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I had been told that Americans were no good at sex because they will not delay gratification.Not simple enough! Any game that complicated would never fly here in the States, especially one so drawn out and dependent on delayed gratification. We don't do delayed gratification.
Cheers,
Wes
Good heavens Sir, they are Laws,"You are getting more an more English, Antonello.." said to me my friend Tony as we were having a walk along a park in Yorkshire.
"Why??"
"You are starting to understand Cricket rules,,,"
Hell, there's a lot of complaining here about our so-called "national pastime", baseball, because there's so much "wasted time" and the action isn't fast-paced and continuous enough.I like it but I understand why some don't, some just see it as organised laziness.
Yes, but if you Englishmen do insist to play Cricket on Sundays afternoons you will certainly get some rain.
I did try to convince my fellow countrymen to play Cricket as the surest metod to get some rain, but at no avail, they did not believe me.
Cricket was invented by the English because, not being a spiritual people, they needed some idea of eternity.Cricket metaphors add a new dimension to the incomprehensiblity of English
Well we started out as children of the mother country, and were good, solid, puritan gratification deniers, but then we slipped up and imported all those Mediterranean and Gaelic folk, who taught us passion, and life has never been the same since.I had been told that Americans were no good at sex because they will not delay gratification.
That is the strange thing about cricket because it is a social event slow play only annoys those who don't understand it. My wife likes to listen to cricket on the radio, there is a lot of joking, no politics or "issues" she doesn't even mind if it is rained off.Hell, there's a lot of complaining here about our so-called "national pastime", baseball, because there's so much "wasted time" and the action isn't fast-paced and continuous enough.
Cheers,
Wes
If you go to Italy you will see young men discussing "amore" with young women until 2 AM over a coffee. You do not see that in UK because they are already in bed. The idea that the world speaks English while the British were puritan gratification deniers is counter to logic. It is a historical fact that the British would shag a warm loaf, however they also wrote the history books and don't like to speak ill of their ancestors.Well we started out as children of the mother country, and were good, solid, puritan gratification deniers, but then we slipped up and imported all those Mediterranean and Gaelic folk, who taught us passion, and life has never been the same since.
Cheers,
Wes
Righto, old chap, but we didn't come from that sort of Britain. We came from the Puritan strain, who I believe, eventually prevailed in Britain as well. Now that subculture from south of Mason-Dixon that drawls instead of speaking, they sprang from a colony put forth by the English nobility, who did fit your metaphor. A document signed at Appomattox Courthouse in April, 1865, sort of defines who writes the history books here. (Sorry, Rebs, but that's how it is.)The idea that the world speaks English while the British were puritan gratification deniers is counter to logic. It is a historical fact that the British would shag a warm loaf, however they also wrote the history books and don't like to speak ill of their ancestors.
That is the strange thing about cricket because it is a social event slow play only annoys those who don't understand it. My wife likes to listen to cricket on the radio, there is a lot of joking, no politics or "issues" she doesn't even mind if it is rained off.
If you go to Italy you will see young men discussing "amore" with young women until 2 AM over a coffee. You do not see that in UK because they are already in bed. The idea that the world speaks English while the British were puritan gratification deniers is counter to logic. It is a historical fact that the British would shag a warm loaf, however they also wrote the history books and don't like to speak ill of their ancestors.
Cricket was invented by the English because, not being a spiritual people, they needed some idea of eternity.
I don't know much about American social history but I have read several books on that of the English and British. Victorian and Puritan are almost synonyms although they are not the same they are perceived to be. However in the Victorian era these are the facts.Righto, old chap, but we didn't come from that sort of Britain. We came from the Puritan strain, who I believe, eventually prevailed in Britain as well. Now that subculture from south of Mason-Dixon that drawls instead of speaking, they sprang from a colony put forth by the English nobility, who dat id fit your metaphor. A document signed Appomattox Courthouse in April, 1865, sort of defines who writes the history books here. (Sorry, Rebs, but that's how it is.)
Cheers,
Wes
Well I speak Italian German and French and enjoyed working in those and other countries. I don't discuss the EU because that is politicsWe'll have none of this continental bollocks of 'amore' thank you.
Some say that our brief membership of the poxy EU has taught us to be more understanding and forgiving.... not the case old boy.