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by the time you're employing serious 'bankers' I don't think you're really too worried about minimum working requirements/legislation

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Options would be picking someone out of position and hoping they ape Daly of 2016-19 or so. Or picking Thorley or OHC, the latter would make more sense, but they both have some speed, and size actually, even if neither took to test rugby like ducks to water. And then for mine at least there'd be the...

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I'm not against dropping Daly and picking a winger, just on that basis I wouldn't pick Murley.

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The UK has a birth rate around 1.7 per personage formerly known as a woman. Something around 2.1 is stagnancy. So, absent immigration someone needs a good idea. (actually in an age of growing awareness of consumption and climate change we need some ideas anyway, just now it's of material importance ...

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The pendulum isn't swinging, the clock has stopped, it's a dead clock.

Some claim you can't stop the clock, but Aphrodite is at the waterhole, come on

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We'd do better building some houses. Ideally not building them on flood plains and more generally rather more with net zero/climate change in mind, and we'd do better growing not shrinking the social housing stock I suppose we could build a wall, and then lean some awnings against it and claim we've...

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Does Radwan play left wing? I'm not saying I would pick Daly and I wouldn't pick Radwan, although I might be between Radwan and Feyi-Waboso for the 14 shirt, but Daly actually being used to playing 11 is a sane argument for Daly. What? No its not. He's shit. We have plenty of wingers who normally p...

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I have said before on here recently i feel like i'm a bit 'at the end of the road' with england rugby- borth is safe to the next rwc. There's no sane argument for Daly over Radwan for example unless you flat out don't like rugby. I like watching ireland or scotland play, but i'm just not getting en...

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That performance against Argentina was a real cup performance. I expect England to put in a cup performance again next Saturday. I'm also expecting we'll deal with it Stephen Jones is going for the "they don't like it up 'em" approach. He seems to think that Billy V and Manu will make Ireland quail...

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The notion one of your studies seems worth perusing seems a nonsense. If they were based on the last 10-15 years there would be something in it, rather a lot in many ways, but over the last 70 years? Nope, not buying. I'm afraid I'm not behind the high reputable Pew research center. So it's not "my...

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The notion one of your studies seems worth perusing seems a nonsense.

If they were based on the last 10-15 years there would be something in it, rather a lot in many ways, but over the last 70 years? Nope, not buying.

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You'd have to be fecking fruit loops not to heed the 1980s explosion in the services industry and what that meant for the middle classes. Yes there are some much more recent struggles around house prices, around jobs being short-term, but it's not a regression back to the 1950s. And it hasn't wiped ...

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I don’t think Jack Smith can be criticized too much in the speed at which he has worked. He was appointed relatively late in the election cycle. Bragg and Willis deserve all the criticism that they get. A lot of people will point the finger at Garland not appointing Smith earlier but he was being t...

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Looks like it's simply part of the delay strategy. Of course why on earth the various prosecutors waited so long is also perplexing, but with this corrupt supremes stepping up to the fray and the Cannon able to set a date, and then push that back, an awful lot could grind to a halt soon. I don’t th...

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Betrayed the middle class and working class for decades? Get a grip Or even just spend a few moments considering the extent of the middle classes going back a few decades and take heed of the fact the middle classes have grown, hugely. Which I say as someone who thinks too much wealth has been allow...

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They are both Australian and Irish. still leaves 3 out of the starting 7 backs if everyone is fit as actually Irish, and as a fat covid denier once sang, 3 out of 7 ain't bad Coming to an end for all 3. All in their 30s, Aki's nearly 34. They're the last of the project players. I doubt that. We've ...

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leaving aside losing the lineout, the double missed tackle and Care running around slowly in backfield never influencing play in a manner reminiscent or Burgess, well one does have to admire Itoje thinking I'm on the outside time to blitz, not drop and work with all those inside. it has some great c...

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CM11 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 10:57 am
piquant wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 10:57 am
CM11 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 10:55 am

No you couldn't. Hansen is Irish. Bealham is Irish.
I thought they were both Aussies, my apologies
They are both Australian and Irish.

still leaves 3 out of the starting 7 backs if everyone is fit as actually Irish, and as a fat covid denier once sang, 3 out of 7 ain't bad

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CM11 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 10:55 am
piquant wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 10:53 am You could make it work if Hansen were fit and then you pretended Bealham was a starter
No you couldn't. Hansen is Irish. Bealham is Irish.

