Well, unless you’re French, Welsh or Scottish….
International rugby on the telly this weekend
Friday 30th August
| France v Italy | 20:10 | Premier Sports 1 |
Saturday 31st August
| Wales v Ireland | 14:30 | Channel 4 |
| Georgia v Scotland | 17:00 | Premier Sports 2 |
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Ovally Balls 
CMW – well, what do you expect from cricket. It’s not like a rugby match, where kind-hearted fans will share their hip flasks with you.
And white pudding > black pudding.
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October 14th is a Monday so the election’d be on the 17th. World Cup quarters start on the 19th. Could be a rough few days.
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Elections don’t have to be on a Thursday
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Although the last General Election not on a Thursday was in 1931
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‘And white pudding > black pudding.’
Pfft
Stornoway black pudding >>>> all other types of savoury pudding
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Any general election happening soon is guaranteed to be the shaft of all shafts™.
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@Thaum – what I expect from cricket is to get fed between innings as has happened in the other four hundred odd games I’ve played.
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@Chimpie – aye, but have you tried Irish white pudding. Sublime. The Lansdowne Hotel in, er, Dublin, does a nice one.
@CMW – I know nothing of this cricket you mention. Although it does seem exceptionally cruel that a sport whose games last for decades (even in a single afternoon) does not provide food, let alone strong drink to accompany it.
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If you (can bear to) listen to and/or read the ‘comments’ of Brexit supporters they seem to fall into a few distinct tribes:
All of them seem utterly delighted that Brexit is causing ‘Remoaners’ distress and are very keen to gloat. They have no real arguments, and no facts, they simply relish the anguish of people who are not like them. Some love to call the other half of the country ‘quislings’ and ‘fifth columnists’ and talk of the hideous punishments of the old days for ‘treason’.
This seems to be the only positive of Brexit they can think of, and boy do they love to point it out. If you push them harder they’ll cite freedom for EU rules, of which they can name absolutely none. Or daft stuff about newspaper for fish and chips and kids not being allowed to play conkers or climb trees at school. (Of course most of what they object to has nothing to do with the EU).
Crucially, they don’t feel the need to engage in any substantive debate or provide any evidence. This is because they WON the referendum and therefore what THEY believe has been proven right, and all the claims of the ‘remoaners’ must therefore be wrong. The side that told the truth won, and the side that lied didn’t.
Many are convinced that nothing bad will come of Brexit and dismiss all predictions of trouble as ‘Project Fear’ – without any evidence – of course. Typically, such people are either wealthy enough to believe they are untouchable (the affluent pensioners of the Shires) or engaged in the sort of miserable daily struggle to get by that makes them think that things can’t get any worse. (They might want to take a look at the poor in the USA to get an insight into what the right wing Conservatives have planned for them). Simplistic bluster about German carmakers and Europeans needing us more than we need them tends to feature heavily, despite these German carmakers leaving it very late to intervene.A complete inability to understand the simplest tenets of international trade and basic mathematical issues such as proportion is a common theme.
Others, weirdly, seem to actively welcome any impending crisis. It’s a sort of crazy ‘disaster nationalism’ in which hardship will ‘sort the snowflakes out’ and prove our ‘British grit’ to Jonny Foreigner, laying the foundations for an imagined glorious future. In their world, the EU will be more damaged by Brexit than the UK, as the idiotic lies that ‘they need us more than we need them’ have since been established as ‘truth’ through the victory of these claims in the referendum. Therefore – snowflakes aside – the UK will endure a manageable minor blip, whereas the ‘failing EU’ and its inferior ‘continental’ people will collapse into ruin without British cash.
They seem to think that a no-deal Brexit will be a disaster for people like Gary Lineker, James O’Brien and J.K Rowling, yet somehow they themselves will thrive. Or, that they can endure the pain, whereas the wealthy elite will suffer greatly. Yes, people who are a couple of paychecks away from losing their home actually think liberal multi-millionaires will be ruined by the economic consequences of the country severing all ties with our largest markets, while they will simply keep calm and carry on.
Many older Brexiters hark back to World War 2 as proof of our superior backbone. Having grown up in the aftermath of the War – but not having experienced it themselves – it has remained an enduring lifetime obsession. It seems to inspire some to wish for their own entirely safe ‘war’ with ‘the continent’ before they die. Those who were born AFTER World War 2 often tell us about how ‘everyone’ will pull together in times of crisis as ‘they’ did when German bombs fell, forgetting the not unimportant fact that 52% of those taking refuge in bomb shelters didn’t actually vote for the Luftwaffe to bomb them.
A worrying number believe that any price will be worth it to purge the nation of immigrants.
It’s easy to take the piss out of these people, but it’s important to note three things:
1. They will never change their minds.
2. They vote.
3. Dominic Cummings is going to try and get every single one of them to vote for Boris Johnson, and if they do, he will win a thumping majority. Britain will then be a very, very different place by 2025.
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@Thaum – some of those teas have been two cans of lager and a packet of crisps. Generally we get a lot better than that though and I do prefer to drink tea with my tea. Ideally beer is for beforehand, waiting to bat, after getting out and when umpiring though these days we’re not the drinking team we once were. And afterwards as well of course. Stronger drink than beer or wine has a bad record in the cricket I’ve been involved in.
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French squad at a glance seems to missing the Ginger Beaker. If so I’m not surprised, although taking Vaanamahna (ba dah ba dah ba) is still one Muppet too many.
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@thaum.
