Alight, you Brits are just making stuff up now...

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Alight, you Brits are just making stuff up now...

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket ... 799047.stm

This is a BBC report about Cricket (I think) and frankly, I know that supposedly it's hard to learn out of the blue, but seriously. What gives? That can't be real. There's just no chance. I read that thing like 5 times and NOTHING made any sense. So come clean and admit it, you made up a game that's incomprehensible to foreigners as a joke right?

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England is just a figment of your drunken imagination.
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That would actually explain a great number of things...

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So it was a surprise when Shahid Nazir's yorker from round the wicket trapped him lbw in front of off-stump, the ball going on to hit middle.

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I just don't understand sports, period.

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Don't say cricket is fake. I have one is my room right now. Darn thing won't stop chirping...

Anyway, after reading this, I seriously want to learn this game and talk about it to confound folks. besides, I simply love the terms they use.
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It's doesn't sound that odd. All you have to remember is that you have to tackle the shortstop when the ball reaches the end of the alley.

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Bunch of cigarettes…

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That article is probably just full of drunken innuendo.

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Cookie wrote:That article is probably just full of drunken innuendo.
just cause you can see them doesn't mean they're actually there cookie.
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PeppermintAfterlife wrote:It's doesn't sound that odd. All you have to remember is that you have to tackle the shortstop when the ball reaches the end of the alley.

I knew a guy named Asif.
Pff. As if.
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I knew a guy named Wot Eva too.
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PeppermintAfterlife wrote:I knew a guy named Wot Eva too.
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No, I won't do it. I'm not your pet monkey. :shifty:
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Heh. Makes perfect sense to me. :)
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Wait, that was an article about sports? I thought it was an excerpt from a gay erotic novel or something.
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LibertyCabbage wrote:Wait, that was an article about sports? I thought it was an excerpt from a gay erotic novel or something.
The best kind of sport. :D :D
You're just jealous because you can't get away with speaking in the third person...

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MariaAndMichelle wrote:
LibertyCabbage wrote:Wait, that was an article about sports? I thought it was an excerpt from a gay erotic novel or something.
The best kind of sport. :D :D
Maria and Michelle are pros ;)
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