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    Wot shd i get my girlfreinds 4 xmas?

    By Will 3 years ago, mid-October Leave a comment on this post

    I hope you’re impressed with my title: Wot shuld i get my girlfreinds 4 xmas? That’s my attempt at the language of the new world. If you’re gagging for more - and by that, I meant the language (innit), you dirty, filthy-minded individual - try and decipher the Kevin Pietersen Post. And yes, I’ve capitalised Post for this reason alone: over 1200 comments have been left by his “fans,” whose admirable delusions of hope hold no boundaries. Or fours. Or even sixes. And apologies for that last pun.

    Anyway, the reason for this post - the last for a while I should imagine - is that someone arrived to this blog by searching the following phrase in Google: “brilliant christmas presents for girlfreinds”

    Quite aside from the fact they arrived, rather disappointingly for them, at a cricket blog - not to mention the misspooooling - I find it equally hilarious that anyone should be looking for “brilliant” xmas presents for their “girlfreinds” on the internet…

    T’ra for now.

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    12 Responses to “Wot shd i get my girlfreinds 4 xmas?”

  • Nick wrote:
    October 21st, 2005 at 11.55 pm

    Haha, I wonder if after a few hours’ fruitless search, the guy lowered his sights a little? “pretty good christmas presents for girlfreinds”? “average christmas presents for girlfreinds”? “f*ck it, just any old christmas presents for girlfreinds”? “socks”?

    I also like the way he came here too - I wonder at what point he realised his ambition wasn’t going to be fulfilled? Or will the girl be tearing the wrapping off a boxfull of cricket gifts for christmas? (I doubt it, she’d probably have dumped him by then).

  • Jess wrote:
    October 22nd, 2005 at 9.02 am

    Gah, I hadn’t looked at that post since it was on about 200 comments…didn’t dare to be honest! It’s been a while since I left school (sorry, should that be ’skool’?), but I’m positive that I didn’t sound like a daft airhead even way back then. I apologise on behalf of my entire gender…

    Personally, I’d love it if my boyfriend bought me a box of cricket goodies for Xmas! (Although he’s Scottish so he wouldn’t know one end of a cricket bat from the other).

    c u l8r :lol:

  • Zainub wrote:
    October 22nd, 2005 at 9.22 am

    Now common Jess, I don’t think you need to apologise on ‘our’ behalf - they’re just having fun.

    On the spelling front, I presume the girls are practitioners of heterography*.

    *http://wordsmith.org/words/heterography.html

  • Jess wrote:
    October 22nd, 2005 at 10.24 am

    Zainub - I had no patience with morons and airheads (or people who behaved like morons and airhead even though they weren’t) when I was at school. This hasn’t improved since I left! Particularly since I have to spend about half of every working day convincing my male colleagues that girls do in fact have minds that work just fine. At least most of the time.

    (PS any computer geeks on here? I can’t get CVS to work with tcsh, and it’s driving me bonkers…)

  • Zainub wrote:
    October 22nd, 2005 at 10.47 am

    I understand where your feelings are coming from Jess, but I sort of tell my self all the time I’m no one to judge who is or isn’t a ‘moron or airhead’ (cause I suspect many people out there might opine that about me!).

    ps: I’ve seen young boys fantasise about their relationships with their respective favorite celebs, so Monique, Sophie and co. are certainly not unusual to the human breed - (need I say I’ve seen full grown mature men fantasize about their prospective relationships with celebs, particularly people like Maria Sharapova). This is human nature. What probably is a bit contrary to human nature is for people do discuss that on a cricket blog, but I guess you could put that down to exuberance of youth as well.

  • Jess wrote:
    October 22nd, 2005 at 11.33 am

    Yes, Zainub, you’re probably right, and I should try to be a little less judgemental. It’s just the whole ‘playing dumb to be cool’ thing has always irritated me.

    Anyway, this is all a little bit off-topic…

  • sophie wrote:
    October 22nd, 2005 at 2.21 pm

    excuse me? i didn’t fantasise about kevin pietersen once. i think its monique and kirsty who have the dreams etc adn the 300 pictures of him. AND… i can spell.
    sophie

  • JR wrote:
    October 22nd, 2005 at 2.55 pm

    I once had someone come to my only-occasionally-about-cricket blog by searching for “marcus trescothick wedding album” and “simon jones cricket his girlfriend.” Although my all time personal favorite is “women wearing one shoe.” Obviously, the women in question did not get the “brilliant Christmas present” of a pair of shoes.

  • Will wrote:
    October 22nd, 2005 at 3.07 pm

    I was only jesting…

  • sophie wrote:
    October 22nd, 2005 at 3.09 pm

    yeah i know. i was just making a point.
    sophie

  • Sean wrote:
    October 22nd, 2005 at 5.42 pm

    I have decided what the ultimate xmas present for girlfriends would be - a session against a bowling machine. - Told you I would write about my adventures, Will, and sorry if this isn’t quite the right place but I’m still working so need to be brief.

    Got to the school - machine already set up at 18 yards (it was a junior school) and watched a few go down at roughly the same pace that I bowl. “Yeah, that’s about right” I thought to myself. Imagine my horrow when I found out that my stock seamer is actually slower than Gilo’s arm ball :(

    That’s right, I bowl about 55 mph. Anyway, much more fun was batting against it. The idea of the machine is to help you hone a specific shot (I chose the on drive) but first you have to get used to the pace. I only managed to get into the very low sixties and still be comfortable - well, ish. The amazing thing is that you can play a shot and the next ball pitches in the same place but because it is a whole 1mph quicker, it beats you for pace. Certainly puts the speed Freedie & co bowl at into perspective.

    Can’t wait for my next go.

    Sean

  • monique wrote:
    November 3rd, 2005 at 12.42 pm

    will i can spell its just esier to shorten most of the words and just for the rocord im off pietersen and dont have 300 pictures of him (anymore)!!!
    monique

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