The Silver Fern

Continuing the parrot theme:

2 Essex girls chatting one morning after a night out.

"My mouth tastes like the bottom of a birdcage"

"Well it should do, you had a cockatoo in it last night".

@MN5 said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@sparky said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

Possible Lions Test team

Porter
Kelleher
Fagerson
Itoje (c)
Beirne
Conan
Pollock
Earl
Gibson-Park
Russell
Van Der Merwe
Tuipolutu
H. Jones
Freeman
Kinghorn

Cowan-Dickie
Genge
Furlong
Ryan
T. Curry
A.Mitchelle Scotland team
F. Smith
Daly

Only six Scots starting ?

Yes difficult to take that seriously. You don’t get that many Scots starting in the Scotland team.

@MajorRage said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

@MiketheSnow - how much can you get behind this squad? I'm not fishing here, I'm genuinely curious. When there's more kiwi's in the squad than Welsh, is it something you can really get your heart and soul behind?

On a pure basis, I just don’t like it, but thems the rules and on a needs must basis, any International side would pick on the same basis. It doesn’t make me any less passionate, but…

@sparky said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

Cummings and Hansen are the only surprises. And those aren't massive ones. No bolter.

Strong squad. The Aussies have their work cut out.

Cummings would not have been in (my) contention, but it’s looking like they see Beirne as a munter of a 6 rather than a second row. Hansen a bolter for sure, more so in that he was crocked. I’d add McCarthy as a bit of a left field selection as his star seemed to have diminished.

Welsh boys on a difficult one. There has to be a view that “put them in a decent team etc”. Certainly Williams fits that mould.

Overall though, not a contentious selection.

@Bones

Yeah, dreadful wasn't it? God help us if this is what we have to get used to.

@Victor-Meldrew

In one.

When we were onboarding it, many issues were highlighted including it being unsuitable for a streamlined working practice, everything needing 8 touches other than one, poor training for data input and were told to get on with it.

The result is a continuous backlog of client facing work with the resultant ongoing client loss, an inability to obtain the vital client related information in a timely manner, de-motivated staff with the resultant turnover and two major overhauls to correct the wrongly inputted data.

A shambles. Do these numpties even beta test anything?

@Rembrandt

To be fair, if it’s anything like my workplace is these days it will be down to enforced practices to fit within a system. Sadly many such systems prime requirement is to provide MI rather than function in a manner conducive to good working practices.

@nostrildamus

And Charlie Hungerford is a woman now...

@booboo said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

When is the team named?

(In 3, 2, 1 ...)

May 8th.

@MiketheSnow

I’d still take Russell over Prendergast if they’re taking 3 fly-halves.

@Nepia

Now ask yourself. Was it worth it?

@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:

@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:

Caged Heat

• going as expected for a while
• nightmare scene, while stoned, kinda threw me for a bit
• playacting scene wasn't particularly great for a stoned man neither
• plot isn't making much sense, but I'm sure it will all come together
  -- 35min in, nothing much making sense, but that may well be a "me thing"

The above makes me wonder if the fern needs some sort of sobriety test before posting.

It would certainly cull the membership

@Tim A lesson for us all.

@MN5 said in Bad/Lame Jokes:

I'd just like to take this opportunity to publicly thank @Catogrande @Bones @Nevorian @Victor-Meldrew @MiketheSnow and @No-Quarter

In an awkward social situation I logged on to the fern on my phone and busted out at least one shitty joke from each of you to thunderous applause.

Please keep up the shit great work gents.

We’re just showing you how annoying it is.

Accidentally gave my wife a glue stick instead of the lipstick.

She’s still not talking to me.

@MN5

Yeah, I thought the same regarding Kirk, he was a bit up his own arse. His stance was right but he was unlikeable within that. Complete contrast to Buck wha was wrong but very likeable within that. The only guy that really came across as both likeable and right was JK. He was actually quite impressive in that doco.

@MiketheSnow

Since his retirement, Faldo has really shown his more human side and is not the humourless fuckstick that you’d have thought. See also Will Carling.

@booboo You've spoiled it now

@antipodean

That is hilarious

@reprobate said in NH club rugby:

@MiketheSnow yep, gotta stamp it out right now.

That’s why we need Danny Grewcock.