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a few decades ago people under the age of 40 were able to buy a house :shock: They also didn't go on as many expensive holidays, eat out as much, pay for multiple streaming services, iphones, deliveroo, tattoos everywhere and so on.... Lots of this is rubbish though. Going to Spain etc is cheap (an...

Seriously??? Somewhat hypocritical, given SA rugby's history of ref bashing (enabled by Rassie, of course). Seriously Boet, the French are still all over the place after their WC knockout. Du Pont still bitching, talking about revenge. Du Pont was really a whiny bitch after the loss He's not whinin...

It's not equivalent. You're not leveraging inside info as those betting on the election date were. That said, betting on anything involving yourself is clearly very dodgy ethnically. At best it shows very poor judgement. It also wouldn't surprise me if it's explicitly against some guidelines somewh...

Not a great showing for France winning 38 - 17 Too many handling errors. Too many silly passes (the irish second try is a direct shit pass in 22). I doubt they can challenge England from this showing. As the tournament continues, I would expect that the extent of silly passes and handling errors to...

laurent wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:30 pm France already lost their Fly half (Caroline Drouin is out)

Out for the tournament. She was the only 7s player joining the XV, so that may also be worrying news also for the 7s national team.

I don't accept the idea that UK people don't, become nurses or carers because they're feckless and lazy. For the majority they simply pursue work that actually pays a UK living wage. One of the disgraceful things about our migration situation is that we're using migrants to plug gaps in low paying,...

They would be victimised to appease the racists but I'd love to see an immigrants strike . To teach the thick "natives" a lesson. Leave all the work instead to the natives who are too lazy or thick to undertake the unpleasant or skilled work from which they themselves benefit. A lesson esp...

France squandered last week's won by losing against the Aussies. Really need to get some consistency. They're certainly consistent v the Red Roses! Les bleues certainly play every game to win, so the defeat certainly was a huge shock. Congratulations to Australia for their win - the even bigger sho...

Every UB training I've been on (and there were a fair few) essentially amounted to a person of colour telling white people that regardless of their conscious beliefs and actions, subconsciously they're all racists . Which is bollox. But plenty of research shows that, for instance, identical CVs are...

Not the structure it’s the cheating referees Ask Torque French clubs do value crowds. It seems you two could learn from this example of rugby values in victory from a Fre crowd. Respecting the fight put up by brave Gloucester with applause: https://twitter.com/i/status/1642252910393192449 Even the ...

With only two French Quarter finalists compared to England’s three do we need to have a discussion about the crisis in the French game? Definitely have to question whether their structure values crowds and the international game over domestic success. Concerning times for fans of French club rugby....

SaintK wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 3:24 pm
Torquemada 1420 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 3:20 pm
SaintK wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 3:18 pm
You twat!!!
Cheating c**t who should never be permitted to ref any game again involving a Fre team.
No you’re the cunt
You really shouldn’t watch rugby

Not watching this game but Brace has plenty of previous in making Fre fans feel that way.

Belated congratulations to Ireland. Great Fre defence for 70' and still 4 tries to one! Doris spectacular. Notwithstanding home advantage, you certainly established clear green water at the top. Atonio should of course have been sent off and the fact that he wasn't avoids any 15 v 14 diminution of y...

Does it? His foot certainly touched the grass after he grounded the ball, which we can’t see in that gif Touching the grass after the grounding was way later on. And no where near the touch line... the ball was a foot in the air before being grounded at the point he touched the ground... https://tw...

Congratulations Ireland. Looks tall for a 10 but Prendergast did everything right (long range pen. aside). Deserved winners over the 80' and silly lineout brainfart aside I thought the referee (and team) did well - the right calls, yellows, tmo checks and letting it all flow. If tomorrow is as good,...

“Pakistani Rashid” who is from Bradford Indeed. The first Yorkshire CCC player of Pakistani heritage And now the first Yorkshire CCC player to be a double world champion. Little Sam, is a native of Northampton (your rugby parish?) and player of the tournament. They both brilliantly helped ensure En...

Arguably 4 if you count the Billie Jean Cup.

I'm hoping Pakistani Rashid and Saffer Curran could help reverse that sequence...but Liam Livingstone not starting well

There is a standard set of Edinburgh missives for residential properties which covers some/all of this? Unless stated otherwise in the contract these apply to every residential property transaction in Edinburgh? Is this what you are pursuing through the courts for damages? I know that when I bought...

Other than pouting and posturing the the current drive of the government seems only to have one aim, which is to stay in power in perpetuum ( which to be fair is common to any government, but without appearing to know how to handle it ( also true of many governments). Tories have always traditional...

Everything is an opportunity to enrich himself for the likes of Rees-Mogg. He's a true Catholic (Pardoner edition). ....trying to divide and target/blame sections of our community - the refugees, the immigrants, the unemployed, the ill and the minorities. 2022 is going to be a shit year for most un...

The panel was expecting to publish this coming Monday. However, on Tuesday members were told they could not do so until their report had been passed to the home secretary, Priti Patel, so she could review it and make changes if she thought necessary. One of the main areas of inquiry for the panel w...

