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**Lucarse** · November 15, 2002, 12:51

Rugby Kiwi's represent!!!.

I still maitain the english were lucky....... lets hope we don't fook it up with the french...

**Lucarse** · November 15, 2002, 12:55

You Know I live in Twickenham, i have been sporting a fake bulgarian accent since last weekend.

Me : 'Allo i wud like ze loaf of bread pleze'
Shopkeeper 'ha ha kiwi you lost ha ha ha'
Me : leaves shop.....

**Caligastia** · November 15, 2002, 13:01

Originally posted by Lucarse
Rugby Kiwi's represent!!!.

I still maitain the english were lucky....... lets hope we don't fook it up with the french...

We will win. I can't watch the game, so we are sure to win.

**Caligastia** · November 15, 2002, 13:02

Originally posted by Lucarse
You Know I live in Twickenham, i have been sporting a fake bulgarian accent since last weekend.

Me : 'Allo i wud like ze loaf of bread pleze'
Shopkeeper 'ha ha kiwi you lost ha ha ha'
Me : leaves shop.....

**Tamerlin** · November 15, 2002, 14:54

Originally posted by Havak
The Zurich computer picks NZ by two points and England by eight. What do we make of that?

Finbar's fingers are already hovering (formerly written "hoovering") above his keyboard preparing for a sarcastic reply about the @&*%µ§# Zurich computer.

A 8 1/2 points start for the Wallabies.

A 1 1/2 points start for the All Blacks.

**Tamerlin** · November 15, 2002, 15:06

Originally posted by finbar
...I cannot understand this fascination with flying halfway around the world to witness the birth of a child. Can't they re-enact the moment when they get back with a doll and some strawberry jam?

I can't understand this kind of thing myself.

**Tamerlin** · November 15, 2002, 15:15

Originally posted by Caligastia
I didn't mean to make you feel bad about it, I only corrected you because I thought you would like to know your mistake. If I was speaking french I would want you to correct me...

There is no problem, I don't feel bad at all about this. I'am even waiting for this kind of comments as they are a great way to improve my english.

**Tamerlin** · November 15, 2002, 15:28

Originally posted by Havak
It is amazing however that all couples with children seem driven to coerce everyone they know to follow the example. My theory on this is firmly that they want everyone else to be as thoroughly miserable as they are.

All couples are not like this.

I have always tried to discourage the couples expressing a desire to have a child.

As far as wedding and childbirth are concerned my first comment is always "condolences".

But as Havak said it earlier, to each their own...

**Caligastia** · November 15, 2002, 15:30

Originally posted by Tamerlin

There is no problem, I don't feel bad at all about this. I'm even waiting for these kinds of comments as they are a great way to improve my english.

Ok, if you really don't mind then I am happy to help you with your english (which is already very good).

You may notice ssome corrections in your quote above BTW...

**Tamerlin** · November 15, 2002, 15:36

Originally posted by Lucarse
You Know I live in Twickenham, i have been sporting a fake bulgarian accent since last weekend.

Me : 'Allo i wud like ze loaf of bread pleze'
Shopkeeper 'ha ha kiwi you lost ha ha ha'
Me : leaves shop.....

Welcome here Lucarse, I think France-New Zealand will be a great game. Though I hope the french will win this game I want to see a great match with tough scrums and many attacks by the backs... not necessarily by the blacks.

**Tamerlin** · November 15, 2002, 15:43

Originally posted by Caligastia You may notice some corrections in your quote above BTW...

This is typically the kinds of mistakes inherited from the french language that need to be corrected.

**Caligastia** · November 15, 2002, 15:58

Originally posted by Tamerlin

This is typically the kinds of mistakes inherited from the french language that need to be corrected.

err...maybe I should pm corrections to you.

**Frozzy** · November 15, 2002, 17:22

I'm back

A book has been published in NZ this week about the betrayel of NZ Rugby. It states that our national game is being overtaken by soccer among kids. A fact is: At Auckland Grammer School, in 1995, there were 17 Rugby teams and 10 Soccer teams. Now there are 12 Rugby teams and 19 Soccer teams. It blames Player greed and proffesionalism for the sudden change.

IMO, it is a shame that our national game is being overtaken by soccer, but I suppose we have to look at the mass commercialization of soccer

I also think it's a shame when we view a team losing to England as a triumph, when in fact it was a shame to see a second string, Americanised team be defeated by England. Whether we lost by 3 or 300, we lost. Its a real shame that our loss to England is being viewed as a triumph.

**Tamerlin** · November 15, 2002, 20:26

Originally posted by redbull
I'm back

A book has been published in NZ this week about the betrayel of NZ Rugby. It states that our national game is being overtaken by soccer among kids. A fact is: At Auckland Grammer School, in 1995, there were 17 Rugby teams and 10 Soccer teams. Now there are 12 Rugby teams and 19 Soccer teams. It blames Player greed and proffesionalism for the sudden change.

If greed and professionalism are to blame S***** is doomed, believe a Northern Hemisphere Rugby fan forced to hear about this damned sport everyday of his life when he turns on the radio or reads a newspaper. There was no man happier than me in France when the French players didn't qualify for the second round of the 2002 S***** World Cup, at least we would no more hear about this sport so often.

If S***** is becoming the first sport everywhere it is mainly because its rules, as well as the game in itself, are far more simpler than the Rugby laws and because the kids can play S***** younger. Another thing to bear in mind, four players are enough to start a S***** match.

Somehow, Rugby is doomed to be the second game after this sport named S*****.

I hate S*****.

**finbar** · November 15, 2002, 21:07

Originally posted by Havak
I can get this from alcohol and the alcohol doesn’t need changing and feeding in the morning or, apart from a small vestige in the blood stream, carrying around all day.

Nor, in fact, do you have to pay to clothe alchohol. Except in Australia, home of the ubiquitous "stubby holder".

Having said that all power to those happily settled with kiddies – to each their own and all that.

Bah humbug! They're a conspiracy against hedonism!

I think too much for an ex-front rower sometimes.

I shall look this particular gift horse in the mouth. Cop that humdinger of a colloquialism, Tamerlin!

It looks a more powerful tight five, ya? Whether it will be powerful enough…

As Eddie has said, if they can't do more than hold their own - which is to say, exert real pressure - Wilkinson will just keep pinging us back into our own quarter.

Okay without betting, to add a little spice, I will be backing the following teams to win:

England (surprise!)
France (sorry Caligastia)
Canada (stuff Wales boys)
Scotland (what the heck, I like Scotland)
Ireland (though calling up Murphy before the Gloucester clash has annoyed me immensely you swines!)

England
All Blacks (sorry Tamerlin and LDiCesares)
Wales (pure guesswork)
Springboks (I like Scotland, too, but they couldn't thump Romania)
Ireland

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