Outrage as Gatland drops O'Driscoll from Wales team

Breaking news:

Warren Gatland has controversially left Brian O’Driscoll out of the Wales team to face South Africa this weekend.

Keith Wood is expected shortly to make a characteristically balanced announcement denouncing this disgraceful move.

Gatland justified his decision by highlighting BOD's lack of welshness, namely a dislike of lamb, laverbread and leeks

 

Gatland showing his true colours again, the egomaniac son of a................

Maybe now, everyone will finally see that it was always his plan to end BOD's International career in favour of Davies.

I blame Regionalisation.  It's never worked.  The fans want their clubs back.

Seeing an almost carbon copy of this post on a lot of rugby boards.  Its ironic that the Irish are accused of moaning about this as a lot of Welsh fans seem determined to keep the O'Driscoll dropped from Lions theme going indefinitely.

more hate twitters coming JD2 way . lets hope BOD can get into the Irish squad at least  

The only reason this story keeps rumbling on is that someone as high profile as BOD will always attract a small contingent of jealous grumblers.

Mind you if O'Driscoll was picked for Wales they might actually beat SA for once (more than once in their history). BOD has tasted victory v SA on at least three occasions. Thats two times more that Wales have ever won v SA.

Good math

Risca Rev wrote:Good math

AAaaaaaaarrrrghhhhhh, come on Risca, the word is MATHS, we are not living in America, stop Americanising things, the word is MATHS.

Bad math then?

LordDowlais wrote:

Risca Rev wrote:Good math

AAaaaaaaarrrrghhhhhh, come on Risca, the word is MATHS, we are not living in America, stop Americanising things, the word is MATHS.

quite right . next you be saying on a infringement at the lineout ,they was clearly elevating him

GunsGerms wrote:The only reason this story keeps rumbling on is that someone as high profile as BOD will always attract a small contingent of jealous grumblers.

Mind you if O'Driscoll was picked for Wales they might actually beat SA for once (more than once in their history). BOD has tasted victory v SA on at least three occasions. Thats twice more that Wales have ever won v SA.

What's to be jealous of?

LordDowlais wrote:

Risca Rev wrote:Good math

AAaaaaaaarrrrghhhhhh, come on Risca, the word is MATHS, we are not living in America, stop Americanising things, the word is MATHS.

I love Americanizing things though

jimmyinthewell68 wrote:

LordDowlais wrote:

Risca Rev wrote:Good math

AAaaaaaaarrrrghhhhhh, come on Risca, the word is MATHS, we are not living in America, stop Americanising things, the word is MATHS.

              quite right . next you be saying on a infringement at the lineout       ,they was clearly elevating him

I have always called them lifts, not elevators, lifts, the same with fenders, what the feck does fender mean, where the feck did it come from ? That part of the car is called the WING. The back of the car is called the BOOT not the trunk, and the front of the car is called the BONNET not the hood. Alcohol is called ALCOHOL not liquer, crisps are called crisps, not chips. CHIPS are called chips, not French fries, what the feck is french about a chip. I have to stop now or I could still be here tommorow ranting about this. 
 
 

LordDowlais wrote:what the feck is french about a chip.

That's the funniest thing I've read on here all day!

BigWilly wrote:Breaking news:

Warren Gatland has controversially left Brian O’Driscoll out of the Wales team to face South Africa this weekend.

Keith Wood is expected shortly to make a characteristically balanced announcement denouncing this disgraceful move.

Gatland justified his decision by highlighting BOD's lack of welshness, namely a dislike of lamb, laverbread and leeks

Hmmm, pretty sure when gats last left him out when Wales played down-under it was because he thought he wasn't good enough.

LordDowlais wrote:

jimmyinthewell68 wrote:

LordDowlais wrote:

Risca Rev wrote:Good math

AAaaaaaaarrrrghhhhhh, come on Risca, the word is MATHS, we are not living in America, stop Americanising things, the word is MATHS.

              quite right . next you be saying on a infringement at the lineout       ,they was clearly elevating him

I have always called them lifts, not elevators, lifts, the same with fenders, what the feck does fender mean, where the feck did it come from ? That part of the car is called the WING. The back of the car is called the BOOT not the trunk, and the front of the car is called the BONNET not the hood. Alcohol is called ALCOHOL not liquer, crisps are called crisps, not chips. CHIPS are called chips, not French fries, what the feck is french about a chip. I have to stop now or I could still be here tommorow ranting about this. 
 
