You were alive to witness the single greatest day of sports of all time

please don't explain my carefully crafted joke back to me

Um we do pretty well at the pinnacle of sports (the olympics) every 4 years

did india win something

Imagine not watching that game

>yea actually we win all the women's gymnastics and x games medals
no one cares

>Girl with 7 inch penis
Not sure if the double entendres is dead or if Transwomen are taking over

there's only one relevant sport and it's just people pretending to be hurt lmao

>of all time

Not really. Cricket to the rest of the world is like Women’s football. Or Women’s cricket for that matter. Ultimately nobody gives a shit about it

>first cricket game I've ever watched
>England win

feels good la, I might give this sport a go

>invent sport
>introduce it to your colonies
>get rekt by said colonies for decades
>win the first world cup after more than 40 years
What an achievement indeed

>all englel’s fans are pakis
>all their players are niggers/irish
TOP KEK

Lel

She literally just has the codename for a bit because Bond has retired and gone off the grid at the start of the movie.
Glad the tabloids are doing their job and making /pol/tards seethe though

In a way I am glad England, the people who invented the sport won the game but I was barracking hard for New Zealand and can't help but feel they got the wrong end of the stick. They have also been the best one day team of the last 4 years.

Having said that:

-Having to bat one over after fielding,
-The first ball Boult bowled was out LBW.
-The four off Stokes bat, the world cup was in the bag until that basically.

THE.
GAME.
WAS.
A.
DRAW.

England won because they hit more boundaries....BUT NEW ZEALAND took more wickets. It's decided on a technicality. I feel like I would of been more satisfied with even another super over for a more decisiveness result. This was even at the end of 50 and even at the end of 51.

INCREDIBLE instances of injustices and lack of luck. I mean it's uncanny this kind of stuff.

Sure I heard that 4 years ago New Zealand would have won it with the rules at the time because they took more wickets

>In a way I am glad England, the people who invented the sport

Hmm no

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>second most popular sport in the world
>not relevant
what did he mean by this?

Only by virtue of being pajeet's national sport.

congratulations, you've figured out what popularity is. gj

>best one day team
>get humilated by pakistan, australia, england twice and almost west indies all in this world cup alone

Squatting to poop is popular too. I guess that means it's more relevant than using a toilet.

its certainly easier

and healthier

I hate online journos for this clickbait nonsense, but it pisses off illiterate ADD /pol/tards who can't read a paragraph, so I'm torn.

I thought 007 was just James Bond. Has it been given to other agents before or is this just pissing about to crowbar a female agent in?

The only other time I can think of Bond retiring is in Casino Royale (the comedy starring David Niven). But I see no reason why the 007 designation couldn't be given to another agent in the event of Bond's death or retirement.

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just wondered if their codename was meant to be a lifelong thing or if there was supposedly a long line of 007s or 00whatevers

I haven't read the books in a while, but from what I remember, the 00 program is very exclusive, there are maybe 10 of them. Bond shares a reception room with 006. I can't remember any other 00's getting mentioned other than 006. I need to reread the books, it's been a long time and they're fantastic (except for the last couple. Fleming on his death bed was a terrible writer.)

Fleming never gets to finish the story properly, but I assume if Bond ever died or retired, someone else would become 007.

>tf
So sick of it.

This. I'm sad lads. I just wanted Rog to win. You know what's fucking mental, Rog won his first Wimbledon in 2003 when I was only 12 years old. Now I'm 28 years old. 16 years later. And Rog is still contending Wimbledon finals. Isn't that fucking insane.

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How come there are more brown people than white people in that picture. Are all the memes that British is no longer white true?

>Be Belgium
>Invent sport
>Error 404 sport not found

>Are all the memes that British is no longer white true?
somewhat but it's mostly because cricket is really popular amongst pakis and poos

heres the thing tought this will make the movie bomb , and not because its a female lead but because in peoples minds and culture , 007 = James Bond trying to have a new character male or female take up Bond number is doomed to fail as peoples will find it impossible to associate this new character with someone else after that the character of bond had that for more than 4 decades of movies

Only an idiot would suggest a James Bond movie would bomb.

