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 |
870 thoughts on “Oh, woe is us!”
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Ovally Balls 
@yosoy, and the neighbours will be spared the haunted-house creak of your knees for one week at least.
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And some BIG TALK from our 2 and 4-legged Scottish Ladz! Are read-backs back?
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Big talk? I merely hope we get out of our group.
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We’ve got the green menace to content with, along with the brave home-based blossoms.It’s a DBWR conspiracy I say.
We’ll need to be on top of our stuff just to compete.
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@Craigman
Crossfitters don’t do 40m sprints – they wouldn’t be able to find away to cheat on form like they do with everything else.
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Anyone comes for my ducks and they’ll be eating everything out of their Karoos if they don’t look out.
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Pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft.
That win last week in Tblisi has put the away hoodoo to rest. If only I could work out how to unlock my betting account to allow me to put bets on Scotland at rugby again.
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Expro – I don’t know too much about crossfit tbh. My friend who is a pt takes the piss though.
BTW I’ve recently joined a gym. I do classes at lunch but was thinking that I could wake up early and get a quick session in before work. Is there any material you recommend online?
This would be for fat loss, strength and to get on the cover of Men’s Health.
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Whose group are Samoa in? They’ve been shite as ‘pro pointed out, even struggling against plucky Germany, but I watched some highlights of them against one of those invitation teams down in NZ and they looked like they were really enjoying themselves.
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With the Scots.
That game was against a bunch of Heartland Championship players, so amateurs.
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Scots to lose to Wales in the final.
#FACTBOMB
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@tomp
Foxy fendâ„¢
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@Craigs
Ignore PTs – they exist to make everything seem really complicated to ensure people need their assistance.
The only lifts you need to do are:
Squat
Deadlift
Benchpress
Shoulder press
Barbell row
Pull up
Close grip bench press
Some of these you can vary slightly (ie use dumbells, or do lat pull down if you can’t do pull ups) but do not use the machines, as you recruit far more muscle fibre when you have to balance and keep the weight steady when lifting (ie it isn’t secured in a rack or machine)
Full body workouts are really effective – just do 4-5 sets of 6 reps of each per session, 3x a week.
If this is too much you could do a split like this:
Monday: Squat, deadlift, row
Wednesday: benchpress, shoulder press, , close grip bench press
Friday: squat, pull up (lat pull down), deadlift
Weekend – go jogging, including some interval training.
Bodybuilding.com has good form guides, eg – https://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/bent-over-barbell-row
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My lad loves Fox Davies, as he calls him. This is his favourite:
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Unfortunately, he also rates a lad called Bob Kangaroo, who apparently plays for Australia.
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Cheers Pro. Let’s see how I go with the waking up early part first :-)
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Kangaroo on the plate as well.
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The EU could really drop Fatty in the shit if they confirm that no negotiations are actually taking place and that they are certainly not considering amending the backstop, and that no deal appears to be the express aim of the UK government.
If they confirm the Telegraph leak then Fatty has knowingly lied to parliament.
Apparently he even called up the Telegraph editor to complain about thew story.
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Liar lies.
It would be funny if this brought him down.
By the way, I reckon Nincompoopolis by Douglas Murphy. It’s about Johnson’s time as mayor of London.
Oh, and Perfidious Albion by Sam Byers is pretty good as well.
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Nincompoopolis is the correct title.
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JDII is so yesterday. I for one am ready to use Foxy and permutations thereof, like Fox Davies.
TomP, I watched that match live with Mr. Meades who was passing through Heidelberg at the time. He shouted ‘sit down!’ when Foxy fended, which was perfect.
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Now foxes. The food is getting ever more esoteric.
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I want an emotional support horse.
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I can remember when Horse needed an emotional support horse.
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Isn’t part of what we are seeing though another variation of the Trump playbook in that if you just choose to ignore the rules and protocols and even piss on them like a biscuit in an urinal then nobody can actually stop what you are doing because you have power, control and no respect for the checks and balances?
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I think Horse was an emotional support horse, but it turned out he could catch and gallop too and the rest is history.
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Did people bring him on planes?
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I think Fatty might be in the shit now.
By the end of the day his minority could be -20 odd, and he has promised parliament that the government will obey any bill demanding the avoidance of no deal.
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And apparently Labour will not vote for his snap election – instead leaving him to stew in his own juices.
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“Here’s the response of the chair of the Liberal Democrat LGBT group to the news that not liberal Philip Lee has joined the LDs:
I’m feeling devastated
The powers that be have let Philip Lee in.
A homophobe, a xenophobe, and someone who thinks people should be barred from the country if they are ill.
Fuck this.
Fuck this so hard.
I thought the Lib Dems were not a single issue party.
I thought we had a soul and principles.
But apparently as long as you are on the right side on brexit we’ll take you.
