Chosen Mysteries - Page 3

jimhelm · 01-24-2012, 09:50 AM

Comstion mark?

Sundae · 01-24-2012, 11:17 AM

Cricket.

I love its quitessentially English nature.
I like that it is mysterious and nonsensical and is played by real sportsmen who still stop to have tea. I love that it is played on my local park by the British born Asian boys in the same way lads used to have a kickabout (soccer) in mine.

But I cannot be arsed to learn the rules.

I would rather be baffled by someone's maiden over, the fact they are 57 for 7 and that they are bowling from the gasworks' end (I know what that means in slang though).
It's a mystery and I don't want to rob it of that.

glatt · 01-24-2012, 11:29 AM

Oh, yeah. I don't know the rules for receiving kicks in football. I was watching the Giant's game Sunday night and the kicks played such an important role in the game and I realized I had no clue. There seem to be at least half a dozen rules governing kicks and receiving them, but damned if I know them.

Sometimes you catch them and run and get tackled. Sometimes you catch them and don't run and you aren't tackled. Sometimes you let them bounce and run close to them with all your buddies surrounding them, but you don't touch them. Sometimes they go beyond the end zone and come up to the 20 after. What else? Oh, if they touch you, the other team can grab them, but not run with them. So freaking complicated. Obviously field position plays a huge role in all the variations. Maybe that's one that I will look up someday.

Beest · 01-24-2012, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Sundae

I love that it is played on my local park by the British born Asian boys in the same way lads used to have a kickabout (soccer) in mine.

We were once driving by one of the high schools and saw some kids playing cricket, they were Indians. As with soccer, just becasue we invented it doesn't mean we own it, the colonies are much more keen.

God's knows where they got the bats though..

Oh and Snookie, I know little enough to know that I don't want need or care to know more.

Pete Zicato · 01-24-2012, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Beest

they were Indians.

Ha. Can you tell I'm American? I was thinking feathers instead of dots and wondering why Indians decided to pick up cricket.

ZenGum · 01-24-2012, 10:05 PM

Yesterday my mate visited and we were talking crap, as we do.

There was a recent story (did I see it here? Cheeseburger network, maybe?) about a woman with a rare medical condition, essentially she has two vaginas. She has declined a million dollar offer to make a porno.

But this got us thinking, how many co-stars would she need? or rather, be able to accomodate?
V1, V2, anal, oral, one in each hand ... six?
(which is why the seventh dwarf was Grumpy

)

We thought there might be problems with access, so we decided the the partners would have to be midget porn stars.

But there might still be difficulties with angles and that, so maybe we need a few midget amputee porn stars.

Are there any? We could have googled it.

And at that point, we decided not to. This was our chosen mystery: how many midget amputee pornstars are there? I may never know.

xoxoxoBruce · 01-25-2012, 02:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

Ha. Can you tell I'm American? I was thinking feathers instead of dots and wondering why Indians decided to pick up cricket.

Yeah, our Indians play lacrosse.

ZenGum · 01-24-2012, 06:43 PM

If you know of any Indians who are keen on Cricket, please send them to Adelaide immediately. India are 3-0 down in a four test series, Australia are batting first and are 383/3 (i.e. we are thrashing them) and India had gone to defensive strategies half-way through the first day of what should be a five day test match. They are playing with the expectation of losing.

The last two tests (can go for up to five days, two innings each) were both over in less than three, because India did so poorly Australia didn't even need to bat their second innings.

HungLikeJesus · 01-24-2012, 11:28 PM

All of them.

Rhianne · 01-25-2012, 01:43 PM

Bacon.

Just about everyone seems to love it and think it to be the food of the gods, even folk who no longer eat meat.

I'm happy to leave it untasted, to me it smells like a dead pig's half-burnt, partially decomposed corpse.

HungLikeJesus · 01-25-2012, 01:53 PM

Of course - that's what it is.

Sundae · 01-25-2012, 01:59 PM

Rhianne, you write as though you have never tasted bacon. That's unusual unless for religious or moral reasons (and most vegetarians aren't born, but make informed decisions later.)

I'd be interested to know your original reason, if it's something you are willing to share.