This isn't the time the based Eagles made the Patriot bandwagoners, Cowboys and everyone on Reddit seethe

>a big franchise never had a movie bomb before

You think the next Bond bombs? You're an idiot. Nothing else to say.

if they fully do the whole 007 is a new character for the next movies after this one , yes this franchise will die , 007 being james bond is too much of a cultural thing to ever work with another character

Licence to kill?

At least within the context of the movies, the 00 numbers have long since been shown to just be a designation. There have been several 006s over the years, for example. So yeah, it makes sense that if Bond were no longer an active agent, it would be used to designate another.

It's still bullshit, though, because it's being done for bullshit reasons.

WHY IS THE WOMAN IN THE FRONT NOT WEARING HER HIJAB????

REMOVE THIS HARAM IMAGE.

Only has his license to kill revoked, isn't retired or killed.
>There have been several 006s over the years, for example.
There you have it.
>It's still bullshit, though, because it's being done for bullshit reasons.
Well, depends. Are they specifically choosing a black woman to create clickbait articles to promote the film? Possibly. Would anyone have cared if Bond were replaced with another white man? Probably not. It's not like they're turning James Bond himself into a black woman so I'm finding it hard to be outraged. He'll just be paired with a black chick, which he was back in Live and Let Die, and in Die Another Day.

I'll reserve judgement until I've seen the film.

Basketball

Except she isn't a female lead (yet). She is playing a character called 'Nomi' who is the replacement for 007 when he retires and goes off grid. He's then brought back by M to solve a crisis. That's it. She's there for shock value and to get YASSS SLAY QWEEN people to turn up. She isn't James Bond. She is 007. Will the series drop James Bond and just use 007? Who knows. I suspect this is a test film.

Created by a British colonial subject born in the British colony of Canada. So, it is British or Canadian at best.

Might as well be american since they only have 1 team and it’s 98% basketball Americans playing it

>I suspect this is a test film.
Could be. I don't want to tempt fate or anything, but after seeing Red Sparrow, I can get behind some female espionage.

Imagine the smell

>Are they specifically choosing a black woman to create clickbait articles to promote the film?
That much is pretty obvious.
>It's not like they're turning James Bond himself into a black woman
They know they can't get away with that. But in addition to being an obvious publicity stunt, it does seem to be a trial balloon for whether they can do a future film staring a non-white and/or female "007" who isn't "James Bond."

>He'll just be paired with a black chick, which he was back in Live and Let Die, and in Die Another Day.
The black chick in Live and Let Die was a pretty minor character. Solitaire (Jane Seymour) was the main girl in that film. And Die Another Day was a dumpster fire of a film all around.

But my main objection to the one they have this time isn't that she's black, it's that she's ugly. Hopefully she's killed off early on so that Ana de Armas (who we already know is in the film) can be the main Bond girl.

There was a comic(?) that was essentially female James Bond and I think that's being made into a film series too. Called 'Queen and Country' it was being done by Ridley Scott, but since Disney bought Fox it is in film limbo. Sadly people are retarded and websites want clicks. There is nothing anybody can do about it.

Using that logic, Basketball is an African sport.

African AMERICAN sport

>And Die Another Day was a dumpster fire of a film all around.
It was fun in a comic-booky sort of way. Great set pieces. I've seen worse Bond films.
But yeah, I see your concerns. We'll just have to see how it plays out. The movie could be excellent and then all this whining would be for naught. The last few Bond films had shit scripts so I'd much rather they churn out a tight one this time, no matter how "ugly" the actors are.

Nice, I have all the volumes of Queen and Country. Great series.

>i suspect this is a test film
most definetly
>Hopefully she's killed off early on
if the articles say true , she is gonna be the main bond girl and she will guide james bond into being less of a womanizer to adapt to the #metoo era

It's a Bond movie: the elements that separate a success from a failure are a memorable villain, Bond's charisma (which Craig has never been able to master), and hot chicks. A tight script is far down the list.

That's my worry, but it would be a franchise-killer if true. I swear to God, if they waste Ana, arguably the most attractive actress of her generation, on a shitty film....

