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- Wed Dec 20, 2017 7:03 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Great GIFS Thread (Not all NSFW have been spoilered...)
- Replies: 22269
- Views: 3778333
Re: Great GIFS Thread (Not all NSFW have been spoilered...)
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 5:51 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Socialist at 20, Conservative at 40?
- Replies: 202
- Views: 29906
Re: Socialist at 20, Conservative at 40?
happyhooker wrote:You and openside go waaaaay back, don't you.theo wrote:I was too busy getting wasted and try to shag anything in a skirt at 20 to care.
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 5:46 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Millenials are Screwed
- Replies: 648
- Views: 40664
Re: Millenials are Screwed
Most of the baby boomers I know have around 2x O levels (in Geography & woodwork) - but still ended up in high tier employment. These days you've got people with phd's working in the service sector. The disparity of opportunity is huge between the generations - It's got nothing to do with some mist...
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 5:31 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Socialist at 20, Conservative at 40?
- Replies: 202
- Views: 29906
Re: Socialist at 20, Conservative at 40?
I padded up if that's what you mean....Nieghorn wrote:Did you at least pretend to care about her rights, though?theo wrote:I was too busy getting wasted and try to shag anything in a skirt at 20 to care.
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 5:29 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Millenials are Screwed
- Replies: 648
- Views: 40664
Re: Millenials are Screwed
Most of the baby boomers I know have around 2x O levels (in Geography & woodwork) - but still ended up in high tier employment. These days you've got people with phd's working in the service sector. The disparity of opportunity is huge between the generations - It's got nothing to do with some mist...
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 5:04 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Socialist at 20, Conservative at 40?
- Replies: 202
- Views: 29906
Re: Socialist at 20, Conservative at 40?
I was too busy getting wasted and try to shag anything in a skirt at 20 to care.
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 4:56 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Cat Person
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1552
Re: Cat Person
tldr - whodunnit?
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 4:43 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Fiiiiiiinally Clermont's year ?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3498
Re: Fiiiiiiinally Clermont's year ?
With that twat Parra in the team they can fudge right off.
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 4:30 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Millenials are Screwed
- Replies: 648
- Views: 40664
Re: Millenials are Screwed
I have to admit that I've lost the track of the thread a bit. Can I just confirm if Gen X are the bad guys in this or whether I can go back to my life of quiet satisfaction without guilt and worry? We're fine. We battling for the little guy whilst upholding the traditions of the older guy. We can p...
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 4:26 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
- Replies: 84737
- Views: 4601000
Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-johnson-brexit-mustnt-leave-us-a-vassal-state-p9zrf9n6s So Gove at al want to get rid of the European working time directive. Fook the workers Most UK employment contracts contract out of these anyway. The modern workplace must be shit in the UK, I've not be...
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 4:24 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Millenials are Screwed
- Replies: 648
- Views: 40664
Re: Millenials are Screwed
I have to admit that I've lost the track of the thread a bit. Can I just confirm if Gen X are the bad guys in this or whether I can go back to my life of quiet satisfaction without guilt and worry? We're fine. We battling for the little guy whilst upholding the traditions of the older guy. We can p...
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 4:17 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Millenials are Screwed
- Replies: 648
- Views: 40664
Re: Millenials are Screwed
I have to say, the policy to disallow mortgage payments (2020?) as a taxable expense will see a lot of private landlords returning properties to the market. As without mortgage relief the numbers just don't stack up. True. Bizarre to think it was a Tory government that stitched up buy-to-let landlo...
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 4:15 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Millenials are Screwed
- Replies: 648
- Views: 40664
Re: Millenials are Screwed
Well my feeble joke escalated things quickly ! :uhoh: Probably due to idleness and entitlement ;) :lol: Are you still bothering to go to the Stoop these days? No I gave up my season ticket mid way through last season, since I didn't feel Quins could be bothered to make the effort why should I? :( T...
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 4:12 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Millenials are Screwed
- Replies: 648
- Views: 40664
Re: Millenials are Screwed
I have to say, the policy to disallow mortgage payments (2020?) as a taxable expense will see a lot of private landlords returning properties to the market. As without mortgage relief the numbers just don't stack up. True. Bizarre to think it was a Tory government that stitched up buy-to-let landlo...