Rhianne · 01-25-2012, 03:14 PM

I don't eat meat, I don't feel as I have the right to kill just for food, and I although I've no religious beliefs myself I was brought up in a muslim home.

HungLikeJesus · 01-25-2012, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Rhianne

... I don't feel as I have the right to kill just for food, ...

You've got to kill something for food. That head of lettuce didn't even get a chance to run free.

Just think of all the pigs and chickens that didn't even get a chance at a short happy life because you refused to support them.

It makes me sad.

Rhianne · 01-25-2012, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

You've got to kill something for food. That head of lettuce didn't even get a chance to run free.

I explained in another thread. I'll do it again if you really want.

01-24-2012, 09:50 AM	#1
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01-24-2012, 10:05 PM	#6
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Yesterday my mate visited and we were talking crap, as we do. There was a recent story (did I see it here? Cheeseburger network, maybe?) about a woman with a rare medical condition, essentially she has two vaginas. She has declined a million dollar offer to make a porno. But this got us thinking, how many co-stars would she need? or rather, be able to accomodate? V1, V2, anal, oral, one in each hand ... six? (which is why the seventh dwarf was Grumpy ) We thought there might be problems with access, so we decided the the partners would have to be midget porn stars. But there might still be difficulties with angles and that, so maybe we need a few midget amputee porn stars. Are there any? We could have googled it. And at that point, we decided not to. This was our chosen mystery: how many midget amputee pornstars are there? I may never know. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

01-24-2012, 06:43 PM	#8
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	If you know of any Indians who are keen on Cricket, please send them to Adelaide immediately. India are 3-0 down in a four test series, Australia are batting first and are 383/3 (i.e. we are thrashing them) and India had gone to defensive strategies half-way through the first day of what should be a five day test match. They are playing with the expectation of losing. The last two tests (can go for up to five days, two innings each) were both over in less than three, because India did so poorly Australia didn't even need to bat their second innings. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

01-24-2012, 11:28 PM	#9
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	All of them. __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

01-25-2012, 01:53 PM	#11
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	Of course - that's what it is. __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

01-24-2012, 11:17 AM	#2
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Cricket. I love its quitessentially English nature. I like that it is mysterious and nonsensical and is played by real sportsmen who still stop to have tea. I love that it is played on my local park by the British born Asian boys in the same way lads used to have a kickabout (soccer) in mine. But I cannot be arsed to learn the rules. I would rather be baffled by someone's maiden over, the fact they are 57 for 7 and that they are bowling from the gasworks' end (I know what that means in slang though). It's a mystery and I don't want to rob it of that.

01-24-2012, 11:29 AM	#3
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Oh, yeah. I don't know the rules for receiving kicks in football. I was watching the Giant's game Sunday night and the kicks played such an important role in the game and I realized I had no clue. There seem to be at least half a dozen rules governing kicks and receiving them, but damned if I know them. Sometimes you catch them and run and get tackled. Sometimes you catch them and don't run and you aren't tackled. Sometimes you let them bounce and run close to them with all your buddies surrounding them, but you don't touch them. Sometimes they go beyond the end zone and come up to the 20 after. What else? Oh, if they touch you, the other team can grab them, but not run with them. So freaking complicated. Obviously field position plays a huge role in all the variations. Maybe that's one that I will look up someday.

01-25-2012, 01:43 PM	#10
Rhianne Nearly done. Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Teetering on the edge. Posts: 1,134	Bacon. Just about everyone seems to love it and think it to be the food of the gods, even folk who no longer eat meat. I'm happy to leave it untasted, to me it smells like a dead pig's half-burnt, partially decomposed corpse.

01-25-2012, 01:59 PM	#12
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Rhianne, you write as though you have never tasted bacon. That's unusual unless for religious or moral reasons (and most vegetarians aren't born, but make informed decisions later.) I'd be interested to know your original reason, if it's something you are willing to share.

01-25-2012, 03:14 PM	#13
Rhianne Nearly done. Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Teetering on the edge. Posts: 1,134	I don't eat meat, I don't feel as I have the right to kill just for food, and I although I've no religious beliefs myself I was brought up in a muslim home.

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