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by Brazil
Wed Aug 05, 2020 2:02 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Huge explosion in Beirut
Replies: 126
Views: 14541

Re: Huge explosion in Beirut

2,750 ton of impounded NH4NO3 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eem2CyMVoAAdGEu?format=png&name=900x900 That'll grow you a lot of potatoes. Still not sure why it went up like that. I tht NH4NO3 was realtively inert in its shipping form. It's safe for carriage provided you treat it properly, segregate it,...
by Brazil
Thu Apr 02, 2020 3:40 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Wine Thread
Replies: 6596
Views: 876071

Re: The Wine Thread

Frankster, Do you have any tips for 2016 Barolo? I'm looking to invest in some cases for my son's 21st (2037, f**king hell), but certainly the wine soc is suggesting that they'll be passing their best by that point, so I wonder whether or not to go with what I know best (Bordeaux) or just lay down ...
by Brazil
Thu Apr 02, 2020 2:08 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Wine Thread
Replies: 6596
Views: 876071

Re: The Wine Thread

Frankster, Do you have any tips for 2016 Barolo? I'm looking to invest in some cases for my son's 21st (2037, f**king hell), but certainly the wine soc is suggesting that they'll be passing their best by that point, so I wonder whether or not to go with what I know best (Bordeaux) or just lay down s...
by Brazil
Fri Mar 27, 2020 5:13 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Lockdown - acceptable time of day to start drinking?
Replies: 79
Views: 8368

Re: Lockdown - acceptable time of day to start drinking?

happyhooker wrote:Right. I'm making the call.

It's friday, so gentlemen, you have 5 minutes to get yourselves organised
the martini glass is in the freezer.
by Brazil
Fri Mar 27, 2020 2:34 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Official PR Gardening thread. + Corona virus Expansion Pack
Replies: 559
Views: 94716

Re: Official PR Gardening thread. + Corona virus Expansion P

My Tomatoes and Chillies are coming on well for when I get my greenhouse. Sadly the Santorini Aubergine seeds appear to have been subjected to radiation or something whilst in storage, and haven't germinated at all. Currently also waiting to see whether the fig tree I moved in the garden has survive...
by Brazil
Fri Mar 27, 2020 1:07 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Scummings going by Xmas..... Boris next year.
Replies: 9918
Views: 914455

Re: Boris goooooone or going?

You'd love to see it, hopefully a pile of dominos. That post didn't exist when you breathlessly took a shot at "liberals" Amazing to see all the right wingers desperately using Boris' illness to bash the left. Aren't you impressed by how morally superior he is to every left winger on earth? No impu...
by Brazil
Thu Mar 26, 2020 10:47 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Covid-19 - killing rugby
Replies: 82
Views: 8995

Re: Covid-19 - killing rugby

1. I'd actually like to see them go to 2 divisions of 10 teams as part of a closed shop. Focus on working to get the 2nd Division up to as close to the 1sr division standard as possible. Develop a TV deal as well. I think this would make the Premiership structure a lot stronger overall. Funnily eno...
by Brazil
Thu Mar 26, 2020 10:23 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Covid-19 - killing rugby
Replies: 82
Views: 8995

Re: Covid-19 - killing rugby

As others have said, I think it could provide the correction that rugby's needed for a while now. The combination of this with the cut in funding to the chamionship, as well as the prospect of some teams going bust sould reduce the number of teams at the top and consolidate the player pool more sens...
by Brazil
Fri Mar 20, 2020 10:56 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The PR Book Thread
Replies: 1534
Views: 251749

Re: The PR Book Thread

Would appreciate opinions on which, from my gf's library, books I should work through - in order, as I'll have quite a bit of time to go through most of them - while I wait for society to disintegrate to the looting phase: Siddhartha Latin America - Noam Chomsky A Moveable Feast - Hemingway Hollywo...
by Brazil
Fri Mar 20, 2020 10:33 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: London to be renamed Raccoon City
Replies: 25
Views: 4371

Re: London to be renamed Raccoon City

Gavin Duffy wrote:The city needs a hero
Image
:lol:
by Brazil
Fri Mar 20, 2020 10:13 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: How safe is your industry during this Crisis
Replies: 208
Views: 27054

Re: How safe is your industry during this Crisis

Shipping , as previously mentionned should be ok , especially the tanker sector that is making big money due to the current oil price war ... Are you still at sea Panamax? Pretty interesting times for the blokes on the ships at the moment, be that the poor bastards sat at anchor round the globe fis...
by Brazil
Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:06 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: How safe is your industry during this Crisis
Replies: 208
Views: 27054

Re: How safe is your industry during this Crisis

Wyndham Upalot wrote:Defence sales - plateaued
Yeah, but once everyone emerges from the bunkers they'll be really pissed off.
by Brazil
Thu Mar 19, 2020 4:59 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: How safe is your industry during this Crisis
Replies: 208
Views: 27054

