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Flyin Ryan

I’ve just watched the squidge wokeby video. Initially I was surprised by the title “I think England will win the 2023 World Cup”, considering he’s spent the best part of 3 years quiffing over France and actually predicted them to win the RWC right after the previous one, but ok. People can change t...

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As a matter of interest - now that O'Gara is a proven continental winner is the thread title due for a change? I haven't seen any evidence that Joe B. has developed any winning tendencies. It was more based on his playing career as the omnipresent Irish fly half and when he faced the A-class of int...

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Namibia should easily win the final. Fairly big blow for us against Chile with Lamositele and Lasike both out. I still think we are favorites but those are big losses, especially Lamositele. Surely the US will walk the repechage even if they lose to Chile? Likely to be Honkers, Kenya and Portugal r...

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This is quite a snapshot from Politico's Playbook coming from 3 different stories from 3 different news orgs. Part of me feels this is the party in a semi-organized fashion putting a boot in Biden's ass to start doing better or they're going to replace him in a year and a half, whether he decides to...

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How does oil oxidise? CH4 + 2O2 --> 2H2O + CO2 (Oil's not methane, but there's the gist.) Thanks for the basic chemistry. You need a bit of energy to break those hydrocarbon and O2 bonds. How does oil that's stored in a controlled environment at room temperature oxidise? You asked a question, I pro...

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Nolanator wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 8:26 pm
Hellraiser wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 5:58 pm
AnkleTap wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 5:44 pm
What really?? The stuff sat for millions of years coming to no harm in the ground. What happens to make it useless?
Oxidation I'd guess.
How does oil oxidise?

CH4 + 2O2 --> 2H2O + CO2

(Oil's not methane, but there's the gist.)

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Chile/USA for the last Americas spot, in a home-and-away playoff on the 9th and 16th. Would be lying if I didn't say I was somewhat nervous about this. Loser to repechage. Not well clued in to the national team setup right now but the silence in general post-2019 RWC is pretty damning. The only thi...

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So the Chinese aren't reverse engineering software and advanced technology because they don’t want to? They can if they choose to but just don’t….. Is that it? The Chinese just aren’t very good at industrial manufacturing. Yeah, my old company's joint venture with Dongfeng proved to me they can't d...

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If the can truly reverse engineer big, complicated plant in oilfield services, then I guess the big question is, where is it? As I understand it, China installed their first subsea Christmas Tree……. A couple of weeks ago. So they’re a few decades behind. You’re telling me they don’t need the wester...

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I don’t think this is the same but a determined company could risk it all if they really wanted to. It would take deliberate fraud on many levels and go all the way to top. Such a thing would still be limited. Siemens cannot service Baker Hughes turbines and won’t have spare parts and visa versa - ...

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I don’t think this is the same but a determined company could risk it all if they really wanted to. It would take deliberate fraud on many levels and go all the way to top. Such a thing would still be limited. Siemens cannot service Baker Hughes turbines and won’t have spare parts and visa versa - ...

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:thumbup: Maybe you’re “The Oil Guy” 💥 Just to add - if Russia runs out of storage (which I understand they may have a while ago) they’ve got 2 options as I understand them and some other implications. Choices: 1. Keep pumping the oil and throw it out. Obviously this is bad. Also, oil doesn’t store...

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Wow! Where did you get this from?? So interesting and it’s got me thinking of possible scenarios in the coming months/years. There could be a chance here for me to enthral everyone with the little oil stuff I actually know. 🤓 But the downside being that you’d all know as much or more than me, and t...

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Long article from Pete Thamel of ESPN I'm summarizing: -everything is uncertain - are we about to be see more sudden moves? or stand pat for awhile? who knows -full quote from his piece: Decisions can whipsaw on the whims of a board member or a president pressured into a ready-fire-aim strategy. Whe...

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Why does Canada have a "long weekend" on US Independence Day? Coincidental? 1 July is Canada Day, 4 July is Independence Day. Summer holidays, great beer drinking weather. I had an idea if I was ever made Rugby Dictator of an annual U.S.-Canada rugby match rotated among both countries. In years it'...

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Meanwhile: https://www.athleticbusiness.com/operations/marketing/article/15293645/miami-qb-recruits-95m-nil-deal-stirs-controversy $9.5 million to a 17-year-old from one Miami booster. He supposedly turned down $11 million from Florida. Pro-rate it over 4 years that's $2.375 million per year (if he ...

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IR professor Paul Poast did a thread on the subject a few days ago. Tl:dr probably heading to 2 conferences. https://twitter.com/ProfPaulPoast/status/1543201953454477314 The question then is who's in the club and who's out. I've seen fan chat about 24 team leagues, which at that point you're less a...

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I'm about done with college sports. Goey, your thoughts? Yeah, I'm still interested in it from a gambling perspective but have lost pretty much all interest as an actual fan. I certainly don't blame the players for trying to get paid but the colleges have basically killed their golden goose by crea...

