Beelzebub

Happy Birthday to @Blue

@Danny Your busted 

PSL starts tomorrow, really happy to see how it quickly climbed up the ladder to be the best after the IPL and Big Bash of course despite being so small compared to the two. 

The inter city/team rivalry is now an official thing within the fans and players because of PSL. When will it show its benefits/harms in the NT i think it will take two or three more seasons time.

Can you please add this, i made it  

Rafa's case came during the Wests backlash of Saudis with Kashogi and all that. 

Had it happen during another time it would have been shoved under the carpet

9 minutes ago, nudge said:

To be fair he also gets a lot of media attention here and Thai authorities have been pressured by their own people as well as Australia and the rest of international community.  It's just been announced that Thailand has just dropped an extradition case against him and he is set to return back to Australia. The biggest difference between Hakeem's and Rafa's case was the fact that there was an Interpol warrant issued for him and Bahrain formally requested his extradition based on criminal charges.

Here but world wide

There is also a Yemeni girl seeking refugee named Nada Ali for two years. 

Rafa got huge response on social media while the Abu Dhabi's rulers daughter herself ran away few months before Rafa but no one really covered that. 

Political agendas of world media in these cases is undeniable 

Hakeem Al-Araibi a Bahraini who fled Bahrain due to torture was in Thailand during his honeymoon when he was arrested and is still in jail held by the Bahraini government.

But he isn't getting the media attention like Rafa Al-Qunun who surprisingly got a lot of media attention. People pointing out that he is a male and can't use the feminist card like Rafa or he didn't denounced Islam to get the Islamophobe imdustry behind him. 

14 hours ago, The Artful Dodger said:

Cook is terrible as a commentator, literally doesn't say anything of insight at all, just defends his ex-teammates. I understand he doesn't want to be perceived as slagging off what are his friends but it's terrible to listen to.

Listen to Warne than

Football isn't that much great of a sport

3 minutes ago, Stan said:

 

@Azeem is that you greeting her?

I'm the guy in the black cap behind

@nudge

6 hours ago, Rick said:

I feel like a fat lazy twat skimming through this thread. 

3 hours ago, Eco said:

Ya damn nitpicker 

 

Never bragged about it 

8 minutes ago, nudge said:

 

How about you read the actual book instead of nitpicking on the words used in the description of it?...  

Didn't knew that word ! thanks 

Wasn't nitpicking or being rude. 

Things like these are constructed all around the World for political reasons can of worms, who came first, who made it what it is today etc.

That's why i find the word 'imagined' meh 

Lol previously imagined more like previously constructed

29 minutes ago, nudge said:

Good for him but what does it have to do with any of this?  the book I'm reading is not a discussion on who discovered or theoretically hypothesised the existence of the Americas; it's an anthropological study of indigenous people revealing that the level of cultural advancement and the settlement range was higher and broader than previously imagined, as opposed to the widely spread view that the natives were primitive savages living in wilderness. 

along with the widely spread view that Americas was totally undiscovered before Colombus.

A 27 year old man in India is going to sue his parents for giving birth to him without his consent.

" I should be paid for living " 

Says the young man

For those who are not interested 

Afridi is a tribe of Pashtuns in Pakistan Afghanistan.

They fought plenty of wars against the Mughals, British and anyone who tried to tell them what to do. 

That's why Afridi batted the way he did. 

Some say they are the descendants of one of the lost tribes of ancient Israel.

I already like this Afridi more...

Al-Biruni accuratly predicted Earth's circumference, he theorized the existence of a landmass along the ocean between Asia and Europe aka Americas.

His work was available in Europe before Colombus.

So what they ruled a quarter of the globe few decades ago(well not Indonesia). It takes time to give up old habits 

Not really an opinion

Qatar's maiden Asian Cup title before their first ever World Cup appearance is being questioned and I'm really surprised that it's really a genuine thing for people to say that FIFA rigged the Asian Cup to justify giving the World Cup to Qatar. 

For sure their was bribing involved in Qatar getting to host the event but is that the first time or a thing to be surprised about ? Didn't Beckanbaur was also named in bribing scandals in Germany 2006.

This event was played during the Gulf Boycott of Qatar. Qataris were not allowed to attend the competition. Their national anthem was booed, shoes and bottles thrown at them in the final. UAE Saudis and their friends hold the political power in AFC and to say they bribed the Cup to Qatar in such conditions is stupid. 

And on the question that how come Qatar won their first ever international tournament now. They got the hosting rights in 2010 and after nearly a decade if they were the same side as before or even worse after spending $$$ that would have been the surprising case not the other way around. 

Graeme Smith said Umar Akmal can be one who can finish games for Pakistan at the WC after how we lost the second T20

Lol Smith do you know where we can find him 

Happy Birthday to Neymar, Cristiano Ronaldo two great athletes of the highest order and @Eco 

Watched Jhony English Strikes Again, Lol the most funny part was Pakistan's flag in the G12 meeting