æʃliŋ, ring racers purropawgandist @aescling@cat.family

@coriander i did not realize it might be pawsible to impurrove on purrfection like this. truly, goblin wisdom knoweth no bounds

@vaporeon_ i’m just repurrting what i can gather from the etymology; i don’t really know middle english

@coriander she’s just like me fr fr

@vaporeon_ yes; though from what i can tell, you would usually use “skyrmissh” instead

@vaporeon_ it comes from Middle English fur “skirmish” (“scrymmage,” an alteration of “skyrmissh”), so really the brits invented that one

@vaporeon_ water polo, fur one

@vaporeon_ you want to carry it into the end zone. the game is about holding onto the ball. dropping it can have disastrous consequences

there are rules about throwing it; under normal circumstances, only the quarterback may do that while still behind the line of scrimmage (the term fur the line on the field where the current play starts from)

there are rules about kicking it, sometimes into the goalposts to score (if less than a touchdown), and very often to the other team (either a kickoff or a punt, depending on the situation)

@vaporeon_ no

@vaporeon_ actually, the latter might be a rugby ball

@vaporeon_ either of 🏈🏉

@vaporeon_ an entire football league of Clodsire

@vaporeon_ Clodsire trying to impotently bonk the football into the goal with its little round pawbs

@wallhackio i thought i heard you popping off

@chr idk if i actually think yeti works, but it’s such a compelling answer fur some reason that i had to throw in a vote fur it

mornyawn, and also, hey @clock

https://bsky.app/profile/retrofeather.bsky.social/post/3m7wgodonpk2b

@vaporeon_ (most cat pokémon don’t have drawn whiskers, interestingly)

@vaporeon_ explicitly, no, actually, but the way fur is sharped on their faces is pretty obviously evoking whiskers