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Fun Fact: while the proclamation put in place on July 1, 1867 created 'Canada' as a Dominion, that only included what's now Ontario and Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. Some others would join within the next few years, but Sask and Alberta didn't join (separated from a larger 'Northwest Terr...

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Northwestern playing Nebraska week one of the college season in Dublin. I hear both teams not great in Big10 but hear serious travelling support coming over from the states for both teams Northwestern does not have much of a fanbase (small but academically elite private school) but Nebraska's fanba...

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Heard a great line yesterday on a podcast driving home: Rutgers is as close to Los Angeles as it is to Iceland.

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I'm about done with college sports. Goey, your thoughts?

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The reports that Stonewall added the T and Q having never supported them before because after gay marriage they had nowhere to go with gay rights, therefore no income but nearly 1000 activists under employment probably tells us the issue that some progressives feel they need to still be activists f...

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Will the records and trophies these chaps won be cancelled? The only ones as far as i am aware is the collage ones in the USA, cannot see how they can retrospectively change the results if the participants were following the rules at the time .. The NCAA will do what they want to do, the level of c...

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Also re debt, how do people not realize that the greater inequality that is railed on by lots of people is directly down to debt has been historically very cheap, and rich people and corporations can get more cheap debt than everyone else can. If you actually force these people to pay back greater ...

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CanNZ2000 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 7:49 pm Heard that so far they have sold 1,200 tickets, this could be a massive own goal by MLR. NY needs to hit up the school and offer up free tickets to encourage families to come out.

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Eddie always leaves roles with most around be happier than sad. Hes very unlikable and has massive chip from somewhere in his life, maybe because he was never good enough to play at the highest level. I know his contract isnt being extended but I predict he will be all out with his "mind games" on ...

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Well done UK ! Well done Poland ! Well done Yanks.... https://content.invisioncic.com/Mnhlcanucks/monthly_2022_06/image.png.5efce976c83c24f90e7b107230afd508.png Greece :lol: In fairness to Greece they've promised German kit to Ukraine so can't send it until the German government okays it. Fair enou...

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moosehead wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 7:12 pm Well done UK ! Well done Poland ! Well done Yanks....

Greece

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Ukraine are making headway in the south, and have in the North even if some of their gains have been reversed. They will fight until the free their land of Russians, and hopefully with ongoing support, and better weapons, they will be able to do that. I still regularly donate to Ukraine charities a...

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https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2022/06/ecb-word-salad-hubris.html?m=1 The Speech by the ECB's Isabel Schnabel, advertised on the official ECB twitter stream caused a characteristically grumpy outburst from me. Savor the ECB's tweet in all of its glory: We will not tolerate changes in financing ...

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:uhoh: I don’t happen to think that Ukraine shares all that much in common with Libya, ISIS and Islamic fundamentalism. Libya was an autocracy on top of a collapsed military and government that left a massive void filled by the mikes of ISIS, while Ukraine is a liberal democracy that is still funct...

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In the US new homes starts are cratering. Yep clusterfuck on the horizon with massive inflation in building materials costs and rising interest rates - loads of tradies will be laid off. Not looking great. I can only speak anecdotally but it’s now too expensive to have work done, companies are goin...

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What is left to negotiate with Russia? The west has made their case clear and the relationship is dissolved. Any negotiation will be on Russian terms alone and Ukraine will have to accept it. What’s Europe going to do with a failed state full of weapons on its doorstep, with a bunch of pissed off U...

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Is that the Jim Banks whose take on the hearings is seemingly: https://c.tenor.com/j5YcO9slE7YAAAAC/leslie-nielsen-nothing-to-see-here.gif Looks like the derecho that came through my area Monday night. There's an awesome still photo of a lightning strike that hit a tree and when the photo was taken...

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Market has between 0.5% and that again next month with end of year priced in at 3.7%. They’ve failed. Realistically what kind of house price correction are we looking at here do you think In the US new homes starts are cratering. Mortgage applications (that includes new and refi's) last week were d...

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Is that the Jim Banks whose take on the hearings is seemingly: https://c.tenor.com/j5YcO9slE7YAAAAC/leslie-nielsen-nothing-to-see-here.gif Looks like the derecho that came through my area Monday night. There's an awesome still photo of a lightning strike that hit a tree and when the photo was taken...

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I always felt Pelosi blundered when forming the committee and disapproving of any Republicans not named Cheney and Kinzinger. Disagree on that, it was only Jordan and Banks she rejected and McCarthy pulled the plug on the rest. Jordan was a joke and McCarthy played all of that very poorly. What's t...

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Specifically? Just curious. Do you own a confederate flag? I do, or think I do. It came with a Dukes of Hazard thing I got when I was a kid. Not actually seen it in a decade so perhaps it's gone The hearings so far have been brutal for Trump, and it's hard to see how the DoJ ignore it no matter the...

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We need one company to run Super Rugby that is independent from the national unions. Probably, but the unions wouldn't be keen on giving up the power. I see this like Neighorn does of playing in negotiations. If they did leave, I see NZRU setting up something with Japan maybe. Japan would take it a...

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