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!”
Comments are closed.
Ovally Balls 
Not really Craigs, going home to anarchy isn’t really great. On hte other hand, it’s our wedding anniversary on Saturday, so I’ll be celebrating that! Hopefully Mrs Deebee will too!
LikeLike
Ah shit deebs I’m sorry I assumed that you were only impacted in Lagos. Puts things in the UK in perspective. Hopefully you will be safe.
Just drink through it and happy anniversary!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Ruan Steenkamp On short term deal to Embta, presumably Plan B after Kwagga was included in the Boks squad
LikeLike
oops!
Helicopter reveals rooftop marijuana plantations while filming Vuelta
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/sep/04/helicopter-rooftop-marijuana-plants-vuelta-spain-catalonia-race
LikeLike
Completely different type of player to Kwagga. Strong, strong lad when not injured. Not been a regular 1st choicer but can do a good job.
Nickname is Stoney, by the way.
LikeLike
Afternoon!
The politcal air smells a little sweeter after last night……….BoJo and Mogg beautifully skeewered by Ken Clarke amongst others.
I wonder what today will bring as I’m really pissed about the signal to de-index-link pensions – that’s all the income we have.
On a brighter note, really chuffed for recognition to Marchant (again) and Kvesic – both very good players.
LikeLike
Keep your chin up Deebee, and enjoy your anniversary old chum.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Wonderful. We can expect the shaft of all shafts™.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yos – you’ll be fine. Wales should be well rested by then.
LikeLike
Apparently a drunken Cummings yelled ‘come on Jeremy, don’t back down’ at Corbyn in Westminster late last night.
Good to hear that he was drunk.
Spaffer has wet himself on his first TWO days at big school now.
LikeLike
Tom, even with Magnus Bradbury returning from Scotland duty we will still be missing Hamish Watson, John Barclay, Jamie Ritchie and Bill Mata, so we will need all the backrow help we can get.
I expect the first choice openside for the next few months at Edinburgh will be between Luke Crosbie and Mesulame Kunavula, with Ally Miller able to do a job there too.
Bradbury coming back isn’t the worst thing in the world for us, I hope he gets a good run at 8 rather than 6, I think he can really kick on in that position and make the Scotland shirt his own in the ears to come
Nick Haining apparently had a good preseason game against London Scottish on Saturday
LikeLike
Scottyland
LikeLike
Bradbury and stewart on’t bench from outside the squad. Wee Jonny back. would have liked to See G-Horne start, guess is firmly 3rd place SH
Finn, Maitland, Hogg & Greig in’t cotton wool. Interesting back row combo, and could be a tasty centre pairing.
Hopefully we’ll get through with a solid win & nae injuries.
LikeLike
‘Man who ran conversion therapy to give people ‘freedom from homosexuality’ comes out as gay’
Oh, the ironing as sag might say.
LikeLiked by 2 people
I have recently re-read the Papillon novel, and have now just finished ‘Dry Guillotine’ by another escaped French convict, Rene Balbenoit.
If anyone knows the stories of the French penal colony on French Guyana comparing both stories is fascinating.
It’s quite clear that Papillon claimed a number of escape stories as his own. Other stories from the Camps that Papillon claimed to have been involved with were described by Balbenoit as having involved other people.
Papillon claimed to have escaped from Devil’s Island, but in fact was never incarcerated there.
Balbenoit actually wrote his story while it was happening, and hid the oiled manuscript, eventually giving it to an American novelist he met in Trinidad on one of his escapes.
The saddest things about his account is the cruelty of sending men with families, wives and children to Guyana for the rest of their lives, often for minor offences. Any sentence resulted in the convict having to stay in Guyana as a colonist for a period equivalent to their sentence. Any term over 8 years and the freed convict would have to remain in Guyana for the rest of their lives.
Freed men in Guyana were in a desperate state. There were no jobs and they often starved to death or committed crimes to be readmitted to the prison.
Thousands of prisoners were sent out to work in logging camps in the jungle, Charvein, Godebert and Kilo 40. Prisoners were naked and had to cut a cubic metre of hard tropical wood every day. If they were unable to produce their quota by the end of the day they received no food that evening or the following morning, and then would have to make up the remainder of the previous day’s quota and today’s requirement to receive food that evening. Add to that malaria, dysentery etc and the death rate was astronomical.
The solitary confinement cells on Ile St Joseph also betray a barbaric approach to justice. Prisoners were locked up alone in total silence for years at a time with just dry bread and a watery broth to eat. Many went insane or committed suicide by hanging themselves with their rags or stuffing the material into their throat and nostrils.
