The Australian cricket team has taken exception to Harbajhan Singh’s alleged comments about Andrew Symonds being a monkey, and told the Indian tourists in no uncertain terms that in this country, racial slurs are unacceptable when uttered by anyone other than Tony Greig.

Ponting indicates how many of the Indian team's mothers he's done

Australian captain Ricky Ponting said he was taking a stand on the issue. “It’s completely unacceptable for Andrew Symonds to be called a monkey,” he said. “And I told Harbhajan Singh’s wife the same thing when I fucked her last night.”

Master batsman and sledger Steve Waugh said that there was a clear line between abuse, and what he has always termed “mental disintegration”. “A racial slur is just a clumsy, stupid, offensive thing, ” he said. “If you just call him a monkey, he’ll only play better. Whereas if you want to get a batsman to fall apart, you have to find out whether, for instance, his sister was killed by a train, and then welcome him to the crease with locomotive sounds.”

Brad Hogg has also been dragged into the scandal after the Indian team cited him for using the term “bastard” on the field. Hogg has denied that the term was intended to cause any offence. “Australian cricketers have never had any issue whatsoever with children being born out of wedlock,” he said. “Warney alone has fathered dozens.”

In the aftermath of the furore, Herald commentator Peter Roebuck made a controversial call for Ricky Ponting to be sacked in a bid to restore dignity and respect to the Australian team. In response, Ponting made an even more controversial call for Roebuck to take his #$%@ing hat and %$@# it in his $#@!%#$%!!@$#.

[Article]Ponting condemns Harbhajan`s racism, mother pseudonym    February 11th, 2008 - 10:13 PM Great article!  When it all happened, I remember being immensely embarrassed on behalf of the Australian cricketers.  Talk about a bunch of sooks - they cast aspersions left, right and centre, but one racial slur and everyone's up in arms.  I don't see why a racial slur is any different to a sexual one.

Re: [Article]Ponting condemns Harbhajan`s racism, mother hammerondaridiculous    February 13th, 2008 - 5:13 AM Quote from: pseudonym on February 12, 2008, 02:13:24 PM Return to article Great article!  When it all happened, I remember being immensely embarrassed on behalf of the Australian cricketers.  Talk about a bunch of sooks - they cast aspersions left, right and centre, but one racial slur and everyone's up in arms.  I don't see why a racial slur is any different to a sexual one.  That's exactly the sort of tripe I'd expect a hispanic lesbian to say!  I particularly like the bit about - We have no problem with bastards, Warneys fathered dozens!  Aaaaah Cricket - it's become the rock industry for tone deaf co-ordinated types!

[Article]Ponting condemns Harbhajan`s racism, mother MrYellow    February 18th, 2008 - 11:17 PM BEST ARTICLE EVER! LOLOLOL I really can't understand where Indians get off calling a person monkey.... Like really.... A country where ppl are born into a caste that means they'll have to pick up other ppls shit outta back alleys for the rest of their life.... really... -Ben

Re: [Article]Ponting condemns Harbhajan`s racism, mother libraryspinster    February 18th, 2008 - 11:21 PM Quote from: MrYellow on February 19, 2008, 03:17:42 PM BEST ARTICLE EVER! LOLOLOL I really can't understand where Indians get off calling a person monkey.... Like really.... A country where ppl are born into a caste that means they'll have to pick up other ppls shit outta back alleys for the rest of their life.... really... -Ben I really can't understand where Ben gets off typing illiterate nonsense like ppl.  Yet goes to the effort of putting a lovely apostrophe in they'll. ppl

Re: [Article]Ponting condemns Harbhajan`s racism, mother pseudonym    February 18th, 2008 - 11:48 PM Whenever I see an extended "lol", for example, Ben's "LOLOLOLOLOLOL", I can't help but read it as "Laughing out loud out loud out loud out loud out loud...".  Makes me think that Ben's needle's stuck.

Re: [Article]Ponting condemns Harbhajan`s racism, mother squiggleyak    February 19th, 2008 - 1:29 AM Quote from: pseudonym on February 19, 2008, 03:48:33 PM Whenever I see an extended "lol", for example, Ben's "LOLOLOLOLOLOL", I can't help but read it as "Laughing out loud out loud out loud out loud out loud...".  Makes me think that Ben's needle's stuck. ok. we're on the same wavelength twice in one day. i think i need to get into some kind of counselling