Cricket references in non-cricket (OK, mostly US) culture

Invader Zim wrote:

Have you ever been Sheffield or Slough?

God no. I've only been to London.

Not my favourite city, I must admit. However, I've only been there a handful of times. It probably deserves ONE more chance.

DJ_Smerk wrote:

Invader Zim wrote:

Have you ever been Sheffield or Slough?

God no. I've only been to London.

Not my favourite city, I must admit. However, I've only been there a handful of times. It probably deserves ONE more chance.

Funny how you lot seem to think it's a dump...was pretty cool I thought. Apart from the annoying Australians everywhere.

Invader Zim wrote:Are you farking retarded

Dr Who often appeared in contemporary England, where the game of cricket is pretty much common place.

Meh...

The thread is poorly worded. Should be 'Cricket references in countries with no cricket culture'...

Invader Zim wrote:

DJ_Smerk wrote:

Invader Zim wrote:

Have you ever been Sheffield or Slough?

God no. I've only been to London.

Not my favourite city, I must admit. However, I've only been there a handful of times. It probably deserves ONE more chance.

Funny how you lot seem to think it's a dump...was pretty cool I thought. Apart from the annoying Australians everywhere.

I know, I hope it's not like that when I go to Australia.

DJ_Smerk wrote:

Invader Zim wrote:

DJ_Smerk wrote:

Invader Zim wrote:

Have you ever been Sheffield or Slough?

God no. I've only been to London.

Not my favourite city, I must admit. However, I've only been there a handful of times. It probably deserves ONE more chance.

Funny how you lot seem to think it's a dump...was pretty cool I thought. Apart from the annoying Australians everywhere.

I know, I hope it's not like that when I go to Australia.

Na, the place is full of poms complaining about the heat.

Invader Zim wrote:

DJ_Smerk wrote:

Invader Zim wrote:

DJ_Smerk wrote:

Invader Zim wrote:

Have you ever been Sheffield or Slough?

God no. I've only been to London.

Not my favourite city, I must admit. However, I've only been there a handful of times. It probably deserves ONE more chance.

Funny how you lot seem to think it's a dump...was pretty cool I thought. Apart from the annoying Australians everywhere.

I know, I hope it's not like that when I go to Australia.

Na, the place is full of poms complaining about the heat.

I thought that only happened in Chennai?

I thought that only happened in Chennai?

It happens everywhere the temperature gets over 25C...

100 degrees fahrenheit when I went to California.


It was hell.

DJ_Smerk wrote:100 degrees fahrenheit when I went to California.


It was hell.

What has that to do with the weather?

Well nothing, LA was pretty bad.

LA is a shit hole. And I can say that having only seen the Airport and an airport hotel room.

Invader Zim wrote:

DJ_Smerk wrote:

Invader Zim wrote:

Have you ever been Sheffield or Slough?

God no. I've only been to London.

Not my favourite city, I must admit. However, I've only been there a handful of times. It probably deserves ONE more chance.

Funny how you lot seem to think it's a dump...was pretty cool I thought. Apart from the annoying Australians everywhere.

Familiarity breeds contempt. We're not very good at noticing the truly great world city in our midst.

Invader Zim wrote:LA is a shit hole. And I can say that having only seen the Airport and an airport hotel room.

Never on to jump to quick judgements then?

I thought LA was a great big freeway.

You're never short of a wig emporium when you're in LA.

DJ_Smerk wrote:100 degrees fahrenheit when I went to California.
It was hell.

Speaking of Hell ... not sure if this alleged TRUE story has been reproduced on here.
if it has, my apologies ... but, sh!t, this was one smart student ...

The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid term.
The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well :

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant..

One student, however, wrote the following:
First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time.

So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving.

As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today.
Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially.
Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:
1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
2. If Hell ! is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?
If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, "It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over.

The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct......leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting "Oh my God. Oh my God…"

THE STUDENT GOT A GRADE A+

Urban myth. Been floating around since they dropped the bomb.

Still farinking funny though.

Shoeshine wrote:
Familiarity breeds contempt. We're not very good at noticing the truly great world city in our midst.

Or maybe the rest of us would like to feel there is a country outside of the Republic of Londinium?

In truth it's a great city, but like any has extremes of decent & dingy areas and the inhabitants are generally a bunch of ...........

JKLever wrote:

Shoeshine wrote:
Familiarity breeds contempt. We're not very good at noticing the truly great world city in our midst.

Or maybe the rest of us would like to feel there is a country outside of the Republic of Londinium?

In truth it's a great city, but like any has extremes of decent & dingy areas and the inhabitants are generally a bunch of ...........

poo heads?

Aye.

Apart from visiting Lord's or occasionally That slurrified Ovular place, my one overwhelming feeling on driving or training out of London is that of relief.

You're a Lahndoner and you know it.

One reason that i'm glad for leaving London is that whenever i'm driving home on the A2 i see the magnificent sign informing me that i'm now entering Kent and there's another sign accompanying it. What is it? It's only the national speed limit sign. No more 50mph with speed cameras for me.

Batmobile?

Henry Nolonga wrote:whenever i'm driving home on the A2 i see the magnificent sign informing me that i'm now entering Kent and there's another sign accompanying it. What is it?

'Go back now, you'll never make it out alive'?