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- Mon Jan 29, 2024 10:02 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Kurt Beale arrested for alleged sexual assault…
- Replies: 373
- Views: 28210
Re: Kurt Beale arrested for alleged sexual assault…
Agree. Is it totally out of the question that some minority of women might act unscrupulously given the opportuity in order to make a payday? Of course it isn't. I agree with whatever his name is. Her story sounds a bit squirly. That doesn't mean it didn't happen exactly like that; and if it did, B...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 7:14 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Kurt Beale arrested for alleged sexual assault…
- Replies: 373
- Views: 28210
Re: Kurt Beale arrested for alleged sexual assault…
Here's my take... Major red flag when fringe poster returns after seven years in an attempt to discredit sexual assault complainant. :roll: Agree. Is it totally out of the question that some minority of women might act unscrupulously given the opportuity in order to make a payday? Of course it isn'...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 7:55 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
- Replies: 172
- Views: 28379
Re: Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
In this instance, didn't the actual airline do something weird with the door? There wasn't a door there; it was a plug in the hole where a door could be added.. Is that what you mean? About half of the Max9 planes built (if not more) have that modification. Ah okay. I didn't really follow the news ...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 12:04 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
- Replies: 172
- Views: 28379
Re: Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
In this instance, didn't the actual airline do something weird with the door?
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 12:22 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Can the scrum be saved?
- Replies: 157
- Views: 23589
Re: Can the scrum be saved?
They tried feeding the modern scrum strait and it proved problematic as hookers couldn’t reach the ball unless they were able to first push over it. The modern scrum cannot be fed straight. Yeah I've heard this before. But it's been done and tested and there's plenty of video evidence. They can pus...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 12:20 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
- Replies: 172
- Views: 28379
Re: Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
A neighbour of ours flies for Qantas. He loves Boeing. Or at least he prefers Boeing to Airbus, thanks. I don't know too much about being a pilot I must admit. But he probably loves them because that's what he is trained to fly. I'm not sure that many pilots fly both Airbuses and Boeings. I know av...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 7:24 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
- Replies: 172
- Views: 28379
Re: Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
Ryanair has a good few of them. No one realises More like no one cares. Lots of airlines have them. They are common. They’re also probably the most intensely scrutinised and examined planes in history right now from a safety point of view. Again, no apologetics for corporate greed, but at the minut...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 7:21 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Can the scrum be saved?
- Replies: 157
- Views: 23589
Re: Can the scrum be saved?
If the ball is fed into the middle and they the have a long contest trying to hook the ball fine, if the ball is won from the scrum and they spend some time trying to get a left or right shoulder up fine. if the time is going into setting and resetting, and resetting, and resetting and..., and then...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 8:20 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Can the scrum be saved?
- Replies: 157
- Views: 23589
Re: Can the scrum be saved?
But that's not the point. The point is a competition of strength and power between both packs. If the ball is fed into the middle and they the have a long contest trying to hook the ball fine, if the ball is won from the scrum and they spend some time trying to get a left or right shoulder up fine....
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 7:28 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Can the scrum be saved?
- Replies: 157
- Views: 23589
Re: Can the scrum be saved?
Notice the forwards are not fat fucks. Those two packs, no. But there were certainly a few fatties around at that time and later in top-grade Strayan RL. This fella - Georgie Rose - was a fave player of mine despite being a Sea-eagle for much of his career, and he departed the NRL in 2015. https://...
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 6:52 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Can the scrum be saved?
- Replies: 157
- Views: 23589
Re: Can the scrum be saved?
Wasn't Puma or Pumita? Involved in a study on this where they reffed games with a mandatory straight feed.. and there were issues? No, there were not issues. Some other posters insisted there were but the scrums looked awesome to me. People were complaining that it was a real pushing contest and no...
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 2:38 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wallabies 2024 (2023 never happened)
- Replies: 9793
- Views: 321349
Re: Wallabies 2024 (2023 never happened)
We have a fresh start. That, I look forward to. But apart from that, I've seen too many false dawns to get my hopes up. I predict more.of the same mediocracy until the North Shore private boys club who think wearing a thousand dollar RM's and an Akubra that looks fresh pressed out of the factory fl...
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 12:03 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wallabies 2024 (2023 never happened)
- Replies: 9793
- Views: 321349
Re: Wallabies 2024 (2023 never happened)
We have a fresh start. That, I look forward to. But apart from that, I've seen too many false dawns to get my hopes up. I predict more.of the same mediocracy until the North Shore private boys club who think wearing a thousand dollar RM's and an Akubra that looks fresh pressed out of the factory flo...
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 5:07 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby League goes Woke
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2352
Re: Rugby League goes Woke
I liked the word "woke". It used to be a concise way to identify a certain unscientific type of moral flag waving. Problem with it is that righty loons have hijacked it to mean "anything that is not on the loon right wing of the political spectrum" so the word is unusable now if you want reasonable ...
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 1:51 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Ex Wallaby coach accused of sexual assault
- Replies: 95
- Views: 6115
Re: Ex Wallaby coach accused of sexual assault
Bloke is a f-cking lunatic and a national embarrassment. That he ever had anything to do with The Wallabies, let alone be able to become so popular with the nutter section of Aussie society is shameful.
