expect my guess for #2 to be correct... *NM*
08/07/2011 07:52:27 PM
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