The Ashes (Australia vs England)

[BunnySaurus Bugsii]

I do wonder what the English cricket followers think of Clarke.

Do they see him as one of their own, a decent chap who preserves his wicket and only punishes the bad deliveries? (How I see him, btw)

Or do they see him as a growing menace, a Viv Richards in the making, who will win matches in years to come, with a session at the crease?

[BunnySaurus Bugsii]

Third test is a draw. (Less close than the First, I might add. Australia had more wickets and more runs to chase in this Test, when time ran out.)

Dinner was two carrots and some chopped garlic, boiled, with wholemeal spaghetti and a spoonful of tandoori paste added five minutes later, and served with a fistfull of uncooked rocket (roquette) and one more glass of cheap wine.

It was surprisingly satisfying. Didn't mind the Test being a draw either.

WMU: Cool story bro. Really, both our countries are small in population. Australia perhaps has greater "carrying capacity" in terms of growing its own food, but having lots of "passive resources" -- minable and farmable land -- with a small population is a liability too. We're rich now, but at anything like the average population density of the earth we wouldn't be rich at all. Our day will come, to be a 'bone of contention' between greater powers.

Or perhaps the seas will always remain a natural barrier which it is not worth the effort for an aggressor to cross. I doubt it, though. When the major powers can bomb from orbit, deploy aircraft from orbit, deploy troops from orbit ... seas or oceans won't be significant impediments to 'force projection.'

[Western Mercenary Unio]

Cool story bro. Really, both our countries are small in population. Australia perhaps has greater "carrying capacity" in terms of growing its own food, but having lots of "passive resources" -- minable and farmable land -- with a small population is a liability too. We're rich now, but at anything like the average population density of the earth we wouldn't be rich at all. Our day will come, to be a 'bone of contention' between greater powers.

Or perhaps the seas will always remain a natural barrier which it is not worth the effort for an aggressor to cross. I doubt it, though. When the major powers can bomb from orbit, deploy aircraft from orbit, deploy troops from orbit ... seas or oceans won't be significant impediments to 'force projection.'

Yeah, I kinda started to ramble there a bit. And, the resource we have most? Wood. Seriously, the only resource we export is wood and a bit of metals. That's it, I can't see any reason to invade us except for the lulz.

[BunnySaurus Bugsii]

Cool story bro. Really, both our countries are small in population. Australia perhaps has greater "carrying capacity" in terms of growing its own food, but having lots of "passive resources" -- minable and farmable land -- with a small population is a liability too. We're rich now, but at anything like the average population density of the earth we wouldn't be rich at all. Our day will come, to be a 'bone of contention' between greater powers.

Or perhaps the seas will always remain a natural barrier which it is not worth the effort for an aggressor to cross. I doubt it, though. When the major powers can bomb from orbit, deploy aircraft from orbit, deploy troops from orbit ... seas or oceans won't be significant impediments to 'force projection.'

Yeah, I kinda started to ramble there a bit. And, the resource we have most? Wood. Seriously, the only resource we export is wood and a bit of metals. That's it, I can't see any reason to invade us except for the lulz.

You're not thinking of being a consciencious objector to your nation's military service, I hope!

Go do it kid. Like my best friend advised me, when my father told me he would commit me to a mental institution and I called my best friend on the phone (and I'm not lying here, nor joking, this my best recollection of fact): Martin said "I think you should do what your dad says. You will meet interesting people."

Martin was right. I met interesting people, and experimented with self-torture using cigarettes with a darkling I was madly in love with, and had my first experience of sexual intercourse, with a plump and pleasant girl from a country town too small to mention here, for risk of identifying her.

(Martin died. Identifying him does no harm.)

A week into my internment in the funny farm, I hit the high point of my public speaking career. I called the gas company, and complained about their introduction of non-poisonous natural gas in place of lethal "coal gas." I complained that I had not been properly notified that their product did not meet the criteria previously advertised. I complained to a confused and amazingly receptive service representative, that the company's gas did not work as previously advertised, to kill consumers who chose it as a method of suicide. It wasn't until threatened to sue the company for my being alive, that she hung up.

Ah, good times. And still, I have not told a lie. But, in my devious way, I have set up the joke:

This "a week into the cure" thing is what cricket is all about. You get emotionally involved, but the gratification of winning is so long delayed, you go a bit insane ('delayed gratification' -- google it.)

