The Ashes
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- mr_snuggles0
Salam Alaikum...
Go Pakistan!!
I was chilling with my brown brothers and sisters this weekend and it's all they could talk about. Well, from what I gather, it was mostly in Urdu...
- Bottlerocket0
I love the euphoric hype that surrounds any sporting achivement by England. You can almost hear the bandwagon creaking with the weight of numbers. I suppose it wil be discarded on the side of the road, right next to the one they used for the Rugby World Cup team, and the 2002 World Cup football team.
- skt0
Did anyone say the words greatest and sporting and achievement and since and sixty and six yet?
- paraselene0
Did anyone say the words greatest and sporting and achievement and since and sixty and six yet?
skt
(Sep 13 05, 06:05)i'm sure that not a soul in london has said that. certainly not in the past 48 hours...
- Bottlerocket0
I havn't heard that phrase in years.
- soda0
i do hate the bandwagon that rolls up behind anything to do with Team England, especially when everyone suddenly becomes cricket fans.
Who are the mob in Trafalgar square right now, where did they come from???
I really don't like the footballisation of cricket (I loved the end yesterday, typical test cricket!!)
But this series has been very, very special. For once the event has matched the hype and then some.
Cricket is such a great game, especially when it has been so tight and the teams so well matched.
It's honest, decent and fair.
I read in a paper a while ago that the nation's identity is football, with all the bad references that has but really we want it to be cricket.
It all means so much to me, the aussies are such a great side and this is an awesome achievement. I can't wait for Pakistan and then next chrimbo the ashes again!!!
- vespa0
awww i like it when english people get happy about sport. it's so rare, normally the defeatism is deafening.
except for football hype, which is just funny.
- Bottlerocket0
When Natasha kaplinksy and those other morning TV hags gone about cricket....you know the horses for the bandwagon have been saddled up.
- mr_snuggles0
I don't even understand cricket but i love how excited my in-laws get about it...
- Kuz0
wa alaikum salaam my beige brother.
Long time no speak. I’ll teach you some Urdu –
-dil hee to hai na sang-o-KHisht dard se bhar na aaye kyoN ?
-royeNge ham hazaar baar, koee hameiN sataaye kyoN ?and para, you got no bizness in this thread.
- mr_snuggles0
so by teaching you mean typing..
What does this mean? Is this a joke about my small penis again..
-dil hee to hai na sang-o-KHisht dard se bhar na aaye kyoN ?
-royeNge ham hazaar baar, koee hameiN sataaye kyoN ?
- vespa0
aw did the bandwagon ride off with "your" sport bottlerocket? i think it's a good thing if there's hype about a sport other than football here, if it gets a few more kids interested in it then it's surely a good thing?
- Kuz0
god you're a miserable cunt bottlerocket. i'm glad i'm not you.
- paraselene0
*waves american flag
- mr_snuggles0
* burns his bra
- paraselene0
*moons kuz
- vespa0
kuz! don't be rude now. it's just not cricket!
- Kuz0
I’ll translate sarkaar snuggles.
It’s a poem by a poet called Mirza Ghalib from centuries ago. It means roughly,
- the heart is (or as my heart is,) not made from stone nor bricks, why does no-one come from (outside?) my pain (or - why don’t I let anyone in through this pain – has various meanings that sentence)
- we weep a thousand times, why does no one soothe out pain?
Roughly, I mean it’s impossible to translate with the rhythym and double meanings. But sounds all sublime in Urdu.
- Kuz0
kuz! don't be rude now. it's just not cricket!
vespa
(Sep 13 05, 06:42)sorry vesp!
i'm having me period.
- vespa0
hahaa