Manhood was definitely one of the things at stake at The Oval yesterday, but after many scares England triumphed; er, got a draw.
{You can read all about it in any British publication today: it will be on pages 1-8 of all the dailies
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/4237610.stm ]
Drawing on your knowledge of the game and the url you posted, I have a little bit better understanding of cricket. Do you have any knowledge of American footaball?
Quote's a bit harsh and it over-simplifies the situation, but nevertheless there is truth to it. I know that would rile the feathers of not just a few fans!
I think one of the bigger truths here is that football players start destroying themselves at such an early age and have had so many head injuries by the time they reach the age of consent that they do not always even realize they have caused themselves trouble. Odd how the parents don't notice, but then again a man likes few things more than to see his son being a rough and tough tumble around sports hero.
While we are at it, how about the fans? Aren't the fans responsible since they push for more and more physical interaction in the games? It seems that if a game does not involve a group of 250 pound men piling up on top of each other that the game starts losing viewer attention.
Next up: the joy of flying teeth in ice hockey!
Okay Sturgis, this thread is a word game as well as an information and nonsense exchange, and there are two simple rules to observe: start with the last word of the previous post, and write around two sentences.
So going from your word "hockey"...
Hockey so-called in Canada is almost unknown here, hardly played at all, as we have temperate winters and few ice rinks.
Our hockey is known by you as field hockey, and it is quite widely played here by both sexes and also sometimes by mixed teams.
(Apologies for missing the initial rules spot...although I had read it before...again my apologies...hope the following better fits into the defined parameters)
Teams of persons who allegedly play sports tend to irritate me. There seems to be little real play in any of it, rather a massive jumbling of egos with the competitive 'look at me I'm better than all of those losers' attitude.
Attitudes of adult,even professional sports players, are sometimes atrocious, I agree. But I think team sports encourage kids to work together, especially when coached well and taught team-building skills.
Skills on the computer that used to set me apart in the late eighties are now completely useless, as are all the painful avoirdupois system of perches and rods, and the old UK money system. Do you think that more and more things we learn are useless?
Skills on the computer that used to set me apart in the late eighties are now completely useless, as are all the painful avoirdupois system of perches and rods, and the old UK money system. Do you think that more and more things we learn are useless?
Useless are some of those skills, but were considered necessary when learned. Off the subject a bit, but I think life is more the journey than the destination. It's good to learn even newer skills in different subjects that interest a person. It keeps you ever learning and ever young!
Young Egg Foo, a Chinese chef of my acquaintance, cooks up a mean chop suey. He received much of his training in San Francisco, which accounts for that strange accomplishment.
Accomplishments such as piano playing and petit point were a must for the Victorian miss. I'm heartfeltedly glad I was born in the following century as I am ham-fisted to the point of disability.
Disability Brown was a landscape gardener of little renown, unlike his more famous cousin. You won't find him in any of the history books for that reason; none of his parks or gardens turned out right, or even halfway decent.
Decent of you to point this out, McT, as many of us have van Gogh's ear for garden history. Do you think that landscape gardening might evolve into interplanetary terraforming?
Terraforming is one of those words you don't meet for ages, and then two come along at once. So when is the second boot going to fall, I wonder; although already this morning chichan has used egregious.
Egregious, e = out of, grex, gregis = a herd. I'm sorry, it's a reflex reaction to words, learnt at my classics teacher father's knee.
Father's knee looks to have been a good place to learn, Clary. Wish mine had been as wise. I learned most at school, but have continued to learn - many small things here on a2k!
On A2K you get all sorts. That is the beauty of it ...as Forrest Gump said, you never know what you're gonna get. But as somebody else said, if everyone liked the same thing, they wouldn't sell mixed biscuits.
Biscuits - NO - I hope McT you are keeping off the damn things like me? Why is it so hard to lose weight as you get older?