>A tight script is far down the list.
Not really. The Bond books are better than any movie, and that's pure script.

Take Spectre for example. So apparently Blofeld and Bond were childhood friends (I guess the screenwriters just said fuck it, soap operas and superhero comics is now our inspiration), and Blofeld hates Bond because Blofeld's father liked Bond more..Right. Keep telling yourself the script is down the list. Managed to turn Waltz, one of the decades most celebrated actors into a cartoon character.

the portrayal of blofeld in this was awfull , youd think the character personality would be established for any writter making a bond film yet they managed to fail it
>"finish it"
yeah nah , thats not blofeld , he should have been beging bond for his life on that bridge

Of course the books are better. But that's comparing apples and oranges.

I'm talking about the standards that the films are judged on, apart from the books, which most people have never read.

Spectre sucked because
1) the legacy of Donald Pleasance and Telly Savalas (to say nothing of Mike Myers) made the role of Blofeld too big for Waltz, just as it was too big for Charles Gray in Diamonds are Forever;
2) Craig, as usual, failed the charisma test; and
3) Lea Seydoux, though not unattractive, made for a meh Bond girl.
Those issues all transcend the script.

You're right, Spectre sucked for a lot of reasons, I just take issue with you saying the script is "down the list." The script is the skeleton of any movie, and unless it's an absolute spectacle like Avatar or Dunkirk or Into the Spider-Verse, it needs that skeleton (I'm not suggesting those movies had bad scripts, just using them as examples of spectacle).

Every Craig Bond movie after Casino Royale sucked and the script was to blame. Casino Royale however had a superb script, partly because it was adapting the Casino Royale novel, which was always a favorite of mine (particularly that final act.) Eva Green's titties helped the cause too.

I'm not saying the script doesn't matter. I guess what I'm trying to say is that even a great script won't save bad casting.

With a shitty Bond in Craig, having a solid Bond girl becomes all the more important, and aside from Eva, we haven't really had one in the Craig era. Which will make me all the more angry if they waste Ana.

>>With a shitty Bond in Craig, having a solid Bond girl becomes all the more important, and aside from Eva, we haven't really had one in the Craig era. Which will make me all the more angry if they waste Ana.
You won't see me disagree with any of this. I've never liked Craig's version of Bond. Except for in Casino Royale. I really think that movie is fantastic. It's my second favorite behind Majesty's Secret Service

>It's my second favorite behind Majesty's Secret Service
Another one where a great Bond girl saved a weak Bond.

Hey, I liked George Lazenby :(

Imagine if they did a modern version of Moonraker.

I actually do, too, but you have to admit he had some weak moments (teething troubles, one might say). The way I see it, he had big shoes to fill, and could easily have floundered, but being matched up with Diana Rigg (and Telly Savalas, too) allowed him to make it work in the end to the point where one wishes we'd gotten to see what Diamonds would have looked like with him in it.

lazenby sadly arrived at the wrong moment , taking just after connery made the public have a too high expectation for him and it kinda killed his chances before the movie was even out

I remember finding him the closest to Book Bond of all the actors. I can't remember why because I haven't seen the movie or read the books in a decade. Something about him not being "perfect." Bond was cool and confident, but he wasn't Male Model status the way Connery was. I really need to re-read the books.

>Diamonds
Speaking of Diamonds, Connery was way too fucking old looking in that. I know that Moore was actually older, but he didn't *look* older. I actually have major issues with the Moore movies. Way too comic booky. When people think Bond they think the gadgets and the silliness and basically everything Moore era. I remember the books being much more grounded (even though many of the plots were silly.)

As long as they love and only root for England than this isn't a problem

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they did in that game where Craig bond was redoing old movies with a modern twist to the plots and it was really meh

I was alive on June 17th, 1994

What hurt his chances more was him announcing that he was one-and-done even before the film was released. And that was at least partly on his agent, who advised him not to sign a long-term deal because Bond was behind the times. It was also partly on him not being able to accept that when you're a novice actor, you're going to be treated like it by the other actors and crew. Instead of taking it like a man, he got his feefees hurt and stormed away in a huff. Diana Rigg called his attitude "bloody impossible."

