[AusRace] After prawns - Darts and the Jesuit

[Tony Moffat]

Northerly – thanks. I made the point that cricketers, in their creams, are not nice, and  jingoistic, in the endeavor to put off the opposition, a batsman in this case. Whereas, a much more manly sport, thugby, especially at school boy level, where this was when referred to, is, or was, not subjected to the nasty words, sledging, so much. This is my opinion and I was out there for a few years and have the ears as evidence. In football there is the heavy hitting and most are conditioned for it. In cricket you have angry persons throwing hard balls at your head, and bouncing them for the purpose of accelerating them to achieve this. Both games originated in England, rugby just doesn’t pretend to be anything other than exercise, and cricket looks nice from the boundary but there are better things to do on a hot Australian summer afternoon, and the whole thing seems predicated on disliking your opponent, the proof of which is throwing things at them!

 

Cheers

 

Tony

 

Consider snipping when replying.

 

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Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 1:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [AusRace] After prawns - Darts and the Jesuit

 

Know what you're saying about youngsters, cricket and swearing Tony.

I blame attending cricket matches as a youngster to watch my father play and hanging around while they had a drink after the game, for my appalling language nowadays. Reckon I heard every swear word ever invented from the mouth of one particular individual, who it must be said was a very good fella, nonetheless.  

Much to their credit, the previous generation seemed to be much more self disciplined when it came to bad language. 

 

 

On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 14:29, Tony Moffat <tonymoffat at bigpond.com <mailto:tonymoffat at bigpond.com> > wrote:

There are 10 pages of typewriting here and not a horse, horserace or betting
anecdote in any of it.
It was good typing it while it rained today and now the woodshed beckons
Cheers

Tony

When I was 11 Dad got promoted and moved to a new town, a territory to him,
and I went to the catholic primary school. It was small, and packed with
children,



 

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