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by slick
Wed Jun 17, 2020 11:25 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Bored Legends /Hall of Fame
Replies: 266
Views: 28585

Re: Bored Legends /Hall of Fame

Isn't Refry now ANDy? I'd be very surprised. AND-y goes through some very different posting styles depending on how disillusioned he is with the world at the moment, but he's been around for ages and strikes me as genuine. Remarkable as it seems, I tentatively concluded that Refry was for real, too...
by slick
Wed Jun 17, 2020 10:32 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Bored Legends /Hall of Fame
Replies: 266
Views: 28585

Re: Bored Legends /Hall of Fame

Remarkable as it seems, I tentatively concluded that Refry was for real, too. Some had off-bored communications with him (don't think yeeb was the only one). In general I think we leap for the multi / persona thing too quickly. Me too. He had a small MySpace page with some original music he’d writt...
by slick
Wed Jun 17, 2020 10:27 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: China v india kicking off in Kashmir
Replies: 60
Views: 7591

Re: China v india kicking off in Kashmir

I'm sure I read yesterday that they went after each other with bats and stones, no guns. All a bit odd. Apparently there is a long-standing 'informal' agreement that patrols from both sides remain unarmed to avoid the risk of escalation. Reports saying most of the casualties were a result of falls ...
by slick
Wed Jun 17, 2020 10:19 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: China v india kicking off in Kashmir
Replies: 60
Views: 7591

Re: China v india kicking off in Kashmir

I'm sure I read yesterday that they went after each other with bats and stones, no guns. All a bit odd.
by slick
Wed Jun 17, 2020 10:17 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Willie Thorne gone
Replies: 9
Views: 1717

Re: Willie Thorne gone

Poor Willie. I thought he was way older than 66
by slick
Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:35 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Scummings going by Xmas..... Boris next year.
Replies: 9918
Views: 834083

Re: Boris goooooone or just Cummings?

Part-time footballer, full-time raging Marxist, Social Activist Marcus Rashford is at it again https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53073977 It won’t stop. Once the normal channels have been circumvented they become the new normal channels. I’m sure Marcus will stop when they get to banning £60 for a chil...
by slick
Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:00 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Bored Legends /Hall of Fame
Replies: 266
Views: 28585

Re: Bored Legends /Hall of Fame

Isn't Refry now ANDy?
by slick
Tue Jun 16, 2020 3:52 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Sturgeon, Covid and Scottish political stuff
Replies: 826
Views: 95999

Re: Sturgeon, Covid and Scottish political stuff

https://twitter.com/stvewan/status/1272867583906197505 On furlough scheme, Nicola Sturgeon says there has been no indication from UK govt so far it will be willing to extend support, even on sector by sector basis, but remains hopeful discussions will have a positive outcome. Hang on, she’s talking...
by slick
Tue Jun 16, 2020 3:46 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Sturgeon, Covid and Scottish political stuff
Replies: 826
Views: 95999

Re: Sturgeon, Covid and Scottish political stuff

tc27 wrote:Looks like Sturgeon is going to pick a fight by insisting on Furlough payments continuing in Scotland past the cut off date.

We are moving back to normal politics :roll:
Where did you pick that up from? That will have huge ramifications across the UK
by slick
Tue Jun 16, 2020 3:16 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Sturgeon, Covid and Scottish political stuff
Replies: 826
Views: 95999

Re: Sturgeon, Covid and Scottish political stuff

15 new cases. That’s very low. I’m beginning to think we should be moving a bit faster now
by slick
Tue Jun 16, 2020 2:49 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Scummings going by Xmas..... Boris next year.
Replies: 9918
Views: 834083

Re: Boris goooooone or just Cummings?

Why on earth should he be paid the same as you? He's being paid what the market thinks his worth. I’m not asking for his “pay” to be changed , just that he should be taxed before I am for policies he wants enacted, how isn’t that fair? So a higher taxex for the wealthy? That's not like your usual p...
by slick
Tue Jun 16, 2020 2:48 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Sturgeon, Covid and Scottish political stuff
Replies: 826
Views: 95999

Re: Sturgeon, Covid and Scottish political stuff

tc27 wrote:Meanwhile a zoo wants to open:

https://twitter.com/EdinburghZoo/status ... 2528551936

Predictably its a sh*tfight in the replies between the Cybernats and the Rangers fans. :|
Like everything.

It's a shite zoo to be honest.
by slick
Tue Jun 16, 2020 2:43 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Scummings going by Xmas..... Boris next year.
Replies: 9918
Views: 834083

Re: Boris goooooone or just Cummings?

Why on earth should he be paid the same as you? He's being paid what the market thinks his worth. I’m not asking for his “pay” to be changed , just that he should be taxed before I am for policies he wants enacted, how isn’t that fair? Oh, can we all choose our top 10 policies and only pay for them?
by slick
Tue Jun 16, 2020 2:41 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Scummings going by Xmas..... Boris next year.
Replies: 9918
Views: 834083

Re: Boris goooooone or just Cummings?

tc27 wrote:DfID and FCO to merge.

