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- Sun May 19, 2024 8:32 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: RIP Tony O'Relly
- Replies: 4
- Views: 115
RIP Tony O'Relly
https://img.rasset.ie/00204592-614.jpg?ratio=1.78 Businessman Tony O'Reilly has died in Dublin following a short illness. He was aged 88. A spokesperson said Mr O'Reilly was surrounded by family members when he passed away in St Vincent's Hospital today. In a statement, Mr O'Reilly’s family said: &...
- Sat May 18, 2024 10:58 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official NPR Golf Thread
- Replies: 778
- Views: 28099
Re: The Official NPR Golf Thread
What has happened to South Africa golf? for as long as I can remember since the Ernie days we've always had someone up there or in form and competing. Just had a look at the world rankings and we don't have a single player inside the top 50 :wtf Dean Burmester enters the chat Did he defect to the L...
- Sat May 18, 2024 10:44 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Official United Rugby Championship thread
- Replies: 9676
- Views: 203404
Re: Official United Rugby Championship thread
Top 4 look set to me. Its just a matter of playing for your opposition for the rest. And we're left with a number of crucial intra-national, last round contests .... Leinster v Connacht ( with Connacht hoping Leinster won the previous weekend, & are still hungover....) Stormers v Lions Cardiff ...
- Sat May 18, 2024 9:28 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Official United Rugby Championship thread
- Replies: 9676
- Views: 203404
Re: Official United Rugby Championship thread
I know it was Leinster's 2nds but fuck that felt good to watch. Ulster look to be pulling out of their death spiral into the depths of shitness. Best performance in a VERY long time. Doubt we'll do much in the playoffs (assuming we get there) but at least next season doesn't seem as depressing as i...
- Sat May 18, 2024 9:21 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Exaggerate a film or TV title....
- Replies: 28
- Views: 199
Re: Exaggerate a film or TV title....
Forever 'Ben' Young
- Sat May 18, 2024 8:03 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Exaggerate a film or TV title....
- Replies: 28
- Views: 199
Re: Exaggerate a film or TV title....
Quintillion dollar baby
- Sat May 18, 2024 7:08 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Exaggerate a film or TV title....
- Replies: 28
- Views: 199
Re: Exaggerate a film or TV title....
The Longest Good Friday
- Sat May 18, 2024 2:56 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Official United Rugby Championship thread
- Replies: 9676
- Views: 203404
- Sat May 18, 2024 2:26 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Official United Rugby Championship thread
- Replies: 9676
- Views: 203404
Re: Official United Rugby Championship thread
Venter failed his IQ test
- Sat May 18, 2024 2:03 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722284
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-69031180 Unpaid carers must repay more than £250 million after many were unknowingly overpaid their allowance, new figures show. The government is seeking to recover money from more than 134,000 carers. So instead of scrapping to just over the £151 a week threshold by ...
- Sat May 18, 2024 10:18 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722284
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
I'm sure the HOme Office can be trusted to manage this effectively! Lawyers and migrant rights campaigners have warned that the government is heading for a repeat of the Windrush scandal after imposing a “cliff edge” deadline for immigrants to switch to new digital visas. By the end of this year an...
- Fri May 17, 2024 10:13 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722284
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
A couple of points. You pay less for water. Scottish water is not horrifically in debt. There is a shitload of work required on all UK water infrastructure. Though different depending on the region. Doesn’t really matter if they are still pumping shit into the rivers and sea That's not a Gotcha. I'...
- Fri May 17, 2024 4:53 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official NPR Golf Thread
- Replies: 778
- Views: 28099
Re: The Official NPR Golf Thread
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/articles/ce7r83p87r3o https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/6ca4/live/34f8a610-144e-11ef-bfec-4ba8a2993b62.jpg.webp Channelling Tiger off the golf course too. :spin He comes across as an insanely chilled and polite individual. Hard to imagine him behaving the ...
- Thu May 16, 2024 9:09 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Baltimore bridge collapse
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1528
Re: Baltimore bridge collapse
Preliminary NTSB Report came out the other day, here's a short explainer.
Imagine, all this chaos, & loss of life because someone doing routine work closed a damper by mistake the day before ?
