How you can turn this Glasgow team into that performance is baffling. Toonie oot indeed.

Fin Smith back is prob the main highlight to note. Think he offers pretty similar qualities to Ford so not sure about him in over M Smith other than for rotation.

Wrong! There is a secret third state: hornxiety.

I can see the rationale in their publishing after someone has been proven guilty for certain crimes.

Like, I think being able to recognise confirmed rapist Brock Allen Turner is pretty good.

I’m illiterate. I stand by the fact that very few people wear shoes in the home, however.

They got it wrong in the message — uk is shoes off on the map (and no one wears shoes inside!)

Yo cuando pez 🐟🐟🐟🐟

Feel Ireland lacked punch in the forwards. For that kind of tip on game you need the forwards to be getting at least parity on the gain line, and Doris couldn’t do it all on his own. McCarthy in particular was anonymous. Noticeable difference when a second 8 in Conan came on (though ofc France’s defence was more tired).

From an England perspective I’m worried if we stick with a lightweight back row to start. Think we’re going to miss Willis massively v France, and probably have to start someone like CCS at 8 or have a lock at 6 (e.g. Chessum/Coles) to give that defensive heft for their carries off 9 and to get some go forward.

Now I need to go listen to Jethro Tull again haha

For the uninitiated

Jobs this; jobs that. What about pincer recreation? Claw pleasure? Hoof fun.

It me. Does my hunger outweigh the effort of going to get food?

Actually I could use a little help from a temporobotanist. I can see some horse tails around — what epoch does that make this?

This also functional. Pull skin taut around eyes by stretch cheek skin

Yeah? Well I took your mum here

👉👈ok hugh but what if im skint

God Hugh Laurie is hot T.T

I like this one. I mean, I’m a filthy little pawn grabber who will throw away any positional advantage in favour of clinging grimly to cold hard material, but I do aspire to this level of restraint.

+1. I’ll make a post about maxims like this actually.

I mean obviously Fahrenheit 451 and The Handmaid’s Tale if you liked BNW and 1984!

Personally I enjoyed a lot of HG Wells’ work for similar reasons — War of The Worlds, for example, is an obvious allegory for colonialism, (with the aliens as the empire builders). The original book is excellent. I binged a tonne of his works, including the Time Machine, the invisible man, the sleeper wakes and the island of dr Moreau. They’re quite short books. Easily read in a day (though I am a fast reader).

Otherwise I quite enjoyed for whom the bell tolls (Hemingway; set during the Spanish civil war, in which he fought, as well as Orwell funnily enough).

Yes, Aman is good. The gold standard is of course Daniel Naroditsky, who sadly passed away last year. His speedruns are very good, but tough for me to watch now.

In terms of general resources, I’d also recommend lichess.org/practice. These introduce a lot of the basic skills (e.g. simple checkmates and tactical motifs like pins and skewers). These help a lot with getting the piece coordination instilled in your brain :)