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MungoMan

earl the beaver wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 3:44 pm The USA has a long history of being of the opinion that the laws of other countries don't apply to their citizens tbf.

Yes, but you Brits are to blame for that, of course.

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Zongorr just inked another 2 years with Aussie rugby and the Reds. Even though he was a liability at times last year, he's consistently shown slight improvement. He's got the size and strength to be a top flight Prop, I wonder if having JTA at the Reds has helped his development. Would not surprise...

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Ghost-Of-Nepia wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 8:08 pm
MungoMan wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 11:32 am
mr bungle wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 11:17 am

$80 Mitre 10 Mega voucher?
I reckon $95 at least. Fella's not a cheapskate.
I was back then, due to my meagre salary. Plus I'd traveled from Wellington to Toronto for jdog's nuptials, so barely had two "loonies" to rub together.

Literally, going above and beyond...

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https://uk.yahoo.com/finance/news/much-uk-donating-ukraine-does-152100562.html Analysis of support for Ukraine by %GDP. That article seems to be out of date despite saying May 20th. It refers to the US aid package as currently being held up in Congress despite having been passed weeks ago. Not sure...

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Hellraiser wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 11:00 am
Sawtooth the Beaver wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 9:48 am https://uk.yahoo.com/finance/news/much- ... 00562.html

Analysis of support for Ukraine by %GDP.

Proportion of GDP rising or falling according to the distance from the conflict. Knock me down with a feather.

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On the upside you're a lot closer to the mark than the other couple. Given their frugality I question whether they should actually do weddings. Period. They are pricey events. Can't recall if I gave you anything. Hopefully I did... $80 Mitre 10 Mega voucher? I reckon $95 at least. Fella's not a che...

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Still, the UK clubs have many more games each year, which they leverage to pinch our star players. Fwiw, the French Top14 was played during the RWC, which means many dozens of the best players were absent, and life went on. Useful opportunity for the next tranche of players to step up in place of t...

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Bindi wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 11:03 am
towny wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 10:46 am
Bindi wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 10:44 am Pre-match beers? I am keen.
I’m out. Back in Sverige.
No probs.

Mungo?

Certainly!

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towny wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 10:46 am
Bindi wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 10:44 am Pre-match beers? I am keen.
I’m out. Back in Sverige.

Decent excuse that. Bugger of a commute!

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Firstly, I haven’t seen that series but will now. Cheers 👍 Secondly, a 14 round series sure makes it difficult to compete for player wages when overseas clubs have many more games. SR should be 20+ rounds imo. The stopping of the competition prior to the ‘test season’ is nonsense. I had a bit of a ...

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While I'm typing this, I'm having a red-hot crack at making myself deafer than I am already. Playing in the background is my newly-arrived CC of the soundtrack to Ken Burns' magisterial TV series, The Civil War . The best television I have ever watched in my life may well have been this epic recoun...

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The debate between defense research and healthcare research spending is rarely in good faith. Healthcare research is a real thing with cost benefit analysis and crucially test and control scientific methods of understanding effectiveness. The development phase is only a small part of the total cost...

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No, I don't think they'll try that again. At least I hope not. I just like the idea of a couple of bigger bodies being available that aren't IWL, who's possibly having his worst year discipline wise. I know you don't much like the stats but I'm sure you'll appreciate knowing that IWL has arguably i...

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While I'm typing this, I'm having a red-hot crack at making myself deafer than I am already. Playing in the background is my newly-arrived CC of the soundtrack to Ken Burns' magisterial TV series, The Civil War . The best television I have ever watched in my life may well have been this epic recount...

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WHERE Suncorp Stadium https://www.suncorpstadium.com.au/getattachment/The-Venue/Blog/Suncorp-Trivia-Tuesday-May-12th/suncorp-stadium.jpg.aspx WHEN Saturday 25 May 2024, 7.35pm AEST WHO Queensland Reds https://super.rugby/sites/sanzar/assets/teamlogos/SRP_Reds.png 15 Jock Campbell 14 Tim Ryan 13 Jos...

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The total news blackout on his 'sudden' retirement in 2016 after being named more frequently in the Panama Papers than any other politician in the world speaks volumes. My memory obviously failing me. Is that true? I know advisers of his who were named but had no recollection of him making the cut....

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Tuipulotu is in top form for the Blues. The game plan and support from cleaners really suits his game but have to wonder if his game will be suited to the ABs if Razor wants to use a different game plan. The same can be said for a bunch of Blues players really. Generally speaking there isn't really...

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M&J dads v the 4ths for a Christmas knockabout. Should have worn some gold shorts... I had to roll out of bed for a month afterwards due to smashed ribs and, like every time I try, remembered clearly why I hung up the boots in the first place. Good piss up though. Did you work out / learn the trick...

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Vennells due in front of the inquiry this week. Burn her, burn her! Marina Hyde nails it: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/17/britain-rev-paula-vennells-post-office-inquiry-jail If you're not familiar with her work, Marina is usually hilarious when bringing down the powerf...

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My immediate reaction is satisfaction that the NZRPA is calling on NZR to account. I only wish we had a similar opportunity in Australia. Similar in Australia would be nice, but with the proviso that the way of getting there is markedly dissimilar. I'd prefer RA to not enter into any private equity...

