Rugby - The Ball's Out!

[finbar]

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 aboard, Lucarse, you will fit in well here!

BTW, I find your name a lot more appropriately Kiwi than Caligastia's!

[finbar]

Originally posted by Tamerlin
Finbar's fingers are already hoovering above his keyboard preparing for a sarcastic reply about the @&*%µ§# Zurich computer.

Now, Tamerlin, there's a very interesting spelling mistake in this post. You typed "hoovering" instead of "hovering" but it still makes perfect sense. Well, in my case. Because "hoovering" is a popular euphemism for "vacuum cleaning" - based on the Hoover vacuum cleaner being one of the most famous brands - and Mrs finbar is forever telling me to "hoover" the cigarette ash out of my keyboard's nooks and crannies.

[finbar]

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

I hate S*****.

I have a very simple solution to the problem that S***** offers us. Australia just has to export our national S***** administrators. They are, without doubt, the most petty, fiscally incompetent, faction-riven collection of human DNA ever to walk the earth. For competence, they make the NZRFU look like genii. Thus, if Australia were to export one national administrator to each of the world's leading S***** countries, the game would, worldwide, implode immediately.

[finbar]

Originally posted by Tamerlin




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

Tamerlin - take it from me that French is a far more sensible, logical - not to mention, mellifluous - language than English.

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by finbar
Tamerlin - take it from me that French is a far more sensible, logical - not to mention, mellifluous - language than English.

When I say it needs to be corrected I mean the simple translation of a common french sentence is often inadequate. In the part of my sentence "this kinds of things" the equivalent of "kind" is rarely used in its plural form in the french language.

"This kinds of things" can be litteraly translated as "ces genres de choses" but we almost always say "ce genre de choses".

French is indeed a very different language if you compare it with english, I think they each have their own advantages and their own flaws. French is clearly more refined when it comes to feeling or mood but english is much more adequate when it comes to songs (Hard Rock music with french words is truly terrible).

Actually I like English as much as I like French.

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by finbar


Now, Tamerlin, there's a very interesting spelling mistake in this post. You typed "hoovering" instead of "hovering" but it still makes perfect sense. Well, in my case. Because "hoovering" is a popular euphemism for "vacuum cleaning" - based on the Hoover vacuum cleaner being one of the most famous brands - and Mrs finbar is forever telling me to "hoover" the cigarette ash out of my keyboard's nooks and crannies.

I should be more careful with all these double "o".

France has of course its own euphemisms for different objects because of once famous brands :

"Mobylette" : moped
"Frigo" : fridge...

[Tamerlin]

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

Fortunately Gentleman, I have a marvel of a dictionary called "le petit Ophrys" which allows me to circumvent most of the traps of this beautiful language called English though without its precious help I must admit I would have wondered for a long time what the h**l means this f*****g colloquialism.

In France, when someone says something like what Havak has written we say this person has "given herself the stick to be beaten with" ("donner le bâton pour se faire battre"). I usually jump at the chance saying I would have felt sorry not to take the stick and use both hands to hit harder.


As nobody seems ready to bet here are the teams I'am backing :

England
France
Scotland (I don't think they can win but I'am backing them anyway as they are not playing against real gentlemen)
Ireland

[finbar]

Originally posted by Tamerlin
When I say it needs to be corrected I mean the simple translation of a common french sentence is often inadequate. In the part of my sentence "this kinds of things" the equivalent of "kind" is rarely used in its plural form in the french language.

"This kinds of things" can be litteraly translated as "ces genres de choses" but we almost always say "ce genre de choses"

That's interesting. We say "this kind of thing" (singular) or "these kinds of things" (plural). So, in French, in this case, you don't bother about matching the plurals as you normally would. I keep running into those sorts of little traps in my Italian lessons.

French is indeed a very different language if you compare it with english, I think they each have their own advantages and their own flaws. French is clearly more refined when it comes to feeling or mood but english is much more adequate when it comes to songs (Hard Rock music with french words is truly terrible).

Yes, I'm not sure how "Dirty Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap)" would sound in French.

At least, in French, you don't have a combination of letters like "ough", which, in English, can be pronounded:

1. off
2. owe
3. ow

I would hate to have to learn English as a second language.

