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by Rhubarb & Custard
Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:07 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Elon Musk bought Twitter.
Replies: 1004
Views: 86294

Re: Elon Musk bought Twitter.

So Elon both is and isn't leaving the Whitehouse. Doge now some sort of Schrodinger department presumably, and it would fit, they both have slated costs, if you ask them, and haven't if you ask reality Frank Skinner has been observing when the Canadian/South African racist has a sufficiently big eno...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Wed Apr 02, 2025 12:46 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Saudi/Qatar et al bidding for RWC
Replies: 56
Views: 857

Re: Saudi/Qatar et al bidding for RWC

We're certainly far from an ideal, but we don't have corruption on an ANC level, if arguably because we've sorted ours over the longer term via the class system, and we don't have rape as the national sport Like I said, enjoy your bubble. Your last comment is incredibly crass and seemed unnecessary...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:43 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Starmergeddon: They Came And Ate Us
Replies: 2077
Views: 148748

Re: Starmergeddon: They Came And Ate Us

A bankrupt broken mess. Actually well beyond bankrupt. And seemingly what matters is what gets entered where onto a balance sheet, not what a thing is bigger picture
by Rhubarb & Custard
Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:37 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Saudi/Qatar et al bidding for RWC
Replies: 56
Views: 857

Re: Saudi/Qatar et al bidding for RWC

Like a number of nations SA are being caught out by the need to stump up a lot of money. Though I'm not sure if stating if a corrupt nation doesn't get a World Cup if should go to a corrupt nation is a line of thinking without issue "Corrupt nation" :lol: That's a nice bubble you live in....
by Rhubarb & Custard
Wed Apr 02, 2025 7:12 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 10048
Views: 599976

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

Heh, Strom wasn't a racist, he said so! he just passionately believed in States rights
by Rhubarb & Custard
Tue Apr 01, 2025 2:48 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Saudi/Qatar et al bidding for RWC
Replies: 56
Views: 857

Re: Saudi/Qatar et al bidding for RWC

In all honesty, I think it's absolutely outrageous that South Africa aren't locked-in hosts for one of these. They can also share some games with Zimbabwe and Namibia to make it a regional tournament. If they don't get it, then I'd quite happy to see a Middle East tournament just to piss everyone o...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Tue Apr 01, 2025 2:45 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 10048
Views: 599976

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

Like most stats, that’s one perhaps open to interpretation - maybe their cooking & storage skills are poor and they get ill from stuff that’s gone off ? Perhaps they just too fucking fat so that they blame their food rather than the sheer quantity ? I myself would pay extra for non chlorine chi...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Tue Apr 01, 2025 1:56 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Starmergeddon: They Came And Ate Us
Replies: 2077
Views: 148748

Re: Starmergeddon: They Came And Ate Us

He does appear to have taken that tough step 1 that eluded the Conservative Party - ‘trying’. Telling the Sentencing Council that they’d legislate was the killer, a Tory Lord Chancellor would have written a column in the Telegraph This was a fight on turf Starmer feels very comfortable on Someone n...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Tue Apr 01, 2025 1:50 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 10048
Views: 599976

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

When Kraft bought Cadbury, they reviewed costs and one of their sticking points was the amount of cocoa solids, i.e. chocolate that Cadbury put in their product. They wanted less cocoa in the product and costs driven down so Cadbury had to explain that you wouldn't be able to legally call it chocol...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:40 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Starmergeddon: They Came And Ate Us
Replies: 2077
Views: 148748

Re: Starmergeddon: They Came And Ate Us

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 year...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:36 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Saudi/Qatar et al bidding for RWC
Replies: 56
Views: 857

Re: Saudi/Qatar et al bidding for RWC

That’ll be a long time without a world cup in Europe… By Europe we really mean France and England, and anyway, if it was actually a World Cup it's not an odd thing Europe would have to wait. For myself at least I'm sanguine about the event going outside Europe, less so somewhere that's an autocracy...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:29 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 10048
Views: 599976

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

But doesn't erase it being GM ! And being labeled with its country of origin was one of the bigger sticking points with the Bumblecunts efforts to get a Trade deal in the Tango Traitors 1st term of office; the Yanks aren't complete idiots; they know if their flag was plastered all over the products...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:26 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Le Pen Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooone
Replies: 35
Views: 815

Re: Le Pen Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooone

They have proof that the Higher ups were in it if not at the helm. (pretty much all the leadership were indicted and convicted). This was done to fund the party and refloat their finances. other cases like Fillon were punished heavily too. on the other case judged recently there is an appeal from t...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Tue Apr 01, 2025 8:40 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Saudi/Qatar et al bidding for RWC
Replies: 56
Views: 857

