AsangaW

[World Athletics @WorldAthletics]

92M CLUB ‼️

Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage launches the javelin out to a MASSIVE 92.62m at the @GoldenGalaDL 🫨

The mark shatters the national record and pushes him up to No. 8️⃣ on the all-time list 😤

#DiamondLeague

[Sri Lanka Tweet 🇱🇰 @SriLankaTweet]

Over 20 senior lawyers appeared for remanded Atamasthana Chief Prelate Pallégama Hemarathana Thero in the alleged sexual abuse case of a minor girl.
No legal team was seen appearing for the child victim.

Anuradhapura Chief Magistrate orders Colombo Remand Prison authorities to produce the Chief Prelate of Atamastahana, Pallégama Hemarathana Thero, before the court on May 22.

BBC

[NewsWire 🇱🇰 @NewsWireLK]

“If my name was mentioned, can’t a statement be recorded from me?” President AKD says it is important to build a society where all are equal before the law.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

The modern taboo against men crossing their legs is very strange. This used to be a completely normal thing.

In fact, it was women who weren't supposed to cross their legs. Instead, they were encouraged to keep their legs together and only cross their ankles. We see this in Victorian etiquette guides, such as The Lady's Guide to Perfect Gentility (1856), which described crossing one's legs as very unlady-like.

By contrast, a contemporaneous title published for men, The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness (1860), doesn't mention leg crossing at all, suggesting this was considered acceptable for men.

In fact, I would argue that crossing one's legs was considered polite, decorous, and "refined" up until about the 1970s or 80s. Think of leading Hollywood actors, playwrights, and intellectuals in the first half of the 20th century. Portraits of them often show them wearing a suit and crossing their legs. When the senior US commanders of WW2 gathered for a photo in 1945, they posed in the same manner.

My guess is that the switch happened sometime in the mid-20th century. Much like how soft pink used to be coded for boys and light blue for girls — which switched shortly after women adopted pink for themselves, spurred on by Mamie Eisenhower's love for the color — men grew scared of being perceived as feminine or possibly gay/queer once women adopted the posture.

It's a peculiar dichotomy that Western society has become freer in terms of gender and sexuality. Yet, this freedom has caused undue anxiety among certain men who fear being perceived as feminine or gay. Either way, it's worth noting that if you care about Western traditions — that 1950 life so valorized by some — sitting cross-legged is actually the conservative position.

[NewsWire 🇱🇰 @NewsWireLK]

Only 27 of 46 Sri Lankan Cricket players passed the latest physical performance tests, with 41.3% failing to meet the minimum benchmark of 17 points.

Nearly half the player pool falling short of basic standards highlights deeper structural issues in Sri Lanka cricket according to a report in Sunday Times.

[Merl Syrex Chandana @merl_syrex]

Something amazing happened in 🇱🇰 athletics today. Rumesh Tharanga threw 89.37m in the Javelin. This is the best performance by a 🇱🇰 athlete ever, in any event (pending ratification)

This would have been a medal in 19 out of 20 Global level championships, including all 7 Olympics.

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

The Strait of Hormuz will be controlled by me and the Ayatollah😎😁

[Meera Srinivasan @Meerasrini]

Sri Lanka tops list of South Asians killed fighting for Russia in Ukraine war, reports @HimalSouthasian

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

What? So the ‘preemptive threat’ was based on prior knowledge that (presumably) Israel was going to attack Iran? This is nuts.

[AsangaW @asanga97]

@afidelf Please have this translated to Sinhala and Tamil

[AsangaW @asanga97]

@afidelf any chance you can publish Sinhala and Tamil translations of this?

https://t.co/MIRY0tTwSn

[AsangaW @asanga97]

@NavinDissa @RexClementine He already promised to go right?

[Hendrix @Reaver___]

what's really wild is the actors all leave this scene in order of death in real life

[Nuwan I. Senaratna @nuuuwan]

DUCK-SUN SHANAKA

While fans point to his record-breaking 16 #T20I ducks as the "ultimate failure", the real concern isn't the zeros.

For me, these are the statistics that are most troubling about @DasunShanaka1:

1. Greats like @ImRo45 [🇮🇳Rohit Sharma] have double-digit ducks too, but they trade those failures for massive centuries & match-winning knocks. Rohit Sharma has 12 ducks but counteracts them with 37 scores of 50+. Shanaka has more ducks (16) than he has fifties (6) in his entire decade-long career.

2. DS's career average is <20, which after 113 innings is a major red flag, especially for a "non-bowling, allrounder".

3. Unlike other "hit or miss" players who boast explosive strike rates, Shanaka’s <125 is surprisingly pedestrian for a "finisher". He isn't just getting out for zero too often; when he does stay in, he isn't scoring fast enough to justify the gamble.

The fact that DS is still playing for @OfficialSLC is one of #Cricket's greatest mysteries.

🇱🇰 #SriLanka

[Andrew Fidel Fernando @afidelf]

This is the same SLC that convinced ICC to suspend it in late 2023, so that the SLC board could win a domestic battle against the country's then sports minister.

The result of that self-ban was that SL could not host an Under 19 World Cup. Those hotel rooms were also cancelled

[Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket]

Dear @ICC,

It is with a heavy heart that we now announce our unavailability to replace Pakistan in the upcoming T20 World Cup. Regardless of whether they now withdraw, the short timescales ensure it is impossible for our squad to prepare in the professional manner necessary to compete effectively in this global cricketing spectacle. We are not like Scotland and able to turn up on a whim, with no kit sponsor.

Our players are from all walks of life and cannot simply drop their occupations to fly halfway around the world to experience temperatures only normally felt in Finnish saunas. Our captain, a professional baker, needs to attend to his oven, our ship captain needs to steer his vessel, and our bankers need to go bankrupt (again). This is the harsh reality of cricket at the amateur level of the game.

This news will be extremely disappointing to our fans. Despite being the most peaceful nation on Earth, we maintain an army of online followers, and are the world's 14th most followed national board on X. We were ready to give the Dutch the biggest shock they have experienced since William of Orange lost the Battle of Landen in 1693. And the Americans were looking forward to taking on Greenland, or so their orange-dyed leader thought.

Our loss is likely Uganda's gain. We wish them well. Their kits cannot be missed unless you have epilepsy, in which case they are probably best avoided.

The future is always ice, until it isn't.

Yours sincerely,

Icelandic Cricket Association

[Nuwan I. Senaratna @nuuuwan]

We cannot hope to understand floods without first understanding the #rivers that shape them.

This repository offers GeoJSON maps of Sri Lanka’s rivers, extracted from from https://t.co/zu11skCIql.

(Each color in the map represent a river basin. The colors have been picked at random)

@Github Repo: https://t.co/zU0oJFliiA

🇱🇰 #SriLanka #Ditwah

[Andrew Fidel Fernando @afidelf]

V Viyaskanth becomes the first born-and-raised cricketer from Jaffna to play a major international for Sri Lanka today.

Jaffna cricket has a rich history of more than 120 years.

Huge congratulations to everyone who kept cricket alive there through some harrowing times.

[AsangaW @asanga97]

@SachaBaronCohen Cultural learnings of Sri Lanka for make benefit glorious nation or Hindustan 😃

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?