>Speaking of Diamonds, Connery was way too fucking old looking in that.
Yes, he did. Still, Connery showing his age is not the worst of that film's problems.

And yeah, I don't care for the Moore era, either. Roger was great in The Saint and The Persuaders!, but not a good fit for Bond. Live and Let Die was OK, but it went downhill from there. By the later films he was looking older than Connery ever did (Never Say Never Again aside) IMO, it would have been far better if Dalton had taken the role then (it seems to have been offered to him after Diamonds are Forever*, but he thought he was too young and had reservations about being the one to follow Connery).

*Some sources say it was after You Only Live Twice, but Dalton himself indicates it was after he did Mary, Queen of Scots, which would place it after Diamonds. Either way, he would have been replacing Connery, which is probably the cause of the confusion.

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>not to sign a long-term deal because Bond was behind the times.
whoever was that agent was a turbo brainlet
and desu for a novice actor he did pretty good i find , im pretty sure had he done other bonds he would have improved on what peoples criticise him for in OHMSS

>whoever was that agent was a turbo brainlet
Yeah, but I think Lazenby wasn't hard to convince. It was the late sixties. People thought peace and free love and all that shit was going to be the way of the future, and George was no different. It's not like he was ever the brightest penny in the fountain, either.

>for a novice actor he did pretty good i find , im pretty sure had he done other bonds he would have improved on what peoples criticise him for in OHMSS
Agreed. And Cubby Broccoli thought his performance was fine, even if he was annoyed with his primadonna attitude.

Really enjoyed talking Bond with you lads. Better talk than you'd get on Yea Forums by a longshot. I mean this all started because of the black girl clickbait article. Imagine this thread on Yea Forums? Never would have recovered.

You've inspired me to go watch a Bond flick. Gonna fire up Casino Royale and possibly whip my dick out and have a tug when Eva Green hits the screen.

Likewise.

And thank you to the janitors for not deleting this thread for going off-topic hours ago.

Was any actual sport won on merit?

Cricket was decided by some random tie breaker.
Formula1 was decided by a safety car.
Tennis was decided by who doped better to hide their age.

A lot of people cared when Daniel Craig got cast as Bond because he was blonde.

Doping aside, tennis was also decided by an unprecedented tie-breaker, which spoiled the match, IMO.

Iceland is more developed than the US will ever be and they play cricket.

>baseball
>Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are 3rd World now.
>basketball
>Italy and Argentina are 3rd World now.

poetry in motion

ITS ITS ITS ITS ITS ITS ITS ITS ITS

How come there are more brown people than white people in that picture. Are all the memes that British is no longer white true?

Is this supposed to be a sensitive topic amongst brits or something.

London is like 50/50 at best
Plus the browns love the cricket who could blame them

Imagine the onion smells

ITS

COME

PAKIS SMELLS BREH

HOME

Why is Roger so popular in England?
is there a racial aspect to it?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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Hahahahaha WTF is that

Probably because he's not a total douche.

It was supposed to be the Gentlemen's Final, but there was seemingly only one gentleman in it.

feels so good. i feel bad for nz tho

This picture just cries out for a caption under Harry:
>His smile and optimism: gone.

feels

>would of
Retard detected

can anyone translate this

>All those poo in loos
England is disgusting.

ENGLAND

The Bond films have always made money, don't think they've ever actually lost money at the cinema.

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>I suspect this is a test film.

The likes of Barbara Broccoli will never go that far as to replace the character James Bond full time with even a black man let alone a woman. People don't realise how conservative her and Eon Productions can be.

look at berlin/munchen/hamburg/frankfurt LOL

really doubt your country is any better buddy

nobody cares about cricket except pakis and weird private school poofs to much off a wimp to play rugby

Its

>tenk yu for avenging us england
the crowd shouted

dios mio...

imagine the smell

i'm the nobility now

why are all those white people in mumbai

Could be worse, he could be ginger

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La abominación

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unironically yes, it's more popular.
the key is that popularity =/= better (except in the case of cricket)