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- Fri Jun 07, 2019 11:08 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: D Day anniversary thread RIP
- Replies: 137
- Views: 9347
Re: D Day anniversary thread RIP
Current US Doctrine for a bog standard 9 man infantry squad is 2-3 SAWs, backed up by at least one grenade launcher. This can be altered by mission, vehicle restrictions/ mounted weapons etc... There are so many variations, new possibilities etc... that there isn't much agreement about what works be...
- Fri Jun 07, 2019 1:38 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: ex-POTUS DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
- Replies: 126890
- Views: 9056685
Re: POTUS-DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
Aaaaand the voice mail from Trump attorney (at the time) John Dowd to a Michael Flynn attorney as been released as the judge ordered.
https://twitter.com/joshscampbell/statu ... 2076637184
https://twitter.com/joshscampbell/statu ... 2076637184
He says if Flynn "implicates the President, then we've got a national security issue..."
- Fri Jun 07, 2019 1:34 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: ex-POTUS DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
- Replies: 126890
- Views: 9056685
Re: POTUS-DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
Jesus christ. Does he listen to his aides? Can he stop waffling? https://mobile.twitter.com/BrexitBin/status/1136604437621944321 I love that although Trump praises every PM or president he ever meets for doing a great job, no-one has ever returned the compliment. You have to feel for the poor basta...
- Thu Jun 06, 2019 11:44 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Dumb thought experiment of the day; Team Frankenstein
- Replies: 44
- Views: 3212
Re: Dumb thought experiment of the day; Team Frankenstein
Aaron Cruden/ Wayne Shelford.
The scrotal scar tissue alone would be Frankensteinish (ok, ok, Frankenstein's Monsterish) enough
The scrotal scar tissue alone would be Frankensteinish (ok, ok, Frankenstein's Monsterish) enough
- Thu Jun 06, 2019 11:34 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Dumb thought experiment of the day; Team Frankenstein
- Replies: 44
- Views: 3212
Re: Dumb thought experiment of the day; Team Frankenstein
You don't expect the monster to be giving out the award do you?paddyor wrote:Frankenstein was the Doctor......Turbogoat wrote:Retallick could win the Frankenstein award all on his own, shurely.
Reiko Ioane's pace/size with DMac's step would be the first one to spring to mind.
- Thu Jun 06, 2019 11:14 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Dumb thought experiment of the day; Team Frankenstein
- Replies: 44
- Views: 3212
Re: Dumb thought experiment of the day; Team Frankenstein
Retallick could win the Frankenstein award all on his own, shurely.
Reiko Ioane's pace/size with DMac's step would be the first one to spring to mind.
Reiko Ioane's pace/size with DMac's step would be the first one to spring to mind.
- Thu Jun 06, 2019 8:08 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: ex-POTUS DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
- Replies: 126890
- Views: 9056685
Re: POTUS-DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
Can somebody explain to me their bit about how climate change “goes both ways”? There were many fine climates on all sides... ON ALL SIDES! When he's backed into a corner and feels compelled to express something his fanbase may not agree with, it's easier to simply phrase it as a counterpoint to an...
- Thu Jun 06, 2019 7:43 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Great GIFS Thread (Not all NSFW have been spoilered...)
- Replies: 22269
- Views: 3786469
- Thu Jun 06, 2019 7:41 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: ex-POTUS DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
- Replies: 126890
- Views: 9056685
Re: POTUS-DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
So he 'll go on E-Day instead, what's the big deal?happyhooker wrote:Oh great, he's late for the dday ceremony
- Wed Jun 05, 2019 10:46 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Izzy, what the HELL!!
- Replies: 8374
- Views: 481660
Re: Izzy, what the HELL!!
Merely pointing out that you're being terribly brave by sticking to your guns of predicting that the RA will "get reamed" as you did prior to the other hearings that were a "defence lawyers wet dream" etc... and get "ordered to pay 4 mill+ damages and court costs" etc... Well they either will or th...
- Wed Jun 05, 2019 10:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Izzy, what the HELL!!
- Replies: 8374
- Views: 481660
Re: Izzy, what the HELL!!
It's not necessarily controversial, it's just a bit dumb, particularly in light of recent facts. Then I will end up being wrong. It isn't like I am going to lose any sleep over it. I'm not emotionally invested in it, like some other posters on here seem to come across being, but then that is probab...
- Wed Jun 05, 2019 10:13 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Izzy, what the HELL!!
- Replies: 8374
- Views: 481660
Re: Izzy, what the HELL!!
Merely pointing out that you're being terribly brave by sticking to your guns of predicting that the RA will "get reamed" as you did prior to the other hearings that were a "defence lawyers wet dream" etc... and get "ordered to pay 4 mill+ damages and court costs" etc... Well they either will or th...
- Wed Jun 05, 2019 9:35 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Izzy, what the HELL!!
- Replies: 8374
- Views: 481660
Re: Izzy, what the HELL!!
Merely pointing out that you're being terribly brave by sticking to your guns of predicting that the RA will "get reamed" as you did prior to the other hearings that were a "defence lawyers wet dream" etc... and get "ordered to pay 4 mill+ damages and court costs" etc...
