The process of turning fruit into juice also often removes a lot of the good stuff we would be getting from that fruit. For example fibre. So the juice has the sugar (which isn’t in itself a reason to avoid fresh fruit) but little of the other good stuff.

Or the classic narrow pass on the approach to a red light where I’m simply going to filter past away.

Had a sore foot over the weekend and had to hobble about. Can confirm I didn’t beat the green man on more than one occasion.

Once took a recently turned three year old on a two hour flight without too much issue. Obvs at that age an extra year is a huge difference, but he was genuinely loving the take off and once you’re up it’s basically a big ol’ white noise machine. We had a tablet and books handy for him, though he still got restless towards then end

I imagine with yours being younger and the haul being longer it might be more problematic, but I would treat it like any other boring-for-kids situation. Books, activities, hey duggee on the tablet. Hopefully they’ll sleep at some point.

Other than that, just be aware that the people on the plane will be furiously twittering about parents and children and planes. But they’re probably cunts, so fuck ‘em.

Thought it was mad England sacking Jones, and I was one of the people that maintained England had been underperforming for about 18 months. Couple of million quid buying out contracts just to get to where they would be right now anyways.

But sacking Rennie was absolutely batshit. If you look at the win % he wasn’t doing brilliantly, but a lot of those losses were very narrow, for eg single point (iirc) loss to France in Paris etc, and in circumstances that were less than ideal. The administrators basically YOLO’d it, and there should be heads rolling higher up imo.

When they banned pavement parking round here, the drivers just all parked on the narrow roads and now we have people driving on the pavements instead.

Whereas I did the same on the grounds that I had to get half of them right

Unable to vote from behind a VPN so will have to do that when I get home, but voting Fiji-Portugal. The Ireland - SA game was undoubtedly the “better” game and had potentially higher stakes, but the former was just loads of fun from a neutral pov.

There’s always the Pro D2. It’s been running all through, and invariably throws up plenty batshit nonsense

Odd one to watch there. Really wanted Georgia to win, so was cursing as Fiji got their tries. But it’s Fiji, innit. can’t not enjoy watching them.

Well that was a it fucking intense, wasn’t it?

Great game for drama, but that was really some pretty terrible rugby all round, with the occasional flash.

England playing ten man rugby, as they’ve largely done throughout with the exception of drubbings against the minnows. Given the turmoil in the set up over the last year,and the conditions on the night you can’t hold that against them but it doesn’t make for a great spectacle from a neutral point of view (drama aside, obvs).

South Africa were clearly hungover after last week. It was telling how the game shifted with the subs later on. I’m sure a lot of the discourse around that will be around the depth of the Saffa squad, but it looked to me more like a knackered starting fifteen playing a relatively fresh one. Ox and Kwagga the point of difference for the second week in a row imo.

Suspect the ABs win number four next week, but that way this tournament is going it’ll probably be England with a chair off the top rope.

I certainly wouldn’t bet on it, but recent history would tend ti agree with my original quip.

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(When I made my initial joke, I actually hadn’t quite really realised just how close they’ve come or how regularly)

i don't have much time for arguing online with strangers these days, but im sure i can stretch to a fantasy league.

i assume it's just a procedural issue around the new central contracts. Otherwise it's just a bit weird.

Another walkover for Enzedd, though I’ve had to back Uruguay in the prediction league to try and close the gap

We are all Etzebeth now.

Or something.

Saw it was close, turned the telly on. Two minutes later the ABs have two further tries.

I’m a curse.

Genuinely bricking it for this one. Must win game, and Italy will be looking to bounce back from the dreadful showing against the ABs.

Italy tend to perform quite well against France , whether that’s cos a lot of them play their club rugby in the top 14 or neighbourly rivalry, I dunno. But that and France seeming to always play to the level of their opponents, I don’t see it being a walkover.