Re: How safe is your industry during this Crisis

Shipping, so fundamentally resilient but there are going to be an awful lot of casualties across the industry.
by Brazil
Sat Mar 07, 2020 8:49 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Saes thuggery
Replies: 66
Views: 8561

Re: Saes thuggery

Derwyn, have you ever considered the benefits of some gentle cupping by a tattooed behemoth?
by Brazil
Sat Mar 07, 2020 8:47 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Marler felt AWJ's penis on camera
Replies: 666
Views: 76815

Re: Marler felt AWJ's penis on camera

OptimisticJock wrote:
Brazil wrote:Jesus the Celts are so repressed.
Woah hang on there. WTF have rest of us got to do with this?
Sorry, Sorry, I know - any port in a storm etc.
by Brazil
Sat Mar 07, 2020 8:36 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Marler felt AWJ's penis on camera
Replies: 666
Views: 76815

Re: Marler felt AWJ's penis on camera

Jesus the Celts are so repressed.
by Brazil
Sat Mar 07, 2020 7:51 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Non-Vintage 6N: The Orcs Vs Injury hit Wayuls - Match fred
Replies: 895
Views: 73090

Re: Non-Vintage 6N: The Orcs Vs Injury hit Wayuls - Match fr

camroc1 wrote:England are a shower of cheap shot merchants.

Some ref will send off 3 or 4 of them some day.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
by Brazil
Sat Mar 07, 2020 7:49 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Non-Vintage 6N: The Orcs Vs Injury hit Wayuls - Match fred
Replies: 895
Views: 73090

Re: Non-Vintage 6N: The Orcs Vs Injury hit Wayuls - Match fr

Good to see the tradition of kiwi refs alive and well
by Brazil
Sat Mar 07, 2020 7:48 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Non-Vintage 6N: The Orcs Vs Injury hit Wayuls - Match fred
Replies: 895
Views: 73090

Re: Non-Vintage 6N: The Orcs Vs Injury hit Wayuls - Match fr

Good to see the tradition of kiwi refs alive and well
by Brazil
Fri Mar 06, 2020 11:14 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: He had a way with women
Replies: 38
Views: 5400

Re: He had a way with women

When both were bit part actors, Niven and Flynn shared a house in LA they called Cirrhosis by the Sea. Which became the party house du jour for the film actors. Yes, I've read Niven's books. A wild time had by all!!! My Wicked Wicked Ways is worth a read, surprisingly candid. The story about them n...
by Brazil
Fri Mar 06, 2020 11:04 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: He had a way with women
Replies: 38
Views: 5400

Re: He had a way with women

All those old Hollywood actresses wouldn't even make it in porn these days Except of course for the ones that actually did porn like Marilyn Monroe , Joan Crawford, Clara bow, Barbara Streisand They all did porn? Nudes, perhaps? I think many who started with Ziegfeld were required (or took the extr...
by Brazil
Thu Mar 05, 2020 5:30 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Cats
Replies: 78
Views: 8218

Re: Cats

Cats Carnivores, predators, sole hunters eating up to 12 times per day, sip water. Capable of digesting 20 to 25 protein types, small stomach. Dogs, Semi but limited omnivores, pack hunters, mainly scavengers, can eat daily or less frequently if needed. Gulp water, can digest 40 to 50 protein types...
by Brazil
Thu Mar 05, 2020 5:24 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Cats
Replies: 78
Views: 8218

Re: Cats

Are far better than us. They make us clear up their shit, yet we still dote on them. There's a reason the Egyptians venerated them and not you Danny Fitz. When I visit Egypt the locals bloody well do venerate me. Every time I step outside the hotel I am surrounded by hundreds of them as they chant ...
by Brazil
Thu Mar 05, 2020 5:14 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Cats
Replies: 78
Views: 8218

Re: Cats

Are far better than us. They make us clear up their shit, yet we still dote on them. There's a reason the Egyptians venerated them and not you Danny Fitz. When I visit Egypt the locals bloody well do venerate me. Every time I step outside the hotel I am surrounded by hundreds of them as they chant ...
by Brazil
Thu Mar 05, 2020 4:59 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Cats
Replies: 78
Views: 8218

Re: Cats

Are far better than us. They make us clear up their shit, yet we still dote on them. There's a reason the Egyptians venerated them and not you Danny Fitz.
by Brazil
Thu Feb 27, 2020 5:33 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The best new and returning TV series of 2026?
Replies: 13020
Views: 1818964

Re: The best new and returning TV series of 2020?

ticketlessinseattle wrote:
Captain Average wrote:Oh - and two episodes into latest Curb Your Enthusiasm. Brilliant again.
yup, think I'm about 4 episodes in - brilliant as ever - funny as fcuk to watch but christ you'd punch the shit out of him if you ever had to actually deal with him
It's magnificently awful.
by Brazil
Thu Feb 27, 2020 5:29 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Anthony Joshua
Replies: 11650
Views: 1131770

