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- Thu Apr 25, 2024 12:31 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The best 5 players in the world right now
- Replies: 51
- Views: 7065
Re: The best 5 players in the world right now
Earls has retired! :o Also he was kak for years prior to retirement Are you guys being deliberately obtuse? Given that Woddy is English he clearly meant Earl. I agree with him on the grounds that every list needs a cheerleader who can play well for 2 games a year. How to write “either I haven’t bee...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 12:35 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
- Replies: 9366
- Views: 308695
Re: Israel declares state of war
"Allowed". Listen to you, you supporter of genocide. Everyone see you on the tight rope, they know though. Whatever you think your accusing him of completely f#cking pales in comparison to your vomitous support of the utterly savage massacre that Israel is carrying out. Whatever^n, I find your reli...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 8:55 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Whats the wokest thing you ever read?
- Replies: 82
- Views: 3582
Re: Whats the wokest thing you ever read?
MonkZ, Zakar: meet HikingLeinster..Monk Zombie wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:00 amIt’s staight out of Archie Bunker - mitout the laffs.Zakar wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:48 amAh, so you're a simple type then.HighKingLeinster wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:24 am
I find it a handy catch-all for hippys, twats, feminazis, pinkos and GenZers who have no concept of how the world actually is and works
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 8:17 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
- Replies: 18279
- Views: 856795
Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
Normalise pronouncing Alabama like ‘anathema’. :lol: Tiny Culdy Sack… In 2006 I was contracted to the Department of Education in SA to help them host a large education ministers summit, with parallel events for business, delivery institutions, education suppliers, etc. For… reasons they ask me to e...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 9:04 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 112666
- Views: 7612111
Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
There were times in years gone by when the Sarries pack would put the fear of god into opposition players reading the teamsheet. Look at this starting pack today. Who on earth would be intimidated by that (apart from Quins)? 1. Mako Vunipola, 2. Jamie George, 3. Christian Judge, 4. Maro Itoje, 5. H...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 11:09 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: It’s official, Brits are soft.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1221
Re: It’s official, Brits are soft.
Most British drinkers will be on Carling/Fosters/Carlsberg/cheapest lager in bar from my experience. I know we are all very sophisticated and look down on that but I think that's the case regardless of class or subculture or whatever. Not in my local , the lager drinkers tend to drink the trendy la...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 10:27 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Anyone here been to Mongolia ?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 830
Re: Anyone here been to Mongolia ?
Been left a small inheritance by an uncle , but it’s large enough for a couple of trips with x2 . I’ve always been fascinated by Mongolia the Gobi and in the nadaam games in particular. Has anyone been ? Any good ? Either that/ and or Tibet possibilities as the old bugger was abit of a traveller an...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:49 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Village Quiz plums
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1298
Re: Village Quiz plums
Zach R - what’s the SoL with that sort of thing in Oz? Or, more relevantly, Ireland? A client is refusing to pay me for a little bit of consultancy work I did in January (and if you’ve read the thread, you’ll know a little bit is a lot for me). I was about to do the Fast Track Claim thing here. I’d ...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Village Quiz plums
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1298
Re: Village Quiz plums
Although it’s taken me a couple of days to unseethe, that wasn’t my worst quiz experience. When I lived in Norwich, I went to a quiz in a flat-roofed pub [/arbennig iawn diolch], and I swear three of the questions were: What were last week’s winning lottery numbers? To the nearest inch, how tall is ...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:48 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Village Quiz plums
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1298
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Village Quiz plums
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1298
Re: Village Quiz plums
The latter.
Apparently, if you ignore the price of a couple of large gins, Tina provides the former.
