Everything posted by Rab D Nesbitt
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
I better check what the capacity of The Rose in Fitzroy is for next Sunday then. And bring my own pint glass just to be safe. In fact it might be where I decide to self quarantine if need be.
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
For anyone that's interested in the back story behind this and similar viruses appearing in China I came across this little 8 minute video on Vox. (No, NOT Fox!) https://www.vox.com/videos/2020/3/6/21168006/coronavirus-covid19-china-pandemic
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
Never eat a pangolin past it's sell by date.
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
Another reason not to touch the nurry so much this year.
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Jeremy Howe Takes Swipe at Dees
Water off a ducks back. Until we play them what he says or does is irrelevant.
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What is missing to win a flag?
Nobody saw the Bulldogs or the Tigers winning a flag at the same time of year so I'm certainly not losing any sleep about anyone's predictions. We're in the process of building a squad that will consistently be in a premiership window as well as an off field operation that can finance it in a competitive market. The key I think is getting all of our current crop of players to understand and be able to execute their role until it becomes second nature. If we can fast track a couple of our younger talents before losing some of our older most experienced players to retirement then that might just be the sweet spot we need to have a tilt at a premiership.
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Most hated teams
D24? That's Shamrock Rovers territory. Rathmines I remember well. My folks moved here from Fraserburgh in the NE of Scotland when I was younger but I've lived in a few countries over the years, only returning to Australia five years ago. Outside probably a forty mile radius of Glasgow and maybe a wee bit of Edinburgh nobody gives a monkeys about religion. I have family that support Aberdeen, Celtic, Hearts and even Morton. I often wonder what visiting team supporters on European nights think when they see our ones waving tricolours or union jacks and singing Fields of Athenry or God Save the Queen. It makes me feel sad.
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Believe in the Dees
Well that was a bit rubbish.
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Most hated teams
I worked at Trailfinders at the bottom of Dawson Street and lived on Leeson Park in Ranelagh. Next door to the sister of Enda Kenny, the former Taoiseach. The ex girlfriend worked at Aware (depression support) on Lower Leeson Street. it was at the height of the Celtic Tiger. Happy times. Just for the record, I might be a bluenose but I'm definitely NOT a unionist!
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
Rounds 2 and 3 should be be played in front of crowds that make up no more than 30% of the groundās capacity to prevent close contact.
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
Surely the only people entering the GWS training facility would be lost and asking for directions?
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Most hated teams
I hear ya. As a Rangers supporter I lived and worked in Dublin for five years so can relate to your experience embedded behind enemy lines so to speak.
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Most hated teams
Oh dear. And we were getting along so well Pennant St. Will make for an interesting discussion next time your at The Rose ?
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
Has Peter Bell furiously denied this yet ?
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Most hated teams
I've dubbed them the Water Closet (WC) Eagles.
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Most hated teams
The fact that two of those anagrams are based where you currently live probably doesn't help matters.
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Most hated teams
Well, as long as it's a healthy hatred John. I'd hate to see it shorten your lifespan too ?
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Most hated teams
I tend to dislike the WA and SA sides more than the others because there's nothing original about booing anything and everything for two and a half hours week after week. Carrying this anti Victorian angst around all the time is only going to shorten their lifespan at the end of the day. I'm torn a little by Greater Western Sydney for having cool original colours but a ridiculous name. Some others just irritate me because no matter how well we're travelling we always seem to lose against them (St K & North) whilst Collingwood requires no explanation at all.
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Goodwin's spiritual journey after season in hell
I don't know about anyone else but the only thing that jarred a little with me was the fact that it was conducted by Damien Barrett. Not that there was anything wrong with his questions but considering the subject matter I think the girls from On The Mark on Fox for example could have mined a lot more from Goody's answers. Barrett's response to almost every reply was 'yep'. He should stick to what he's best at. Muckraking and innuendo.
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
A case of The Cure being worse than the disease?
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To Hell & Back: Episode 5
I wouldn't have a scooby Demonstone. Outback rhyming slang?
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To Hell & Back: Episode 5
Melbourne - We don't have to touch the nurry as much. There's our 2020 slogan right there.
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
I honestly think we've started to regress as a race Demonstone. This outbreak of idiocy is spreading far quicker than any virus.
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
For what it's worth someone I know has just flown into Norway from England to do some cross country skiing. The small village she's staying in has 5 people with Covid-19 and another 15 people in quarantine. She got talking to someone who's relative is one of the five with the virus but who shows none of the obvious symptoms of it. The reality is that we're probably now beyond containment so anyone with a low immune system or who is elderly should probably try and adjust their lifestyles until a vaccine has passed all clinical trials and is on the market. Everyone else needs to stop losing their [censored] over this.
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
Bunnings are now running out of 240 grade sandpaper. This is starting to get out of hand. By the weekend Iām going to have to decide between taking a dump and stripping back an old work bench I picked up on gumtree.