Everything will be all right tonight. Everything will be all right tonight. Or so I keep telling myself, as Ulster prepare to turn and face the strain of Leinster at the RDS. Let’s hope that Ulster can put Big Brother under pressure. It’s simple, really: all we have to do is win. But hope, boys, is a cheap thing, cheap thing: we are the dead.
While Ulster have lost Stockdale to injury, one South Effrican is back for us.
But one of Them has apparently recovered from yet another head injury.
Give me steel, give me steel, give me pulsars unreal
In other news – newsman wept (with joy) as he told me – a familiar face is returning to Cardiff.
Someone’s back in town the chips are down
I just cut and blackout
I’m under Mulvihill’s influence and my honour’s at stake
Today is David Bowie’s birthday, in case anyone was wondering.
Onna telly this week
Friday 8th January
| Glasgow v Edinburgh | 19:35 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Leinster v Ulster | 19:35 | TG4 / Premier Sports 1 |
| Bath v Wasps | 19:45 | BT Sport 2 |
| Sale v Worcester | 20:00 | BT Sport Extra |
Saturday 9th January
| Zebre v Treviso | 13:00 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Newcastle v Gloucester | 14:00 | BT Sport 2 |
| Griquas v Cheetahs | 14:30 | Sky Sports Arena |
| Exeter v Bristol | 16:30 | BT Sport 2 |
| Western Province v Sharks | 17:00 | Sky Sports Arena |
| Dragons v Ospreys | 17:15 | S4C / Premier Sports 1 |
| Cardiff v Scarlets | 19:35 | S4C / Premier Sports 1 |
| Connacht v Munster | 19:35 | TG4 / Premier Sports 2 |
Sunday 10th January
| Harlequins v London Irish | 15:00 | BT Sport 1 |
Saturday 16th January
| Glasgow v Edinburgh | 17:15 | Premier Sports 1 |
Ovally Balls 
OT, am sure you’ve got a twinkle in your ear and a sweet smile that sets pensioners’ hearts aflutter. The Daniel O’Bloody Donnell of East Lancs.
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Biden is some kind of nth cousin of the Kearneys….. so Mayo grabbing all the attention causes huge upset in Co Louth…
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‘a twinkle in your ear?’ you may ask. And, yes, it’s exactly what I meant.
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@tomp
I was beaten to that crown years ago by this bunch of RL-loving catholics.
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Which country do you think Biden will bomb first?
Canada. That smug Trudeau bastard’s got it coming. Or possibly the UK, with that 100% Irish boy heritage. Maybe he’ll be the first US president to start a war in real Africa, not those dozy Club Med countries?
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Deebs – I was thinking Texas when they vote to split from the rest of the USA.
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mar-a-lago
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OT – Iran.
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OT, you’re probably right. On second thoughts, I’d say you have more of Twink about you.
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Not a bet but a mate of mine’s selling dodgy routers that cost him a round a tenner for 250 quid. Apparently, parents are desperate for them with all the remote learning going on. Says he’s clearing a grand and a half, two grand a day easy. He lives round your way I think.
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That’s brilliant! Especially that plonker in the middle! Looks like he’s trying to impersonate someone of gravitas, but can’t hold his stomach in or shoulders back and forgot to get his hair cut so slouched on stage in an ill-fitting suit after a lunch that’s giving him the runs.
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Blizzarding like a bastard outside
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I think Trump had more people at his inauguration.
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Now watched the video. Very good.
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Gets you right in the feels, doesn’t it :)
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So my other hero, my old mucker from the seventies, that tip-top songwriter and all round top bloke Labi Siffre has his second best known tune sung at Biden’s gig today by a toad impersonator inna suit?
Is that true? WILL LABI GET PAID?
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It’s not true. Careful editing.
It’s a bloke who was in EastEnders. He sang it at the World Indoor Bowls in 2014:
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Damn your eyes. I thought it was Garth Brooks!
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Barry from EastEnders was singing from Potters in Norfolk which is my boys’ favourite holiday destination.
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Afghanistan giving Ireland a right kicking early on in the crucial ODI in Abu Dhabi. 44/0 after 7.3 overs. Kearnage!
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Andy McBrine, salty old dog, has been very thrifty going for only five off his three overs thus far, but with figures of two overs for 22, Curtis Campher’s been creamed. At drinks, the Afghans have lifted their leg on the Irish attack – 94/0 off 15 overs.
