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- Wed Jun 14, 2017 9:36 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Tower Block fire in London?
- Replies: 1775
- Views: 128894
Re: Tower Block fire in London?
And now this is doing the FB rounds. :? http://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/corbyn-tried-pass-law-make-homes-safe-last-year-conservatives-rejected/14/06/ If in doubt, blame it on the Tories :thumbup: corbynistas do some pretty incredible mental gymnastics I don't think Grenfall Tower was owned by...
- Sun Feb 26, 2017 4:49 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: RBS 6 Nations 2017: England vs Italy Official Match Thread
- Replies: 1005
- Views: 69143
- Sat Feb 25, 2017 8:40 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rome
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3610
Re: Rome
Why? She died in the eighties. Her son is about and I say that in the looseless terms. So did she live there or not? If you think I'd make a post like that without the wherewithal, I have no time for you. Of course she lived there. It's a lovely house. Not sure of the current occupier. We've not me...
- Sat Feb 25, 2017 7:38 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rome
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3610
Re: Rome
So did she live there or not?globus wrote:Why? She died in the eighties. Her son is about and I say that in the looseless terms.London Pride wrote:Tell us more about Mrs Awdry.globus wrote:Really? Just what is this fib? Call out time.London Pride wrote:Another fib from Globus in this very thread, I see.
- Sat Feb 25, 2017 6:41 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rome
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3610
Re: Rome
Tell us more about Mrs Awdry.globus wrote:Really? Just what is this fib? Call out time.London Pride wrote:Another fib from Globus in this very thread, I see.
- Sat Feb 25, 2017 3:56 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rome
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3610
Re: Rome
Another fib from Globus in this very thread, I see.
- Fri Feb 17, 2017 11:08 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Thread Retitled - I'm Staying
- Replies: 701
- Views: 94296
Re: Idus Martiae
I won't believe the news until it makes the pages of the Oundle Chronicle.
- Sat Jan 14, 2017 6:10 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rotten boroughs
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2980
Rotten boroughs
Got to love Private Eye rotten boroughs A fine year for municipal mediocrity Rotten Boroughs Awards, Issue 1435 FROM nepotism and election-day mayhem to swivel-eyed Brexiteering, we salute the councillors and councils who made 2016 another vintage year for municipal mediocrity and worse... SHIT OF T...
- Sat Jan 14, 2017 5:31 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Graham Taylor goooooooone
- Replies: 85
- Views: 7871
Re: Graham Taylor goooooooone
Anyway, back to an actual gentleman. Nice piece on Taylor on Football Focus and some lovely words from former players. Occasionally those things can get a wee bit scyhophantic but I was struck by Lawro's remark - 'normal'. Seemed a lovely bloke, a successful and underrated manager who lived a life ...
- Sat Jan 14, 2017 5:19 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Graham Taylor goooooooone
- Replies: 85
- Views: 7871
Re: Graham Taylor goooooooone
Good grief.globus wrote:Somebody has to keep the post counts up. You are not up to it. The word "boring" comes to mind.London Pride wrote:You'd have thought Globus would have had enough attention of late, but apparently not.
- Sat Jan 14, 2017 5:02 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Graham Taylor goooooooone
- Replies: 85
- Views: 7871
Re: Graham Taylor goooooooone
You'd have thought Globus would have had enough attention of late, but apparently not.
- Tue Jan 10, 2017 3:31 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Should the anti Globus posters be outlawed as a hate group?
- Replies: 531
- Views: 23224
- Sun Jan 08, 2017 7:17 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The "Chill Out" Thread
- Replies: 309
- Views: 29313
- Sun Jan 08, 2017 6:39 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The "Chill Out" Thread
- Replies: 309
- Views: 29313
Re: The "Chill Out" Thread
You personal information is posted due to the role not the forum. No. It quite deliberately identifies me. And that is not right. Please don't try to appeal to my better nature. Nor it is it a question of me being naive. You've spent plenty of time on here telling all and sundry that they can find ...
- Sun Jan 08, 2017 6:15 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The "Chill Out" Thread
- Replies: 309
- Views: 29313
Re: The "Chill Out" Thread
The article posted doesn't identify you by name, Globus. And you have ridiculed anyone else who wants to protect their privacy, so I'd be interested to see what happens. Don't take it down LP, and good to see you. It does Ma'am. I know who you are and Brazil but I'd never ever, post your details. Y...
- Sun Jan 08, 2017 6:14 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The "Chill Out" Thread
- Replies: 309
- Views: 29313
Re: The "Chill Out" Thread
I don't like criticism or having my hypocrisy laid bare. That is your problem, frankly, not mine. It's a little like your haughty treatment of people in general - all those snide comments about the "hoi polloi" for example - time for you to realise that you are no better than anyone else. Do try no...
