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by Jockaline
Tue Mar 25, 2025 3:37 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Planet Rugby
Replies: 34
Views: 1074

Re: Planet Rugby

Guy Smiley wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 3:30 pm For the forum?
Yip
by Jockaline
Tue Mar 25, 2025 3:23 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Planet Rugby
Replies: 34
Views: 1074

Planet Rugby

Planet Rugby have are now insisting on using cookies to send personalised ads or pay £12 a year. Well that's me out.

The death of the free internet is upon us :(
by Jockaline
Sat Mar 15, 2025 1:30 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: 2025 6 Nations Tipping Comp. Final results are Up
Replies: 249
Views: 14995

Re: 2025 6 Nations Tipping Comp. Last day for Rd 5 picks

Ireland by 20
England by 8
France by 10
by Jockaline
Fri Mar 14, 2025 10:13 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 21899
Views: 1557068

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

Punter15 wrote: Fri Mar 14, 2025 10:07 pm Magnificent performance. Douglas and OBL outstanding, Cowan’s passing was fantastic, great management from Urwin. If we’d played like that throughout we wouldn’t be bottom.

They just need to learn to chop tackle…
bottom?
by Jockaline
Fri Mar 14, 2025 10:09 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 21899
Views: 1557068

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

Punter15 wrote: Fri Mar 14, 2025 10:08 pm
Tichtheid wrote: Fri Mar 14, 2025 10:07 pm
Big D wrote: Fri Mar 14, 2025 10:01 pm
Don't get kicking it there.
It gave us a chance of going coast to coast to win the game, if we'd scored the try it would have been game over and a loss
200 IQ move under pressure
Nick of France to just kick it out :)
by Jockaline
Fri Mar 07, 2025 10:26 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: 2025 6 Nations Tipping Comp. Final results are Up
Replies: 249
Views: 14995

Re: 2025 6 Nations Tipping Comp. Last day for Rd 4 picks

France 9
Scotland 6
England 21
by Jockaline
Thu Mar 06, 2025 10:31 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 21899
Views: 1557068

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

What are the chances of me watching the Scotland game on TV without finding our the score of the Ireland game. Slim I guess. Are they on the same channel? They are usually quite good at that kind of thing if the same channel Not the same channel unfortunately, Scotland is on the BBC, the other STV....
by Jockaline
Thu Mar 06, 2025 9:47 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 21899
Views: 1557068

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

What are the chances of me watching the Scotland game on TV without finding our the score of the Ireland game. Slim I guess.
by Jockaline
Sat Mar 01, 2025 3:16 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 10048
Views: 599971

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

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 up. This is the price paid for electing a lying comedian. Zelensky should now find a safe country and enjoy his millions or b...
by Jockaline
Sat Mar 01, 2025 2:32 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Trump and US politics catchall
Replies: 10048
Views: 599971

Re: President Trump and US politics catchall

As much as Vance is a cock he is correct that most wars end by negotiation and Ukraine has neither the man power nor support to reclaim the lands Russia have who are now advancing daily. Europe does have to wake up a bit and realise that. I totally agree with this. Distasteful as it is Zelensky has...
by Jockaline
Fri Feb 21, 2025 1:44 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: 2025 6 Nations Tipping Comp. Final results are Up
Replies: 249
Views: 14995

Re: 2025 6 Nations Tipping Comp. Open for Rd 3 picks

Ireland by ….26
England by…10
France by ….18
by Jockaline
Tue Feb 11, 2025 6:31 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 21899
Views: 1557068

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

Yr Alban wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 5:09 pm Finn and Darcy both out for the England game, apparently. Which gives us the chance to get our excuses in early.
:( So who should step in Jordon, and maybe Horne for his kicking?
by Jockaline
Fri Feb 07, 2025 11:45 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: 2025 6 Nations Tipping Comp. Final results are Up
Replies: 249
Views: 14995

Re: 2025 6 Nations Tipping Comp. Last Day for Rd 2 picks

Wales by 4
France by 15
Ireland by 7
by Jockaline
Thu Feb 06, 2025 12:54 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Starmergeddon: They Came And Ate Us
Replies: 2077
Views: 148747

Re: Starmergeddon: They Came And Ate Us

Alongside Reeves’ support for major infrastructure projects this is theoretically excellent news, the hope has to he when they say they support it they mean actually forcing spades into the ground rather than a decade spent in the planning system If I recall, 2 of the people they put into high leve...
by Jockaline
Fri Jan 31, 2025 12:49 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Passenger plane collides with military helicopter in Washington DC
Replies: 58
Views: 4527

