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The OP is an interesting question because a) the UK is endangered - mostly because under Thatcher the Tories moved away from one nation (meaning whole of the UK) Conservatism to tone deaf English shires Conservatism and one-eyed parochial nationalism has grown ever since, and b) it implies that the ...

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Sonny's opposition to this stance is politically motivated and best ignored. At least he has a grasp of basic geography. Talking about politically motivated responses - let me introduce the Bimbo - the main reason I rarely post on here because life's just too short. I'm off before the BSometer goes...

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I can detect some of that but really, this is one of those cases where regardless of where your party politics lie, you ought to be able to applaud a job well done - a bit like Brits rallied round Churchill in WWII during a national crisis. Of course that was a pre social media age .. ho hum.

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We all got news of the pandemic in China in December 2019, including that it was deadly, highly contagious, and often spread asymptomatically. It didn't enter the UK till March - we had plenty of time to shut borders and implement quarantine (and many of us were askance that this wasn't done at the ...

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Well Korea or Japan probably is and they adopted similar approaches and have also had far lower fatality and negative economic impacts; so the close the borders, set up quarantine, then implement track and trace on those released from quarantine has clearly been the right approach. My impression is ...

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As a Brit with a Kiwi wife living in the UK I can only commend the NZ government's handling of Covid. Had they had the same laissez-faire do nothingism of our inept government NZ would have already have had over 10k Covid deaths. Here we chug along with 40k new covid cases, 8k in hospital and ~200 d...

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Quelle exploit ! Les Blacks ont perdu leur aura

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That was fun

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To answer the OP (without bothering to trawl through for previous responses) - Johnson is at a minimum using racist dog whistles because he wants to win the votes of those who are somewhere on the racist spectrum. He's essentially signalling that its ok to be a bit racist and if that's what you are ...

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Certainment.

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Glad we (almost) sorted that out - so if the player pushes the ball forward relative to themselves as they lose contact then is it a knock-on?

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No knock on. - it was knocked behind him (yeah it's a disputed area but generalky knocked behjnd the body is backwards - forward momentum) - hit his foot then backwards. Definitely not a knock on. So you're saying the point of reference of whether the ball is knocked forward is the player's body an...

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When the ref has money on the result. The only explanation for today's bizarre Inspector Clouseau performance by Monsieur Gauzere. And yet you were happy with the performances of 2 French officials in the Lions tour of 17. Swings and roundabouts (although we are still waiting for the contra to thos...

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Er, no. The first action is to try and catch the ball in his right hand which swings from just behind his chest to in front of it with the ball in partial contact while he is running forward and then it falls - it is clearly a forward fumble. Watch it from the front. It touches his right hand and t...

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It so obviously went forward from his hand - you actually see him touch it, move his hand forward while its still in contact with his hand and then it starts to fall forward but because he is also moving forward it hits his leg seemingly below his hand by the time it drops and then bounces behind h...

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No knock on. - it was knocked behind him (yeah it's a disputed area but generalky knocked behjnd the body is backwards - forward momentum) - hit his foot then backwards. Definitely not a knock on. So you're saying the point of reference of whether the ball is knocked forward is the player's body an...

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Isn't the point that he juggles it, knocks it backwards and it then bounces forwards?" Er, no. The first action is to try and catch the ball in his right hand which swings from just behind his chest to in front of it with the ball in partial contact while he is running forward and then it falls - i...

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It so obviously went forward from his hand - you actually see him touch it, move his hand forward while its still in contact with his hand and then it starts to fall forward but because he is also moving forward it hits his leg seemingly below his hand by the time it drops and then bounces behind hi...

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Forget the ref - England were the architects of their own downfall. When it was 24 all, we had the momentum - and we then just gifted them 9 points and the game. The impact from the bench was very negative. Time for some changes That's true but they'd blown a mental gasket trying to win back a 14 p...

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Bit of a toss-up between the TMO and Ref for player of the match

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englishgreat wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 7:32 pm What a shit game. It’s just fuckin penalties!! The best team doesn’t necessarily win. Just a fuckin lottery and turns people off watching.

