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It made me lol out loud, the meanest of posters moaning about ‘Bad PR’. While sometiems funny, the entirity of their posting for many years was just to attack, catch-out or troll posters they disagree with. Eddie- great coach, turned England around and the Oz tour was a pinnacle. Now he’s on a long...

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CM11 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 09, 2021 6:57 pm What are the benefits to upgrading?

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UK currently importing a net 5.1gw electricity Solar/wind generating 4.7gw Average price on the Agile electricity tracker is 31.7p/kwh Unless we get a windy winter, UK is going to be in trouble with power generation. They better get the coal plants out of mothballs. We usually import power as it's ...

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Nieghorn wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 8:31 pm Quite a collection of snaps from New Zealand in the 1970s: https://www.vintag.es/2021/08/new-zealand-1970s.html

Several of those places look much the same as from my trips to NZ in 2003 & 2011.

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Duck and cherry pie. I just could not see how it worked. Then I tried in Gatrile's in Jo'burg when I lived there. Food of the Gods. Duck and cherry, beautiful. Potato and garlic, disgusting? ;) Duck goes well with sweet fruit. Duck and Cherry is a known Belgian/French dish - without the pie though....

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The law of unintended consequences, Gatland finally plays a Scot and we get Blackmac going all parochial on us and thinking the opinion of a Scot matters. Coming from the Irish? Adorable. Next time you tarmac someone’s drive, don’t forget to thank us for inventing it . I didn't realise you were Wel...

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So is the movie getting a good review? It's got to be better than the David Lynch attempt which while visually sumptuous was an absolute disaster of storytelling. Villeneuve seems to be really up for trying to do a decent job of it which gives me hope a la Peter Jackson and LOTR. Humblebrag - my co...

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Coming back to Cav and Quickstep, they bottled it... makes you wonder why they did not try to go for the win on stage 19 to take the record. Arrogance? Excess of self confidence? I think they were bollocksed after the mountains to be fair. 47.7km/h average speed on stage 19 might also have had an i...

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Thanks for posting that Shanky... I've seen a few of Harry's videos before, he has a nice style that suits his format. To summarise... Lord Bowman, owner of JCB industrial machines was challenged by his son (who owns a bus company that will switch to hydrogen fuel technology) over the possibility o...

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lilyw wrote: ↑Sun Jul 11, 2021 7:24 pm On another topic: what is going on with TGH? He doesn't seem to be contributing anything at all.

At the time there was a view that last year's Giro was a weak renewal. Certainly the subsequent form of the principals would support that.

His back is f**ked.

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Simmonds did fine- 5 carries for 28m, 3 tackles and a dominant run of 17m. The biggest issue the Lions have is loosehead. Sutherland needs to be wrapped in cotton wool as the other two are absolutely f**king useless. Not one single positive scrum metre made by Wyn Jones and Mako in 102 minutes of r...

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Yeah, its funny that. I remember at some place I went to in England they had one on display (way after they were rtired), remember beingsurprised at how small they were in real life, if you know what I mean. Had to be for obvious reasons I suppose. They had one at Brooklands Museum for years. Been ...

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Yup. '97 or '98 I think. Most noticeable thing - it was noisy. The seats were plenty comfortable once sitting in them (I flew before the interior refurbishment) but you had to stoop to enter the cabin and your seat. The windows got hot to the touch despite it being -50 outside. Wine list was excell...

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Yup. '97 or '98 I think. Most noticeable thing - it was noisy. The seats were plenty comfortable once sitting in them (I flew before the interior refurbishment) but you had to stoop to enter the cabin and your seat. The windows got hot to the touch despite it being -50 outside. Wine list was excelle...

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Some doubts about Bernals fitness after his back injury plus Skineos having 47 separate GC contenders they need to keep happy. Bernal might go to the vuelta with Yates. G needs his team mates to attack the Slovenians from the start to have any chance The fact that Ineos have so many riders who are ...

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I’ve told this annecdote before but as a teenager I was riding a girl who’s brother was a commonwealth games athlete- just outside olympics. I see him and the personality athletes with PEDS. Same with rugby, whether they still juice when uninjured is up for debate but to get the initial size they’r...

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I’ve told this annecdote before but as a teenager I was riding a girl who’s brother was a commonwealth games athlete- just outside olympics. I see him and the personality athletes with PEDS. Same with rugby, whether they still juice when uninjured is up for debate but to get the initial size they’r...

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I would not describe oxycodone as performance enhancing. You might have noticed that opiates are piss easy to get in the USA and there's a big scandal about it. Neither did I. But it doesn't matter it's a banned substance . I'm not questioning the ban however this is a rare occasion where the proff...

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I would not describe oxycodone as performance enhancing. You might have noticed that opiates are piss easy to get in the USA and there's a big scandal about it. Neither did I. But it doesn't matter it's a banned substance . I'm not questioning the ban however this is a rare occasion where the proff...

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I am suspicious of the woman who recently ran the second fastest 100m ever. 10.63 or something like that. Flojo just seemed like a pinup for doping, so anyone who makes it close to her is going to seem very suss. Shelly-Ann Frazer-Price does have a doping ban previously. For pain meds after dental ...