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My immediate reaction is satisfaction that the NZRPA is calling on NZR to account. I only wish we had a similar opportunity in Australia. Similar in Australia would be nice, but with the proviso that the way of getting there is markedly dissimilar. I'd prefer RA to not enter into any private equity...

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No-one does. People borrow money to build new stadiums. The only thing more uncomfortable than the eye watering price tag would be the eye watering price tag with heavy interest rates attached. For massive loans like that the rates are always as small as they can be. I'd expect so. Lenders prefer a...

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Who are the leading locks? Imho, fwiw: Top tier - Swain - Rodda 2nd tier - LSL (injured atm) - Smith - Jeremy f*cking Williams (possibly suited more as a 6 at a higher level, but legit player) - Neville 3rd tier - Frost (playing soft) - Holloway (fallen off the pace in the 2nd half of the season) -...

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Vennells due in front of the inquiry this week. Burn her, burn her! Marina Hyde nails it: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/17/britain-rev-paula-vennells-post-office-inquiry-jail If you're not familiar with her work, Marina is usually hilarious when bringing down the powerf...

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grievous wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2024 12:35 pm She has lost her looks somewhat and married a chain smoking right wing journo flog.

The first happens to all of us who survive youth. The second is, thankfully, a matter of (bad) choice.

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Except for the fact that you have to push straight I’ll wait to see where this special guidance comes from that usurps the law itself. I am not saying such formal guidance does not exist and remain open to receiving it. Players in the front row, and elsewhere in the scrum, may push provided they do...

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bimboman wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2024 5:27 pm Someone on X made a joke that the Mossad took out the Iranian president and the agent was named Eli Copter. Palestinian telegram channels repeated it as a fact, and this news anchor quoted it as if it’s real.

That is so magnificently shit a gag it makes me envious.

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I didn't have an issue with your post, it just gave me an opening to have a go at shitty rugby commentators. On the getting names wrong I have a four letter first name (not Maori) that Australians can't pronounce immediately after I say it to them. In my work the Colombians, the Brazilians, the Eng...

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Paul ‘ACT’ Cully has spoken Cully’s team of the week Harry Hoopert (Force) Jordan Uelese (Rebels) Santiago Medrano (Force) Izack Rodda (Force) Josh Canham (Rebels) Nick Frost (Brumbies) Brad Wilkin (Rebels) Rob Valetini (Brumbies) Nic White (Force) Noah Lolesio (Brumbies) Ollie Sapsford (Brumbies) ...

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Except for the fact that you have to push straight I’ll wait to see where this special guidance comes from that usurps the law itself. I am not saying such formal guidance does not exist and remain open to receiving it. Players in the front row, and elsewhere in the scrum, may push provided they do...

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Yes, a much, much larger helicopter would be needed to do any good there. Not sure a fleet of them would make much difference. A meeting of Islamic Republican Party leaders was bombed (probably by the Mujahedin) in the very early 1980s and 70+ senior leaders were killed. At the time there were a fe...

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Having a weak scrum and being pushed back is fine. But if you do something such as break your bind, pop up, etc when backpedaling, which usually happens, it’s a penalty. It’s very hard to not infringe in a beaten scrum. I’m pretty sure that the penalty offences all specify ‘deliberate’, which imho ...

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Zakar wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2024 3:20 am
towny wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2024 8:39 pm Caleb Clarke will run over him all game, just like last time.
Excellent. Then Wales will be DQd for playing an ineligible player.

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Anyone thinking the Islamic revolution has improved anything for Iranians, Women's rights or the rest of the free world has their head so far up their ass they fart every time they exhale. The single largest state exporter of terrorism the world has ever known. Reports now that he is dead and all I...

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OupaStruisbaai wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2024 8:45 pm
sorCrer wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2024 8:31 pm
True Blue wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2024 5:51 pm Where is White? Is it a place where they take more roids?
In the old days a post like this would be 6 of the best, trousers down and a week in the naughty corner.
Which old days was that?

I the heyday of St Buggery's School for Lads.

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Gotta say, I'm struggling to see how a penalty try rather than a simple penalty was justified. It did not seem to meet the test of would a try have been scored, or scored in a more advantageous position, without the foul play. Agree. A penalty would have been the better result for the Brumbies. The...

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I’m pretty sure that the penalty offences all specify ‘deliberate’, which imho should mean something. A smashed scrum should only be a penalty, according to the laws of the game, if a player does a deliberate action. I recall a French referee in a World Cup 1/4 final giving a prop a YC for ‘being t...

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I asked it before, but how the hell the the world's richest and most powerful nation end up with 2 such terrible candidates going head to head? Again! Because they deserved it. Think of it as karma, it's just a cry shame that the rest us will suffer from the backwash. The USA cannot credibly attemp...

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Grandpa wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2024 9:52 am Is Harry Plummer in danger of an All Blacks place?

Pick him! Pick Him!

I shall amuse myself endlessly by relentlessly and childishly referring to him Cúntmer!

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I think there's a distinction between a marginal knock on in a ruck, which are fairly common, and a 5+ metre forward pass. It's more understandable for a ref to miss one than the other. No ref will pick up everything but you'd like to hope they at least get the glaring calls. Also, the way our scru...

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