Toombsy Posted June 5, 2011 Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 ....of cricket ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted June 5, 2011 Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 Wash your mouth out. Cricket is how we know when summer has arrived. Hang your head Sir Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalconFN Posted June 5, 2011 Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 ....of cricket ? ......of football? ......of sports cars? ......of art? ......of music? ......of life? ......this question? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toombsy Posted June 5, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 Cricket is how we know when summer has arrived. Short skirts, tight low-cut tops and tanned legs are how we know summer's arrived. So cricket must be something for gays to watch when the soaps and Britain's Got Idiots isn't on then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willxx Posted June 5, 2011 Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 I'd definitely go with Toombsy on this - any sport where you can play for 5 days and get a draw, stops for tea, or if it rains, or looks a bit dull, or someone has forgotten a sweater, or where players are encouraged to share a "box" and spend more time adjusting it for each other than actually playing - - not for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalconFN Posted June 5, 2011 Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 Short skirts, tight low-cut tops and tanned legs are how we know summer's arrived. :blink: What you wear is your business. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imperfection Posted June 5, 2011 Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 Short skirts, tight low-cut tops and tanned legs are how we know summer's arrived. So cricket must be something for gays to watch when the soaps and Britain's Got Idiots isn't on then? Not in Peterborough (or commonly known as Pete-bog-horror).Damn place is full of east european mutants. Cricket though is a gentlemans sport and signals hot summers with the gentle sound of leather against willow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricko Posted June 5, 2011 Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 Never did it at school, it was all football, rugby, cross-country and athletics. Couldn't even tell you how cricket works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrispti Posted June 5, 2011 Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 ....of cricket ? To win Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toombsy Posted June 5, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 Couldn't even tell you how cricket works. As far as I'm aware, blokes from universities - who aren't man enough to play rugby - toss for it, Mrs Miggins supplies some badly needed cake and Earl Grey to ensure the players retain enough energy to stand still for hours on end, a redundant physicist in a lab coat makes sure the balls aren't wide, and then a few days later it's over and then all the old and boring blokes in the office waste an hour or so having a discussion about what never happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalconFN Posted June 5, 2011 Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 (edited) As far as I'm aware, blokes from universities - who aren't man enough to play rugby - toss for it, Mrs Miggins supplies some badly needed cake and Earl Grey to ensure the players retain enough energy to stand still for hours on end, a redundant physicist in a lab coat makes sure the balls aren't wide, and then a few days later it's over and then all the old and boring blokes in the office waste an hour or so having a discussion about what never happened. Unlike rugby, where big men in tight shorts cuddle each other to the ground, have a mud wrestle before getting undressed and having a big bath together. They then go to a bar and have a drink - probably with their trousers around their ankles. Edited June 5, 2011 by FalconFN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marine1980 Posted June 5, 2011 Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 Toombsy That's like saying what's the point of shooting clays which is obviously what your doing in you profile pic! You can't even eat them when you have shot them!! Royal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CZ550Kevlar Posted June 5, 2011 Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 I think in the case of my company it`s safer than clay shooting or archery as our company don`t trust our division with guns! as you can tell relationships between management and workers are strained. They have opted for a days cricket rather than something fun and non girly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bakerboy Posted June 5, 2011 Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 As far as I'm aware, blokes from universities - who aren't man enough to play rugby - toss for it, Mrs Miggins supplies some badly needed cake and Earl Grey to ensure the players retain enough energy to stand still for hours on end, a redundant physicist in a lab coat makes sure the balls aren't wide, and then a few days later it's over and then all the old and boring blokes in the office waste an hour or so having a discussion about what never happened. You seem to know a lot about the game , have you just been dropped from your team and now bitter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddan Posted June 5, 2011 Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 Cricket though is a gentlemans sport and signals hot summers with the gentle sound of leather against willow. Any game where you stop half way through for lunch is not a sport. Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MM Posted June 5, 2011 Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 So cricket must be something for gays to watch when the soaps and Britain's Got Idiots isn't on then? :lol: :lol: Cricket though is a gentlemans sport and signals hot summers with the gentle sound of leather against willow. id rather hear the sound of leather against a fat birds *** myself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laird Lugton Posted June 5, 2011 Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 Short skirts, tight low-cut tops and tanned legs are how we know summer's arrived. In Peterborough? You're having a laugh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaxiDriver Posted June 5, 2011 Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 (edited) ....of cricket ? it's for those people who cannot stand the excitement of watching paint dry 20/20 was where they tried to make it more exciting less boring :yes: Edited June 5, 2011 by TaxiDriver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scolopax Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 Cricket....is the best game in the world. Maybe its a bit too cerebral for the average PW'er though, or Lancastrians for that matter. hunting and shooting are sports, everything else are games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al4x Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 Its a test to see who is the more educated and cultured amongst the population. It brings the colonies together and you can tell its a good sport as the yanks don't get it. Having sat in the committee room at Lords watching a county game its amazing when you have the history part with it as well, though very strange meeting the players who were playing when I was young. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack-ack Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 We designed cricket as a sport to occupy the colonial natives so that they might stop eating and raping each other and it seems to have worked. As far as village cricket goes its the best game ever to watch. I dont think that you can beat watching some fat old duffer getting cracked in the nuts with a cricket ball whilst he's momentarily distracted by some totty carrying a tray of drinks out into the beer garden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breastman Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 it's for those people who cannot stand the excitement of watching paint dry 20/20 was where they tried to make it more exciting less boring :yes: I have an international ground on my door step and i've only been there once, dragged there by an ex's dad. Admittedly i did have a good time, but i think that was more to do with the drinks he was buying rather than the 'action' in front of me Each to their own i suppose. As long as they don't start using black bats of course, because that would make them evil :yp: Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al4x Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 you'll all be pleased to know we just got the two wickets that were needed in the test Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docholiday Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 Any game where you stop half way through for lunch is not a sport. Dan No surley that is the perfect sport Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSPUK Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 That's why we loose because of two wickets - I thought there was three of those upright things held together with a stick broken in middle, Sooner watch crown green bowling dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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