Blinking heck ! 21 for 4? What's going on in Leeds? Is the Matrix slipping? Someone tell our fine cricketing gentlemen that they are playing South Africa here. And South Africa are Quite Good.
Okay, they cracked off a 60 partnership, 80 for 4 sounds more likely. My sense of reality is now returning, I can rationalise this...
Eh? Sorry, normal service is resumed...
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please, don't remind me of what's going on. It's all very sad.
And yes, we are meant to be quite good.
And yes, we are meant to be quite good.
It's a game we invented to make the colonies feel better about themselves. We take their money, labour and mineral resources, and they get to take the stumps home.
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Why does the bloke with the red leather ball rub it on his genitals then?MrChris wrote:It's a game we invented to make the colonies feel better about themselves. We take their money, labour and mineral resources, and they get to take the stumps home.
It's a satire of sexual politics in the context of imperial supremacy. See See Anne Mcclintock, 'Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest'.
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bastardsMrChris wrote:Naturally. Now, send us some more gold.