AFL is Neanderthal. Such an odd activity that doesn’t deserve its coverage where their ‘all Australian’ teams even get beaten by Irish amateurs.
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no they dont. thats a hybrid game
AFL the sport is actually a really interesting code and those boys are fucking tough.
to call some of the stuff they do ‘neanderthal’ is poor form.
unfortunately the codes proffessionalism is a bit behind soccer, its still a boys club, though it is trying to correct itself, there are some role models there to be proud of.
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Yeah, nah. AFL can get to fuck. Cf Rugby which is played by many countries, it’s kinda like NFL where it’s a big fish in a tiny pond. Crappy quality and tactics like ‘flooding’ by the swans 20ish years ago seen as mind blowing. It’s incredibly Neanderthal in terms of sophistication and just doesn’t deserve the ridiculous focus it gets.
disagree.
its certainly not as interesting to me as the real football, but theres substance to the game. maybe it is only played in our country, but thats hardly evidence its a terrible code.
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What the hell have the BBC done with Breakfast graphics. It is horrific. I have had to turn off…it was making me feel queasy…
Designed at huge license payers cost by some trendy design company no doubt…ugh.
I might start an old codgers moaning thread for posts like this above. I’m sure it’d be popular and I would have plenty to contribute.
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Good idea…
Good idea.
Purely from a reading perspective as it’s not in my nature to moan
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I’ve been thinking of setting this up for a while:
Grumble away…
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Salzburg by the way… beautiful city.
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Afternoon sieste after a nice lunch. Rudely awakened by the missus and daughter shouting to find some young Arab kid in the house babbling about how ‘men with knives’ were after him.
Turns out he lives round the corner and owes a drug debt to the local Armenian mafia. So the fucker decides to run into our house to get away from them.
Nice one lad ! 
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Not enough reaction to the above.
When we were growing up in city centre Dublin, my granny used to leave the key hanging inside the door, everyone did. You would put your hand through the letterbox and pull the key out to open the door.
Those days are long gone.Dont leave your door unlocked as anyone can and will walk in if given the opportunity. Only a couple of weeks ago a similar thing happened to a neighbour of mine, middle of the day and 2 guys just walked through her front door to burgle the house. She was upstairs at the time and started calling out her top window for help.
Just because it hasn’t happened to you doesn’t mean it can’t.
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When my kids were in their early teens I was outside kicking a ball with them. I’d had enough so went back inside to find a young lad sitting in my front room playing on the playstation.
Quite amusing. The lad was a local kid with mental disability. I didn’t know him well I sat next to him asked him what he was doing and what he enjoyed about the game he was playing.
My kids when they came in found it hysterical 
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Friend of mine coming home late from a piss up with his friends dropped by my parents house. No idea why but my parents had left the door open so he and his mates went in and helped themselves to a cup of tea. My parents slept through the whole thing .
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Well Le Pen looks set up to win the next presidential. Whilst Bardella is making a fool of himself with Farage.
I’m not sure Le Pen, RN, will win a majority in parlement and the senat won’t be aligned (senat has been a real pain in the arse if you ask me these last few years over the budget).
One thing I can see is the right splitting all over the place.
Btw the RN as it is is not at all aligned with the AFD in Germany as it stands.
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My wife rang the police , but despite him being in our house and damaging the garden fence when I shooed him out , they never came round.
Once I had ascertained where he lived with the help of a neighbour she called again and they said that they would only come round after speaking to him. So we had to go then to his house and insist that his parents (who were not in at the time but showed up soon afterwards) speak with them.
The police did turn up eventually but they never came to ours or to our neighbour who owns some flats opposite and was aware beforehand of what this guy had been upto.
The other remarkable thing is that when the wife rang the emergency number she was kept on the line for about three minutes before speaking with someone while a recorded message explained to her first in French then in English that she could be liable to prosecution for making a frivolous call ! (Lucky I suppose that nobody was actually being stabbed at the time.) Eventually somebody explained that for them to investigate she would have to make an official complaint.
Needless to say that once we’d discovered the men with knives were part of a local mafia we thought it wise not to. The kid they were after on the other hand is probably in even deeper shit now that the police are involved. (He’d already blurted out the assailants names to our neighbour and was trying to reassure his mum that he had them on their doorbell camera. Not sure wtf he was thinking there but I wouldn’t care to be in his shoes now.)
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Funny thing is we live in quite a nice area and even though you hear occasionally about burglaries I’d never bothered much before. Front and back doors are always unlocked , as is the garage and even the car in the drive. That certainly will no longer be the case now.
Holy cow. I read about this yesterday and from the way it was described I assumed the collisions were with airport vehicles. No, it looks like it by overshooting the runway what they mean is it went clear out of the airport and hit cars on an adjacent road
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I thought I had better warn you Anglish that I’ll be in Angleland this weekend. So if your down in south Devon I’ll be driving on the wrong side of the road (left) over the weekend.
I’m visiting my Dad, with my son, as my Dad was hospitalised last week.
It was the only time I could get over accompanied by my son, which I prefer, so I’m sorry for any inconvenience I might cause.
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