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Mar 26th 2013, 6:42 am

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Re: Making friends in Dubai

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Originally Posted by Scamp

Other unique thing to rugby is calling the ref 'Sir'.

That's a Good Thing. Far better than those whinging, idiotic footballers who complain and argue about every decision.

Mar 26th 2013, 6:51 am

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That's a Good Thing. Far better than those whinging, idiotic footballers who complain and argue about every decision.

There some elements creeping into rugby, bits of time wasting, holding onto the ball when the other team want to play quickly from a penalty / free kick etc.

Still much, much better though.

Mar 26th 2013, 7:30 am

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Yeah - and I've noticed that the England rugby team has started celebrating tries like football players, all hugs and whoops. Don't like.

Mar 26th 2013, 7:33 am

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Yeah - and I've noticed that the England rugby team has started celebrating tries like football players, all hugs and whoops. Don't like.

Aw man, that's good. Not in the opposition faces but celebrate a try for certain. No swallow diving though, that's just stupid.

Mar 26th 2013, 7:52 am

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Re: Making friends in Dubai

Just for you, Scamp, since we were talking about rugby players.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/9...oes-viral.html

Mar 26th 2013, 8:23 am

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90% of them had collars up. Hated it. Especially when it was deemed good to wear two polo shirts of different colour with both collars up.

Wankers.

Mar 26th 2013, 8:38 am

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Just for you, Scamp, since we were talking about rugby players.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/9...oes-viral.html

Very funny but probably not really meant to be.

Mar 26th 2013, 9:24 am

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I didn't find it amusing. A mountain out of a molehill.

But you were questioning rugby players at public schools. These boys tell you what you need to know about that.

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Very funny but probably not really meant to be.

Mar 26th 2013, 9:30 am

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I didn't find it amusing. A mountain out of a molehill.

But you were questioning rugby players at public schools. These boys tell you what you need to know about that.

Yeah absolutely.

I think they were probably being as arrogant as they actually are.

Oh well, their problem now.

Mar 26th 2013, 10:44 am

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Re: Making friends in Dubai

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Just for you, Scamp, since we were talking about rugby players.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/9...oes-viral.html

There was always something not-quite-right about that article. The Dubai 7s isn't in March, and (I happen to know

) nobody bearing any of those names works or worked for Barclays Wealth.

But............ what is this 'collars up' thing? What's the public school inference? That must have been after my time...........

Mar 26th 2013, 11:22 am

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Re: Making friends in Dubai

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There was always something not-quite-right about that article. The Dubai 7s isn't in March, and (I happen to know

) nobody bearing any of those names works or worked for Barclays Wealth.

The trainee Solicitor checked out and got binned and the 'President' is still working for Willis. I got bored after checking the 1st 2.

Mar 26th 2013, 3:02 pm

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Re: Making friends in Dubai

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You know I ran a 5K fun run last Friday. 18mins work, won the race and got 8000AED cash, hotel stays, meal vouchers...

If you are one of the first five to cross the Etihad 10 Year Anniversary 5k on 26 April (Abu Dhabi Corniche) you win a pair of return tickets to anywhere on their network!! My guess is that the winning flights will all be AUH-Nairobi

Mar 26th 2013, 7:40 pm

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The trainee Solicitor checked out and got binned and the 'President' is still working for Willis. I got bored after checking the 1st 2.

Don't blame you - I got bored reading the article.............

Mar 27th 2013, 12:11 am

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Re: Making friends in Dubai

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The doctors, lawyers and barristers that my school produced have generally been more mathgeeks than rugbygeeks. We've produced relatively few programmers. I've always thought of IT/programming as more popular in the state sector (or among the Asian students) although I admittedly went to a fairy sporty boarding school so it can't be used as representative of the general scheme of things.

The successful rugbygeeks were more likely to go into finance - tons of the rugby players from my class are now bankers.

But almost everyone was an athlete of some type so I'm assuming your dividing line was based on whether you played rugby/hockey/football versus tennis/squash/running.

I've not met you, but read a lot of your posts so my opinion may be skewed.

I went to a very good public school which had an above average record for sport, and success in sport there made **** all difference to how people have done in life.

And it seems you have a very narrow view of the world, your comment on 'state sector (or among the Asian students)' speaks volumes...and don't use that shite of 'admittedly....'

Go back to your pad in London, reposition the mirror and grab hold of your head and give it a firm tug to remove it from up your arse. And while you are at it, book a flight back to America. One way.