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Re: Football vs Rugby

Mon Feb 27, 2017 8:22 pm

So much for respect and sportsmanship in rugby.

The cheating Italians took advantage of the fact that the England players , and our fine , proud to be English manager ,didn't know the rules , laws , nuances and tactics of the game.


Us , England , blighty.............................from where this beautiful game originated.



Now we've got to change the rules / laws .........again.


Such cowardice should not be tolerated , and we're better off without them ,


And all this after we let Ranieri win in that other sport they'm no good at.

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Tue Feb 28, 2017 10:41 am

Rugby, and everything that surrounds it, is just the worst.

I don't think I've ever heard a Rugby 'fan' say something positive about their sport without trying to paint football in a negative light.

Just a few things that get spouted about Rugby that annoy me.

"The fans can sit together without segregation."

Why on earth would you want to sit with opposing fans? There's something special about celebrating a 90th minute winner with hundreds of your own at an away game. Don't get that in rugby now do you...

"The players respect the ref"

For some reason in rugby it's accpetable to punch each other in the face but don't you dare call the ref anyhting but 'sir'. Oh no, automatic sin bin for you, but feel free to have a fight as you leave the pitch, that's all good. :roll: They literally look down on footballers for having a go at referees but don't seem to care when punches, eye-gouges and stamps are flying around in their own sport.

"There's more skill in rugby than football."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. It's just an organised fight. And they can't even play for 90 minutes.

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Tue Feb 28, 2017 11:12 am

Tom_1992 wrote:Rugby, and everything that surrounds it, is just the worst.

I don't think I've ever heard a Rugby 'fan' say something positive about their sport without trying to paint football in a negative light.

Just a few things that get spouted about Rugby that annoy me.

"The fans can sit together without segregation."

Why on earth would you want to sit with opposing fans? There's something special about celebrating a 90th minute winner with hundreds of your own at an away game. Don't get that in rugby now do you...

"The players respect the ref"

For some reason in rugby it's accpetable to punch each other in the face but don't you dare call the ref anyhting but 'sir'. Oh no, automatic sin bin for you, but feel free to have a fight as you leave the pitch, that's all good. :roll: They literally look down on footballers for having a go at referees but don't seem to care when punches, eye-gouges and stamps are flying around in their own sport.

"There's more skill in rugby than football."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. It's just an organised fight. And they can't even play for 90 minutes.


Couldn't agree more

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Tue Feb 28, 2017 12:20 pm

Sunday sums up what I was saying earlier in the thread, rugby union players, but especially English ones, are by and large a dim bunch.

James Haskell especially please take the dunces cap and sit in the corner. You are not a centre, you are (supposed to be) an open side flanker. I wonder he can work out which shoe to put on which foot each morning.

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Tue Feb 28, 2017 1:12 pm

aaaae wrote:Sunday sums up what I was saying earlier in the thread, rugby union players, but especially English ones, are by and large a dim bunch.


Unlikely, as virtually all are either privately educated and/or attended grammar schools where the level of education is far higher than your run of the mill comp. or college. :idea:

Haskell was educated at at Papplewick School and Wellington College.

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Tue Feb 28, 2017 2:20 pm

Oh dear, oh dear, you are mistaking education for intelligence.

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Tue Feb 28, 2017 3:06 pm

aaaae wrote:Oh dear, oh dear, you are mistaking education for intelligence.


Afraid not. To get into virtually all grammar schools you need to pass an 11+ which is defined as a test of intelligence. So, we can see that he passed this test and was then educated to a high standard which leads me to think he is likely not 'dim'.

What reasoning can you show that he is 'dim'?

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Tue Feb 28, 2017 3:11 pm

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aaaae wrote:Oh dear, oh dear, you are mistaking education for intelligence.


Afraid not. To get into virtually all grammar schools you need to pass an 11+ which is defined as a test of intelligence. So, we can see that he passed this test and was then educated to a high standard which leads me to think he is likely not 'dim'.

What reasoning can you show that he is 'dim'?


Plenty of dimbos find their way into grammar schools by virtue of private tuition and other advantages. Also the exam at that age hardly determines intellect at adulthood.

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Tue Feb 28, 2017 3:18 pm

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aaaae wrote:Oh dear, oh dear, you are mistaking education for intelligence.


Afraid not. To get into virtually all grammar schools you need to pass an 11+ which is defined as a test of intelligence. So, we can see that he passed this test and was then educated to a high standard which leads me to think he is likely not 'dim'.

What reasoning can you show that he is 'dim'?

1) Haskell didn't go to Grammar school (Not that it is necessarily indicative anyway. I know a fair few who went to QM who had failed the 11+ and other people who didn't go and were clever)

2) He doesn't understand the laws of a sport he has played for his entire life. Over a decade of that as a professional.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU1irXn8YaM

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Tue Feb 28, 2017 3:26 pm

aaaae wrote:
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aaaae wrote:Oh dear, oh dear, you are mistaking education for intelligence.


