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I'm too American to know who those two people are. I assume, because your tag says "british politics" and because the news page makes a joke about their political careers being dead, that they are politicians.

But, even though I don't know who they are, that is FUCKING HILARIOUS. And I can't believe a news page got away with that. 'S very nice.

CONGRATULATIONS ENGLAND, NEW TWENTY20 WORLD CHANPIONS!!! does this relate to your cricket thing? or am I being American again, already?

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That's like. The new prime minister and his buddy who was the leader of another party, but they joined forces.

FURTHERMORE, check out how forward minded and also scathing we are.

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XDDDDDDDDDDDD

*FACE OF GLEE*

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Erm, sorry. I got over-excited again, didn't I? Those two are no less than Britain's NEW PRIME MINISTER AND THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER (= PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT RESPECTIVELY), WHOM THE ENTIRETY OF THE BRITISH PRESS ARE SLASHING TOGETHER. THAT INCLUDES THE TIMES, THE BBC AND THE ECONOMIST, complete with wedding cake sketch. Both Clegg and Cameron are happily married, too.

I just can't get over the fact that THE 'STIFF UPPER LIP', 'KEEP BUGGERING ON', STAUNCHLY RESPECTABLE BRITISH PRESS IS SLASHING TOGETHER THE NEWEST RULERS OF THE COUNTRY. SLASHING THEM. IT'S EVERYWHERE. As a dedicated slash shipper, I just couldn't contain my utter SQUEAL OF DELIGHT. WE'VE GONE MAINSTREAM, PEOPLE!! Not that they don't give the slashers enough material on a daily basis.

Ahem. I got carried away again, didn't I? Yes, I see what I did there. Yes, the Twenty20 is the cricket, which England won by thrashing Australia. The next Ashes test match will be veeeery interesting!!

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AHA. I see.

You should have seen some of the internet memes involved in the last presidential election over here. (Maybe you did?) They put Obama in KAMINA'S GLASSES. If he had made that a part of his political campaign, I would have given up my general distrust of all politicians in order to fake an ID just to vote for him. (I was just a bit shy of being of legal age to vote at the time. SIGH.)

THE 'STIFF UPPER LIP', 'KEEP BUGGERING ON', STAUNCHLY RESPECTABLE BRITISH PRESS IS SLASHING TOGETHER THE NEWEST RULERS OF THE COUNTRY. I ADMIT. THIS ARTICLE DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE IMAGE OF COOL, INTELLIGENT, SUAVE, JAMES BOND BRITAIN I HAVE IN MY HEAD.

I BET AURRAI IS ~*THRILLED*~ ABOUT HER COUNTRY LOSING, Y/Y?

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"I BET AURRAI IS ~*THRILLED*~ ABOUT HER COUNTRY LOSING, Y/Y?" - OH GOD I HAVEN'T BEEN OVER THERE TO GLOAT YET!!! HOW COULD I HAVE OVERLOOKED THIS EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY TO WIND HER UP??

Actually, I don't know if she follows cricket at all, so I don't know if she'll care. She's an Anglophille anyway.

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Well, she did explain the rules to me, so presumably she knows something about it? (And then she proceeded to diss my lack of multiculturalism and mock my lack of knowledge of cricket. ALL IN CAPSLOCK, SO IT'S NOT LIKE SHE WAS SERIOUS OR ANYTHING. MAYBE.)

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THAT IS TRUE. /EDITS JOURNAL ENTRY

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Congratulations on your new Prime Minister. I heard the old one was due for a shafting, and I felt the same way when Australia got a sparkly new PM back in '07 (KEVIN OH SEVEN AHAHA AND THEN IT'S GOING TO BE KEVIN ELEVEN OMG THEY PLANNED THIS SO WELL)

For once I'm going to suppress my urge to rip the both of you to pieces and will instead calmly and politely remind you loser Brits about bodylining. For those of you too uncultured to understand what that is, I shall kindly provide a summary:

Don Bradman: best cricketer in history, an Australian
1932-33 Ashes tour: Australia vs. England
loser Brits can't handle losing a game they invented
would rather play dirty than fair
decide that, of course! injuring the Australian team will help us win!
create bodylining: bowling the ball to try to hit the batter >:(

Sorry for letting you win. We just didn't want you to get shitty and hurt innocent people again :/

~~AHAHA LOOK AT MY GLORIOUS LIST THIS IS WHAT TWO WEEKS OF STUDY HAS TAUGHT ME HTML AND NOTHING ELSE~~

Edited Date: 2010-05-22 05:00 am (UTC)

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~~I guess that's what you get for having a livejournal.~~

OH, PWNED IN YOUR OWN JOURNAL, SIRONA. OUCH.

create bodylining: bowling the ball to try to hit the batter ...so the ball is rolled to the batter, who hits it? Or is it thrown like baseball and I'm just not getting your Australian use of "bowling"? /sportsfail. For the record, it's not just cricket; I don't really know the rules to American football or baseball, either. And I sat on the sidelines at football games for four years. Sports just don't hold my attention like ninja do. :/

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~~hey, this post was very personal to me and I don't like people talking about me somewhat "behind my back"~~

Haha, I realize you didn't know what bowling meant in cricket terms so I kind of IRL LOL'd when you asked if it was like rolling a ball along the ground. Here is a video of cricket bowling (you can also see the wicket behind the batter getting hit: if you can remember from last time, this means that the batter is out). It's closer to baseball pitching but the ball has to hit the ground once. This might be a little difficult to see in the video though /quality=whut?

