Ditto. :)

Over 100,000.

This is why I don’t visit America.

Sharjah is basically ‘under the thumb’ of its Saudi overlords (bankers, basically). When Sharjah was in the financial shit a while back, the Saudis bailed them out of their mess but the quid pro quo was that Sharjah had to follow, basically, really strict rules (like no booze etc). A lot of Dubai/Abu Dabs workers live…

Moreover, supermarkets just weren’t a ‘thing’ in the UK either. One did one’s shopping at a local shop (where the proprietor was known to you); you took a basket and requested the goods you required and he/she fetched them and packed placed them in your basket. And there were different shops for everything, even IF…

‘Kn oath it does. *Applauds*

It absolutely is, yes! I’ve seen her twice in ‘real’ concert, and thrice at Mardi Gras after parties (each one: amazing, and she gets better all the time). If you can make yourself the absolute glorious centrepiece of nights like those, over the incomparable sound of 15,000 queens screaming their lungs out, you’re…

Yep. Knew that. Still sucks though. And while I’m a diehard Wallabies fan, it also sucks that the ARU have the political weight to refuse to play Wales at the Millennium — which is why tonight’s match is at Twickers — while countries like Fiji/Uruguay have to just ... take that shit.

Ha ha ha. Sucks to be you, Troy. Now fuck off. Ta.

Holy CRAP! What a finish! Taffs never EVER gave up! Hearts as big as planets! Biggar on fire! Injuries (oh my god, Wales!) ... but for England to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory like that .... WOW! I’ve only had a few hours sleep myself, but am still grinning like a maniac.

Yeah, but no WAY are Wales ‘co-hosts’. They just aren’t.

With (as of now) Cory Allen added to the injury list ... Well, I admire your belief. England were shit against Fiji (only Brown stood out really, and Joe Launchbury et al when the replacements arrived).

Reminds me of doing the Wales v Oz pool game in ‘07! Fireworks galore. What a great day though. Great win, great everything. Pity we didn’t go further though ....

Amy Schumer’s covered that with her O’Nutters clip. I’m still waiting for it to become a thing in ‘Murica though. ;-)

So SO fucking good. I still can’t believe it. This is like ... Oman beating Brazil in a FIFA World Cup. Seriously.

There are all sorts of rules and regs which allow ‘foreign-born’ players to play for another country, but you’d be surprised just how many are sprinkled throughout the whole line-up. It’s not just ‘tier 2’ countries like Japan which feel the need to line their ranks with a few blow-ins. ;-)

My English husband was saying ‘Take the three! Take the three!’ but bugger it, I was YELLING at them to bloody follow the Eddie J playbook and go for the try! NEVER GIVE UP! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more exciting match in my life. And I’ve been a fan for some decades now.

Well, hopefully Japan will definitely host in 2019 (not ‘16) because leading up to this RWC, word was that they felt that costs/infrastructure issues would result in them turning over the hosting opportunity to — yep, the Saffers. I hope that this incredible win changes the minds of the Powers That Be.

I always give pork sausages a ‘quick boil’ before grilling or frying because extraneous fat leaches out into the boiled water, making said snags easier to cook. Tastier too. The more you know. :)

Heh. And if you’re a woman ... make sure you get an NOC from your husband (or place of work if you don’t have a husband) so you can transfer your license into a UAE version. Took me about 30 minutes as well. :)