- Sun Jan 08, 2017 6:04 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The "Chill Out" Thread
- Replies: 309
- Views: 29313
Re: The "Chill Out" Thread
That is your problem, frankly, not mine.globus wrote:I don't like criticism or having my hypocrisy laid bare.
It's a little like your haughty treatment of people in general - all those snide comments about the "hoi polloi" for example - time for you to realise that you are no better than anyone else.
- Tue Jan 20, 2015 2:59 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
- Replies: 45683
- Views: 3014561
Re: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thre
How is Santi Cazorla considered by poofball fans in England? I watched parts of the City v Arsenal game last Sunday and... he owned the pitch all by himself, he was amazing. At this level he is in the same league as Xavi/Iniesta. Good player, but not in that league. Mainly because those performance...
- Tue Jan 20, 2015 2:54 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
- Replies: 45683
- Views: 3014561
Re: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thre
Going to be an interesting scrap for Champions league. There are 6 teams vying for two places at the moment. I can of course seeing my Spurs surging ahead and collapsing in the final 5 games of the season We'll be lucky if the Spuds manage to sustain a challenge that far. Of course, in the event th...
- Fri Jan 16, 2015 4:15 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Wine Thread
- Replies: 6599
- Views: 794259
Re: The Wine Thread
Why not try both? Booze intake is temporarily restricted to 21 units per week, which would mean blowing my whole allocation in a single binge. Which, y'know, is fine, but will restrict whether I'm allowed to drink tonight, and I reckon I deserve at least one Martini. I'm also wondering whether the ...
- Fri Jan 16, 2015 3:44 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Wine Thread
- Replies: 6599
- Views: 794259
Re: The Wine Thread
Is that Nipozzano the one we got you, or at least the same wine? Nope -I can't recall exactly what that was. It was consumed in the first few weeks after the midget's arrival, and we haven't a clue what was happening around that time owing to lack of sleep. I do remember thinking it to be the necta...
- Fri Jan 16, 2015 3:19 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Wine Thread
- Replies: 6599
- Views: 794259
Re: The Wine Thread
Is that Nipozzano the one we got you, or at least the same wine? Nope -I can't recall exactly what that was. It was consumed in the first few weeks after the midget's arrival, and we haven't a clue what was happening around that time owing to lack of sleep. I do remember thinking it to be the necta...
- Fri Jan 16, 2015 1:01 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Wine Thread
- Replies: 6599
- Views: 794259
Re: The Wine Thread
It's been drinking rather nicely - reckon it'll last to about 2020, and have plenty of the case left to enjoy its development over time. Very good - recommend it highly.Laurent wrote:Ladoix 2009
It's still a kid
I am jealous ...
- Fri Jan 16, 2015 12:45 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Plans for the weekend.
- Replies: 138
- Views: 9975
Re: Plans for the weekend.
Friday to Sunday - spending time wondering the following: a) how many more days I can survive on f**k all sleep while my daughter negotiates with her teeth b) why my left ankle is a colourful mixture of red, purple and black, and about four times the size of the right c) how much lasagne is too muc...
- Fri Jan 16, 2015 12:43 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Wine Thread
- Replies: 6599
- Views: 794259
Re: The Wine Thread
Anyone got anything nice lined up to open at the weekend? I mainly have those two (not my pics), both with soft prices (around 15€): Les Trois Chênes, Crozes Hermitage, 2011 http://www.pawinetalk.com/images/labels/emmanuel_darnaud_crozes_hermitage_les_trois_chenes_2011.jpg Good choice that, IMO - r...
- Fri Jan 16, 2015 12:26 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Plans for the weekend.
- Replies: 138
- Views: 9975
Re: Plans for the weekend.
Friday to Sunday - spending time wondering the following:
a) how many more days I can survive on fudge all sleep while my daughter negotiates with her teeth
b) why my left ankle is a colourful mixture of red, purple and black, and about four times the size of the right
c) how much lasagne is too much
a) how many more days I can survive on fudge all sleep while my daughter negotiates with her teeth
b) why my left ankle is a colourful mixture of red, purple and black, and about four times the size of the right
c) how much lasagne is too much
- Mon Dec 22, 2014 11:03 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: What's a UKIP loon said now?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2261
Re: What's a UKIP loon said now?
It's the only possible way to explain this:Rozanne Duncan wrote:I'm gay
Though the party won't disclose what comments were made, party sources say that when it was brought to their attention they had no hesitation in deciding she should be expelled.
- Fri Dec 19, 2014 1:37 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: whats your drinking nationality
- Replies: 84
- Views: 6050
Re: whats your drinking nationality
East Timor, the 8th lightest-drinking country there is. In a week where I should have been making Belorussians shudder uncomfortably. Fúck you, bronchitis and the flu' pony you rode in on. I don't even have the excuse of a proper disease. Unless you count a six month old baby and training for a New...