I think it's good having a little bit of knowledge about a lot of different things because then you won't look dumb finding yourself in the middle of an LJ conversation. But that would never happen to you ♥

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~~ASDFJKL; IT'S NOT BEHIND YOUR BACK, BB. WE'RE IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE. Although, maybe that's not the best position; from here we can see your face, and it's giving me a headache just seeing it. urgh.~~

Aha! ...BB, THAT'S NOT LIKE BOWLING AT ALL. :|

I like knowing about different stuff! I'm just not that good at retaining too much knowledge on sports. (I'm pretty sure I officially know at least TWICE as much as my RL friends about cricket now, though. Thanks to your explanation of parts of it.)

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~~your headache is from not going to bed at a decent hour. and also bcuz u suck~~

Nothing to see here~

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~~The headache is from seeing you. The strain your hideous face puts on my eyes is worse than 20 hours straight of being online without sleep.~~

/Whistles.

JUST PASSING THROUGH.

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See reply below. Then recheck your conclusions on the pwning issue.

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Bleeding hell! STOP HIJACKING MY JOURNAL, DAMNIT!! THAT GOES FOR YOU TOO, PP!!

History is overrated. IT ONLY MATTERS WHAT HAPPENS RIGHT NOW! And yes, I am aware that this is a distinctly un-British attitude, but if I had to go back and re-post all the times we've kicked your arses halfway around the world, I'm run out of comment space. Just to summarise:

- The Ashes 2009
- The Rugby World Cup 2003

IN THE SAME DECADE. ~~ALSO, IN YOUR FACE, AURRAI.~~

Well done on mastering HTML! I'm still in training.

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D8 APOLOGIES. I didn't mean to hijack it--it just happened. I blame aurrai. She's definitely the REAL culprit here.

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She usually is. She's also rather fond of hijacking other people's journals, I find.

...I'm only kidding. Hijack away!

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This is definitely one of those cases that counts with the usual. She's a journal-hijacking beast.

/HI-JACKS. THAT WAS AURRAI'S FAULT, TOO. WHAT A BITCH.

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Unrelated, but. Um. This. It's

syrraki's fault, honest!

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I blame aurrai. She's definitely the REAL culprit here.

She's also rather fond of hijacking other people's journals, I find.

She's a journal-hijacking beast.

WHAT A BITCH.

WHY SO MUCH HATE FOR AURRAI? ;_________________________;

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IT'S NOT HATE, BB. IT'S TOUGH LOVE. I'M HARDEST ON THE ONES I LOVE MOST. <3

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LOVING YOU IS LIKE TRYING TO LOVE A COLD PIECE OF ADAMANDITE.

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LOVING YOU IS LIKE TRYING TO HUG AN ANGRY OWL WHICH ONLY SPEAKS IN ANGRY CAPSLOCK.

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LOVING YOU IS LIKE TRYING TO TEACH A DELINQUENT HOW TO USE AN AHREF AND STILL GETTING SPAMMED WITH THE EDITED COMMENTS.

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LOVING YOU IS LIKE TRYING TO LOVE A COLD, HEARTLESS ROBOT, WHO NEVER WANTS TO SLEEP TOGETHER AT NIGHT.

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IT ONLY MATTERS WHAT HAPPENS RIGHT NOW!

Hmm.

The Rugby World Cup 2003

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

Pro-tip: don't invalidate your own argument.

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I WAS ONLY LOOKING AT IT FROM YOUR POINT OF VIEW. IF IT'S HISTORY YOU WANT, THIS IS WHAT YOU GET.

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Haha, actually I don't follow cricket nowadays but I grew up with it, playing it at school and on the weekends sometimes with neighbours and adults joining in, so I know the rules and some terminology. Haa… I miss the days when wheelie bins functioned as makeshift stumps /nostalgic

Also, I'm not an Anglophile: none of my ancestors are English :/ I'm mostly Scottish and German.

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"Also, I'm not an Anglophile: none of my ancestors are English :/ I'm mostly Scottish and German." - Er, I meant that you like British stuff, bb (e.g. tea). But good to know!

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Champions! I'm jubilant over the cricket. And that conversation is pretty perfect.

xx

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