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by Brazil
Wed Aug 05, 2020 2:02 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Huge explosion in Beirut
Replies: 126
Views: 12814

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
Wed Apr 08, 2020 1:18 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Not One Step Backwards: Your mean, hard bastard pack
Replies: 100
Views: 9495

Re: Not One Step Backwards: Your mean, hard bastard pack

Ireland: Peter Clohessy Karl Mullen Tadhg Furlong Willie John McBride Paul O'Connell Neil Best Johnny O'Connor Willie Duggan That's prob the toughest pack Ireland could put out. No Phil Orr or Des Fitzgerald? No Paddy Mayne? He was the definition of lunatic hard bastard. I was going to say. Tough a...
by Brazil
Thu Apr 02, 2020 3:40 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Wine Thread
Replies: 6599
Views: 788250

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: 6599
Views: 788250

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: 7406

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 4:47 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Actors you used to hate/not rate at all, but now do rate.
Replies: 78
Views: 7834

Re: Actors you used to hate/not rate at all, but now do rate

Nieghorn wrote:
MrJonno wrote:Marky Mark
I liked him a lot in The Departed ... the kind of prick I aspire to be. :lol:

As for his 'dumb' roles, I thought he was really good in The Other Guys.
He's a peacock - you gotta let him fly.
by Brazil
Fri Mar 27, 2020 2:34 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Official PR Gardening thread. + Corona virus Expansion Pack
Replies: 559
Views: 84359

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: 834098

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: 7975

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: 7975

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: 1528
Views: 219386

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: 3978

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: 24455

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: 24455

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: 24455

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: 7697

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: 70361

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: 70361

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: 63824

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: 63824

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: 63824

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 11:19 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
Replies: 112282
Views: 7525140

Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread

Ah. Fair enough.
by Brazil
Fri Mar 06, 2020 11:12 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
Replies: 112282
Views: 7525140

Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread

James & DuPreez families 29 - 0 everyone Irish in England. Decent win that Edit - 34-0 evidently it hadn't finished Still hadn't finished... Feared the worst with the late withdrawals, but they surpased themselves. Honestly the worst LI performance in years. And there's some tough competition on th...
by Brazil
Fri Mar 06, 2020 10:49 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
Replies: 112282
Views: 7525140

Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread

James & DuPreez families 29 - 0 everyone Irish in England.

Decent win that

Edit - 34-0 evidently it hadn't finished.

Edit edit - 39-0. Still going apparently. Also Warrington won 9-8.
by Brazil
Fri Mar 06, 2020 4:15 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
Replies: 112282
Views: 7525140

Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread

LI team for tonight. We always get well beaten on a Friday night away to Sale, so not expecting much here. SOB making his first appearance for the club at 6, with Donnell pulled from the U20s again to appear on the other flank. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESakl39U4AAlTK8?format=jpg&name=small How s...
by Brazil
Fri Mar 06, 2020 12:42 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
Replies: 112282
Views: 7525140

Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread

Is that 3 sets of brothers starting for Sale? (acknowledging that Tom Curry is actually starting elsewhere for England) Yeah, with everybody fit we can field a team that looks like the Habsburg family tree. There was a game earlier in the year, might have been against Quims or Exeter, where the thi...
by Brazil
Fri Mar 06, 2020 11:55 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
Replies: 112282
Views: 7525140

Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread

Sale team for the Not Nots:
Spoiler: show
Image
Pretty, pretty, pretty strong.
by Brazil
Fri Mar 06, 2020 11:14 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: He had a way with women
Replies: 38
Views: 4982

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: 4982

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: 7250

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: 7250

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 5:17 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
Replies: 112282
Views: 7525140

Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread

Eddie is completely barmy, isn't he. Joseph went really well against Ireland and is a much more rounded number 23 than Slade - so of course he drops him :lol: Did he go well? He got a lot of ball and had one nice little run and did nothing else. True, but Slade plays like one of the characters out ...
by Brazil
Thu Mar 05, 2020 5:14 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Cats
Replies: 78
Views: 7250

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: 7250

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
Mon Mar 02, 2020 10:14 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
Replies: 112282
Views: 7525140

Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread

Confirmed he's left sale with immediate effect. Plenty of mid season transfers this year. Interesting one for Quin's anyway. Could be a pretty useful addition I think that's a good signing for Quins. You're right about the mid-season transfers, mostly stemming from the Sarries Firesale. I suspect, ...
by Brazil
Fri Feb 28, 2020 10:48 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
Replies: 112282
Views: 7525140

Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread

Are Ashton and solemona injured?
by Brazil
Fri Feb 28, 2020 10:16 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
Replies: 112282
Views: 7525140

Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread

Carried back in there
by Brazil
Fri Feb 28, 2020 10:14 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
Replies: 112282
Views: 7525140

Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread

Jesus f**king Christ, it's a knock on, he's miles in f**king front. Get rid of the frigging TMO.
by Brazil
Fri Feb 28, 2020 10:04 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
Replies: 112282
Views: 7525140

Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread

Wayne Barnes scores for his West country cousins/sisters/mam
by Brazil
Fri Feb 28, 2020 9:56 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
Replies: 112282
Views: 7525140

Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread

0-15 in the sale game, which is a classic. On the stopping playing issue, I quit When I had kids because I couldn't justify being away for half the weekend. I never really experienced a deliberately malicious team except for the scumbag from Staines who stamped on my head, and in my much younger day...