| Author | Message | ||
     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.19.178 |
I'm not remotely into cricket, but fuck me, England have won the ashes. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
Yeah, they did, but the Aussies are not the team they were in 2007 when they whipped us 5-0. It seems that as soon as Shane Warne retired, they all did. This was a decent series but not a patch on the if-you-put-it-in-a-book-they-wouldn't-believe-you series in 2005. Some of the best sport I've ever seen, that. Freddy didn't distinguish himself, either. Still, we did it without Pieterson. Nice work. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.19.178 |
Er, I'm not remotely into cricket. That read like latin. But I get your point.  | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
It's just the way my shorts ruck up over my knees. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.191.115 |
This wins the Promising Title, Shame About the Thread Award for 2009. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
Cricket will die now it's been snatched by Murdoch for Sky Shite+. Only folk who are already fans will remain fans. Kids like the one I was will never see it on telly and slowly be converted to its absorbing charms. Yes, I'm waiting for someone to now say, well, Murdoch's good for something, then. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.19.178 |
Sky is shit. | ||
| Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 124.181.89.123 |
You only get cricket on pay tv in the UK?! We got the Sky coverage here in Aus, but it was shown on a free-to-air channel. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
Shame your team's rubbish, mate.  | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.110.83.73 |
Ponting took it in the face well. Bloodily. | ||
| Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 124.181.89.123 |
'Character building', Gary. Apparently. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
Getting beaten by the English in any sport should certainly have that effect. And then some. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.159.145.163 |
One day, the whole world wll win the Ashes good and proper. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
No, one day the ashes will win the world. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
We know who won the Ashes, but who won the Funky? | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>We know who won the Ashes, but who won the Funky?<< Major Tom? Why am I reading a thread about cricket? It must be the most boring sport in the world ... *stirs it a bit, then runs like mad*  | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Not as mind-numbingly horribly tedious as GOLF!!!! | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Although a golf match is normally over in a couple of hours. A cricket match can go on for 5 tedious dull life-draining days and STILL finish in a f***ing draw. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.252.247 |
We'll make fun of soccer in America all day long, but we won't even deign to discuss cricket. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
Once you really understand cricket, you see its beauty. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
How much LSD do you need to take before that happens? | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>We'll make fun of soccer in America all day long<< Didn't us Brits have to send David Beckham over t'other side of the Atlantic to show you guys how to play it, Craig?  Actually, I think I agree about golf being even more boring than cricket ... *scarpers again* | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.173.198 |
We'll make fun of soccer in America all day long, but we won't even deign to discuss cricket. Ah, you can't play that either then... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
Craig, I think Michael Bay is working on a new film called ASHES. Apparently it promises to offer a cacophony of strategems, raucous mind games and visually convincing field formations. I for one can't wait. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.244.54 |
David who now, Caroline?... The guy who splashed into L.A. that no one seems to care about very much on the sports stations?... "Soccer" is most commonly used here in the U.S. (recently at least) in the term "soccer mom," which was originally to denote a political demographic. However, breaking the term down, we get "mom" - which implies a soccer kid - which implies, soccer is something you do as a child, that mommy shuttles you around to play in, until you're all grown up. ... Yes, I understand there are probably jihads now landing on my head from around the world as I write this, but - this is how America as a large and messily generalized whole, views soccer. We don't have any opinion on cricket. It is simply not on our radar. We just assume it's something poncy Brits do.  | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Craig, It's actually called football. As in you kick the ball with your foot. The game you Americans call football hardly uses the feet and is regarded by most of the rest of the world the way you guys regard cricket. Only the Americans could call a game where you very rarely touch the ball with your foot - football. Plus American Football is just rugby slowed down a million times and everyone wears masses of padding because the players are too damed soft. Having said that, we have a kids game called rounders. Change the circle of rounders into a square (diamond)and what have you got? That's right, the number 1 or 2 sport in the good ol' USA is a kiddies game from England... | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.19.178 |
I like the accoutrements of baseball, though. Those nice bats and balls and clothes. Also it's been in so many Stephen King books and described so warmly I almost have a soft spot for it. Rounders chilled my blood at school; I had no co-ordination and the other kids weren't too understanding about it.  | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.177.66 |
FIELD OF DREAMS is a good film. Even if the baseball is a maudlin attempt to sweeten the pill. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>Rounders chilled my blood at school; I had no co-ordination and the other kids weren't too understanding about it.<< Oh yes, I can empathise with that, Tony - I had the same problem. And I reckon girls with rounders bats/balls are more vicious than boys too. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
The other kids at my school weren't too understanding about a lot of things. One time, they weren't too understanding with a knife. Then there was the time when they weren't too understanding as they chucked little kids in the beck nearby. Not much understanding at Thornton School, alas. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
I know that school, Gary, so I know just what you mean! But that wasn't the school I went to. I was down south at the time. Talking of rounders, I recall when we were out there on the rounders field one day. My friend and I always used to stay well away from the ball so we wouldn't get hit, so Sue (name changed to protect her identity) was fielding as far out as possible. Next thing I knew, she was spark out on the ground, and the ball hadn't gone anywhere near her. She'd been hit on the head by a boomerang! Just how unlikely is that in the middle of Wiltshire?  (this is a true story - my friend still bears the scar across her forehead) | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.159.145.163 |
One time, they weren't too understanding with a knife. ============ Hence, the running leitmotif in Impelled.... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
Caroline: it was a terrible school. Mind you, the only geographical alternative was even worse. Rhodesway Upper. Even hoodlums in the making shuddered to venture anywhere around there. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
>>>Hence, the running leitmotif in Impelled.... May well be possible . . . |