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Autumn (in the UK) always brings a glut of better / decent TV, thankfully. I've done the Hostage, which I enjoyed, even though it was utterly bonkers. I've now started on Atomic, and I can't resist Educating Yorkshire which just makes my heart melt. Looking forward to Task (gotta love a bit of Mark ...

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I'm enjoying the 2nd series of The Gone on the Beeb. Takes a bit of getting used to, but liking it now.

And from next month I'm getting a year's free Disney+ so any recommendations for what to look out for?

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Who is that fat bastard ? My tip for a programme everyone likes would be something like blackadder2 , the Goodies or Kenny Everett show, Fast show Or Bottom. As you may guess, I loved Bottom , because I love violence, repetitive gags, extreme gross humour plus uber mysogeny , farts etc However I ca...

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A few more clubs would help - three fewer home gates than when it was the not-quite-top 13 can't be doing anything for the bottom line. If the Premiership would just let anyone actually be promoted, we (the Championship) could've helped with that... :roll: You need to get Bedford to to do a ‘calend...

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Dobbin wrote: ↑Thu Jul 31, 2025 3:24 pm A few more clubs would help - three fewer home gates than when it was the not-quite-top 13 can't be doing anything for the bottom line.

If the Premiership would just let anyone actually be promoted, we (the Championship) could've helped with that...

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Our new office has only 3 toilets per floor, plus a disabled one. Each is a cubicle only and gender neutral, so inside they are all clean, have tampax and posh soap there and an air fresherner spray. Now with only 3 per floor, it’s common to have to wait. What is the proper etiquette & mannerisms i...

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backrow wrote: ↑Wed Jul 23, 2025 12:59 pm
Calendar Blue wrote: ↑Wed Jul 23, 2025 12:57 pm
Hawk97 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 23, 2025 10:34 am

Cry about it, bitch
Wow. Nice. Thanks.
Lolz , even I thought that was harsh , my brain was ‘don’t scare off on of the few laydeez left on here hawk you nobber’

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Hawk97 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 23, 2025 10:34 am
Calendar Blue wrote: ↑Wed Jul 23, 2025 10:23 am
danny_fitz wrote: ↑Wed Jul 23, 2025 10:01 am

You must be new here...
No, not new at all. Just freshly disappointed.
Cry about it, bitch

Wow. Nice. Thanks.

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Not sure all of them are ... Kelly's married to a bloke and I think Stanway dates a rugby player. Tooney I think is similar. Williamson I think is bi? In fact I think Daly, Walsh and Bronze are the only ones who swing that way? Maybe Mead and Miedema possibly too? I don't know if they are lesbian o...

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Some proper Crimewatch faces in that England team - Kelly foremost among them. Fortunately they’re all rug munchers Not sure all of them are ... Kelly's married to a bloke and I think Stanway dates a rugby player. Tooney I think is similar. Williamson I think is bi? In fact I think Daly, Walsh and ...

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What have the RFU got against 'ships'?? First "the Champ" and now this. What utter nonsense.

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Following this thread with some interest. I'm 54, and have just added the cost of a home extension to my mortgage, so retirement is no nearer than the horizon for the time being. But I watched my Dad's wellbeing deteriorate rapidly on retirement. Having run his own successful business for years, on ...

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Supposedly for french tv where rugby matches on thursdays are very common? Whatever the reason, it’s silly. People have lives, kids, and work outside of rugby, and for the vast majority of people Thursday just isn’t as easy to give a few hours and ££££ over to rugby. Attendance , sponsorship, adver...

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The Thursday thing is an oddity, but as a one-off because of the Olympics, I can live with it. And I'm not sad to see the 2nd fallow weekend go. Always feels weird having all the surrounding hype and excitement and then a random hiatus. World Cup games are usually played only (approx) a week apart, ...

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I last watched Tier 2 rugby in 2007/8 when Saints were relegated. They had a glorious seasons, winning immediate promotion back to the Premiership with 30 wins from 30 matches. They also won the EDF Energy Trophy that year. Trying to remember the teams from that season Pirates, Launceston, Exeter, ...

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It's this season's 12 clubs plus Richmond (promoted from Nat 1) and Worcester (the only one of the three that went bust that the RFU said met the minimum required criteria for a return) Today's news isn't all that much news. We already knew it was going to be 14 clubs; we already knew which 14 club...

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Not something I've experienced, but we've got lots of couples who met at work in our organisation. General view seems to be keep it very quiet to start with, have your eyes open to the risks, and if it turns into something serious / ongoing, be prepared that one of you is going to have to change rol...

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Terrible news , send a message of old boys club and not professional sport. I take it you are predicting this will end in tears. No idea what he is thinking. Surely good for English rugby to have a thriving Championships that can be sold as a package with the GP, like the French set up. Not exactly...

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Adolescence on Netflix? Just started but looks decent to far, Steven graham says it'll be good, Ashley Walters says not so sure... wanted to get into it next, it's been getting great reviews anyone finished it ? Yep, binged it over the weekend. I'm not a parent, so can only imagine how they'll feel...

