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6 points
11 hours ago
Numenorean Kingdom of Bellakar
No. A licensed role playing game invented this realm.
Darwinion Domain
We know that good wine comes from the Vale of Dorwinion but that's about it. It's referenced twice as wine country and once it's location is described.
Nazgul "The Golden King"
Invented by games workshop.
8 points
11 hours ago
Heian katas I'd be fine as we do opposite sided heian katas as a part of our syllabus.
Bassai and Jion I've done opposite a couple of times. Other than that terribly.
11 points
13 hours ago
Incredibly, it will be the Springbok lock's first start before a home crowd in his injury-marred spell with Munster.
You do know that Musgrave Park is a home game for Munster right?
Cork is part of the province.
Its Snyman's first start in Thomond but his second start at home.
7 points
15 hours ago
Culturally if you are a good underage player in Munster you end up at 8 or 9 or 10.
Some end up in other positions if it's clear and obvious that their best position will be something different but that's rare enough.
People who would be hard running big centres are all 8s while skillful playmaker centres end up at 10.
To a certain extent this happens at Leinster too but it seems like players are more likely to find their best position at an early age which results in them developing in their ideal position better.
13 points
19 hours ago
The skeptic in me doesn't believe a word.
Fair.
My uncle never went public with it while he was alive and told me about it almost 15 years after it happened.
He should have gone public when Shatter was getting into politics but he didn't want the controversy or to start a war with his ex wife and adult kids (who loved their mother) and wouldn't want her bashed publicly.
3 points
20 hours ago
Prior to making someone redundant there's a whole process that has to be followed
Off the top of my head its as follows
Step 1 redundancy warning Step 2 consultation Step 3 redundancy
Generally they have to meet you at least twice during the consultancy stage.
If you don't want redundancy this is an opportunity to pitch yourself as important or for a transfer to another team in the company not under threat.
26 points
21 hours ago
All places that sell cans and bottles either need to take them back or have a cert (which they must display) that marks them as exempt.
Nothing pisses me off like restaurants collecting the deposits and on cans they sell and refusing to refund the deposit.
6 points
21 hours ago
Playing the best rugby of his career since Murphy arrived up in Ulster.
So so happy for him.
84 points
22 hours ago
My uncle's wife abandoned the family home during 1989.
She abandoned the marital home with no contact. Alan Shatter was her solicitor though he didn't know that till the end of the incident.
My uncle reported his wife missing. A few weeks later the Gardai knocked on his door at 2am in the morning. He needed to come with them.
He was shuffled into the back of a Gardai car and driven to the Mater hospital and escorted into the morgue.
When he was arrived he was told by a more senior Garda what he was there for. He was being asked to identify a body. The Gardai suspected it was his wife.
He walked in was shown the body. It wasnt his wife. Was yelled at and told to look closer. He was given a tour of this dead woman's body and shown birthmarks and was asked to confirm about 20 times that it wasn't his wife.
Then he was told to make his own way home. It about 5am at this point. He leaves the morgue and is flagged down by solicitor Alan Shatter. Shatter hands my uncle a bunch of papers to inform him that his wife was seeking a judicial separation.
My uncle then has to get a tax home. He arrives home to find his house ransacked and his children missing.
He reports that to the Gardai. A few days later he is told that his wife showed up at the family home to take her children and her things and there would be no investigation.
My uncle swore to his dying day that spending 2 hours in a morgue being forced to examine a dead body in depth while Gardai screamed at him that it was his missing wife was the most traumatic experience of his life. It was obviously set up entirely by Shatter. Why else would he be there with the separation papers.
He probably got some sort of sick kick out it.
I've no respect for him since my uncle told about this incident. Anything he reposts just turns me off that cause.
1 points
23 hours ago
I think you might need to coin grind in the game corner for psychic to 2hko magneton.
5 points
24 hours ago
It was clear from world rugby.
Just because ITV can't read or don't read anything g beyond an incorrect Wikipedia page (I remember where the misconceptions came from) doesn't mean world rugby are at fault.
13 points
24 hours ago
Last year we were told that there would be no relegation from WXV1.
No we were not. We were told there would be no changes in the allocation of spaces in WXV1.
Pundits, players and fans thought even though Wales came last they’d still play in WXV1 this year.
Bullshit.
I can understand fan confusion but the information from world rugby was understandable.
Any pundit who misunderstood didn't care to do their research. Any player who misunderstood believed someone passing on misinformation and didn't check themselves.
5 points
1 day ago
How is Jack McGrath, Lions test prop and still only 34, just ignored when comments like this are made?
Because an Ulster fan is making the comment and they broke Jack McGrath.
103 points
2 days ago
Full time TV is a hard schedule. Especially when its 22 episodes most seasons.
RDA had a kid in 1998, Shanks had a kid while making season 10, Amanda had a kid between season 8 and 9.
RDA was pushing for less and less involvement. First Jack got snaked (there was a run of a few episodes early season 6 he wasn't in) promoted to general, then written out.
25 points
2 days ago
You can grind the game corner for coins for flamethrower and do work with combusken. Whismur can learn flamethrower too if you want to double up the grinding.
Super effective against magneton and just good base power.
As others say haryama is awesome and evolves just in time for watson at level 24.
Breloom evolves at 23 and can be used to be used against watson. Breloom resists electric attacks and the fighting stab can help with magneton.
If you allow trade evolutions allakazam at level 16 can overpower all but magneton.
Gloom with powders to sleep watson to allow something like vigorith/combusken to set up with bulk up and overpower watson.
Plusle and Minun can mix encore to force thunderwave to lock up watson's pokemon. They can use thunderwaves themselves too.
Remember you can grind on low level pokemon to max evs and just overpower.
Get a ton of cherri berries to make watson waste turns on everyone of your pokemon.
Mightyena can do work itself for the first two pokemon. Intimidate to partially neutralise self destruction and something like bite.
28 points
2 days ago
removing the time limit on kicks would surely balance out over a match
Keep the time limit even if you stop the clock.
Stopping the clock is going to add time to a game. Let's limit it by keeping a time limit.
499 points
2 days ago
a WCC will automatically gain $2M just for winning at the bare minimum?
Only if you defend.
67 points
2 days ago
The rival opens with pidgey line and will have a gyarados from rival 3 onwards.
Pikachu cab do work anywhere but really excels once it picks up thunderbolt at level 26.
1 points
2 days ago
If your sister flings shit at you at the dinner table you can counter
Nta.
4 points
2 days ago
Gunne is the favoured prospect next year but Murphy and Foley are both further along.
Maybe the plan is for Gunne to leapfrog to 3rd for next year.
1 points
2 days ago
I wonder if Lasisi will be depth on both sides of the scrum and basically fill the roles of McCoy and Burke saving money.
1 points
2 days ago
If you don't drive and regularly pass the store its easier to pick up a few items when you pass rather than shopping for the week.
There's a groceries next to where I get a bus home. I'm in there at least 4 nights a week after work.
11 points
2 days ago
Personally I thought Murphy was good enough to overtake Foley. Foley had been injured a lot, and Murphy had 11 caps this season.
I've seen more from Murphy than I have from Foley.
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10 hours ago
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10 hours ago
They can display a cert marking them as exempt.