Comments on: Redskins Cheerleaders Cause Crisis In India

By: bryan

bryan — Sat, 03 May 2008 21:54:37 +0000

Have you never heard the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore ‘Derick and Clive’ recording about ‘getting the horn’? Filthy and yet hilarious.
A puerile (but funny) British comic called “Viz” has a feature called “Roger’s Profanisaurous”, listing smutty slang terms such as this. My other favourite ones for ‘the horn’ are ‘diamond cutter’ and ‘horses hand-brake’

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:49:25 +0000

“The horn”?

Bwaha!

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:14:26 +0000

I’ve never really understood the point of cheerleaders. They just distract me from watching a sport by giving me the horn.

Exactly my point.

By: bryan

bryan — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:53:49 +0000

money, not monet, damn!

By: bryan

bryan — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:52:53 +0000

Duros, this isn’t cricket like it was 20 years ago; it’s faster, and there’s some big monet in this new league. In the UK, we have something called 20/20, which is not dissimilar. I like the 5 day test matches on TV. The trick is not to watch it all the time, but to have it on so you can concentrate when you need to, a bit like MTV IMO.
India has a scandal when a film shows a man and a woman kissing.
I’ve never really understood the point of cheerleaders. They just distarct me from watching a sport by giving me the horn.

By: SpiderJ

SpiderJ — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:26:42 +0000

I bow to the Quaker’s foresight.

By: Howie

Howie — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:39:47 +0000

They fear the boobies? Boobies are all powerful. They even brought me to this post!

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:01:53 +0000

Most Indian voters are more concerned about rising food prices than bare midriffs.

You can’t swing a cat in India without hitting a bare midriff.

And that ain’t a bad thing, in my opinion.
Perhaps the Redskins cheerleaders were just too….pasty for their..
No, what am I saying? Cheerleaders at a cricket match? Come on! Isn’t that sort of like a halftime show for golf?

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:42:32 +0000

@ ‘Pidge: Cry foul? Or cry fowl?

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:40:58 +0000

The Quaker told you. Did you listen? You did not.

By: SpiderJ

SpiderJ — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:27:14 +0000

India is a conflicted, conflicted nation, especially when it comes to sex. Not only are parts of the Kama Sutra displayed in public, there are stone statues of phalluses in certain places. Bollywood films feature some of the raciest costumes and choreography found in any mainstream entertainment. But at the same time there’s this loud and powerful push to keep the place as modest about sex as the Muslim countries that surround it.

Honestly, we’re not that different. Places and proportions, that’s all that changes.

By: doug r

doug r — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:28:20 +0000

Isn’t there statues of the Karma Sutra on some temples?

By: KXB

KXB — Thu, 01 May 2008 02:01:40 +0000

Oh hooey - most Indians went to the matches, had a good time, and then went home. Most Indian voters are more concerned about rising food prices than bare midriffs.

By: Sean D. Martin

Sean D. Martin — Thu, 01 May 2008 01:32:50 +0000

“It may be a good thing for America, for the U.S.A., it’s not a good thing for India, for our kind of culture,” Gadkari said.

That’s actually very fair. He’s not condemning America for what we like in cheerleaders, just saying it isn’t to India’s taste. Actually, a very refreshing attitude after all the folks (especially the American politicians/radio hosts/preachers/people in general) who take the “I don’t like this therefore you don’t get to have it.” stance.

By: midderpidge

midderpidge — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:51:23 +0000

That’s weird because while watching a Bollywood musical number once I swear the lead actor was symbolically raping a chicken. They didn’t cry foul on that one.