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  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 6,168 Forumite
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    Prosecco and scrolling is a good night 🥂

    I had a job this week that involved having to write a little bit about the rugby and I was literally like 'there were some people I think men who played some rugby it is a sport they throw a ball?'

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase/p1

    'self-blame can be as egotistical as self-praise... any work worth doing is greater than we are... we must not overrate our importance to it, either for good or ill' Margaret Kennedy Lucy Carmichael
  • Sun_Addict
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    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81923236#Comment_81923236

    I’m my previous job I worked for a family run business, they were Welsh and obsessed with rugby, it was more or less all they talked about. I ended up helping them with a rugby newsletter as they coached at a rugby club for kids. So I actually know some of the terminology which bugs Mr SA 🤣

    However this doesn’t mean I like sports 🤣

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  • beanielou
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    I’ve never been a rugby fan either.

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  • Baileys_Babe
    Baileys_Babe Posts: 6,648 Forumite
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    I have no interest in sport, FIL has known me for close on 30 years and knows this. This week he has mostly been talking about Cheltenham festival and the rugby and can not understand why I have no clue nor opinion on what he is talking about.

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  • Cherryfudge
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    I absolutely love PIP's words of wisdom on the subject of rugby - a little more erudite than mine would be in similar circumstances!

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  • PennysIntoPounds
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    Had to flesh it out a wee bit from my initial draft @Cherryfudge but getting paid 💅😂

    (Which confirms my suspicions that wot I wrote is all anyone actually knows about rugby 😁)

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase/p1

    'self-blame can be as egotistical as self-praise... any work worth doing is greater than we are... we must not overrate our importance to it, either for good or ill' Margaret Kennedy Lucy Carmichael
  • badmemory
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    In the dim & distant past I dated a couple of college rugby players. The main thing I learnt was that most of them had broken noses & could hold their alcohol.

  • JGB1955
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    You need to watch Womens Premier Rugby....it's a totally different game!

    (Gloucester Hartpury supporter....)

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