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by JJR
Sat Nov 26, 2016 7:09 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Official Match Thread: Wallabies EOYT - Ireland v Australia
Replies: 1201
Views: 56469

Re: Official Match Thread: Wallabies EOYT - Ireland v Austra

RodneyRegis wrote:
JJR wrote:Just switched over to this game, how is Earls available to play, shouldn't he be banned after his spear tackle?
Not to mention his knacker behaviour directly after, and subsequent. Give the cunt 6 months for bringing the game into disrepute.

Did he not get any ban? Seriously, can't be.
by JJR
Sat Nov 26, 2016 7:05 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Official Match Thread: Wallabies EOYT - Ireland v Australia
Replies: 1201
Views: 56469

Re: Official Match Thread: Wallabies EOYT - Ireland v Austra

Just switched over to this game, how is Earls available to play, shouldn't he be banned after his spear tackle?
by JJR
Sat Nov 26, 2016 12:19 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 5025354

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Hellraiser wrote:
JJR wrote:
openclashXX wrote:nah. Turkey in the EU makes even less sense than Australia or Canada

Turkey is in the continent of Europe.

No it's not. Eastern Thrace is in Europe, Anatolia most certainly is not.

So Turkey is in Europe then. :uhoh:
by JJR
Fri Nov 25, 2016 10:01 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: range rover evoque
Replies: 922
Views: 71525

Re: range rover evoque

The V10 Touareg is the beast to have. Madness.
by JJR
Fri Nov 25, 2016 9:52 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 5025354

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

we should keep our options open :thumbup: Would you be of that opinion if remain had won? of course. the red line for me is Turkey, if Turkish membership of the EU was even close to being approved I wouldn't hesitate in joining the call for a second referendum to leave Gotcha, the world should cele...
by JJR
Fri Nov 25, 2016 7:24 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 5025354

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

openclashXX wrote:
JJR wrote:
Wheeling out Blair makes Brexit desperate?
comprehension not your strong point, I take it?

English is my first language. Stick to that and you'll be grand.
by JJR
Fri Nov 25, 2016 7:03 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 5025354

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

I'm sort of glad Blair is back, he was one of the few people that could promote the EU successfully on an ideological and moral ground rather than just the doom and gloom "the economy will go to shit" argument that most of the Remain campaign depended on. Brexiters should rightly be scared at Blair...
by JJR
Fri Nov 25, 2016 6:25 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Great GIFS Thread (Not all NSFW have been spoilered...)
Replies: 22239
Views: 3997376

Re: Great GIFS Thread (Not all NSFW have been spoilered...)

Lacrobat wrote:Image



What's going on here? Heston Blumenthal does the Xmas roast?
by JJR
Fri Nov 25, 2016 6:22 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 5025354

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

I'm sort of glad Blair is back, he was one of the few people that could promote the EU successfully on an ideological and moral ground rather than just the doom and gloom "the economy will go to shit" argument that most of the Remain campaign depended on. Brexiters should rightly be scared at Blair...
by JJR
Fri Nov 25, 2016 5:53 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 5025354

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

I'm sort of glad Blair is back, he was one of the few people that could promote the EU successfully on an ideological and moral ground rather than just the doom and gloom "the economy will go to shit" argument that most of the Remain campaign depended on. Brexiters should rightly be scared at Blair...
by JJR
Fri Nov 25, 2016 5:49 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 5025354

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Every time I see Farage I want to belt him in his smug face but he's got this politiking lark down cold - perhaps that's why. Well... sort of. He's managed to get a small but rabid fanbase; politics also involves convincing other politicians and reaching compromises at the right time. He doesn't ha...
by JJR
Fri Nov 25, 2016 2:23 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 5025354

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Farage does come across as a cock-sure spiv but it's very difficult for any of us to understand the odds against him achieving even a tenth of what he has in 20 years. He's had the might of the EU, all the domestic political parties and the establishment smearing him and looking to trip him up but h...
by JJR
Fri Nov 25, 2016 1:07 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 5025354

