Is cricket a sport?

Should a game that can last up to 5 days and still not necessarily come up with a winner really be regarded as a sport?  Nothing should take 5 days…except a working week…but even that’s too long.  Cricket needs a Hump Day.  A token Wednesday just to remind you that it’s still the same you are watching.

Isn’t it really more appropriate to call cricket recreational waiting in team colours?

While we are at it, should golf be a sport?  Shouldn’t a sport by definition be something that needs participants to move their heart rates above resting to ensure success. 

Have we become so lazy that we have become enamoured by an activity that allows one to stack on 50kgs, perhaps take up drinking and enjoy anger management issues all without impacting your ability.

Golf and Cricket should be regarded like Bridge…as a recreational activity when you have injured yourself too much trying everything else first or just found out that you were no good at them.  By the way, ever notice that its always the heavier set gentleman that invariably is more defensive about this subject?…

Do not queue across the intersection

The traffic sign read, “Do not queue across intersection“. Fair enough? Well, if you think there is nothing wrong with that then you are probably the reason why the instructions on 2-Minute Noodles still have to stipulate the cooking time, why there is a reminder on take-away coffee cups that the contents are probably hot and why velcro was invented in the first place.

It is not the sign itself that is disturbing but rather the need to have it in the first place.  Following the recent Australian tradition of outsourcing everything from call centres to HR it seems like we as individuals have also outsourced our common sense.  Do we really need to be told not to enter an intersection when the traffic on the other side was backed up and not moving?…Yes!  Please refer to the Park St/Elizabeth St intersection in Sydney’s CBD.

Big Brother – A slight on Boganvilia

Checking out www.boycott10.com caused me some concern.  I am embarrassed by the potrayal of the bogans on BB. Like the ANZACs, the Bulldogs, the Kerrigans, The Bra Boys and anyone from Moe, bogans are a crucial part of the social fabric that is Australiana. They put the ’s’ in ‘you’ and remind us that there is no shame in going to the shops in your PJs. They reflect the value that multi-car ownership is not a priviledge but rather a birthright and the Australian Dream is not about owning a home but rather the front lawn that precedes it to install at least 5 rusting cars on permanent exhibit.What a slap in the face then to have bogans depicted as mono-syballic, suburban metrosexuals with hairless torsoes who are more inclined to spend time on their highlights and on their eggplant 1.8ltr Japanese rice burners. The bogans that made this country socially cringeworthy on the foreign stage would themselves cringe in their mockies if they new what was happening. Thank Gary Ablett for Home and Away (the thinking bogan’s West Wing), for creating enough of a distraction and to hopefully avoid another Cronulla-type korobari.Cashed Up Bogans (CUBs) wouldn’t know a Vitamin B from a Gemini 120Y. They are more about sandy tints than Sandmans. The question used to be Ford or Holden? Now its tips or highlights?Damn you Shane Warne! Damn you Crazy John! and damn you Eddie McGuire!