Mick Mac

Its a family pub alright - so if you don't have a family, don't even think about going there. Certainly not on a sunny Sunday afternoon. :)) Its mayhem.

Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We don't need a singing section at White Hart > Lane. We just sing and not just when we're > winning. Is this what you sing down the lane?

Celtic have a siging section too. Stop copying all our good ideas. ::o

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jeez Mick, you're complaining you've got 13/1 and > not 7/1. Did you spend all that time worrying > then? I have checked back and actually got 18 to 1 so seems a more logical reduction now. I'm sure if quids were here he would tell me how to.hedge this.

this is interesting as the commentator says before the game: "France are still experimenting - trying to find the back division that will recreate that traditional French flair...." Sounds familiar but 43 french points later....and after being 24-10 down. France triumph.

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Its just not fair......blub blub

Or maybe Jah has "changed"...

Is this still Jah's thread. My phone says jeannie.....

I backed France from the start at 13 to 1. I'm a bit miffed that I could have waited until the final and still got 7s. I also for the record had a tenner on ireland before anyone asks how many other teams I backed. Think 4 to 1 might be more realistic odds for the final. France are the All Blacks world cup bogey team after all. They would probably rather have played Wales?

I read alomost the whole of this thread before realising it was 3 years old. :( Now I have no idea if they still do a good breakfast.

Is that you Declan ?

Im expecting an upset tomorrow. The French back three to dance through the welsh defence.

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Some older rugby fans might be interested in a > programme tonight on the Lions 1971 visit to NZ. > It's on BBC1 Wales @ 10.35pm. However it is on > other BBC channels next week too. > > Good luck Wales tomorrow though whoever wins I'd > like to see them win it outright. One for the NH. > > I attach 'My Story', an amateur effort written > this summer for the purposes of an annual family > event. A mixture of fact and fiction. I hope it > amuses someone. Very good Declan. Nice to read.

Relatively recent UK tax cases have focused on the management and control of offshore operations so its now much harder to have operations in offshore jurisdictions without a real legitimate presence there. Hence ensuring only legitimate operations benefit from the tax benefits of having operations there, otherwise UK taxes are payable. But you can't go around imposing higher taxes on legitimate operations in other countries. Funny enough the other jurisdictiont want to raise their revenues too. Most offshore tax havens are making agreements with other countries with whom they do business to ensure the operations there are legitimate ones. Channel Islands operations are now highly regulated.

Cmon Ireland. Hopefully get a decent draw for the play offs.

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I'm with JJF. Vineyards give you lovely tasting glasses which make the wine nice to look, smell and taste. If you choose the house wine in a caraffe with a couple of tumblers in a Paris bistro then its the cheap option.

10 on Ireland has home but 20 on France still in with a shout.

We are agreed then declan. That's a first. :)) I'll take a week to get interested again. But this world cup has offered so much already and has more to offer too. The semi finals are mouthwatering.

Soooo disappointed that Ireland did not make it through today. Wales' defence was undoubtedly fantastic but Ireland had a number of players who had a poor game, most importantly O Gara who missed a few key touch kicks. Mike Philipps try I think was the one that broke the hearts of the Irish team. Was really one where Ireland went to sleep and the Irish forwards, on seeing the backs let him through so easily, must have been a killer especially after they had just got back to 10-10. Wales third try also resulted from poor Irish defending - so in the end it was the defences that decided it.

Oireland.......cmon

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > And expecting the House of Saud to relax religious > orthodoxy relating to women by comparing it to > apartheid is also hopelessly naive. I don't know where you got that from DC. If its my post you are refering to, I was saying quite the opposite. Read more carefully.

StraferJack Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Religious adherence in Ireland went from > near-absolute to negligible in a generation. You > accord it too much respect in Saudi, mick The Saudi people certainly accord it too much respect. I can't see Saudi relegating the importantance of religion any time soon.

I'm saying in some countries the religion is effectively the law. You cannot change the historic religious writings. The writings are fixed and their interpretation is long ingrained. So long as the religion dominates the thinking of the powers that be, the law will reflect those religious writings. Religion is not something thats shifts easily. As a result there is little hope of a sudden change in perspective or law without a move to democracy. Apartheid changed with the help of the will of the world, but it was not supported by religion and therefore a statesman and his gvenment were able to bring about change on behalf of a country on a democratic basis.