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- Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:11 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Harvey Weinstein’s New York Rape Conviction Overturned on Appeal
- Replies: 16
- Views: 442
Re: Harvey Weinstein’s New York Rape Conviction Overturned on Appeal
'Disturbing trend' of verdicts being overturned - dissenting judge In a sharp dissent, Judge Madeline Singas said the decision "perpetuates outdated notions of sexual violence" and makes holding defendants accountable for sexual assault "significantly more difficult". She also accused the majority ...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:55 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Harvey Weinstein’s New York Rape Conviction Overturned on Appeal
- Replies: 16
- Views: 442
Re: Harvey Weinstein’s New York Rape Conviction Overturned on Appeal
Can someone who’s been following this explain what he actually did and why it’s been overturned? Technicality. Brought on by a desire to be excessively judicious. A sentiment they would never, ever extend to a black youth in a drugstore robbery case Harvey obviously still had some money left.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:55 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Trans issues and 'compelled' speech
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6259
Re: Trans issues and 'compelled' speech
More crackers than grooming children to be mentally ill crossdressing irons? This world today, I swear I attempted a play on words, shouldn't have bothered :lol: Oh I getcha. Good old Missourah But seriously, its recruitment no different to any other organisation. Only they have to get ‘em young an...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 2:39 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 415
- Views: 26643
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
Meanwhile, this is the French Squad for Saturday. Upstairs: Jehovah, Ram, Mohammed, Haile Selassie, Abraham and the Buddha. 15. Boulard ; 14. Grisez , 13. Konde, 12. Vernier, 11. M. Ménager ; 10. Queyroi, 9. Bourdon Sansus ; 7. Hermet, 8. R. Ménager, 6. Escudero ; 5. Fall, 4. Feleu (cap.) ; 3. Khal...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:47 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 415
- Views: 26643
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
Sounds like a bunch of excuses. The 'appetite' is not from the girls themselves, and more girls of different shapes can play rugby than GAA PS if you can make 7s player's, you can do the same for 15s ... It just takes more effort. But I understand.... Costs a lot to bring in those foreign male play...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:52 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: C’è ancora domani
- Replies: 2
- Views: 160
Re: C’è ancora domani
Does it have gladiators?tafano wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:24 am It’s an Italian film, now in cinemas across Europe.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68881292
If you are into cinema, I strongly suggest to go to see it.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:46 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 415
- Views: 26643
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
Sounds like a bunch of excuses. The 'appetite' is not from the girls themselves, and more girls of different shapes can play rugby than GAA PS if you can make 7s player's, you can do the same for 15s ... It just takes more effort. But I understand.... Costs a lot to bring in those foreign male playe...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:29 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
- Replies: 9372
- Views: 309096
Re: Israel declares state of war
Well, there's the continuing effort to smear the entire agency without such proof. You could consider that important if you like. Have you read the report, or just the snippet that can be extracted as a soundbyte to suit your agenda? The Times of Israel chose to use "UNRWA review: Israel hasn’t pro...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:06 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
- Replies: 9372
- Views: 309096
Re: Israel declares state of war
https://www.timesofisrael.com/unrwa-review-israel-hasnt-provided-evidence-that-agency-staff-were-terror-group-members/ Well colour me shocked. Is that the important part of the report? Well, there's the continuing effort to smear the entire agency without such proof. You could consider that importa...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:35 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
- Replies: 9372
- Views: 309096
Re: Israel declares state of war
UNRWA review: Israel hasn’t provided evidence that agency staff were terror group members An independent review published Monday of the beleaguered UN agency for Palestinian refugees said that Israel had yet to provide supporting evidence for its claims that a significant number of agency staff wer...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:33 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 415
- Views: 26643
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
Why are GB so bad at 7's, 8th in the world behind Ireland? You even get to pick from 3 countries - this is embarrassing given it is an olympic sport? https://www.svns.com/en/standings Honest answer? No one in England in reality gives 2 f’s about 7s. Ask any of the posters who are English in here if...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 2:35 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 415
- Views: 26643
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
Still 88-10? With all those swathes of Lady GAA players, you'd think they'd be able to find a few to make a team. Maybe use some if the cash spunked on Munster men, if they're only concentrating on Leinster now? Half the team if not more have been sourced from gaa as it stands. Because everyone pla...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 2:34 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Trans issues and 'compelled' speech
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6259
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 2:18 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 415
- Views: 26643
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
Still 88-10?
