Originally posted by indy007
Maybe you can explain this Beet... there's a group that plays cricket near my house. I've seen them every saturday morning I pass by on the way to visit my parents... and they almost all have on the same style hat everytime.
So why the big, floppy hats? They even wear them in overcast conditions. Is there a dress code for cricket? Well, at least brits & americans have one thing in common... fascination with boring sports involving grown men trying to whack balls with glorified sticks.
Can't explain it, Indy. I have made similar observations myself when Australia tours here in the UK, as they did for last years Test Series. Now I understand that they need big floppy hats on a typical day in Australia, and I also understand that they need that white lip balm that they use to prevent dry lips in the sort of heat they get there. So it used to crack me up to see Shane Warne in his white lip balm on an overcast day at Edgbaston, when the temperature was struggling to reach 70F.
So no, I can't explain it to you. And... if you need to know who Shane Warne is, google it, or better still ask Redd. I haven't seen Redd on this board recently, but he has a HUGE knowledge of cricket...
Beet1e, I have spent some time in England, and have lived in Texas all my life. I know you would be terribly surprised to find out Texas has a very diverse culture. More so than England does.-skuz
Yes I would be terribly surprised, as I have spent some time in Texas and have lived in England most of my life, and was born the same year as you.
But we Texans do chuckle at the sterotypical responses and thoughts people share about us.
Yes, I understand that feeling quite well, especially when I read posts from Americans here which assert that the normal refrigerator in Britain is so small it can hold only a few sandwiches, or when I read a post by someone who thinks that Brit TV programme content is "controlled by the government" (LOL!) or the suggestion that a cancer patient needs some sort of government permission to see an oncologist, or that the government bars independent airlines from certain routes, or that Britain is an absolute monarchy, or that we need the queen to sign any law on an individual basis, or that she has any sort of power, or that we are "subjects" as opposed to "citizens" (as might be the case in an absolute monarchy - a situation that has not existed for hundreds of years)... need I go on?
Ya see we have enough here that we don`t have to country hop just to make sure the pulse rate don`t flat line like some of you I know. -jackall
...which is to miss the point beautifully! Jack,
anyone in
any country can make the proud boast that "we have everything we need right here". Because, quite simply, the vast majority of people on this earth, even today, have never flown and will never have the wherewithal to venture beyond their own immediate environs. Thus, an eskimo armed with a trepanning tool and fishing rod (like the guy in my avatar) thinks to himself "we have everything we need right here". But why limit yourself to your own back yard? I am never going to be one of those people who rocks back and forth in a rocking chair, overlooking the countryside from atop the stoop, whilst he and his friend in the adjacent rocking chair shoot the breeze and pretend they know everything there is to know about the world. I don't want to take the thread off topic, but I'll quickly add that I'll be in the Middle East next month, surrounded by Arabs. This trip is
not for the purpose of rasing my pulse above 30! I might not like it, I might hate it. But it will be an experience which I consider to be part of life's rich tapestry. Feel free to wear a cowboy hat and rock back and forth on the stoop while I'm gone.
Places I have been to in Texas: Galveston, Del Rio, Houston, Austin, San Antonio