Dire fayre.

Racing esp. were dross. But without Leroux, Russell, Vakatawa, Chavancy, Thomas and for 79', Chat.

Well done Bordeaux but the team to draw in the SFs

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ew_nU91XEAEL73X?format=jpg&name=medium But remember folks it's the "unelected bureaucrats" of the EU that were the problem... House of Lords are a disgrace to democracy. Their interference in the brexit process was disgusting. Hopefully Boris starts the pro...

SaintK wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 10:32 am
I like neeps wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 10:29 am Robert Jenrick taking over because of mates being awarded contracts

What a world we live in.
The irony is strong!!

Derek Hatton to be put in charge of Planning decisions for Tower Hamlets?

This makes perfect sense for 99.9% of drivers. It's a fallacy that Winter tyres are specifically for snow. If anything, in deep snow they are not much more use (you need chains then) BUT they are significantly better at low temperatures and on moderately snowy and icy road conditions. And according...

Lived in Switzerland winter tyres / pneu neige are mandatory there in winter and sufficient in 99 % situation ( add chains if required ) a big fat 4x4 is not needed This is what I was talking about "winter clothing". This makes perfect sense for 99.9% of drivers. It's a fallacy that Winte...

To be fair any car with decent winter clothing will get through ... even my old C4 can handle snow... I suspect you don’t see much deep snow. Or steep hills. Lived in Switzerland winter tyres / pneu neige are mandatory there in winter and sufficient in 99 % situation (add chains if required) a big ...

Its all about Sovereignty init! Tax dodging, it was always about tax dodging. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsUrFY2XAAEgkE5?format=jpg&name=large Naay, that was always a bit of a myth. The tax avoidance regs for Europe were based on the ones already in effect in the UK. Would've made hardly any d...

Solid 1st half Italy but an unlucky if correct yc cost you. Good focus from France. Dulin caught everything. Wd def. like to have seen more of Carbonell and Couilloud but Jalibert was solid. Can't blame the kid, if he catches it there's nobody covering, but yes they fell apart badly after that. I'd...

Solid 1st half Italy but an unlucky if correct yc cost you. Good focus from France. Dulin caught everything. Wd def. like to have seen more of Carbonell and Couilloud but Jalibert was solid.

Torquemada 1420 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 28, 2020 9:09 pm
sturginho wrote: ↑Sat Nov 28, 2020 9:06 pm And the posh lost to non league in the cup, which makes me feel a bit better about the cobblers getting knocked out in the first round!
???????????

sturginho wrote: ↑Sat Nov 28, 2020 8:55 pm
shereblue wrote: ↑Sat Nov 28, 2020 8:49 pm Too simple, Italy. Good power, Danty.
Danty Vs Garbisi was only going to have one winner!

As an aside, Sturginho, first Swindon win in 2 decades against the Pox with 85 and 92 minute goals. I'm out of it....

Solid scrums, centre play and good patience from your boys

Too simple, Italy. Good power, Danty.

It's a Real Shit day https://www.cabrive-rugby.com/index.php/news/1167-le-ca-brive-arret-maladie-de-marc-dal-maso-a-partir-de-ce-soir Dal-Maso has Parkinson disease for a while now and Has to stop coaching. Sad news. Has known of this illness for some years and coached the Japan scrum under Eddie J...

Oooh, get you! :lol: Nah, good effort, I nearly took out Notts membership when I lived down there but just wouldn’t have got the value out of it. How does Middlesex membership work alongside the MCC, their members and Lords? Also, me and my mates who normally go to Test matches are thinking about g...

If the factory does close it will be sad, but Sunderland did vote leave, however we need a more reliable source than "A Nissan Manager" to confirm this story. Nothing in any other news media I can find. Yeah, very sad. Farage and Gove and Johnson and Redwood and Duncan Smith and their cot...

Here's the squad for the Italy match, completely changed from the last game, but with such stegnth in depth I doubt theyll even notice the difference https://www.onrugby.it/2020/11/20/autumn-nations-cup-francia-i-31-convocati-per-la-partita-contro-litalia/ Barraque. :lol: Thought Atonio fell on his...

"human history" is the idiot quote to which you I think you allude. I was quoting Rinkals I am indeed at fault. Wherever anyone stands, the easiest deal was to remain. However, we wouldn't be having all that lovely £350 million coming into treasury coffers come 8th January - and every wee...

Obviously not, however it would be the EU's "easiest deal in history" if a compromise is found "human history" is the idiot quote to which you I think you allude. I was quoting Rinkals Much as I also respect Rinkals, I suspect he was also alluding to Fox's idiot quote. He'd prob...

Longshanks wrote: ↑Mon Nov 23, 2020 11:02 am
shereblue wrote: ↑Mon Nov 23, 2020 10:59 am
Longshanks wrote: ↑Mon Nov 23, 2020 8:59 am
EU negotiators say it's 95% complete. Take it up with them
not even "oven ready"?
Obviously not, however it would be the EU's "easiest deal in history" if a compromise is found

"human history" is the idiot quote to which you I think you allude.

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