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by 6roucho
Fri Jun 26, 2015 1:37 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Why do we appear to be inching towards war with Russia?
Replies: 99
Views: 6325

Re: Why do we appear to be inching towards war with Russia?

It's true. I'm wearing a particularly dorky Zegna suit right now.
by 6roucho
Fri Jun 26, 2015 1:30 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Why do we appear to be inching towards war with Russia?
Replies: 99
Views: 6325

Re: Why do we appear to be inching towards war with Russia?

Because if we went any faster, it would be obvious?
by 6roucho
Fri Jun 26, 2015 1:28 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Unbelievable new law in Australia - honestly wtf ?
Replies: 92
Views: 6712

Re: Unbelievable new law in Australia - honestly wtf ?

Can we not have unspoilered NSFW stuff in threads like this please some of us are trying to avoid work AND avoid getting fired FIXX'd 8) When did we last see the RAF roundel over Brest? The last time France surrendered to fascism, if memory serves me correctly. Unless we count now. :thumbup: Indeed...
by 6roucho
Fri Jun 26, 2015 1:24 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Unbelievable new law in Australia - honestly wtf ?
Replies: 92
Views: 6712

Re: Unbelievable new law in Australia - honestly wtf ?

kiap wrote:
JM2K6 wrote:Can we not have unspoilered NSFW stuff in threads like this please

some of us are trying to avoid work AND avoid getting fired
FIXX'd 8)
When did we last see the RAF roundel over Brest? The last time France surrendered to fascism, if memory serves me correctly. Unless we count now.
by 6roucho
Fri Jun 26, 2015 1:09 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Unbelievable new law in Australia - honestly wtf ?
Replies: 92
Views: 6712

Re: Unbelievable new law in Australia - honestly wtf ?

And hairy nipples, eww.
by 6roucho
Fri Jun 26, 2015 12:34 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Unbelievable new law in Australia - honestly wtf ?
Replies: 92
Views: 6712

Re: Unbelievable new law in Australia - honestly wtf ?

been to Australia back in 2003, and well, as the average aussie gets the right to vote, no wonder they are ending there... http://travel.ninemsn.com.au/img/slideshow/redneck/redneck-republic.jpg http://i.qkme.me/3q6pco.jpg By the way, the RWC should make them some good as a part of them will visit ...
by 6roucho
Fri Jun 26, 2015 12:28 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Choose 5 albums to listen to for the rest of your life
Replies: 200
Views: 11811

Re: Choose 5 albums to listen to for the rest of your life

On a side note (sic) I've been listening to Robert Johnson - King Of The Delta Blues Singers. So much of modern music is in that album.
by 6roucho
Fri Jun 26, 2015 11:55 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Choose 5 albums to listen to for the rest of your life
Replies: 200
Views: 11811

Re: Choose 5 albums to listen to for the rest of your life

dogtanian wrote:Bruce Springsteen – The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
A largely unheralded and brilliant album. Springsteen reminds us of that quality every half dozen albums or so, without ever quite getting there. Well, maybe Nebraska.
by 6roucho
Fri Jun 26, 2015 11:51 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Entertaining Pics Thread (definitely with NSFW content)
Replies: 55703
Views: 9448161

Re: The Entertaining Pics Thread (definitely with NSFW conte

Don wrote:
echo wrote:
Taranaki Snapper wrote:Neighorn, any ideas on your next tattoo?

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I cannot make out what part of the human body that absurd tattoo is on.
Calf.
Beaver.
by 6roucho
Fri Jun 26, 2015 11:50 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Entertaining Pics Thread (definitely with NSFW content)
Replies: 55703
Views: 9448161

Re: The Entertaining Pics Thread (definitely with NSFW conte

Isn't there a bend? Knee? Hadn't noticed how weird the shadow directions are in the original... http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/citi/images/standard/WebLarge/WebImg_000156/8227_1683054.jpg What's the point illist ? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Seurat-La_Parade_detail.jpg
by 6roucho
Fri Jun 26, 2015 7:26 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Unbelievable new law in Australia - honestly wtf ?
Replies: 92
Views: 6712

Re: Unbelievable new law in Australia - honestly wtf ?

Dumbledore wrote:So since we all agree, does that make us the sensible centre?
We are the caramel truffles of the political chocolate box.
by 6roucho
Fri Jun 26, 2015 7:14 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Unbelievable new law in Australia - honestly wtf ?
Replies: 92
Views: 6712

Re: Unbelievable new law in Australia - honestly wtf ?

In some ways I think it's easier for a wealthy society to be scared into this line of thinking. They have more to lose afterall. The US is another example, although they seem to have more checks and balances to stop these laws passing. The Patriot Act calls your bet. But this is atrocious legislati...
by 6roucho
Fri Jun 26, 2015 7:11 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Globus Went Into Hip Op - 16th July
Replies: 107
Views: 5202

Re: Globus Is Into Hip Op - Any Sufferers Here?