Re: Passenger plane collides with military helicopter in Washington DC

I think the suggestion is that the helicopter pilot and ATC thought that he had a visual on the aircraft but may have actually had a visual on a different plane further to the south. Can't imagine what the ATC on duty must be feeling :( Trump has decided based on his hunch that it was all their fau...
by Jockaline
Thu Jan 30, 2025 4:02 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: 2025 6 Nations Tipping Comp. Final results are Up
Replies: 249
Views: 14995

Re: 2025 6 Nations Tipping Comp. Picks close in 14 hours

France by 28
Scotland by 12
Ireland by 6
by Jockaline
Sat Jan 11, 2025 3:05 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 21899
Views: 1557068

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

KingBlairhorn wrote: Sat Jan 11, 2025 3:00 pm
Jockaline wrote: Sat Jan 11, 2025 2:59 pm A bonus point away win, can't complain :)
I didn’t watch but that’s a decent win
Neither did I, was just tracking updates.
by Jockaline
Sat Jan 11, 2025 2:59 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 21899
Views: 1557068

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

A bonus point away win, can't complain :)
by Jockaline
Fri Jan 10, 2025 11:19 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 21899
Views: 1557068

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

Myself and Yr Alban had that problem watching the Edin v Glasgow match the other week. Was getting extremely annoying. No issues tonight though. Good to know it's not just me, happened once tonight for me, but also in the past. I've read of stuff like this happening to others on the Glasgow forum, ...
by Jockaline
Fri Jan 10, 2025 10:51 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 21899
Views: 1557068

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

Just wondering if anyone else as a problem with the game switching to some other game/sport when watching premier sports. Most annoying and seems odd for it to be a laptop issue. Myself and Yr Alban had that problem watching the Edin v Glasgow match the other week. Was getting extremely annoying. N...
by Jockaline
Fri Jan 10, 2025 10:05 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 21899
Views: 1557068

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

Just wondering if anyone else as a problem with the game switching to some other game/sport when watching premier sports. Most annoying and seems odd for it to be a laptop issue.
by Jockaline
Thu Jan 09, 2025 4:28 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Starmergeddon: They Came And Ate Us
Replies: 2077
Views: 148747

Re: Starmergeddon: They Came And Ate Us

Are we going to reach a point where we accept our primary issue is not availability of workers? The NHS has more staff than pre-covid and sees fewer patients, it needs capex and better staff, adding practitioners with poor language skills is in fact slowing things down in some hospitals. Similarly,...
by Jockaline
Mon Dec 16, 2024 7:25 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Liver issues
Replies: 14
Views: 642

Re: Liver issues

I was lucky then. Anything more that a glass of wine, and I feel some negative effects. I do have a drink now and then when socialising, but really suffer from the poisoning effect if I have a lot, which is very rare - Christmas and big parties. Knocked regular drinking sessions on the head in my fo...
by Jockaline
Mon Dec 16, 2024 5:27 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Liver issues
Replies: 14
Views: 642

Re: Liver issues

I assume I am with many on here who have had a few drinks over the years. The last few years I have decreased my booze intake dramatically and was sitting within UK drinking guidelines - really just sharing a bottle of wine with the wife for Sunday dinner. However annual health check sent out some ...
by Jockaline
Fri Dec 13, 2024 8:14 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 21899
Views: 1557068

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

Darcy is some player.
by Jockaline
Thu Dec 12, 2024 11:20 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Replies: 21377
Views: 1248608

Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories

Plus many/most/all of these orthopedic surgeons will also do A&E cover dealing with folk who arrive with broken bones etc. Not being trained or able to do more general orthopedic stuff means reduced numbers at the front door doing emergency work when required. Having said that physically separa...
by Jockaline
Thu Dec 12, 2024 8:21 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Replies: 21377
Views: 1248608

Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories

Being a complete ignoramus I often wondered if it would be possible to shorten the training for some health professionals and reduce costs by focusing on a training on a very narrow procedure i.e. 'doctors' that just do hips and knees etc with a few fully trained doctors overseeing l for complexiti...
by Jockaline
Thu Dec 12, 2024 12:31 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Replies: 21377
Views: 1248608

Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories

In the same way; in the NHS there were 100k empty positions before the UK cut itself off from it's obvious source of those employees; & has anything useful happened to fill those jobs ? I'm going to guess that if anything, the situation is worse; because the NHS is now trying to recruit from fu...
by Jockaline
Fri Nov 22, 2024 11:51 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 21899
Views: 1557068

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

A game live on Iplayer by the looks of it.

https://x.com/Scotlandteam/status/1859597626695352671
by Jockaline
Thu Nov 14, 2024 10:56 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Give 'em the needle?
Replies: 131
Views: 5202

Re: Give 'em the needle?