- Wed Jun 05, 2019 9:22 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Izzy, what the HELL!!
- Replies: 8374
- Views: 481660
Re: Izzy, what the HELL!!
And.... He's got 7 days to appeal. Can we hope that he doesn't go down that path? He will appeal. You can pretty much count on it I think. Then it will go to the whatever version of an independent employment tribunal you guys have. They will over rule it and order RA to pay him 4 mill' + damages and...
- Wed Jun 05, 2019 9:20 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Izzy, what the HELL!!
- Replies: 8374
- Views: 481660
Re: Izzy, what the HELL!!
And...
Dark wrote:All getting a bit OTT now
It will work out
I am sure once the RA give Folau his 4 million and court costs in his out of court confidential settlement and he shoots to Japan or France to play, everything will go back to normal
- Wed Jun 05, 2019 9:17 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Izzy, what the HELL!!
- Replies: 8374
- Views: 481660
Re: Izzy, what the HELL!!
Must've been another poster then... Actually if the RA had any brains they would settle out of court before and pay him 4 mill and maybe any costs before they get reamed and look even more stupid Oh, really Darkie? Is that what you would do if you were running RA? Thought it was pretty obvious Cave ...
- Wed Jun 05, 2019 9:06 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Izzy, what the HELL!!
- Replies: 8374
- Views: 481660
Re: Izzy, what the HELL!!
If he goes to court which it looks now like he is doing, it will take for ever, drag RA through the mud, cost a fortune, he will end up winning and it will all be a mess, but fairly humorous. RA should have just bit the bullet when they stuffed up and given him 4 mill' You made similar predictions ...
- Wed Jun 05, 2019 11:19 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Izzy, what the HELL!!
- Replies: 8374
- Views: 481660
Re: Izzy, what the HELL!!
And so it begins Folau confirmed he had hired law firm Macpherson Kelley to prepare a challenge after he was fired for publishing an Instagram post that paraphrased the Bible by saying hell awaits homosexuals, as well as drunkards, adulterers, atheists and other “sinners”..............................
- Wed Jun 05, 2019 9:13 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: ex-POTUS DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
- Replies: 126890
- Views: 9056685
Re: POTUS-DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
Well, this is one hell of a tweet. And I can't find one from her apologising for anything recently Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Washed up psycho @BetteMidler was forced to apologize for a statement she attributed to me that turned out to be totally fabricated by her in order to make “your great...
- Wed Jun 05, 2019 8:35 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: ex-POTUS DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
- Replies: 126890
- Views: 9056685
Re: POTUS-DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
Mitch McTurtle is just the worst, just the worst: http://time.com/5597395/mitch-mcconnell-supreme-court-2020/ It's not as though there was any possibility that his previous insistence that there couldn't be a Supreme Court position filled in an election year was ever about any morally high minded p...
- Wed Jun 05, 2019 4:36 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Mass shooting in Darwin
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4498
Re: Mass shooting in Darwin
The only compelling argument against the death penalty is you might get the wrong guy. With mass murderers that’s usually not an issue. It's not really a compelling (or practical) argument to legislate the death penalty though... The fact that the US has executed a significant amount of innocent pe...
- Wed Jun 05, 2019 4:30 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Mass shooting in Darwin
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4498
Re: Mass shooting in Darwin
The only compelling argument against the death penalty is you might get the wrong guy. With mass murderers that’s usually not an issue. It's not really a compelling (or practical) argument to legislate the death penalty though... The fact that the US has executed a significant amount of innocent pe...
- Wed Jun 05, 2019 4:20 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: ex-POTUS DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
- Replies: 126890
- Views: 9056685
Re: POTUS-DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
apparently if you receive a subpoena then you don’t get a choice to ignore it There's been a lot of this stonewalling, telling people not to cooperate, refusing to hand over documents, ignoring direct court orders etc... with some growing frustration but remarkably little pushback so far. They're g...
- Wed Jun 05, 2019 2:05 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: ex-POTUS DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
- Replies: 126890
- Views: 9056685
Re: POTUS-DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
apparently if you receive a subpoena then you don’t get a choice to ignore it There's been a lot of this stonewalling, telling people not to cooperate, refusing to hand over documents, ignoring direct court orders etc... with some growing frustration but remarkably little pushback so far. They're g...
- Wed Jun 05, 2019 12:37 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Mass shooting in Darwin
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4498
Re: Mass shooting in Darwin
Horrible news. Sadly, can see right wing Americans trotting out the old "a good man with a gun" nonsense. Why do you always have to bring America into things? You're very right that it's in the *too soon* category, but it's inevitable that it'll get brought up in this context given the amount of ti...
- Tue Jun 04, 2019 11:28 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Tank Man 30 years ago today
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4163
Re: Tank Man 30 years ago today
Think he survived the tanks ok, but seeing as he was never identified or heard from again after that, probably didn't survive the 're-education.'backrow wrote:did tank dude survive, or get pulped ?
