Bitter Pill
August 26, 2009
I spent Sunday afternoon curled up on the couch, bowled over by cold and fever... or perhaps just the agony of Australia getting slaughtered by England in the cricket.
ME: I hate losing to England!
GARETH: Well, now you know what it's like to be Scottish!
ME: Yeah but, we actually had a chance!
You need to be more like me and not care for cricket at all, then I am never upset... but was upset when Spice Girls canned their Australia tour so it's all relative I suppose...
1 · Posted by LaLa · August 26, 2009 at 10:07 AM
Bwahaha! I would have been livid at those Spice bints too. How dare they cancel on you!
To be honest I'm more gutted that my supermarket has stopped stocking my favourite yogurt :) England deserved the win, fer sure.
I HATED cricket when I lived in Oz because you can never escape from it! The players hogging the telly all summer and flogging Weetbix et al. But over here it's pleasant - one of many popular sports - so when the Ashes roll round you dip in for six weeks and it's totally absorbing... then it's over. Whereas back home it felt like cricket cricket cricket bloody cricket!
2 · Posted by Shauna · August 26, 2009 at 10:12 AM
The best thing about cricket? Nothing much ever bloody happens! So you can't miss anything important, and if you do, they replay it endlessly anyway. Perfect for spectators.
Much as I hate losing to the poms, the past decade or so has been a bit yawn-inducing when you know we're going to win. Not because we're great, but because all the other teams are shite. A bit of competition - that's more like it!
3 · Posted by kek · August 26, 2009 at 11:27 AM
kek, that said, it would have been nice if England and Australia could have both played well IN THE SAME TEST rather than alternating which team collapsed in a tiny little heap.
4 · Posted by Mary · August 26, 2009 at 11:33 AM
Well put, Mary! It seemed the first day of every test was spent with heart in mouth wondering, "Which team is going to be completely shit today?" :)
5 · Posted by Shauna · August 26, 2009 at 11:55 AM
Being Scottish I know very little about cricket but must admit to a certain attraction for a game where having tea is part of the rules!
6 · Posted by Loth · August 26, 2009 at 02:51 PM
I'm pretending to be a kiwi this week!
7 · Posted by Ali · August 26, 2009 at 06:02 PM
Don't worry a few more years in Scotland and you won't give a crap about cricket like the rest of the nation. Then there will just be the agony of the footie and rugby defeats to deal with.
8 · Posted by Sher · August 26, 2009 at 07:53 PM
This news made the Wikipedia front page, so I read up on it a bit. Aussies have had possession of The Ashes for like a squillion years, so I think you can rent them out for one :)
9 · Posted by Carolyn J. · August 27, 2009 at 04:56 AM
Too funny! We have EXACTLY the same conversation all the time. I always get the "we invented that..." about sport (and everything) to which I answer "So why arn't you better at it then?"
Oh the joys of the banter!
dani
10 · Posted by danioz · August 28, 2009 at 12:43 AM
Don't follow cricket but loved your story about the handshake in your comment on my blog. It made me feel a whole lot better about my crassness.
11 · Posted by Isabelle · September 03, 2009 at 07:26 PM