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Australia is a the boiled frog syndrome. It's got more and more expensive since I've been here from 2002 Europe only looks more expensive due to the crap exchange rate at the moment Price of beer in SE England went from £2.90 in 2002 to £5.90 today I wonder how much of that is skewed by some very e...

I have Argentinian family and they are lovely people tbf. Except when it comes to futbol, when they quickly become The French of South America. My sister in law says its practically impossible to buy property in the country however, due to the state of inflation/interest rates. Her and her husband ...

Jaysis https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/67690772 Not a surprise. I watched Black Lion vs Iberians in Tbilisi a couple of weeks ago. They're owned by the Georgian RFU and are a development team for the national side. They have some very good players. As well as the big lumps in the scrum, their...

Round 1 Attendances 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Leicester 19,439 ☘️ Munster 18,908 🇫🇷 Toulouse 18,750 🇫🇷 La Rochelle 16,700 🇿🇦 Bulls 15,157 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Bath 13,918 🇫🇷 Toulon 13,033 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Bristol 12,446 🇫🇷 Racing 9,385 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Glasgow 6,579 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Sale 6,432 ☘️ Connacht 6,024 Where do you get the attendance stats from?

We were there two weeks ago. Loved everything, especially La Sagrida Familia and Parc Guelle but not a city I would go back to as I felt we have done a lot of the attractions and would just spend the time eating and drinking. Done all the attractions meaning more time for eating? Sounds like the pe...

Heard about Michael Palin and Terry Jones' "Ripping Yarns" referenced in a history podcast the other day and found them on the ol' 'Tube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXzjWOWuZGI&list=PLd4RyPfb7EpUcTh7ecFGAY5hVOqCQok-J&ab_channel=YOUTUBEISRUBBISH Several of the Ripping Yarns ar...

Simian wrote: ↑Thu Nov 23, 2023 9:03 am
Sandstorm wrote: ↑Thu Nov 23, 2023 7:48 am Every time you get on a roll with your exercise, you get an injury!
Jeez, this one is so very true. And even minor knocks take so long to get better these days!

This has basically fucked up most of the last 20 years for me.

Spirits as "investment" is a dumb dumb idea. At least wine will continue to age. The days of a barrel of whisky being a good investment are long gone. As is en primeur wine. Back in the day when cash was short, producers would offer a good deal to get some cash in now, rather than in seve...

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I think in general wingers get a tough time about defence, I saw Kolbe get sat on his arse by Chris Harris in the Lions series, LRZ is, to use the technical term, shite defensively, we have nightmares about Big Duhan and his positioning This was supposed to happen, when the game went pro the defenc...

The Rugby Paper are reporting that Premiership attendances are down 16% so far this year with only Sale showing a minor increase. Could be the World Cup effect but alarm bells should be ringing. World Cup 100% a factor. Ticket prices are too high during a squeeze on living standards, £60+ i s gener...

The Rugby Paper are reporting that Premiership attendances are down 16% so far this year with only Sale showing a minor increase. Could be the World Cup effect but alarm bells should be ringing. Cough, I wonder if the 23% increase in season ticket price for 3 fewer games that some clubs have gone f...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/08/snp-minister-runs-up-10k-roaming-fee-on-parliamentary-ipad/ £11k in data? how much p**n was he watching? Watching football in his hotel room on 4G probably. Stupid twat. Absolute moron. I wonder what crucial government mission he was on his Morocco. A fri...

Exeter v Bristol is a pretty watchable game.

I’m sorry - Exeter was more grounded?!?! I remember playing a cricket match against them where over half their side took to the field wearing signet rings! Sports teams aren't necessarily the most reflective of an institution's student body. Certainly when I was there a fair number were locals(ish)...

Bollocks! Huge generalisation! Arguably in some circles the opposite is true - people who speak in RP being seen as brainless toff Fauntleroys. One thing I would say, and this is very anecdotal, but I've found those who attended Public schools to be ingrained with this 'confidence shield' that thos...

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Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 7:13 pm I really think we need to start prosecuting them all, stripping them of their citizenship and shipping them to Rwanda.

