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Plot Twist: Boogaloo Boys traveling to Ukraine to join International Legion https://t.co/kLXy5xBdS0
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) March 16, 2022
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Background
Every two years England play Australia at cricket in a five match series called the Ashes. It's the sport's biggest event between its biggest rivals. Each of the five matches (called "tests") takes five days and today was the last day of the second match.
England were batting last and needed 371 runs to beat Australia. Losing four early wickets put them in a terrible position, but the ship was steadied by captain Ben Stokes bringing England to 193-5.
The Incident
Then this happened: https://www.ecb.co.uk/video/3564541/jonny-bairstow-wicket
In the video the Australian bowler bowls it straight to the wicketkeeper. The umpire moves slightly which typically signals that the ball is dead, the batsman (Johnny Bairstow) moves out of his crease (the white line), and the wicketkeeper throws the ball off the stumps, technically getting Bairstow out.
So What?
Bairstow is technically out - he's out of his crease when the ball hits the stumps, and the umpire hadn't called over yet (even though he had started to move). However cricket is a game where sportsmanship is raised above all else and this clearly isn't in the spirit of the game. The umpires ask for a video review, the Australians decline to overturn it, and Bairstow is given out. Lord's erupts into boos.
As an aside, Lord's is cricket's most hallowed stadium, full of old men paying £45k for lifetime membership with a 30 year waiting list, and so booing is almost unheard of. It generally has all the atmosphere of a funeral home. You might say "well surely all cricket is like that", but it can be loud. For example England fan group the Barmy Army are best known for providing the crowd noises for the Orcs in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Aftermath
The booing continues for the rest of the match, which Australia comfortably win. There's even a confrontation between Lord's members and Australian cricketers in the famous Long Room where players must walk to get from the changing rooms to the pitch. No one has ever seen anything like this before.
https://twitter.com/SkyCricket/status/1675482014475079680
People are still fuming about the perceived lack of sportsmanship.
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I'm in a pretty shit mood and my bed here is more uncomfortable than my couch and the TV is a miniature 40”. Since on the top bunk my phone is bigger.
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two movies. a year apart. same bitch.
— Twi. 🇭🇹 (from RUNNING TRIZZ) (@browardbully) August 16, 2023
shoutout to Gen Z for teaching me this. pic.twitter.com/kAb0EZN2QN
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When skin gets darkened due to scorching heat, it is called as ‘sunburn’
— Guruprasad Gowda (@Gp_hjs) December 24, 2022
Sunburn festival has similarity with the meaning as it darkens the cultural & moral life of young generation through drug-addictions and immoral activities carried on during this festival#Ban_Sunburn_Goa pic.twitter.com/KbeYO7MJod
Man these boomers acting like half the middle class hasn't tried ganja at some point in their lives
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In January of this year, Sophie wrote on Reddit: “I’m so sad losing the person I loved for nine years but it’s exhausting.” She detailed how her partner had begun to parrot incel language and made her feel unsafe; he’d even denied she was a person of colour. Her post was titled: “My boyfriend has fallen down the Tate pipeline”.
At this point I’m just going to become an Andrew Tate fan.
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Russians are advancing near Robotyne, Novomikhailivka, Yahidne, Pervomaiske and Mariinka. Several videos show storming attempts of Ukrainian positions and the killing and surrender of (a handful of) Ukrainian troops.#factsmatter #SupportUkraine
— Julian Röpcke🇺🇦 (@JulianRoepcke) December 16, 2023
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I want to give myself the Y'All Seeing Eye and Marseify my text always, is it possible or do I need an alt to pull it off?