Only black girls should perform hip ops.
by 6roucho
Thu Jun 25, 2015 6:14 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Mini Ice Age Hits.....
Replies: 10
Views: 1143

Re: Mini Ice Age Hits.....

It's a particularly silly article. The prediction is for winters to continue to become milder despite the drop in solar activity, which is made perfectly clear in one part of the article, and in another part of the article the journalist talks about the coldest winters for 300 years, which is nonsen...
by 6roucho
Thu Jun 25, 2015 12:25 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The movie that was and is called Interstellar
Replies: 174
Views: 11805

Re: The movie that was and is called Interstellar

They did it to save themselves, since they evolved from us. Of course that seems paradoxical to us, but is presumably how they roll in the fifth dimension. Well, that's obvious, but if they were already there in the 5th then why.....you know what, never mind. It all gets a bit woolly at that point....
by 6roucho
Thu Jun 25, 2015 12:21 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The movie that was and is called Interstellar
Replies: 174
Views: 11805

Re: The movie that was and is called Interstellar

There's an excellent book on this and other scientific ideas from the film: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393351378/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0393351378&linkCode=as2&tag=smithsonianco-20&linkId=3E3DJR4DMITETMBM . Kip Thorne doesn't think that black holes or wor...
by 6roucho
Thu Jun 25, 2015 12:19 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The movie that was and is called Interstellar
Replies: 174
Views: 11805

Re: The movie that was and is called Interstellar

They did it to save themselves, since they evolved from us. Of course that seems paradoxical to us, but is presumably how they roll in the fifth dimension.
by 6roucho
Thu Jun 25, 2015 12:11 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Choose 5 albums to listen to for the rest of your life
Replies: 200
Views: 11811

Re: Choose 5 albums to listen to for the rest of your life

mr bungle wrote:
6roucho wrote:
hermie wrote:So hard not to include a Neil Young but even harder to decide which one.
Decade?
It's a compilation, which is cheating. Much like listing 6 albums... ;)
Yes, it felt a bit cheaty.
by 6roucho
Thu Jun 25, 2015 12:04 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The movie that was and is called Interstellar
Replies: 174
Views: 11805

Re: The movie that was and is called Interstellar

There's an excellent book on this and other scientific ideas from the film: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393351378/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0393351378&linkCode=as2&tag=smithsonianco-20&linkId=3E3DJR4DMITETMBM . Kip Thorne doesn't think that black holes or worm...
by 6roucho
Thu Jun 25, 2015 10:55 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Choose 5 albums to listen to for the rest of your life
Replies: 200
Views: 11811

Re: Choose 5 albums to listen to for the rest of your life

hermie wrote:So hard not to include a Neil Young but even harder to decide which one.
Decade?
by 6roucho
Thu Jun 25, 2015 9:34 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Choose 5 albums to listen to for the rest of your life
Replies: 200
Views: 11811

Re: Choose 5 albums to listen to for the rest of your life

Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
Steely Dan - Aja
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Midnight Oil - 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 3, 2, 1....
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus
John Cale - BlackAcetate
by 6roucho
Thu Jun 25, 2015 2:03 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The official global economy thread
Replies: 266
Views: 19063

Re: The official global economy thread

So...Grexit. Leaving aside the obvious lunacy of how Greece is run, can anyone explain why it's so critical that dumb creditors who can't read balance sheets should get their cash back? The original creditors weren't that dumb. Goldman Sachs et al managed to offload all the debt onto the Euro Centr...
by 6roucho
Thu Jun 25, 2015 1:30 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Australian Politics Thread
Replies: 29346
Views: 2074325

Re: The Australian Politics Thread

Wtf?
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by 6roucho
Wed Jun 24, 2015 4:17 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Folau: Burgess is too slow to play in a real rugby backline.
Replies: 111
Views: 6376

Re: Folau: Burgess is too slow to play in a real rugby backl

So, he actually didn't use either 'Too' or 'Slow' in his comments?
by 6roucho
Wed Jun 24, 2015 12:51 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Australian Politics Thread
Replies: 29346
Views: 2074325

Re: The Australian Politics Thread

kiwinoz, you often post those, and I always agree. We're continuously on the edge of a slippery slope. We dont rely on our politicans to stop us from falling to our deaths on it, but from getting started in the first place. Australia needs to recoil from this extremism.
by 6roucho
Wed Jun 24, 2015 10:10 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Grexit edges closer
Replies: 2435
Views: 162150

Re: Grexit edges closer

JM2K6 wrote:Just out of curiosity, was the joke comment I made on one of those threads the reason for the deletion? Or was it just the general topic of conversation?
No!!!
by 6roucho
Sat Jun 20, 2015 12:01 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Michelle Obama visits an English school
Replies: 167
Views: 11469

Re: Michelle Obama visits an English school

Tehui wrote:
Owain Leekdwr wrote:A very diverse group of kids there.
Would you prefer the diversity we usually see?

