Chatter patter: chat thread 8 - Page 14

The MB watching has set a chain of mytho ball rolling for me, heavily reading mytho books.

Who would have ever thought this match would get so interesting?

Originally posted by: hindu4lyf

Who would have ever thought this match would get so interesting?

I for one would love to see Afghanistan beat Bangladesh (that too on home turf!!) This tournament needs a huge upset. (just please, nothing against India!)

Afghan bowlers look more dangerous than India's bowlers have in recent times.

Originally posted by: return_to_hades

LMAO! At first I was like how many ancient Egyptians live today to be offended. 😆

Then I googled and found out it is over some Allah pendant.

Here is the full text of the petition against her. (From Time.com)

"At 01:15 into the video Dark Horse a man is shown being burned, whilst wearing a pendant (also burned) forming the word Allah', which is the arabic word for God. Such goes to show, that blasphemy is clearly conveyed in the video, since Katy Perry (who appears to be representing an opposition of God) engulfs the believer and the word God in flames.

This is the reason for lodging the petition so that people from different walks of life, different religions and from different parts of the world, agree that the video promotes blasphemy, using the name of God in an irrelevant and distasteful manner would be considered inappropriate by any religion. We hope that the video itself depicting such images is removed. Such acts are not condoned nor tolerated, we hope YouTube will remove the video."

The pendant is barely noticeable. I don't think Katy even knew about all the iconography her suitors wear in the video. She isn't representing any opposition to God. She is just being a hard to please Katypatra. 😆

Its both. Celebrities are too dumb to think off what they are doing. (I found the entire video comical). People just get their panties in a bunch over dump things.

But thanks to the petition and controversy, Dark Horse will race to a million views.

So she has removed the pendant thingy from her video now. When I was watching the video I was wondering where is the Allah pendant. All I could see at 1:15 was a pendant that looks like the Maybach logo. And when I searched online it said that she has removed it from her official video.

Can't even begin to describe what a heartbreaking match that was. Going to the last over, first ball wicket. One wicket to win and we lost it. :( Honestly, I think that's where Dhoni can be the game changer. He's proved it time and again that he can hold his nerve in tense finals. Upar se Afridi had to be the one to hit the last 6. :@ I absolutely cannot stand him, Kamran Akmal and Gul.

@ Take heart India , you lost a good match. Now, concentrate on team building and a decent bowling attack. Time to make few big changes and bring in stability, someone needs to sit-down and have a chat with few of the batsmen.

Originally posted by: charminggenie

@ Take heart India , you lost a good match. Now, concentrate on team building and a decent bowling attack. Time to make few big changes and bring in stability, someone needs to sit-down and have a chat with few of the batsmen.

Some good points. IMO we lost the match instead of Pakistan genuinely outclassing us.

Our batsmen played rash shots and crucial junctions. Most of them gifted their wickets. They lost patience during the slow periods. Another problem was they let Ajmal and others bog them down too much and couldn't even milk singles.

There were times the likes of Dravid and Sachin batted, where they wouldnt score boundaries for overs together, but they still kept the score going at 5-6 an over by skilfully milking ones and twos.

I think this is where a veteran player comes really handy to guide the youngsters to harness their skill and patience. I think even though our batsmen are skilled the T20 mentality comes to play and they feel like they need to hit a boundary to force something. So one thing they need to do is build some patience for innings building.

Mishra bowled very well today. I saw a marked improvement in Ashwin too. Despite the dew they displayed a lot of control. Kohli did well in attacking with them and setting batsmen up. We missed out a bit on wicketkeeping flubs. Stop messing with them. Build them both to be quality spinners and groom Piyush Chawla too.

The two sixes by Afridi were not bad balls by Ashwin. It was just Afridi being Afridi and being lucky. Both were miscued and had a 50% chance of being skiers that resulted in a caught.

Originally posted by: charminggenie

My final picks for Oscar -

Matthew McConaughey- Best Actor

Cate B - Best Actress

Lupita - Supporting Actress

Jared Leto - Supporting Actor

Best Feature:12 Years a Slave

Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron or Steve McQueen

pretty darn good genie. if only you didn't second guess the best director award...

let's see if you get these two right:

1) what number am i thinking?
2) when will the world end?

Originally posted by: hindu4lyf

Can't even begin to describe what a heartbreaking match that was. Going to the last over, first ball wicket. One wicket to win and we lost it. :( Honestly, I think that's where Dhoni can be the game changer. He's proved it time and again that he can hold his nerve in tense finals. Upar se Afridi had to be the one to hit the last 6. :@ I absolutely cannot stand him, Kamran Akmal and Gul.

Really did feel Dhoni's absence today. :(