The Ashes 2006/07: The Adelaide Test Thread - Day Four

[Rachael]

Originally Posted by Oliver

So now I'll take a big deep breath before I apologise to a player I have pilloried terribly over the years for his lack of talent.

Just for a moment I was thinking.... oh, silly me.

Was your weekend away anywhere interesting?

[Oliver]

Originally Posted by Rachael

Just for a moment I was thinking.... oh, silly me.

Like I said he had to make 265 at least, on a pitch like that and with McGrath in such good form... there's time for that later in the series. But well done on the big century. Seven wickets is a stunning peformance though. It's a pity Giles can't catch anymore.

Originally Posted by Rachael

Was your weekend away anywhere interesting?

Mannheim, Baden Wurtemberg, south west Germany.

[Rachael]

Originally Posted by Oliver

Mannheim, Baden Wurtemberg, south west Germany.

Nice. I'd have thought the beer would be more than passable there as well: you certainly ought to have found something preferable to the kind of lightweight froth found just over the border!

[Oliver]

Which border? Obviously you mean the French one... it is my eternal gentle argument with my girlfriend, that her lot don't know how to make beer. She hates English beer. I can drink the German stuff, but it doesn't taste of anything. Whats not to like?

I was mistaken for a German (by a German) at the airport on Sunday night, because I was drinking Weissbier.

My Deutsche isn't that good, so I got, "Kannen-sie fissjgbvolkersuisrbittewkjtoi OK?"
When he came back from the loo, he said something else, and then clearly suddenly judging the look of wonderment on my face, he said: "ohh but you are English - why are you drinking Weissbier?"

I didn't have the heart to tell him that it was because I'd had one from the bottom shelf and one from the middle and this was the last German one left that looked interesting.

I also didn't want to tell him that I'm never having it again. Not nice.

He had said: "this one you have to drink if you are German."
Clearly implying to me, that if you aren't, you probably shouldn't go anywhere near it.

[Rachael]

My German friends certainly regard all non-German lagers as bland... and when we've had German beers in I've routinely seen folk screw their faces up, caught by surprise because they DO have a taste. They are perhaps no match for genuine English ales, served warm from barrels... but in my experience they are better than the chilled, keg-stored rubbish served up in English and Welsh town pubs by kids who wouldn't know how to care for a decent beer if they could ever be pursuaded of the case to put one on.

German beer might not be great... but how many British pubs have great beer? One in 100? One in 250? One in 500? The ratio is much better than in the states... where one is best advised to stick to bottled beer from micro-breweries... but England's reputation as a land of great beer strikes me as increasingly unwarranted.

[Quagmire]

Mmm....beer. Just letting people know that Australians don't drink Fosters (its s***). I have never seen anyone ever drink Fosters in my life. In Victoria Aussies usually drink Victoria Bitter, Carlton Draft or Crown Lager. Mainly the first two

[Django]

Originally Posted by Maranello

LOL.

Django, I have never come across a more fervent believer in the mythical, super-human prowess of the Australian cricket team, and in the complete uselessness of their English and Indian counterparts!

Any comments now that England are 4/73 within the first hour on day 5! The match should be over by tea-time today....... and of course Australia will win......

[Django]

Originally Posted by Maranello

LOL.

Django, I have never come across a more fervent believer in the mythical, super-human prowess of the Australian cricket team, and in the complete uselessness of their English and Indian counterparts!

Who is laughing now!? Django 2 - Others Nil

One cannot write off Australia until the match is actually won or drawn. They have this uncanny ability to bounce back. On day 2 I said that England should not declare before 700 otherwise they will lose.....

[greg]

I can't move now,i have eaten too much humble pie.