UK Watercooler 32: Fall Into The Meaning Gap

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!

x-x-post and that one is lovely indeed, but it's *running* gear, not cricket.

I am just going to have to screen grab this myself, I can tell.

Actually, jeez, that one doing the manhandling looks slightly terrifyingly like M@gnu$! Um.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38238000/jpg/_38238809_compton150.jpg

Aaaawww! Who's that? He's LOVELY!

Denis Compton. But you can't like him because not only did he play cricket for england he played football for Arsenal too.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/3/3b/150px-Dcscompton.jpg

Oh no, that's all ruined, then. I couldn't possibly fancy a football player. But he is a good looking man.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/sceptred_isle/images/dennis_compton.jpg

he is mainly remembered as a cricketer. An awesome one too.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Denis_Compton.jpg/299px-Denis_Compton.jpg

http://www.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/DB/042004/051492.player.jpg
he died in 1997

His brother Leslie Compton
http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3431293.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=A6F75B5D5F9A091C773FC5C61F049C5EA55A1E4F32AD3138

And again
http://www.arsenal.com/images/pics/partingshot29x.jpg
MC Hammer would be jealous of those trousers

http://thenigelhaversimperium.4ya.nl/homepage/show/708820.jpg

Watch that posh hottie's hair flop about...

Better picture of the cricket gear, with less Scotsmanfondling...

http://thenigelhaversimperium.4ya.nl/homepage/show/1140948.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lord_Hawke.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1e/Lord_Hawke.jpg
http://www.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/62500/62533.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/furniture/in_depth/cricket/2001/ashes/classics/len_hutton.jpg

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3430853.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=A6F75B5D5F9A091CFC5C5F716F010A77A55A1E4F32AD3138
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/graphics/gallery/cricket/test10000/gower.jpg
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40636000/jpg/_40636772_allan_lamb203gi.jpg

nope, that second set are too modern and I don't like them.

God, I HATE Dickens, but am I going to have to sit through an entire miniseries just to get to see him dressed up like this?

http://thenigelhaversimperium.4ya.nl/homepage/show/864172.jpg

Anyway, I should go home.

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~paulxjones/tobeer/boonshot2.jpg
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42194000/jpg/_42194956_border416.jpg
http://about.theage.com.au/150images/1989_04b.jpg

A top hat, too, oh god, curse you Dickens, bah humbug, etc.

http://thenigelhaversimperium.4ya.nl/homepage/show/864205.jpg

No, seriously! I am going.

::FALLS OFF CHAIR::

http://thenigelhaversimperium.4ya.nl/homepage/show/675661.jpg

GIVE ME YR DRESSING GOWN!!! GIVE IT TO ME NOW!!!

Oh god, I've just realised - he looks kind of like an even wetter David Tennant. :-8

impossible

Well, I have spent the entire weekend in a veritable costume drama extravaganza!

I went to Zavvvvvy and obtained a slew of Merchant Ivory (including Maurice, quite simply the most homosexual film ever made) though I couldn't locate A Passage To India (my mum went on Amazon and ordered this for me, as she insists it's part of my headucation.) Got Brideshead Revisited, a Bronte box set, series 3 of Coast and, erm, the lugubriously Edwardian Havers vehicle that features that amazing dressing gown up there. It's veritable costume pr0n, boots and frock coats and dressing gowns, oh my - even a stroppy SUFFRAGETTE wife. Hurrah!

Getting into the costume drama spirit:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3192/2373337781_93bc3180dd.jpg

It has finally stopped raining in norway. Sunday afternoons here explain a lot about world beating suicide rates and black metal. I'm enjoying the brown cheese though. Some kind of norwegian marmite (love it or hate it). It has a consitency somewhere between red leicester and fudge, not hugely special in the taste department, but hugely moreish.

Brown cheese? I hate marmite, but something that's a cross between red leicester and fudge sounds like the best stuff on earth.

I still want to go to Norway, even with the suicide rates and the black metal.

Reviews Ed. from Tzr now asking me about Nu Folk! Good lord! He just asked me to reccomend him 3 nu folk releases. Um. I don't even know what he likes!

I guess I'm going to spend today reading about the Boer War, unless someone comes up with something for me to do, quite soon.

Unlikely, given that IT haven't even installed Crystal on the machines of the people I'm supposed to be training to take over the reports.

Give me STRENGTH.

Check out wheat woven whispers website for a lot of nu folk.

I don't know enough about it myself to be reccomending other people! I know what I like, but wouldn't dream of trying to guide someone else.

Since he started talking about The Owl Service, I should direct him to Espers and Fresh Maggots. (Though that is hardly new.) But what does he like? Harmony singing? Stomping Morris tunes? High death counts? Does he want Spiers and Boden, or A Hawk and A Hacksaw?

I am considering making a giant calendar for the next week, to count down the days.

What am I doing here, wasting my time and their money, when I could be sitting at home watching costume dramas?

could you not watch the costume drama at work? I assume they're on dvd?

Well, technically... they're not on the internet, are they?

(Obviously, I'm being very dilligent about this interweb ban, am I not?)

I've finished the Boer War and am getting up to the build up to WWI. How about some War Poets?

http://hem.passagen.se/lmw/brooke_hand.jpg

Anthem for Doomed Data Analysts.

I would actually do a full Owen pastiche, but I have a Monday morning headache so am not feeling up to it.

Aw, I'm sorry you have a headache. Owen pastiche would be great just about now.

http://www.nextbook.org/images/features/feature_254_story.jpg

Sorry, that last one was Sassoon, not Owen.

10,000 more jobs to be cut in The City. Doomed, doomed, we're all doomed, I tell you.

Owen:

http://illyria.com/images/owen.jpg

That's a very difficult question. Does he mean:

Old New Folk: Fresh Maggots, ISB etc. (incidentally there is a good comp called new electric muse that has a lot of the early stuff on)

Slightly less old new folk with a punk tinge: New Model Army, The Levellers, Blythe Power, Atilla the stock broker

New Old Folk: Second Generation Carty, Spiers and Boden, Bellowhead, Devil's interval, new old timey folks etc.

New New Folk: Espers, Circulus etc.

Singer songwriter: Everything from KT Tunstall to Cowboy Jim (the excrable to the good)