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by Biffer29
Wed Feb 10, 2021 11:19 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: 6N Round 2, Scotland v Wales
Replies: 556
Views: 26805

Re: 6N Round 2, Scotland v Wales

Genuine question. There seem to be a lot of pine/spruce/conifer type trees in Scotland. Are they indigenous? I know in large parts of mid wales the natura oaks etc have been relaced by these monstrosities. I know its for commercial reasons. Forestry is a big business round here so I know a lot of p...
by Biffer29
Wed Feb 10, 2021 10:40 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: 6N Round 2, Scotland v Wales
Replies: 556
Views: 26805

Re: 6N Round 2, Scotland v Wales

If it's not 'amazing' then why have it (it would appear, given that you juxtaposed it with some valley terraces, that you were trying to show how much nicer Scotland is). Having said that, I'd tend to agree we'd be underdogs in a natural beauty-off, but fudge it, lets go. Sunrise over snowcapped Tr...
by Biffer29
Tue Feb 09, 2021 8:32 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Peter "Chicken Wing" O'Mahoney
Replies: 187
Views: 13411

Re: Peter "Chicken Wing" O'Mahoney

I eckon if you smack someone in the head, or anything else that could put someone off the pitch with concussion etc, it's you that's threatening the integrity of the game.
by Biffer29
Tue Feb 09, 2021 2:10 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61131
Views: 3390546

Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans

Man, the absolute lowest scum on this thread make me remember why I don't come on much anymore. Predominantly Irish plus a few others.
by Biffer29
Mon Feb 08, 2021 5:26 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Lions lions lions
Replies: 48
Views: 5134

Re: Lions lions lions

Underhill dodged a bullet It said something about George's form that when LCD was subbed on I thought it might make our lineout a bit more secure. Scots looked tough up front - not that Genge and Stuart went well, but part of that is undoubtedly good showings by the Scots tight 5. I'm still utterly...
by Biffer29
Sun Feb 07, 2021 8:23 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Scottish and their drugs, poverty and alcoholism
Replies: 16
Views: 2294

Re: The Scottish and their drugs, poverty and alcoholism

Derwyn wrote: Sun Feb 07, 2021 7:40 pm What a nasty post and nasty poster you are.
Away and wipe your tears on a sheep’s minge you leek sucking coal goblin.
by Biffer29
Sun Feb 07, 2021 5:12 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Lions lions lions
Replies: 48
Views: 5134

Re: Lions lions lions

So on this weekend so far, it’s the Scotland team, the Ireland team and AWJ to captain the midweek team, yeah?
by Biffer29
Sun Feb 07, 2021 4:30 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: 6 Nations 2021 - Rd. 1 Wales v Ireland Official Thread
Replies: 1317
Views: 58733

Re: 6 Nations 2021 - Rd. 1 Wales v Ireland Official Thread

That's a ridiculously long advantage imo. 10+ phases and more than 20m. Totally deliberate. Saw the opportunity and went for it. Deserved red. It's reckless and that is why the red is deserved, but that is nonsense if you mean he targeted the head. Francis ends up in a really weird position as the ...
by Biffer29
Sun Feb 07, 2021 4:27 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: 6 Nations 2021 - Rd. 1 Wales v Ireland Official Thread
Replies: 1317
Views: 58733

Re: 6 Nations 2021 - Rd. 1 Wales v Ireland Official Thread

I suppose that’s the risk you take when you select a dirty cheap shot bastard in your XV.
by Biffer29
Sun Feb 07, 2021 4:23 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: 6 Nations 2021 - Rd. 1 Wales v Ireland Official Thread
Replies: 1317
Views: 58733

Re: 6 Nations 2021 - Rd. 1 Wales v Ireland Official Thread

Willie Falloon wrote: Sun Feb 07, 2021 4:22 pm
Jumper wrote: Sun Feb 07, 2021 4:21 pm Nonsense that mitigation was ignored.

Can't complain about the red.
What mitigation?
I’m assuming the mitigation is he’s Peter O’Mahoney.
by Biffer29
Sun Feb 07, 2021 4:22 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: 6 Nations 2021 - Rd. 1 Wales v Ireland Official Thread
Replies: 1317
Views: 58733

Re: 6 Nations 2021 - Rd. 1 Wales v Ireland Official Thread

Not like O’Mahoney to be a dirty bastard. I’m shocked I tells ye.
by Biffer29
Sun Feb 07, 2021 3:33 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61131
Views: 3390546

Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans

Sputnik V wrote: Sun Feb 07, 2021 3:22 pm No consideration for those with beliefs which doesn't allow them to take the az one
Beliefs being the operative word. Nothing to do with science, facts or evidence.
by Biffer29
Sun Feb 07, 2021 12:02 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Owen Farrell's captaincy
Replies: 34
Views: 3507

Re: Owen Farrell's captaincy

Has there ever been a more successful England captain? That's a genuine question, because I can't find an answer online. However, Eddie is the most successful England coach of all-time, and he's had a massive boner for Faz. Logic would suggest that he's up there in the all-time list of win percenta...
by Biffer29
Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:25 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Lions lions lions
Replies: 48
Views: 5134

