The last one

I promise this is the last of my posts on "monkeygate"...I couldn't resist sharing this one! Sorry! :-)

Symonds' Monkeys

All of us, at various points in our lives have a monkey on our backs. One that constantly whispers rubbish in our ears or scratches our head when decorum has to be maintained. Some of us shake off these monkeys and some don't. However, not many of us face the situation where the metaphorical monkey on our backs IS one where everyone seems to address us as a monkey! Now this indeed is a peculiar situation and one which, I am certain will provide quite a bit of food for thought to psychologists, and dare I say students of mental health.

Our favourite, abrasive, abusive, confrontational jack ass (after Ricky Ponting that is), Andrew Symonds seems to think every Indian is out to call him a monkey, make chimp like noises at his elbow and jump up and down in front of him scratching their armpits for his benefit. Unless I am much mistaken, our dear fellow human being (lest anyone feels I am casting aspertions on Symonds' genetic makeup) faced similar hallucina...sorry, I meant similar issues in England, in India and has now gone on to accuse the fighting Sardar with allegations of "racial" abuse. Considering the volume of absolute rubbish that the Australian team constantly spews, I find it quite rich that Ponting had the nerve to lodge an official complaint about words exchanged on the field. If every captain who played against Australia were to employ a similar approach, McGrath and Ponting himself would be attending hearings their entire life time!

My advice to Ponting would be to pipe down, drop this attitude of a disgusting snitch and try not getting out to Bhajji! As for our dear fellow HUMAN BEING Symonds, all I can say mate is that I very much doubt if Bhajji understands too much of what you or your fellow Aussies say in your inexplicably incomprehensible accents, nor would he come close to understanding many of the words in your vocabulary, (for example: Sheilas, schooners, wombats, husseys etc etc). The point here is that cultural differences often make us interpret words especially exchanged in heated environments as being personal attacks or as racial abuse. If only Symonds was congnizant of this simple but important fact, he wouldn't go around hearing the word "monkey" around every corner. Shake of those monkeys Roy and get on with playing the game!