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 12:37 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Video Game Console Wars - Do You Believe Such A Thing Has Ever Existed?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 3565
Re: Video Game Console Wars - Do You Believe Such A Thing Has Ever Existed?
I never owned a console until I was 40. I bought a Play Station something to play Red Dead Redemption 2, got bored of it in a week and gave it to my little sister. I've never really understood the point of them, they are kind of like tablets. Where a tablet fills the gap between your mobile phone an...
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 8:46 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wallabies 2024 (2023 never happened)
- Replies: 9793
- Views: 321349
Re: Wallabies 2024 (2023 never happened)
Apologies if there is a thread somewhere for this already. We're through 4 rounds of the soul, and some new contenders are beginning to emerge. RA also confirmed that we can take 3 overseas players per tournament. Props are pretty much locked , we know who our top 4 are, and the fight is over the n...
- Mon Nov 13, 2023 7:17 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
- Replies: 9380
- Views: 311826
Re: Israel declares state of war
The bright line between good and evil. https://www.samharris.org/blog/the-bright-line-between-good-and-evil A podcast that questions what Israel is doing and speaks to the real problems that lie outside the knee jerk allegations of colonialism as the cause of the wider war. I found it a good read. ...
- Mon Nov 13, 2023 7:03 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
- Replies: 9380
- Views: 311826
Re: Israel declares state of war
^ An example of what I'm talking about. Redneck multi posts a picture of a gun in the Israel Palestine thread and goes on with the Islamophobia and is simply given a warning. The term "islamophobia" was invented by Iranian clerics in the 70s and 80s in order to try and equate criticism of Islam - a...
- Sun Nov 12, 2023 7:57 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
- Replies: 9380
- Views: 311826
Re: Israel declares state of war
It's a little different as "Jewish" is a an identity that is a race as well as a religion depending on context.
- Sun Nov 12, 2023 5:45 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
- Replies: 9380
- Views: 311826
Re: Israel declares state of war
^ An example of what I'm talking about. Redneck multi posts a picture of a gun in the Israel Palestine thread and goes on with the Islamophobia and is simply given a warning. The term "islamophobia" was invented by Iranian clerics in the 70s and 80s in order to try and equate criticism of Islam - a...
- Wed Nov 08, 2023 11:34 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official statement from Bongi Mbonambi re : the incident
- Replies: 152
- Views: 4481
Re: Official statement from Bongi Mbonambi re : the incident
I'm sure Curry realised exactly what actually happened. He just had a brain-snap in the heat of the moment and tried to make something out of it to eek any little advantage that he thought it may have given his side after 0.02 seconds of thought about whether it was smart or in good spirit or not. ...
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 7:34 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official statement from Bongi Mbonambi re : the incident
- Replies: 152
- Views: 4481
Re: Official statement from Bongi Mbonambi re : the incident
I'm sure Curry realised exactly what actually happened. He just had a brain-snap in the heat of the moment and tried to make something out of it to eek any little advantage that he thought it may have given his side after 0.02 seconds of thought about whether it was smart or in good spirit or not.
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 11:55 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Judge slams Just Stop Oil protester after she asks for her trial to be delayed so she could FLY to India
- Replies: 45
- Views: 2574
Re: Judge slams Just Stop Oil protester after she asks for her trial to be delayed so she could FLY to India
I don't get this type of attack on the protestors. The plane is going anyway. Do you want them to burn yet more oil to go by car? This kind of stuff is absolute catnip for conservative old curmudgeons who want to believe climate change is not happening. They also think they're kicking huge goals by...
- Sun Nov 05, 2023 3:29 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Are we heading to WWIII?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 3216
Re: Are we heading to WWIII?
Like I inferred, the paragons of virtue, the seventh highest order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy etc. I guess you read a lot of Wolfowitz, he managed to absolve America of implicit culpability. Far from perfect? No, perfect from far. Just how we like it don’t we. Well, you're using ridiculous...
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 2:37 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Are we heading to WWIII?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 3216
Re: Are we heading to WWIII?
Well nothing of course. They’re just innocent bystanders, only ever coming to fray to protect the innocent, uphold justice, and promote democracy where it’s asked. They’d never hurt anyone or do any wrong. It's just weird to bring them into it. I guess you read a lot of Chomsky? Whatever the conver...
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 2:08 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Are we heading to WWIII?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 3216
Re: Are we heading to WWIII?
Yes. There’s no way the yanks give up their sweet hegemony without a fight, and everyday it’s slipping away from them. What's any of this got to do with the yanks? Well nothing of course. They’re just innocent bystanders, only ever coming to fray to protect the innocent, uphold justice, and promote...
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 12:33 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Are we heading to WWIII?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 3216
Re: Are we heading to WWIII?
What's any of this got to do with the yanks?sonic_attack wrote: ↑Fri Nov 03, 2023 6:05 am Yes. There’s no way the yanks give up their sweet hegemony without a fight, and everyday it’s slipping away from them.
