(no subject)
I need more cricket-loving English people on my friends list so that I can gloat properly. The only good thing about summer is looking especially promising at the moment. I went to the game yesterday for a few hours. The crowd was very entertaining but not nearly as much as they should have been. Despite some very boring people's best efforts there were flags everywhere and several beachballs. The highlight of the afternoon (apart from that icy cold beer when it got really hot) was the entire crowd chanting, "Give us the ball back!" when some dickhead hit a particularly large one in the wrong direction and the fun police confiscated it. I really think they've gone a little overboard on security. I can almost understand banning the Mexican wave, because I'm sure it really sucks to have a cup full of some idiot's pee land on your head. But where's the harm in bouncing a beachball around? And what did the Barmy Army's trumpeter do to deserve being kicked out? Since when did playing the trumpet hurt anyone and what's wrong with a bunch of passionate fans singing and chanting to support their team? The Barmy Army may support the wrong team but they make the Ashes special. Until now. The atmosphere has been killed. :-(
Ended up piking at the tea break because the heat was really getting to me and the seats at the Gabba are stupidly close together. I was wedged between my mum and a stranger and I was hot and sweaty and uncomfortable and the Poms were being useless anyway so despite my mother's best attempts to guilt trip me into staying, we went home. I then laid smackdown on Inter Milan in FIFA '05 and on the French and Danish in Medieval II. Then, to round off a thoroughly productive day, I ate curry.
Today I have sat at work and done approximately nothing, with the exception of making donations to the two Queensland Roar players doing Movember. Perhaps if I sponsor them the team will stop sucking? I don't even want to think about the game on Friday night or the fact that we have dropped from second to seventh in the space of a month. :-( I think for Movember next year the whole team should participate and they should sell enormous fake orange mo's for the fans to wear at Suncorp, with all proceeds to charity of course. That way they might raise more money than about $40 each for Matt McKay and Stu McLaren, and the orange moustachioed crowd would cheer the team on to beating everyone all the time. That would be a nice change. *sigh*
Ended up piking at the tea break because the heat was really getting to me and the seats at the Gabba are stupidly close together. I was wedged between my mum and a stranger and I was hot and sweaty and uncomfortable and the Poms were being useless anyway so despite my mother's best attempts to guilt trip me into staying, we went home. I then laid smackdown on Inter Milan in FIFA '05 and on the French and Danish in Medieval II. Then, to round off a thoroughly productive day, I ate curry.
Today I have sat at work and done approximately nothing, with the exception of making donations to the two Queensland Roar players doing Movember. Perhaps if I sponsor them the team will stop sucking? I don't even want to think about the game on Friday night or the fact that we have dropped from second to seventh in the space of a month. :-( I think for Movember next year the whole team should participate and they should sell enormous fake orange mo's for the fans to wear at Suncorp, with all proceeds to charity of course. That way they might raise more money than about $40 each for Matt McKay and Stu McLaren, and the orange moustachioed crowd would cheer the team on to beating everyone all the time. That would be a nice change. *sigh*