Is there any good web site that
explains the relatively incomprehensible game of cricket to an ignorant merican? For instance, how can a game go on for days and why do they wear those white uniforms?
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Wed 6 Jan 2010, 15:55, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

how can it go on for days and still be a draw?
how can anything be so dull?

don't bother trying to understand it. it's like baseball, the only thing that makes it any good is being very very drunk.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 6 Jan 2010, 15:57, Reply)

It's weird
I used to not understand it at all and found it very, very dull. But suddenly, much like snooker, I just found myself watching it once and I got it and then got quite interested.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 6 Jan 2010, 15:59, Reply)

not much chance to watch it over here

(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Wed 6 Jan 2010, 16:00, Reply)

I can watch snooker fairly happily
I've watched some cricket, and have a slightly greater appreciation for it now than ever before, but still find it bores me to tears.

That said, I never watch any sport on tv apart from Wimbledon, or England football matches.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 6 Jan 2010, 16:03, Reply)

I used to only really like international football and rugby
but, as our ability to field a decent national squad detiorates I have discovered that the club game of both footie and rugby are still very enjoyable.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 6 Jan 2010, 16:06, Reply)

That's because you support the best football team in THE WORLD.

( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Wed 6 Jan 2010, 16:26, Reply)

They are by far the greatest team the world has ever seen

(Bazongaloid, Wed 6 Jan 2010, 16:29, Reply)

^This

( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Wed 6 Jan 2010, 16:35, Reply)

If you believe the chants they all are
Although Doncaster Rovers fans are probably just taking the piss.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 6 Jan 2010, 16:40, Reply)

i hope you watch those england football matches
with undisguised irony coupled with the fact that the team will never live up to the stratospheric hopes that the media builds for them. I mean, do actual normal people believe that EVERY major competition England qualifies for, that they are, without a shadow of a doubt, going to win? Then when they don't, they start rioting with each other. Crazy stuff.

I fucking hate football, seriously. I used to enjoy the odd European match if Celtic were involved (re the martin o'neill era) but now i can barely watch 30 seconds of it before wanting to vomit my lungs up with boredom. Therefore I don't bother at all.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Wed 6 Jan 2010, 16:34, Reply)

I think I'd rather watch a game than vomit my lungs out.
That's not the sort of thing you can recover from.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 6 Jan 2010, 16:52, Reply)

It's not that bad
I just shove them up my arsehole and they seem to migrate back to where the came from. At least that way I don't have to watch 11 benders pretending to play football.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Wed 6 Jan 2010, 16:58, Reply)

Cricket is one of those few sports that could be greatley improved by being set in verious different enclosures at London Zoo.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 6 Jan 2010, 16:50, Reply)

I like your style

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 6 Jan 2010, 16:57, Reply)

Can you drink while you play?
(If not, it isn't any fun).
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Wed 6 Jan 2010, 16:00, Reply)

Yes.
And there are breaks for elevenses, lunch, and tea.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Wed 6 Jan 2010, 16:36, Reply)

Did you know that Cricket used to me popular than Baseball in America? And recently too.
Also: The rules of Cricket:

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Wed 6 Jan 2010, 16:25, Reply)

This is fucking brilliant

(Bazongaloid, Wed 6 Jan 2010, 16:29, Reply)

That explains it perfectly succinctly!
Thanks. Don't know why I didn't see it before. Like everything else, it revolves around the old in and out.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Wed 6 Jan 2010, 16:30, Reply)

This is wonderful.
Did you write this?
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 6 Jan 2010, 20:44, Reply)