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earl the beaver wrote:Netflix downgrading video quality in Europe. I paid for 1080p streaming so I'm assuming they will give me money off? Oh wait...

I suspect it'll still be 1080p, but with 25% less bitrate and more compression.

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Why do you have MDF under the carpet? MDF is a poor choice for flooring as it is more likely to be affected by moisture or spills than OSB or ply. Sounds like you have a house where someone has been a cheapskate with either the number of floor bearers or the thickness of the 'MDF'. You don't need a ...

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why people buy Teslas What nonsense. Haters hating on Tesla and Musk are hilarious. Hilarious because the more he makes them look like idiots and haters, the more they go after him and it just goes around in vicious circles. Electric cars are patently obviously the future and Tesla is light years a...

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Well played France. And I surely can't be the only englishman to hope that Youngs is never on the field again.

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And Griffiths is leaving already.

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All the report makes me think, along with Saracens not wanting more audits, is that these breaches are probably the tip of the iceberg.

The gulf of quality between the Saracens squad and the other PRL teams doesn't seem narrow enough to be explained by the breaches they've been penalised for.

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A good comment on the Guardian in today's Scaarens match report: great comment from the salarycens coach at half time (on bt sport): “it’s not bad when you have to take off Billy Vunipola but can bring on Will Skelton is it?” Is there a nobel prize for cognitive dissonance? Was that Alex Sanderson....

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The Premiership is palpably diminished for next season. Some of us have seen some club rugby: Cardiff and Newport, Bath and Leicester and Wasps, Leinster and Munster, Toulouse, Brive and Stade Francais in their greatest years. None can touch Saracens. In this era, they have been the greatest club t...

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Even if Sarries were under the cap tomorrow then they'd have still played most of the first half of this season breaking the rules. No wonder the other clubs want them gone. The only thing I've ever liked about Sarries is watching them lose, which didn't happen nearly enough due to the blatant cheat...

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From the Daily Mail article: "The news circulated on the day that retired chairman Nigel Wray cut all formal ties with Saracens and handed his shares to his children."

Wow. Maybe he finally has some shame and has figured out that he managed to ruin the club he was trying to build.

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The only people deserving of sympathy are any players and staff genuinely unaware of the cheating. Can't be many of them, as everyone else with eyeballs and a brain could see that they were taking the piss. A 35 point deduction was never a harsh enough penalty for cheating their way to multiple cham...

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nardol wrote:Ferrari won't go with two alpha drivers. So that's them locked up. Now just RB and MERC for the post 2020 lineup.

If true then I'd expect Hamilton would stay at Merc. Which would leave Verstappen stuck at Red Bull.

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Lennox ranking for heavyweights 1. Wilder 2. Fury 3. Joshua What do you think of that girls? Maybe. But how is Wilder above Fury when everyone watched Wilder get beaten by Fury if not for the bent judging decisions? I'm not convinced it's fair to try and rate them before they've faced each other. B...

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I just bought an LG B9 55 inch OLED. Much better contrast than anything other than another OLED. If you want it future proof then make sure it supports all the HDR formats: HDR 10, HDR 10+, Dolby vision, and for broadcast you'll want HLG (hybrid log gamma) Just be careful with the sky Q . I only us...

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I just bought an LG B9 55 inch OLED. Much better contrast than anything other than another OLED.

If you want it future proof then make sure it supports all the HDR formats: HDR 10, HDR 10+, Dolby vision, and for broadcast you'll want HLG (hybrid log gamma)

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Definitely red.

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I think the problem for Brits is that Ireland and the UK are pretty similar. So when you go for a weekend to Dublin its not much different than going to Manchester or Leeds for example. Then compare that to a major capital city in Europe. Its just more exotic. For a Brit (not necessarily someone fr...

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I'm guessing the reason that the accused want to distance themselves from the allegations is that in this instance the accusation is about a 17 year old. But the association with Epstein brings with it all sorts of possibilities of far worse. Epstein was accused of trafficking much younger girls. An...

