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Goosen signs on for another two years at Edinburgh. Good news, but I fear it may be the end of Boff's stay in the capital. Boff seems like an absolutely cracking guy who really bought into the team, but belts are being tightened. Boff is class but he seems to be really struggling to get back to fit...

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 11:07 am If there is need for litter pickers then train them and pay them the going rate, which is probably minimum wage, so they will need UC top ups too.

This is absolutely nuts to me. Why should benefits pay more than the minimum wage?

I don’t think there’s a huge argument for people on benefits taking skilled jobs from contractors, but the state of just about any large town or city suggests we are crying out for more litter pickers etc. My local station had nice floral displays until the station manager who did it as a hobby ret...

There was an article in the Times about it this week, which featured some World Rugby fuckwit justifying it on the basis that they sell loads of All Blacks shirts in Malaysia and Thailand, and they're in Asia as well so it's bound to be hugely popular and attended by loads of locals. On the basis o...

Not sure if I've ever mentioned my possible night out with Sarkozy before. Me and my girlfriend, now wife, were in a posh club in Paris and met with three girls from Birmingham who we ended up having a great time with. Towards the end of the evening this guy comes up to us who was the absolute spit...

Interestingly the government are fighting and winning battles with ‘the blob’, first abolishing NHS England and now having forced the scrapping of two tier sentencing guidelines. I can imagine Starmer being better at the bureaucratic dogfighting than the Tory spivs we had to put up with for 14 years.

So Le Pen and her associates don't have plausible deniability, whereas the leaders of the other parties doing the exact same thing are more akin to our Post Office management and had no idea what was happening in the organisation they run? Brussels pundits seem to agree that parties from just about...

With Weir out for the rest of the season , we need both Hastings and Jordan to remain fit, and past experience would suggest that this is unlikely. Weir has been poor every time I have seen him play recently, but this might be a problem as I am not sure Hastings is even fully fit right now. What ha...

He looked pretty decent for the u20s. What I don't understand is that Glasgow have had some injury challenges in the back 3 in the last 2 years. I seem to recall a winger going to SA & starting who wasn't even in the squad. It would seem a prime opportunity to start this lad. I wonder if Franco...

Anecdotally everyone I know says they are going to give USA a swerve for the next 4 years. This is going to get serious for the American Tourism industry. My Turkish perspective on this is that those qualms and misgivings about authoritarianism and risks to personal liberty don't last as long as yo...

Free speech absolutist Elon Musk's Twitter has been closing the accounts of hundreds of journalists and opposition activists over the last few days in Turkey.

They had done well to get themselves in a good position with 20 mins to go. I thought Thompson was playing the conditions well, and the only issue was the lineout being a shitshow.

That Tuipolotu red card was an absolute killer though.

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 12:11 pm

I hope they put in a performance like they did last time out against Munster, but I reckon this will be a tough game. Benetton are no mugs at home and it looks like they have their internationals back.

Fair play to Glasgow getting the 5 points despite being poor. Hastings and Weir were both honking.

Not sure if sarcasm.... Semi-sarcastic. I'm on board with the higher education as a valuable export industry concept, but it doesn't mix well with NIMBYism and housing policy failure - both of which Scotland has plenty of. Student accommodation has absolutely nothing to do with the failure of the h...

International Student numbers down by 10,000. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w0y93w8vyo Thats probably about £400 million removed from the Scottish economy. Also, accounts for half of Dundee University's black hole. Great news for Edinburgh residents, who vociferously complain about every si...

International Student numbers down by 10,000. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w0y93w8vyo Thats probably about £400 million removed from the Scottish economy. Also, accounts for half of Dundee University's black hole. Great news for Edinburgh residents, who vociferously complain about every si...

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/19/europe/turkey-istanbul-mayor-detained-intl-hnk/index.html Erdoğan taking some fairly significant steps to cement his hold on power today. Turkey's democracy is somewhat problematic anyway, but yesterday İmamoğlu's university diploma from 35 years ago was cancelled,...

