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Guy Smiley wrote: Sat Nov 30, 2024 9:07 pm I’m not blaming the ref for Australia’s loss, you simpleton.

Guy Smiley wrote: Sat Nov 30, 2024 5:45 pm uhhhh... ok.

The Wallabies can rightly feel hard done by

Uncle fester wrote: Sat Nov 30, 2024 7:09 pm Was looking forward to reading the ref blaming here and ye did not disappoint.

great isn't it?

No-one's blaming the ref...

:lol:

Do refs just sit back and watch breakdowns now regardless of what's going on?

So, the TMOs are criticised for being too involved in the game with multi phase reviews.

I guess we could call that a rebalancing?

Add in some very poor refereeing ...

RIP - ripe old age of 90 so he did well compared to a lot of his contemporaries.

The "beano album" is an absolute must-listen for anyone interest in rock and heavy rock - not just electric blues. I think it would be hard to overstate its importance in laying the groundwork for all nearly all ...

Jalacy "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins, born 18th of July 1929. I guess this is his most famous song, there have been many versions - check out the one for Haiti Nick Cave did with Shane McGowan, Chrissie Hynde, Paloma Faith etc, it's really good. Anyway, back to Screamin Jay Hawkins

I know you're ...

Jimmy Yancey, born 20th of February 1898. In what will become a recurring theme, there is a little bit of confusion as to the actual year of his birth - birth certificates and records were not always the most accurate, if they existed at all.

Jimmy took to the road with his father and brother, he ...

It’s a real post and thread on a real Facebook forum about UK immigration. So your Google strategy failed you, and instincts about it not existing were completely wrong!

Google indexes facebook - just type "facebook uk immigration" into google you'll get over 77m results. But none of them have ...

Oh ok. On this message. I thought the English was fairly decent, but then there was the second last paragraph which was not great. But I’ve seen good written English from those from Pakistan before.

It was allegedly on facebook, when I saw another reference to it, but I personally don’t have a ...

Munster beat Connacht 3-0 not that long ago from what I recall. My greatest rugby achievement was contributing to under 14s schools B team beating Bruff 3 nil in a friendly.

Do you actually really not believe cases like this? And if there were such cases, would it rock your mind?

Of course it wouldn't.

I think you're missing my point with my questions - in this case I'm not taking a pro or anti refugee stance.

I mean, to me, it's pretty obvious that the specific ...

Is there no link to the original actual forum? I'm a little suspicious of screenshots posted on twitter.

From here. You are free to not believe it, if it helps you.

I guess it does help but probably in the opposite way you intended.

It's another twitter account posting the same image you ...

Is there no link to the original actual forum? I'm a little suspicious of screenshots posted on twitter.

Ymx wrote: Sun Dec 24, 2023 12:48 pm I saw some asylum seeker (on a forum) who was annoyed with their lawyer as the lawyer had suggested it not best to fly back to Pakistan to a friends wedding. So instead to travel via another country.

Have you a link to this forum discussion?

Particularly worrying I'd say as electricity becomes the primary method of transporting energy and more and more applications like transport, domestic heating and cooking, industrial processes etc. are electrified.

Btw, these underwater "cables" are quite complex - more like pipelines with the ...

However, there are reference from protestors in the article to an 'offshore grid' to replace the onshore. Google tells me nothing other than in relation to bringing offshore windfarm power onshore into the existing grid.

Does anyone have any nowledge about this?

Might be a reference to ...

It makes some sense to say how Trump was opposed and how that spoke to many was a big factor, but yes, it doesn't seem likely had people simply not opposed him he'd have lost.

I'm not so sure. Early during the 2016 primaries, he was a bit of a joke/fringe candidate from what I recall.

I think ...

Oh and Guy, poke derriz at your peril. :grin:

Ah, I'm not that bad. This was a bizarre interaction - I respectfully disagreed with his claim that a song was based on another and the dickhead goes straight for a tarmac driveway gibe. Classy. Especially as his claim is obviously nonsense ...

Ah there we go. Tom Waits, one of my all time go-to musicians, my desert island disk choices would include work from Waits, from John Martyn, The Pogues, Dick Gaughan, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, SRV, Miles, Trane .. I'd probably best stop as I'll just list a whole load of musicians

Nice list ...

I don't see that at all - it's a completely different song with a different setting, story, message, melody (except for a line of the chorus), etc. Bogle's song references Waltzing Matilda which as you say is/was considered an unofficial national anthem - but the purpose is to highlight how ...

Waltzing Matilda is based on a poem written by Banjo Patterson in 1895. It has a chequered history but there's little doubting that it became an unofficial anthem of Australia over the course of a century or so.

Yeah, but the song we were talking about only mentions the Waltzing Matilda ...

Eric Bogle wrote that Waltzing Matilda song, he also wrote Willie McBride or Green Fields of France or No Man's land, depending on the title you like. It's often thought of as an Irish song because of the Fureys making a bit of a hit of it.