I cannot recommend Balbenoit’s book more. I have never devoured a book with such gusto.
Of course I have actually visited the prison camp at St Laurent de Maroni, crossing over from Albina in Suriname back in 2011. It is now a museum. The ceilings of the condemned cells where many desperate men awaited the guillotine was a mass of giant bats, I recall.
I wish I had read Balbenoit’s account beforehand. I would have stayed longer and visited the Leper island on the Maroni river and also headed out on some of the old jungle trails to find the ruins of some of the infamous death camps.
Hell, I might have to go again.
LikeLike
@Chimpie, seems to follow a set pattern, like he feels so ashamed of himself and the lie he lives that the reaction is to punish and make suffer those who are happier and stronger than he will ever be.
LikeLike
I’ve got a few candidates I’d like to send on a bloody one way trip to Devil’s Island.
LikeLike
@Borderboy
Devil’s Island was pretty cushty – disease free, prisoners only had to collect coconuts as labour and they all had their own huts. It was mainly political prisoners, for whom exile and irrelevance was the punishment.
One of the jungle death camps would be altogether more miserable.
LikeLike
The ones I have in mind would burn down the huts and throw the coconuts at each other……
LikeLike
Sir Christoper Chope MP has just compared the withdrawal agreement to ‘slavery’.
LikeLike
Shit, I just found out that I’m going to spend the rest of my life on Devil’s Island….
With Chimpie.
LikeLike
At least we get to pelt each other with coconuts though.
LikeLike
@BB. You could also pack them off with 2 or 3 Prog albums to see them through their life sentences.
You wouldn’t send me, would you?
LikeLike
You could also pack them off with 2 or 3 Prog albums to see them through their life sentences.
Things have suddenly got worse by 2 or 3 orders of magnitude.
LikeLike
With your very own set of Prog albums…
LikeLike
Craigs – you get ABBA.
LikeLike
MONSTER!!!!
What does Chimpie get?
LikeLike
Who says I’m sending Chimpie?
LikeLike
It’s surprisingly common the most vociferously anti-gay voices being gay (or gay curious), though probably not so surprising any longer. Unsurprisingly common, I suppose.
LikeLike
BB – I thought that was a given.
LikeLike
Sir Christoper Chope
God, I really really really dislike Tories.
LikeLike
I’m not sure many other Tories like Chope
LikeLike
I don’t think many Tories like anybody, including other Tories.
LikeLike
If anyone on here has read The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (and if you haven’t , why not?!) then I thoroughly recommend his new book, Bridge Of Clay. Just finished it tonight. Kept getting grit in my eye, made them water something terrible….
LikeLike
Lest we forget:
(From Wikipedia)
LikeLiked by 2 people
Always said you are one of the good guys BB
LikeLiked by 1 person
As for craigs, off to devils island with you, a lifetime on energy efficient cheese on toast and llama urine rations
LikeLike
a lifetime on energy efficient cheese on toast and llama urine rations
Sounds truly disgusting. But at least I’ll have the llama urine to keep me going.
LikeLiked by 3 people
Are we sure that urine isn’t a euphemism?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sorry for this. I don’t normally ask people to sign petitions etc but I was invited to protest the imprisonment and torture of a man in Iran for insulting Islam on social media.
As it happens, I was going to Cornwall that day so couldn’t go but I could at least ask for your signatures here.
http://chng.it/rDX8DHzyjN
Whether you agree with what he did or not, he’s been in prison since 2013. He was going to be sentenced to death but pressure had his sentence reduced. The hope is that he will be released one day. Details are in the link.
Anyway, please ignore me if you wish.
LikeLike
Thaum – still preferable.
LikeLike
Good lord what do you take me for?
LikeLike
That’s a rhetorical question
LikeLike
Government having a good day in the commons
LikeLike
Craigs – I’m certainly against punishing anyone for insulting imaginary beings, but the petition is somewhat unclear.
LikeLike
I’m mostly referring to this bit, which I suspect is a victim of google translate:
I mean, boycotting not eating a prisoner of custody seems a bit drastic.
LikeLike
Is it trying to say that prisoners are forced to buy food from prison stores?
LikeLike
Thaum – yeah, I agree with you there.
I signed it because he’s being tortured in prison for speaking his mind. The protest (and this petition) was to free him. The other part is due to the status of the prisoners I believe. I can find out more tbh.
LikeLike
Yeah, not sure about the food.
LikeLike
I’ve found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soheil_Arabi
While Human Rights Watch and Amnesty have made statements, they are somewhat equivocal.
LikeLike