marklaffan.bsky.social
Father, Lefty, Singer, Rugby fan and occasional singer. Limerick, Munster, Ireland.
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If there’s a coach in the world who can whiteboard a team to a series win, it’s Schmidt. The end of his time in Ireland suggests he’s not a big man for a plan B though. Interesting series ahead.
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I could live with the turgid if we had a pack that could execute that at test level against top sides. The great thing about the approach we took in aligning with Leinster under Lancaster was that the offloads and speed of movement negated a reliance on heavier carriers, which we usually lack.
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Presumably the two time World Cup winner was unaware of his market value when he took the Leinster job. But now he’s won a URC the sky’s the limit….
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Hard as a Munster fan to separate the perception of the league from the shift in our scope and competitiveness. What was an after thought has become our biggest trophy chance each year. SA teams have definitely changed the comp. But does it feel different if you’re a Dragons fan?
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Student Union. Sat down feeling very ill.Very attractive object of my crush came and knelt in front of me to check on my well being. Felt the rush come, looked into her eyes in front of me, applied hand brake and swallowed it back. Still 30 years later the most gallant thing I’ve ever done.
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Jesus Pogoing Christ.
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That’s a shisha pipe.
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Those two young people need to be single until they meet someone they’re more compatible with.
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I don’t know…Spurs have been around for a while now. Don’t know why he’d leave a better run club to join them though.
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He did, I think? Didn’t he have to issue a denial at one point that he was going to leave Racing?
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He said “what the fuck are you doing wearing black dress shoes and boot cut jeans? Are you going to a fancy dress party as a difficult divorce?”
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Crowley should have fucked them both up. No quarter.
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Massive Fannies. All of them.
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“Zero alcohol consumption”?!!! Jog on you dry balls.
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Crowley should have put the boot on Hendrikse. “I’ll give you something to cry about…”
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It does seem he’s using his autism as carte blanche to be abusive. But isn’t it also the case that it’s ok to leave anyone for pretty much any reason you like? If she’d decided she didn’t want to be with him because of his autism, then that’s a decision that is entirely her own too.
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I could half understand it if season three was already filmed and this was a mid season split. But it’s going to be asking a lot of people in 18 months or whatever it is to go back to “Seattle day one” and care.
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“How dare you not let us flood your markets with our shit, poisonous food”
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Someone will be along to “hear me out” her shortly.
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Nuns ran a gulag for young women in Ireland. Enslaved them and murdered their children. Right up to the 1990’s. A force for evil in all corners of the world.
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It constantly amazes me that people who are ostensibly professional political animals can be so consistently wrong about things that the average punter can see plain as day. The. British working class has been 40% right wing for 40 years. Those people will never vote Labour.
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And a bit of O Brother Where Art Thou? I really enjoyed it.
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In Ireland we call them Plastic Paddies. I sense a theme 😂
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Barbarity would extend to known racists beating up their pregnant girlfriends I think. He has some neck.
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“Pub?”
“Go on then…”
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FlintHillsFloyd is on to you. He’s not falling for this again.
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These are just men. Walking around in public with their big pasty hittable from 50 yards heads.
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A law is only meaningful when breaking it has consequences. If it’s required by law, why is he not facing consequences?
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The “privilege” of habeus corpus.
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I suspect it’s because success with women serves as hierarchical validation for them. They’re not bemoaning that they can’t be with these women. They’re complaining that these women are denying them status. And they ultimately want to simultaneously believe heinous shit and still be a “good guy”.
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You can only expand the volume of media that much if you totally disregard any need to be informed and accurate.
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There has never been a right wing idea so bad that some careerist Labour staffer won’t heartily recommend it to leadership. They’re an absolute blight.
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Halfway through my draft of “terminally online prick retreats to memes”.
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He wrote one biography as an undergraduate. He has never been a historian.
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You’re going to have to go and google “scholarly” now. This could go on for a while. People like Tom Holland are quite open about the gap between what they do and academic historians.
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Writing books about things you claim happened in the past doesn’t make someone a historian.
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“I spend my time on line defending millionaire monomaniacs” and “Expositionary dialog for the hard of thinking”.
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I think he’s addressing Murray’s posturing as a historian, not the idea that people can have opinions.
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They’re shit though. You’d have to be kicked in the head by a horse to read her books as an adult. Like barely functioning. No one has ever read Strike without moving their lips as they do so.
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When we complained about Guantanamo, we were loudly told that innocent people had nothing to fear.
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A deliberate, targeted, funded wedge issue to disrupt the alignment of feminism with campaigns for LGBQT+ rights. It was accelerated by the BLM movement leaving a slew of white, middle aged, middle class feminist journalists de-centred by the liberal press and needing new paymasters.
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It’s an interesting idea. Intuitively there’s an argument about greater cohesion vs player strength (as per the Lions), but Ireland are so aligned with Leinster that the assumption of reduced cohesion in the test team doesn’t hold. Then you throw in 16-23 and it falls apart as an idea.
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I can’t work that out either. If it’s biblical (and I don’t think it is) then it’s more than that. Was William The Conquerer opposed?
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Absolutely. It’s not about boredom having some virtue - but it’s a catalyst to creativity. Many amazing albums have been made by groups of young people fending off the threat of boredom. Combine it with the erasure of unemployment benefits and it’s an artistic catastrophe.
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Similar for me in the 80’s, but I did those things because if I hadn’t done them I’d have been bored. The threat of boredom and its imminence led us to do things. Kerby was clearly invented by bored people.
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Yeah, you’re probably right. I’m still preferring Space Hopper and Coracle 😂