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by AND-y
Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:30 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Leinster Worlds best supported club team- The people's team!
Replies: 70
Views: 683

Re: Leinster Worlds best supported club team- The people's team!

Glory hunters glory hunt shocker. I'm not even knocking it but it is what it is, majority would be gone after a few lean seasons. Like the last two when we've won nothing? Or are you making the very controversial statement that the more games a team wins and the better spectacle they provide the mo...
by AND-y
Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:56 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Leinster Worlds best supported club team- The people's team!
Replies: 70
Views: 683

Re: Leinster Worlds best supported club team- The people's team!

Glory hunters glory hunt shocker. I'm not even knocking it but it is what it is, majority would be gone after a few lean seasons.
by AND-y
Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:51 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
Replies: 45592
Views: 2986904

Re: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread

Moyes is so good at getting mid to lower league table teams up to fighting for european places, I loved him at Everton. It's a shame he couldn't do it at United as I rate him highly and that has proven to be a poisoned chalice for anyone.
by AND-y
Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:27 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Banning smoking - does it make sense?
Replies: 91
Views: 1928

Re: Banning smoking - does it make sense?

https://emoticons.datahamster.com/clapping.gif https://emoticons.datahamster.com/cu_closed.gif I've f**ked up my own life thru smoking, i hate the idea of kids who think they are immortal now being in the same place in twenty years. I understand the black market argument but fuckit, the state shoul...
by AND-y
Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:31 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: LRZ
Replies: 419
Views: 17865

Re: LRZ

He's got the beautiful bit correct though. Only for those rich, white, upper classes like louis... or some posh cvnt boyos from the valleys? He must be thinking about all the English and Irish living in Llandaff and pontcanna ;) Are you kidding? If there is one thing Valley people have going for th...
by AND-y
Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:10 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: LRZ
Replies: 419
Views: 17865

Re: LRZ

TranceNRG wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:58 pm Welsh people posh? :lol: Maybe some in a few areas (and perhaps some of the rugby boys) but in generally no.
Erm, that's true anywhere. If the majority were posh they wouldn't be posh.
by AND-y
Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:09 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: LRZ
Replies: 419
Views: 17865

Re: LRZ

He's got the beautiful bit correct though.
by AND-y
Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:19 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Banning smoking - does it make sense?
Replies: 91
Views: 1928

Re: Banning smoking - does it make sense?

Aye, get rid of them. https://emoticons.datahamster.com/clapping.gif https://emoticons.datahamster.com/cu_closed.gif I've f**ked up my own life thru smoking, i hate the idea of kids who think they are immortal now being in the same place in twenty years. I understand the black market argument but f...
by AND-y
Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:01 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
Replies: 18230
Views: 834264

Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents

Christian fundies and Trump is such a weird alliance, I know why it's happened but still they should consider him antichirst like by their usual standards. It is. I guess it shows that politics is often like supporting a football team and people can't change. Goerge Bush courted the Christian evang...
by AND-y
Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:34 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Banning smoking - does it make sense?
Replies: 91
Views: 1928

Re: Banning smoking - does it make sense?

Aye, get rid of them.
by AND-y
Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:33 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
Replies: 18230
Views: 834264

Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents

Christian fundies and Trump is such a weird alliance, I know why it's happened but still they should consider him antichirst like by their usual standards.
by AND-y
Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:56 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
Replies: 18230
Views: 834264

Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents

piquant wrote: Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:21 pm I wasn't sure about this fat lying tub of orange lard, but now Truss is endorsing him people might need to take him more seriously
Is she just on the con now? Her politics are awful but she was never a Trumpist type.
by AND-y
Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:32 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Ox moved to TH for boks against Wales
Replies: 7
Views: 523

Re: Ox moved to TH for boks against Wales

SA could put their bench backs in the scrum and still melt the Welsh pack :lol:
by AND-y
Sun Apr 14, 2024 12:03 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Iranian drones heading towards Israel - AND IT’S LIVE
Replies: 14
Views: 1127

Re: Iranian drones heading towards Israel - AND IT’S LIVE

Is World War 3 starting again then. Must be the 5th or 6th World War 3 in the past two decades, I'm starting to think a lot of people are just bored and want it to happen.

