And you're defending the chief Saints Scut. What a magnificent exemplar you are.Originally Posted by Old Dog
And you're defending the chief Saints Scut. What a magnificent exemplar you are.
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I find it wholly unsurprising that a lawyer would so wilfully misuse the verb "defend". Or that he would resile so instinctively from an unadorned statement of fact with such weaselesque and hypocritical aplomb.
That you omitted the apostrophe after the "t" of "Saint's" serves merely to reaffirm my opinion of your academic prowess.
The team isn't "Northampton Saint". "Saints", you illiterate; not a singular possessive.
Now, either put the bottle down, or get a grip, because you're making a holy show of yourself by defending a truly vile player.
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I'll just get my coat.
Tommy O'Donnell - David Wallace Mk. 2.
Hell, wait up, I'll share the taxi; not much to hang around for here...
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So now our 'learned' friend advises us that the phrase "chief Saints scut" does not require an apostrophe.
Words simply fail me.
I thought that the Bar Council frowned on its members advertising, yet you appear to have no inhibitions whatsoever in publicising your ignorance, for all to see and mock.
No more than "chief Leinster illiterate" does. And if it did, it would have been "Saints'". As already pointed out; the team isn't Northampton Saint. Now, stop digging.So now our 'learned' friend advises us that the phrase "chief Saints scut" does not require an apostrophe..
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Can the two of you meet up behind the west stand on Sunday and sort it out man to man?
I haven't taken my Christmas lights down. They look so nice on the pumpkin
God alone knows why he kicks off, feen; I'm quite happy to leave it go, because it's a dreary pain in the Swiss for me, too.
Actually, the Ignore button is the solution.
Edit: done.
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On the opposite side of the equation.... Chris Ashton was attacked with a glass by someone at the weekend
England winger Chris Ashton has been attacked with a glass during a night out with his girlfriend in London.
Ashton, 25, who played for Saracens in a 9-9 draw with Leicester earlier on Saturday, was not seriously hurt and the police are not involved.
"Some bloke decided to spoil an evening out for me and my missus. No stitches needed," Ashton wrote on Twitter
Saracens chief executive Edward Griffiths said: "He is not in trouble at all and showed admirable restraint."
He added: "It is a reality that well known sports people are provoked by strangers and subsequent events are instantly tweeted.
"People will inevitably see this story and say an England rugby player is in trouble again.
"On the contrary, he was celebrating an anniversary with his girlfriend."
Ashton was with fellow Saracens players, their wives and girlfriends, when a stranger approached them and began an argument.
"A brief altercation occurred, which resulted in a friend of this stranger attacking Chris Ashton with a glass," a Saracens statement read.
"The Saracens winger suffered two minor cuts on the left side of his face, but neither required stitches."
I haven't taken my Christmas lights down. They look so nice on the pumpkin
Hope the scumbag who did that is caught and sentenced to a lengthy term.
Never mind perception because it isnt real. Its only what people think. Go out and make them think something else.
- Alan Quinlan on believing in yourself
No police involvement according to the report so no he will not be charged unless someone reports the alleged assult.
4 Feb 2011 - Gilmore on the General Election
"Frankfurts way or Labours way."
28 Feb 2012 - Gilmore on a yes vote for the fiscal treaty
"A vote for economic stability and a vote for economic recovery."
But subsequently undone, alas!
If only he had been a man of his word!
from the reports it sounds like there was a reason for this, not against Ashton per se (who the club made a point of saying is under no suspicion of being out of line) but more that the incident was down to the trouble makers knowing who the players were
\"A million monkeys with a million crayons would be hard-pressed in a million years to create anything as cretinous as Battlefield Earth.\"
Is it only in Engerlaaaaand that incidents like this happen on a regular basis, I know Chabal was handed an ass whipping at the trinity rooms, not long after Paulie and DOC put him ten meters backwards the same day in TP, but that was for being a complete langer.
Normally when a few lads are out having a beer or ten here they chat with fans but in Engerlaaaaaand it seems that the general public now have to have a go at them when ever they are out.
Correct me please if I am wrong.
EB: \"It is said, Percy, that civilised man seeks out good and intelligent company, so by learned discourse he may rise above the savage and be closer to God\"
Percy: \"Yes, I\'ve heard that\"
EB: \"Personally, however, I like to start the day with a total dickhead, to remind me I\'m best\"
perhaps the english people also see them for what langers they are, however attacking someone with glass is bad form whatever the reason...even if there is one
If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
Poor Mongo Powell got attacked in a bar by a gang of scuts, and blindsided with a bar-stool. He got blamed for it by Wasps, as usually happens with the double-standard for English and non-English players.
Great, isn't it?
Last edited by Thomond78; 20th-September-2012 at 10:40.
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I would say that the problem is down to where they are drinking. If they are in a rugby pub then everyone would be enjoying the craic but if they are out in some trendy bar/ club populated by minor celebs and footballers and the sad hangers on who want to be in the same room as such nonentities, then the chances are some langer will think it is acceptable to have a pop.
When Chris Ashton went to a London club there were a lot of people warning that his fondness for the celebrity bit might lead to trouble. Now I am no fan of the man but glassing someone is never acceptable, seems odd the police have not been called in though.
I'd heard that it wasn't beyond the bounds of possibility that Powell was not a completely innocent party in that altercation.
I don't think it's that much of an issue to be honest. Incidents are very few and far between.
"We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven into an age of unreason if we dig deep into our history and remember we are not descended from fearful men" Edward R Murrow
"Little by little, we have been brought into the present condition in which we are able neither to tolerate the evils from which we suffer, nor the remedies we need to cure them." - Livy
How regular? I can think of Powell, Danny Care being d&d and this incident with Ashton.
Balance that with, say, the Chabal incident, the furore around the Munster outing a while ago and Shane Horgan's record with door staff and I think you'd struggle for a statistically significant difference.
"We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven into an age of unreason if we dig deep into our history and remember we are not descended from fearful men" Edward R Murrow
"Little by little, we have been brought into the present condition in which we are able neither to tolerate the evils from which we suffer, nor the remedies we need to cure them." - Livy
There is a possible common denominator for Powell and Ashton, soccer fans.
\"A million monkeys with a million crayons would be hard-pressed in a million years to create anything as cretinous as Battlefield Earth.\"
Then what you heard was wrong. The security video was available. It was QPR fans, who are known nasty bastards: QPR were playing, they took exception to Mongo supporting the other team, realised he was a rugby player - egg, as they charmingly called it, on boards linked to on Gwlad to show what happened - then blattered him from behind with a chair, kicked on the ground and a glass chucked at his head while unconscious. He lost two pints of blood as a result. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...bar-brawl.html
Mongo's a daft galoot, but no harm to anyone but himself.
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I'd day calling QPR fans "known nasty bastards" is stretching it. I know that Powell was attacked - all I heard was that it was his mouth that started the trouble. Only heard second hand, mind.
"We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven into an age of unreason if we dig deep into our history and remember we are not descended from fearful men" Edward R Murrow
"Little by little, we have been brought into the present condition in which we are able neither to tolerate the evils from which we suffer, nor the remedies we need to cure them." - Livy
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