What the fuck have the Rwandans done to deserve that

What the hell is going on with the price of food on brexit island, especially eating out? Lack of HGV drivers in 2020 and energy price rises in 2021 forced food prices up and up. Of course with both the mentioned issues now resolved/cheaper, prices stay high!! Cnuts. There's a bunch of staff cost i...

It says something that from an entire RWC, there were probably about 4 games (and i don't include the final) that really were of the highest quality and would have been worth the entry fee. Any non rugby person watching that RWC would likely walk away not wanting to watch another game...if we want ...

This game is pretty awful for a neutral.

A huge part of the problem is that regular jobs don't pay so well. It means you end up with people who have neither the aptitude nor interest in management pursuing such roles purely for the pay bump. This is then exacerbated by largely just leaving them to figure out how to manage people which is ...

I think this was one of the four things that GRRM confirmed with Benioff and Weiss when at the start of the show. The other was confirming Jon's (frankly irrelevant) lineage, that Danaerys was actually a baddie, and something else that I can't remember. Given how they raced to the conclusion of the...

Every UB training I've been on (and there were a fair few) essentially amounted to a person of colour telling white people that regardless of their conscious beliefs and actions, subconsciously they're all racists. Which is bollox. But plenty of research shows that, for instance, identical CVs are ...

SaintK wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 4:34 pm
tabascoboy wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 4:17 pm
Hmmmm!
Anybody know whereabouts?

From the council website, Pedham Place @ Swanley.

This historian doesn't mince her words! :lol: (time stamped at a point that sums it all up, really) https://youtu.be/Ov4y4lO_AgA?si=uF4S0mkqCQimF928&t=1901 "The uploader has not made this video available in your country" Oh, that's weird. I wonder if the whole channel's blocked or jus...

Niegs wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 3:02 am This historian doesn't mince her words! (time stamped at a point that sums it all up, really)

"The uploader has not made this video available in your country"

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2023 3:56 pm Dombrandt with motm for Quins. With the cameras zooming in on him, he looks fairly trim.

If only he were as good as Billy Vunipola.

OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2023 10:10 am The French crowd boooing the match officials yesterday was a new one.

Tell me you've never watched any French rugby without telling me you've never watched any French rugby

Labour should be pledging to abolish private schools for the same reason faith schools shouldnt exist - portions of society should not be allowed to simply sequester themselves away from everyone else, developing in a bubble. If the kids of the wealthiest in society have to do their developing amon...

Thank christ I've found a non ITV stream to watch.

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Thu Oct 12, 2023 11:12 am
Chilli wrote: ↑Thu Oct 12, 2023 11:07 am
Is there any game for which this isn’t valid?

Yes. Plenty of England won't be supporting England.

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Well,well,well!!! Former Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone will be charged with fraud by false representation following an investigation into overseas assets believed to be worth more than £400m. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/62119689 Bye bye Bernie! Former Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone ...

On that point, the Tory party is very vulnerable to entryism particularly after a likely electoral thrashing. There are what, 80,000 members? Doesn’t take a lot to double that I still doubt he has a path. Farage would have to join the conservative party, convince his fans to do so (I don't think he...

I'm afraid Israel is now starting by committing a war crime, in announcing they're going to cut off food, water, electricity & fuel supplies to Gaza. They're punishing millions of civilians for the acts of a thousand terrorists War crimes are nothing new in this region. This current right wing ...

I don’t think the fitness point is fair any more. Fiji looked shagged against Georgia so I’d anticipate we’ll finish much better than they will. Defence remains a worry - if you can string a few phases and passes together there’s just acres of space on the wings. Any semi we may get to could well b...

Well, I may yet see this extravaganza, we did the tour of The Globe this morning and Oxford Street was a bust, so we're on the train home. Oxford Street’s decline is pretty tragic to watch and completely unnecessary. There’s a parallel here When was Oxford Street not shit? I can't remember when it ...

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Sat Oct 07, 2023 5:28 pm ENGLAND'S CAPTAIN

Leadership, innit

Musk's business model is proving very successful for twitter right enough. SpaceX's business model is to survive on government funding. When he tried to implement the business model he wanted at PayPal he was forced out of the company. But apart from that... Twitter was extremely successful using t...

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