And I'm not even talking about Texas.
Good news. I remembered what I was meaning to write about yesterday. And I even think it's somewhat interesting.
First of all, I was quite surprised to learn that handguns are illegal in Britain. Like, nobody has them, and nobody is allowed to have them. They don't have them at Wal-mart. Rifles and other larger hunting-related guns are legal, but in order to get one you have to apply and tell the authorities why you need said gun, and you have to take classes or something to be able to use it. Apparently they make for this by an increased number in stabbings.
The Southampon "football" club, aka, the Saints, used to be in the premiere league but are now in the championship league, which is the next one down. Apparently, at any given time there are only 20 clubs in the premiere league, but those 20 change every year. The bottom 3 get demoted, and then the top two teams from the championship league get to move up automatically, and then the third through sixth place teams play a little tournament for the final spot. And then the bottom three teams in the championship league get demoted, and the same goes on for the league before that. So theoretically, you could start a tiny little team and eventually make it to the premiere league. This seems like a good idea to me. Maybe baseball should look into it.
I have also started to learn about cricket. There are 11 fielders out at any given time, and two batters, but only one of them has the little bat, and they each stand at a 'wicket'. The 'bowler' throws the ball to the guy with the little bat, and he hits it, and then him and the other guy on his team run back and forth between the wickets to score runs. That's as far as I got.
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Southampton was a founding member of the Premiership, but have been falling down over the past 10 years or so. They're not even one of the top teams in the Championship League.
But on the bright side, the tickets are cheaper.
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