Apparently, if you ignore the price of a couple of large gins, Tina provides the former.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:19 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Village Quiz plums
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1298
Re: Village Quiz plums
Who the fück wants a litre of Bells? It's the sort of thing that gets served in flat roof pubs. I have a couple of bottles of ginger wine accumulating dust. And it tastes like shit mixed with Aussie shampoo. I live in a tiny Suffolk village with my parents, with zero public transport, I will probab...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:54 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Irish Travellers
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2269
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:48 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Village Quiz plums
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1298
Village Quiz plums
Q: What’s the only 10 letter word you can make using only the letters from the top row of a QWERTY keyboard? A: I knew there was a smartarse Internetty answer, but I couldn’t remember it, so looking at the letters - the Mrs knew them - I came up with PIROUETTER THEM: TYPEWRITER. It’s the only one, a...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:08 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 112666
- Views: 7612111
Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
… I just like an England side with Underhill in it. You can almost guarantee hes going cut someone in half and get the crowd going. Also he looks like an archetypical orc. https://i.postimg.cc/c48Gqj1g/IMG-0030.png
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 5:23 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Banksy's anonymity
- Replies: 56
- Views: 2210
Re: Banksy's anonymity
Icon of modern British culture. I thought he was a rapper. Don’t think I’ve come across his work anyway, not sure how painting murals gets him this sort of profile, but there you are. Same as sticking a shark in a tank of formaldehyde, a light bulb switching on and off, a floor covered with sunflow...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:54 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: LRZ
- Replies: 423
- Views: 18607
Re: LRZ
… he probably didn't even like Rugby. Not just me, then? Despite his physical attributes (well, his speed), he looks like a reluctant goth press-ganged into a house match, cos all the other lads have the ‘flu (complete with cheeks that flush whenever he gets too close to the PE teacher, for whom he...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:24 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 112666
- Views: 7612111
Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
This Italy would gape us *shudder*
Perhaps NOT the game to watch to get me up for The Leprechaust ((c) bloke on match fred)
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:18 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
- Replies: 1639
- Views: 45941
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:17 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
- Replies: 1639
- Views: 45941
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 11:28 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 112666
- Views: 7612111
Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
Barfpick is ground-breaking in one sense: you know how the best doers of X rarely make the best managers of doers of X ? Well, SB is exactly as committed-but-limited-/-out-of-his-depth as an England coach and selector as he was an England lock. And the team he coaches and selects is as lumpy and sca...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 11:13 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
- Replies: 1639
- Views: 45941
Re: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
Chessum means they are going to go balls out after our lineout. They will fancy scrum already. Do that well enough and they will have succeeded in making us struggle to launch our continuity game. It ain't rocket science. Do that and all bets are off. In their heads, they could and should have dera...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:03 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: A Bit Salty
- Replies: 183
- Views: 11522
Re: A Bit Salty
Point of order re. Sam Overthehill, if you’re born overseas to a serving member of our country’s armed forces, you’re almost certainly de facto born in the UK. ‘British Forces Overseas’ is the correct term, I think. His old man Greg (my old man’s former boss) was a serving RAF Officer, on (a relati...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:18 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: A Bit Salty
- Replies: 183
- Views: 11522
Re: A Bit Salty
Point of order re. Sam Overthehill, if you’re born overseas to a serving member of our country’s armed forces, you’re almost certainly de facto born in the UK. ‘British Forces Overseas’ is the correct term, I think. His old man Greg (my old man’s former boss) was a serving RAF Officer, on (a relativ...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 9:36 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Borthwick OUT!!!
- Replies: 107
- Views: 2712
Re: Borthwick OUT!!!
However we cut and dice this, it all comes back to the RFU. And ne’er a sadder thing were said. It’s the individual coaches’ (e.g. FJ, RW) job to get the best out of the players, and (with the Head Coach) to pick the right players in the first place. You can blame the players for one, maybe two perf...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 6:12 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Boredies 2024 - Nominations Thread
- Replies: 140
- Views: 18875
Re: Boredies 2024 - Nominations Thread
Enz and I Happy now everyone? Nup. Much as I hate to admit i... *checks thread*, er... I’m delighted to confirm that the curmudgeonly codger, ah, sorry, happy-go-lucky old timer is correct. And all you ‘..and I’ thickos can do one. Back to remedial school. Along with those 'myself' brigadiers. ’ang...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:46 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The OFFICIAL Scotland v England Match Thread
- Replies: 797
- Views: 11203
Re: The OFFICIAL Scotland v England Match Thread
If it wasn’t such a glans-slap to the ruddy cheeks of the mockers Pantheon, I’d congratulate Edinburgh for such a well-written, considerate and generous post. They won’t be fooled, Ed in ‘borough, and I refuse to let you give me even a scintilla of hope for tomorrow. Because, we who follow the Rose,...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:35 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?
- Replies: 11460
- Views: 1244588
Re: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?