Well, I’m sorry, but no.
It doesn’t matter if we already have others as bad. You don’t make bad things better by adding more bad things. It doesn’t matter that he will increase our numbers in parliament by ONE. He thinks me and people like me are a lower class of human. I will not share a party with him.
I know you only get to do this once. I know I am ripping up almost my entire social life here. I know I am causing a lot of people a lot of organisational difficulties. And I’m sorry for all that. But there are some principles I will not compromise.
Sorry.”
https://miss-s-b.dreamwidth.org/2048873.html
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Someone hasn’t seen me making soup.
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Canada squad:
FORWARDS
Hubert Buydens (NOLA Gold), Djustice Sears-Duru (Seattle Seawolves), Eric Howard (NOLA Gold), Benoît Pifféro (Blagnac, FR), Andrew Quattrin (Toronto Arrows), Jake Ilnicki (Seattle Seawolves), Cole Keith (Toronto Arrows), Matt Tierney (Pau, FR), Conor Keys (Rotherham Titans, UK), Evan Olmstead (Newcastle Falcons, UK), Mike Sheppard (Toronto Arrows), Kyle Baillie (NOLA Gold), Justin Blanchet (Bedford Blues, UK), Matt Heaton (Darlington Mowden Park, UK), Lucas Rumball (Toronto Arrows), Tyler Ardron (capt., Chiefs, NZ), Luke Campbell (Toronto Arrows)
BACKS
Phil Mack (Seattle Seawolves), Jamie Mackenzie (Toronto Arrows), Gordon McRorie (Calgary Hornets), Peter Nelson (Ulster, IR), Shane O’Leary (Nottingham, UK), Nick Blevins (Calgary Hornets), Ciaran Hearn (London Irish, UK), Ben LeSage (UBC Thunderbirds), Conor Trainor (Nevers, FR), Jeff Hassler (Seattle Seawolves), Taylor Paris (Castres, FR), DTH van der Merwe (Glasgow Warriors, UK), Andrew Coe (Markam Irish / Canada Sevens), Patrick Parfrey (Toronto Arrows)
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Tomp, wonder what that guy thought about having Tim Farron as leader
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Chekh – yeah but he was a good homophobe.
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Politics people are odd
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chek,
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2017/06/tim-farrons-resignation-speech-was-awful-he-was-friend-lib-dem-lgbt
Lib Dems, innit.
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Aye, Lib Dems can generally weasel any old position they like. Principles? If you don’t like them, etc.
I was fascinated to learn today that MPs who want to resign still have to apply for the Chiltern Hundreds (or the other one), as they are not technically allowed to resign. Thought that had gone out with the Victorians.
And technically the Chancellor can block the resignation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resignation_from_the_British_House_of_Commons
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“It’s now O’Kleyn.”
Well with the pronunciation news it’s a shame he didn’t go to Scotland instead as Jean McKleyn would have been more fun.
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Conor Keys would be my favourite from the Canada squad if it wasn’t for Lucas Rumball. Also nice to see the former Ospreys going onwards and upwards.
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CMW – would that be a corruption of Kleyn M’Jeans (Jeans to rhyme with weans)?
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Erm… Weans is weans not weans.
Or rather weans is ‘wains’ not ‘weens’. So jeans won’t rhyme with weans. Maybe it does in Norn Iron?
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You could iron your jeans I suppose.
I was thinking more along Die Hard lines.
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BB – aye, but Kleyn rhymes with wean, apparently. So (to belabour the point) clayn m’jaynes sounds like an Irish exhortation to do some washing.
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You have me at a disadvantage, as I didn’t see Die Hard.
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‘Sharp intake of breath’
Whit? You’ve never seen Die Hard?
The main character is called John McClane (rhymes with wean). As opposed to McLean – which also rhymes with wean.
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There must have been someone more arrogant than Jacob Rees-Mogg in British politics over the last several hundred years and going back to the likes of Longshanks and Cromwell there were certainly those more deserving of the ol’ three iron to the shins, but FFS, that JR-M is a fucking wanker of the lowest order.
The faux politesse and airs and graces are fucking unbelievable, or rather people not wanting to smack him in the chops with a rotting trout is unbelievable.
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Labour MP Luke Pollard;
“Significant number of brave and courageous Tories in our lobby. I don’t agree with many of their views but they’re giving up careers in the Tory party to stand up for their constituents and that’s hard not to respect that.”
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BB – I had an American friend who’d lived in Edinburgh, and who bought a horse named McCloud. Obviously she changed his name to McLeod.
I think Bruce Willis is in Die Hard? Cannae stand the bloke. Would be impossible to watch more than a minute of it without exploding.
Ticht – not to mention him lounging on the benches after giving his ‘speech’.
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Bruce Willis lounging around on benches? I don’t think so.
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Government defeated by 27!!
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