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The ECB had thought of setting up an exchange program whereby young
English county players were sent to Australia to see if they could pick up
a few things during the Australian FC season.

It seems the test subjects did fairly well, but hit a wall when faced with
the prospect of visiting Perth.

Moby
Uncalled for.

hilarious very touching.***off with your sick humour

You know, if I wanted to run around crying at the world, I'd sign on wih
SLarry.

No, I don't think I'll brake.  Just you skid along now... don't crash the
party.

Moby
You are now entering: The Crumple Zone.

Larrikin

As of yet, I haven't seen an actual answer.

But I'm not at all surprised at your assumption, which -does- mean an
apology should be forthcoming.

But asuming I did:
I am interested though, how "if you don't like Australia, *** off" is
bigotted.  You don't have to be born somewhere else to not like Australia.
You could be a white, male, non-Jewish, hetero*** and not like
Australia.

Perhaps you could tell me what is "bigoted" about not wanting people who
don't like Australia in Australia?

Moby
Who was it who said 'anyone who brings race into it is a***head'?? Was
that you SLarry?

Larrikin

Yet you insist that this is somehow racist.

In fact, this opinion arose from watching pretentious idiots (almost
entirely made up of anglo-saxons) constantly degrade Australian culture as
"non-existent" because it wasn't the same as the "culture" of Europe
created over thousands of years of mutual slaughter.

Australia belongs to all Australians, and call me silly, but I'd say the
most important part of being Australians is liking Australia.  This
doesn't mean that you have to like everything about the place (I hate
whole states), but I would have thought that it meant you liked a majority
of things about the place.

Your entire demeanor on rsc and asc is one of attacking Australia, its
cricketers and its officials.  You attack Australians who defend other
Australians, you attack Australian political decisions, you attack the
Australian media.  It's not that you never have a nice word to say about
the place (even though you don't on rsc), it's that you seem to single
minded in your quest to pick on each and everything you can about
Australia.

And because of this, I ask you: if you don't like the place so much,
SLarry, why don't you *** off?

The ANSWER to that, because it's a QUESTION, SLarry is (apprently) "I
actually like a lot of things about the place."  The answer is not "Moby
you're a racist," or "Moby you're a racist," or even "Moby you're a
racist," because aside from not being true, it fails to answer the question.

And how old -are- you SLarry that you are still pre-occupied with ***
jokes?

But anyway, the point -behind- the question was to make you take a step
back and realise that the people making the decisions you so hate and the
players doing the things you so hate, live in the same place (pretty much)
and deal with the same things (pretty much) that you do in normal life.
They faces the same fears and seek to meet the same needs.  What I hoped
to do was remind you that you share many things with these people that you
deride.  You seem to understand the people of Sri Lanka and why their
cricket team might do one thing or another.. why their administrators
might do one thing or another.

But you don't seem to share the same empathy with the Australian team or
the Australian players.  You don't seem to realise that, deep down,
they're just the same as you. (in deference to past differences, I'll
opine that most of them are a little smarter..  I'll give you Shane Warne
and Michael Slater though.)

Perhaps I'm wishing, but I do believe that if you take time out to
remember that these people aren't monsters, you'll realise that they have
very real and very fair reasons for not touring Zimbabwe or Sri Lanka...
They aren't doing it because they hate Sri Lanka, or they don't care about
Sri Lanka, or because they hate Murali or are worried about losing.
They're doing it because they believe that it is the right thing to do.

I'll stop there for now, because I think having you accept that fear is a
personal thing that has nothing to do with logic is as far as I'm likely
to get.  We'll get to people being forced to make decisions based on
limited evidence next year.

Moby

Larrikin