We have cricket players in my town too...they are all Pakistani, I think, but they are playing cricket...on a lawn near me.
Anyway. Last summer...one of my dogs ran over and stole the ball. That was slightly awkward. To his defense he's VERY fond of balls.
Luckily it turns out cricket balls are fairly tough, so the ball survived. Tennis balls, however, tend to die in seconds.
8 hours ago, geek19 said:Ouch, that hurts. I think Britain is just jealous that we don't care about soccer unless we're winning it. And that's right, I called it soccer.
The sad thing is we care about kicking a ball around so very much and haven't won the World Cup in fifty years, it hurts. Our other national sporting pain was never winning Wimbledon, but we have cured that now.
As an aside, it's fine as a nation you can call it soccer if you like, the other 7.25 billion people on the plant will continue to whisper behind your back, and titter about how you can call a game football when you almost never kick the ball.......
15 minutes ago, Jondavies72 said:China will put together a team to play anything, they even play snooker.
Ah, but do they play skotthyll? A very odd game, involving 2 opposing teams tossing HORSESHOES at sticks.
...at nearly 1.4 billion people, probably.
9 hours ago, Drasnighta said:Proper Wormwood?
High as as Kite.
The Joke was not lost in me. But its also a series I never cared much for.
The Norwegian band Highasakite?
4 hours ago, CaribbeanNinja said:It starts above...
And is currently one of the greatest derailings the forum has seen in quite some time. (Since the great Article Predictions "How to properly Microwave food" incident of 2016)
They've really derailed the whole thread into something totally useless and only jokes that an old-boys club could enjoy. Did anyone groan at the dismissal of other non-white countries and their pastimes? Holy carp. Its pretty disgusting.
15 hours ago, Ginkapo said:You called the entire forum unskilled Rhymmer players.
The ENTIRE forum.
I was making a logic statement based in cause-effect relationship, and youre taking it completely out of context.
You guys are insulting me in every single post I make in any thread, being hostile like a pack of coyotes trying to troll every post discussing and quoting me in the potentialy incendiary parts of every post just to have an excuse to throw an extra stone from behind the pack. You guys created here some stupid hierarchy based in likes, where apparently the opionion of some is more valuable than the opinion of others. You guys just follow the alpha opinion in the forum with the tail between the legs, and anyone who thinks different and dares to say it out loud is chased to death.
You can say now, I'm intentionally being offensive.
Edited by xerpo7 hours ago, Jondavies72 said:The sad thing is we care about kicking a ball around so very much and haven't won the World Cup in fifty years, it hurts. Our other national sporting pain was never winning Wimbledon, but we have cured that now.
As an aside, it's fine as a nation you can call it soccer if you like, the other 7.25 billion people on the plant will continue to whisper behind your back, and titter about how you can call a game football when you almost never kick the ball.......
I recently reread Fever Pitch, so I understand the English relationship with the game. I still see far too much of myself in it with regards to baseball, so I can't make fun of you guys too much!
7 hours ago, Blail Blerg said:They've really derailed the whole thread into something totally useless and only jokes that an old-boys club could enjoy. Did anyone groan at the dismissal of other non-white countries and their pastimes? Holy carp. Its pretty disgusting.
I've been mock insulting Britain for about 6 posts so he came back and mock insulted baseball. I assumed he was just giving me light crap because I asked if he wanted a cup of freedom and had made like 2-3 jokes about the Boston Tea Party. See above where he pokes fun at the US for calling it soccer (justifiably so! The rest of the world does call it football!)
Please do tell me what old boys club does involve pictures of Macho Man Randy Savage, as I wish to become a member.
I also have appreciated the tea advice we've all been posting back and forth.
8 hours ago, Blail Blerg said:They've really derailed the whole thread into something totally useless and only jokes that an old-boys club could enjoy. Did anyone groan at the dismissal of other non-white countries and their pastimes? Holy carp. Its pretty disgusting.
Really that makes me feel sad, could you point out the dismissal of non-White counties pastimes ? I think you will find we have been joking about football, which is just about a universal game (and the American need to call it soccer) and tea drinking,which again is prevalent across every continent apart from Antarctica.
This thread actually turned into a bit of a slagging match over reekin vs rhymer which as the thread poster I found a bit irritating, so I joined in with the fun of turning it into a bit of a joke, which is way more entertaining than listening to any more reekin vs rhymer going around in cycles.....
Edited by Jondavies721 minute ago, Jondavies72 said:and tea drinking,which again is prevalent across every continent apart from Antarctica.
I actually know a guy who went down to work at the Antarctica lab station down there, and I can bet they drank tea there to stay warm.
9 hours ago, Green Knight said:Ah, but do they play skotthyll? A very odd game, involving 2 opposing teams tossing HORSESHOES at sticks.
...at nearly 1.4 billion people, probably.
What's worrying is the way they are all hanging around at end he's throwing the horseshoes at , im betting one of those could put a dent in your day.
Well it's only taken China around 15 years to produce some best players of a relatively obsure British sport.....be warned if they decide they like throwing horse shoes they will end up being very good....
Edited by Jondavies727 hours ago, xerpo said:I was making a logic statement based in cause-effect relationship, and youre taking it completely out of context.
You guys are insulting me in every single post I make in any thread, being hostile like a pack of coyotes trying to troll every post discussing and quoting me in the potentialy incendiary parts of every post just to have an excuse to throw an extra stone from behind the pack. You guys created here some stupid hierarchy based in likes, where apparently the opionion of some is more valuable than the opinion of others. You guys just follow the alpha opinion in the forum with the tail between the legs, and anyone who thinks different and dares to say it out loud is chased to death.
You can say now, I'm intentionally being offensive.
We are on tea and football now, both important to good armada playing, one keeps you fit, the other focused, sugar helps as well.
10 minutes ago, Jondavies72 said:We are on tea and football now, both important to good armada playing, one keeps you fit, the other focused, sugar helps as well.
All this talk of tea made me decide to make some of my own, so clearly this is the Tea thread.
39 minutes ago, Jondavies72 said:We are on tea and football now, both important to good armada playing, one keeps you fit, the other focused, sugar helps as well.
Ugh, sorry I find tea disgusting, more into coffee. Sugar do helps indeed. What kind of FOOTball? the one you play with the FEET or the one you play with the hands?
36 minutes ago, geek19 said:All this talk of tea made me decide to make some of my own, so clearly this is the Tea thread.
Tea is the reason I enjoy playing Armada at home so much as you can just stop and have a brew.... clearly we need to update the tournament time table to reflect a mid game tea break, 1hour stop for 15mins to have a cuppa then another hour to finish the game out..... Now i could cope with that!!!
5 minutes ago, Plagueis said:Tea is the reason I enjoy playing Armada at home so much as you can just stop and have a brew.... clearly we need to update the tournament time table to reflect a mid game tea break, 1hour stop for 15mins to have a cuppa then another hour to finish the game out..... Now i could cope with that!!!
Perhaps its the Australian in me, but I feel the difference is as such - if you're simply Brewing up, then you should be able to do that during your opponents turn and there's no requirement for a break.
If you're serving Scones however, and we're going to make it a right proper "Devonshire Tea" as Aussies refer to it, that, I would allocate time for, as a TO.
4 minutes ago, Drasnighta said:Perhaps its the Australian in me, but I feel the difference is as such - if you're simply Brewing up, then you should be able to do that during your opponents turn and there's no requirement for a break.
If you're serving Scones however, and we're going to make it a right proper "Devonshire Tea" as Aussies refer to it, that, I would allocate time for, as a TO.
CREAM TEA MID GAME BREAK!!!!!!!!! right time to start a petition to change the rules
17 minutes ago, xerpo said:Ugh, sorry I find tea disgusting, more into coffee. Sugar do helps indeed. What kind of FOOTball? the one you play with the FEET or the one you play with the hands?
No no no to coffee..... It's a bean for goodness sake, how can you drink a bean.
As one of the 7.25 billion majority I play football with my feet...any game using your hands and odd shaped balls is called rugby as far as I'm concerned.
14 minutes ago, Plagueis said:Tea is the reason I enjoy playing Armada at home so much as you can just stop and have a brew.... clearly we need to update the tournament time table to reflect a mid game tea break, 1hour stop for 15mins to have a cuppa then another hour to finish the game out..... Now i could cope with that!!!
Yep tea and biscuits end of rounds 2 and 4.
1 minute ago, Plagueis said:CREAM TEA MID GAME BREAK!!!!!!!!! right time to start a petition to change the rules
There's a Gaming League over here that was founded by Ex-Pat Brits who brought GW stuff with them after retirement from the 'forces, basically...
... I could probably hold an Armada day in conjunction with them, where the Entry Fee is "Bring a Moustache or Brew-Mug" and have a right proper fun day gaming...
8 minutes ago, Drasnighta said:Perhaps its the Australian in me, but I feel the difference is as such - if you're simply Brewing up, then you should be able to do that during your opponents turn and there's no requirement for a break.
If you're serving Scones however, and we're going to make it a right proper "Devonshire Tea" as Aussies refer to it, that, I would allocate time for, as a TO.
Now ohh master of all things rules wise....do you know the difference between a Devon cream tea and a Cornish cream tea....... Drum roll.....
Where the Jam is, of course.... 
Coffee n donuts.
No tea n biscuits.
1 minute ago, Undeadguy said:Coffee n donuts.
No tea n biscuits.
If we're doing breakfast, might as well make it Coffee, Bacon, Eggs, Toast, and FREEDOM...
1 minute ago, Drasnighta said:Where the Jam is, of course....
It completely changed the whole flavour of the scone apparently..... But arguing which is best is a almost like having a Ryhmer vs Reeker debate, so I won't go there.