Let's get some perspective....

rockylizard · Guru

Let's get some perspective....

Ge · Senior Member

Gday...

Gee ... all this hoohaa about some cricketer rubbing his balls up the wrong way and it is dominating all news media and even this forum. hmm

Let's focus on the REAL outrageous injustice in sport over the past weekend.

Yes John i agree we was playing lawn bowls on Sunday and Heather tripped dropped her stubbie on the matt and the opposition put in a protest.
No sportsmanship these days, oh and i protested cause i had pay for the one she dropped.

Tony Bev · Guru

It is a slow day where I am at the moment, so I will stick my neck out

I believe that it is a different scenario, John

Cricket is supposed to be a sport
Formula One Racing, is also supposed to be a sport, but it is known as the F1 Circus, because of its commercialised entertainment value.

Danny Ric, as he is known in the F1 community, made an honest mistake, by not checking his dashboard, and not slowing his speed enough when a red flag came out.
But....He therefore broke the written rules and was penalised

The cricket ball tampering on the other hand, was blatant cheating, caught on camera, instigated by some of the senior members of our national cricket team.

One difference between the two scenarios is that
A cricketer was ordered/enticed to break the rules, they have been punished, but this is not the end of the story, due to the public interest
A Formula One Pilot, (as some of the media call them), broke a rule, was penalised, and that will be the end of that story, due to lack of interest, and/or perhaps that this particular penalty, can not be contested, under the rules

Desert Dweller · Guru

Grand Pricks racing, so boring. Around they go & around they go again etc. etc. All ''sport'' these days boils down to money & not much else.

moamajohn · Guru

Bloody cricket ! jeeze I,d rather chat to the mother in Law !!

rockylizard · Guru

rockylizard wrote:
Gday...
Gee ... all this hoohaa about some cricketer rubbing his balls up the wrong way and it is dominating all news media and even this forum.
Let's focus on the REAL outrageous injustice in sport over the past weekend.
Daniel Ricciardo was handed a three grid-place penalty for a piddling infringement during last Friday's practice when the session was red flagged.
That dropped him from 5th on the grid to 8th ... so completely unfair, unjustified and discriminatory.
Now .... THAT should warrant every Strayan to be up in arms and threatening retaliatory action.
Cheers - John

Gday...

I gotta git better-er at being 'off the wall'

The post was obviously a very feeble attempt, misunderstood by all, at being ironic - ie humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humour"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely".

Sorry folks, I gotta stop trying. cry

cheers - John

Dougwe · Chief one feather

You sound wounded Rocky, here's a bandaid to fix it, pic ya colour mate.

There is sticky on the underside too.

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rockylizard · Guru

Gday...

Cheers - John

Tony Bev · Guru

biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin A few smilies, may have done the trick, John biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin

I thought that you may have been a follower of F1, just like me

dorian · Guru

rockylizard wrote:
The post was obviously a very feeble attempt, misunderstood by all, at being ironic - ie humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humour"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely".

sarchasm n.

The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the guy who doesn't get it.

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/sarchasm.html

-- Edited by dorian on Tuesday 27th of March 2018 06:20:14 AM

rockylizard · Guru

Gday...

Tony, I am a rev head and luv all forms of motorsport - 'cept drifting and drags.

However, it was just a feeble attempt to be funny - like most of my efforts it wasn't successful.

Cheers - John

landy · Guru

Dougwe wrote:

You sound wounded Rocky, here's a bandaid to fix it, pic ya colour mate.
There is sticky on the underside too.

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Yes it was Rocky, mate.

Tony Bev · Guru

rockylizard wrote:
Gday...
Tony, I am a rev head and luv all forms of motorsport - 'cept drifting and drags.
However, it was just a feeble attempt to be funny - like most of my efforts it wasn't successful.
Cheers - John

Good to see that you are still a young smile ooligan smile , John

And still follow thr F1, just like me

Err...
As for the sticky that Doug gave you
I would not be using the yellow one
It shows up on camera smile

Ge · Senior Member

Well John i enjoyed it and i am still cranky cause i had to buy another stubbie.

disbelief confuse

Papou · Senior Member

moamajohn wrote:
Bloody cricket ! jeeze I,d rather chat to the mother in Law !!

Ide rather watch Grass Grow confuse , part that peaves me off is our PM going on about the cheating and how we appear to the World !!??, didna think about it when they ousted a PM that was duley elected by the people of this Country!!. Wasnt that a bit of cheating ??...

Thay got caught is all and if your that stupid with todays technology ie; Cameras, well ya gotta pay the piper !!..

Their Carreers stuffed , If they have Children at School i feel VERY Sorry for the backlash to them as well as thier own public fitting wherever they live , Very sad really as the media are going to make not just a meal but a smorgasboard of them!!..

Hope their wives n familly stick by their sides at least as they are about to have a very rocky road ahead ..

Get the $$$ and betting out of sport arena and betcha no one would be cheating at all and dont fore one minute think it doesnt happen in all sports ey!!..

Ron-D · Guru

These guys were caught out doing something very stupid,very dumb,but they are already multi millionaires apparently so who cares they dug there own graves,and lets face it they wont starve...

Cupie · Guru

What shats me is all the sanctimonious arm chair experts who come out of the woodwork to take the high ground & lambast the players who have achieved what they will never do from their arm chairs.

Seems like all and sundry are looking to make Warner the patsy.

One player did the deed (probably no worse than the SA captain who is a dual offender & got of with a slap on the wrist) & he gets the lowest penalty.

The Captain who admitted sanctioning the act got a penalty far exceeding what all those who went before him on ball tampering got. And he didn't do anything ... except making sure that all the blame went to the third guy in the plot.

Then there was the third guy against who there is no evidence except what the co-accused alege. Now that's the one that all the experts are heaping the main blame on. Seems that it was his idea!!! Buggar me. Don't the others have full responsibility for their actions. Sounds like a school yard excuse .. 'Johny told me to do it'.

I'm sure that the South Africans (& their officials) are laughing their heads off in the changing rooms. Their plot to derail the Aussies has worked a treat!