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by Benthos
Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:49 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Village Quiz plums
Replies: 15
Views: 1174

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 ...
by Benthos
Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:49 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Village Quiz plums
Replies: 15
Views: 1174

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 ...
by Benthos
Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:48 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Village Quiz plums
Replies: 15
Views: 1174

Re: Village Quiz plums

Dobbin wrote: Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:38 pm Have they dealt with that odious living statue yet?
That’s a tad strong :((
by Benthos
Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:21 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Village Quiz plums
Replies: 15
Views: 1174

Re: Village Quiz plums

The latter.

Apparently, if you ignore the price of a couple of large gins, Tina provides the former.
by Benthos
Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:19 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Village Quiz plums
Replies: 15
Views: 1174

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...
by Benthos
Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:54 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Irish Travellers
Replies: 34
Views: 2058

Re: Irish Travellers

RodneyRegis wrote: Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:52 pm Hawk96... Hawk95 :((
:lol:
by Benthos
Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:48 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Village Quiz plums
Replies: 15
Views: 1174

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...
by Benthos
Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:08 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
Replies: 112355
Views: 7529054

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
by Benthos
Fri Mar 22, 2024 5:23 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Banksy's anonymity
Replies: 56
Views: 2165

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...
by Benthos
Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:54 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: LRZ
Replies: 273
Views: 12701

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...
by Benthos
Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:24 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
Replies: 112355
Views: 7529054

Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread

DragsterDriver wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:56 pm Italy look much better coached than england.
This Italy would gape us *shudder*

Perhaps NOT the game to watch to get me up for The Leprechaust ((c) bloke on match fred)
by Benthos
Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:18 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
Replies: 1639
Views: 45672

Re: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread

Seez wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:10 pm
Benthos wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 11:13 am
Seez wrote: Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:19 pm

Stop with the mockers appeasement. You are miles better than us, it will be a full blown leprechaust
No one..?

Consider my dap coffed.
I’m wasted here.
You too? *hic*
by Benthos
Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:17 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
Replies: 1639
Views: 45672

Re: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread

sorCrer wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:22 pm COME ON! ENNNGLAND! :(
Mother, do you think he’ll drop the Bomb Squad?
by Benthos
Sat Mar 09, 2024 11:28 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
Replies: 112355
Views: 7529054

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...
by Benthos
Sat Mar 09, 2024 11:13 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
Replies: 1639
Views: 45672

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...
by Benthos
Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:03 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: A Bit Salty
Replies: 183
Views: 11511

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...
by Benthos
Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:18 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: A Bit Salty
Replies: 183
Views: 11511

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...
by Benthos
Tue Feb 27, 2024 9:36 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Borthwick OUT!!!
Replies: 107
Views: 2699

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...
by Benthos
Fri Feb 23, 2024 6:12 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Boredies 2024 - Nominations Thread
Replies: 140
Views: 18826

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...
by Benthos
Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:46 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The OFFICIAL Scotland v England Match Thread
Replies: 797
Views: 11166

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,...
by Benthos
Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:35 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?
Replies: 11406
Views: 1231174

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...
by Benthos
Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:31 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
Replies: 112355
Views: 7529054

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...
by Benthos
Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:28 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
Replies: 112355
Views: 7529054

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...
by Benthos
Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:24 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The OFFICIAL Scotland v England Match Thread
Replies: 797
Views: 11166

Re: The OFFICIAL Scotland v England Match Thread

fatcat wrote: Fri Feb 23, 2024 5:50 am Maybe he left New Zealand because his name wasn't bizarre enough. I heard he was in school with a Taylor-Beyonce Princess Waihuru-Jackson and a Zinzan Milner-Skudder.
*lifts head from perma-sulk about England to manage a chuckle*
by Benthos
Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:18 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: the White collar job Apocalypse is coming soon.
Replies: 169
Views: 9940

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...
by Benthos
Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:10 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
Replies: 112355
Views: 7529054

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 ...
by Benthos
Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:15 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: the White collar job Apocalypse is coming soon.
Replies: 169
Views: 9940

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...
by Benthos
Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:46 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Neologism, typo - or thick benthos??
Replies: 11
Views: 307

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...
by Benthos
Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:43 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Neologism, typo - or thick benthos??
Replies: 11
Views: 307

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...
by Benthos
Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:28 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Neologism, typo - or thick benthos??
Replies: 11
Views: 307

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...
by Benthos
Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:23 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Neologism, typo - or thick benthos??
Replies: 11
Views: 307

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
:thumbup: :thumbup:
by Benthos
Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:19 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: the White collar job Apocalypse is coming soon.
Replies: 169
Views: 9940

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...
by Benthos
Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:42 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Neologism, typo - or thick benthos??
Replies: 11
Views: 307

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...
by Benthos
Wed Feb 21, 2024 9:00 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Boredies 2024 - Nominations Thread
Replies: 140
Views: 18826

Re: Boredies 2024 - Nominations Thread

CanNZ2000 wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 6:05 pm
Enzedder wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 5:59 pm Me 'n Enz, shirley?
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.
by Benthos
Sun Feb 18, 2024 1:54 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The opening sequence for the movie you’d write
Replies: 45
Views: 995

Re: The opening sequence for the movie you’d write

Got a hundred beginnings, about a thousand middles, but only one end. Extremely inspired by the final scene in Magnolia (and its song - the penultimate in my opus): Up to 2.19 here: https://youtu.be/yIgAwuduQnE?si=Y0Lg7JsfOk2wMgAB ...that last shot where Melora Waters looks into the camera (for the ...
by Benthos
Sat Feb 17, 2024 1:18 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Navalny dies
Replies: 47
Views: 1565

Re: Navalny dies

Wasn't he just another face of the current Russian political orthodoxy? Like, he wasn't some potential reformer of the state, just "not Putin". Not Putin you say. Sounds pretty good. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/01/we-need-have-talk-about-alexei-navalny/ Navalny was a disgusting ...
by Benthos
Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:18 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: So I have an interview coming up and need the bored's help
Replies: 21
Views: 684

Re: So I have an interview coming up and need the bored's help

You probably need to thrust your point home, that you’d be an upright member of their organisation, warts and all, and you’d be a perfect fit for this opening, by giving your interview panel visual aids. Remind them that you’d never go on strike, and you’re proud to be a scab. And finally, make sure...
by Benthos
Fri Feb 16, 2024 11:13 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?
Replies: 11406
Views: 1231174

Re: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?

Mrs B says Cervidae would cover it, but I worry that the abuse thereof might drag in the saffas. Mrs B, however, reminds me that X -bokfückers would technically be molesting Bovidae . As you were. And, before anyone asks, I’m great at parties. Not because of such persiflage, but because I drink piss...
by Benthos
Thu Feb 15, 2024 11:13 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?
Replies: 11406
Views: 1231174

Re: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?

Any of you moosefückers (or indeed mooseavoiders or mooseagnostics) seen Allegiance yet?

Don’t, whatever your position on (or indeed with) moose? Mooses? Meese??

It’s shit.
by Benthos
Thu Feb 15, 2024 2:57 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?
Replies: 11406
Views: 1231174

Re: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?

Grandpa wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2024 1:33 pm
Foot Up wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2024 12:37 pm Any good recent comedy recommendations?
Benthos. :D
Always said you were a plum poster :twisted: