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by Firewater
Sat Mar 08, 2025 7:16 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Super Rugby 2025 Thread
Replies: 312
Views: 5616

Re: Super Rugby 2025 Thread

Pelegrini having a greta start to the 2nd half

28-12
by Firewater
Sat Mar 08, 2025 7:01 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Super Rugby 2025 Thread
Replies: 312
Views: 5616

Re: Super Rugby 2025 Thread

14-12 MP leading. Canes will need to set up otherwises a third upset
by Firewater
Sat Mar 08, 2025 6:58 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Super Rugby 2025 Thread
Replies: 312
Views: 5616

Re: Super Rugby 2025 Thread

Pellegrini looks a quality first

Complete contrast to the limited JGB. Everything he has done this half has been top quality
by Firewater
Sat Mar 08, 2025 5:56 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Super Rugby 2025 Thread
Replies: 312
Views: 5616

Re: Super Rugby 2025 Thread

Only watched the last 20. FD completely on top except for the Chiefs last try at the very end
by Firewater
Sat Mar 08, 2025 5:55 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Super Rugby 2025 Thread
Replies: 312
Views: 5616

Re: Super Rugby 2025 Thread

Kiwias wrote: Sat Mar 08, 2025 5:25 am Great win by the Drua, seventh in a row at home. Chiefs lose for the first time this season
At home. Or at this stadium?
by Firewater
Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:20 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: What's going on in Ukraine?
Replies: 7393
Views: 715275

Re: What's going on in Ukraine?

Guy Smiley wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 7:29 am Slick, you don't have to quote him to reply mate. Please.
:roll:

scared of any sound viewpoint that opposes yours
by Firewater
Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:17 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Super Rugby 2025 Thread
Replies: 312
Views: 5616

Re: Super Rugby 2025 Thread

Gumboot wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:14 am Brumbies pinch it 21-20!

Hapless Blues couldn't score a single second half point without Beauden.
BB was a big loss. Plummer was a bit ordinary in the 2nd half
by Firewater
Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:15 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Super Rugby 2025 Thread
Replies: 312
Views: 5616

Re: Super Rugby 2025 Thread

1st win at Eden park since 2013

Deserved winners as mostly on top in the 2nd half
by Firewater
Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:13 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Super Rugby 2025 Thread
Replies: 312
Views: 5616

Re: Super Rugby 2025 Thread

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:10 am Blues really deserve to lose this.

{EDIT} karma for 40 mins of absolute ineptitude.
20-21
by Firewater
Fri Mar 07, 2025 7:53 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Super Rugby 2025 Thread
Replies: 312
Views: 5616

Re: Super Rugby 2025 Thread

Brumbies on top this half.
by Firewater
Fri Mar 07, 2025 7:45 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Super Rugby 2025 Thread
Replies: 312
Views: 5616

Re: Super Rugby 2025 Thread

Blues scrum destroyed

Score 20-18
by Firewater
Fri Mar 07, 2025 7:38 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: What's going on in Ukraine?
Replies: 7393
Views: 715275

Re: What's going on in Ukraine?

Of everything this batshit crazy White House has done over the last few weeks, this has to be the absolute worst. They're essentially trying to depose Zelensky! The Hhite House wants an election. That is long overdue. I woudl say if a fair election is held Zelensky would have about a zero chance of...
by Firewater
Fri Mar 07, 2025 7:27 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: What's going on in Ukraine?
Replies: 7393
Views: 715275

Re: What's going on in Ukraine?

The Cold War actually spurred a lot of excellence in the West in every conceivable domain because people were motivated by the need to defeat Communism. It manifested itself in scientific innovation, athletic excellence, the arts etc. Societies really need these grand projects to give everyone a se...
by Firewater
Fri Mar 07, 2025 7:19 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Super Rugby 2025 Thread
Replies: 312
Views: 5616

Re: Super Rugby 2025 Thread

20-10 Blues

3 tries to one. Barrett playing well but goal kicking not good

Rieko finally scores after a blank 2024.
by Firewater
Fri Mar 07, 2025 7:03 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Super Rugby 2025 Thread
Replies: 312
Views: 5616

Re: Super Rugby 2025 Thread

Blues too many unforced errors
by Firewater
Fri Mar 07, 2025 7:00 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Super Rugby 2025 Thread
Replies: 312
Views: 5616

Re: Super Rugby 2025 Thread

10-10

Barrett's playing well so far
by Firewater
Fri Mar 07, 2025 5:44 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: What's going on in Ukraine?
Replies: 7393
Views: 715275

Re: What's going on in Ukraine?