- Tue Jun 04, 2019 11:19 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Eid Mubarak to everyone
- Replies: 117
- Views: 13634
Re: Eid Mubarak to everyone
iarmhiman wrote:I'd say Masterji is tucking into some seviyan now.
Delicious sweet Pakistani dish
That's the not-rice pudding with extra diabeetus kinda thing isn't it?
- Tue Jun 04, 2019 10:43 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Mass shooting in Darwin
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4498
Re: Mass shooting in Darwin
Shitballs, that's terrible news.
Very glad to hear they managed to shut him down before it got worse.
Very glad to hear they managed to shut him down before it got worse.
- Tue Jun 04, 2019 10:41 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Tank Man 30 years ago today
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4163
Re: Tank Man 30 years ago today
30 yrs already? This is one of the few protesters I've really had a lot of respect for in recent memory, and that's mainly because of a romanticized image of this bloke, as some bystander going home with his shopping, taking a spur of the moment decision to stand up to a heavily armed reaction to th...
- Tue Jun 04, 2019 10:37 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: ex-POTUS DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
- Replies: 126890
- Views: 9056685
Re: POTUS-DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
Guardian are reporting the police deputy who didn't run headlong into a gun battle at Parkland is to be charged with, well, just about everything the prosecutor could think of. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/04/parkland-police-deputy-arrested-florida-school-shooting-failure-confront-g...
- Tue Jun 04, 2019 9:42 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: ex-POTUS DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
- Replies: 126890
- Views: 9056685
Re: POTUS-DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
George Nader - the creepy go-between for the Trump campaign and the Saudi/UAE rulers has now been arrested (again) on child porn charges as he re-entered the US. On his phones he had vids involving kids as young as three years old x( https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-nader-witness-in-mueller-inv...
- Tue Jun 04, 2019 9:39 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: ex-POTUS DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
- Replies: 126890
- Views: 9056685
Re: POTUS-DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
George Nader - the creepy go-between for the Trump campaign and the Saudi/UAE rulers has now been arrested (again) on child porn charges as he re-entered the US. On his phones he had vids involving kids as young as three years old x( https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-nader-witness-in-mueller-inv...
- Tue Jun 04, 2019 8:30 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Izzy, what the HELL!!
- Replies: 8374
- Views: 481660
Re: Izzy, what the HELL!!
Really? Are those the accepted social media guidelines of Christianity? No idea. What does the Bible say about Twitter? John 1:12 Though I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink. Instead I hope to come to you and talk face to face, so that our joy may be complete. In other ...
- Tue Jun 04, 2019 8:03 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Izzy, what the HELL!!
- Replies: 8374
- Views: 481660
Re: Izzy, what the HELL!!
So apparently IF didn’t take his tweet down because his dad said he’d go to hell if he did :lol: I actually feel sorry for Izzy. Apparently he was going to take the tweet down before his ol' man damned the move. It has echoes of Izzy's early RL career where all his big salary went to his father wit...
- Tue Jun 04, 2019 7:47 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: ex-POTUS DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
- Replies: 126890
- Views: 9056685
Re: POTUS-DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
George Nader - the creepy go-between for the Trump campaign and the Saudi/UAE rulers has now been arrested (again) on child porn charges as he re-entered the US. On his phones he had vids involving kids as young as three years old x( https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-nader-witness-in-mueller-inve...
- Tue Jun 04, 2019 5:30 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Alabama and abortion law changes...
- Replies: 269
- Views: 14729
Re: Alabama and abortion law changes...
The earliest recorded surviving baby was at 21 weeks, so no idea where 18 weeks came from. Below 26-28 weeks survival rates are pretty low You'll find some very generous numbers being thrown about in the anti-abortion literature, among some very emotive arguments - like the late term abortion red h...
- Tue Jun 04, 2019 5:14 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Avon Goooooonnnnnnneeeee.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2635
Re: Avon Goooooonnnnnnneeeee.
Sad. Blake's 7 was brilliant SF, with laughably crude special effects. All in the writing and the acting. Too often they try to do it the other way around. I'm sure the SFX models were left over creations from Playschool creations made from toilet rolls and sticky back plastic. Amazing what they ma...
- Tue Jun 04, 2019 4:56 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: ex-POTUS DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
- Replies: 126890
- Views: 9056685
Re: POTUS-DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
The perils of outrage-hunting amid clickbait.
- Tue Jun 04, 2019 4:55 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Izzy, what the HELL!!
- Replies: 8374
- Views: 481660
Re: Izzy, what the HELL!!
Folau and his wife Maria secretly met with a religious leader on the Monday – the day between the second and third sitting of the tribunal — seeking guidance about social media use that would allow him to express his beliefs without putting his employers in jeopardy. Hmmm... So can Izzy now sue his...
- Tue Jun 04, 2019 2:24 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: tragic state USA
- Replies: 73
- Views: 6999
Re: tragic state USA
Nah they just like imprisoning people, like that poor kid in NY who got sent to prison for over 3 years for an alleged backpack theft, then got abused inside and ended up psychologically damaged. Some other kid rapes an unconscious girl and gets 3 months. If you wanted to make a decent amount of ca...