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 
While I’m no fan of the Iranian regime, I’m also no fan of the Iran-demonisation of the right-wingers in the US and elsewhere. So I’d like to be sure this isn’t part of the latter.
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Fairy nuff Thaum. I’d be surprised though.
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Sure, Craigs, I might be overly suspicious, but there’s something about it that smells of fake news. Quite possibly it is indeed that they’ve used google translate for something very genuine; dog knows there are plenty of Iranian prisoners who should be released, not least Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe (thanks in large part to our current *spit* PM).
I’d just like to see independent corroboration, which is of course somewhat difficult as Iran doesn’t let a lot of journos in for such purposes.
I used the word ‘regime’, and it’s getting to the point where the same word should be used for our government.
– Only country apart from Iran that has clerics in its government.
– Hereditary head of state with apparently no power to block assaults on democracy.
– Unelected upper chamber as well.
– No written constitution to be consulted in matters of national emergency; constitution made up by the sitting government in effect.
– Suspension of Parliament at time of national crisis.
– etc
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Anyhow, GN – up far past my bedtime again!
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I found this issue through talking to a few people rather than looking at the petition. And I should have read the blurb before posting tbh.
The graun covered this story a while back:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/30/iran-death-sentence-commuted-theology-study
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Pro, I devoured Papillion years ago, then read the sequel, forget what it is called, but about his time living in Colombia, I think, and started to smell bullshit. I’ll read the other one you recommend.
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Thaum – agree with your bullets BTW. The big difference is that we have free speach (for the most part) in the UK.
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*Speech.
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And the freedom to misspell speach.
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‘The big difference is that we have free speach (for the most part) in the UK.’
There are numerous enormous differences between the political systems of the two countries. Let’s all just calm down.
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‘A’ for ‘the’ – it was late.
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‘Pro
I suggest you read The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
The founding of modern Australia via it’s penal colonies…………………………………
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USA team to play Canada on saturday.
I have placed an asterisk next to the players assumed to be pretty much nailed on as first choice starters.
15. Will Hooley*
14. Blaine Scully*
13, Marcel Brache*
12. Paul Lasike*
11. Martin Iosefo
10. Will Magie
9. Nate Augspurger
8. Cam Dolan*
7. John Quill*
6. Hanco Germishuys
5. Greg Peterson*
4. Ben Landry
3. Titi Lamositele*
2. Joe Taufete’e*
1. Eric Fry
16. Dylan Fawsitt
17. Olive Kilifi
18. Paul Mullen*
19. Nate Brakeley
20. Malon Al-Jiboori
21. Shaun Davies*
22. Bryce Campbell*
23. Mike Te’o
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Wales team named in about an hour. Expect a close to first choice XV, but with Patchell, Dee and a couple of others given a start.
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Labour refusing an election before 31/10
Fatty will therefore either have to defy parliament and refuse to request a Brexit extension, or go grovelling to Brussels and then face attack from the right flank by the Farage mob.
They have done him up like a kipper.
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Largely first choice but with a few who need a start. Almost identical to the way they picked the team in the corresponding fixture 4 years ago.
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Confident they’ll do over the green menace yoz?
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I think we’ll hammer them. At least 60 points.
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This is so bad:
https://www.backstage.com/casting/stereophonics-music-video-314328/
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If only I was still in my 20s yos.
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Well, found a new word today. ‘Softboi’
We live and learn.
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Karl
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Karl yourself
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Risk of an endless, recursive Karling here.
Karl.
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No one has even bothered posting the Ireland team.
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Poor work rate by the Irish.
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Tomp – be honest. You got that from Jim Hamilton’s twitter feed didn’t you.
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#iamlooddejagerstillinmytshirt
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From twitter, but a South African lad’s account.
And now my personal collection.
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https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
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Joe loves Jean Kilbane.
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Since none of the Irish ladz are doing it.
Ireland: Kearney, Larmour, Henshaw, Aki, Earls, Sexton, Murray; Healy, Best (c), Furlong, Ryan, Kleyn, Stander, van der Flier, Conan.
Replacements: Cronin, Kilcoyne, Porter, Henderson, Ruddock, McGrath, Carty, Ringrose
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Includes man of the moment Steyn.
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Gawd help us those teams knock lumps out of each other on Saturday. We lost HalfP and Webb in the equivalent fixture last time around.
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No wonder they get injured so much when you see ‘ow ‘ard and steely those stripped Saffas are.
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That’s a ‘roidtastic photo man…..
To think the one guy that did get busted was pretty small!
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Rees Mogg has compared that doctor the government hired to investigate possible medicine shortages after Brexit to Dr Wakefield – the anti vaxx hoaxer, for daring to conclude that there might indeed be supply issues.
It would not surprise me if Rees Mogg’s hedge fund was actually speculating on medicine shortages.
The man is an odious c*nt of the highest possible level.
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Tomp – if there was a similar photo of the AODers at the Belfast trip, those saffas would all have their t shirts on.
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So after yesterday being a shit day and having to send Craigs and Iks to Devil’s Island, today was sooo much better. I even got given cake! And told the reason was because they “felt I was underappreciated!”
So Iks can come back. I’ll leave Craigs though…….
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Whose they, the WI Cake Committee?
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“They” were the pupils who gave me the cake.
Any more cheek from you and you’re going back to Devil’s Island with the extended edition of ‘Tale Of Topograhic Oceans’ for company.
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Rees Mogg does not have a hedge fund
He has a regulated mutual fund
The vast majority of its holdings are in shares of companies in emerging markets
It is not allowed to short stock
It is not allowed to use options or other derivatives for speculative purposes
I do not disagree on any of your other points though 😀
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Craigs – thanks for the Guardian article; what a ridiculous thing to happen to anyone.
Spaffer Johnson has gone to the People’s Republic of Yorkshire, of all places, and made a speech where he starts off talking about That London. And people say he’s clever?
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Johnson’s speech in front of them coppers was appalling.
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“Spaffer Johnson has gone to the People’s Republic of Yorkshire, of all places, and made a speech where he starts off talking about That London. And people say he’s clever?”
A certain image is suggested by a politician closing parliament down and then speaking in front of the serried ranks of the cops. Fortunately, Johnson spaffed it.
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If DCI is lurking about, I know he likes this. For anyone else that has never seen it, but likes good TV, this was BRILLIANT TV!
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/sep/05/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-40-years-on-alec-guinness
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Bet those nippers have no idea that you add endless torture to your incarceration practices.
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BB – I find Le Carré adaptations hard to follow on the screen, but he’s a *wonderful* writer.
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BB – loved that series. Alec Guinness superb.
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