Re: Anthony Joshua

The reason he had no legs is because Tyson Fury knows exactly what he is doing. (according to Joe Rogan - it's not my observation) Fury told Joe that he had noticed in the last fight that Wilder couldn't fight backing up. As Joe tells it, when Fury got flattened in the 12th round, he knew he had to...
by Brazil
Thu Feb 27, 2020 1:18 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Anthony Joshua
Replies: 11650
Views: 1131770

Re: Anthony Joshua

eugenefraxby wrote:Lads and YOU crash (and Brazil) particularly
Evening at the York Hall this spring !!?
I could be tempted, pursuant to being allowed out with internet weirdos by LP.
by Brazil
Wed Feb 26, 2020 4:21 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Anthony Joshua
Replies: 11650
Views: 1131770

Re: Anthony Joshua

Anyway, NewGuy's comments about everyone in the olden days being underpowered dwarfs got me wondering. There are surprisingly few heavyweight champions under 6':

https://www.boxingnews24.com/2013/08/th ... er-6-foot/

Tommy Burns must've been a badass.
by Brazil
Wed Feb 26, 2020 3:39 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Anthony Joshua
Replies: 11650
Views: 1131770

Re: Anthony Joshua

A PhD in history who believes that the quality of athletes in a sport has diminished on a consistent basis in the last half century in spite of significant improvements in physiology and training methods. Who fails to recognise that boxing is an international, not an American sport, so using the US...
by Brazil
Tue Feb 25, 2020 8:47 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Anthony Joshua
Replies: 11650
Views: 1131770

Re: Anthony Joshua

New guy wrote:
bimboman wrote:Neither was Tyson, it didn’t slow him down much.
Yeah but Tyson was a physical freak.
It's for these reasons that Jess Willard never lost a fight.
by Brazil
Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:20 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Sonja Maccloughlin
Replies: 41
Views: 6779

Re: Sonja Maccloughlin

Was it the dread Sonja that YE used to call "Miss Lincolnshire", unreformed chauvinist beast that he was?
by Brazil
Fri Feb 21, 2020 12:48 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Anthony Joshua
Replies: 11650
Views: 1131770

Re: Anthony Joshua

If anyone wants to key David Haye's car, it's parked out front at the Park Plaza on Albert Embankment. Wonder if he's gone to Fitzroy or his place in Vauxhall. I'm assuming his place in Vauxhall, as it's a bit of a walk to Fitzroy (which I notice has a spiffy new sign so that you actually know it's...
by Brazil
Fri Feb 21, 2020 12:44 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Anthony Joshua
Replies: 11650
Views: 1131770

Re: Anthony Joshua

If anyone wants to key David Haye's car, it's parked out front at the Park Plaza on Albert Embankment.
by Brazil
Fri Feb 14, 2020 10:31 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Sarries facing automatic relegation
Replies: 2066
Views: 165691

Re: Sarries facing automatic relegation

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/feb/13/saracens-crisis-worst-week-jamie-george-maro-itoje-championship-rugby-union Saracens' media apologists aren't giving up any time soon. Now we have the sob stories. Poor Maro thinks his privacy was invaded. I think fundamentally a human tragedy. Particul...
by Brazil
Wed Feb 05, 2020 12:28 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Last Minute Game Winning Tries you Witnessed Live in Person
Replies: 94
Views: 7706

Re: Last Minute Game Winning Tries you Witnessed Live in Per

Dan Luger vs Australia 2000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYH9w15kmH0

That brief, halcyon period before Gaybar was Gaybar
by Brazil
Mon Feb 03, 2020 4:00 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Build Up to the Crunch
Replies: 929
Views: 78196

Re: Build Up to the Crunch

Daly was a bloody good player for a while, rightly deserved his Lions spot and terrified opponents when playing for England. However his form started to slide during the end of his time with Wasps, and it really doesn't look like Eddie deciding he was the next Josh Lewsey has done him any favours. H...
by Brazil
Mon Feb 03, 2020 12:26 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Build Up to the Crunch
Replies: 929
Views: 78196

Re: Build Up to the Crunch

https://i.makeagif.com/media/2-02-2020/pbp8B5.gif :lol: :lol: Oopsie The more I watch that, the more I'm convinced it's the worst piece of play ever committed on a rugby pitch. He dithers at the base, ambles toward the defenders, not really interesting any of them, then throws a terrible pass to a ...
by Brazil
Mon Feb 03, 2020 11:45 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Deleting threads now jake??
Replies: 365
Views: 32125

Re: Deleting threads now jake??

Where are these articles people talk about? I never see any Believe it or not there's a whole website called Planetrugby that's attached to this message board. I didn't believe it myself either at first, but it's definitely there, a bit like the episode of Futurama when Fry discovers the "closet" a...
by Brazil
Sun Feb 02, 2020 10:39 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Deleting threads now jake??
Replies: 365
Views: 32125

Re: Deleting threads now jake??

fatcat wrote:
Lady P wrote:Can’t believe my Year 9 teacher warned me off a career in journalism because I was insufficiently thick skinned.
Probably a good thing. Someone in your house needs to be on at least 80k.
Bitch