UK Watercooler 32: Fall Into The Meaning Gap

Basically Metalocalypse is an actually well drawn and funny version of the picture you just posted above ;P

That other one isn't even in English! It's in, like, Esperanto or something! How on earth am I supposed to understand that?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v713/simopekka666/iamironman.jpg

I like nigel havers in that sitcom with Tony Britton.

Ah right! Because he's not really an Iron Man! Ahahahhhher?

Where's the joke?

No, no, no, you have to have a PICTURE of Nigel Havers.

And that really isn't funny. I don't get it at all.

... I'm not saying metallers don't have a sense of humour but...

http://www.randomthink.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/lolcat_mao.jpg

The watercooler rules are becoming even more convoluted than cricket at this point!

-1 no f**tball
-2 no B*g Br*th*r
-3 no jazz
-3.1 except when accompanied by pictures of Julian Barrett
-3.2 except in the context of WILD 1920S JAZZ PARTIES (and accompanied by hott pictures of hott flapper gurls)
-4 no unfunny heavy metal comics
-4.1 except when accompanied by pictures of Nigel Havers

Were there any others? I can't remember at this point. What's our LBW again?

no cricket?

No Cricket, surely?

xpost HA!

I can't remember if cricket is banned or not!!

...anyway, this means I'm due about 15 of these by this point!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1990/gallery/340/havers.jpg

And another one!!! In period costume, no less!!!!

http://www.hotmoviesale.com/dvds/29165/1/Nicholas-Nickleby.jpg

I saw him in the street once... small he was... bigger than a Nicolas Sarkozy tho

so tom and i can chat about cricket on here? awesome.
http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/1257609.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=659ED5252724A7521C3DC9B9AF0E3002A55A1E4F32AD3138

NO NIGHAV!!

Argh!

On my first holiday way w/Dawn, too many old ladies goiing up to D and saying "Ooh, he's a nice young man! Just like that Nigel Havers!"

And you know me. I@N NOTHIGHN LIEK MIGEL HAMBERS!!

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3335979.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=4DAA13B573E1BD2FD88A11378CABC468A55A1E4F32AD3138

I have nothing against Mr Havers.

here is a video featuring him, which is delightfully Eighties:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elJ6SihoLYQ

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3287755.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=4F84C7EF07395AB6CFFE3DF542597F5CA55A1E4F32AD3138

I don't remember if cricket is banned or not!

I suspect that Ed may have made a concession to allow its discussion, but I can't remember what the rule was.

One of these days I should actually make an effort to have someone explain me cricket (and not a 2-hour discussion using the contents of my crazy landlady's sewing basket) so I can decide whether to hate it or not.

I think it was decided that it was Not Sport and therefore open to discussion. Maybe? Help!

What about pics of old cricketers from yesteryear?

I don't like cricket.

And that is not going to be a lift from Dreadlock Holiday.

Actually, Mark, now that you mention it, there is a slight resemblance, but seriously, that's a compliment.

I really really like the outfits that they wear during cricket. And the beards. But I cannot shake the suspicion that it is Sport and therefore banned. But I can't complain if they're all wearing such lovely outfits, can I?

What video is that, that you've linked to? Not the Lloyds advert? I can't look at YouTube right now. Will have to wait another hour.

Ask Dan Perry to explain cricket to you

I think that would only be allowed here if accompanied by a picture of Nigel Havers *in* cricket gear!

(k-rowr!)

I'm sure there are many of those!

There are indeed.

I JUST CAN'T FIND ANY OF THEM ON THE INTERWEB, DAMMITT!!!!

In CoF he is wearing full cricket gear, including catching mitts plus trilby, ascot and cigarette in holder. He can't manage to actually hold a bottle of Moet and play cricket at the same time, but dammit, I bet he tried.

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3373031.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=89B856506CE54654D0D0F48DFA643800A55A1E4F32AD3138

Not in cricket gear, but indeed, not in very much gear at all!

http://www.moviemarket.co.uk/library/photos/271/271032.jpg

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/11/28/panesar_narrowweb__300x413,2.jpg

Modern cricket gear is so ugly. They should make them wear those nice jumpers with the go-faster stripes again. At least he's got an appropriate beard.

You can just about see the tiny edge of said jumper in this picture, but is obscured by that Scottish tosser they are carrying about...

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/14070000/14075295.JPG

God, I found a really toothsome one with his super-pointed lizard nose, but it's super-massive, so I won't post it here.

You called eric a tosser????!!!

As in cabers!

In snowy norway on the lokaltog.

Ed! Wow, you're in Norway! Can you resolve our cricket dilemma?

.....

Anyway, look at the pointed nose:

http://www.bbcprograms.com/pbs/catalog/dontwaitup/images/0102dont.jpg

Half an hour and then I can leave.

I forgot to say, Kate: I did take TTEOTE on holiday with me. And resolutely failed to read the two-thirds of it that I haven't read yet. Instead, I bought a copy of The White Goddess, which is interesting albeit half-barking.

http://justgiving.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/botham_ian_19800530_gh_l_1.jpg

Here is NH commenting on a cricket match, but unfortunately not actually *playing* it, dammit. I will not rest until I have this picture...

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200508/r54839_148905.jpg

Kate what kind of tache do you prefer?
http://www.thegoogly.com/images/2007/05/28/zapata_3.jpg
or
http://www.sportshub.biz/binary_data/82.jpg

I cant find a cricket pic of him either

The former, clearly!

I *KNOW* such a picture exists. Or at least, film of it. How do I do a screen grab from a Mac? Because then I can make mine own!

http://mdsingh.webfactional.com/talkcricket/binary/Mohammad%20Yousuf%20the%20great.jpg modern day cricketer beard or
shaved cricketer
http://www.cricketworld.com/assets/media/downloads/880/pietersen.jpg

Enough modern cricketers, please!

I do not like their outfits at all. Only cricketers from before the invention of nylon will be accepted.

Now put those googling skills to work finding me a picture of Nigel Havers in a cricket outfit!

This is the kind of outfit that is deemed acceptable:

http://premier.cricketvictoria.com.au/images/history/legends-past_players/merv_hughes_-_legends.jpg

Thats Merv Hughes!

He played in 80s and 90s.

I have no idea who he is, but he's got a proper outfit and a good mustache. That's what I expect cricket players to look like.

Even better:

http://www.old-print.net/A1101895/A1101895161R.jpg

http://thenigelhaversimperium.4ya.nl/homepage/show/pagina.php?paginaid=185121

as good as i can find
http://thenigelhaversimperium.4ya.nl/homepage/show/722250.jpg

http://thenigelhaversimperium.4ya.nl/homepage/show/1157042.jpg

That is AN PIRATE!!! not AN CRICKET PLAYER.

If I wanted pictures of pirates, I'd have asked for them.

Now find me a cricket outfit!

x-post I already posted that one, but thanks for the close up.

Look at them manhandle those throbbing Scots legs. And they said there was no gay agenda in CoF!