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 4:11 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: OFFICIAL clickbait sightings thread
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2613
Re: OFFICIAL clickbait sightings thread
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42329244
Alien asteroid people. We have an alien asteroid.
Alien asteroid people. We have an alien asteroid.
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 4:09 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
- Replies: 84737
- Views: 4601000
Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Ok..they're stupid, evil fuckers.Chuckles1188 wrote:Hanlon's Razor is normally a great comfort to me in times of distress but I'm finding it harder and harder to apply here.
Better?
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 4:03 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
- Replies: 84737
- Views: 4601000
Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-johnson-brexit-mustnt-leave-us-a-vassal-state-p9zrf9n6s So Gove at al want to get rid of the European working time directive. Fook the workers Most UK employment contracts contract out of these anyway. And we have record low unemployment figures. So. Why. Th...
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 4:02 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Millenials are Screwed
- Replies: 648
- Views: 40664
Re: Millenials are Screwed
Straight into a trap there, if you like, of assuming I'm suggesting single income or non employment for women. I'm not. It's the drive for wealth accumulation I'm looking at. The selling of an ideal wrapped up in dollar notes... we must all have MORE of something and we should all work harder to ge...
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 4:01 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Millenials are Screwed
- Replies: 648
- Views: 40664
Re: Millenials are Screwed
Straight into a trap there, if you like, of assuming I'm suggesting single income or non employment for women. I'm not. It's the drive for wealth accumulation I'm looking at. The selling of an ideal wrapped up in dollar notes... we must all have MORE of something and we should all work harder to ge...
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 3:59 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Millenials are Screwed
- Replies: 648
- Views: 40664
Re: Millenials are Screwed
Straight into a trap there, if you like, of assuming I'm suggesting single income or non employment for women. I'm not. It's the drive for wealth accumulation I'm looking at. The selling of an ideal wrapped up in dollar notes... we must all have MORE of something and we should all work harder to ge...
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 3:54 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Millenials are Screwed
- Replies: 648
- Views: 40664
Re: Millenials are Screwed
Straight into a trap there, if you like, of assuming I'm suggesting single income or non employment for women. I'm not. It's the drive for wealth accumulation I'm looking at. The selling of an ideal wrapped up in dollar notes... we must all have MORE of something and we should all work harder to ge...
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 3:42 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
- Replies: 84737
- Views: 4601000
Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Most UK employment contracts contract out of these anyway.sewa wrote:https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bori ... -p9zrf9n6s
So Gove at al want to get rid of the European working time directive. Fook the workers
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 3:16 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Millenials are Screwed
- Replies: 648
- Views: 40664
Re: Millenials are Screwed
I read a good article some years back that argued that the ongoing tragedy in this debate is that it has pitched the 'generations' against each other, and that some are deliberately precipitating that. Enjoying it even. It provides excuses for some and a sense of superiority for others. Neither a g...
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 3:10 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Millenials are Screwed
- Replies: 648
- Views: 40664
Re: Millenials are Screwed
If you can't beat them.....zzzz wrote:
The combination of associative mating and dual income families is probably the biggest driver of inequality today. Good luck stopping either of those trends.
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 3:02 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Millenials are Screwed
- Replies: 648
- Views: 40664
Re: Millenials are Screwed
Actually I think it has mainly been fuelled by dual income families, which alas has caused its own set of problems. Yep, fair point. Yes.... but look beyond that and what drives the need for a dual income? Apart from a reasonable desire to maintain a career on the part of two capable parents, there...
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 2:59 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The OFFICIAL 2017-18 Ashes Thread
- Replies: 2926
- Views: 229133
Re: The OFFICIAL 2017-18 Ashes Thread
But apart from that.....The problem for England is that there aren't lots of obvious candidates to resolve their issues (need a few top order batsmen, a good spinner and a couple of fast bowlers)......
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 2:55 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Millenials are Screwed
- Replies: 648
- Views: 40664
Re: Millenials are Screwed
Boomers are benefitting twice from the ridiculous property markets as when their parents die, their modest three bed terrace yields hundreds of thousands of pounds, generally totally tax free, mainly as a result of the parents doing the sum of sweet FA to contribute to the price inflation other tha...