- Fri Dec 19, 2014 12:47 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: whats your drinking nationality
- Replies: 84
- Views: 6050
Re: whats your drinking nationality
East Timor, the 8th lightest-drinking country there is. In a week where I should have been making Belorussians shudder uncomfortably. Fúck you, bronchitis and the flu' pony you rode in on. I don't even have the excuse of a proper disease. Unless you count a six month old baby and training for a New...
- Fri Dec 19, 2014 11:37 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: whats your drinking nationality
- Replies: 84
- Views: 6050
Re: whats your drinking nationality
You drink like you're from Equatorial Guinea, which is the joint 86th lightest-drinking country in the world.
- Thu Dec 18, 2014 3:07 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Fat people can now be classed as disabled - EU ruling
- Replies: 58
- Views: 5543
Re: Fat people can now be classed as disabled - EU ruling
Hyperthyroidism can cause obesity. One of my college housemate's brothers had this condition. No it doesn't, you're thinking of hypothyroidism, as in underactive thyroid. I have heard of neither, cannot see however how any can get incredblly fat WITHOUT overeating Given you have form for expressing...
- Mon Dec 15, 2014 8:50 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Breaking Live - Alleged ISIS attack in Sydney
- Replies: 1953
- Views: 108209
Re: Breaking Live - Alleged ISIS attack in Sydney
Note that I'm not insulting anyone (and haven't in this whole thread), which is a gesture that has not been returned and I'm pretty sure will not be any time soon. I'm afraid you get what you deserve. You referred to the #illridewithyou biz as "mindless f**king idiocy". You're fair game, and to try...
- Tue Dec 09, 2014 11:35 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
- Replies: 45683
- Views: 3014561
Re: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thre
Reading your posts about football on this thread its pretty obvious only one of us has been wound up, gods sake man you come cross as a right curmudgeon and frankly a snob re said subject matter, Id advise you to refrain from posting on a sport that you freely admit distaste for, less accusations t...
- Tue Dec 09, 2014 10:59 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
- Replies: 45683
- Views: 3014561
Re: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thre
Looks like its all up to chelsea and man city to fly the flag in the CL then - as per usual Man City? As per usual? :lol: You've forgotten Arsenal, mind, you dullard. Bill is trying really hard these days. Really, really, really hard. Trying. I suppose we should be grateful for these efforts to ove...
- Tue Dec 09, 2014 10:55 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
- Replies: 45683
- Views: 3014561
Re: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thre
Man City? As per usual?Bill wrote:Looks like its all up to chelsea and man city to fly the flag in the CL then - as per usual
You've forgotten Arsenal, mind, you dullard.
- Sat Dec 06, 2014 10:52 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Interpretation of Will Greenwood's letter to Sam Burgess
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3723
Re: Interpretation of Will Greenwood's letter to Sam Burgess
No.Hawk97 wrote:With Tindall inside him a lot of the time.The Man Without Fear wrote:If Burgess manages to be a third of the centre Greenwood was, he'll do just fine. Sky put up Shaggy 's stats - 55 caps, 31 tries!
- Sat Dec 06, 2014 5:34 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: When we speak of nationality, what do we mean?
- Replies: 170
- Views: 11465
Re: When we speak of nationality, what do we mean?
Britain refers to The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It's citizens are British. That's not a nation, that's a kingdom, a political entity. Eh? That's our nation state. :lol: No it's not. That's the whole point. The UK is absolutely not a nation state. Yes, the UK is made up o...
- Fri Dec 05, 2014 5:53 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Farage: Devil's Dumpling are BAD!!!
- Replies: 66
- Views: 5182
Re: Farage: Devil's Dumpling are BAD!!!
But the whole point is that most women dont have to 'flop a tit out', most women can breastfeed without making some kind of right on statement out of the process. The few mums that make a meal out of it (sorry) don't seem to realise that the vast majority of people don't really give a sh*t that the...
- Fri Dec 05, 2014 3:19 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Work Christmas parties
- Replies: 51
- Views: 4246
Re: Work Christmas parties
Trust me, you really don't want me to post a picture of the receptionists.Hawk97 wrote:Rule 1 is going to have to apply, by the way chaps.
- Fri Dec 05, 2014 3:06 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Farage: Devil's Dumpling are BAD!!!
- Replies: 66
- Views: 5182
Re: Farage: Devil's Dumpling are BAD!!!
Why are folk so bothered about 'right on' statements. Most mothers probably aren't doing that but even if they are....so? It's a tit...in a really unsexy scenario. You don't get it, AND-y. Women breastfeeding in public are just attention seeking. All they want is for men to look at their pregnancy-...