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by 6roucho
Sat Jun 20, 2015 11:59 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Happy birthday dad!
Replies: 13
Views: 1215

Re: Happy birthday dad!

Happy birthday Kovana's dad!!!
by 6roucho
Sat Jun 20, 2015 11:57 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Highlanders vs. Chiefs (SupeRugby Qualifier) - Sat @ 19h35
Replies: 443
Views: 28001

Re: Highlanders vs. Chiefs (SupeRugby Qualifier) - Sat @ 19h

Catman wrote:Fantastic game to watch. Well done highlanders - always been my fav kiwi team. Good outside bet to win the whole thing.
Yes. And playing great rugby, not headless chooks but relentless attack. :thumbup:
by 6roucho
Sat Jun 20, 2015 11:46 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: This year's French highschool philosophy exam questions.
Replies: 146
Views: 11403

Re: This year's French highschool philosophy exam questions.

I've long considered the Bored as a thriving hub of epiphenominal interaction. Santayana may have been onto something after all. I think you may be onto something there. Making curious posts makes us curious. Ditto anger. I posted "Go Chiefs" in the game thread, and then, when I went back to the TV...
by 6roucho
Sat Jun 20, 2015 11:44 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: This year's French highschool philosophy exam questions.
Replies: 146
Views: 11403

Re: This year's French highschool philosophy exam questions.

hollywood wrote:I would turn that around. Your past is what your future has made of it. I cite every historical figure ever.
Monsieur Derrida, is that you?
by 6roucho
Sat Jun 20, 2015 1:59 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: This year's French highschool philosophy exam questions.
Replies: 146
Views: 11403

Re: This year's French highschool philosophy exam questions.

If you have to study philosophy you cannot be philosopher Surely the central question of philosophy is, what is philosophy? To be honest, I don't know. But isn't that the point? On the contrary, if you don't have to study philosophy you cannot be philosopher. So how did the first philosopher become...
by 6roucho
Fri Jun 19, 2015 8:39 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: This year's French highschool philosophy exam questions.
Replies: 146
Views: 11403

Re: This year's French highschool philosophy exam questions.

Deadly Derek wrote:
6roucho wrote:
Deadly Derek wrote:If you have to study philosophy you cannot be philosopher
Surely the central question of philosophy is, what is philosophy?

To be honest, I don't know. But isn't that the point?
On the contrary, if you don't have to study philosophy you cannot be philosopher.
by 6roucho
Fri Jun 19, 2015 8:19 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Michelle Obama visits an English school
Replies: 167
Views: 11469

Re: Michelle Obama visits an English school

Kid Rock wrote:
Anonymous. wrote:
Kid Rock wrote:
Anonymous. wrote:Curious as to why you think I would care one way or the other
Props to you for not seeing colour. :thumbup:
Go fuck yourself
The avatar is very apt. You sound like an all round goon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMpV3jKHtbQ
You still don't sound like a 14-year old American.
by 6roucho
Fri Jun 19, 2015 8:16 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: This year's French highschool philosophy exam questions.
Replies: 146
Views: 11403

Re: This year's French highschool philosophy exam questions.

Deadly Derek wrote:If you have to study philosophy you cannot be philosopher
Surely the central question of philosophy is, what is philosophy?
by 6roucho
Fri Jun 19, 2015 6:33 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Michelle Obama visits an English school
Replies: 167
Views: 11469

Re: Michelle Obama visits an English school

With 20% non white you will have very few schools 100% white unless it's somehow being manipulated Are you taking the piss ? No, I understand they are more likely to live in the big cities but still most schools are pretty big True and maybe I was wrong and there are no schools that are all white. ...
by 6roucho
Fri Jun 19, 2015 5:07 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: This year's French highschool philosophy exam questions.
Replies: 146
Views: 11403

Re: This year's French highschool philosophy exam questions.

Never had the opportunity to study philosophy to any meaningful (or formal) extent, and when I see a collection of questions like these I can't help feeling I have missed out. I have pondered the possibility of doing an Open University course, just for the fun of it, but have never really found the...
by 6roucho
Fri Jun 19, 2015 5:05 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Michelle Obama visits an English school
Replies: 167
Views: 11469

Re: Michelle Obama visits an English school

I see where DAC is coming from. There is classic post widening stuff going on here. The topic being discussed, well initially anyway, was the ethnic diversity, or lack of, at that particular school. Not at all. I was just merely highlighting the first lady's commendable work, nothing else. M8, you ...
by 6roucho
Fri Jun 19, 2015 4:30 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Michelle Obama visits an English school
Replies: 167
Views: 11469

Re: Michelle Obama visits an English school

Mick Mannock wrote:
DragonsareComing wrote:Doesn't show the UK as being very diverse.
Not Mulberry Girls School in Tower Hamlets, no.
Nor Eton.