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by echo
Mon Sep 16, 2019 5:09 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Bellicose Boris bonkers Brexit bonanza....
Replies: 47602
Views: 2041629

Re: Bellicose Boris bonkers Brexit bonanza....

Gavin Duffy wrote:It was an evil EU plot per the Express.
This is after all the country that managed to spin their drubbing at the hands of the Hun and subsequent flight across the channel at Dunkirk as a great victory.
by echo
Sun Sep 15, 2019 12:05 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Ashes 2019
Replies: 2645
Views: 100571

Re: Ashes 2019

This series is basically Smith and Labuschagne vs England.
by echo
Fri Sep 06, 2019 10:02 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Boks 2019 RWC fred
Replies: 3364
Views: 190837

Re: Boks 2019 RWC fred

Cartman wrote:That girl near the end has a lovely voice
she did. It was a glistening silver lining on an otherwise bizarrely shaped cdark cloud.
by echo
Fri Sep 06, 2019 11:17 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: RWC Warm Up: Japan vs Springbokke, Fri Sep 6th, KO@ 12:15 SA
Replies: 186
Views: 7364

Re: RWC Warm Up: Japan vs Springbokke, Fri Sep 6th, KO@ 12:1

JB1981 wrote:What are the giant bottles of pills as they run out about?

Viagla.

sorry :blush:
by echo
Fri Sep 06, 2019 11:13 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: RWC Warm Up: Japan vs Springbokke, Fri Sep 6th, KO@ 12:15 SA
Replies: 186
Views: 7364

Re: RWC Warm Up: Japan vs Springbokke, Fri Sep 6th, KO@ 12:1

Rugby is a sport designed for Japanese commentary. I've turned the volume up full.

Are there any english feed out of interest?
by echo
Fri Sep 06, 2019 8:04 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: RWC Warm Up: Japan vs Springbokke, Fri Sep 6th, KO@ 12:15 SA
Replies: 186
Views: 7364

Re: RWC Warm Up: Japan vs Springbokke, Fri Sep 6th, KO@ 12:1

can't find any links for streams. anyone?
by echo
Thu Sep 05, 2019 5:27 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Ashes 2019
Replies: 2645
Views: 100571

Re: Ashes 2019

echo wrote:200 knock coming up. . . .
I am pleased for one to have made a good prediction in cricket.
by echo
Thu Sep 05, 2019 2:07 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Ashes 2019
Replies: 2645
Views: 100571

Re: Ashes 2019

200 knock coming up. . . .
by echo
Thu Sep 05, 2019 12:47 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Boks 2019 RWC fred
Replies: 3364
Views: 190837

Re: Boks 2019 RWC fred

Rinkals wrote:
echo wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukdNyfw91cg

jesus :blush:

and it is my old school too.
F u c k.

That's awful. x(

You Michaelhouse?
:roll: Drakonsdale Girl's Choir School.
by echo
Thu Sep 05, 2019 10:52 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Boks 2019 RWC fred
Replies: 3364
Views: 190837

Re: Boks 2019 RWC fred

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukdNyfw91cg

jesus :blush:

and it is my old school too.
by echo
Mon Sep 02, 2019 6:12 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Bellicose Boris bonkers Brexit bonanza....
Replies: 47602
Views: 2041629

Re: LEAVE THE EU. £350m a week for the NHS..... UK PM.

"I have invited you here to listen to me listen to the sound of my own voice."
by echo
Sun Sep 01, 2019 6:10 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Boks 2019 RWC fred
Replies: 3364
Views: 190837

Re: Boks 2019 RWC fred

Is this Etzebeth malarky being treated with the usual hysteria in SA or is it being seen as as a bicep in a teacup? https://www.rugbypass.com/news/dramatic-twist-in-the-eben-etzebeth-saga I spend half my life dodging the various "Khoisan" revivalists when in SA. I speak !kung to them which usually w...
by echo
Fri Aug 23, 2019 4:55 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Ashes 2019
Replies: 2645
Views: 100571

Re: Ashes 2019

Stokes appears to have gone full-beetroot. No-one should ever go full-beetroot.
by echo
Sun Aug 11, 2019 6:55 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: RC 2019 RD 3 - Argentina v South Africa - Salta - Sat 10 Aug
Replies: 360
Views: 17135

Re: RC 2019 RD 3 - Argentina v South Africa - Salta - Sat 10

I think this is the first time I can remember since Naas that SA have looked good when the general wears a 10 rather than 9.
by echo
Thu Aug 08, 2019 10:15 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: RC 2019 RD 3 - Argentina v South Africa - Salta - Sat 10 Aug
Replies: 360
Views: 17135

