Re: Could the Boxing Day Test be moved to a Christmas Day start?

by spangler on Thu 17 Dec 2009, 23:51

Bradman wrote:Yeah but I'm pretty sure the churches may have sometihng to say and it's illegal to serve booze on Xmas day.

WTF..??

by Bradman on Thu 17 Dec 2009, 23:54

Shoeshine wrote:
Bradman wrote:The only good thing to come out of England Sheety. Though most of the ingredients are from the 'colonies'.

Pretty pointless owning the world unless you can take advantage of it.

Hehehehe! Fair call. You deserve credit for being able to use tamarinds productively.

On food. Can anyone open a chup-a-chup. I just spent half an hour and I swear Alexander on his best day couldn't open the farkers.

by Bradman on Thu 17 Dec 2009, 23:56

spangler wrote:
Bradman wrote:Yeah but I'm pretty sure the churches may have sometihng to say and it's illegal to serve booze on Xmas day.

WTF..??

Good Friday and Xmas day. No pubs or bottlo's open. Though if you're staying in a hotel and drinking ancilliary to a meal.

by taipan on Thu 17 Dec 2009, 23:56

Same here.

by Shoeshine on Thu 17 Dec 2009, 23:58

Really?

Most pubs open at lunchtime on Christmas Day here. Very, very few in the evening, but they can do if they want to.

by Bradman on Fri 18 Dec 2009, 00:05

What surprised me when I was working shitholes with farked licensing laws was how cheap the black market was. A lot of the places I worked you couldn't buy booze on a Sunday or a public holiday (crazy shit) or during elections.

Fair enough you couldn'y buy booze on election day in Oz once upon a time but elections in some of the places I worked go for weeks. But the black market stuff was about the same price.

by Bradman on Fri 18 Dec 2009, 00:07

Shoeshine wrote:Really?

Most pubs open at lunchtime on Christmas Day here. Very, very few in the evening, but they can do if they want to.

Hoping it'll change here if only to piss the god botherers' off. Though it's not too hard yo plan ahead.

by buckSH on Fri 18 Dec 2009, 00:09

Let me say this .. it's always good to have the pubs and shops open on christmas.

for those sitting at home, it makes them feel better that there are others in open shops.

for loners, they always feel better if something is open.

by Shoeshine on Fri 18 Dec 2009, 00:09

Bradman wrote:
Shoeshine wrote:Really?

Most pubs open at lunchtime on Christmas Day here. Very, very few in the evening, but they can do if they want to.

Hoping it'll change here if only to piss the god botherers' off. Though it's not too hard yo plan ahead.

Pissing off the Sky-Fairy Believers is a justifiable end in itself, surely?

by taipan on Fri 18 Dec 2009, 00:10

buckSH wrote:for loners, they always feel better if something is open.

I am happy it makes you feel better

by buckSH on Fri 18 Dec 2009, 00:14

taipan wrote:
buckSH wrote:for loners, they always feel better if something is open.

I am happy it makes you feel better

yes, I have spent many a lonesome night on many a wintry christmas eve.

Not really bothered about myself, but those out-of-towners and singles who need someplace to go out to, it can really get tiresome waiting for christmas to pass.

by Invader Zim on Fri 18 Dec 2009, 13:08

taipan wrote:
WideWally wrote:
Has Test cricket ever been played on Christmas Day? asked John Canning from London

The first time it happened was in 1951, when the third Test between Australia and West Indies at Adelaide finished on Christmas Day (the third day of the match). Actually West Indies completed their six-wicket win midway through the day, so the players might have been able to scoff some turkey after all. Sixteen years later, in 1967-68, it happened at Adelaide again - the second day of the first Australia-India Test. Farokh Engineer narrowly failed to score a festive century: he was out for 89. Two years later India met Australia on Christmas Day again, this time at Madras (Chennai).

How did they manage the fit the Boxing Day test in?

Change your tune, subi.