With all those swathes of Lady GAA players, you'd think they'd be able to find a few to make a team. Maybe use some of the cash spunked on Munster men if they're only concentrating on Leinster now?
With all those swathes of Lady GAA players, you'd think they'd be able to find a few to make a team. Maybe use some of the cash spunked on Munster men if they're only concentrating on Leinster now?
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 2:03 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Trans issues and 'compelled' speech
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6259
Re: Trans issues and 'compelled' speech
I'm sure everyone recalls Canadian psychologist turned demented oddball Jordan Peterson shooting to celebrity following his misguided and largely incorrect interpretation of Canadian bill C-16, which outrageously sought to protect the human rights of trans people. His fury was directed at the idea ...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:46 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 415
- Views: 26643
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
Ireland is a rural country relatively meaning a local gaa club is the only viable club to go to for large swathes of people. Don't let your lack of knowledge of Ireland disrupt your opinion though. Don't let your lack of knowledge of me prevent you from making statements. The assertion was "GAA is ...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:37 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Another BBC nonce
- Replies: 726
- Views: 36378
Re: Another BBC nonce
I believe he paid a vulnerable 17 year old for some sexually explicit pictures. Though it all got very confusing. No one doubts that he did this, which breaks the law, but the met police are just stating they didn't "think" he broke the law. It all smacks of some kind of fudge to me. Not sure you c...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:31 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 415
- Views: 26643
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
How many Barretts are coming over and replacing another NIQ coming for a whole 6 months. Unless girl schools start playing rugby here we will never catch up. There seems to be very little appetite for this to happen as most have been playing Hockey, GAA for decades. Most clubs if they have a womens...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:37 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
- Replies: 9372
- Views: 309096
Re: Israel declares state of war
He maybe a twat, I don't know him. But I support the right of people to peacefully protest and for people to walk in the street. Protesters are kept apart by police all the time. Nobody bat's an eyelid. Protesting normally involves groups of people marching, chanting and carrying banners. Not indiv...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:32 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
- Replies: 9372
- Views: 309096
Re: Israel declares state of war
I was sure you could find better. 'people die in hospitals' was hardly a scoop.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:43 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
- Replies: 9372
- Views: 309096
Re: Israel declares state of war
In real news....there's now been over 300 bodies recovered from mass graves at Nasser hospital. Including women, children, hospital staff and patients. Also, I've just seen from pretty tragic images of a baby who had to be rescued by being cut from the womb of it's dying mother after two houses wer...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:41 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 415
- Views: 26643
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
They do. There is a fixed and a variable performance based component to 6n mens revenues. England and France get a much larger fixed based component. Ireland got more last year in total only because they won the tournament... Ie the variable component outstripped the larger french and english fixed...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 11:54 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 415
- Views: 26643
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
Good way to completely kill professional rugby in Scotland and Wales both male and female. More money to the already wealthier unions of France and England. The France and England who already get more money out of the 6N compared to the other 4 simply because they are ... France and England. How yo...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:12 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 415
- Views: 26643
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
2k women play the game in Ireland. All the money in the world isn't going to bridge the gap with England where I've read numbers at about 50k. We need more girls playing and the annual news cycle bitchfest that follows every England game does more damage than great results like the game against Wal...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:01 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 415
- Views: 26643
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
How many girls could be tempted by the cash being offered to that one-too-many Barrett that's being brought over? How many women's coaches?
Or are you saying that Irish girls are much too nice to play rugby?
Or are you saying that Irish girls are much too nice to play rugby?