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I think the problem for Brits is that Ireland and the UK are pretty similar. So when you go for a weekend to Dublin its not much different than going to Manchester or Leeds for example. Then compare that to a major capital city in Europe. Its just more exotic. For a Brit (not necessarily someone fr...

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Yes, and if he appeal had gone ahead they'd have prioritized the league anyway...... But it's fair to say there would be uncertainty and maybe he'd weight his decisions differently. I think it's reasonable for him to prefer to know exactly where the club stands. It's nonsense to make it sound like ...

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Apologies in advance for Daily Fail link....

Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall reveals they may NOT appeal

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Regarding the limited companies, are there examples of ones that have been setup for players when they were on Saracens, but are now playing rugby elsewhere? I think the ones you refer to don't exist as those companies seem to be effective in keeping the player at saracens. Ash the splash? Wouldn't...

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Flyin Ryan wrote:Regarding the limited companies, are there examples of ones that have been setup for players when they were on Saracens, but are now playing rugby elsewhere?

I think the ones you refer to don't exist as those companies seem to be effective in keeping the player at saracens.

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TER LLP is a wrapper for image rights payments to players. Not surprising that LTD companies for most premiership players are listed.

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Anybody else looking forward to Saracens at Gloucester today?
Being a Bath fan, I wouldn't usually be cheering for a Gloucester win. But after all of this Saracens fiasco, especially with them requesting a review, I hope they get stuffed by everyone this year.

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Firefighter dispatch video driving into the middle of hell. Terrifying stuff. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=792963264509208&id=623574811372847 It actually gets a lot worse than that tbf but obviously then it would melt cars so they couldn't drive into it. Looks pretty dicey driving wh...

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If Saracens want to spend more money than the Premiership allows (and that they can't actually afford judging by their losses) then they're free to set up another competition or negotiate with other existing ones about membership. . I don't understand this. Why can't Saracens afford it? Saracens as...

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The Sun God wrote:Have they not been wound up yet ?

Dunno, but Wray looks like someone pissed in his crisps

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kiap wrote:The "non-snow" cousins do provide a much clearer viewing experience

Amateur compared to my dogs..

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How energy intensive is desalination?
Surely you have enough sun to power desalination and pumping from solar + batteries?
Granted it'd take a while to build and be very expensive, but it looks like it will only get worse so something needs to be done?

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AlanBengio wrote:Today is a complete disaster for Ferrari

Amazing how their pace disappeared after the clarification about acceptable ways for fuel to find it's way into the combustion chamber. But they weren't cheating before, oh no.

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Well played SA. I wasn't impressed with some of the refereeing decisions, but they wouldn't have mattered. SA hit England hard and England had nothing in response. Congratulations.

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Always loved pointers, but not sure I'd have the time to give them enough exercise every day.

I have this lump, and another slightly smaller

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Got to be Gatland but Schmidt's record is still pretty ridiculous. Won a Top14 with ASM. 2 European Cups with Leinster as well as a league and a Challenge Cup. 3 Six Nations with Ireland including a GS. A series win in Aus and, of course 2 defeats of his motherland. It's also easy to forget that wh...

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Hard luck Wales. You played sh*t. SA played sh*t and were there for the taking, shame you blew your chance of a final.

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Extra time looking very possible. Jesus, I'm just about bored to tears of this game.

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le chat wrote:Hmm just realised I have a delay lol

Did you not realise France are already out? Had they not announced it on Minitel?

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MrJonno wrote:Deliberate knock on should have been a YC regardless of advantage

yep

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CM11 wrote:
spookly wrote:In what has been one of the best to watch RWC I've ever watched.... this is the most dull turgid half of rugby I've seen all tournament.
You missed Ireland/Russia? Lucky.

I did miss that one.... not sure how it could be much worse.

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In what has been one of the best to watch RWC I've ever watched.... this is the most dull turgid half of rugby I've seen all tournament.

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