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  Kris

  1 year ago

  Sad blogger - quick bit of research via wikipedia and you would have lifted yourself from ignorance - if you are blogging to the world it does help
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  le poisson

  1 year ago

  I've heard it said that it takes leather balls to play rugby.
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  mikeperry

  1 year ago

  The game in question is Rugby Union, not soccer, you uneducated design freak ;-)
  
  Plus *real* men play Rugby - MMA star appreciates hard men of rugby - http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/sport/garethdavies...
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  Stuart Willard

  1 year ago

  Difficult to know where the supposed ignorance of SJ and the actual ignorance of Secret SJ cross here.
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  anon

  1 year ago

  No it's not. Really, it's not.
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  nickpt

  1 year ago

  Bad fsj.
  
  One only talks about graceless rugby when referring to English Rugby.
  Welsh rugby is passion, fluid and full of flair.
  
  Ta for highlighting our Grand Slam success...
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  Keith

  1 year ago

  I don't know what made me laugh the most, the article or the sense of humour donors who replied.
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  bryce

  1 year ago

  Snitty apple polishers like Keith are what make me laugh.
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  woz

  1 year ago

  Actually, these are the commentators at my recent Segway polo match in Sydney.
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  ceedoubleu

  1 year ago

  80 minutes and the windoze machine still hasn't booted up.
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  anon

  1 year ago

  They would have won sooner but:
  Taff: "how do we win the grand slam blodwyn?"
  Blodwyn: "you need a Mac"
  Taff: "okay boy-o, but what if it's not raining? Do I still need to wear it?"
  (Repeat each year until, etc.)
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  Phelim

  1 year ago

  I know it's probably been said and i know Daniel likes to make lots of factual errors for us to laugh about etc. but seriously....it's not soccer/football it is the mind-numbingly boring and ridiculously dangerous game that is, unfortunately, rugby (your American football).
  
  To Nick, "Welsh rugby is passion, fluid and full of flair." The Welsh have a passion for blood do they? I always knew it.... :D
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  nickpt

  1 year ago

  Come on Phlem, don't be silly now, of course rugby is violent but it is kept on the pitch as opposed to the wendyball playing soccer/footballers who get their fans to do their talking.
  
  Mines a pint of Rhesus Negative.
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  Rachel

  1 year ago

  OK, you now know you will never, ever be welcome in Wales? I'd love to see a rugby team take on your 'world champions' of American football and beat them out of the park. Even the local county team, never mind one of the national teams. Rugby is you football without the protection and a far more fascinating game to watch.
  
  And with reference to soccer - most other countries do refer to it as football, soccer is a poor substitute.
  
  Whilst you can wind us up over your attitude to mac vs PC, just don't touch the beautiful game, you'll always be in the minority.
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  Michael

  1 year ago

  It's the Welsh RUGBY team. Footballers aren't cool enough for Apple.
  
  Remember the Red Dragon on a field of green
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  oakling

  1 year ago

  Who knew this crowd would turn out to be so passionate about sports?
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  Aaron

  1 year ago

  here is some more love for the air
  http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2008/03/18/char...
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  M

  1 year ago

  We call it football as apposed to "soccer" because the game is played mostly with your feet in contact with the ball. Unlike American football in which players pick up the ball and run with it. It makes a lot more sense when you actually use your brain and think about it :-)
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  Soccer Database

  1 year ago

  So what is the connection of the game Soccer to MAC? For what reason their using it? Does it help their player to win over the game?
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  Anthony D

  1 year ago

  Usually winning the "Six Nations Rugby Championship" involves playing Rugby...
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  simon

  1 year ago

  thanks for the laughs commentards
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  Film izle

  1 year ago

  ehehe :) great post thanx.
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  GimliNZ

  1 year ago

  Of course it took a New Zealand coach (Back row, centre) and Apple hardware to help them actually win the championship!!
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  BigAl

  1 year ago

  Maybe New Zealand should try a Welsh coach for the next World Cup - they've tried everything else ;-)
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  maxliving

  1 year ago

  I love that now we can vote down the commentards. Where was this feature when we need it (during the FSJ shutdown drama)?
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  Symbiantard

  1 year ago

  You got it wrong. Vote up the commentards, not down. Make my day funnier, not more gloomy.
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  steveballmer

  1 year ago

  I'll bet anything that this team has won 0 games!
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  Phelim

  1 year ago

  the whole point of this is that they did win. im not Welsh im just not stupid
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  Paul

  1 year ago

  "your mindless, graceless headbanging sport"
  
  You must've been watching New Zealand play not the home nations.
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  nef

  1 year ago

  The blog is written 'in character' of course.
  What would SJ know about rugby?
  
