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RR 2.24. Is this as dull as it looks from the scorecard?
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Oct 22, 2014 12:26
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it's about a thousand degrees, so I presume the game plan is to bat unt the fielders die from exposure
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Oct 22, 2014 12:31
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Just turned the tv on and I'm impressed at the size of the crowd! There must be at least 200 people there!!
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Oct 22, 2014 13:21
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Probably fewer people than died building the ground. edit - Has anyone checked if O'Keefe is a chucker yet? goatface fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Oct 22, 2014 |
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Oct 22, 2014 13:32
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He's at least a 6 on the chuck-o-meter
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Oct 22, 2014 13:52
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Didn't get to watch it at all today. How was mijo?
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Oct 22, 2014 14:57
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Pretty good. 3 wickets for 22 runs off 20 overs is hard to argue with.
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goatface posted:Probably fewer people than died building the ground. Dubai has some of the best workers rights in the world.
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RideTheSpiral posted:Dubai has some of the best workers rights in the world. are you sure http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12246979 http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/05/201352375248751541.html quote:Unions and strikes are illegal in Dubai ...
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Oct 22, 2014 16:20
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Well according to Wikipedia they are ranked number 14 for workers' rights so consider yourself owned.
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Oct 22, 2014 16:40
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in my own thread. on this, the day of my daughter's wedding
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I'm pretty sure they rank well up there on the "seizing foreign workers passports and then refusing to give them back while they withhold their pay" chart. Rights for nationals are good though.
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goatface posted:I'm pretty sure they rank well up there on the "seizing foreign workers passports and then refusing to give them back while they withhold their pay" chart. I don't think so. That's Qatar and Bahrain. UAE is pretty good. Besides the climate, culture, and people, of course.
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Every single thing in Dubai was and is built by slaves.
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RideTheSpiral posted:Well according to Wikipedia they are ranked number 14 for workers' rights so consider yourself owned. Only if you are born in Dubai. Otherwise it is a slavery hellhole more akin to North Korea and there been any number of news reports on how workers from India / Bangladesh / Africa get abused, starved, underpaid (if they are paid at all) and die by their hundreds. You don't you know this?
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RideTheSpiral posted:I don't think so. That's Qatar and Bahrain. UAE is pretty good. Besides the climate, culture, and people, of course.
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Shmoses posted:Dubai is well known for using South Asian slave labour A bit like the ECB edit: Bring Back Ryder http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/765573.html Noxin of Shame fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Oct 23, 2014 |
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Oct 23, 2014 02:56
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Cat Terrist posted:Only if you are born in Dubai. Otherwise it is a slavery hellhole more akin to North Korea and there been any number of news reports on how workers from India / Bangladesh / Africa get abused, starved, underpaid (if they are paid at all) and die by their hundreds. You don't you know this? Obviously I am aware of these stories. Workers do not die by their hundreds in the UAE.
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Oct 23, 2014 04:55
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Yeah the migrant workers get treated pretty poorly but I think the "die by their hundreds" quote is a bit of a furphy.
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Airstream Driver posted:Yeah the migrant workers get treated pretty poorly but I think the "die by their hundreds" quote is a bit of a furphy. The people who get treated badly are the scrub caste, poo poo in the river, village Indians and sub continental wretches who have left an even more oppressed life. The other 90% of the migrant workforce have good working conditions. Anyway there's a pretty good cricket game going on.
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Oct 23, 2014 08:12
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I think if Pakistan can get to 400 they should win. Batting last isn't going to be fun.
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Oct 23, 2014 08:22
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We are actually massively missing Shane Watson here
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Airstream Driver posted:I think if Pakistan can get to 400 they should win. Batting last isn't going to be fun. I want it to make day 5 so I can go but I think there is no chance.
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Oct 23, 2014 08:29
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Oct 23, 2014 08:33
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Airstream Driver posted:Aussies lose by an innings you reckon? Maybe not an innings but I can't imagine them grinding at 2 an over like Pakistan have done.
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Oct 23, 2014 08:44
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It is worth pointing out that Pakistan's specialist bowlers have 8 tests between them, to Hafeez's thirty-six. Sure, Australia might struggle against spin, but they're facing an inexperienced attack (at this level, anyway).
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RideTheSpiral posted:The people who get treated badly are the scrub caste, poo poo in the river, village Indians and sub continental wretches who have left an even more oppressed life. The other 90% of the migrant workforce have good working conditions.  uh...what the gently caress? That makes it ok?
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Oct 23, 2014 08:56
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I don't think he said that makes it ok.
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Smorgasbord posted:
Obviously not. The western media, however, uses evocative terms like 'slavery' to create images of poor Indians being plucked from their idyllic villages and shackled to a spade in an Emirati ditch.
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Oct 23, 2014 09:03
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That bloody Western Media exaggerating labour abuses in slave metropolis'
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Oct 23, 2014 09:35
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RideTheSpiral posted:Obviously not. The western media, however, uses evocative terms like 'slavery' to create images of poor Indians being plucked from their idyllic villages and shackled to a spade in an Emirati ditch. Are you an IWC parachute account?
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The aussie cricketers visited a migrant labour camp recently, maybe we should ask them about their thoughts on the working conditions there http://www.cricket.com.au/news-list/2014/10/10/michael-clarke-cricket-australia-visit-dubai-labour-camp-cricket-cares
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Haters Objector posted:That bloody Western Media exaggerating labour abuses in slave metropolis' Those benevolent and generous Saudi oil barons even give those 'scrub caste, poo poo in the river Indians' a few pennies for their inconsequential labour without employment contracts or conditions, what more do the Western media think those subhuman filth should get? They should be kissing the feet of their Saudi masters for the privilege imo.
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Haters Objector posted:That bloody Western Media exaggerating labour abuses in slave metropolis' we like to read about other countries being worse than us. it validates our own lovely lives and system
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Oct 23, 2014 10:13
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There's probably a thread for this type of chat, don't think it's the 2013 Cricket one though.
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Oct 23, 2014 10:15
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The Pakistani top order is a hard watch, remind me of England at their dullest.
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Oct 23, 2014 10:16
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Batting for as long as possible in the first innings on this pitch seems like a pretty good plan to me. These two are pushing the score along nicely.
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Airstream Driver posted:There's probably a thread for this type of chat, don't think it's the 2013 Cricket one though. Better in the F1 thread, it is called the worst thread for good reasons.
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