What a brilliant boo ... I'm not a cricket follower, but do enjoy seeing the England team do well (as I do with any and all sports). If cricket makes you happy Stephen, that's all that matter, I love football and know those feelings of heartbreaking disapointment and the euphoria of winning only too well. XX
I'm so happy that you're so happy. Don't get cricket, but understand your sentiments. I like to watch baseball live and I believe a lot of people think of it much the same way they think of cricket. So what? In 1985 when both Missouri teams, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Kansas City Royals played in the World Series the whole state went mad! In 2006 when The Cards won again with the worst regular season record ever for a WS Champion, though we couldn't attend any games and had to content ourselves with television coverage, my daughter and I watched every minute we could. It was the most exhilarating sporting even I've ever seen. Congratulations on your team doing so well. I don't understand how someone could hate something you're so excited about, to the point of making negative remarks about your tweets. Love this audioboo!
I am soooo happy for you that England won the Ashes! Excellent! A resident of the Leonard Cheshire Home in GX is a huge cricket fan and I am certain he has been wearing a big smile since yesterday, what more can one ask for? And why cannot those who are NOT interested in cricket just let others enjoy it, rather than insult them? Was glauben die eigentlich, wer sie sind?? Pfui!!!
I don't profess to understand the rules of cricket, but I do understand the love of the game, because I do love watching it. There is a certain goofy poetry about it, especially when you don't know the rules.
I also hate when other people find it necessary to crush a person's enthusiasm or happiness, because, as you say, they find it easier to hate. The gods know, here in the States right now, we have more than enough hate going on at the town hall health care meetings. It's palpable in the air, somehow.
Love and happiness are so much a part of the world, we really should celebrate them when we find them, either in ourselves or in others. So, Mr. Fry, I celebrate your joy and happiness in your cricket game, and I am so glad that your team did so well!
Now maybe someday, this ignorant American will figure out the rules of cricket. My dad understood them, he even played cricket with a British expat team in Santa Barbara many, many years ago. But I was too little to learn them, then, and no one's been able to explain them succinctly to me since!
Anyway, Yeeha, Woohoo, and all that wonderful jazz! And, though I don't know you personally, a mental hug as well!!
Cricket does nothing for me - however I like to see elation, joy and enthusiasm in others! What does damning others for their interest in things of no interest to me achieve? Nothing except to demonstrate one's own bitterness.
Oops that wasn't meant for you. SEE NEXT POST Well not all of it anyway, Obviously the part where I mention you doing a story that wasn't you that was the local press. I forgot to delete it before posting on here
Congratulations on your team doing so well. I don't understand how someone could hate something you're so excited about, to the point of making negative remarks about your tweets. Love this audioboo!
I also hate when other people find it necessary to crush a person's enthusiasm or happiness, because, as you say, they find it easier to hate. The gods know, here in the States right now, we have more than enough hate going on at the town hall health care meetings. It's palpable in the air, somehow.
Love and happiness are so much a part of the world, we really should celebrate them when we find them, either in ourselves or in others. So, Mr. Fry, I celebrate your joy and happiness in your cricket game, and I am so glad that your team did so well!
Now maybe someday, this ignorant American will figure out the rules of cricket. My dad understood them, he even played cricket with a British expat team in Santa Barbara many, many years ago. But I was too little to learn them, then, and no one's been able to explain them succinctly to me since!
Anyway, Yeeha, Woohoo, and all that wonderful jazz! And, though I don't know you personally, a mental hug as well!!