I thought I just have spend the next 4 years tuning out his attempts to own the news cycles... it's like trying to ignore air raid sirens going off outside your house. Looking for the positive in trying circumstances is both inspiring and a potential sign of madness... have you tried imagining a Mr...
by Firewater
Fri Mar 07, 2025 5:42 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: What's going on in Ukraine?
Replies: 7393
Views: 715275

Re: What's going on in Ukraine?

I hope the Putin propagandists are reading this; Ukrainian opposition leaders have dismissed the idea of holding a wartime election, after a media report of contacts between them and US officials and in the wake of President Donald Trump calling his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dict...
by Firewater
Thu Mar 06, 2025 3:37 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 9726
Views: 549271

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

They were right that people who've already completed work, shouldn't be paid? Conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh dissented. Alito said he was stunned by the judge’s order forcing the Trump Administration to pay $2 billion in foreign contracts. “Doe...
by Firewater
Thu Mar 06, 2025 3:23 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 9726
Views: 549271

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

Probably means he only needs another one to start winning everything he needs there, the extra one on his side, would reduce the voices against, and make dissension less likely. A district court judge overruling the President. The 4 judges were right But its likely not over yet They were right that...
by Firewater
Thu Mar 06, 2025 2:54 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 9726
Views: 549271

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

Supreme Court reject Trump's request to withhold payment from foreign aid groups. Coney Barrett and Roberts joined the liberal judges for a 5-4 decision. https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-upholds-judges-order-that-trump-promptly-pay-foreign-aid-groups-2025-03-05/ Astonishing that four ...
by Firewater
Thu Mar 06, 2025 2:51 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 9726
Views: 549271

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

All aboard the train, Stranger. :thumbup: Trump will likely stop the Ukrainian war and killing. That makes him ok. The MIC investors will be pissed though. He's choosing a particular way to end it which rewards and will embolden an imperialisatic aggressor nation, one that is only ever a bad faith ...
by Firewater
Thu Mar 06, 2025 2:39 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 9726
Views: 549271

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

Trump will likely stop the Ukrainian war and killing. That makes him ok. The MIC investors will be pissed though. He's choosing a particular way to end it which rewards and will embolden an imperialisatic aggressor nation, one that is only ever a bad faith actor on the global stage. The killing can...
by Firewater
Thu Mar 06, 2025 2:25 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 9726
Views: 549271

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

Sandstorm wrote: Wed Mar 05, 2025 8:36 pm
Stranger wrote: Wed Mar 05, 2025 6:34 pm I don't normally post on politics threads, but I just want to go on record to say "I fucking hate Trump and the MAGA twats"
All aboard the train, Stranger. :thumbup:
Trump will likely stop the Ukrainian war and killing. That makes him ok. The MIC investors will be pissed though.
by Firewater
Tue Mar 04, 2025 5:14 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: What's going on in Ukraine?
Replies: 7393
Views: 715275

Re: What's going on in Ukraine?

I don’t understand how these billionaires who support Trump will still be rich when the US economy shrinks and millions of people lose their jobs. The stock market will drop and so will the value of their stock profiles. What am I missing? Ask any hedge fund/PE manager the best time to make money a...
by Firewater
Sat Mar 01, 2025 6:15 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 9726
Views: 549271

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

I totally agree with this. Distasteful as it is Zelensky has to accept that he is in no position to negotiate that condition. The adults in Ukraine need to push Zelenskyy aside and then hold elections. Then work with Trump to try and save their country My view it's too late. Ukraine will be divided...
by Firewater
Sat Mar 01, 2025 6:09 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 9726
Views: 549271

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

I totally agree with this. Distasteful as it is Zelensky has to accept that he is in no position to negotiate that condition. The adults in Ukraine need to push Zelenskyy aside and then hold elections. Then work with Trump to try and save their country My view it's too late. Ukraine will be divided...
by Firewater
Sat Mar 01, 2025 12:59 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 9726
Views: 549271