Imagine, all this chaos, & loss of life because someone doing routine work closed a damper by mistake the day before ?
- Wed May 15, 2024 6:23 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Baltimore bridge collapse
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1528
Re: Baltimore bridge collapse
Can you imagine the uproar if it was westerners being cooped up in an Indian harbour? Yep, we'd be hearing about it on day 2 and they'd be off the ship that evening. Unbelievable that they are still stuck there like non people. One of the reasons I have all the time in the world for the Seamans Uni...
- Wed May 15, 2024 5:59 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722284
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
I see DAC is on a full Election footing, & spreading the culture wars bile, & stinking up both Politics threads, but can the rest of you stop responding to the cunt ?
I came here to get away from exactly this shite on PR
I came here to get away from exactly this shite on PR
- Sun May 12, 2024 9:29 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The New Hobbies Thread
- Replies: 54
- Views: 1342
Re: The New Hobbies Thread
Had a kayak lesson during the week - I got given a sea kayak last year and thought it best to get a couple of lessons before I take it out. Fuck me it was painful squeezing into the bloody thing - a mix of being large and inflexible - 3 days later and I’ve still got a bit of pain and stiffness in p...
- Sun May 12, 2024 9:12 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official NPR Golf Thread
- Replies: 778
- Views: 28099
Re: The Official NPR Golf Thread
Rory rolling back the years tonight.
- Sun May 12, 2024 4:05 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The New Hobbies Thread
- Replies: 54
- Views: 1342
Re: The New Hobbies Thread
Had a kayak lesson during the week - I got given a sea kayak last year and thought it best to get a couple of lessons before I take it out. Fuck me it was painful squeezing into the bloody thing - a mix of being large and inflexible - 3 days later and I’ve still got a bit of pain and stiffness in p...
- Sun May 12, 2024 3:43 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official Cricket Thread
- Replies: 7604
- Views: 197962
Re: The Official Cricket Thread
If Pakistan ever get a Rugby team, their Wicket keeper looks like he could do a job as a prop
- Sun May 12, 2024 3:25 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: History thread
- Replies: 199
- Views: 12481
Re: History thread
Another grim anniversary coming up next week.
https://archive.ph/e7Dew
My Mother walked by the Talbot Street bomb about 5 minutes before it exploded.
https://archive.ph/e7Dew
My Mother walked by the Talbot Street bomb about 5 minutes before it exploded.
- Sun May 12, 2024 9:18 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Depluralise a film or TV show..
- Replies: 50
- Views: 840
Re: Depluralise a film or TV show..
Where an Eagle Dares
- Sat May 11, 2024 11:23 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: SupeRugby 2024...
- Replies: 465
- Views: 5556
Re: SupeRugby 2024...
Loving the Tahs v Brumbies game! Being played in a swamp, both teams wearing the same strips, rain pissing down, everyone covered in mud, knock ons, players sliding 20 yards on the ground, spray being kicked up everywhere, tapped free kick not moving in the mud ... just brilliant! TBF skill levels ...
- Sat May 11, 2024 10:12 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: SupeRugby 2024...
- Replies: 465
- Views: 5556
Re: SupeRugby 2024...
I'm glad it's not just me that finds it infuriating
- Sat May 11, 2024 10:06 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722284
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
0.6% growth lol And you could argue that's inflation driven rather than growth driven Compared with same quarter last year this is just a 0.2% increase in GDP so we have barely caught up with where we were a year ago. Worry is that within the overall figure construction fell by 0.9% so longer term ...
- Fri May 10, 2024 11:16 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Official United Rugby Championship thread
- Replies: 9676
- Views: 203404
Re: Official United Rugby Championship thread
Stormers finally wake up the last 15 minutes and score the bonus point try. Dyamni made a huge difference off the bench. Frustrating to watch. Why de fuck they keep on playing kicking rugby make absolutely no sense. If they play like this Connacht will slaughter them. From your lips to Dogs ears :w...
