The Girls point of view

[Richard Jenkins]

Anyway Girls and cricket....

Yes. She would thing spending a day watching cricket akin to having her fingernails pulled out one by one with a pair of rusty pliers.... Still, i've bought her tickets for Aha now, so i've got some leverage fot the ashes tests. perhaps i can wangle a ticket to Lords or the Oval.....

She still things cricket is a crazy game for crazies and that anyone who likes it is crazy.

[Zainub]

It didn't rile me. But I'm wondering if you all attend any of the favorite past times of your lady friends/wives et all, because you all certainly expect them to watch cricket or at least that's the impression I get

Teatime, I think its great that you only drink half pint because your partener wants you to do that, I don't drink, so that's not an option for me, i love my fruit juices and I'm well with that. In the winter I resort to driking Capochino (or whichever way you spell it)

[Andy Mellon]

Unlucky my friends, unlucky! I am in the fortunate position where my girlfriend not only accepts cricket, but plays it too. This has its positives and negatives

Positives:

She will willingly attend cricket matches with me and not ask questions about Lbw, why they are still playing when its wet or why I have to drink beer to help assist my enjoyment. In fact, if I'm lucky - she may buy a round.
I can have a chat with her about cricket and its many and limitless facets

Negatives:

She really doesn't understand when I get back at 12am when nets finish at 10pm. She knows that they finish at 10pm and she knows that I've been drinking afterwards!!
She doesn't understand why I have to wield a bat a full lb and a half heavier than hers!
She derives far too much enjoyment from watching Freddy Flintoff bat
It means I get roped into umpiring for her team on a regular basis.
She supports Middlesex

[Teatime FatCat]

What's your favourite then? Guava, Mango, Passionfruit, Coconut? I'm sure I remember you guys out there have really exotic fruit juices!

[Occasional Fan]

Originally Posted by Zainub Razvi

I'm wondering if you all attend any of the favorite past times of your lady friends/wives et all

Sorry: I don't understand the question. Anyone else?

[Richie Benauds Love Child]

Yes Zainub, attached gents do. Wander around department stores on a saturday afternoon and you'll see plenty of blokes stood outside changing rooms with a blank/scared look on their face. Rather than explaing the LBW rule they answer questions like :

"No I prefer the first one dear. No I'm not saying I dont like the second I just prefer the first. No it doesnt make you look fat. Do we have to try somewehre else today?".......

.....which is why Man invented creches for men (known as pubs or rather all day opening pubs).

[Zainub]

Originally Posted by Teatime FatCat

What's your favourite then? Guava, Mango, Passionfruit, Coconut? I'm sure I remember you guys out there have really exotic fruit juices!

My favorite is Mango Teamtime - the king of all fruits juices in my opinion. Then I love my lemon juices as well, I'm not that much a fan of apple juices though, although I admit they have the most spectacular of hues. Then there's orange juice (Good old glass of Tang), pineapple juice, or if you have a taste for the out-and-out bizzarre you can always have some black berry juice. Then there's the Jamie O styled cocktail I make, with RohAfza, Orange Tang, Lemon Barley and anything sweet I can get my hands on. Yum! (CAUTION: No one else likes that)

If juice is too boring for you, you can always opt instead for shakes - down here people drink a lot of lassi (which is a kind of a milk and yogurt shake) and banana or mango shake. Or if you aren't the juice personality altogether, tea is brilliant with cricket. But then again, too much tea also is not good for health. Unlike too much fruit juice - that can never be bad. You ask me there a many, many things you can drink, IF i.e. you don't want to drink alcohal (or beer or whatever it is called).

I can see why so many men don't enjoy shopping with women, I'm not a shopping enthusiast either. I admit in this respect I'm probably very, very different from most other women, but I just can't see the point of looking around the whole mall and see the same type of things again and again, before eventually coming back to that one shop you started out with, bargain endlessly and then buy the thing. I'd rather just go out, buy the first thing I like and come back as quickly as I can to the peaceful, calmer and most importantly COOLER confinement of home sweet home. My siblings henceforth think I'm crazy, and often decline to take me to shopping with them, which is a scenario I'm perfectly happy with.

Originally Posted by Andy Mellons

Negatives: She derives far too much enjoyment from watching Freddy Flintoff bat

Hmm, now that’s a interesting one Andy (and one that I get to hear too, although not wrt Freddie), you’re not exactly jealous (or are you?), but just probably wishing that she derived less entertainment from watching Fred bat, well, I’m afraid that’s not up to her, its probably up to Freddie him self.

[Teatime FatCat]

[quote=Zainub Razvi ]If juice is too boring for you, you can always opt instead for shakes - down here people drink a lot of lassi (which is a kind of a milk and yogurt shake) and banana or mango shake.

I think I've seen lassi on cookery programmes. In India they have street vendors everywhere selling it, as it's very popular. Also, it's served in little terracotta cups, which the drinkers just throw into the gutter when they've finished, to save on washing up!


I can see why so many men don't enjoy shopping with women, I'm not a shopping enthusiast either. I admit in this respect I'm probably very, very different from most other women, but I just can't see the point of looking around the whole mall and see the same type of things again and again, before eventually coming back to that one shop you started out with, bargain endlessly and then buy the thing. I'd rather just go out, buy the first thing I like and come back as quickly as I can to the peaceful, calmer and most importantly COOLER confinement of home sweet home. .

You see now Zainub, that is a dream shopping experience with a woman for many of us. Men tend to have the 'see the trousers, buy the trousers, bugger off home straight away' shopping mentality - I like your style!

[Zainub]

Originally Posted by Teatime FatCat

like your style!

Unfortunate/fortunately it is rare

[Occasional Fan]

Originally Posted by Teatime FatCat

I think I've seen lassi on cookery programmes.

Most Indian restaurants in the UK will serve it, even if it's not actually listed on the menu. If it is on the menu, you'll find it in a separate section from the Kingfisher/Cobra/Red Barrel etc., as it is non-alcoholic. I recommend it, especially if you are having one of those particularly highly spiced meals with which beer and water goes straight in the mouth and out through the nose (sorry to be so graphic, especially at lunch time!).