180 Trillion Cricket hours lost to work(TSN)

[MIG]

180 Trillion Cricket hours lost to work
By our reporter

Karachi: According to a report released Monday by Karachi University's School of Lifestyle Management, more than 180 trillion potentital cricket watching hours were lost to work in 2004.

"The majority of Pakistani adults find work cutting into the middle of their days—exactly when they could be watching cricket ," said Dr. Umar Shahid Khan, the Karachi University sociology professor who headed the study.

"You see in the words of Keats[ seems to forget what he was about to say, then continues], the hours between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. are ideally suited to browsing the web, watching cricket in the stadium , and finishing off any cricket related emails or visiting your favourite cricket forum.

Daytime hours are also the warmest and sunniest of the day, making them perfect for outdoor activities. Unfortunately, most Pakistanis can't enjoy cricket during this time, for the simple and most boring reason that they're 'at work.'"

In addition to surveying 12,000,000 citizens nationwide, researchers studied data from seven different government departments. In PIA, the semi national airline, for example, it was noted that employees spent more time trying to figure out how to fool their boss into thinking that they were not listening to Cricket commentary on Radio, often pretending to listen to old Noor Jehan songs, than serving another of those ungrateful and pesky customers.

Prof. Schiller of the International Schiller Haupmann Institute of Technology ( S.*.I.T ) , an expert in the field of nothingness ( scientific term for rest and relaxation ), emphasized the harmful nature of the problem, which he said affects 96 percent of employable Pakistanis year-round.

"Week after week of potential cricketting time is squandered to jobs, with millions of would-be cricketers prohibited from sleeping in after watching an all night game in Australia, working or taking trips to see local domestic matches" said Prof. Schiller smoking something which has a pungent smell and blue smoke , yet kinda makes you feel good.....

"An average employed person's ability to stroll aimlessly around his home and 'do whatever' to enjoy cricket to its fullest is basically nonexistent 49 weeks out of the year."

Schiller added that if this trend is not stopped, Pakistan will become one of those "boring, working" type societies which no one will like to live in.

"We simply must reform ourselves if we want to keep up with the people of today, otherwise we are doomed and our future generations will never forgive us", he adds, sipping on rather strong bottle of 7 up and watching the 40th replay of game 6 of VB series from 1982 between 2 unknown teams.

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[Schiller]

|-U :oD :oD :oD :oD :oD :oD :oD :oD :oD :oD

What a hooooooooooooot!!!!

ha ha ha ha ha!!!

Bravo Mig Bravo!!!!

smoking something with pungent smell and blue but feels good? :oD :oD :oD :oD

[MIG]

Aadaab , Aadaab Arz hai !

[Schiller]

Muqararr irshad Muqarrar mian, subhanAllah
muraqarr :oD :oD

[MIG]

bump.....

[161]

180 trillion??

180,000,000,000,000

hmmn.....

[MIG]

Its a joke Kashif77.....just a joke - you can put that calculator down now .... :-D

[Gasherbrum]

i propose a further study, this study was limited in scope. there are many expatriate Pakistani's that should be included in measuring man hours lost to work which could have been used watching cricket.

there have also been strong reservations expressed by Aladdin Portable Energy Services (makers of ek-do-teen, sab say agay Aladdin AA batteries) that studies of this nature may lead to reduction in work hours, and loss of national productivity (they're really just scared battery sales will decrease if everyone is able to watch the games on tv rather than follow on radio). As such, they have petitioned the Sindh Government to ban such useless waste of resources in the future.
In another related development, PQI (Pyjama Qaumi Improvement, curiously the party in power in the Sindh Govt.) student activists at the University of Karachi have burnt three buses and harassed the authors of the study report. Shoaib Akthar, Pakistan fast bowler, has blamed all the chaos on RAW agents trying to destabilize the alignment on the front 2 tires of his Ferrari.

[MIG]

And Shoaib gets in the neck !!!....
:oD :oD :oD

[Geordie Ahmed]

:oD :oD :oD :oD

[Oxy]

I have personally been responsible for about 10,000 of those hours in 2004.

Surely it wont be long before the Govt has to ban....work to enable the population to comitt themselves to the cricket.

Revolution is around the corner.

[razzler]

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Brilliant. Masterful.

[MIG]

Thanks Razzler - thank you!

[Officer Barbrady]

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[Officer Barbrady]

MIG, it is difficult to come up with stuff that can make people laugh on a regular basis...you are truely birdbrained*.

*Note: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science...eut/index.html

[MIG]

Alhamdolillah !!

Marooned, I will be sure to convey the gist of the above article to my friends and family, who have had about enough of my humor!!

Thanks for the encouragement - and remember older you get, easier it is to laugh at yourself and others ! Not that I am old or anything ( dont believe that sadist Umar.... )

[MIG]

bump - aint it true ?

[Oxy]

...and about 6 hours were lost by the fans that actually attended the stadium to watch the games!

[Saj]

bravo MIG.

If I could have my way, I would want watching cricket, writing about cricket, playing cricket, listening to cricket and talking about cricket my full time job.

Added to the satire section.

[Farhad]

Looking at the title I thought the article would be about the hours lost by Indians who watched the ODI Series humiliation at the hands of Pak! Major cost to the national Ex-Chequer.