BS: Is Cricket Shite?

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 21 Aug 04 - 04:19 AM

I met a woman last night who told me she had a dutch cap, so I said nah, cricket is shite.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 07:11 PM

I'm not sure it will for me Ooh-Aah. I'd hoped WI would have followed on what seemed to be an improvement in their last test but I fear this game, weather permitting, will be over before tea tommorow and my main memory will be of a one sided affair.

One thing I really did enjoy today though was Harmison "throwing the bat". It seemed very much hit and miss but there is no doubt that when he does connect, the ball will go a long way. I'm afraid I missed seeing Gayle hitting the 6 fours - that certainly would have been one to remember!

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: s6k
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 06:49 PM

all this talk just proves it is shite

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: GUEST,Ooh-Aah
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 06:26 PM

And I forgot to add that it has all happened in only TWO DAYS so far, so that Americans with superior mental equipment should just about cope.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: GUEST,Ooh-Aah
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 06:23 PM

What with the Windies staring down the barrel of a 4-0 whitewash (to mix metaphors drastically), and that amazing 6 fours off an over by Chris Gayle, Harmison's going beserk, that wonderful innings of Giles, Ian Bell's fine debut 70, this particular test will definetely live in the memory. Anyone thinking cricket is boring should be shown a video of this test - even having it ticking over on Cricinfo here in Australia was exiting. Hopefully Lara can do a good fightback tomorrow to add even more even more interest, though I still hope we win of course!

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 08:11 AM

... or Michael Holdings' 14 wickets or Viv Richards belting the ball everywhere. Those are memories from when I was 15/16.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: GUEST,Ooh -Aah
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 06:21 AM

The silly fellah who reckons that everyone forgets who won really does know sweet FA - one of the main pleasures of cricket is the happy reminiscing about the games you saw when you were 16, or that lovely ball that did Thompson in '68 etc.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 03:55 AM

Is ' horseshite ' essential for mushrooms ?

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 19 Aug 04 - 06:56 PM

I'm not sure you have to know very much about it to have an opinion. people take what they like from the experience.

Plus, its nice to talk to other people who see it a different way than you do.

Some people are very nationalistic, and it pains them to see a great performance from a member of the opposing side.. Some people really like the traditional aspects. others like the atmosphere of the county game rather than the razmataz of test matches , and other people just like playing it or watching their local club down at the park or the village green.

Forget who won this series by next week.....I don't think so somehow!

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: Chris Green
Date: 19 Aug 04 - 05:42 PM

Cricket is kind of like this thread. It goes on for days, people who know sweet effay about it pontificate endlessly in public, everyone has a great time and then it's over and a week later no-one can remember who won.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: shepherdlass
Date: 19 Aug 04 - 05:20 PM

Howay (guess who's from the most recent "first-class" county?), what other sport gives spectators a WHOLE day out - and the chance to go to the bar and not miss anything significant?

It can be slow, it can be exciting, it can be irritatingly one-sided, it can raise unintentional laughs. A bit like an episode of Corrie, actually.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: s6k
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 06:25 PM

youre just odd, maybe you should play some cricket??

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 05:50 PM

and roses too!

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: s6k
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 03:28 PM

and custard?

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 02:11 PM

But it's good for your rhubarb!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: s6k
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 12:39 PM

horse racing is shite!

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 11:36 AM

And Kenya

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 11:29 AM

So when will Ireland be a force in world cricket, they too beat the windies.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 10:26 AM

Horse racing is the best sport,
horseracing the sport of kings,
horseracing the true path!

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: The DeanMeister
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 10:22 AM

Now THAT'S more like it, Giok...

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 10:18 AM

Football was a working class pastime, and as such was enjoyed by the masses. Then along came Rupert Murdoch, and it became a middle class sport, so Tony Blair et al suddenly discovered it. They also thought that by sucking up to the stars [sic] of the game they would gain votes.
Basically it has strayed as far from it's roots as the Labour Party itself, in one case for gain of money, and the other for popularity.
I remain equally unimpressed by either!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: s6k
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 10:12 AM

you have inspired my next thread!