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McBrine begins to shine! He’s nicked two out with his jelly-like wobblers and the Afghans are 145/2 in the 27th over! Gurbaz is still there on 89 though and getting plenty change from Sterling.
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“A lot of QAnon followers are expressing a lot of anger and disillusionment and feeling they are being misled,”
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Well, duh
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‘“Like many of you, I am in shock by today’s [events] and then I realized why it had to happen and that Q told us it would happen and, why this NEEDED to happen,” read one popular post on a QAnon forum, which went on to detail a new theory that explains why Q’s false predictions were in fact correct.’
Correct by being totally wrong. Obviously.
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And shine some more – the Afghans have been neutered somewhat and are 161/5 after 32 overs! They’ve been pickled by McBrine, who ends his spell with 5/29! Great stuff! Gurbaz still lurking on 94, but Ireland have chanced on a great strategy – just get everyone else out.
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198/6! Ireland’s plan completely backfires as they Gurbaz! A run-a-ball 127 has set up Afghanistan very nicely with 12 overs still to go – but only four wickets to play with. Ireland will feel they can wrap this up for 240 max.
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Correct by being totally wrong. Obviously.
Easy Llama boy, some of us make a living out of this! Two wrongs don’t make a right, so obviously one massive totally wrong is absolutely right. Fling in a few known unknowns, unknown knowns and a large dollop of thumb sucking and an analyst I’ll make of you.
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‘Two wrongs don’t make a right’
I keep saying this but eldest chimplet has outlined a few theoretical instances where two wrongs could make a right. He loves a good theoretical argument.
Anyhoo I’m highly conversant with the use of assumptions [1] in building a theoretical framework [2] on which a someone can base their decisions [3]
[1] made up stuff
[2] more made up stuff
[3] at their own risk, of course, don’t like to take any of that stuff on.
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I heard a great term yesterday, that applies to the Q folks perfectly – ‘fractally wrong’.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fractal_wrongness
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Ireland bollix up the sage prediction of wrapping up the innings for under 240, by dropping two catches in a couple of overs, proving that two drops don’t make it tight.
Rashid Khan takes full advantage, plundering 50 off 27 so far, including 5 sixes (one helpfully tipped over the fence by the fielder who maybe thought he was playing footie). He’s finally run out of the penultimate ball by a throw from Simi Singh (lovely name, County Offaly, I think) to Lorcan Tucker, the keeper who hasn’t earned his tucker today. 287/9 it finishes, so it does!
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Refit – interesting that they’ve included alternative medicine and homeopathy in their list of wrongs. Is any distinction between these things fractal wrongness?
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Homeopathy is not wrong at all levels. In some cases it is certainly harmful, like for example when someone opts for it rather than potentially life saving chemotherapy.
However in cases where people who demand treatment for a condition that will get better with no intervention, and where the conventional treatment could cause harm (e.g. unnecessary surgery, side effects to drugs, antibiotic resistance), then homeopathy is better than the conventional treatment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iatrogenesis
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OT – well, the homeopathy isn’t doing anything. So not having anything would lead to the same result.
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Jack Dee did a skit many years ago a homeopath arriving at a accident site to treat the bleeding victims. (it was part of a broader skit to be fair). Was quite funny at the time.
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@craigs
It can act as a placebo so could have a bigger benefit than doing nothing.
And don’t forget that some people demand treatment, so giving them some woo-woo water may save time in convincing them you’re doing something worthwhile, freeing up precious resources to doing something socially useful.
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OT – same could be said for prayer or sacrificial chickens.
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@craigs
Correct.
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Dr. The Right Reverend Deebee just finished his sacrificial chicken. I feel I can heal the world, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race.
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Slaughtered the sacrificial blog at the same time. Got my sights set on Amazon next.
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During Brexit negotiations UK insisted that it had to be treated as a negotiation between sovereign states.
Now UK insists on not granting the same status to the EU as to sovereign states.
Wankers
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I’ve just had some sacrificial cheese.
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…perhaps there won’t be an England squad for the 6Ns -on the assumption that they’d win it anyway?
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Thaum
– it screams when you cut it – didn’t you know??
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The cheeses that appeases?
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…it only does it because it teases”
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Having cheeses greatly pleases.
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