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Nice victory for Valverde. I don't know how many 41 years old have won a World Tour stage but the man has an amazing career. Geoghegan Hart has better legs than Thomas, wonder what it will look like with the long climbs during the two closing days of the race. But he could challenge Thomas.... TGH ...

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Uk #metoo starting to blow-up with Noel Clarke accusing John Barrowman and about 20 women accusing Noel Clarke. Clarke was given a special award by the BAFTAs recently, but apparently they knew of the allegations in some shock of UK institutions covering-up or ignoring sexual misconduct allegations...

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Nope... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_in_Tibet Translated into 32 languages, Tintin in Tibet was widely acclaimed by critics and is generally considered to be Hergé's finest work; it has also been praised by the Dalai Lama, who awarded it the Light of Truth Award. :lol: :thumbup: It was a hu...

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guy smiley wrote: ↑Mon Apr 19, 2021 10:53 am

Fake. He'd be reading the Tibetan edition.

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I spent a lot of time in Koln so have a love for Kolsch but you're right, has to be fresh. It doesnt travel. We have Schlenkerla available in my local offie. It's like marmite. Bizarre drink. I cant get enough of the doppelbock Marmite you say...I spotted this local brew in my liquor store. I wasn'...

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Few years ago I was riding a bird who’s brother was a commonwealth games athlete, I witnessed juicing first hand between him and Olympians who appear on TV and are ‘clean’. Odave Will back up about rugby usage, it’s not a massive secret within S+C/player circles. Backing that up as we are repeating...

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Few years ago I was riding a bird who’s brother was a commonwealth games athlete, I witnessed juicing first hand between him and Olympians who appear on TV and are ‘clean’. Odave Will back up about rugby usage, it’s not a massive secret within S+C/player circles. Backing that up as we are repeating...

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cyclingweekly.com/news/latest-news/90-year-old-us-cyclist-stripped-world-record-drugs-test-404176/amp American Carl Grove, 90 years old, lost his age-group title and world record from the Masters Track Championships after failing an anti-doping test. <snip aged dope...

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The doctor in ‘An American werewolf in London’ has a self-filling glass of Guinness, when he visits ‘The slaughtered lamb’ in Yorkshire (a lot actually filmed in Powys), through continuity error, not magic. The interior of The Slaughtered Lamb is the Black Swan (aka the Mucky Duck) near Ockham, Sur...

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I’ll say what the Irish are too demure to say British cavalry regiments were/are? full of cvnts Sad to say it, but valid as true today as it was in harry flashmans day. what right minded fella wears scarlet cords? A Even in my own experience, I’ve got a story...(second hand, not me) Young officer s...

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In the first one they won the Battle of Britain after teaching the stodgy Brits how to Dogfight In the second they rescue a nuclear scientist from the Germans but half way through the Russians become the baddies. Good stuff "Taught them how to dogfight" is probably overselling it, but weren't the P...

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Yeah I’ve always had campervans- also got an eriba at the moment. That’s tiny and easy to tow. I can’t reverse for shit :lol: The landlord of my local has an Eriba which I have failed to liberate from him. He tows it behind his bay window ambulance. I think it would look good behind my barndoor :lol:

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I’ll say what the Irish are too demure to say British cavalry regiments were/are? full of cvnts Sad to say it, but valid as true today as it was in harry flashmans day. what right minded fella wears scarlet cords? A Even in my own experience, I’ve got a story...(second hand, not me) Young officer s...

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RodneyRegis wrote: ↑Sat Feb 06, 2021 9:17 pm I have a theory. Young Owen is just really, really thick.

A chap I know who taught him at school said he's gobby and thick. Same chap had plenty of praise for Maro Itoje.

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Good news on the effectiveness of the Russian vaccine. https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-coronavirus-vaccine-sputnik-v-efficacy-study-lancet-covid19/ Excellent - the more the merrier. Kinda disputes the cynicism of the initial reports where everyone thought they were bullshitting on the vaccin...

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Anyone happen to watch Salem's Lot recently? Gave me the serious heebie jeebies when I was a nipper. Thinking about watching it again, but worried that it might end up like eating spam again after a couple of decades. The window scene, obviously :) After we watched that my sister insisted on sleepi...

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Johnson and Johnson vaccine only 66% effective...could this also be a reason for the EU kicking off? They are making a terrific fuss over something that doesn't work for over 65s anyway. That was just to scare U.K. pensioners. So- who had ordered J+J vaccines? Almost scared to ask. 66% aint to shab...

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Just saw reports that Ineos are possibly using fluid ducting towards leading edge of their foils to reduce drag, based on F1 technology. Massively reduces drag after foiling achieved. They do look very quick. The sailing equivalent of a blown flap? That's would be pretty interesting. Any more detai...

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anonymous_joe wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 12:03 pm What's the profit/loss ratio, etc, of Gamestop?

How bad is the correction going to be for these people?

Gamestop is a dying business which is why the hedge funds shorted it in the first place.

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If the first jab works for 3 months, we can vaccinate more with 1st shipment. Might not be as bad as initially feared IIRC they had figures for the AZ vaccine from the first trial saying the longer you waited for the 2nd jab, the more effective it was which is a large part of why the decision to ja...

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