Re: RC 2019 RD 3 - Argentina v South Africa - Salta - Sat 10

I know his form has been mediocre, but presumably Dyanti is injured right?
by echo
Wed Jul 10, 2019 6:04 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: ex-POTUS DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
Replies: 126890
Views: 9027977

Re: POTUS-DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all

On signing a kidney care executive order today:

"The kidney, very special, the kidney has a very special place in the heart."
by echo
Sat Jul 06, 2019 7:28 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Cricket Thread
Replies: 7812
Views: 302721

Re: Cricket World Cup 2019 - OFFICIAL Thread

Saffers show up at the party with a bag of pills and and bottle of grog an hour after everyone else has passed out in their puke or off getting laid.
by echo
Tue Jul 02, 2019 2:15 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The PR Book Thread
Replies: 1528
Views: 221219

Re: The PR Book Thread

This is out in paperback recently. Its apparently very interesting. ahem.

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by echo
Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:27 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: How long have aboriginals been in Australia?
Replies: 69
Views: 5113

Re: How long have aboriginals been in Australia?

Very interesting. How is your new book going, Echo? Been meaning to get a copy. How accessible is it for a layman? Hopefully will be out as one of the big Xmas title's next year here with Bloomsbury in the UK with Penguin in USA. Other languages only in 2021. Both written and marketed for general p...
by echo
Sun Jun 30, 2019 4:34 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: How long have aboriginals been in Australia?
Replies: 69
Views: 5113

Re: How long have aboriginals been in Australia?

Brazil these offer reasonable summaries— this stuff is very new and such a big change to what had seemed a clear model up until two years ago. jakobsson and schlebusch did the original genomic work on the ballito boy in 2017 which opened this up from the genomic side. https://www.annualreviews.org/d...
by echo
Sun Jun 30, 2019 3:18 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: How long have aboriginals been in Australia?
Replies: 69
Views: 5113

Re: How long have aboriginals been in Australia?

The answer is either forever, or the question has no meaning. Indigenous arrival has no date, dons told BERNARD LANE, 12:00AM JUNE 29, 2019 University science lecturers have been warned off making the familiar statement in class that “Aboriginal people have been in Australia for 40,000 years”. Turn...
by echo
Thu Jun 20, 2019 4:11 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Official Braai Thread
Replies: 7429
Views: 663678

Re: Official Braai Thread

Braai and kombuis are both my exclusive territories up until washing up time.

Mme Echo is more a fooder than a foody. She is less discerning than her dog when it comes to food and it shows in her cooking.
by echo
Wed Jun 19, 2019 12:11 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Cricket Thread
Replies: 7812
Views: 302721

Re: Cricket World Cup 2019 - OFFICIAL Thread

Mercifully I'm to be spared most of this innings watching children throw wellies and chase each other at a miserable rain sodden sports day. Saffer plodders to be all out for 141 after 22.
by echo
Mon Jun 17, 2019 5:48 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: 2019 World Rugby Under 20 Championship (4-22 June)
Replies: 1013
Views: 68439

Re: 2019 World Rugby Under 20 Championship (4-22 June)

why is there a bloody restriction on the Aus Arg game in the UK?
apparently because its on ITV :blush:
by echo
Tue Jun 11, 2019 8:49 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: **** Blackpink **** IN YOUR AREA
Replies: 27
Views: 3386

Re: **** Blackpink **** IN YOUR AREA

Apart from being a cautionary tale about the perils of writing lyrics using google translate it’s no worse than the spice girls.
by echo
Sun Jun 02, 2019 4:59 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Cricket Thread
Replies: 7812
Views: 302721

Re: Cricket World Cup 2019 - OFFICIAL Thread

two teams afflicted by the yips. . .
by echo
Sun Jun 02, 2019 10:31 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Bellicose Boris bonkers Brexit bonanza....
Replies: 47602
Views: 2041629

Re: Brexit, going going.....errr gone after the EU elections

Good luck with that :lol: Sam Gyimah tells Sky’s @skynewsniall he is standing in Tory leadership contest He is standing on a second referendum platform. “I will be the only candidate in this race supporting this option.” Sam is the only Tory I know socially. I brought his then future Kiwi wife from...
by echo
Wed May 29, 2019 10:21 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Bellicose Boris bonkers Brexit bonanza....
Replies: 47602
Views: 2041629