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: The DeanMeister
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 10:00 AM

Is this the impression we English wish to portray to the colonials? Please grow up a little, people. Or there will shortly be a thread entitled "Are Englishmen shite?" Because that's how you're making us look, Adam.

When you have something interesting to say, we'll be listening.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: muppett
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 08:45 AM

s6k or another thread could be what sports is shite

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: s6k
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 07:02 AM

Muppet - yes youve hit the nail on the head. football is also shite. but i covered that in a previous post, but we should start a new thread on it

football is shite

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: ced2
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 06:25 AM

Mr Uppett you have asked a basic question, I fear the answer will be no! to both leagues. However local competative cricket is alive and well, in both of the major northern counties, there is hope for the future!!!???

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 06:11 AM

Sorry, misleading ... schijten pr. shite - en.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 06:10 AM

Can't help with the entomology Dave, butI can tell you a bit about the etymology. It derives from one of the Germanic languages: schijten, pronounced "shiten" (and you thought it was slang, didn't you?) The past participle is schitten, whence our modern "shit"; this ("shit") is also the correct past particple, although you could make a reasonable case for saying "shitted". "Shat" is incorrect.

Steve
(Must remember to tick the Preview box next time!)

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 06:09 AM

Can't help with the entomology Dave, butI can tell you a bit about the etymology. It derives from one of the Germanic languages: schijten, pronounced "shiten" (and you thought it was slang, didn't you?) The past participle is schitten, whence our modern "shit"; this ("shit") is also the correct past particple, although you could make a reasonable case for saying "shitted". "Shat" is incorrect.

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 05:53 AM

Is Cricket Shite . . . what ? - as far as I know, it comes in very small pieces (unless you really scare the cricket) and isn't particularly smelly. Are there any experts on entomological faeces out there ?

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: GUEST,tam the bam (nutter)
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 04:54 AM

I think Cricket is shit, that and skateboarding,or these people that find watching men.women roller skating up and down a big smi circle peice of wood yes very interesting, like Amercan football, or surfing. but there are people that like that sort of thing, I just don't sorry.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: muppett
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 04:47 AM

Wow quite a bit to go at here,

* s6k - following on your train of thought what about football a load of men kicking a ball around a field then kissing & hugging one another when they've kicked it through the middle of 2 posts, then all jumping in a shower afterwards.

*   Wyrd sister - yep combining the radio commentry with the TV pictures is something I like to do too, trouble is now I've got a digital radio there's a 2/3 min. delay on the radio.

*   Walrus - I thought the last test (3rd) was going to be an even contest, never mind and like you I await for a more even contest in their next series (About 4 years away)

*   Georgiansilver - from your last comment it sounds like we've not met otherwise you'd know that my purpose in life is to make people laugh and not just Englishmen.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: s6k
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 09:39 PM

no they go to the shower room afterwards and shower in front of each other and show eachother their bats and balls

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 09:02 PM

Both cricket and American baseball are boring shite. They would both me far more interesting if the batters were allowed to keep their bats after hitting the ball so they could use them to beat hell out of members of the opposing team.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 08:28 PM

I just realised. This guy is a genius. A mind like that could deconstruct the entire universe.

Cricket is of course shite, as he says.

The works of Shakespeare just some people on a stage talking, complete shite.

Music; thats just people plonking away away on instruments, you couldn't get more shite than that.

Great cuisine of the world; thats like meat and vegetables and fish and stuff, somebody's been pissing about with.

Theres only one word for the culture as we know it.

And now he's pointed it out.

Well done!

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 05:57 PM

O.K so there's only one West Indies fan on here and it happens to be a MUPPETT...that's enough to make any Englishman laugh.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: The Walrus
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 05:51 PM

muppett,

Earlier today, you wrote:

"...Well done England but we'll be back

From a West Indies fan..."