Not tried Irish white pudding
Will keep an eye out for it next time I’m over
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Pro, I may have said this before here, I’ve been saying it all over the shop for ages, there is now practically no chance of averting the disaster capitalists’ wet dream of No Deal – the ERG have taken over the asylum, if that is not too “Beadle Claxon” a term.
There is a long game strategy, however, as far as I can see it anyway;
Scots finally wake up to the fact that no one south of Berwick actually gives a flying fuck what Scots think.
Scotland takes charge of its own affairs and re-joins the EU.
The rUK sees Scotland thiving and goes “oops!” and does likewise – this will not happen overnight, but there is something afoot just now, Ken Clarke described the current situation as being one where an extreme right-wing English nationalist government is in place in Westminster, and it might seem ironic to suggest a Scottish nationalist solution, but the SNP and their goals are very different from the EDL or the ERG.
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Chimpie, you must have had white pudding, no?
It’s the cereals, seasoning and fat without the blood that goes into black pudding, or black pudding without the blood is a better way of putting it, I suppose
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Boo, all alone
I don’t have to get up at four in the morning and I’m on the beer
This might call for a few youtube posts
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South Africa have gone heavy duty for Friday’s warm-up v Japan:
15 Willie le Roux, 14 Cheslin Kolbe, 13 Lukhanyo Am, 12 Damian de Allende, 11 Makazole Mapimpi, 10 Handre Pollard, 9 Faf de Klerk, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Pieter-Steph du Toit, 6 Siya Kolisi (c), 5 Franco Mostert, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Frans Malherbe, 2 Malcolm Marx, 1 Steven Kitshoff.
Subs: 16 Bongi Mbonambi, 17 Tendai Mtawarira, 18 Trevor Nyakane, 19 RG Snyman, 20 Francois Louw, 21 Herschel Jantjies, 22 Frans Steyn, 23 Jesse Kriel.
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Where’s my yoochube Ticht?
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For fans of top top names, here’s the Namibia World Cup squad:
Forwards – Andre Rademeyer, Nelius Theron, Desiderius Sethie, AJ de Klerk, Johannes Coetzee, Obert Nortje, Louis van der Westhuizen, Torsten van Jaarsveld, Tjiuee Uanivi, Johan Retief, Thomasau Forbes, Rohan Kitshoff, Max Katjijeko, Prince Gaoseb, Wian Conradie, PJ van Lill, Adriaan Booysen, Janco Venter.
Backs – Cliven Loubser, Helarius Kisting, Damian Stevens, Eugene Jantjies, Darryl de la Harpe, Johan Deysel, Justin Newman, JC Greyling, Johann Tromp, Chad Plato, Lesley Klim, Janry du Toit, PJ Walters
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Tomp – I thought 22 was a joke and double checked. I kinda thought he was done tbh.
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Prince Gaoseb = rugby royalty.
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Helarius Kisting takes the prize for me though it’s a shame Plato can’t join the ranks of the philosophers who have played for South Africa.
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Same goes for JC Greyling.
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https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/sep/03/cheeky-girls-how-we-made-cheeky-song-touch-my-bum
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‘I found an Afrikaans pronunciation guide that says to pronounce Klein like Kleyn, which doesn’t really help’
Like Cane (as in Sam Cane) will a L inserted.
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Yesterday Boris claimed that the British negotiation team were very close to a deal with the EU and that rebel MPs were undermining them.
This morning we know that:
Cummings has said the UK effort to ‘negotiate’ are a deliberate ‘sham’ and that their aim is to run down the clock
There isn’t even a British negotiation team
The Attorney General has made it clear to Cummings and Fatty that the EU will never budge on the backstop
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/03/the-myth-of-the-free-speech-crisis
Oooh, where’s CJ? This’ll be right up his street
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Willemse to Saracens.
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RE white pudding, I have had it but mainly find it bogging.
I was assuming the Irish version was different.
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Willemse only going to Saracens for duration of WC. As Lizo going to Montpellier. They are standby players – need to be match fit.
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It’s now O’Kleyn.
Scots lads are going to have their minds blown when they learn the Afrikaans pronunciation of WP Nel’s name
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morning!
we make our own black puddings – two types…….regular pork with added armagnac and a different type made from duck’s blood…………….this is bloody fantastic……….put the blood into a shallow dish, add herbs and spices allow to set then cook like an omelette – completely delicious!
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interesting how the Exeter players have struggled with injury/fitness.
But tough old Francis soldiers on, as does LC-D
It’s possible that Slade and Nowell don’t feature at all………………
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I’m in awe of Slade’s pudding.
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‘we make our own black puddings – two types…….regular pork with added armagnac and a different type made from duck’s blood…………….this is bloody fantastic’
Address please. I’m heading over right away.
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Chimpie – I generally don’t like Nesrine Malik’s writing and this doesn’t do anything to change my mind.
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Although I agree with the last paragraph in that article.
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Where can I procure me some ducks blood?
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Steaal
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First steal of this new site?
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‘Where can I procure me some ducks blood?’
Ducks would be the place.
Just don’t take them from Iks’ pond
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Where can I find me instructions on how to bleed ducks?
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YouTube. It’s always YouTube.
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Tbh I’d rather buy it.
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I bet someone in Yharnam has some handy.
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Big Richie was back in action at the weekend and collected a yellow card for holding on too long after a tackle. Goujon decided on his own form of justice and stamped on Gray’s chest, for which he got a red.
It will be out of the frying pan and into the fire for Goujon (soz) at the disciplinary hearing, I reckon.
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That was naughty
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Yeah, sorry again for that awful pun
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So you should be
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‘Yeah, sorry again for that awful pun’
You should be battered for that
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Ducks blood?
What is wrong with you people.
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