Top 14 Playoffs

[BaggyTrousers]

You see? I do like "traditional routes" in Europe.

Me too, I'd like them & Tigers.

That said, getting those cheating Scotch balloxi would be nice.

[Neill_M]

Can't get Glasgow in the pool stages - only Pro 12 sides we can draw are from Pot 4 (Scarlets/Treviso). Could get Stade and Tigers.

[big mervyn]

Can't get Glasgow in the pool stages - only Pro 12 sides we can draw are from Pot 4 (Scarlets/Treviso). Could get Stade and Tigers.

Stade, Tigers and Treviso wouldn't be bad.

[Shan]

As you well know, horse, I have a fondness for France. I much prefer the 14th of July to the 12th. I once sat with the good lady at a terrace table in the Casino at Biarritz having a late supper watching the fireworks go off at the island at the end of the bay. I very much recall thinking that it couldn't be a more perfect moment.

As for the greatest Republic, surely the US of A would claim that title?

Now, there are clearly those here, more devoted to rugby than I, who prefer "rugby towns". I too like rugby towns but Paris is special and I do like the occasional trip there. That was all that I was saying. That and we'd pump Stade at Ravenhill in the traditional manner.

You see? I do like "traditional routes" in Europe.

Nice one a chara.

USA is a demented country and yes they would make demented claims.

[BaggyTrousers]

As you well know, horse, I have a fondness for France. I much prefer the 14th of July to the 12th. I once sat with the good lady at a terrace table in the Casino at Biarritz having a late supper watching the fireworks go off at the island at the end of the bay. I very much recall thinking that it couldn't be a more perfect moment.

As for the greatest Republic, surely the US of A would claim that title?

Now, there are clearly those here, more devoted to rugby than I, who prefer "rugby towns". I too like rugby towns but Paris is special and I do like the occasional trip there. That was all that I was saying. That and we'd pump Stade at Ravenhill in the traditional manner.

You see? I do like "traditional routes" in Europe.

Nice one a chara.

USA is a demented country and yes they would make demented claims.

FFS lads wise up. This wee sceptic isle and we're calling other places "demented".

[Shan]

FFS lads wise up. This wee sceptic isle and we're calling other places "demented".

Last time I checked we can discuss any subject we like, including calling out issues in any countries regardless of what is happening in our own.

[Shan]

Yeah Baggy! You tell him Shan.

There was you and me having a nice wee bit of banter on a public forum and along comes the chastiser general.

He's on "bad form" Shan - ever since the UK turned Tory.

Want to see me cheer him up?

Ok.

Baggy, enjoy.


http://youtu.be/xjUA3RU4B8E


Cracking song.

Ah yes I forgot about the Tory issue. That probably explains why he has become even more waspy recently. I thought it was just because he was getting older and grumpier because of it.


Oh and yes. I like that song. Good choice.

[solidarity]

Elegant move OAK, elegant. Definitely want Stade. I've never been to Paris, great reason to go at last.

[Shan]

The election is just an added burden. He's like this at the same time every year. He gets humpy towards the end of May/start of June. It coincides with the end of the rugby season. It's hard on him.

As for Billy, he makes me want to be a communist but then I remember that communists have nothing and insist that they want to share it with you and that you have to share the stuff you have with them. I quite like my stuff. I don't think I'd make a good communist. Anyway, I'd still like to get Stade in our group because I like Paris. See the way I brought it all back on topic? Communes and Paris.

I was watching a wildlife show there recently and it showed lions making their kills. Anyway one lion did all the hard work hunting down its prey and then killing it. Another fecker came along and decided he wanted the profit without making any effort. The fecking hyenas were even worse. Rotten little b-stards. The second lion I would say is similar to a business owner who makes his staff work harder with no extra pay to ensure he profits as much as possible from their enterprise. The hyenas I would liken to politicians who come along and snatch the earnings of the working folk and share it out among themselves and their pals.

In both systems you have theft of your output / earnings. Of course that is at the extreme end. Communism is a great ideal but operationally it will always have major failings because of human nature. If we were ants it would be a lot easier but most of us are free spirits to varying degrees. The only way communism could last in the long term is if you can keep the people uneducated and / or shut off from the rest of the world. North Korea is, I believe, the only country which is currently doing this. Perhaps some of the Islamist States are engaged to an extent also. Terrible thing not being free. Even worse is not knowing that you are not free as it allows you to accept someone else's will over you not matter how much they cause you suffering. One very interesting account of how North Korea operates I have read is called "Concentrations of inhumanity" by David Hawk. Well worth reading, if you have the stomach for it. Puts into perspective the moaning we do about slightly right of centre politics in the West.

https://freedomhouse.org/report/special ... X9f7LWLs65

Oh and I know I am way off topic here. Stade would nice. A lovely trip to Paris to soften the blow of being well beaten is better than just being well beaten.