So, what's happening? I said I'd try and keep more up to date but a look at the news still requires an anti Simpsons coup each evening, alwas fiercly resisted particularly by E.
In the cricket over in Oz, harbijhan called Symonds a monkey, Symonds got miffed & complained, Bucknor grassed up Harby to th referee, the ref banned Harby for three games and the Indians said "bollocks to that we're off home." So the ICC with iron resolution said, well, we need to maintain discipline but would it be alright if we let him appeal, delay the appeal till it doesn't really matter anyway, and lethim play in the meantime. The Indians considered and came back with a compromise. "Yeah OK, but would you mind sacking Steve" No probs boys. Game on.
Should he have called him a monkey? Probably not, but boys will be boys. Should you call a fat cunt "fat cunt"? Should you call a bald bastard "baldy"? should you call a strawberry blonde "ginger minge"? The thing is was Harby just flinging out insults willy nilly as the post seasonal sledges sleighed around the SCG. Is "monkey" a racial insult> The answer is "yes" if the person saying it seriously onsiders a black geezer to be his racial inferior, the inference being that he is somewhere lower down the evolutionary tree (or perhaps in the higher branches). What I suspect Harbijhan did was fling the first epithet that came to mind at the robust Andrew. The appropriate reponse would surely be "Fuck You Raghead" and matter ended. The affair has apparently sparked a row in the Oz press, with suggestions that, brilliant cricketers as they are, the Aussies are getting a bit big for their baggy greens, and when it comes to sledging happier to give tha to receive. The enclosed link from a year or to back suggests as much
YouTube - The Sledge that Backfired: McGrath-Sarwan Spat (Antigua,'03)
Should have the New Hampshire primary results by the morning. Everyne seems to think it's only the Dems that really matter as whoever they pick is going to win. Obama hot favourite, Hillary looks in trouble.
On Vera!
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