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:02 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Big One - England vs Ireland
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1326
Re: The Big One - England vs Ireland
Seems to be the same people moaning about not giving Georgia the chance to be hammered in the men's 6N that think taking a hammering from the England ladies is such a bad thing.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:53 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Women's Rugby Thread
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1144
Re: **OFFICIAL** English Women's Rugby Thread
Scary to think England are doing this without Sarah Bern as well. I think if I was someone at the RFU, I'd enter 2 RFU owned sides into the Women's Premier XVs. No home ground for either, but both based out of Pennyhill Park. One side would be the England Under 23S Side and the other would be the U...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:18 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Big One - England vs Ireland
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1326
Re: The Big One - England vs Ireland
In those all important womanly qualities of rucking, mauling and scrummaging :shock: We also regularly win the Great British bake off - if for you that's an important womanly quality?? Gold medal in tit-wanks too :thumbup: It's sport FFS. The whole package ffs :(( https://i.ibb.co/j8JxCLp/7d1559b2-...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:57 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Big One - England vs Ireland
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1326
Re: The Big One - England vs Ireland
Nonsense the tournament is a joke And the people going to watch England hammer everyone and be impressed is like me going to watch Anthony Joshua fight a 9 year old and think he is the greatest boxer of all time Our women are obviously genetically superior. No other explanation. In those all import...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:09 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Jimmy Krankie Gooooooiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggg
- Replies: 274
- Views: 19755
Re: weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Jimmy Krankie Gooooooiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggg
Agreed about how marriages can keep things hidden. Though in this case, given they worked together on political goals in linked jobs in the same party, they where both a the top of, it seems unlikely Sturgeon could have no clue as to what was happening here. That's kind of how these things work tho...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:47 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Banning smoking - does it make sense?
- Replies: 102
- Views: 2586
Re: Banning smoking - does it make sense?
I always laugh when people think banning tobacco would make a thriving black market, it's already a dying drug, vaping is where its clearly at now for the younger generation. The labour policy of having an age where you couldn't buy anymore but allow those who are already addicted to continue was b...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:42 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
- Replies: 40921
- Views: 2102062
Re: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
Sorry, this started with the April thing above, I got a bit concerned about 1/2 term travel (airports). When it’s formed up I’ll take family for a cheeky weekend via a dull ferry to get registered. That finger print thing will take f ucking ages. Get your GHIC card from NHS. It's free and gets you ...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
- Replies: 9372
- Views: 309096
Re: Israel declares state of war
... So, in your mind, justification. Despite the pages of posts denying it As someone firmly in the camp of excusing and defending Israel's murder of 30,000+ Palestinans.. you're not exactly well positioned to be pointing fingers. It was 30k after week two. There's is a war between Israeli forces a...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:10 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Jimmy Krankie Gooooooiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggg
- Replies: 274
- Views: 19755
Re: weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Jimmy Krankie Gooooooiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggg
So... she had to sure know right? You're a couple surely you know all about your partner etc? I know nothing about the case but people have kept multi year affairs, their sexuality and all sorts of financial impropriety hidden from their partners for years. Its a bit damning if she hasn't kicked hi...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:07 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
- Replies: 9372
- Views: 309096
Re: Israel declares state of war
... So, in your mind, justification. Despite the pages of posts denying it
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:11 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
- Replies: 9372
- Views: 309096
Re: Israel declares state of war
Not just Biden, but the US in general historically. Saw an interview with US citizens who live in ilegal west bank colonies and have kids in the IDF. Proudly displaying their Trump hats and flags and saying "we need Trump back". Using dehumanising language to describe the Palestinians and talking a...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:20 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Bondi Junction Shooting
- Replies: 294
- Views: 7605
Re: Bondi Junction Shooting
I get it and not trying to have a go at you. The problem is that you and others are pre-programmed to think this way and its a huge issue, as it shouldnt be the automatic response in this part of the world. And people like Rachel Riley posting what she did, reinforces that. And there are real world...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:46 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Bondi Junction Shooting
- Replies: 294
- Views: 7605
Re: Bondi Junction Shooting
I tend to agree with most of that, except for the highlighted bit. There was no suggestion it was Islamic terror except for people leaping to conclusions, and that was then a self perpetuating prophecy from there. In Australia, it was less likely to be that than some other form of violence. Why is ...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:26 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Jimmy Krankie Gooooooiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggg
- Replies: 274
- Views: 19755
Re: weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Jimmy Krankie Gooooooiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggg
She never spoke to him about the SNP unless it was fully recorded.
Wonder if she ever spoke to him about that bus she'd throw him under?
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:22 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Banning smoking - does it make sense?
- Replies: 102
- Views: 2586
Re: Banning smoking - does it make sense?
I think all drugs should be legal. Which is not the same as "you can buy it at the corner-store". Education is the key. As long as people are fully aware that something is unhealthy and addictive, then it should be entirely their choice as to whether they want to do that thing or not. They should t...