VikingHumpingWitch
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Feb 2, 2009 17:47:12 GMT
VHW, please read my comment in #31. This is not the Middlesex cricket team. It's the Canterbury Crusaders (Rugby) in NZ. I am using it to highlight another example (probably more famous than the Middlesex cricketers who I've never heard of) where the name "Crusade" is used in a sporting franchise. I was talking to Victor Meldrew. I think we are all agreed that nicknaming the MCC "The Crusaders" had nothing to do with killing non-Christians (although clearly I should have stated it anyway, seeing as we're on News and failure to state anything at all, no matter how obvious, inevitably leads to someone concluding that since you didn't state A, you must believe B). |
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Post by Charles Martel on Feb 2, 2009 17:53:30 GMT
Nice one, Charles. That was the sort of thing I was getting at. Hey, but even I never thought about the horses, and the swords instead of cricket bats. That's sheer genius, man. Keep those ideas flowing, and I may offer you a partnership in my sports marketing agnecy. Middlesex, you losers. See what you've missed out on now? Serves you right too. ;D BTW, having horses trample a cricket pitch might be *one* way of overcoming the steady appreciation of runs versus wickets in international cricket. ;-) |
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Post by Victor Meldrew on Feb 2, 2009 17:56:54 GMT
Victor, did you have another name on News?
Yes, I did. And the answer to the follow up question is no. New board allows us all to start from scratch, so my News alter ego is resting in peace in an unmarked grave.
Hmm, I wasn't aware of the Canterbury Crusaders, but I think you could have a point here. The more the spineless types at Lords pander to the insane rantings of these over zealous groups, the more chance of protests elsewhere by association with 'the cause'.
Just out of interest, how do Maoris regard the All Blacks performing the Hakka before international matches? I've never worked out whether they feel a sense of pride because part of their tradition lives on, or whether they'd take offence seeing northern hemisphere descendents invading their traditions, viewing it almost like mickey taking, putting it politely. I've never met anyone of Maori descent to ask.
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Post by Charles Martel on Feb 2, 2009 18:09:39 GMT
Just out of interest, how do Maoris regard the All Blacks performing the Hakka before international matches? I've never worked out whether they feel a sense of pride because part of their tradition lives on, or whether they'd take offence seeing northern hemisphere descendents invading their traditions, viewing it almost like mickey taking, putting it politely. I've never met anyone of Maori descent to ask. Overwhelmingly, the Maoris take it with a sense of pride. I lived in NZ for 12 years, and if Maoris took offence at Europeans doing the Haka, I have never seen it. Other countries (mainly Australia) take the mickey out of the Haka - like this comedic video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QflHh0hT6mQ, but by solid majorities, NZers (including most Maoris) just laugh (as they should). |
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Post by Gort on Feb 2, 2009 18:16:05 GMT
Im more pissed off with the gutless cricket wimps who changed things to suit those raghead fukpigs. We need to get back the stiff upper lip and tell these shhiit holes where to go if they dont like it.
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Post by Scooby Do on Feb 2, 2009 18:20:59 GMT
Horses on a cricket pitch? I know it's the most boring and staid game ever invented but surely they need a nice well kept even pitch? Dare I suggest it's boring because you don't understand it? Not like Footie, that even a 2 year old can understand. |
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Post by Victor Meldrew on Feb 2, 2009 18:32:43 GMT
Scooby, I understand the game perfectly. In my youth, I tagged along with my mates as they went to watch matches at Lords and The Oval.
With my 'extensive experience' of watching cricket, I would just like to poiint out........
Viking is right on the button. It is the most boring sport known to man. Many many years ago, I had the misfortune of going to day two of a Surrey v Sussex County Championship game. I spent the whole day watching John Edrich score 67 runs, and Sussex managing to take two whole wickets! I've never suffered from insomnia since, I just lie back and think of Surrey zzzzzzz.
Anyway, what exactly is wrong with having horses on the pitch. With the amount of divots they can churn up, the batsman won't have a clue where the ball could go. Sounds much more fun than the conventional stuff.
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Post by Scooby Do on Feb 2, 2009 18:39:15 GMT
The game requires a great deal of concentration on the part of Playes and Spectators, but you already knew that.  The old "John Player League" did much to re-vitalise the game with one day matchs. Less strategy, more action.  |
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Post by tarrant on Feb 2, 2009 18:52:25 GMT
No, it's boring because nothing ever happens.
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Post by Victor Meldrew on Feb 2, 2009 18:55:31 GMT
The game requires a great deal of concentration on the part of Playes and Spectator Not according to the Sussex fielder by the boundary we were talking to all day. Not one shot was hit anywhere near him, so we talked about all sorts of rubbish just to pass the time. Even he agreed it was the most boring game he'd ever played in.  As for the spectators, the ones that crack me up are those with the massive score books, making note of every ball bowled, and those charts of where on the pitch the batsman hit the thing. Who do they show the book to when they've completed the stats? Is there a club or something for these saddos? Yes, I'd have to agree that the John Player Sunday League was a revelation, and can you remember the protests of the old MCC tie wearing brigade with their 'doom for cricket' prophesy as one day cricket was launched. My, how they got that call wrong! Just as that Surrey/Sussex game was boring, so a Sunday League match I saw at Lords between Middlesex and Warwickshire was the most exciting ever. Middlesex batted first between heavy showers. Their innings was reduced to 20 overs and no sooner had they been completed, the heavens opened up. Eventually, as everyone was preparing to leave an abandoned game, the sun came out. Warwickshire were then given nine overs to score 99 runs, and to this day I can't fathom out how they calculated it. I think Middlesex only scored at something like seven runs per over. Anyway, as Warwickshire threw the bat at everything, they were left needing four runs off the last ball. I think it was some guy called Oliver(Phil Oliver perhaps?) facing the bowling. He hit the thing so hard, I reckon it landed somewhere in Maida Vale! |
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Post by tarrant on Feb 2, 2009 18:59:03 GMT
No offence intended Victor, but I almost fell asleep reading that last paragraph.
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Post by Marshall on Feb 2, 2009 20:35:50 GMT
Bunch of hysterical girls moaning about a triviality of naming?quote
Yep. that's exactly what started the whole issue.
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Post by Libby on Feb 2, 2009 20:59:12 GMT
Ridiculous! PC gone mad! The article said there had been "one or two complaints", that's hardly enough to cause the furore that ensued by many objecting to the name change!
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Post by puffin on Feb 2, 2009 21:12:41 GMT
Aye...the moaners are worse than the moaners |
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Post by Libby on Feb 2, 2009 21:24:20 GMT
Exactly Puffin, it really is absurd! High time we got rid of this PC malarchy! More trouble than it's worth! |
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Post by Victor Meldrew on Feb 3, 2009 14:50:20 GMT
No offence intended Victor, but I almost fell asleep reading that last paragraph.See, I told you all cricket was boring. Even talking about a really exciting match nearly puts some people asleep. Sorry tarrant, but I had to go out so posted it quickly. If I'd put a bit more thought into it, I'm sure I could have come up with a Palestinian, Israeli or Jewish angle to that last paragraph, which I'm sure you'd have found a bit more interesting. How about:- I think it was some guy called Oliver(Phil Oliver perhaps?) facing the bowling. He hit the thing so hard, I reckon it landed somewhere in Maida Vale! on the roof of the St Johns Wood Synagogue, having rebounded off the dome of the Regents Park Mosque. Better?
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