We should be talking cricket - Page 2

ZenGum · 08-09-2008, 10:14 PM

Indeed, now that Warne and McGrath have retired, our attack is back to "pretty good", down from the "holy shit!" status it had for a while.

Let us together lament the decline of the Calypso Kings.

classicman · 08-10-2008, 11:09 AM

OMG - you really are talking Cricket!

lookout123 · 08-10-2008, 11:06 PM

yay! i know nothing about cricket but I'll listen in and see if I can learn anything.

xoxoxoBruce · 08-10-2008, 11:25 PM

Naw, they're not talking about Cricket, they're talking about the current state of international competition.
That's like going to see a war movie, and it turns out to be a UN debate on international strife.... Just ain't the same.

regular.joe · 08-11-2008, 04:09 AM

I'm vaguely thinking about the joke...."The U.S. didn't know what "rest of the world" meant."....

Cricket? The rest of the world plays a game called cricket?

ZenGum · 08-11-2008, 08:00 PM

Don't feel too lonely, Joe. MOST of the world does not play cricket. Its pretty much confined to the old British empire (plus Holland who got it via South Africa).

The point of test cricket is that in the height of summer, when it is 40 degrees (100F) outside, you get to spend the hottest part of five days inside sitting on the couch with your mates drinking beer and eating chips. And since many test trophies are decided not by a game but by a series of three, four, or five matches (in the past, sometimes six), this can mean almost a month of male idleness elevated to an art form.

Any further questions?

regular.joe · 08-11-2008, 08:08 PM

Does the game require any athletic talent?

DanaC · 08-11-2008, 08:14 PM

Does baseball?

BigV · 08-12-2008, 02:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DanaC

Does baseball?

Yes.

ZenGum · 08-11-2008, 08:16 PM

To play? Well, it certainly helps, as you leap and dive for a catch or chase down a ball racing away toward the boundary, or stand in blazing sun in heavy protective gear for a day and a half swinging a wooden club as hard as you can at a fast moving ball, without losing concentration.

To watch? Not now that we have the remote control. You'll need a beer fridge near the couch, though.

DucksNuts · 08-11-2008, 08:28 PM

fuck the cricket

regular.joe · 08-12-2008, 10:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DucksNuts

fuck the cricket

I'll be the cricket.

Aliantha · 08-12-2008, 02:51 AM

I'm sick of cricket, regardless of what country happens to be playing it!

miketrees · 08-12-2008, 07:09 AM

Blasphemers!

And non believers

Now I know how the early missionaries must have felt

DanaC · 08-12-2008, 07:21 AM

Cricket? .... Bollocks, more like.

08-09-2008, 10:14 PM	#1
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Indeed, now that Warne and McGrath have retired, our attack is back to "pretty good", down from the "holy shit!" status it had for a while. Let us together lament the decline of the Calypso Kings. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

08-10-2008, 11:09 AM	#2
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	OMG - you really are talking Cricket! __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

08-10-2008, 11:06 PM	#3
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	yay! i know nothing about cricket but I'll listen in and see if I can learn anything. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

08-10-2008, 11:25 PM	#4
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Naw, they're not talking about Cricket, they're talking about the current state of international competition. That's like going to see a war movie, and it turns out to be a UN debate on international strife.... Just ain't the same. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-11-2008, 04:09 AM	#5
regular.joe Старый сержант Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: NC, dreaming of large Russian women. Posts: 1,464	I'm vaguely thinking about the joke...."The U.S. didn't know what "rest of the world" meant.".... Cricket? The rest of the world plays a game called cricket? __________________ Birth, wealth, and position are valueless during wartime. Man is only judged by his character --Soldier's Testament. Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. - Marcus Aurelius.

08-11-2008, 08:00 PM	#6
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Don't feel too lonely, Joe. MOST of the world does not play cricket. Its pretty much confined to the old British empire (plus Holland who got it via South Africa). The point of test cricket is that in the height of summer, when it is 40 degrees (100F) outside, you get to spend the hottest part of five days inside sitting on the couch with your mates drinking beer and eating chips. And since many test trophies are decided not by a game but by a series of three, four, or five matches (in the past, sometimes six), this can mean almost a month of male idleness elevated to an art form. Any further questions? __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

08-11-2008, 08:08 PM	#7
regular.joe Старый сержант Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: NC, dreaming of large Russian women. Posts: 1,464	Does the game require any athletic talent? __________________ Birth, wealth, and position are valueless during wartime. Man is only judged by his character --Soldier's Testament. Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. - Marcus Aurelius.

08-11-2008, 08:14 PM	#8
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Does baseball?

08-11-2008, 08:16 PM	#10
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	To play? Well, it certainly helps, as you leap and dive for a catch or chase down a ball racing away toward the boundary, or stand in blazing sun in heavy protective gear for a day and a half swinging a wooden club as hard as you can at a fast moving ball, without losing concentration. To watch? Not now that we have the remote control. You'll need a beer fridge near the couch, though. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

08-11-2008, 08:28 PM	#11
DucksNuts Bitchy Little Brat Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Queensland, Australia Posts: 5,067	fuck the cricket

08-12-2008, 02:51 AM	#13
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	I'm sick of cricket, regardless of what country happens to be playing it! __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

08-12-2008, 07:09 AM	#14
miketrees Regulator of Squalor Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 37	Blasphemers! And non believers Now I know how the early missionaries must have felt

08-12-2008, 07:21 AM	#15
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Cricket? .... Bollocks, more like.

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