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

The trouble with the second referendum is that it will get hijacked by the hardliners from the Remain and Brexit sides. Neither of which will be happy. I guess that is what Major meant by the "solid middle ground" speaking up. It was thought that middle England would in the end swing the vote for r...
by JJR
Fri Nov 25, 2016 12:10 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 5025354

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Some interesting comments from Major and Blair. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38092635 Meanwhile, speaking at a dinner in Westminster on Wednesday, Sir John Major, Conservative Prime Minister from 1990 to 1997, called for the 48% of people who voted against Brexit in June's referendum to ha...
by JJR
Fri Nov 25, 2016 11:53 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 5025354

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

And there's the problem. Anyone who is an expert on the topic is discounted because, well he's an expert and must therefore inevitably have an axe to grind. So, it's left to the uninformed to make up their minds based on lack of information, skewed graphs or anecdotal evidence. I'll admit that it i...
by JJR
Fri Nov 25, 2016 11:51 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 5025354

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Some interesting comments from Major and Blair. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38092635 Meanwhile, speaking at a dinner in Westminster on Wednesday, Sir John Major, Conservative Prime Minister from 1990 to 1997, called for the 48% of people who voted against Brexit in June's referendum to ha...
by JJR
Thu Nov 24, 2016 2:13 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 5025354

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

theo wrote:
JJR wrote:Tony Blair's interview in full with The New Statesman

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk ... d-business


He wants to build a social media movement to overturn Brexit.
I think he is about 3 months too late.


He thinks it can be reversed.
by JJR
Thu Nov 24, 2016 1:50 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 5025354

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Tony Blair's interview in full with The New Statesman

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk ... d-business


He wants to build a social media movement to overturn Brexit.
by JJR
Thu Nov 24, 2016 10:00 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 5025354

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

bimboman wrote:Volvo,is of,course Chinese owned.and is moving some production to China.


Some? Virtually all of it is moving over there.
by JJR
Thu Nov 24, 2016 1:04 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: France vs. New Zealand: Official Match Thread
Replies: 968
Views: 59562

Re: France vs. New Zealand: Official Match Thread

Can't imagine there's a neutral anywhere in the world that will be rooting for an All Black win this weekend.

Allez les bleu.
by JJR
Wed Nov 23, 2016 11:25 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 5025354

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Peston now looks as bad as he speaks. Does he sleep rough?
by JJR
Wed Nov 23, 2016 7:24 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 5025354

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Yes of course it is but there will be costs if we are outside plus you won't get many multinationals setting up the European HQ's in a country that is outside of the EU. It doesn't make much sense. They'll still need UK HQs. :) For what? Why on earth would multi-nationals come to the UK to establis...
by JJR
Wed Nov 23, 2016 7:13 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 5025354

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

theo wrote: Yes of course it is but there will be costs if we are outside plus you won't get many multinationals setting up the European HQ's in a country that is outside of the EU. It doesn't make much sense.

They'll still need UK HQs. :)
by JJR
Wed Nov 23, 2016 6:44 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 5025354

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Can one of the Remainers in the know tell me how much the Chinese export into the EU and how they manage to do it without having a customs union and/or any trade agreement? Thanks in advance. :thumbup: About EUR350bn. They will be charged tariffs at various rates depending on the goods. All happens...
by JJR
Wed Nov 23, 2016 6:29 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 5025354

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Can one of the Remainers in the know tell me how much the Chinese export into the EU and how they manage to do it without having a customs union and/or any trade agreement? Thanks in advance. :thumbup: About EUR350bn. They will be charged tariffs at various rates depending on the goods. All happens...
by JJR
Wed Nov 23, 2016 6:21 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 5025354

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Can one of the Remainers in the know tell me how much the Chinese export into the EU and how they manage to do it without having a customs union and/or any trade agreement?