Probably the end of the distinct .7% GDP on aid policy.
I don't think that will go, but there will be much more focus on commercialising the projects and protecting them for UK companies.
by slick
Tue Jun 16, 2020 11:43 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Scummings going by Xmas..... Boris next year.
Replies: 9918
Views: 834083

Re: Boris goooooone or just Cummings?

frillage wrote:I am not sure Slick wandering the streets offering “soup” to school kids should be encouraged. He lives pretty close to Police HQ.
"The Torys" made me
by slick
Tue Jun 16, 2020 11:42 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: WR: No new global calendar
Replies: 164
Views: 14981

Re: WR: No new global calendar

Are these proposals just for the pro game? If this ever happened for all rugby, the amateur clubs in the UK would be f**ked.

That seems to be where we are headed, everything thrown at the pro game to make it commercially successful as the amateur game withers away.
by slick
Tue Jun 16, 2020 11:33 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Prostate cancer
Replies: 57
Views: 8558

Re: Prostate cancer

Hope all goes well Enz.
by slick
Tue Jun 16, 2020 11:22 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: WR: No new global calendar
Replies: 164
Views: 14981

Re: WR: No new global calendar

How else are we going to get to those billions of rugby fans that don't know they are yet.
by slick
Tue Jun 16, 2020 11:18 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Scummings going by Xmas..... Boris next year.
Replies: 9918
Views: 834083

Re: Boris goooooone or just Cummings?

[*] Good grief are you really so stupid to think that “services “ means tax payer resources . To be honest I'm so stupid I don't even know what you're trying to say. Yup, I'll join the stupid line. Along with all those other nasty taxpayers who are denying the kids school meals :x fudge off, I'm ma...
by slick
Tue Jun 16, 2020 10:57 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Scummings going by Xmas..... Boris next year.
Replies: 9918
Views: 834083

Re: Boris goooooone or just Cummings?

robmatic wrote:[*]
bimboman wrote:Good grief are you really so stupid to think that “services “ means tax payer resources .
To be honest I'm so stupid I don't even know what you're trying to say.
Yup, I'll join the stupid line.
by slick
Tue Jun 16, 2020 8:30 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: UK better than France "Better dead than be in France"
Replies: 241
Views: 14370

Re: UK better than France "Better dead than be in France"

I was just reading about this. Apparently the Chechen group were firing AK47's in the air in the town square...
by slick
Mon Jun 15, 2020 5:09 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 30187
Views: 2476830

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

Especially as LS are going part time sending down academy kids who can then maybe do a placement in business so they have some experience post rugby would be astute. The third pro team is down to no cash and mismanagement when the game went pro. And continues to this day to some extent. There's no ...
by slick
Mon Jun 15, 2020 3:59 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Bored Legends /Hall of Fame
Replies: 266
Views: 28585

Re: Bored Legends /Hall of Fame

My list of people who have, for better or worse, defined the bored at different times since 2003... Waratah whitbags karahi pigsy theo Torquemada Sammy Satan JM2K6 Brazil happyhooker Duff Paddy CM11 corkmunsterman Yeeb Southern Softie jpr67 Sefton Seneca Quentin Coogee doesabearshitinthewoods Voltm...
by slick
Mon Jun 15, 2020 3:49 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 30187
Views: 2476830

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

Apologies for the intrusion gents but could someone give me a brief overview of why Scotland has only 2 pro teams (I’m aware this may be a can of worms . .)? Is it a lack of money or interest, both or something completely different? Money, probably lack of numbers of pro standard players, and that ...
by slick
Mon Jun 15, 2020 3:46 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Political Compass
Replies: 117
Views: 10755

Re: Political Compass

Diego wrote:Image
I was about there as well
by slick
Mon Jun 15, 2020 3:21 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Sturgeon, Covid and Scottish political stuff
Replies: 826
Views: 95999

Re: Sturgeon, Covid and Scottish political stuff

Agree LN but in my opinion it's pretty inevitable a 2021 election will be fought on the battlegrounds of independence, the coronavirus fall out including the huge unemployment and whatnot. I absolutely agree indy means the SNPs pretty poor record isn't scrutinised as it should be. I'm probably quit...
by slick
Mon Jun 15, 2020 3:21 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Sturgeon, Covid and Scottish political stuff
Replies: 826
Views: 95999

Re: Sturgeon, Covid and Scottish political stuff

I think this is the new party started by the blogger Stuart Campbell. https://isp.scot/ Probably sees it as the best way to get a majority for Indy in the Holyrood elections, those sympathetic to the cause can now give their second pref to them as it will be very hard for the SNP to repeat Salmond'...
by slick
Mon Jun 15, 2020 1:32 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 30187
Views: 2476830

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

Apologies for the intrusion gents but could someone give me a brief overview of why Scotland has only 2 pro teams (I’m aware this may be a can of worms . .)? Is it a lack of money or interest, both or something completely different? Money, probably lack of numbers of pro standard players, and that ...
by slick
Mon Jun 15, 2020 11:56 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ rage now in UK
Replies: 640
Views: 73610

