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Petition to rename Napoleon syndrome to Eddie Jones syndrome.

The man is becoming increasingly unhinged:

England rugby head coach Eddie Jones says facing the USA will be like facing "15 Donald Trumps" because they will come out "all guns blazing"

Terrible match

There's been almost more standing around than gametime

Dupont is just so vokken good

Why does the referee keep calling every handling error knock-on? Lots of them have gone back

You could bet your house that if an Italian player had just done what Marchant did it would have been a yellow. It should have been I thought it was quite unlucky. The ball was out. I agree though, Italy player would have been given a yellow. But they have already given away more penalties I guess.

It's entertaining enough. If it was Farell and England forwards just pick and driving to 28-0 I'd agree, but this kind of rugby is not boring to watch at least.

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Sun Feb 13, 2022 3:12 pm Smith must be loving just getting the ball given to him rather than waiting an age for it.

Is Youngs finally gone to the glue factory then?

Very bad defending from Italy

Great game

Scotland by 8
France by 5
England by 30

I think Italy look much better than since several years. Losing by 27 points against France in their home stadium is not so bad. I was watching a Squidge Rugby video, he gave some interesting stats on the Italy youth teams performances over the years. U20s are now maybe 3/4th best team and U18s are ...

It's been obvious to many that there is something very wrong with Eddie Jones for a long time now. There are psychological flaws that manifest themselves over long and short time-frames. I've been reading some of his most recent book, written in the period after RWC19 and it's full of revisionism. ...

Ireland will easily beat both of these teams

England was way too narrow on the first cross kick for Duhan, then why was a hooker covering their wing for the next cross kick??

You could see the arrogance turn on when they went 7 points up.

Come on Scotland!

Pop on a mask for the 0.3% of your day that you are in a shop or on the bus. There we go, that wasn’t too difficult was it? It's also pointless, if it's a surgical/cloth mask. It's worrying that Governments have implemented these policies without solid evidence. In Germany at least they require FFP...

I don't believe they offer 20-50% protection, because of two reasons: a) The RCTs performed in Bangladesh and Denmark (with cloth/surgical masks) found very little effect. b) No country that is extremely strict on wearing masks (Spain, for example) has done much better than kind of similar countries...

FFP3 masks - almost 100% effective at stopping the wearer catching Covid from airborne transmission. FFP2 masks - only slightly less effective than FFP3. Main difference is that there's not as tight a seal. Surgical masks - almost completely ineffective at stopping airborne transmission (which is th...

mat the expat wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 11:49 pm
All types

And yes they do, as our case numbers made clear.

Then why do they show poor results in RCTs?

dpedin wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 5:47 pm covid hospital admissions are up 43% in last 7 days

With covid or because of covid?

folk are even going to start abandoning simple measures like mask wearing as they have had enough. Critical couple of weeks coming. You don't want that - 2 weeks of that prior to Xmas here in NSW has caused Omicron to hit all over the country. The Feds and State government have lost control here FF...

That Eric guy is a fear-monger. To show the other side of the data, from England: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIfmUE4XsAU3Euo?format=png&name=medium If you do not separate 'with' and 'from' Covid hospitalisations (what Eric forgot about), then anytime when cases rise will result in 'hospitalisat...

Some areas of the US, that sacked unvaccinated healthcare workers, now let Covid-positive healthcare staff still go to work. Crazy.

A lockdown will have exactly the opposite effect of the virus "burning out”. You will lower transmission during lockdown which will then shoot up afterwards, in effect prolonging the overall wave. This. Lockdowns should only ever be considered if the health system is about to completely collap...

Really interesting thread from the NHS Foundation chief exec. Basically whilst admissions are up, it seems that there's a lot of incidentals whereby patients admitted for other things are testing positive but asymptomatic. Separating them from others and staff shortages seem to be big issues piling...

Slick wrote: ↑Sat Dec 25, 2021 6:53 pm
Sandstorm wrote: ↑Sat Dec 25, 2021 5:37 pm Got a new tyre inflation machine, but I can’t try it out because it’s pissing with rain all afternoon.
A pump?

They did always say we saffers are a bit too literal

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Well, smokers probably come close to covering the cost of their treatment from the duties on cigarettes. Obese people and drug users less so. I don't think anyone who is an unhealthy weight should be allowed to call for a lockdown or mandatory vaccination unless they are really trying to lose weight...

I do hope all the fatties who ask for lockdowns etc are equally as determined to lose their excess weight that puts them at risk not only for Covid, but many other problems that block up hospital beds. You seem obsessed with overweight people. Why ignore smokers, alcoholics, drug users? Or the elde...

I do hope all the fatties who ask for lockdowns etc are equally as determined to lose their excess weight that puts them at risk not only for Covid, but many other problems that block up hospital beds.

I have no idea why you think I'm a conspiracy theorist. I'm vaccinated, I wear a mask in places where it's required (when I don't forget).

Ignoring that 65% of Covid admissions in London are people who are in hospital for reasons that are not Covid, means you can't look honestly at the data.

This is interesting....

Always fun to see a lengthy article posted and then someone replying within a couple of minutes cherry picking some quotes from the first part of it Here, have another one Well, it goes back to this fundamental problem. If Omicron is milder, then it will be milder everywhere, irrespective of popula...

Icelanders can't go anywhere that isn't surrounded by snow...

Roc Nation are an agency for 'raising athletes profiles'. They don't care about rugby, they care about getting their clients as much exposure as possible. I do worry that they're a front organisation to a coup by American private equity. They'll hire Kolisi, Farrell, etc, and make the players union ...

Max will go to bed every night knowing he didn't deserve to win that race (although with the cultish victim mentality at Red Bull, it's possible he genuinely thinks that this was finally 'his bit of luck'). It's a shame, because we all like to see someone other than the Krauts or Poms win, but Max i...

What a disgrace. How can anyone take this sport seriously when such a thing happens. I've been saying for years there is quite a simple solution to this: When a yellow flag is waved, pull all of the drivers into the pits. Don't allow any tire changes. Then do a formation lap to the grid, get them ba...

On Dec. 10, the World Health Organization told us no omicron cases reported up to that date had resulted in death, but "it is still early in the clinical course of disease and this may change." https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/omicron-deaths/ All this panic over a variant that hasn't res...

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