sub-branch of the Cricket World Cup today.
Still, it gives Scotland a break, I suppose.
sub-branch of the Cricket World Cup today.
Still, it gives Scotland a break, I suppose.
That's Bangladesh who wil be 1 point off 4th place if they win (as expected) today?Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I hadn't realised that India struggled against Afghanistan until my India-supporting colleague mentioned it this morning.
Yes. You still wouldn't want to live there, though, would you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pokster
I like the way their fans wave large toy tigers. :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Remind me again, how many of the Tory toffs managed to get back from Kabul in 1842? They went in in 1839 with a pack of fox hounds and two camels carrying the officers' cigars, so I'm sure they must have had the backward 3rd world dump well under manners 3 years later.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Also, the capital of Bengal, before the 1905 partition, was Calcutta whose uni let in totty about a decade before Oxford or Cambridge did. So definitely more enlightened.
And how many holy rivers flow through Croydon?
Often dreadfully wet, Bangladesh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
i worked in Bradford for a while......Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
A bit like how the US breezed into Afghanistan in 2001, knocked over the bad guys and , um, 18 years later are still failing to get control.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
And ONE holy river flows through Croydon. The mighty Wandle. :nod:
Tbf, g, whilst I bow to know man in my appreciation of the delights of the *ahem* 'developing world' metropolis, you must admit that the term 'thrid world shíthole' coulkd easily have been invented for Dacca. And, by some strange coincidence, I have a new Afghani chum, and he told me recently how he was talk to strip and reassemble an AK47 by the time he was 8 years old because, 'Anyone could try to kill you at any time'. :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
Wow. I didn't know we had a holy river. Where is it in relation to East Croydon station or the Whitgift Centre? Does it have chillum-smoking and meditating monks on its banks?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Still not as many as Bangladesh, mind. And there aren't many tigers, elephants or holy cows in Croydon.
I trust your judgement, C. I've obviously never been to Dacca. While I respect them for letting the noble Indians liberate them from the dastardly 'Stanis in '71, I still haven't forgiven them for siding with Jinnah in '47. Hope the 'Ghanis hammer them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
:nod: To the point of drowning, in fact.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I was in and out as a guest of the Bangladeshi parliament, so you'd imagine I'd have got to see the best of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
:-(
All rivers are holy imo. Bringers of life.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
As I recall, much of the Wandle where I grew up is underground. It didn't seem to possess much in the way of divinity.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
There's no such thing as a holy river, gg. Only backwards, third-world savages believe in that sort of thing. We gave up on all that when we around the same time as we stopped painting ourselves blue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
One of the glw's mates is the daughter of the Bangla that signed the '71 treaty. But if you say the nice bits are shît, it must be a dive. No lovely Lutyens architecture, I take it, as in civilised sub-continental capitals?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Not the bits I saw. Imagine the really crumbling bits of paharganj. Now imagine much, much worse...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
Disclaimer: that was 10 years ago. It might be like Manhattan now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Oh, you mean when the Wops came over and taught us how to read and write centuries after the Indians had been putting up pillars guaranteeing human and animal rights in 3 different scripts? And then when they taught us to count with Roman Numerals and no concept of zero? Verily, we are so much more civilised than the Vedics.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Ash is right - as bringers of life, all rivers are holy. It's just some are holier than others and Bangla has the confluence of two of the top three.
You should go and smoke a chillum on the banks of the Parvati or bathe in the Holy Ganga. Even you would find your soul touched. They have a ghat in Benares just for the cows. Called Gai Ghat, obv., given gai means cow. They just stand there all day, looking holy and going moo.
But it was nice of the 'Ghanis to let Dr Brydon in 1842 survive so he could tell the tale.
All of the underground rivers in London are associated with a divinity, in the Ben Aaronovitch novels.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Also:
"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea."
Who's 'us'? No Romans in Ireland, pal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
:nod: They weren't fúcking stupid, were they?Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Wouldn't surprise me. When I first went to Delhi, CP was so run down. The neo-classical pillars that would have looked sublime when they were built were just so tatty. Nehru had introduced subsidised rents for chunks of it, so you had people with little typewriters in their office paying a pittance for what is now some of the world's prime real estate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Now it's full of western brands. Gutting.
Though one time, about a decade back, they'd changed one of the outer circle corner blocks to look a bit like our Parliament. So there, the mock-Georgian had become mock-mock-Gothic.
I was in a taxi, a bit fragged on K, and it was lit up by lasers and looked quite beautiful. It actually made me quite proud to be British - that they'd made this corner look like Parliament as if to say CP {or Rajiv Chowk as they call the metro station now} links the world's largest democracy with the Mother of Parliaments.
The best of both worlds. I guess you know enough about me to know why this would moisten the eye a little.
Except the Romanised 'Patricius', of course. Not that he had much influence. :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
There is a theory, of course, that between the Fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of Charlemagne, Ireland was about the only remaining European repository of what we would have called Western knowledge. That without the Irish we'd have lost the lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
This is balls, of course (ignoring as it does the influence of the Eastern Roman Empire apart from anything else), but still.
He was Welsh. :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Irish people love it when you point out he was English anywayQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Couldn't have been English, surely. They hadn't been invented yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
He'd almost certainly been buggered silly by pirates as well. :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
I dined in your family seat the other week, btw.
Shhh - where’s the fun in thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Did you? I hope you were treated wellQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Still glum.
8 wickets down I had £100 at 40/1 on the W Indies...
Just has sneaky feeling Brathwaite would do something special.
Only cashed out my steak...had the option to walk away with 1800 clean too.
Shame...Anyways...
This is actually quite an important game.
England play Australia, India and New Zealand next and could well do an Arsenal and lose them all.
That leaves the door wide open for Bangladesh or Pakistan who play each other last.
Granted they need to win too but those are 3 heavyweight Knock out games for England.
Yes, very. I enquired about the possibility of them letting you have it back, but nothing doing. :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
No Roy for the Aussie game either, Vince just isn't anywhere his level.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tony C
I would actually be quite amused if England didn't get out of the group stage. it would serve us right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tony C
India's floodplain innit? Imagine having that as part of your history.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
For losing to Pakistan and Sri Lanka? I think we'll beat both Australia and New ZealandQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
retribution was indeed taken .. oh yes!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult