• TheCaconym [any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    The first time I heard of cricket was as a child when reading Douglas Adam’s H2G2. It seemed so ridiculous I immediately assumed it was a fictive sport invented by the author. How wrong I was.

    Also it’s not just India, it’s in a lot of places they managed to get their grubby colonialist mitts on

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      1 year ago

      We dodged that one in Ireland and hold in contempt anyone who plays it. Somehow rugby made the cut.

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      1 year ago

      But our Indian sub continent got the most addiction. Our corrupt cricket board get billions of USD from government , scams, advertisers. Most people are just glued to this sport for hundreds of hrs for no reason whatsoever. I will make a rule, any person watching even 1 minute of this match will get 100 lashes from the state. I know it’s Saudi Arabia style but that’s how you can remove the addiction.