Re: Saudi/Qatar et al bidding for RWC

The important thing is the sport washing will enable some higher ups to pad their personal wealth, and nothing else matters very much, not by comparison
by Rhubarb & Custard
Tue Apr 01, 2025 8:01 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 10048
Views: 599976

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

Cooking properly neutralizes that difference anyways. As long as McChlorine burgers and chickens were sold with a big US flag and 🤮 next to it, I’d have no problem having on sale in the Uk as will give consumers a better choice between cheap and nasty, or pricey & nicey. But doesn't erase it be...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Tue Apr 01, 2025 7:57 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Le Pen Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooone
Replies: 35
Views: 815

Re: Le Pen Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooone

What is distinct about what was done in this case Vs other parties who've on the face of it similarly (miss)used such funds and not received a similar sanction? One doesn't want to rush to the defence of Team Racist but it certainly has an air of establishment convenience about the sentence. Thus t...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Mon Mar 31, 2025 1:10 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Le Pen Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooone
Replies: 35
Views: 815

Re: Le Pen Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooone

What is distinct about what was done in this case Vs other parties who've on the face of it similarly (miss)used such funds and not received a similar sanction? One doesn't want to rush to the defence of Team Racist but it certainly has an air of establishment convenience about the sentence. Thus th...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Mon Mar 31, 2025 1:07 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official English Rugby Thread
Replies: 20158
Views: 994328

Re: The Official English Rugby Thread

There is a certain proprietary tone some Scots seem to take on as soon as they find out a player is Scotland qualified. Even if it's a grandparent qualification and the player has never been to Scotland it's assume he's their player and if he chooses to play for someone else then he's been poached....
by Rhubarb & Custard
Mon Mar 31, 2025 9:01 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: What's going on in Ukraine?
Replies: 7493
Views: 746126

Re: What's going on in Ukraine?

This took a while He also threatened to introduce secondary tariffs on Russian energy exports, targeting countries that buy Russian oil and gas with sanctions. “If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault – which it might not ...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Fri Mar 28, 2025 10:38 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 10048
Views: 599976

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

Here's the thing, if the yanks were a little more subtle, they'd get a lot of what they are looking for. Such as discreetly expanding the base they already have in Greenland. One could well observe the agreement in place between the USA and Denmark already allows Team Retard to increase their milit...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Thu Mar 27, 2025 10:48 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 10048
Views: 599976

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

Check the footage. Masks. Too embarrassed to show their faces because they work for ICE. In fairness as I recall from the pandemic MAGA are famously pro mask wearing. What's not clear from the footage is whether the agents were clearly identified on their clothing who they worked for and what their...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Wed Mar 26, 2025 9:22 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: B&I Lions 2025 Official Thread
Replies: 50
Views: 1675

Re: B&I Lions 2025 Official Thread

Ah righto, Murray's scratched then. A good defence is a non-negotiable at fullback. Shame, he's fun to watch on attack. We don't know he defends badly, when presented with an opportunity to defend he's ignored that part of the game. So he might be brilliant and just doesn't want to embarrass people...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Wed Mar 26, 2025 8:14 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 10048
Views: 599976

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

It's OK, Vance is off to Greenland to stir up the natives, so the news cycle will soon move on to the next outrage. A classic piece of negotiation from JD, asking can he come and visit and on being told we'd rather not have you over retort we've got a military base and you can't stop me flying in. ...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Wed Mar 26, 2025 5:53 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 10048
Views: 599976

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

25th March - Secretary Hegseth argued “nobody was texting war plans," 26th March - Atlantic release the full chat https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gm96GjLXYAAuiNE?format=jpg&name=large And they can’t be accused of leaking sensitive info, because Tulsi Gabbard said under oath that there was no s...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Tue Mar 25, 2025 3:42 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Elon Musk bought Twitter.
Replies: 1004
Views: 86294

Re: Elon Musk bought Twitter.

https://images-ext-1.discordapp.net/external/OFUibTb9QepmvddVZvnO1tPwMAkleV2siaLVOX02LAo/https/cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did%3Aplc%3Aa4pqq234yw7fqbddawjo7y35/bafkreielkgar6tf2hke45at22axpzqpekf3d4b43jyewuot25ulblsdiai%40jpeg?format=webp&width=774&height=968 One might reasonably a...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Sat Mar 22, 2025 8:35 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 10048
Views: 599976

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

Actually you are being full of shit here, have been a governor at a school as well as a largish nhs trust and whilst such excessive wastes have been trimmed from the newspaper articles about £30 lightbulbs and loo rolls, there is still an ingrained ‘other peoples money’ attitude within public secto...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Fri Mar 21, 2025 11:35 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 10048
Views: 599976