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Not sure if there's some personal politics going on here, but I'm with Mog on this; I'm a bit stunned by the idea that people might think the amateur game provides nothing for the pro game. I may be a lifelong supporter of what is now a Championship club, but Bedford have been an amateur club for th...

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I don't claim to understand the finer details of how grassroots rugby operates, or funds itself, as a lifelong supporter of a Championship club, but from a purely logical (and possibly very niave) perspective, surely it's clear to see why grassroots/community rugby is so important? Without those clu...

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In other news...
This isn't going away.

I'm beginning to feel like there's no way for the RFU to avoid this now.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/ ... is-blocked

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70s 80s 90s 00s 10s 20s Have to say the 90s was the best decade Same decades, but honestly feel like I'm living my best life right now! 70s and 80s I was still just a kid really, stumbling along & not really knowing / appreciating much. Made some poor life choices in the 90s and 00s, and finally st...

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Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Tue Dec 24, 2024 1:42 pm
fatcat wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2024 9:55 pm Women can orgasm.
Only before you marry them

Again, not sure what to make of this either! Never been married so can't comment, but if it's true, which I find hard to believe, that's desperately sad, and a poor reflection on, well...someone, or something.

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fatcat wrote: ↑Tue Dec 24, 2024 1:21 pm
Calendar Blue wrote: ↑Tue Dec 24, 2024 1:10 pm
fatcat wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2024 9:55 pm Women can orgasm.
I genuinely don't know what to make of this.
Not the statement, but the fact that it's in this thread...

Hey, it started an interesting discussion on bananas.

Fair point!!

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Having never been in a gym until 18 months ago, I'm now addicted! Cardio was what got the weight off for me, 2 stone in about 6 months without really trying, other than doing lots of sessions. Not sure if that works the same for you guys as us girls? I've now changed gyms and am doing more weight & ...

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fatcat wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2024 9:55 pm Women can orgasm.

I genuinely don't know what to make of this.
Not the statement, but the fact that it's in this thread...

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union ... 9g5zdq514o

Well, things seem to be moving at some pace...Sweeney gone by the new year??!!

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National League 1 now joining the bunfight... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/c62z6v80188o Feels like a head of steam building up, with an emergency meeting of the RFU Council today, but will it be enough? Yeah i did hear they were definitely going for it. More power to their colle...

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National League 1 now joining the bunfight...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union ... 2z6v80188o

Feels like a head of steam building up, with an emergency meeting of the RFU Council today, but will it be enough?

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Got Smoked- although Cambridge getting dicked 95-7 at Ealing softens the blow nicely 😂 Are you a Caldy supporter DD? Bedford committed yet another daylight robbery at London Scottish yesterday; according to our own Twitterfeed, we were poor throughout, and yet somehow managed to find a couple of pe...

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/c3vrp790ekyo Exactly as per a discussion I had with our (Bedford) Chairman on Saturday afternoon. He's always very measured & diplomatic when talking to us supporters but was more fired up on this subject than I've ever seen him. Doubt it'll deliver t...

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The £1.3 million paid in LTIP bonuses to the five executive directors and Sweeney is more than the £1 million that the RFU pays to Championship clubs.

And there it is...

Busy filling their pockets while the game below (and some would argue, at) international / Prem-level slowly crumbles.

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Good thing about this time of year is we usually get some decent tele. I'm enjoying Lioness, the Lincoln Lawyer's back, just started the Jackal, 2nd season of the Diplomat is pending, and I know everyone else seems to hate it, but I love Yellowstone! Other than Wolf Hall on a Sunday night, I'm watch...

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Just wanted to drop in here and say that this was the best test match I've watched this year. The intensity and physical commitment from both sides was leagues ahead of everything else we saw this weekend. A really enjoyable 80 minutes as a neutral. Agreed. This was the World Cup final that I wishe...

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Why does the haka upset the English so much? Doesn't upset me. I love it. On a recent corporate 'away day', y'know, the God-awful team-building guff, we had some Kiwi guys come & do demo's and explanations of the haka. Best part of the day; really fascinating understanding all the cultural referenc...

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Finally started to play at kick-off, rather than waiting til 60 mins, and pulled off a good win against Donny, on Ladies Day at Bedford. Sitting reasonably comfortably in third, although mudbath pitches for the next few months rarely suits us. Loads of money raised for Breast Cancer, mostly by piss...

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Finally started to play at kick-off, rather than waiting til 60 mins, and pulled off a good win against Donny, on Ladies Day at Bedford. Sitting reasonably comfortably in third, although mudbath pitches for the next few months rarely suits us. Loads of money raised for Breast Cancer, mostly by pisse...

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What sad news.
I had the pleasure of meeting him, and 'the management' on a glorious sunny afternoon when they came to join a few of us watching Bedford play. Mad as a box of frogs, but joyfully hilarious company, and very generous.

A loss to the bored, as well as his family.

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I know I'm starting to sound like bleating, and there are for sure things that Championship clubs could & should've done off their own bat, but perhaps if the RFU hadn't slashed the Championship clubs funding from £633K to £133k per season, a serious punt at the Prem might not seem such an unachieva...

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