I thought they were both Aussies, my apologies

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Russia is now utilising approx 1/3 of it's government spending on the military. Even if they win they're losing

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You could make it work if Hansen were fit and then you pretended Bealham was a starter

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Rush or not? No, just no

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A real measure for me, which is only retrospective so completely useless in the debate really, but it's where does the player reside once they retire? So many SA poaches f#ck off back to the republic. They came, they merc'ed, they bought their farm and they forgot it ever happened. Hell, maybe some...

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It just doesn’t seem to matter who plays, they play beneath their level. Millar Mills, 3rd choice (?) at Saints coming on and doing absolutely fine against apparently world class and highly experienced Marler. Furbank and Lawrence have been carving the GP up, they throw passes into touch for Englan...

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Looks like it's simply part of the delay strategy.

Of course why on earth the various prosecutors waited so long is also perplexing, but with this corrupt supremes stepping up to the fray and the Cannon able to set a date, and then push that back, an awful lot could grind to a halt soon.

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The courts gives Fat Donny something of a break with a pause on him not being able to run a business or obtain a loan in NY, but no stay on the hundreds of millions owed.

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If most of the country is as set as the those in North Carolina, there's no hope, but hopefully the likes of De Niro speaking out will make a difference. https://twitter.com/CalltoActivism/status/1762630973319942495 Not to be a killjoy but De Niro's been highly vocal about his disdain for Trump fro...

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As long as you promise not to grumble if that's how you find it. Portugal is very much about complaining/grumbling. They can turn to fado for some uplift in the mood :lol: Touché I can't say I know if it's actual national character, or the result of some of the less than happy recent history but th...

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The Dems could reasonably point out they have moved, rather a lot. 40-50 years ago Biden, even Obama, would very possibly have been GOP candidates, possibly a bit further back for Biden, and then a bit further back again. They wouldn't need to move much further and they wouldn't be all that centrist

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As a comment on the primary I read an article on interviewing 15 of Halley's supporters. I'm not reading anything into the overal numbers, it is her home state afterall, but rather these 15 non-Trump primary voters were bookmarked at each end by 4 who stated they would categorically vote for Trump ...

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Ah stop. There are plenty of areas where the laws don't allow an instant contest for the ball and give a brief advantage to the team in possession. If you've had a right old battle at ruck time but eventually one team has secured the ball it's ridiculous to suggest they play it the instant that bat...

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AND-y wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 12:13 pm Well more like a not good candidate and an evil narcissistic twat who allies with fascism to get his way. Not really much comparison in terms of just how bad they are.

Indeed

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. But, there has to be a contest for the ball, if there isn't it's no longer a game of rugby union and the rest is twaddle Ah stop. There are plenty of areas where the laws don't allow an instant contest for the ball and give a brief advantage to the team in possession. If you've had a right old ba...

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MungoMan wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 3:32 am
bimboman wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 8:20 pm
henry wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 7:56 pm

Interesting destination to flee to…
Good weather, food , and they like the British. I’m not looking for interesting.
As long as you promise not to grumble if that's how you find it.

Portugal is very much about complaining/grumbling.

They can turn to fado for some uplift in the mood

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You can't have a starter gun situation allowing a free for all for the ball after an arbitrary ref call with no way to predict when the ref deems the ball won. Reduce the 5s by all means. Or maybe, you know, enforce it. I doubt we'd have complaints if it was just reffed properly. And as I've said b...

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who would be motivated to pay to move Steve out without knowing the next incumbent would be any better? okay the RFU if/when they react to mean newspaper headlines, but other than that?

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most normal people aren't that normal. though many have limited opportunities to act as they might choose

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That's a really, really stupid idea (not the caterpillar part). Just enforce the use it. You're supposed to make the ball available to compete, not spend time admiring it's on your side and then get a further 5-7 seconds to play after a warning. If you don't get it out and play it doesn't seen unfa...

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ban the caterpillar and switch from 'please use it now 9' to 'ball is out' That's a really, really stupid idea (not the caterpillar part). Just enforce the use it. You're supposed to make the ball available to compete, not spend time admiring it's on your side and then get a further 5-7 seconds to ...

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ban the caterpillar and switch from 'please use it now 9' to 'ball is out'

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