You get a whole working week to mull it over, and talk crap to each other, and contemplate suicide, before it ends in a draw and you walk away satisfied.

If you can't take cricket seriously, you are well on the way to being a cricket fan.

[EvilDarkMagicians]

I was so happy when I saw that England got into the finals of the ashes. Until I realised they only play each other.

[Western Mercenary Unio]

You're not thinking of being a consciencious objector to your nation's military service, I hope!

Go do it kid. Like my best friend advised me, when my father told me he would commit me to a mental institution and I called my best friend on the phone (and I'm not lying here, nor joking, this my best recollection of fact): Martin said "I think you should do what your dad says. You will meet interesting people."

Martin was right. I met interesting people, and experimented with self-torture using cigarettes with a darkling I was madly in love with, and had my first experience of sexual intercourse, with a plump and pleasant girl from a country town too small to mention here, for risk of identifying her.

(Martin died. Identifying him does no harm.)

A week into my internment in the funny farm, I hit the high point of my public speaking career. I called the gas company, and complained about their introduction of non-poisonous natural gas in place of lethal "coal gas." I complained that I had not been properly notified that their product did not meet the criteria previously advertised. I complained to a confused and amazingly receptive service representative, that the company's gas did not work as previously advertised, to kill consumers who chose it as a method of suicide. It wasn't until threatened to sue the company for my being alive, that she hung up.

Ah, good times. And still, I have not told a lie. But, in my devious way, I have set up the joke:

This "a week into the cure" thing is what cricket is all about. You get emotionally involved, but the gratification of winning is so long delayed, you go a bit insane ('delayed gratification' -- google it.)

You get a whole working week to mull it over, and talk crap to each other, and contemplate suicide, before it ends in a draw and you walk away satisfied.

If you can't take cricket seriously, you are well on the way to being a cricket fan.

''You will meet interesting people''? In a mental institution? Anyway, in the subject of mental institutions, a friend of mine went once to the only one nearby. He's told me that at night, he could hear these two kids having sex. Every night. And, I'm not taking the unarmed service. At least, I can lose weight there and satisfy my weapon geekery.

[BunnySaurus Bugsii]

I was so happy when I saw that England got into the finals of the ashes. Until I realised they only play each other.

Hey, don't knock it. Best games of cricket I have ever played were me and my mate John, in the nets. We played each other, and did the umpiring too.

We were good mates. We didn't waste much time between balls, arguing if a thick edge was "caught at cover" or "boundary." Those were close games, and we always scored triple centuries and took twenty wickets. Both of us.

Best of all, the concrete pitch extended only half way to the delivery crease. If you aimed for the edge of that concrete, before it dropped off into dust from the bowler's end, you could deliver the most excellent bouncer: up at forty degrees, bounce off the top of the nets, and into your mate's unhelmeted head as they swayed back to let it through!

I'm just a sad old codger, aren't I? Clackety-clack, reliving past glories. I should get a life.

[BunnySaurus Bugsii]

*snip self*

A week into my internment in the funny farm, I hit the high point of my public speaking career. I called the gas company, and complained about their introduction of non-poisonous natural gas in place of lethal "coal gas." I complained that I had not been properly notified that their product did not meet the criteria previously advertised. I complained to a confused and amazingly receptive service representative, that the company's gas did not work as previously advertised, to kill consumers who chose it as a method of suicide. It wasn't until threatened to sue the company for my being alive, that she hung up.

Ah, good times. And still, I have not told a lie. But, in my devious way, I have set up the joke:

This "a week into the cure" thing is what cricket is all about. You get emotionally involved, but the gratification of winning is so long delayed, you go a bit insane ('delayed gratification' -- google it.)

You get a whole working week to mull it over, and talk crap to each other, and contemplate suicide, before it ends in a draw and you walk away satisfied.

If you can't take cricket seriously, you are well on the way to being a cricket fan.

''You will meet interesting people''? In a mental institution?

Well, it was a pretty good mental institution. But yeah, from my experience, you will meet interesting people in a mental institution.

Do your duty, young fella. You will meet interesting people in the national service.

Anyway, in the subject of mental institutions, a friend of mine went once to the only one nearby. He's told me that at night, he could hear these two kids having sex. Every night. And, I'm not taking the unarmed service. At least, I can lose weight there and satisfy my weapon geekery.