Re: ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ rage now in UK

message #2527204 wrote:Have they taken down that Dundas fella yet?
No, but I had a pint on the street named after him yesterday, so he's not all bad.
by slick
Mon Jun 15, 2020 10:42 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ rage now in UK
Replies: 640
Views: 73610

Re: ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ rage now in UK

I’m comfortable with assuming that anyone who turned out to support the right wing counter-protests yesterday was a cünt. Or the Scottish patriots? You do realise by the amount of Rangers tops on display you are seriously barking up the wrong tree. I'm led to believe that is how they've been descri...
by slick
Mon Jun 15, 2020 10:06 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: American Cops behaving Badly (All inclusive thread)
Replies: 6897
Views: 706029

Re: American Cops behaving Badly (All inclusive thread)

I think lawfully it does give cop a licence to use deadly force. It bloody well shouldn't. The charges he was arrested on should not have qualified police to shoot him. Did they genuinely fear for the lives of the public or officers if he got away? If not, don't shoot, surely. I mean, anyone runnin...
by slick
Mon Jun 15, 2020 9:59 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Sturgeon, Covid and Scottish political stuff
Replies: 826
Views: 95999

Re: Sturgeon, Covid and Scottish political stuff

Biffer29 wrote:Regardless of political affiliation, I’m sure we all wish MP Amy Callaghan well this morning, suffered a brain aneurysm and needed emergency surgery. Only 28, hopefully she makes a full recovery.
Bloody hell, that's awful. Poor girl, hope she comes out of this fully.
by slick
Mon Jun 15, 2020 9:35 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Sturgeon, Covid and Scottish political stuff
Replies: 826
Views: 95999

Re: Sturgeon, Covid and Scottish political stuff

Is it today we hear more about the easing of lockdown?

Couple of pubs here were open yesterday afternoon for outside, in the street, drinking.
by slick
Mon Jun 15, 2020 9:33 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Sturgeon, Covid and Scottish political stuff
Replies: 826
Views: 95999

Re: Sturgeon, Covid and Scottish political stuff

It is a good article but for me the worry of the newspapers and unionist (not as a dig just statement of fact I'm a unionist too I guess) columnists like Massie should be the UK govt. We all accept mass unemployment is inevitable. We all know it's coming. Benefits and Universal Credit is UK govt co...
by slick
Mon Jun 15, 2020 8:45 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Sturgeon, Covid and Scottish political stuff
Replies: 826
Views: 95999

Re: Sturgeon, Covid and Scottish political stuff

That would be the GMB union that is a staunch Labour supporter and has donated large sums of money to them. To be fair, Smith has taken a couple of pops at Labour as well, but whilst I have some sympathy with a couple of his points, he loses credibility when he starts banging on about Scotland not ...
by slick
Mon Jun 15, 2020 8:37 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Sturgeon, Covid and Scottish political stuff
Replies: 826
Views: 95999

Re: Sturgeon, Covid and Scottish political stuff

Thought this was also a good piece on the theme: The good news is that, at last, later than might have been ideal but better late than not at all, the coronavirus is being suppressed. The bad news is that things are going to get a lot worse before they can get better. The latest economic figures are...
by slick
Fri Jun 12, 2020 2:22 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Sturgeon, Covid and Scottish political stuff
Replies: 826
Views: 95999

Re: Sturgeon, Covid and Scottish political stuff

I would also point out the trade/economic motivations for the act of Union in 1801 still exist - intra UK trade is a far larger part of the Scottish economy than trade with EU nations which collectively rank behind the US as a trade destination. From this point of view leaving the UK to re join the...
by slick
Fri Jun 12, 2020 2:09 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Sturgeon, Covid and Scottish political stuff
Replies: 826
Views: 95999

Re: Sturgeon, Covid and Scottish political stuff

I absolutely hate the prospect of it and think it will just continue and intensify the swirl of mad populist politics that's consumed the UK as a whole since 2014 but I think it would unsustainable to continue to deny another one Just on this, to me the main reason for the rise of populism is the a...
by slick
Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:03 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Scummings going by Xmas..... Boris next year.
Replies: 9918
Views: 834083

Re: Boris goooooone or just Cummings?

Life expectancy in Glasgow is over 70 at 72 for men and 78 for women. Where did 40 come from? And if not true was uncalled for. Glasgow is the Blackpool of the north! Yeah I worked with a lad offshore years ago, man-mountain so he was from Airdrie, we become good friends for darn near 20 years. It ...
by slick
Fri Jun 12, 2020 10:55 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Scummings going by Xmas..... Boris next year.
Replies: 9918
Views: 834083

Re: Boris goooooone or just Cummings?

So 12 weeks has passed since Boris Johnson said we'd send this virus packing in 12 weeks. Hmm. I thought the phone app was going to achieve this by the end of May? Never mind our world class Test, Trace and Feck Up system will do the job - already in place at the end of May too! How’s your track an...