Re: Lions lions lions

:| No way is Gatland starting Russell at 10 in a test, don't know who the f he is going to though. Ford did himself a favour not playing but Warren likes a bigger body there. One thing nit mentioned about Russell is that he's very sound defensively. Doesn't gave to shifted out if the defensive line ...
by Biffer29
Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:17 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61131
Views: 3390546

Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans

By vaccinating everyone, What's going to happen next time? You gonna throw hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people under the bus until a vaccine becomes available? Of course you are, you're a far right lunatic. In a 100 years ? I couldn’t care less. Right now we are saving hundreds of thousands ...
by Biffer29
Sun Feb 07, 2021 10:53 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61131
Views: 3390546

Re: Do you trust the vaccine?

Sputnik V wrote: Sun Feb 07, 2021 2:48 am
puku wrote: Sun Feb 07, 2021 2:32 am
Sputnik V wrote: Sun Feb 07, 2021 12:25 am I would prefer if you used the term poo poo as it has a softer feel about it
It was my understanding that the Chip adenovirus is isolated from ejaculate :nod:
No, it was taken from poo poo
So what?
by Biffer29
Sun Feb 07, 2021 10:51 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Giant ‘*’ beside this year’s 6Ns
Replies: 22
Views: 2599

Re: Giant ‘*’ beside this year’s 6Ns

That asterisk meaning that England can't win 15 v 15, yeah?

They need a crowd or some other off field advantage or they're not capable of winning just on skill and tactics. Got it, thanks.

Nice of you to flag it up.
by Biffer29
Sun Feb 07, 2021 10:46 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61131
Views: 3390546

Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans

More efficacy issues for AZ A two-dose regimen of [the vaccine] did not show protection against mild-moderate Covid-19 due to [the South African variant]”, the study says, adding that efficacy against severe Covid-19, hospitalisations and deaths was not yet determined. https://www.ft.com/content/e9...
by Biffer29
Sun Feb 07, 2021 12:17 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61131
Views: 3390546

Re: Do you trust the vaccine?

so there are many different types and some are bound to be a better delivery mechanism than others. Also, some are bound to be healthier than others. What you are saying is people are not allowed to have personal views or personal choice. I never said I am anti-vaccine, I said that the more options...
by Biffer29
Sun Feb 07, 2021 12:13 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61131
Views: 3390546

Re: Do you trust the vaccine?

shanky wrote: Sun Feb 07, 2021 12:11 am It doesn’t
It’s a roundabout way to imply that the Chinese vaccine is the best one
I know that, you know that, he won’t acknowledge that. Have to challenge him so someone might believe him and he’ll be responsible for their death.
by Biffer29
Sun Feb 07, 2021 12:12 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61131
Views: 3390546

Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans

Bet making that comment made your dick very hard . You are a strange sad man. Irrelevant. What is important is that Britain is finally taking some steps towards proper pandemic response. By vaccinating everyone, What's going to happen next time? You gonna throw hundreds of thousands of vulnerable p...
by Biffer29
Sun Feb 07, 2021 12:09 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61131
Views: 3390546

Re: Do you trust the vaccine?

Yes, which is why the Sinovac one is the best for normal folk, followed by Sputnik V. The Chimp and mRNA ones are you just taking something the state has demanded you take if you want to be allowed to live. You have no understanding of immunology. You’re a dangerous fool who will kill someone. so t...
by Biffer29
Sat Feb 06, 2021 10:14 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: 6N England Scotland Match Thread
Replies: 784
Views: 43497

Re: 6N England Scotland Match Thread

Time to stop giving the Scots a leg-up and teaching them how to be competitive at international level. It's come back to bite us. Redpath Hogg Gray All tutored at Saxon hands, just like Leo Cullen, Shane Jennings and Keith Wood before them. Nowell is on record about how the Exeter boys "toughened u...
by Biffer29
Sat Feb 06, 2021 8:36 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61131
Views: 3390546

Re: Do you trust the vaccine?

[quote="Sputnik V Cheers. Tbf, if you're not any of those you don't really need a vaccine. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EteoWEqWYAADm9t?format=jpg&name=medium Yes, which is why the Sinovac one is the best for normal folk, followed by Sputnik V. The Chimp and mRNA ones are you just taking something t...
by Biffer29
Sat Feb 06, 2021 2:52 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61131
Views: 3390546

Re: Do you trust the vaccine?

Let me take a bog-standard vaccine, don't want any of these fancy mRNA crap, old school for me. Is there a "bog-standard vaccine"? I initially read the AZ vaccine was a more "old-school" style vaccine, but now understand that isn't the case? https://www.raps.org/news-and-articles/news-articles/2020...
by Biffer29
Sat Feb 06, 2021 1:08 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61131
Views: 3390546

Re: Do you trust the vaccine?