Interesting that the most dumbed down version of True Detective was the most watched... Clunky on occasion maybe but dumbed down ? Well, it wasn't exactly cerebral. Season's one and three especially made you think... and had a constant sense of jeopardy... jeopardy didn't feature in this one at all...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:31 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 112666
- Views: 7612111
Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
...Does anyone think that Borthers knows what he's doing?... Does anyone think the Pope doesn’t wank?... :( I need a drink. Blazers and bored wisdom aside, I just can't see the logic in so many of his selection decisions. I don't see the bigger picture here. Perhaps that makes me a rugby luddite. B...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:28 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 112666
- Views: 7612111
Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
For me the death knell was when he wouldn't run the ball in space. Hook him. Yeah, what winger doesn’t back himself to beat a man in space He had exceptional top end gas early in his career. Now, not so much. I assume, with Faz out, Methuselah is picked for his experience not his gas. Might as well...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:24 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The OFFICIAL Scotland v England Match Thread
- Replies: 797
- Views: 11203
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:18 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: the White collar job Apocalypse is coming soon.
- Replies: 169
- Views: 9970
Re: the White collar job Apocalypse is coming soon.
Which, epicly shallow and sniggering schoolboy that I am... Shhhh! Remember... we agreed to keep the name of the bored’s prototype secret - for marketing reasons, and the old ‘brevity is the sole of wit thing’? The early focus groups thought forum.epicly-shallow-sniggering-schoolboys.com was, while...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:10 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 112666
- Views: 7612111
Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
...Does anyone think that Borthers knows what he's doing?... Does anyone think the Pope doesn’t wank?... Can anyone remember an England coach picking a team largely in synch with the bored’s (broad) consensus? And I’ve been yerabouts for 26 years. Yes, I know that if we remove outliers like... (no ...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:15 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: the White collar job Apocalypse is coming soon.
- Replies: 169
- Views: 9970
Re: the White collar job Apocalypse is coming soon.
...there’s always DuckDuckGo Which, epicly shallow and sniggering schoolboy that I am... Shhhh! Remember... we agreed to keep the name of the bored’s prototype secret - for marketing reasons, and the old ‘brevity is the sole of wit thing’? The early focus groups thought forum.epicly-shallow-snigger...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:46 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Neologism, typo - or thick benthos??
- Replies: 11
- Views: 308
Re: Neologism, typo - or thick benthos??
In this article on the BBC News homepage , which talks about the ‘Sahil Omar’ meme - a putative hypercrim that is blamed by idiots/trolls/xenophobes on social media for all manner of crimes - e.g. the recent Super Bowl shooting. Erroneously, in every case, as it turns out; indeed, there is zero evi...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:43 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Neologism, typo - or thick benthos??
- Replies: 11
- Views: 308
Re: Neologism, typo - or thick benthos??
How’s your brain injury thing going ? Hi yeeb. Getting there, ta. I’m at the end of the brain repairing itself stage. Still get lost around places I know, still have my Heil Hitler! involuntary jerks, but (as you can see), my capacity for gobshitery is gradually returning. So you basically like tha...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:28 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Neologism, typo - or thick benthos??
- Replies: 11
- Views: 308
Re: Neologism, typo - or thick benthos??
In this article on the BBC News homepage , which talks about the ‘Sahil Omar’ meme - a putative hypercrim that is blamed by idiots/trolls/xenophobes on social media for all manner of crimes - e.g. the recent Super Bowl shooting. Erroneously, in every case, as it turns out; indeed, there is zero evi...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:23 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Neologism, typo - or thick benthos??
- Replies: 11
- Views: 308
Re: Neologism, typo - or thick benthos??
freddie111 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:49 am Nothing to do with churn. Chum is your fishing bait. Chumming is putting that in the water to attract fish.
https://www.slo-fishing.si/fishing-bait ... -the-water
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: the White collar job Apocalypse is coming soon.
- Replies: 169
- Views: 9970
Re: the White collar job Apocalypse is coming soon.
I hope this belongs here... My biggest concern about AI lite , i.e. the ‘free’ form that will be available to you or I when we have a work/essay deadline and we need some intelligent blurb, and need it quick, is the precedent of Google . Anyone remember just how revolutionary it was, compared to Inf...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:42 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Neologism, typo - or thick benthos??
- Replies: 11
- Views: 308
Neologism, typo - or thick benthos??
In this article on the BBC News homepage , which talks about the ‘Sahil Omar’ meme - a putative hypercrim that is blamed by idiots/trolls/xenophobes on social media for all manner of crimes - e.g. the recent Super Bowl shooting. Erroneously, in every case, as it turns out; indeed, there is zero evi...