Afraid not. To get into virtually all grammar schools you need to pass an 11+ which is defined as a test of intelligence. So, we can see that he passed this test and was then educated to a high standard which leads me to think he is likely not 'dim'.

What reasoning can you show that he is 'dim'?

1) Haskell didn't go to Grammar school.

2) He doesn't know the laws of a sport he has played for his entire life. Over a decade of that as a professional.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU1irXn8YaM[/youtube]


He went to Wellington College which requires an entrance exam which would be along the lines of the grammar school 11+.

Neither did most of the commentators and ex-players in the studio know the exact laws with regards to Italy's play. It doesn't make them dim either.

If this is your barometer for dimness then I'd seriously question your intelligence. :lol:

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Tue Feb 28, 2017 3:30 pm

3) I'm not sure if this makes him dim or a nasty piece of work - maybe both...

https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1G1-102498161/public-school-suspends-three-for-diy-porn-video-wellington

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Tue Feb 28, 2017 3:32 pm

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aaaae wrote:Oh dear, oh dear, you are mistaking education for intelligence.


Afraid not. To get into virtually all grammar schools you need to pass an 11+ which is defined as a test of intelligence. So, we can see that he passed this test and was then educated to a high standard which leads me to think he is likely not 'dim'.

What reasoning can you show that he is 'dim'?


Plenty of dimbos find their way into grammar schools by virtue of private tuition and other advantages. Also the exam at that age hardly determines intellect at adulthood.


I agree but there's been no evidence provided that Haskell is lacking in the brain department.

Lot's of things can happen, for instance, a very small minority of people begin to tell lies and stories and actually believe them to be true. This is more of a mental illness as opposed to a lack of intelligence. Thankfully a chemical imbalance can be somewhat controlled with drugs from a GP.

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Tue Feb 28, 2017 3:33 pm

aaaae wrote:3) I'm not sure if this makes him dim or a nasty piece of work - maybe both...

https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1G1-102498161/public-school-suspends-three-for-diy-porn-video-wellington


Or just an '18 year' old who made a mistake.

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Tue Feb 28, 2017 3:39 pm

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SaigonSaddler wrote:
Sound_out wrote:
aaaae wrote:Oh dear, oh dear, you are mistaking education for intelligence.


Afraid not. To get into virtually all grammar schools you need to pass an 11+ which is defined as a test of intelligence. So, we can see that he passed this test and was then educated to a high standard which leads me to think he is likely not 'dim'.

What reasoning can you show that he is 'dim'?


Plenty of dimbos find their way into grammar schools by virtue of private tuition and other advantages. Also the exam at that age hardly determines intellect at adulthood.


I agree but there's been no evidence provided that Haskell is lacking in the brain department.

Lot's of things can happen, for instance, a very small minority of people begin to tell lies and stories and actually believe them to be true. This is more of a mental illness as opposed to a lack of intelligence. Thankfully a chemical imbalance can be somewhat controlled with drugs from a GP.


:lol: :lol: :lol:

Can they also assist with repetitive obsessive and compulsive behavioural issues?


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Re: Football vs Rugby

Tue Feb 28, 2017 3:46 pm

Sound_out wrote:
aaaae wrote:
Sound_out wrote:
aaaae wrote:Oh dear, oh dear, you are mistaking education for intelligence.


Afraid not. To get into virtually all grammar schools you need to pass an 11+ which is defined as a test of intelligence. So, we can see that he passed this test and was then educated to a high standard which leads me to think he is likely not 'dim'.

What reasoning can you show that he is 'dim'?

1) Haskell didn't go to Grammar school.

2) He doesn't know the laws of a sport he has played for his entire life. Over a decade of that as a professional.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU1irXn8YaM[/youtube]


He went to Wellington College which requires an entrance exam which would be along the lines of the grammar school 11+.

Neither did most of the commentators and ex-players in the studio know the exact laws with regards to Italy's play. It doesn't make them dim either.

If this is your barometer for dimness then I'd seriously question your intelligence. :lol:

You are very naïve about entrance exams. I wonder why a very good rugby player might get into a private school that has a "national reputation for Rugby"?

Well I don't know about the commentators 'cos I was at the game. But within 5 minutes it was pretty clear that the referee was allowing them to do it, so England should have adapted. I said to the guy I was with that Haskell was playing in the centre when he should have been first to the breakdown and driving through the Italian defenders, creating a maul, which would have bought offside back into play. You can believe me or not, I don't give a toss.

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Tue Feb 28, 2017 3:48 pm

Unfortunately, the lies, stories and wild fantasies where the victim can't even remember what they said tend to be 'repetitive obsessive and compulsive'. :(

I'd imagine these people are treated with some form of antipsychotic medications.

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Tue Feb 28, 2017 3:52 pm

aaaae wrote:You are very naïve about entrance exams. I wonder why a very good rugby player might get into a private school that has a "national reputation for Rugby"?