Thanks in advance. :thumbup:
by JJR
Wed Nov 23, 2016 2:27 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 5025354

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

all imperial powers raped their colonies of raw materials. the difference was we transformed those raw materials into products in the workshop of the world (thanks to us pioneering the industrial revolution). we then sold those goods back to the colonies... You've just described how the EU model se...
by JJR
Wed Nov 23, 2016 2:03 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 5025354

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

You can point that finger at all the European powers, USA, Russia and modern day China and Saudi Arabia. True but the exploitation by the British is on a scale that exceeds Spain's exploitation of South America. The thing is that the UK still deny it officially. But it is bygones I was just respond...
by JJR
Wed Nov 23, 2016 1:54 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 5025354

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

theo wrote:I agree Spookly. It doesn't really work as a proper single market. Yet.


It's not designed to be one. The question posed by the Brexit camp during the hustings is even more pertinent now; "if you were outside of the EU would you apply to join it now knowing what you now know?"
by JJR
Wed Nov 23, 2016 1:48 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Entertaining Pics Thread (definitely with NSFW content)
Replies: 56039
Views: 10123971

Re: The Entertaining Pics Thread (definitely with NSFW conte

Diamond mine, Siberia. http://www.gizmodo.jp/upload_files2/140623_mirhole2.jpg Diamond mine, Canada size http://www.mining.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Aerial_Of_Island.jpg Two questions; 1. Where do they dump all the spoil they remove? 2. What happens to the hole when they've finished digging?
by JJR
Wed Nov 23, 2016 11:06 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 5025354

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Who'll be left in the EU after the French, Dutch, Scandinavians and Italians vote to leave? The enjoyment with which Brexiters view the impending dismantling of the EU is a little baffling, more so because any such demise would in part be caused or accelerated by their own actions. How it benefits ...
by JJR
Wed Nov 23, 2016 10:49 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: 2 All Black thugs cited!
Replies: 1102
Views: 54697

Re: 2 All Black thugs cited!

Teams should adapt to him Isnt this what the All Blacks did so well over a long period of time. McAwe was a legend when it come to this. Yes exactly. For some reason we have a bit of blind spot when it comes to Peyper (and his opposite the laissez-faire Barnes). I have watched Peyper for years and ...
by JJR
Wed Nov 23, 2016 8:23 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 5025354

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Who'll be left in the EU after the French, Dutch, Scandinavians and Italians vote to leave? The enjoyment with which Brexiters view the impending dismantling of the EU is a little baffling, more so because any such demise would in part be caused or accelerated by their own actions. How it benefits ...
by JJR
Wed Nov 23, 2016 12:09 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: 2 All Black thugs cited!
Replies: 1102
Views: 54697

Re: 2 All Black thugs cited!

eldanielfire wrote:Can anyone give me a thread summary? I saw it started with 12 citings on page 1 and now on page 25 it's become a dick waving contest in a 'small penis, below average at best' category. Any context for pages 2-24?

Goatse meets Hellboy
by JJR
Tue Nov 22, 2016 11:11 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: 2 All Black thugs cited!
Replies: 1102
Views: 54697

Re: 2 All Black thugs cited!

The Native wrote:
JJR wrote:
The Native wrote:Auckland is overrated. But you don't come to New Zealand for the cities or night life.

Or the women. x(
Can we see a picture of your wife/fiancé/girlfriend then?

No wank bank material for you on this thread. :thumbdown:
by JJR
Tue Nov 22, 2016 11:07 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: 2 All Black thugs cited!
Replies: 1102
Views: 54697

Re: 2 All Black thugs cited!

The Native wrote:Auckland is overrated. But you don't come to New Zealand for the cities or night life.

Or the women. x(
by JJR
Tue Nov 22, 2016 11:05 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
Replies: 48393
Views: 3837031

Re: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thre

Are the Spuds out yet?

:lol:
by JJR
Tue Nov 22, 2016 10:59 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: 2 All Black thugs cited!
Replies: 1102
Views: 54697

Re: 2 All Black thugs cited!

booze wrote:
JJR wrote:
Duff Paddy wrote:
Crash_12 wrote:That shirt is a crime, yessiree.
Shirt and haircut look like they belong circa 1987


Have you been to NZ? Everything looks like it's from 1987.
Like the Uk outside of the central London then?

Basildon would be a cultural Mecca if it were moved to the Marlborough plains.