Father. KDCC Life Member. PACHC Player & President. Old Red. Engineer. Cricket (Australia,Redbacks,Strikers) AFL(Crows), EPL(Liverpool) follower. Conservative?
🏴"What are the English celebrating?
"St. George's Day"
A tiny island nation sparked the Industrial Revolution — transforming the entire planet through innovation, engineering, and sheer determination.
We produced Shakespeare, Newton, Darwin, and some of the greatest literature and scientific discoveries in history — from gravity and evolution to the jet engine, and the foundations of modern computing.
Our seafarers discovered and mapped vast parts of the world, established global trade routes, and built the largest empire the world has ever seen.
We gave the world the English language, parliamentary democracy, Common Law, and many of the world’s most popular sports.
That’s what the English have to celebrate.
Australia just lost one of its last two oil refineries to a massive blaze and we have less than one month of fuel supply left, so naturally the Australian Labor government is posting about female representation in Parliament
So incredibly self indulgent and tone deaf
"T20 is purely for the spectators. It is not a cricketer’s sport. Yes, cricketers play it, but it is like fast food. Test cricket is real cricket... Please do not banish Tests. That is the real cricket we are all here for." — Sir Gordon Greenridge. #TestCricketMatters
better still, temper, self-restraint, fairness, honour, unenvious approbation of another's success, and all that "give and take" of life which stand a man in such good stead when he goes forth into the world, and without which, indeed, his success is always maimed and partial."
"Moreover, they know well that games conduce, not merely to physical, but to moral health; that in the playing-field boys acquire virtues which no books can give them; not merely daring and endurance, but,...
If he wasn’t already Alex Carey is one of the most respected Cricketers to ever play the game .. Just the ultimate pro who loves going back to play for SA and always delivers .. If you can find a few Carey style attitudes you will have the strongest culture a team will ever have .. 👍
Don't want to get dementia?
Looks like your best bet (besides exercise) is drinking LOTS of coffee. This well-run study shows a 25+% decrease in dementia risk in heavy coffee drinkers over decades.
The raw numbers are even more stunning. Coffee drinkers had 70% fewer diagnoses.