  (daft game anyway if you ask me, unlike, say, cricket)
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  Ryan

  1 year ago

  Rugby has nothing on American Football.
  
  Show me something comparable to the poetry in motion that is a Brady-Moss hookup. You can't.
  
  Fookin slags.
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  Phelim

  1 year ago

  you want something comparable? how about some real poetry:
  
  Death is nothing at all,
  I have only slipped away into the next room.
  Whatever we were to each, that we are still.
  Call me by my old familiar name.
  Speak to me in the easy way which you always used.
  
  Laugh as we always laughed
  at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
  Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me.
  Let my name be the household word it always was.
  Let it be spoken without effort.
  Life means all that it ever meant.
  It is the same as it ever was;
  there is absolutely unbroken continuity.
  Why should I be out of your mind
  because I am out of your sight?
  I am but waiting for you, for an interval,
  somewhere very near just around the corner...
  All is well.
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  Hywel

  1 year ago

  Haha. If this was anyone but Fake Steve, I'd be completely offended. Commentards indeed.
  
  http://homepage.mac.com/hywel.thomas/bendigedig...
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  Nick

  1 year ago

  I feel this urge to educate you (you didn't vote for Bush did you?)
  
  The esteemed gentlemen in the photo are the coaching team for the Wales RUGBY Team not (spit) soccer. ;o)
  
  Wales is a Principality adjacent to and Governed by England having been invaded back in the 15th Century. King Henry VII (father of King Henry VIII) of England was actually Welsh.
  
  You really are determined to show you countrymen in a poor light aren't you!
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  Dobby

  1 year ago

  Nick, Nick -- I thought you Brits prided yourself on your irony-skills. And yet you fell for the flametard troll!
  
  For all you n00bs out there, FSJ always makes a point of inserting lots of geographical/linguistic/cultural "mistakes" into his posts. This always provides much entertainment in the Comments section, as a surfeit of outraged euros rush to correct the mistakes, usually with a large dose of smug anti-American comments sprinkled in. Good Times!
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  nickpt

  1 year ago

  Dobby, Dobby .... thanks for pointing that out to us thickos from over the pond. I have been reading FSJ for some time now and had you not mentioned irony I might well have not picked up on it .... you tool.
  
  I like this from Martin Johnson of the Telegraph ... "When you hear thousands of people belting out: "feed me till I want no more" you can only be in one of two places. Waiting for the ninth course at an American restaurant, or inside a rugby union stadium watching Wales heading for victory."
  
  nice bit of yank bashing...
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  sean

  1 year ago

  Or the nightly susurration of a million Welshmen dreaming of servicing their sheep.
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  nickpt

  1 year ago

  Sean thats a baaaaare faced lie and you mutton do it again.
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  tommy

  1 year ago

  Oh my god...if anyone form Wales is reading this blog, you're in deep trouble : )
  Never take rugby for soccer and, 1 million times worse, Wales for England. It's like if you said to a mexican playing soccer that he's a spanish playing american football!
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  Gazmaz

  1 year ago

  I have seen this image with lots of different Welsh coaches over the past, why weren't you made aware then. ?
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  trex67

  1 year ago

  Who are ed and shurely? Ex-convicts?
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  yo

  1 year ago

  This blog used to rock. Now it sucks.
  Daniel, please euthanize it! Don't let your interns write the posts!
  Don't let the brilliant FSJ become the equivalent of a fat, grumpy old man.
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  Richard Earney

  1 year ago

  They use ProZone game analysis software which is only available from on one true platform.
  
  And it is rugby - like American Football but played by proper sportsmen and women.
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  Anthony D

  1 year ago

  Indeed like American Football. Without all the protective gear :)
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  richardmnixon

  1 year ago

  You know when you can consider yourself a success, Jobso? When people stop being amazed to spot a Mac user. "Oh, look! A Scientologist! Where's my camera?"
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  acap.

  1 year ago

  Does Apple also sell some little usb-dust-suckers (usb-vakuum-cleaners)?!?
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