Let me take a bog-standard vaccine, don't want any of these fancy mRNA crap, old school for me. Is there a "bog-standard vaccine"? I initially read the AZ vaccine was a more "old-school" style vaccine, but now understand that isn't the case? It's not old school, but it's not new new school either. ...
by Biffer29
Sat Feb 06, 2021 9:56 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61131
Views: 3390546

Re: Do you trust the vaccine?

Anyone willing to put their hand up yet and admitting the vaccines were fast tracked and have not undergone conclusive testing? No? Didn't think so. Got to check in every now and then. Carry on loons. I think all concerned would be happy to have had time to test the vaccines more. Anyone willing to...
by Biffer29
Fri Feb 05, 2021 9:20 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61131
Views: 3390546

Re: Do you trust the vaccine?

Anyone willing to put their hand up yet and admitting the vaccines were fast tracked and have not undergone conclusive testing? No? Didn't think so. Got to check in every now and then. Carry on loons. I think all concerned would be happy to have had time to test the vaccines more. Anyone willing to...
by Biffer29
Fri Feb 05, 2021 2:30 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 30187
Views: 2509874

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

Came back to look for this thread, nothing in months, what’s going on? Have my fellow Scots abandoned forum? Oh well Everyone else went over to NPR. I chose not as I did not want to be sucked down another online rabbit hole. As there is almost no one else left, I don't talk to myself. Fair enough, ...
by Biffer29
Fri Feb 05, 2021 2:29 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61131
Views: 3390546

Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans

The key results from the AZ vaccine are that it has been shown that it is 100% effective in eliminating severe covid symptons, has had no deaths or hospitalisations for any people taking the vaccine (after the 22 day period needed to build up immunity). It is also reducing transmission by 67%. It'd...
by Biffer29
Fri Feb 05, 2021 8:30 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61131
Views: 3390546

Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans

The key results from the AZ vaccine are that it has been shown that it is 100% effective in eliminating severe covid symptons, has had no deaths or hospitalisations for any people taking the vaccine (after the 22 day period needed to build up immunity). It is also reducing transmission by 67%. It'd...
by Biffer29
Wed Nov 25, 2020 4:24 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Standing up after being tackled.
Replies: 29
Views: 3353

Re: Standing up after being tackled.

I'll swear blind a couple of years ago at an Edinburgh game I saw a guy tackle a man, the ref shout 'release tackler' pretty much as they hit the ground, the tackler releasing very quickly and the the ref shouting 'not held' as the man got up and started running again. Got a bit sweary at the ref th...
by Biffer29
Thu Oct 08, 2020 11:06 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
Replies: 45820
Views: 3039522

Re: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread

Don’t be sad Irish fans. The nordies and the jocks will be close behind you. Don't be a wanker tonight. Scots win their first ever shootout and Norn Ireland beat what I think is a team just as good as Wales on pens. Aye, what is it that the English find so difficult about these penalty things? Seem...
by Biffer29
Wed Sep 09, 2020 12:26 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Farell red carded for trying to decapitate wasps novice flyhalf
Replies: 151
Views: 14413

Re: Farell red carded for trying to decapitate wasps novice flyhalf

MrDominator wrote: Tue Sep 08, 2020 11:57 pm Ridiculous ban.

It was a lazy arm by the England captain against a non-entity, for pity's sake.

2 weeks max.
Poor effort there, back to troll school fella.
by Biffer29
Tue Sep 08, 2020 7:42 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Farell red carded for trying to decapitate wasps novice flyhalf
Replies: 151
Views: 14413

Re: Farell red carded for trying to decapitate wasps novice flyhalf

Think his hearing is at 7? Predictions? 6 reduced to 3 for me. He's in now, started at 6.30pm. The citing officer for the Saracens v Wasps match is a bursar at a school in Abu Dhabi. He watches all the videos from over there. His boss is a mate of mine. He's made a submission for review tonight as ...
by Biffer29
Tue Sep 08, 2020 4:50 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Official NFL 2022
Replies: 10569
Views: 869451

Re: Official NFL 2020

It seems that Odell Beckham Jr will be considered the number two receiver for the browns this year :D
by Biffer29
Wed Aug 05, 2020 9:42 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61131
Views: 3390546

Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans

Leaders get no small amount of sympathy from me, there are no easy answers in this. I agree with the last guy in the article that a year without school (on top of the amount already effectively missed) isn't an option either. Absolutely. There are no easy answers. Home schooling does work though. M...
by Biffer29
Sat Aug 01, 2020 11:38 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61131
Views: 3390546

Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans

UK biobank results for their first month antibody testing is out https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/2020/07/uk-biobank-reveals-substantial-variation-in-rates-of-previous-covid-19-infection-across-the-uk/ Looks as though the scots were hardly touched by the virus, (along with the south west) compared with ...
by Biffer29
Fri Jul 31, 2020 10:28 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Exeter Chiefs to rebrand?
Replies: 75
Views: 7338

Re: Exeter Chiefs to rebrand?

Ulsters Red Hand wrote:Anyone who genuienly thinks they should be rebranding needs their heads checked
I don’t think anyone should be taking advice on what’s culturally acceptable from loyalist ulstermen.