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

Nothing there disagrees with what I've said. It unreasonably punishes the poor and disabled/disadvantaged. Most the federal spending is on programs attempting to level the playing field. And again, rich areas don't need much federal funding, but poorer districts can be majority covered by federal f...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Fri Mar 21, 2025 11:33 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: 2025 6N thread
Replies: 3137
Views: 109796

Re: 2025 6N thread

Again you are confusing a dangerous tackle/clear out whilst the game was going on and ball was in the ruck being contested with a reckless and violent act after the whistle had been blown and the ball nowhere near either of them. See Topofthemoon post for detail on rules that apply. I can reiterate...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Fri Mar 21, 2025 11:07 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: 2025 6N thread
Replies: 3137
Views: 109796

Re: 2025 6N thread

Again you cant judge his behavior on whether he injured White or if he hit his head or neck - he launched himself head first into another player's head area and made contact with his head or as damn as near it to make it difficult to tell. It is the act and the intention that is punishable here not...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Fri Mar 21, 2025 8:48 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 10048
Views: 599976

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

Europe hasn't actually done anything yet. So far it's just hot air The budgetary changes etc are actually massive. Particularly the German decisions recently. There's the potential for those to be big, but they may yet end in little. What for instance happens if a coalition partner says to the Germ...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Thu Mar 20, 2025 9:15 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: 2025 6N thread
Replies: 3137
Views: 109796

Re: 2025 6N thread

There is a difference between an illegal high tackle during a period of play and basically trying to head butt another player. If a tackle then the protocol comes into play and the degree of danger, where contact is made, degree of force, etc all become part of the equation and decision making. If ...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Thu Mar 20, 2025 9:10 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 10048
Views: 599976

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

Europe hasn't actually done anything yet. So far it's just hot air
by Rhubarb & Custard
Thu Mar 20, 2025 10:53 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: 2025 6N thread
Replies: 3137
Views: 109796

Re: 2025 6N thread

Funnily enough there is suddenly a perfect overhead footage, all over Twitter, that shows it's a full headbutt directly to White's face. I don't actually remember seeing White go off for an HIA, which presumably is why it wasn't upgraded to a red as there simply wasn't much contact. Which is beyond...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Thu Mar 20, 2025 9:33 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: 2025 6N thread
Replies: 3137
Views: 109796

Re: 2025 6N thread

Ah the Auld Alliance :wave: not like the grumpy Irish. I like LBB, he makes a big difference in the team ( he also plays for my club UBB, no family relations), but personally I would have put #6 François Cros instead. Perhaps because he's new on the scene, and it's limiting he might have only playe...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Thu Mar 20, 2025 9:20 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: 2025 6N thread
Replies: 3137
Views: 109796

Re: 2025 6N thread

There's a slightly clearer view of it here, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/videos/cqlygq419yko That it was a deliberate action from Mauvaka cannot be in dispute. There is nothing in that laws that I can see that says White has to be knocked out or has to suffer a broken jaw, on the contrar...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Wed Mar 19, 2025 1:25 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Elon Musk bought Twitter.
Replies: 1004
Views: 86294

Re: Elon Musk bought Twitter.

Cybercuck deliveries have been stopped by Tesla because the cantrail trim is detaching at high speeds. https://i.extremetech.com/imagery/content-types/02la4FcPxpdVPNf49FktKjb/images-1.fill.size_670x503.v1742260605.png is that a design flaw, or have assembly workers found a faster curing method that...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Wed Mar 19, 2025 9:21 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Elon Musk bought Twitter.
Replies: 1004
Views: 86294

Re: Elon Musk bought Twitter.

Cybercuck deliveries have been stopped by Tesla because the cantrail trim is detaching at high speeds. https://i.extremetech.com/imagery/content-types/02la4FcPxpdVPNf49FktKjb/images-1.fill.size_670x503.v1742260605.png is that a design flaw, or have assembly workers found a faster curing method that...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Wed Mar 19, 2025 9:07 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 10048
Views: 599976

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

The news lost amongst the noise of the Trump Putin call is that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, a Trump nominee, told the DOJ to go fuck itself calling for judges to be impeached. That's actually huge. I saw that and rather felt the trouble with our internet social media world is that what ...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Tue Mar 18, 2025 4:21 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Kicking off in Israel
Replies: 3946
Views: 269266

Re: Kicking off in Israel

They are just going to go ahead and clear Gaza, probably followed by the West Bank, and no one is going to do a thing about it. That's been their aim, and the US aim, all along. Everything else is a smoke screen to the genocide they are perpetrating. The disgusting and brutal terrorism Hammas carri...
by Rhubarb & Custard
Tue Mar 18, 2025 9:09 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Welsh rugby: the end?
Replies: 37
Views: 1116

Re: Welsh rugby: the end?

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...