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i really want to respond. But I find my inner NO overriding my usual sarcastic self
I was looking at the 2 front right, but ahem!:biggrin:What's the coach doing to that girl back Right?
Im sorry ok. My devil took over!!!!!
Saw it in the Standard last night and despaired at the LSE Men's Rugby XV, the do-Goodyear complainers, but most of all the poor lasses who will no doubt be looking outside the University ranks for companionship and entertainment whilst in London.
Took about 3 seconds to find out that the mascot has been a beaver since 1949, though to be fair the etymology of beaver as vulgar slang was first used in 1927:
There was a young lady named Eva
Who went to the ball as Godiva,
But a change in the lights,
Showed a tear in her tights,
And a low fellow present yelled "Beaver"
it was thought that prostitutes spread veneral diseases through contact with their pubic area, so the women were made "bald" in that area for health reasons. However, their clients did not like that look and business began to suffer. Therefore, pubic wigs, called merkins, were manufactured for the prostitutes. These merkins were made out of beaver pelts. Hence the term beaver.
Angela Merkel getting blamed for everything these days.It's ...firkin' Merkin's fault...
LSE rugby club disbanded - seemingly as much from their failure to properly contain/handle the crisis as from the leaflet itself.
http://www.theguardian.com/educatio...cs-lse-disbands-rugby-club-misogynist-leaflet
Phil E:283036 said:LSE rugby club disbanded - seemingly as much from their failure to properly contain/handle the crisis as from the leaflet itself.
http://www.theguardian.com/educatio...cs-lse-disbands-rugby-club-misogynist-leaflet
More like, no one in the rugby club had the bollocks to own up to writing the leaflet. So the club as a whole took the rap.
Well said.The 'rugby club' in this instance is just a student society. Run by students, no Blazers to speak of. The story goes to the heart of a serious cancer in university rugby. There are no wise old Blazers there to offer sage words, and the culture in many university rugby clubs is increasingly perverted as each cohort that gains power tries to 'go one better' over last year's committee in the depraved inductions they afflict on this year's freshers. That then endures through the year in the behaviour of the rugby society at uni.
I know too many young players who have been driven away from the game at university by this abhorrent culture. Either the RFU, BUCS or the universities themselves need to sort it out before the game is permanently damaged.
The 'rugby club' in this instance is just a student society. Run by students, no Blazers to speak of. The story goes to the heart of a serious cancer in university rugby. There are no wise old Blazers there to offer sage words, and the culture in many university rugby clubs is increasingly perverted as each cohort that gains power tries to 'go one better' over last year's committee in the depraved inductions they afflict on this year's freshers. That then endures through the year in the behaviour of the rugby society at uni. Rugby players have a bad name at many uni's. My son talks of his torment at being ashamed to say he is a rugby player.
I know too many young players who have been driven away from the game at university by this abhorrent culture. Either the RFU, BUCS or the universities themselves need to sort it out before the game is permanently damaged.