Re: Brexit, going going.....errr gone after the EU elections

I am utterly perplexed as to why those so determined to leave the EU are so reticent about holding a referendum on the terms when they are so confident that their view is the majority one. I have no doubt that it would shut the remainers up for once and for all and go some way to healing the divide...
by echo
Wed May 29, 2019 9:51 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Bellicose Boris bonkers Brexit bonanza....
Replies: 47602
Views: 2041629

Re: Brexit, going going.....errr gone after the EU elections

I am utterly perplexed as to why those so determined to leave the EU are so reticent about holding a referendum on the terms when they are so confident that their view is the majority one. I have no doubt that it would shut the remainers up for once and for all and go some way to healing the divides...
by echo
Sun Apr 28, 2019 2:51 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Greta Thunberg
Replies: 4042
Views: 236962

Re: Greta Thunberg

It's absolutely a resource allocation issue. Same as everyting else we address through public policy because it is a threat to life! Whether it's clean water, food or medicine, these are life critical decisions we entrust to markets to make capital allocation. Because we know they work. The mantra ...
by echo
Sun Apr 28, 2019 2:34 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Greta Thunberg
Replies: 4042
Views: 236962

Re: Greta Thunberg

How we organise our productive lives requires a significant and urgent rethink. The first step is to remove the market from many spheres of life that have insanely found ways to assetise and monetise. They haven’t “found ways” that’s the natural by product of a market. How in these re thought ways ...
by echo
Sun Apr 28, 2019 12:21 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Greta Thunberg
Replies: 4042
Views: 236962

Re: Greta Thunberg

How we organise our productive lives requires a significant and urgent rethink. The first step is to remove the market from many spheres of life that have insanely found ways to assetise and monetise. They haven’t “found ways” that’s the natural by product of a market. How in these re thought ways ...
by echo
Sun Apr 28, 2019 11:15 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Greta Thunberg
Replies: 4042
Views: 236962

Re: Greta Thunberg

You're not going to build your way out of this problem or rather, climate change won't be solved by building shiny pieces of kit. At least that's how he puts it. I think that is the cause for the somewhat hysterical claims regarding the 'destruction of capitalism' or similar... that the scale of th...
by echo
Sat Apr 27, 2019 12:19 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Match Thread: WaraTards vs Tjarks @ Western Sydney Stadium
Replies: 64
Views: 4383

Re: Match Thread: WaraTards vs Tjarks @ Western Sydney Stadi

Sjark... putting the "k" in clinical.
by echo
Fri Apr 26, 2019 3:20 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Greta Thunberg
Replies: 4042
Views: 236962

Re: Greta Thunberg

Presumably those scowling about Thunberg were scandalised by Malala Yousafzai's advocacy too. When you teach somewhere like Cambridge you learn pretty quickly not to write off the views of young people purely because of their age or because they sit somewhere interesting on a spectrum. Except for ge...
by echo
Wed Apr 24, 2019 7:12 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Greta Thunberg
Replies: 4042
Views: 236962

Re: Greta Thunberg

That people can genuinely believe something is a immediate and existential threat but do nothing about it? Yeah, I doubt that. Smokers?? Never met a smoker who knew he would get lung cancer. They may talk big, but they always think it's some other sucker who will get it. But if you look at the wide...
by echo
Wed Apr 24, 2019 6:18 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Greta Thunberg
Replies: 4042
Views: 236962

Re: Greta Thunberg

That people can genuinely believe something is a immediate and existential threat but do nothing about it? Yeah, I doubt that. Smokers?? Never met a smoker who knew he would get lung cancer. They may talk big, but they always think it's some other sucker who will get it. But if you look at the wide...
by echo
Wed Apr 24, 2019 4:14 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Greta Thunberg
Replies: 4042
Views: 236962

Re: Greta Thunberg

zzzz I think you'll find the nature of her condition is precisely what makes it impossible for fatuous twats to co-opt her. Her Asperbergers makes her utterly single-minded and quite fearless. No-one is telling this girl what to do. That is part of why she has become such a potent symbol. Her scienc...
by echo
Mon Apr 08, 2019 8:18 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Bellicose Boris bonkers Brexit bonanza....
Replies: 47602
Views: 2041629

Re: Brexit, going going............

YOYO wrote:Thid twat and his like take center stage on C4 now. Docu just started

https://twitter.com/c4dispatches/status ... 08006?s=12.
Dismiss him at your peril. If he hadn't mentioned the bureaucrats in Luxembourg who are holding us hostage I'd never have known about it :x