THE BRITISH THREAD

Spendius wrote "most of that income would be lost if it was stuck in some dump down under where its" etc.etc.etc


Melbourne Cricket Ground.

So you call this a "dump" eh. This is where the "Ashes" were on display during the recent test. Show me a cricket ground anywhere in the UK which can seat 100.000 spectators, and holds the world record for a cricket match: 90.800 against the West Indies.

Morning Brit Pack.

Mornin' Ozzies.

I see you're suitably smug.

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So Smorgs know a builder in Southern Persia.

That's nothing, I know a yak-herder in Outer Mongolia.

Welcome, Builder. How are things in Persia, where you are?

Pomgolian

At ease ladies.

OI!

You can bugger off back to the boring threads if you start dissin' Germans (unless it's about Football).

Even though they bombed our chippy, we hold at least one of them (Walter) in high esteem on BT.

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Pomgolian

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Flintoff's major mistakes were-

1- Declaring in No 2 and then losing. He underestimated the opposition. He should have batted to 650.

2- Choosing to bat in No 4 because he hadn't the bottle to risk putting the Australians in and losing.

Talking about field placings when catchables dropped harmlessly is talking after the event.

He can't be expected to win against a far superior side on their home grounds but he could possibly have averted a whitewash. To

go for victory at all was foolish. After hubris comes nemesis.

Still- it might inspire a rethink and next time there will be no McGrath, Warne, Langer and probably not Gilchrist. And we will be at home which is a bigger advantage than many people are aware of.

But I'll still want us to lose badly because I just can't stand bloody rate-busters pulling the lookers just because they train hard, practice a lot, suffer injections and soak themselves in ice-baths. I can't understand fat Australian slobs wanting their own side to be anything other than splatted for the same reason.

What's sexy about training hard, bloody practicing (nightmares both), being needled and pulverised and reclining in ice? I'll bet there's 50,000 guys here who would be better than that lot if they were prepared to undergo a lifestyle like that during the very best years of a young man's life.

And having to dive at the boundary rope at full speed crashing into the BREATHFRESH hoarding and a cameraman to try to save one run and next ball is a no-ball wide for four and the one after a long-hop which goes for six.

And be a sandwich-board man into the bargain for HEALY'S SAUSAGES.

Only really ugly, stupid blokes would stoop to such desperate tactics to get the better of us Jack-the-lads. Eh lads?

And is it not just the money anyway. It's odd how similar all their WAGS look. And behave.

And us normals have to have the leavings who are not posh.

Aren't we lucky and we get to moan and groan as well.

Wasn't it funny when Strauss (is that an English name- come to think of it is Pieterson. Or Panasar. ) got poleaxed by a Brett Lee special. I would have stood a bit farther off myself.

The excuses are good though.

It's LADYTV stupid.

Steve wrote-

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as I am to be described in such terms. What does materialistic mean?

Given over to the exclusive preoccupation of the gross appetites the flesh is subject to.

In its modern sophisticated city form it grants credibility to snobbish variations learned from glossy Sunday magazines and such like in order to provide an easily seen through disguise. It cannot be said to eschew the consolations of philosophy because it is unaware of them due to the noise of its gobblings and slurpings and friggings and humpings.

Materialism-"Opinion that nothing exists but matter and its movements and modifications; doctrine that consciousness and will are wholly due to material agency: tendency to prefer material possessions and physical comfort to spiritual values."

I don't care for "tendency" and "prefer". It is wholly sold out. A pig is a perfect example.

Looks like you met your match, suspendy.

This is the real issue. He never talked to his bowlers about field positions. That is why the team struggled in the field.

That's a pisspoor attempt at an apology. In the leadup to the Test, the Pomgolians were confident and poised to win.

Hard training is part of being an all-rounder. Get over it. You think becoming an internationally famous sportsman, and earning enough money to retire at thirty years of age is a bad thing?