MacGowan's version of Waltzing is the best I've heard ...

A song I listened to yesterday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsXEGvX_ksI

a good antiwar song.

You know Macgowan didn't write that, yes?

It the best rendition by far. The folk scene particularly Irish folk music - a big influence on MacGowan - borrowed from folk traditions all over ...

Well at least we've learned of an impregnable defence against anti-immigrant revolts in future. Just surround anything you want to protect like government buildings with sportswear shops and places selling cigarettes and booze. These are the equivalent of minefield traps for DAC and his fellow ...

I'm not sure about that, Scotland did exactly as expected, dished out the required bullying of the T2 teams in the group and lost to the two teams especially equipped to dish out the bullying to us.
In the warm up games Scotland beat Italy handily, then struggled in the first half against a ...

It doesn't matter that hydrogen only lasts for a few years in the atmosphere in its pure form. It's the way it reacts with other components of the atmosphere (particularly methane and ozone) which gives it a GWP100 (greenhouse effect over 100 years) which is 12 times more potent than the equivalent ...

Nope. The greenhouse effect is independent of the method of production. Hydrogen produced using electrolysis powered purely by clean carbon free energy, if leaked into the atmosphere is a potent greenhouse gas - via promoting ozone production and slowing the breakdown of methane. Molecule for ...

The daftest thing about hydrogen is that when leaked, it has a potent greenhouse effect - albeit indirect but nearly 7 times as potent as CO2. Not only is it a nightmare to handle, it’s filthy if combusted (NOx emissions 10 times that of methane/NG) but it doesn’t even help with the problem of ...

The Rugby World Cup youtube highlights are a f*cking joke and they must have blocked all the broadcasters from showing extended highlights on their channels. 3 mins no matter what happens in the match - often they don't even show all the tries. They're almost worse than nothing - you can't help ...

Hellraiser wrote: Wed Sep 20, 2023 7:59 pm This gives a decent overview of why Russians are what they are.

This is a great video.

Wait, so in the last few weeks RB has given critiques on Moderna, Pfizer, Bill Gates, Biden etc etc and all of a sudden he's being taken down.

I am the very personification of being shocked. :lolno: :lolno:

Let’s get this straight - you believe that all the allegations are made up and the women ...

_Os_ wrote: Sat Sep 02, 2023 1:01 pm
derriz wrote: Sat Sep 02, 2023 10:52 am Or someone while chime up with a variant of the broken window paradox - without actually understanding that it's a paradox.
It's the opposite of a paradox, it's a fallacy ("the broken window fallacy").

Correct.

Everyone with any interest in the subject knows that GDP doesn't capture all aspects of a country's success or even economic success. But it's easy to measure and so is difficult (but not impossible) to doctor or make up. Because it's such a simple measure, it's easy to judge if there's been any ...

He has to put that on the way Bojo puts on his bumbling. Trump is a stupid cunt but not that stupid

He's a complete cunt alright but he's not stupid at all. The biggest mistake his opponents and the liberals in the US make is thinking he's stupid or dumb and thinking that pointing this out will ...

Yeah, agree that biofuels are a terrible idea - but synthetic methane isn't a bio fuel - it's "manufactured" from hydrogen produced by electrolysis - so assuming no leaks (hmm...) - carbon neutral.

Yes electricity generation is only part of the puzzle - domestic heating/cooking, transport and ...

Well, the rapid expansion of renewable electricity generation couldn't/can't happen without gas given how it supports demand following particularly with open-cycle turbines. Unlike coal or nuclear which are useless in that regard. Looks like for the next few decades, all electricity will either come ...

Hydrogen fire sounds like a complete nightmare. I vaguely recall reading that the US military or some such used straw brooms held in front of them to avoid accidentally walking into the invisible flames of a hydrogen fire. F*ck that - no interest in using a hydrogen "filling station" serviced by ...

I'm a hydrogen skeptic. None of the proposals are compelling except the use of electrolysis to replace the production of grey hydrogen in industrial processes.

And it turns out that it's a powerful (indirect) greenhouse-gas so the fact that it's almost impossible to contain - the molecules are so ...

Amateur interest only Fester although it's a fascinating sector - worked on a disastrous IT project in the industry and developed an interest from there.

We had a good head start with on-shore wind - hit 2nd globally for % of wind generation couple of years back - but are far behind in terms of off ...

There are cost and time overruns and then there are nuclear cost and time overruns which are in a league of their own. Flamenville: 3.3b budget started 2007 intended finish 2012 - still under construction with euro 19b spent. Olkiluoto Started 2005 planned operation 2010, first output a watt 2023 ...

EPR might be just too big though every reactor type has problems initially hence the last ones to start build usually being completed fastest. I'm not really looking to expand UK nuclear capacity overall just maintain it as a base so we can get rid of coal, gas and "biomass" sooner. There are a ...

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