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Yeah that's so yesterday's news, we're onto bodies hanging from barbed wire now.

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Broadly true (though actually went up in 2018) but thanks again

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Decent question. Russell has improved at Racing IMO. Might have done so anyway, or because of being behind a better pack. Hard to tell with Gray because of injury, but not especially from his Sale days. The likes of Strauss - no; CdP - hard to tell (injury); Dell - too early; Reid - no; Maitland - a...

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My point is rather that the collective global action needed is far more likely to happen fast (and it needs to be fast) if and only if the US is behind it.

The whataboutery re China, India, my aunt Fanny only serves to reinforce that point. So thanks for that.

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It's only really when the likes of the US, or indeed the US specifically, takes this seriously that serious global action will happen. That's why people go on about them. And it's right that they do.

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Don't know why they pussyfoot around the c*nt so much. There already was a deal to prevent Iran getting nukes, and Trump has made it more likely. The rest of the world has to put up with this sh!t because he can't stand that a black man is better than him.

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Jesus that would be an insane idea. Sensible option for storage of captured CO2 of course.

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I like haggis wrote:Not sure how Dodson is possibly justifying this.

To get quality, you've got to shell out them big bucks

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Seems unlikely. I don't see any reason to assume either a) technology will inevitably progress to the extent that high level radioactive waste will be neutralised or made wholly safe, or b) that it's The Greens that are stymying this progress. There's a lot of woolly thinking around the green moveme...

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There's also the slight problem that there's no solution for handling high level waste.

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I enjoy/endure a fair bit of chat with Ingerlish types about the egg chasing, and their assumption of the superiority of their league, as in many other matters tbf, is so deep-seated they don't even know they're doing it. Every time they get humped by a Pro14 outfit it's clear evidence that the lack...

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Seems like a Caley Reds would be the only viable option for a third team. There just aren't enough punters in the Borders unfortunately. Given that, where is the NE Super 6 team? :| There are plenty punters in the borders, they're just insular b4stards. Part of the reason the Melrose S6 team is the...

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Seneca of the Night wrote:ropey boilers - who still don't know what they're talking about.

Seems to fit the current zeitgeist, if the current occupant of Number 10 is any guide.

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I don't think "le petit mort" means what he thinks it means. He should ask Thom Evans about it.

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eugenius wrote:Snip

Thanks for that, captures the insanity of it all very nicely, and horribly.

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https://youtu.be/9QdBPP7nMfI

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OptimisticJock wrote:There was an article someone posted about him from earlier in the year. Conceded 19 tries one season down to 13 after appointing him.

Like.

Can't be worse than Taylor surely. Last of the Scott Johnson stench?

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Last week former Leeds Rhinos player Rob Burrows announced he has motor neurone disease, we know about Doddie Weir and Joost Van Der Westhuiven. The latest research shows that there is a link between contact sports and MND. What should rugby do? I think until we know more then headguards should at ...

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Always difficult to get reliable evidence from retrospective observational studies, esp for rare events. Also worth bearing in mind that (IIRC) the recent study that linked dementia with heading the ball in football found that ex-footballers had better health in other ways, especially cardiovascular...

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Laidlaw retires from Scotland duty. Well played Greeg, memorable career and continually led by example. Yeah, he got a lot of stick for being conservative but tbf continued to work on his game throughout. Superb accuracy off the tee as well. In a game increasingly dominated by the smesh, it was alw...

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If all scientists are not 100% correct at all times, then they are all 100% incorrect at all times and everything they say can be dismissed. FACT. Agreed, however the UK alone is being asked to spend 1 trillion pounds . They’d better be sure By which you mean the targets that the UK has set for its...

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globus wrote:Rosie Langley

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My favourite par of that article on McCluskey “He’s like a crack addict,” said the MP. “He needs one more hit. He’s already stolen all our money, sold all our goods and furniture and now wants the Labour Party to go on the game to fund his last big hit. The madness must end.” Corbyn hanging on to p...

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In seriousness, I'm sure we all have friends from both sides of the Indy divide and it helps when respect is shown even when you disagree with their viewpoint, as always the rest of them could learn a lot from us, twas ever thus! That's a good point. There seems to be a lot less vitriol around it u...

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Seymour was a great player for Scotland for a long time. Congratulations Tommy. Not a bad strike rate, and 4th on the all-time try-scoring list for Scotland. Was there not chat about a bet between him & Hoggy on who would break the record first? That's what I heard. Seems to have jinxed the whole e...

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Also, there is no long term solution to high level waste. Re: exaggerated claims, IMO this is a false impression derived in the main from the denier lobby picking out a few outliers and building their entire argument on them, By and large, it's looking like the mainstream predictions have been over-...

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I think they made the right choice for PM

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Of course not. Glad we are agreed on that.

But it's all about context, right?

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I see your still doing the antisemtism = islamaphobia thing. And there we have a case in point. Nothing in my comment could possibly be described in that fashion. Your comment is pure fantasy. I'm suggesting that the two issues should be totally seperate - you put them back together like a good Tor...

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I imagine worldwide interest in Finnish politics just kicked up a notch

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I like haggis wrote:Cummings has been great but him and Gray have 6 Nations, Autumn tests, and mandatory rest.

This. I feel that Nakarawa's presence would be good for the younger guys coming through, especially during the 6N.

Agree re the need for a FB too.

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That would be excellent, even if just for the rest of the season. Just what the Weegies need.

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Frodder wrote:
Smutley wrote:What? All of them?
Bimbo is THE authority on Food banks

Clearly.

TBF rail is already largely state-owned. Just not by the UK state.

https://fullfact.org/economy/who-owns-b ... gy-postal/

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What? All of them?

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-candidate-food-banks-poor-families-budget-darren-henry-broxtowe-a9238076.html A Tory candidate has prompted anger by suggesting that people using food banks struggle with managing their budget. This is the stuff they are coming out with during an ...

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I agree. Enablers of bigotry are bigots. Sometimes, they don't know that they are. One of Corbyn’s problems is that he is not someone who is prone to self-reflection. He has spent his whole career convinced not just in the rightness of his own ideas and beliefs, but also convinced that his beliefs ...

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I've not seen anything that proves that. How about the list I posted for starters? Yeah thanks for posting that. I did a bit of research, and concluded it's mostly (1, 2, 4, 6) guilt by associating with the wrong type of people. As I said, there are definitely some unpleasant antisemites amongst th...

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I've not seen anything that proves that.

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Regarding the 'viable alternatives' that wouldn't really be an issue as it'd still be free at the point of delivery. You might even have more choice with hospitals competing for NHS clients. They tried that and it was a complete disaster - both times. Massive waste of resources. One of the many shi...

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Given how the Palestinians have been ethnically cleansed to make way for a more or less apartheid state, it's hardly surprising there are a load of antisemites on the go. As a politician who actually tries to do something about it, it is hard to see how Corbyn could avoid attending the same events a...

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