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What has happened to our cricket team?? We have forgotten how to bat and to be honest I hope we haven't forgotten how to bowl too, I'm not sure it could be any sadder after such a great summer.We will be 3 down by the end of today.COME BACK PONTING WE NEED A WIN ALL IS FORGIVEN.
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You may be right there B. I never read the cricket threads as I'm not really interested in the sport. However, listening to cricket commentary on the radio can be very funny. I have fond memories of sitting in the kitchen with my dad listening to the eccentric ramblings of cricket commentators and during the summer holidays it was a regular fixture in my routine.


You're still a colonial though.

The English Citizenship test can be reduced to two questions:


1. Do you like chocolate cake?


2. Do you display a wry smile when you hear the 36 passing The Oval commented on?


If you can answer yes to both questions, you are an Englishman, my friend.

Blowers the commentator on TMS used to talk about the 36 bus passing the Oval cricket ground before they put up the new stand, you could see into the ground from the road and people used to rent out there rooms in the flats over looking the ground so people could watch. some people still get up on the roofs of the flats there when the ashes are on! but they are freaks you wouldn't catch me doing that.

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> The English Citizenship test can be reduced to two

> questions:

>

> 1. Do you like chocolate cake?

>

> 2. Do you display a wry smile when you hear the 36

> passing The Oval commented on?

>

> If you can answer yes to both questions, you are

> an Englishman, my friend.


I like chocolate cake very much, although sometimes I think adding the cake is a bit of a waste of time, and I do particularly like the commentary on buses passing the Oval (alternatively, pigeons on the pitch). That said, I too am a bally Colonial.

I unfortunately know far too much about England?s history, geography and global significance and far too little about celebrity, asinine television and pop music for anyone to ever mistake me for an Englishman.



Oooooh. The Duchess is proper narked this morning.


Tell us something about England's geography.

"Mostly flat and damp with a few unimpressive peaks

in the middle.


Oh wait no, that?s their batting line up."


See, what did I tell you. I knew that was coming. This feral Dutchman obviously has no standards. Well.....actually I suppose he does.....living in britain among his former colonial masters.

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