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This is Fangle's daughter. Not sure who needs to hear this, but he passed last month peacefully at home. He spoke of his Planet Rugby friends fondly and frequently. I'm currently closing up everything on his computer, and realised that maybe you guys might want to know. Thanks for being good friends...

I’m still going and have been given up to six months left. I’m feeling no worse than before, but I’ve stayed away because I don’t want sympathy. And tell Rinkals that I stopped talking to him because he twisted everything that I posted. Bye and thanks for the good times. Over and out. . Rode my bicy...

7 day case rates in age categories up to 45 year olds in Scotland going up - minimal increases in 45-64 age category and above. Looks like combination of easing lock down and new variants having an impact in Scotland but looks like those vaccinated ie over 50s are not catching the virus which looks...

Question for the UK guys, do you still have the masks mandate ? We are easing up even tho only 50% of the pop has been vax, masks mandatory in planes, public transportation, hospitals, some stores, in my state positive rate is around 2% and going down. Over here we are only up to 37% first doses an...

The attachment button couldn’t see my video on my phone. Must be the wrong format, but not important.

Sards, I make zero claim to be either a meat or braai expert. But Brazilians love it.

The Wright Brothers by David McCullough is a very thorough biography of the brothers all the way from childhood through the development of their planes. They were much more successful in marketing their ideas in Europe, especially France than back in the USA where there was originally a lot of scept...

We are so fortunate to have such choices. So whichever you land up are probably easy to use, some easier than others. So just use it happily.

I spent some time in Brazil and they love their braais/churascarias. And their last and best cut of meat is always the picanya. What cut is that? Sweet, tender and tasty. And for early snacks they have multiple skewers of chicken hearts. It took some while to try that, but I grew to like it. Picanh...

Rather a right wing arsehole than a left wing fucktard... Are cryptic crosswords too difficult for you Rinky? Shame! They are indeed, Fangle. My mind just doesn't work that way, I'm afraid. I'm a lot better at Sudoku. My issue with the Telegraph is their news content rather than the funnies page: t...

Openside wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 4:38 pm
Rinkals wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 2:36 pm
Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 12:21 pm

Cancel the Subscription, it's turned you into right wing asshole.
This.
Rather a right wing arsehole than a left wing fucktard...

Are cryptic crosswords too difficult for you Rinky? Shame!

I spent some time in Brazil and they love their braais/churascarias. And their last and best cut of meat is always the picanya. What cut is that? Sweet, tender and tasty.

And for early snacks they have multiple skewers of chicken hearts. It took some while to try that, but I grew to like it.

He was an excellent hooker, player and captain. The coach was dog shit bad with some very poor selections. You're on your own there. This must be the first time I've heard his name since he stopped playing for the Boks. I really rated him as a player and provincial captain, until he was made captai...

Uncle fester wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 5:01 pm
Fangle wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 10:00 pm
Happyhooker wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 9:10 pm

Nah, the old bored started in the late 90s

By 1999 RWC anyway.
Myself and DOB were there around 1998.

I remember. I think that the Hole-in-the-wall group was here as well, including Softie, and possibly Fawlty, Seneca and Sammy. I just lurked.

How do you braai pangolin?

Happyhooker wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 9:10 pm
Sandstorm wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 9:09 pm
Slick wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 9:02 pm

Oh no it hasn’t
Yes it has. It’s 18 years anyway
Nah, the old bored started in the late 90s

By 1999 RWC anyway.

Remember that ancient TV show, Columbo with Peter Falk? The series was written by Stephen Bocho, directed by Stephen Spielberg with music by Henry Mancini. Quite an impressive group. No wonder it was so successful. Spielberg only directed the first episode of Columbo. The other 67 episodes were dir...

I haven’t had a decent braai for years, and while all these recipes look delicious, what I really miss are lovely sweet Karoo juicy lamb chops. The thought of them always makes my mouth water.

Remember that ancient TV show, Columbo with Peter Falk?