Id really love to.see an in depth study on the knock on effects of the complete dominance of the Premier league on the sporting landscape. I'm not even sure that the popularity of the Premier league is good for English football let alone other sports that are in competition with football. If just a...

That is actually a good idea. Welsh football has bloomed by being in the Premiership; Rugby might go the same way. :eh: How many Welsh clubs in the Prem? They all suffer the same way as every other club does which is not part of the big club cabal. Indeed, Swansea and Cardiff are both in the bottom...

My hot take is that Gilcho usually is pretty good, good or very good. He gets dung thrown at him for not being Eben Etzebeth or Brodie Retallick - we don't have those players in Scotland, though a couple of the young guys show some promise the bottom line is that Gilcho is the best we've had and so...

I think we can all agree that for the good of the game globally, it would be best if this was just a British Lions, yeah? No need for the and I. We don't want any thuggery and violence, lads. That is the Lions, the British Isles Lions. But then some people had their Trump Gulf of America moment and...

Some would suggest he left SA for Canada in order to avoid subscription to the SA army. Whilst he didn't have bone spurs he did have his Mothers Canadian nationality and a rich father. His family benefited greatly from the great wealth generated from their mining and other businesses whilst paying ...

Tesla stock down 12% so far today

Didn't we have refs penalising this kind of thing in the autumn for a couple of weeks before they forgot about it?

I'm not sure why Gilchrist should be getting all the stick. I'm fine with him being there for his set piece strengths, but I have no idea what Gray is offering. He used to have an incredible engine but that is gone.

Big D wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 5:21 pm Jordan has taken to international rugby like a duck to water.

He's got a great attitude. 12 is probably the right position for him at this level as well.

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 2:54 pm And again fuck me

If you get away with it every time, why not?

The MIC strikes again.

Interesting that he didn't include playing for Edinburgh as something he wanted to do. Playing for your home club and Scotland is the ambition for most kids it seems and maybe thats part of the issue. That doesn't surprise me for a Borders lad, but I would imagine it might be different for folk fro...

Bit of an eye opener into what miserable sods critics are. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/mar/03/scottish-painter-jack-vettriano-dies?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Critics are usually frustrated practitioners, hence their being miserable & resentful of people who can actually do wha...

Someone was lamenting our lack of lock depth recently but with him, Samuel and Williamson all at Glasgow and all just 22 there is a decent amount coming through. With Cam Henderson, Sykes and Hodgson all 25 and with their best years to come that’s a decent bit of depth to go with the likes of Cummi...

Ref isn't very sympathetic to Edinburgh's scrum dominance. Munster cutting through the Edinburgh defence a bit too easily as well. That was a bit crazy, was it ten scrum penalties against Munster by the end? How that wasn’t a yellow card I’ll never know, I’ve seen a player yellowed after 4 or 5. I ...

I am not hugely positive about what grown up, respectable diplomacy will do when faced with a group of pricks with massive coercive power.

Some bland and noncommittal statements of support? Some summits where nothing concrete is decided?

Edinburgh pumping Munster away. Bizarre stuff.

Ref isn't very sympathetic to Edinburgh's scrum dominance.

Munster cutting through the Edinburgh defence a bit too easily as well.

I like neeps wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 7:30 pm Hopefully, with them openly siding with Russia and the economy starting to crash with sky high egg prices this is the beginning of the end. Hopefully.

I admire your optimism, but people are idiots and we will no doubt end up with President Vance in four year's time.

Lot of crossover between the two threads at the moment but this is a disgraceful way to treat Zelensky. https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1895529008437367184?t=zFJdISH3bqjbrgY3F4X2jQ&s=19 Bunch of pricks, really. Kudos to Zelensky for handling that in his second language and still calmly hand...

The problem is, Trump lapped up being feted and fawned over, he could easily renege on any “deal” and just deny he said what he said. He is 100% untrustworthy This is true and he is also just mentally erratic, but he is also the cockwomble-in-charge for the next few years, so we have to live with t...

laurent wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2025 4:49 pm Freedom of speech according to Bezos

Free markets? The paper will be coming out all guns blazing against Trump's tariff plans then, right?

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