Actually I like English as much as I like French.

That's good. Frankly, I prefer the mellifluous quality of French.

[finbar]

Originally posted by Tamerlin
Fortunately Gentleman, I have a marvel of a dictionary called "le petit Ophrys" which allows me to circumvent most of the traps of this beautiful language called English though without its precious help I must admit I would have wondered for a long time what the h**l means this f*****g colloquialism.

In France, when someone says something like what Havak has written we say this person has "given herself the stick to be beaten with" ("donner le bâton pour se faire battre"). I usually jump at the chance saying I would have felt sorry not to take the stick and use both hands to hit harder.

That's a pretty damn good analysis of what I said. I got a bit smartypants and twisted a colloquialism - "Never look a gift horse in the mouth", which means, basically, never miss an easy opportunity. I twisted it to say that I would, this time, pass on an easy opportunity.

You're right - Havak gave himself a stick to be beaten with. We have that expression. Only I chose not to beat him. If he doesn't get enough of that here, he probably gets enough at home.

[Bearcat]

Originally posted by finbar

At least, in French, you don't have a combination of letters like "ough", which, in English, can be pronounded:

1. off
2. owe
3. ow

Try German. Once you learn how to pronounce the letters and sounds, you'll never have a problem again.

[NeoStar]

Is that betting comp. still up and running?

If it is, I'd like to put 20 on the Wallabies - Jonny Wilkinson choked against them before and hopefully he'll choke again ... and let's face it, England's unlikely to win unless he plays well.

Eddie Jones must be sweating over this one, the players wouldn't be the only ones under pressure from the ARU - not to mention the fans

[finbar]

Originally posted by NeoStar
Is that betting comp. still up and running?

It is, but not operating this week.

[Andydog]

50 on NZ,
40 on England,
30 on Scotland,
30 on Fiji please!

[Andydog]

Oh, not operating this week. Ignore last post.

[Havak]

Well the Tigers win over Gloucester is worth talking about.They scored within 90 seconds and Havak clutched his beer thinking "here we go". But it was a false dawn for them, our forwards quickly took the upper hand and they never really looked in the game until near the death.

Gloucesters lack of cover in crucial positions may give us
all the edge we need to stop them becoming champions. Their scrum was a mess and their lineout barely functioned for large periods. The score flatters them because they got a cheap interception score at the end as we were pushing for the fourth try bonus point.

At the moment I say it is all to play for still.

And Twickers? Another superb game for the neutral I suspect? Thanks to Finbar's countrymen for a superb game of rugby. Can anyone answer me why every team, without exception, seems able to lift their game against us? Are we really that hated?

The positives? I admire that they didn't panic, and I enjoyed the character in coming back. the forwards, as ever, gained us plenty of the pill.

The negatives?

The backs continually taking bad options when
they got space. The Wallabies should have been buried well before the end of the first half. All credit to them for coming back the way they did.

The defensive pattern - absolutely fell apart in the first
ten minutes of the second half. Shockingly bad.

Robinson - His pace seems to have gone. There is no way Flatley should have had the gas to burn him off like he did (though as you well know there were gold hands on the floor to get him that ball).

The entire team - for letting Finbar eternally remind me that the dire Sailor scored his first try against us! And by got he looked well out of place on the field the whole game except his try!

Okay - character is all well and good and our forwards remain the possession grabbers we know and love but it's hard to feel optimistic. We have a lot of work to do to become a complete rugby team still, and I think we would have to be happy making the semis in RWC.

I suppose a win is a win is a win and all that - but I was hoping to see a more complete perfomance than that. And realistically both teams we have beaten this month will destroy us down under.

Also I need to take the time here to say well done Scotland. A super win. The Boks will need to emulate Australia and improve 500% to compete next week. And I am sure they wil just for us.

Btw Finbar my mate Justin had anohter blood rush and tried to punch Robinson in the first half. What does he have against small guys?

Oh and Vickerman looks solid although he should have been yellow carded at 28 mins for cynically going in at the side in front of your posts. So a very promising lad all round if he is invisible to the officials like that.

The officials? The irish touch judge was solid. And Honiss was not too bad by his standards I suppose. Only blind in phases.