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Cricket the great game of all...
I wouldn't usually put a hate in a thread I have little to no interest, but such an absolutistic title provokes. Sure it is The Greatest. For avoiding. No other game I would avoid more.
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Originally posted by bolo121 View PostJust because I am not interested in sports as a substitute for jingoism... I dont see what you are going on about.
Mammas boy accusations? Again this is typical Northie over macho posturing.
I admit freely that I am not physically strong and do have powerful prescription glasses.
Just know this. A healthy strong active kid who likes sports and who might break a bone or two growing up (his own or someone else's - I've done both) does not automatically become a macho northie.
Just like a frail kid with fat specs who does not or cannot play sport does not automatically become a pansie southie.
Hope that puts things neatly into the respective pigeon holes you so obviously like lumping people you've never met into.
What I did say, before you misconstrued (probably a result of being picked on growing up), was that I was the latter and I had known many kids who were the former. And you sounded like one. Nothing judgmental or macho. Just the way different kids are.Last edited by sated buddha; 02 Apr 14,, 13:10.
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Originally posted by sated buddha View PostI enjoy all cricket. And we were not talking about cricket per se, but specifically (in this interplay) cricket against Pakistan. If you do not have heart there, then it can only mean one of two things. Neither very complimentary I'm afraid.
Well, speaking of shoes, your original comment with regard to school hockey to which I replied in the first place was pretty standard momma-boy meets speco nerd sissy stuff.
If the shoe fits .....
I admit freely that I am not physically strong and do have powerful prescription glasses.
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Originally posted by bolo121 View PostOf course there is heart in cricket, otherwise it wouldn't be fun. But what makes it special is that there is much more on offer.
I enjoy the ebb and flow of a proper game, plan and counter plan and so on.
You are a go by the gut and feel everything person it seems, I begin to see how you enjoy T20 so much.
Your earlier reply was a pretty standard northie dialogue. I am tough and break bones and you are sissies.
If the shoe fits...
If the shoe fits .....
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Originally posted by sated buddha View PostCricket is not followed by the head, but by the heart. If you need to analyse and decide on "participation", you are indeed better off watching some other sport. Golf or chess maybe.
I enjoy the ebb and flow of a proper game, plan and counter plan and so on.
You are a go by the gut and feel everything person it seems, I begin to see how you enjoy T20 so much.
Why? Because "Northies" are crass and break bones and "Southies" are timid rassam sipping puppies who get beaten up?
Talk about jaundiced prejudices and pigeon-holing man .....
If you felt pigeonholed, my apologies.Last edited by bolo121; 02 Apr 14,, 12:16.
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Originally posted by bolo121 View PostIn other words i am sane and realize that the only people who really win from all this fervour are advertisers plus the looters of the BCCI.
However going from the attitude i see in my pretty big office I dont think the fervour you describ is still there. At least not in Bangalore.
I have been described as pessimistic sometimes but you are the first to call me airy of all things.
Its not a matter of being contrary, I just look at the pattern and if its distasteful, I dont participate.
Man thats just such a North Indian thing to say.
Talk about jaundiced prejudices and pigeon-holing man .....Last edited by sated buddha; 02 Apr 14,, 08:22.
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We need to tackle Steyn. Need to dent his psyche in the very first over. A case for an ambush hitter maybe. Morkel is difficult but not particularly unmanageable.
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Originally posted by bolo121 View PostIn other words i am sane and realize that the only people who really win from all this fervour are advertisers plus the looters of the BCCI.
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Originally posted by sated buddha View PostYou are an aberration. You are an exception to the rule, a tiny microsm of cricket-is-war mad India where Pakistan is concerned. But I guess you already know that and like being contrary and airy for some reason.
However going from the attitude i see in my pretty big office I dont think the fervour you describ is still there. At least not in Bangalore.
I have been described as pessimistic sometimes but you are the first to call me airy of all things.
Its not a matter of being contrary, I just look at the pattern and if its distasteful, I dont participate.
As for hockey, I'm one of the guys whose ilk you knew, and I'm guessing I knew some of yours as well. :)Last edited by bolo121; 01 Apr 14,, 17:36.
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Needless to say, my Pakistani coworker has a frown on his face today...
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Originally posted by Pedicabby View PostYou guys have hockey over there these days?
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Hockey is pretty boring to watch but frightening to play.
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