Evidence?

aaaae wrote:Well I don't know about the commentators 'cos I was at the game. But within 5 minutes it was pretty clear that the referee was allowing them to do it, so England should have adapted. I said to the guy I was with that Haskell was playing in the centre when he should have been first to the breakdown and driving through the Italian defenders, creating a maul, which would have bought offside back into play. You can believe me or not, I don't give a toss.


And because he didn't do what you thought was correct at the time, it makes him thick? :lol:

What else can you say that leads you to think he's thick? Let's hope it better than what you've written above.

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Tue Feb 28, 2017 4:11 pm

Did you take the 11+ Sound Out?

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Tue Feb 28, 2017 4:15 pm

Sound_out wrote:Unfortunately, the lies, stories and wild fantasies where the victim can't even remember what they said tend to be 'repetitive obsessive and compulsive'. :(

I'd imagine these people are treated with some form of antipsychotic medications.


Interesting. I wonder what happens when they forget to take their medication, or perhaps self-medicate with large doses of cannabinoid compounds.

I suspect paranoia, intense feelings of insecurity and compulsive passive aggressive issues. :idea:

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Tue Feb 28, 2017 4:16 pm

aaaae wrote:Did you take the 11+ Sound Out?


:lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Tue Feb 28, 2017 4:48 pm

SaigonSaddler wrote:
aaaae wrote:Did you take the 11+ Sound Out?


:lol: :lol: :lol:

I wait with bated breath....

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Tue Feb 28, 2017 5:39 pm

SaigonSaddler wrote:
Sound_out wrote:Unfortunately, the lies, stories and wild fantasies where the victim can't even remember what they said tend to be 'repetitive obsessive and compulsive'. :(

I'd imagine these people are treated with some form of antipsychotic medications.


Interesting. I wonder what happens when they forget to take their medication, or perhaps self-medicate with large doses of cannabinoid compounds.

I suspect paranoia, intense feelings of insecurity and compulsive passive aggressive issues. :idea:


I imagine they don't realise and just carry on with their fantasies and lies. Cannabinoids can be a problem for some. Mental illness can also be the result of syphilis where some individuals lacking in confidence regularly engage in unprotected sex with prostitutes thus catching the disease which leads to brain rot. Very sad indeed.

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Tue Feb 28, 2017 5:42 pm

aaaae wrote:Did you take the 11+ Sound Out?


I did and failed it by not getting into QM. Anyway enough about me, what other evidence have you got to support Haskell being dim?

None is it? Oh I see... :lol:

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Wed Mar 01, 2017 10:09 am

Don't you have your own corner for this shite?

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Wed Mar 01, 2017 10:33 am

Sound_out wrote:To get into virtually all grammar schools you need to pass an 11+ which is defined as a test of intelligence

Sound_out wrote:I did and failed it

Well..... :mrgreen:

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Wed Mar 01, 2017 11:28 am

scott_powell wrote:Don't you have your own corner for this shite?


How about mind your own business if you don't want to contribute. :idea:

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Wed Mar 01, 2017 11:31 am

aaaae wrote:
Sound_out wrote:To get into virtually all grammar schools you need to pass an 11+ which is defined as a test of intelligence

Sound_out wrote:I did and failed it

Well..... :mrgreen:


Well.... it seems you can't find anything to back up your assertion that Haskell is a bit dim. :mrgreen:

I think it's more evidence of your small man syndrome. :wink:

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Wed Mar 01, 2017 12:09 pm

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scott_powell wrote:Don't you have your own corner for this shite?


How about mind your own business if you don't want to contribute. :idea:


How about you stop craving attention and being a little bitch? 8)

Your pathetic corner isn't giving you what you crave so you crawl back here. It's very sad.

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Re: Football vs Rugby

Wed Mar 01, 2017 12:13 pm

I think you're craving attention Scotty. Clearly you don't like rugby so just don't post on the topic. It's so simple even you can work this out! :idea:

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Wed Mar 01, 2017 12:27 pm

Sound_out wrote:I think you're craving attention Scotty. Clearly you don't like rugby so just don't post on the topic. It's so simple even you can work this out! :idea:


Sound_out wrote:
SaigonSaddler wrote:
Sound_out wrote:
aaaae wrote:Oh dear, oh dear, you are mistaking education for intelligence.


Afraid not. To get into virtually all grammar schools you need to pass an 11+ which is defined as a test of intelligence. So, we can see that he passed this test and was then educated to a high standard which leads me to think he is likely not 'dim'.

What reasoning can you show that he is 'dim'?


Plenty of dimbos find their way into grammar schools by virtue of private tuition and other advantages. Also the exam at that age hardly determines intellect at adulthood.


I agree but there's been no evidence provided that Haskell is lacking in the brain department.

Lot's of things can happen, for instance, a very small minority of people begin to tell lies and stories and actually believe them to be true. This is more of a mental illness as opposed to a lack of intelligence. Thankfully a chemical imbalance can be somewhat controlled with drugs from a GP.


I rest my case.

I don't like rugby. Doesn't mean I can't read the thread. I contributed to agree with another posters point. The thread is then turned into the Sound_Out show. It's just really boring and silly now. I don't crave attention, I'm telling you straight.

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