Excellent.

I've got to say though, that was a pretty wimpy mental institution your friend went to. Only two kids having sex together? For more than one night?

[Western Mercenary Unio]

Well, it was a pretty good mental institution. But yeah, from my experience, you will meet interesting people in a mental institution.

Do your duty, young fella. You will meet interesting people in the national service.

Excellent.

I've got to say though, that was a pretty wimpy mental institution your friend went to. Only two kids having sex together? For more than one night?

Well, I can't remember everything he told me about it, as I have bad memory. And, as I said, at least I can study weapons up close and get in shape.

[Fson]

why do people insist on posting on this saying that they have no interest in cricket.


who cares? why post then?

To inflate their post count?

Well, I've always said that this belongs in Forum 7. Where posts don't add to the postcount.

Could be linked to at the bottom of the first page of General. Stickied there.

But frankly, I'd rather the first page of general not be polluted by minority interest in current sporting events. Sporting commentary is "chat."

Look at the second page of General. There is good stuff there, which this thread helped displace.

Minority interest?


Just because you do not like it does not mean almost a 6th of the worlds population doesnt

[BunnySaurus Bugsii]

why do people insist on posting on this saying that they have no interest in cricket.


who cares? why post then?

Well, I've always said that this belongs in Forum 7. Where posts don't add to the postcount.

Could be linked to at the bottom of the first page of General. Stickied there.

But frankly, I'd rather the first page of general not be polluted by minority interest in current sporting events. Sporting commentary is "chat."

Look at the second page of General. There is good stuff there, which this thread helped displace.

Minority interest?


Just because you do not like it does not mean almost a 6th of the worlds population doesnt

Sh. England need a wicket!

[Fson]

Stumps

[Univision (Ancient)]

For a second i thought this was about a nuclear war or something.

Obviously not a fan of cricket. But I can't blame you- you're American, right?

Of course, I'm Mexican, but I learned cricket through Wikipedia. Oh well.

[Univision (Ancient)]

Anyway, in the subject of mental institutions, a friend of mine went once to the only one nearby. He's told me that at night, he could hear these two kids having sex. Every night. And, I'm not taking the unarmed service. At least, I can lose weight there and satisfy my weapon geekery.

Um... I think this is

[Blouman Empire]

Well well well, what do we see here?

England in the first innings all out for 102. Hahahaa

Ok Australia is 4/196 but as the past three tests have shown Australia has a strong middle order to be able to get the runs up.

So I think Australia has the entire day to slog out the balls and get a very large lead, meaning retire at the start of the third day Giving them three days to get England out and make up a small(if any) difference.

[Fson]

oh dear England


I say you just bowl bouncers at the aussies now, that would probably acheive more, and be more satisfying

[Fson]

Anyway, in the subject of mental institutions, a friend of mine went once to the only one nearby. He's told me that at night, he could hear these two kids having sex. Every night. And, I'm not taking the unarmed service. At least, I can lose weight there and satisfy my weapon geekery.

Um... I think this is

Same, interesting but off topic

[The Imperial Navy]

When it comes to any sport, we fail at it.

Brits suck at sport. End of story.

[Fson]

When it comes to any sport, we fail at it.

Brits suck at sport. End of story.

Its england playing.

[The Imperial Navy]

When it comes to any sport, we fail at it.

Brits suck at sport. End of story.

Its england playing.

I know. But this whole continent still fails. Am I right?

[Fson]

When it comes to any sport, we fail at it.

Brits suck at sport. End of story.

Its england playing.

I know. But this whole continent still fails. Am I right?

nope, and the Uk isnt a continent, idiot

[Hydesland]

I know. But this whole continent still fails. Am I right?

Not really, firstly because it isn't a continent. Secondly, because it normally does pretty well in most sports, usually coming within the top 5. There is a difference between failing, and not coming first at everything.

[The Imperial Navy]

nope, and the Uk isnt a continent, idiot

*Shrug* Meh. I'm half asleep right now after a 12 hour shift at work. Like I care if you think i'm an idiot.

[Fson]

nope, and the Uk isnt a continent, idiot

*Shrug* Meh. I'm half asleep right now after a 12 hour shift at work. Like I care if you think i'm an idiot.

Get out.



Waster

[The Imperial Navy]

Get out.



Waster

Meh.