Monday, August 24, 2009
All We Have Is Cricket
Sun and deep thought have stalled the old blog drive. There are, however, some things too wonderful to evade remark. Come on now, really, is there any game that can compare with a five-day test match? 'At least we still have this,' was the gist of most remarks I heard yesterday, the clear conviction being that in every other respect our nation is pretty much screwed.
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
Thank God! I was slightly concerned when you let the Lockerbie fiasco go by, then very, very concerned that you were going to let the Ashes pass unremarked.
ReplyDeleteThe 2009 vintage will be remembered as a terrifically entertaining contest between two almost equally neurotic teams.
Cricket, shmiket, one fine day doth not a summer make.
ReplyDeleteThe destabilisation of UK ltd, now there's a tartan of an entirely different hue. The tribes north of Carter Bar have finally realised that with semi self government comes the responsibility for your own actions. They can no longer blame the Thatcherite English.
The one in charge of lags thought it was just a game of Monopoly, never in his wildest dreams thinking that there would be, crivvens, repercussions.
The one in charge of pills appeared on the telly last night and incoherently defended the brain dead lunatic in charge of lags. The one in overall charge, the English hating opportunist, is currently working out which rabble to rouse next.
Meanwhile, the victims families carry on swimming in the lake of sorrow whilst the Muslim mass murderer spends his first night home with a bunch of virgins.
Salmond will of course, when he focuses his tiny brain on the subject, blame the English, carrying on his lifes ambition, destabilising the British Isles.
Indeed! This fine victory will give England all the confidence they need to go forward and get hammered by the South Africans.
ReplyDeletemaybe the only game that can compare is the four day Test
ReplyDeleteShane Warne – The best bowler Australia has ever produced has opened up his mind to the media. He exposed his discontent regarding umpires. According to the ace spinner barring a few exceptions like Simon Tauter and ASAP Rauf other umpires went awry in terms of performance .Expressing disappointment that the standard of umpiring has deteriorated to the worst extent in the past twenty years of time he opined that though umpiring was a hard job, the performances of the umpires in the Ashes series had been consistently so ordinary. As far as Warne is concerned umpire Billy Bowden whom he expected to deliver correct judgments was also not consistent in performing his duty.
ReplyDeleteCricket, shmiket, one fine day doth not a summer make.
ReplyDeleteOh yes it doth, Malty. Oh yes is doth.
I'm in Scotland, where a few people seem worried about offending Americans, but 99% of the population do not -- fine mit me. On our last night in Edinburgh (9 Fringe shows in three days!) we saw a very funny comedian named Bruce Frummey. He observed that while Scotland had set free one mass murderer, America had twice elected one who murdered millions. Witty and, I fear, rather apt.
ReplyDeleteStill, I know people who know people who died aboard that Pan Am flight and I found it hooey when I read some b.s. by a Glaswegian poli sci prof that Americans don't do compassion when it comes to terrorists, but Brits understand and practice mercy (this cheek-by-jowl with a story about some kids who had burned a dog to death). Well, all you have to do is check out the history of the religious wars in Scotland to find out Scots history -- despite Kenny McA's remarks to the contrary -- is not a history of compassion to one's enemies. Every old cemetery has monuments to Covenanters horribly killed.
Same old spin machine, spinnin' away. I suspect it's all about oil and Mr. Brown ain't saying.
Shane Warne – The best bowler Australia has ever produced has opened up his mind to the media. He exposed his discontent regarding umpires. According to the ace spinner barring a few exceptions like Simon Tauter and ASAP Rauf other umpires went awry in terms of performance .Expressing disappointment that the standard of umpiring has deteriorated to the worst extent in the past twenty years of time he opined that though umpiring was a hard job, the performances of the umpires in the Ashes series had been consistently so ordinary. As far as Warne is concerned umpire Billy Bowden whom he expected to deliver correct judgments was also not consistent in performing his duty.
ReplyDeleteThe spinner repents that there are too many instances of such bad judgments, which is increasingly becoming a cause of concern. He directly made a mention of names of umpires Daryl Harper and Billy Bowden, accusing them to be adamant in not confessing their wrong judgments. He also tried to strengthen his claim by mentioning that several players were not having a good opinion about those umpires in their minds. Warne insisted that the umpires should maintain a friendly attitude towards the players by shedding their high-handed attitude Warne also expressed his view repetitively that fifty over match should be withdrawn once for all as if such a change is brought about it would enable the players to spend more time with their families and relieve them from exhaustion.
Susan B,
ReplyDeleteExactly who is that is supposed to be the American president who has killed millions? Becasue I don't remember that from all my years studying history.
Are you referring to Franklin Roosevelt? But if you call him a murderer, don't you have to call out Winston Churchill also, for firebombing civilians in Dresden.
George W. Bush, mon ami....Iraq invasion and continuing debacle, unprovoked (which knocks out any refs to Franklin R. & your own Winston -- here, here to anyone who was fighting Nazis).
ReplyDeleteHear, hear, I meant. I am sooo sleepy, having just returned from Caledonia.
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