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Makes a fortune (not really, as it turns out,) moves to the Caribbean, gets himself naturalised, gets himself knighted, starts a cricket league...

What's that all about then?

Brown Envelopes were likely involved.

Thouight this was another cult thread - misread and saw "gets himself neutered." AY CARUMBA!

Frazzled wrote:Thouight this was another cult thread - misread and saw "gets himself neutered." AY CARUMBA!

That would be taking things a bit too far.

Well, Cricket is so mind numbingly boring you might as well...

doc, nothing wrong with cricket.
ok, it is boring, but its one of the only games in which you get more points for managing to hit someone in the crowd with the ball

Cricket is only boring if you have the patience and attention span of a gnat, and don't like getting drunk in the sun.

if i want to be bored, i would ask the missus how her day has been.
if i want to get drunk, ill go to a nice air conditioned pub


beer + sun = bad mix.
needs to be ice cold

I thought you brits like warm beer.

i hate it warm
it has to be to the point in which it gives you brain freeze while drinking it

Warm ale, cold lager. I drink european lager mostly. 1664 or Tuborg if I can get it. Yum.

Cricket's a thinking/drinking man's game, going to a match is the best. Everyone gets hammered, but it's still a well pleasant atmosphere.

im strictly a carling / stella / carlsberg man
or in the way of spirits: bacardi, jack daniels and southern comfort.


i rather be watching the footie

I found cricket dull to watch, but I kind of like the ODI's if I'm in the right mood, and have a steady supply of Tetley's Bitter.

I find baseball to be as dull to watch as cricket, even with alcoholic assistance.

Give me Football (soccer & gridiron), Ice Hockey, Rugby & Formula 1 (which most people find even more boring than cricket/baseball is to me) any day of the week.

sonofruss wrote: I thought you brits like warm beer.

Well, considering you Americans are fond of 'Lite' Beers....which is just a different word for 'Pissy Lagers' you can just about blimming well shut up, or I'll give you a ruddy good punch on the Bottom!

Our Beer (proper Beer mind...not the aforementioned pissy Lagers) is easily the best in the world, and I want to defend it to my last breath!

Sorry. Said Defend. Meant to say Drink.

Your beers weep like lilly livered girly men when compared to proper Irish, Belgium, and German concoctions!

Nonsense.

I am Scottish. The only reason the Irish have a better known reputation for drinking, is that the fools leave the pub long enough to brag, when any true Scotsman is still ensconced with two lined up, an emergency pint, and someone at the bar getting the next round in.

We even have seasonal Ale over here. Got stuck into the Porter the other week, and thats the last of that until next Winter. Imagine liquid Marmite. Lovely!

Germany and Belgium again make their pissy lagers, not proper Beer at all!

Some German Dunkelweissen beers are amazing though. And you can get porters and season ales over here, from the right breweries. Heck Sam Adams has mass market versions of both.

But yes the vast majority of US Beer is cold fizzy piss.

And you pints are smaller than ours.

You big girls blouses.

Thats because we don't grouse around with beers and run straight to the tequila!

Pfffrt.

Tequila? Tequila? The drink so vile you need to take salt with it?

Anyone can handle spirits in large quantities.

But Pints are a mans game!

JD21290 wrote:doc, nothing wrong with cricket.
ok, it is boring, but its one of the only games in which you get more points for managing to hit someone in the crowd with the ball

It's the only sport where a proper match can go on for 5 days, and the players get regular breaks for elevenses, lunch and tea.

Greebynog wrote:...and don't like getting drunk in the sun.

Then you silly Brits try to do that under Almeria´s midday sun in July and wonder why your color becomes lobster red on the afternoon.

M.

We'll go Lobster Red with ANY sunlight.

True that.

Amen to that, I still can not believe that British travel agencies sold summer tour in Spain with the 3S slogan (Sun, Sand and Sex) after an overdose of the 1st that ends up with 90% of your body with 1st degree burns I would skip the other 2S like the plague.

M.

And yet it was that dogged spirit that won us the Empire

Don't forget a 75 caliber miracle, a bayonet, and some guts behind it.


There are many of us convinced the British tried to conquer the world because their food and climate was so...dull. British, the ultimate party animals. We conquered you because we like your food better.

I respect this theory and the people behind it.

Frazzled wrote:There are many of us convinced the British tried to conquer the world because their food and climate was so...dull. British, the ultimate party animals. We conquered you because we like your food better.

I respect this theory and the people behind it.

of course it was. That's why they called india the jewel in the British empires crown. Curry is still the only thing that can kill a hangover.

Kilkrazy wrote:

JD21290 wrote:doc, nothing wrong with cricket.
ok, it is boring, but its one of the only games in which you get more points for managing to hit someone in the crowd with the ball

It's the only sport where a proper match can go on for 5 days, and the players get regular breaks for elevenses, lunch and tea.

You missed out " and still end in a draw after running out of time."

Let's not get started on the arcane methods they can use to calculate who would have won, I'm sure they just make the results up instead.

I take it people have read/are aware of Douglas Adams' Dr. Who story concerning cricket ?

Add cricket and curry to my list of "British things I don't understand."

Although I've heard you Brits don't understand the American tradition of tailgating before sporting events, and that seems like the most natural thing in the world to me. I guess it's all just what you're used to.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:And yet it was that dogged spirit that won us the Empire

Yeah.
LOL

"The Empire."

...the one the "sun never set" on. Right?

How'd THAT turn out for ya? Nice little island you have there.



Eric