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

Too late now. A modest increase in defence spending particularly around industry in 2014 followed by a more substantial boost in 2022 may have given us the chance to run a different course. Plus of course a weaning or never being so beholden to Russian energy in the first place. From where we are n...
by Firewater
Fri Feb 28, 2025 6:57 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Super Rugby 2025 Thread
Replies: 312
Views: 5616

Re: Super Rugby 2025 Thread

MP need to find a new 1st 5. JGB is having a poor game and is not good enough at this level.
by Firewater
Fri Feb 28, 2025 6:27 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Super Rugby 2025 Thread
Replies: 312
Views: 5616

Re: Super Rugby 2025 Thread

MP started off poorly and looked 2nd rate but have now woken up

10-10 after 16 minutes. 2 tries MP to one
by Firewater
Thu Feb 27, 2025 6:29 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 9726
Views: 549271

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

I've often seen it said that the US is a great place to be well off and a dreadful place to be anything other than upper middle class. They may perform well on a lot of raw metrics, but so many states have essentially zero worker protections and benefits on the statute books, it's all at the larges...
by Firewater
Wed Feb 26, 2025 5:02 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 9726
Views: 549271

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

I've often seen it said that the US is a great place to be well off and a dreadful place to be anything other than upper middle class. They may perform well on a lot of raw metrics, but so many states have essentially zero worker protections and benefits on the statute books, it's all at the larges...
by Firewater
Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:00 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Super Rugby 2025 Thread
Replies: 312
Views: 5616

Re: Super Rugby 2025 Thread

Couldn't agree more. He's playing brilliantly and is clearly the best 12 in the country right now, with a more rounded game than Tupaea imo. He was MOTM but did not make the PR team of the week, lol. Neither did Hurley. Speaking of midfielders, was blown away that Nonu is making a comeback at 42. 😮...
by Firewater
Wed Feb 26, 2025 1:53 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Super Rugby 2025 Thread
Replies: 312
Views: 5616

Re: Super Rugby 2025 Thread

Couldn't agree more. He's playing brilliantly and is clearly the best 12 in the country right now, with a more rounded game than Tupaea imo. Havili has clearly dropped down the pecking order for the AB 12 jersey. Not having an anti-Saders dig, but he shouldn't have been anywhere near the ABs last y...
by Firewater
Mon Feb 24, 2025 9:52 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: What's going on in Ukraine?
Replies: 7393
Views: 715275

Re: What's going on in Ukraine?

That's a "be careful what you wish for" outcome. Quite. This is a moment for Europe, one they might not have the stones to seize: stop relying on USA for NATO lead, unleash your under-utilized car factories across Europe to ramp up weapons production and boost your economies. Fuck Trump. ...
by Firewater
Fri Feb 21, 2025 6:51 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 9726
Views: 549271

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

Depends on the peace settlement terms But essential is a ceasefire and then elections. Elections are a must to give the leaders legitimacy. Then the peace settlement terms can be fought out . Where hopefully the people will be considered. Not just the likes of BlackRock Will these elections be moni...
by Firewater
Fri Feb 21, 2025 6:44 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 9726
Views: 549271

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

So. Basically you're saying Putin can invade who he likes, then declare a ceasefire and keep all the land he's grabbed? Feelings of the people who have been invaded to be swept under the carpet . . Depends on the peace settlement terms But essential is a ceasefire and then elections. Elections are ...
by Firewater
Thu Feb 20, 2025 2:48 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 9726
Views: 549271

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

I can almost see the support for Trump 1.0 as a potential disrupter to politics run by 'elites'. But it's clear now he's both a grifter and even if they don't believe that, he's a big crybaby who complains about everything. How do future gens break global echo chambers thay have been so damaging? ....
by Firewater
Thu Feb 20, 2025 2:43 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 9726
Views: 549271

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

So. Basically you're saying Putin can invade who he likes, then declare a ceasefire and keep all the land he's grabbed? Feelings of the people who have been invaded to be swept under the carpet . . Depends on the peace settlement terms But essential is a ceasefire and then elections. Elections are ...
by Firewater
Thu Feb 20, 2025 1:17 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 9726
Views: 549271

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

So I assume you will be ok if Trump decides after 4 years to just stay in power. As Zelenskyy has done Esp after hes lead the country into a maybe country destroying war That's a stretch - the comparison between the US and Ukraine. A better comparison might be that Mexico would have to invade and d...