Anywho fudge both these governments, wish they could wipe eachother out without harming civilians, absoluite wit kant.
by AND-y
Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:09 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Favourite Rugby Commentator
Replies: 82
Views: 1935

Re: Favourite Rugby Commentator

Barclay is great, I also think Shane Williams is better than one would expect from a Welsh perspective. Roberts is pretty blah. Warburton is alright but harps on about his preferred topics/tactics too much.
by AND-y
Sat Apr 13, 2024 1:47 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Favourite Rugby Commentator
Replies: 82
Views: 1935

Re: Favourite Rugby Commentator

I can't think of one British commentator I like. The English rah rah nice but dim lot like Harrison I suppose, like excitable homoerotic puppies.
by AND-y
Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:45 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
Replies: 45592
Views: 2986904

Re: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread

When did Atalanta become any good? Have they been sugar daddied or are they a feel good story?
by AND-y
Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:04 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Golden Age of Westerns
Replies: 105
Views: 2236

Re: Golden Age of Westerns

@LandofTurk feel free to broaden discusson beyond that era, i've got through a few of them already!
by AND-y
Sat Apr 06, 2024 10:24 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Adult nappy market in Japan overtaking the baby market...
Replies: 43
Views: 1100

Re: Adult nappy market in Japan overtaking the baby market...

If Japan won't fudge they'l'l have to import in order to keep up current society? Better get some gov incentives to have kids going if they want to remain a borderline ethno state
by AND-y
Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:40 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Menoncello 6N player of the tournament
Replies: 13
Views: 358

Re: Menoncello 6N player of the tournament

Italy were the highlight of the tournament for me, well deserved.
by AND-y
Fri Apr 05, 2024 11:44 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
Replies: 45592
Views: 2986904

Re: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread

:lol: :lol: :lol: Sheffield United have conceded 206 shots in 2024 so far. Man United have conceded 225 shots. That team is a joke. It is terrible. Trash. Pathetic! It is understated how bad they are. Cancerous players as well like Rashford and Bruno. Open heart surgery. Thats the thing. Fergies te...
by AND-y
Fri Apr 05, 2024 11:36 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Friday choons
Replies: 1734
Views: 253798

Re: Friday choons

I expect all the musos here alreaedy know The Decemberists - Mariners Revenge Song https://youtu.be/iPAr7kL-mmg?si=-NTJ1PF26lxWJywc

Any other good storytelling songs?
by AND-y
Wed Apr 03, 2024 3:11 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Has Scotland gone full fascist?
Replies: 96
Views: 2157

Re: Has Scotland gone full fascist?

So all in all I think someone as wealthy as J K Rowling will be just fine tweeting whatever the hell they like :lol:
by AND-y
Wed Apr 03, 2024 12:01 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rob Baxter to World Rugby, Stop messing with the scrum and maul
Replies: 105
Views: 1497

Re: Rob Baxter to World Rugby, Stop messing with the scrum and maul

Rugby is mental in that it just stops for this mini game of victorian freak show strong man competition and I am all for it. I don't want that depowered :lol: I agree with others that the time wasted sucks though.
by AND-y
Wed Apr 03, 2024 11:58 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Has Scotland gone full fascist?
Replies: 96
Views: 2157

Re: Has Scotland gone full fascist?

What does a reasonable person believe though? Are you saying that they have potentially draconian powers but there is no culture or capacity to use them or that they just don't have these powers? Genuinely don't know, no attempted gotchas. I mean ultimately this is a power grab and should be treated...
by AND-y
Wed Apr 03, 2024 11:36 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Golden Age of Westerns
Replies: 105
Views: 2236

Re: Golden Age of Westerns

I love war and westerns of this era. Seen a bunch. You just have to get used to the depiction of 'indians' as primitive and dim. Its a downward spiral on cultivating racism. Here are a few westerns. I've started with the must-see classics then gone by actor rather than director. And I'm purposefull...
by AND-y
Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:11 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rob Baxter to World Rugby, Stop messing with the scrum and maul
Replies: 105
Views: 1497

Re: Rob Baxter to World Rugby, Stop messing with the scrum and maul

Yeah if you're dumping fatties we really need to lose a couple players a team, 15 per side is surely too much with 30 fit and fast players

I think there is not a huge fuss about scrum times because players and refs like the long breather :lol:
by AND-y
Tue Apr 02, 2024 7:08 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Has Scotland gone full fascist?
Replies: 96
Views: 2157

Re: Has Scotland gone full fascist?