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 2:53 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Millenials are Screwed
- Replies: 648
- Views: 40664
Re: Millenials are Screwed
Chuckles1188 wrote:Are you sure you don't mean "them's fightin' words, boy"?
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 2:50 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Millenials are Screwed
- Replies: 648
- Views: 40664
Re: Millenials are Screwed
Chuckles - GFC - Great Financial Crash. That's generally how it is referred to. I've heard GFC used for Global Financial Crisis as well. But an initialism isn't really what I'm looking for here. I'm just going to call it "the start of the shitstorm" Or SOS for short. Are you secretly an American? T...
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 2:48 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Millenials are Screwed
- Replies: 648
- Views: 40664
Re: Millenials are Screwed
True though there are plenty of examples to shock them with.Chuckles1188 wrote:Two groups whom kids are notorious for listening to at all times.theo wrote:Surely the new norm is for parents and schools to drum it into kids that anything you put on the web/mobile network is not private.
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 2:47 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Millenials are Screwed
- Replies: 648
- Views: 40664
Re: Millenials are Screwed
Or SOS for short.Chuckles1188 wrote:I've heard GFC used for Global Financial Crisis as well. But an initialism isn't really what I'm looking for here.theo wrote:Chuckles - GFC - Great Financial Crash. That's generally how it is referred to.
I'm just going to call it "the start of the shitstorm"
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 2:44 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Millenials are Screwed
- Replies: 648
- Views: 40664
Re: Millenials are Screwed
Chuckles - GFC - Great Financial Crash. That's generally how it is referred to.
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 2:41 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Millenials are Screwed
- Replies: 648
- Views: 40664
Re: Millenials are Screwed
Surely the new norm is for parents and schools to drum it into kids that anything you put on the web/mobile network is not private.
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 2:09 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Millenials are Screwed
- Replies: 648
- Views: 40664
Re: Millenials are Screwed
Point 6. Delete it all. Kill the accounts and start new ones if needs be. Property and pensions are the killers. Actually pensions for Gen X too. Potentially Gen X will benefit from owning property but have to work a shit load longer to cover pensions and the social reform that the Millennials will ...
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 1:58 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Entertaining Pics Thread (definitely with NSFW content)
- Replies: 55678
- Views: 9426284
Re: The Entertaining Pics Thread (definitely with NSFW conte
The buttering on those is utterly shocking.flaggETERNAL wrote:Surely it's 1. Anything else is an abomination yeah?
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 1:39 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Millenials are Screwed
- Replies: 648
- Views: 40664
Re: Millenials are Screwed
I think that's where we fundamentally disagree. I believe there's a reciprocal obligation. As do I. The best, most productive workplaces I've seen have been those which recognise that you get people to go the extra mile for you by signalling that you will do likewise, and the worst ones I've seen h...
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 1:23 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Refs incorrectly altering game outcomes
- Replies: 75
- Views: 4649
Re: Refs incorrectly altering game outcomes
Refs make mistakes. But far more often than us keyboard warriors will admit, what we regard as mistakes are often actually them knowing the laws, and the directives on how they should be applied, better than us. Edit. I am of course talking in the general sense here rather then with reference to th...
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 1:17 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: London Christmas cabal? 18th December
- Replies: 168
- Views: 16870
Re: London Christmas cabal? 18th December
Mahoney wrote:She'll never know.happyhooker wrote:Bring him. What could possibly go wrong??Brazil wrote:I will be there in spirit. Which is probably not appropriate when looking after a child, but he's got to learn at some point.
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 1:11 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Millenials are Screwed
- Replies: 648
- Views: 40664
Re: Millenials are Screwed
I think that's where we fundamentally disagree. I believe there's a reciprocal obligation. As do I. The best, most productive workplaces I've seen have been those which recognise that you get people to go the extra mile for you by signalling that you will do likewise, and the worst ones I've seen h...
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 1:02 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Millenials are Screwed
- Replies: 648
- Views: 40664
Re: Millenials are Screwed
Boomers are benefitting twice from the ridiculous property markets as when their parents die, their modest three bed terrace yields hundreds of thousands of pounds, generally totally tax free, mainly as a result of the parents doing the sum of sweet FA to contribute to the price inflation other tha...