- Fri May 10, 2024 10:38 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Things that don't deserve their own thread
- Replies: 2648
- Views: 141249
Re: Things that don't deserve their own thread
Tech can be such a double edged sword, & SM particularly so, but I've spent the last couple of hours watching surfing videos on YouTube, & it occurred to me that for decades we've been immensely impressed by David Attenborough & his teams nature productions, but now the means of producin...
- Fri May 10, 2024 3:59 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Official United Rugby Championship thread
- Replies: 9676
- Views: 203404
- Fri May 10, 2024 1:30 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 859
- Views: 65900
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Nice bit of business by Connacht. I'm sure there are plenty in Ulster crying in their beer over losing Ben Connacht to sign two Ireland U20 internationals from Leinster Bray native Ben Murphy has lined out for both Munster and Leinster in recent years, having spent a spell down south as injury cover...
- Thu May 09, 2024 11:09 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Official United Rugby Championship thread
- Replies: 9676
- Views: 203404
Re: Official United Rugby Championship thread
Stormers +50
- Wed May 08, 2024 8:05 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: President Biden and US politics catchall
- Replies: 6612
- Views: 293361
Re: President Biden and US politics catchall
And again, in another closed Primary.
- Tue May 07, 2024 9:58 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: 737 Max to fly again
- Replies: 191
- Views: 10642
Re: 737 Max to fly again
Jesus.... H.....Christ ! How bad does it have to get before the shareholders demand the sacking of every manager above a set level, & the cancellation of all benefits for the ones they've sacked over the last few years ? The US has opened a new probe of troubled jet firm Boeing, after the compa...
- Mon May 06, 2024 10:49 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18162
- Views: 980681
Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Didn’t mean to start a long thread with this! TBH sometimes people just don’t get along, and also it’s a bit unfair judging people on what they were like at school (as would have been the case with both Irvine and GT here). Many people were dicks at school and turned into decent folk later on. Aye,...
- Mon May 06, 2024 10:31 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: 737 Max to fly again
- Replies: 191
- Views: 10642
Re: 737 Max to fly again
Jesus.... H.....Christ ! How bad does it have to get before the shareholders demand the sacking of every manager above a set level, & the cancellation of all benefits for the ones they've sacked over the last few years ? The US has opened a new probe of troubled jet firm Boeing, after the compan...
- Mon May 06, 2024 8:55 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: President Biden and US politics catchall
- Replies: 6612
- Views: 293361
Re: President Biden and US politics catchall
The traitor seems to think he'll get some kind of Political or Financial benefit if he gets slung in gaol for a few hours, but them again, he thought there'd be massed ranks of his loons outside Court every day, & look how that worked out ! He only understands his base , & never seems to get...
- Mon May 06, 2024 2:51 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The best new and returning TV series thread
- Replies: 1792
- Views: 103051
Re: The best new and returning TV series thread
re Clarkson's Farm .... I watched it and it was pretty harrowing (as the title suggests). I watched Countryfile last night and two young farmers were shown with still born lambs. They knew their stuff but it does still happen. If you are saying Clarkson's Farm was setup to ensure that happened, I c...
- Mon May 06, 2024 2:42 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722284
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Local councils are prepping for November elections (I think the second week) Tories working to line up their book deals (and Indian deal), and hoping for positive vibes after summer, Olympics, and who knows, perhaps a reduction in (mortgage) rates. and hoping fervently that the increasing cost of f...
- Mon May 06, 2024 12:46 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722284
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Yes, lots of disinformation flying about on this The Thrasher extrapolation of voting figures has been discredited by the major pollsters They're going to needlessly put us through 6 more months of this. I don't understand the reluctance to call an election date. A snap election can be used to catc...
- Mon May 06, 2024 9:33 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722284
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
He must be worried; he's now conceding that they're going to lose, but they're back again warning of chaos if Labour get in power Rishi Sunak: Britain faces hung parliament at general election The prime minister expresses disappointment after Conservative losses in last week’s local elections Britai...
- Sun May 05, 2024 4:35 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722284
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
As I stated elsewhere earlier this morning... And the narrative will now go along the lines of... "We hear you, this result clearly shows us our plan isn't racist and cruel enough" If they and Reform and going to squabble over who can be the most racist it's not great for applying sensibl...