The series was written by Stephen Bocho, directed by Stephen Spielberg with music by Henry Mancini. Quite an impressive group. No wonder it was so successful.

Daily ibuprofen? Isn’t that bad for the stomach along with other anti-inflammatories? Sometimes I take Naproxen as an anti-inflammatory, but only a couple of days at a time.

How do you take your turmeric? Pills or powder in water etc? And how much daily! I should try it for my knees as well. I put a heaped teaspoon of turmeric into a glass of water and stir it, then slug it down. Putting black pepper into it is supposed to help the active ingredients be absorbed, but I...

How do you take your turmeric? Pills or powder in water etc? And how much daily! I should try it for my knees as well.

Anecdotal only. My brothers farm near Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. They say that they had heard of a number of covid cases a few months ago, but nothing for months. Their doctor has only had one case recently, and that was in Bloemfontein, and he is already thinking that herd immunity is starting...

I’m on my own, so probably wrong. I stand down completely.

They are working hard here in Georgia to get to the people by taking the clinics into the black mega churches and areas where the clinics are not easy to get to. Now they must get access to the evangelical churches to pressure them. My reading of the charts show, that despite low vaccine rates in th...

mat the expat wrote: ↑Wed May 05, 2021 9:09 am
Kawazaki wrote: ↑Tue May 04, 2021 3:37 pm Bill founded Microsoft in 1975 and married Melinda 20 years later.

In 27 years she's helped him give away $50bn to charity.

How much will she get?
50% as it should be in the state they live in

Surely the formula would be half of the difference since they got together.

Yep. The big ugly countries can spin it, but places like South Africa get lumbered with the killer variant.

You have our sympathies going through this, as too many of us have been. All the best for your family.

Didn’t it take a while before they got to naming it.?Anyway I was just chatting idly. Call it anything you want. It was Covid-19/Coronavirus/Novel Coronavirus for months before Donnie tried Chynavirus on for size. Things could have turned out a lot of different ways, but the rebranding attempt was ...

At least in part it's due to timing. Covid was established as Covid before suddenly Donald started to try and rebrand it as Chynavirus. The motivation was clear - rebrand to make it sound like someone else's fault, especially at a time when the US was struggling to deal with it. Didn’t it take a wh...

So, Asian flu is fine

Ymx wrote: ↑Tue May 04, 2021 5:07 pm No one got upset over the name of the Australian Flu.

Or Asian, Spanish, Rocky Mountain etc. And according to Politico Trump is now low energy. Hopefully he fades away.

Why are we happy to speak about the lethal variants for the virus according to their supposed source, like the Brazil variant, the South African variant, and the UK variant, but not allowed to refer to covid-19 as a Chinese or Wuhan virus? Fears of Xenophobia?

I thought that everready was solid. I haven’t been back, but the RWC will revive the place if Jake can be controlled. Its his ego that gets in the way.

I also listen to a lot of Shostakovich and symphony 10 is on my current list. It takes a number of listenings for me to really get to feel it well but I like the process

GogLais wrote: ↑Mon May 03, 2021 12:35 pm
Fangle wrote: ↑Mon May 03, 2021 11:23 am but rather fist pumping for quite a while to come.
Better done in private surely?

Haha. Unlike CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin on a Zoom call!

Another Sibelius piece about the Karelia Peninsula taken over by the Russians: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=adKwG9ZuzFw

White goods that pack in after five years and a day and it costs half the price of a new one to replace a chip. Why does the piece of kit that tells a dishwasher what to do cost as much as a reasonably sophisticated phone or tablet? Similar when a printer runs low on ink, and a replacement printer ...

Hasn’t it been proved that Covid is hardly spread through contact but to a very large extent only by air? All the same I don’t see a mass going back to handshakes, but rather fist pumping for quite a while to come.

Over here they will be setting up in the mega black churches to make it easier for those congregations. I hope that they will be able to do the same with the Evangelical ones as well. Some folks are difficult.

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