That is quite likely and, as an England fan, I look forward to that return being a good series - win, lose or draw (I just hope we don't get the traditional 'England Batting Collapse").

Is cricket shite? I say NO! it just seems it to those who don't understand it and are too lazy to bother to learn even the basics.

Walrus

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: Wyrd Sister
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 04:52 PM

NO!!!!!
And the proper method is to have the television on with the sound turned down, and listen to TMS at the same time, whilst partaking of some handicraft. That occupies the hands, and gives something else to look at during the adverts. The radio alerts you when something is worth catching on the inevitable replay, and sometimes refers to Channel 4's pictures (such as the use of Hawkeye).
As for Blower's commentary on pigeons, buses etc - some of us look forward to these eagerly. After all, they're only the equivalent of TV's crowd shots and so on.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: Rasener
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 03:54 PM

Same thing applies - critiising something that you don't like. This copuld be because you haven't taken the time to understand it.

We all have our likes and dislikes.

If somebody gets enjoyment from playing or watching something then good luck to them.

Just don't criticise. Stick to what you like and leave everybody else in peace with what they like. :-)

Just like Sir John with his enjoyment of sticking bones down the loo :-) LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: s6k
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 03:36 PM

i havent criticised anybody for liking cricket. i have simply criticised cricket for being SHITE

load of men in white rubbing balls against eachothers balls and touching eachother and playing chase me chase me around a field.

POOP

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: Rasener
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 03:08 PM

I love Eastenders, Coronation Street, Market Rasen Folk Club, Gainsborough Folk Club, Aston Villa, and guess what - I love Cricket

It doesn't matter what you like as long as you enjoy it.

What is wrong is when you criticise other people for liking what you don't like.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 01:52 PM

I tried that yesterday and gave up in frustration , Blofeld kept a running commentary on the trafic going up the road outside OT. I think I prefer that woman saying Michael Winner isn't her brother.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 01:40 PM

I miss Dickie Bird, and his hat.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 01:20 PM

The batsmans's holding the bowler's willy.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 01:09 PM

That was the Chingford Strangler, or Norman Tebbit as we know and love him that said that.
As to the complaint about adverts instead of chat when changing ends, the answer is quite simple. Listen to the Radio4 commentary, and enjoy Henry Blowfelt, Foxy Fowler, Christopher Martin Jenkins, and others that know and love the game.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 12:23 PM

Remember when what's-his-name, sometime Home Secretary, said of immigrants that we need to know which cricket team they'll cheer for? I'm not sure we want people who cheer at cricket matches! (And I am sure we don't want a Home Sec who thinks people should!)

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 11:52 AM

Nah WLD, they watch golf or darts, or other such pastimes for people who are too old, fat or lazy to play real sports! :0)

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 11:34 AM

I miss the commentary when they're changing ends. Thay have adverts on now its on channel 4.

I like it better now that the West Indies don't spend such a long time making a run up to do fast bowling. Kirtley Ambose and Joel Garner used spend ages doing a run up, which made the over rate very slow.

However Shane Warne is the best bloke in the world to watch. Have you noticed when Waquar Younnis or somebody like that is making a run the crowd all make a noise during their run up. However Shane Warne is so intimidating a presence that he keeps both fans and other players silent.

The only trouble with the present series is that Shane Warne makes every other spin bowler look ordinary. Still he can't help not playing for the west indies or England.

we did see a Brian Lara century and that is as good as seeing a Pele goal.

If you think cricket is shite, you probably get off on East Enders and Emmerdale and know what everybody has to drink down the Rovers Return. Now that really is sad shite.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: The DeanMeister
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 11:25 AM

I thought so.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cricket Shite?
From: The DeanMeister
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 11:14 AM

Adam, there speaks a man who was not educated in the ways of a proper Englishman. Cricket is a civilised game. And, for a change, we appear to be winning.

Next you'll be announcing to the world that you've never played Tennis, Badminton, Croquet, Rugby Union, or sailed a boat.

Am I far wrong?