My great aunt died yesterday having had a five year long battle with dementia and other things, it absolutely would have been kinder and better had she fallen down the stairs at some point. With that said, what you hear and see from Canada, Holland and elsewhere demonstrates that on this issue the ...
by Jockaline
Sun Nov 10, 2024 11:47 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 21899
Views: 1557068

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

FFS. Just found out that tomorrow’s game is not available to watch unless you have TNT. Seriously unimpressed. Scotland. Always the sideshow, never the main event. Aren't all the games in this series only on TNT? There must be a nearby pub that will show it? There isn’t even a nearby pub. I didn’t ...
by Jockaline
Fri Sep 20, 2024 5:59 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 21899
Views: 1557068

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

Last minute subscription to Premier Sport to watch the Edinburgh game tonight. Used a discount code of EPCR70 to reduce the upfront annual cost from £120 to £70. Thought I'd share in case there was others interested.
by Jockaline
Tue Aug 06, 2024 12:16 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Starmergeddon: They Came And Ate Us
Replies: 2077
Views: 148747

Re: Starmergeddon: They Came And Ate Us

The thing is absolutely nobody knows what a good level of immigration is numbers wise. It's far too complicated a discussion for the electorate who don't really care about politics. Everyone knows the benefits - skills which are needed to grow the economy, a bit of cultural fusion is no bad thing. ...
by Jockaline
Tue Aug 06, 2024 11:02 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Starmergeddon: They Came And Ate Us
Replies: 2077
Views: 148747

Re: Starmergeddon: They Came And Ate Us

The thing is absolutely nobody knows what a good level of immigration is numbers wise. It's far too complicated a discussion for the electorate who don't really care about politics. Everyone knows the benefits - skills which are needed to grow the economy, a bit of cultural fusion is no bad thing. ...
by Jockaline
Fri Aug 02, 2024 10:30 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Starmergeddon: They Came And Ate Us
Replies: 2077
Views: 148747

Re: Starmergeddon: They Came And Ate Us

No that's what is happening so far. Maybe do some reading about what happened to the 2011 rioters? Starmer relaxed the threshold for pressing charges suspects under the age of 18 were charged for minor offences (against longstanding advice), crimes usually charged as theft were charged for the more...
by Jockaline
Wed Jul 31, 2024 2:07 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Southport Incident
Replies: 238
Views: 10805

Re: Southport Incident

Doesn't matter what the police say, we have a sitting (in the loosest term of the word) MP implying that they are liars. There's also the media outlets taking an EDL type line. Why are you posting that utter gutter-garbage here? To show how big a problem we have in the UK now? Their publicists/chee...
by Jockaline
Wed Jul 31, 2024 12:49 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Southport Incident
Replies: 238
Views: 10805

Re: Southport Incident

‘ We’ve seen two riots in two weeks. Both by knuckle dragging droogs but for very different causes. What unites the two is’ There was feverish speculation about the murderer’s identity, during which the main rumour going round was that he was a muslim asylum seeker on MI6’s radar. The police have t...
by Jockaline
Wed Jul 31, 2024 12:38 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Southport Incident
Replies: 238
Views: 10805

Re: Southport Incident

I was referring to the rioters not the people of Southport. That was completely blindingly obvious but you just wanted a chance to get a dig in To be fair, when you said, "a total breakdown of trust between that community and the police; ", it not a stretch to think the community you mean...
by Jockaline
Wed Jul 31, 2024 11:46 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Southport Incident
Replies: 238
Views: 10805

Re: Southport Incident

I was referring to the rioters not the people of Southport. That was completely blindingly obvious but you just wanted a chance to get a dig in Why do you think there has been a total breakdown of trust between that community and the police in Southport, I've heard nothing but praise for the first ...
by Jockaline
Wed Jul 31, 2024 11:30 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Southport Incident
Replies: 238
Views: 10805

Re: Southport Incident

I tend to agree with Slick. We’ve seen two riots in two weeks. Both by knuckle dragging droogs but for very different causes. What unites the two is: 1) a total breakdown of trust between that community and the police; and 2) the absence of information from the police that would have likely mitigat...