My thoughts entirely - its as if they don't want people to like this game

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We have seen players fumble a ball forward plenty of times and then kick it before it hits the ground. Can't really see much difference in that. When that happens, its technically a knock on. That’s when the ball goes forward. Here it went down and back but the key point for me is that he never eve...

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That so clearly was fumbled and went forward - absolute shocker

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It's one thing having a turgid one-dimensional playing style but you should at least be good at it. Today England had nothing other than poorly executed Gary Owens and route one crash ball - it looked like they'd run out of options in the first 10 minutes. Its been a quite a while since they've play...

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Well done Scotland - England have been worse than 1-dimensional in this match and Scotland should take some of the credit for that.

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Is this your first foray into the pile-on? Well done fella :thumbup: From your posting record the indisputable fact is that you're either a full blown facist, or a completely gullible moron, or an arch troll - in the first or third of these cases you deserve the most merciless mockery; if its the m...

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BREAKING NEWS: Fox are reporting that the ace OAN News influencer, Mick Mannock, has broken into the Capitol with a suspicious device. Crying "Death or Freedom" and "Remember remember the 6th of Januember" he tied himself to Mitch McConnell's just discovered backbone and promised to blow the whole ...

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BREAKING NEWS: Fox are reporting that the ace OAN News influencer, Mick Mannock, has broken into the Capitol with a suspicious device. Crying "Death or Freedom" and "Remember remember the 6th of Januember" he tied himself to Mitch McConnell's just discovered backbone and promised to blow the whole ...

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BREAKING NEWS: Fox are reporting that the ace OAN News influencer, Mick Mannock, has broken into the Capitol with a suspicious device. Crying "Death or Freedom" and "Remember remember the 6th of Januember" he tied himself to Mitch McConnell's just discovered backbone and promised to blow the whole p...

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The GOP are fecked big time and it shows a need for more than 2 parties in this country. If they continue their efforts to look like challenging every narrow win from the Dems, as happened in Pennsylvania or as is about to happen in Congress, they'll steer the moderate and all the people who believ...

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In a preview of the coup that Trumpist Republican's are trying to pull at the Federal level the Republican controlled Pennsylvania Senate refused to seat a newly elected Democrat Senator yesterday. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/05/politics/pennsylvania-state-senate-gop/index.html In my 40+ years o...

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Bien joue la XXII de la France - really made England work very hard for that win. Farrell had a bit of a mare by his standards. What's Daly like at kicking from 30m as he always seems to nail them from the half way line?

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Sheesh - even Bill Barr is in on it now. This Deep State conspiracy is so pernicious even Trump's own rottweilers are up to their snouts in it!

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/528194-barr-says-doj-hasnt-uncovered-widespread-voter-fraud-in-2020-election

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Must say it takes a fair bit of chutzpah to complain about possible ethics issues in the incoming Biden team after the last 4 years. I would have expected people to be as critical of this as of that. I think many would say that you are comparing apples with oranges Some would say corruption is corr...

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The conspiracy is so deep that Giuliani has even had to ask Trump for a preemptive pardon - presumably for daring to bring it to the public's attention. When will the DemoRat/RINO/Deep State/FBI/CIA/UN/Sorros/Gates tyranny end!! https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/528131-giuliani-has-discus...

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A few months after Bolsonaro assumed power I took a flight from Chile to the UK that passed over the Amazon in the daytime. There were huge fires wherever you looked - what seemed like hundreds of them. I already knew Bolsonaro was a nut job, but after seeing that I've formed the view he's probably ...

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Re the OP - very!

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Well Trump's attorney, Joe DiGenova , has got the right idea. He went on a TV show and said that Chris Krebs, the former head of U.S. cybersecurity, should be “shot” for going against the president’s conspiracy theories and declaring the 2020 elections as secure. “Anybody who thinks the election wen...

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It really is the coup to end all coups isn't it? I mean, I can understand why Trump would be pissed, what with his popularity being so Yuge with everyone, but when the oppo pull off a play like that - well what can you do but stand back and applaud. Its not as if the US is the country with the highe...

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He (Ford) had a mediocre game or a bit worse but how much rugby has he played lately? Could be a bit harsh calling for him to be dropped when he just needs more game time.

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