I think J K Rowling is mental but agree people should be very suspicious of this stuff.
by AND-y
Tue Apr 02, 2024 4:31 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Golden Age of Westerns
Replies: 105
Views: 2236

Re: Golden Age of Westerns

I don't know how anyone in this day and age could watch films depicting the systematic oppression of native Americans, or showing white men fighting over stolen land. Disgraceful. I recommended AND-y watch Soldier Blue. Made in 1970 it pulled no punches in that space. Oh no is it going to make me t...
by AND-y
Tue Apr 02, 2024 4:25 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Golden Age of Westerns
Replies: 105
Views: 2236

Re: Golden Age of Westerns

fatcat wrote: Tue Apr 02, 2024 4:22 pm I don't know how anyone in this day and age could watch films depicting the systematic oppression of native Americans, or showing white men fighting over stolen land. Disgraceful.
It's obviously mythology, I don't think anyone is watching them as historical education
by AND-y
Tue Apr 02, 2024 3:59 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Golden Age of Westerns
Replies: 105
Views: 2236

Re: Golden Age of Westerns

You have to watch Tombstone. Don’t argue, just trust me. Then the Hateful Eight. Oh Tombstone is the town the stereotypical western dust hole is based on right? No, it was typical of the western frontier towns as trains saw the expansion of commerce and populace. It is better-known for being the sc...
by AND-y
Tue Apr 02, 2024 3:21 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Golden Age of Westerns
Replies: 105
Views: 2236

Re: Golden Age of Westerns

Short Man Syndrome wrote: Tue Apr 02, 2024 2:28 pm You have to watch Tombstone. Don’t argue, just trust me.

Then the Hateful Eight.
Oh Tombstone is the town the stereotypical western dust hole is based on right?
by AND-y
Tue Apr 02, 2024 1:38 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Golden Age of Westerns
Replies: 105
Views: 2236

Re: Golden Age of Westerns

Want to get into this genre, I guess it's around the 50s and 60s? I know next to little about them other than they were so often background noise when I was younger? What are some classics that everyone should see at least once? Yes, I realise I could google this easily, but we all need to try keep...
by AND-y
Tue Apr 02, 2024 1:36 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
Replies: 18230
Views: 834264

Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents

Yeah I think both of these individuals lost any integrity they might have had like a decade ago
by AND-y
Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:14 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Golden Age of Westerns
Replies: 105
Views: 2236

Golden Age of Westerns

Want to get into this genre, I guess it's around the 50s and 60s? I know next to little about them other than they were so often background noise when I was younger? What are some classics that everyone should see at least once? Yes, I realise I could google this easily, but we all need to try keep ...
by AND-y
Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:06 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Adult nappy market in Japan overtaking the baby market...
Replies: 43
Views: 1100

Re: Adult nappy market in Japan overtaking the baby market...

Isn't Japan basically hanging on by a thread with its pop dems and work culture?
by AND-y
Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:12 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Wayne Barnes's comeback in this years RCs after bad investments of his Referee fees by wifey.
Replies: 24
Views: 809

Re: Wayne Barnes's comeback in this years RCs after bad investments of his Referee fees by wifey.

I wonder if today is April 1st.. Oh, I didn't feel it was ridiculous enough for that. Targetting a mans wife as part of a joke is pretty bad form. If a boxer wins a fight who walks away with the winning cheque? his wife. It happens in a lot of sports and households but yeah you're an April fool but...
by AND-y
Mon Apr 01, 2024 7:44 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Wayne Barnes's comeback in this years RCs after bad investments of his Referee fees by wifey.
Replies: 24
Views: 809

Re: Wayne Barnes's comeback in this years RCs after bad investments of his Referee fees by wifey.

TheSmurf wrote: Mon Apr 01, 2024 7:43 pm I wonder if today is April 1st..
Oh, I didn't feel it was ridiculous enough for that. Targetting a mans wife as part of a joke is pretty bad form.
by AND-y
Mon Apr 01, 2024 7:43 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Wayne Barnes's comeback in this years RCs after bad investments of his Referee fees by wifey.
Replies: 24
Views: 809

Re: Wayne Barnes's comeback in this years RCs after bad investments of his Referee fees by wifey.

I'd have thought a stint in punditry ala Nige would be most lucrative and easier on body.