Oh piss ...

[blamebrampton]

I was watching the cricket this morning, which was a bit ordinary, but I told shocolate  that it was bound to improve.

Them the lovely pseudicide  PMed me and inveigled me into comic-buying adventures rather than my planned day. I came home, and it had improved! So I started to watch again. And Australian Peter Siddle took a hat trick -- which is to say claimed the wickets of three England players for you turkey-stuffed and stuffing Americans and yes, that is bad because I support England in cricket. And the last one was Stuart Broad and I was looking forward to watching him get all sweaty.

So now I have turned the telly off, in hopes of a fine display of tail-end batting away from my bad influence.

Comments

[jolinar-rosha.livejournal.com]

Excuse my butting-in here, just wanted to say I read this post out of pure curiosity, and found it very amusing because it's like I'm reading a foreign language (the only thing I know of cricket is the name, and the fact that, apparently, England and Australia have an on-going vendetta at it :P).

I'll just let you guys go back to it now... :P

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

CLEARLY I need to finish up my travel posts so that I can make a post explaining the delights of cricket to my non-cricketing-nations readership. It will ENRICH YOUR LIFE!! Or give you an excuse to skive off for days on end as you follow a match ...

[jolinar-rosha.livejournal.com]

oh yes,please do! The game makes me curious (and fills me with dread, because rumour has it only the British and you guys down under can understand cricket...).

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

That rumour is a dreadful lie -- India, Pakistan, the Caribbean, South Africa, New Zealand (which may count as Down Under), and Sri Lanka are all major cricketing nations, that's more than a billion people right there!

And there are fine cricketers from China and Scandinavia, and many other African nations, especially in East Africa. Really, it's only the Americas that missed the sport, continent-wise.

It's not that hard to understand, and it has Stuart Broad, which is incentive enough for anyone!

[jolinar-rosha.livejournal.com]

I googled him.
Yum.

[glorafin.livejournal.com]

And the Netherlands weirdly. To my knowledge the only non-Commonwealth nation to compete internationally. I miss the times when cricket was on the BBC. Since it has been snapped by Sky and Channel 4, I can never see a match. :(