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 8:21 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Anthony Joshua
- Replies: 10943
- Views: 906180
Re: Anthony Joshua
Francis robbed. Welcome to boxing big man. That's how it works.
I wish I paid closer attention to this thread so I could have enjoyed all the boxing "experts" having to wipe egg off their face, but I didn't.
I'm sure there are a few though.
I wish I paid closer attention to this thread so I could have enjoyed all the boxing "experts" having to wipe egg off their face, but I didn't.
I'm sure there are a few though.
- Sat Oct 28, 2023 7:37 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Eddie Jones has resigned
- Replies: 535
- Views: 17471
Re: Eddie Jones actually gone?
TLDR: Knew we wouldn't get far - possibly one game further than we did - took a massive gamble on youth, knowing it was gamble. But couldn't really come out and say that. You may say that's easy to claim in retrospect, but to be honest, I called this. It seems I was 100% correct on what Eddie Jones...
- Sat Oct 28, 2023 8:41 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Eddie Jones has resigned
- Replies: 535
- Views: 17471
Re: Eddie Jones actually gone?
TLDR: Knew we wouldn't get far - possibly one game further than we did - took a massive gamble on youth, knowing it was gamble. But couldn't really come out and say that. You may say that's easy to claim in retrospect, but to be honest, I called this. It seems I was 100% correct on what Eddie Jones ...
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 2:23 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: US shopping mall shooting #11123944231
- Replies: 2238
- Views: 112537
Re: US shopping mall shooting #11123944231
Not very good as in should have killed a bigger total ? Or not very good as in oh dear, more deaths ? Have just spent a day shooting with afrikaaners gun enthusiasts, and even they think America has a crazy gun problem. They're totally nuts. They keep holding up Australia as an example of, "look wh...
- Thu Oct 26, 2023 6:57 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: US shopping mall shooting #11123944231
- Replies: 2238
- Views: 112537
Re: US shopping mall shooting #11123944231
Horrific news to wake up to. As horrific as it is perhaps the worst thing is the reaction of most in the UK and esp in the USA , beyond the small minority on social media is "oh another one" maybe extending to "that not very good is it." Not very good as in should have killed a bigger total ? Or no...
- Thu Oct 26, 2023 6:45 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Tom Curry accuses Mbonambi of racial abuse
- Replies: 1295
- Views: 27741
Re: Tom Curry accuses Mbonambi of racial abuse
Look closer to home fella. It's your hooker that's the racist one. You haven't done your homework son. Now that your rugby and cricket teams are dusted, you have ample time to reread Mog and Toro's comments. Once you've completed said task, please report back to me for further reading. “Education i...
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 7:03 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Tom Curry accuses Mbonambi of racial abuse
- Replies: 1295
- Views: 27741
Re: Tom Curry accuses Mbonambi of racial abuse
Not ones with a political agenda, no. You're dismissing all academic writing on racism as being invalid because it all has a political agenda? :lol: You do realise you are arguing for reverse racism which has long been a political agenda of the far right? Reverse racism? You've gone through the loo...
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 4:00 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Tom Curry accuses Mbonambi of racial abuse
- Replies: 1295
- Views: 27741
Re: Tom Curry accuses Mbonambi of racial abuse
Physical violence perpetrated by women against men is typically not as serious because men are far stronger than women. Of course nobody is saying women should be allowed to go around belting men with tyre irons. Just that in a one-on-one fist fight between a man and woman, you're typically not wor...
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 3:18 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Tom Curry accuses Mbonambi of racial abuse
- Replies: 1295
- Views: 27741
Re: Tom Curry accuses Mbonambi of racial abuse
Man these are some really fvcked up people in this thread. Physical violence is less important if its against men? Racism against whites doesn't matter. What the hell is wrong with some of you. No wonder we as a species suck so much. :thumbdown: That's a very misconstrued summary of what's been tal...
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 3:16 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Tom Curry accuses Mbonambi of racial abuse
- Replies: 1295
- Views: 27741
Re: Tom Curry accuses Mbonambi of racial abuse
Man these are some really fvcked up people in this thread. Physical violence is less important if its against men? Racism against whites doesn't matter. What the hell is wrong with some of you. No wonder we as a species suck so much. :thumbdown: Nobody said any of it doesn't matter. Physical violen...
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 1:26 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Tom Curry accuses Mbonambi of racial abuse
- Replies: 1295
- Views: 27741
Re: Tom Curry accuses Mbonambi of racial abuse
No, you are completely wrong. Speak up, investigate and learn is the way to improve things. If it is the incident that we are all being referred to then I simply don't agree with you. If he was racially abused, it is an act of hatred. The person spewing the abuse would want to see the effect the in...
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 10:52 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Tom Curry accuses Mbonambi of racial abuse
- Replies: 1295
- Views: 27741
Re: Tom Curry accuses Mbonambi of racial abuse
Big Wendall Sailor said something pertinent about twenty years ago. When asked by a journalist how it made him feel that someone in the crowd had called him a "black c-word", he replied, "well, I suppose it's pretty offensive to be called a c-unt". My respect for him sky-rocketed after that. Gettin...