 

Me and the misses have had some huge arguments when she was teaching my daughter her ABCs, and when the wife got to the end of it she said ZEE!! I went on a rant for ages about getting it right, and that she is from England, surely she should know how to use the language right etc etc etc. And then she said to me " you says tom-are-toes, and I says tom-ate-ohs!". Lets just say that didn't help things at all.

On a side note: when I told my dad that story, he told me that he had an American as an English teacher in school, and that the teacher was good and never used the American-English but the correct English, except fo once when a girl was misbehaving in class and the teacher told her to "behave of he would smack her <American for backside> in front of the whole class", which didn't go down to well apparently.

Barney, please for the love of god, do not turn this thread serious, have a rant about something else, like I did, it feels good to get things off your chest.

Ok, lets turn this thread into how the Americans should use the English language, after all I am Welsh, and I use it like the English who invented it do. This could be fun. 

Barney McGrew did it wrote:

BigWilly wrote:Breaking news:

Warren Gatland has controversially left Brian O’Driscoll out of the Wales team to face South Africa this weekend.

Keith Wood is expected shortly to make a characteristically balanced announcement denouncing this disgraceful move.

Gatland justified his decision by highlighting BOD's lack of welshness, namely a dislike of lamb, laverbread and leeks

Hmmm, pretty sure when gats last left him out when Wales played down-under it was because he thought he wasn't good enough.

I thought it was because BOD's Moon was in Venus??!!!  And Gats couldn't sleep a wink thinking about the tough decision he'd have to make in the morning as a consequence of astrological bad karma

This is all Sesame Street's fault.

The whole 'Freedom Fries' thing was funny.

Not the terrorism bit - the anti French stuff. (Not because it was the French, but because the reasoning was so mad etc).

Cyril wrote:This is all Sesame Street's fault.

I could not agree with you more, as I was typing my rant all I could think of was sesame street, I was even going to add it to my post but I did not think people would know what I was on about. 

You were going to 'add' it to your post?

As in the symbol: + ?

I was watching Captain Pugwash when they were showing the + symbol Sesame Street episode ...and could never 'add' since.

talking of Americans , when i was in school an American preacher come to visit and talked about drugs and the devil and how rock vinyl records had messages in them if you played them backwards ( he actually did this but i just heard noise or what the kids call dance music today ) anyway he said drug come downs are a bu*mer which suddenly bought 200 adolescents laughing their heads off

...and your school let him in????

SecretFly wrote:...and your school let him in????  

yeah come to think of it , it was strange . one of the songs he played was another one bites the dust by queen

I think you'll find that a "Fender" is actually a Bumper and not a wing.

Just saying like.......

BigWilly wrote:Breaking news:

Warren Gatland has controversially left Brian O’Driscoll out of the Wales team to face South Africa this weekend.

Dirty Rotten Bastareud.

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:

LordDowlais wrote:what the feck is french about a chip.

That's the funniest thing I've read on here all day!

Me too!

Hound of Harrow wrote:

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:

LordDowlais wrote:what the feck is french about a chip.

That's the funniest thing I've read on here all day!

Me too!

Seems Gatland has a large French Fry on his shoulder!

RDSguru wrote:

Hound of Harrow wrote:

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:

LordDowlais wrote:what the feck is french about a chip.

That's the funniest thing I've read on here all day!

Me too!

Seems Gatland has a large French Fry on his shoulder!

And that whoops it!

If that's the case then I wonder what Keith Wood has on his?

I could suggest an answer but there's a substantial chance the odd couple of Irish posters might take it the wrong way.

Wouldn't be the first time  

Knowsit17 wrote:If that's the case then I wonder what Keith Wood has on his?

I could suggest an answer but there's a substantial chance the odd couple of Irish posters might take it the wrong way.

Wouldn't be the first time  

Well if they do, tough.. go on, spill it... I'm in need of a laff

... don't know what Woods has on his shoulder? Could be the egg dripping off his face  

Knowsit17 wrote:If that's the case then I wonder what Keith Wood has on his?

I could suggest an answer but there's a substantial chance the odd couple of Irish posters might take it the wrong way.

Wouldn't be the first time  

So the two of them together would be the beginnings of a hearty Irish breakfast??? What's your point?

It won't sound very funny now that I've taken the trouble of dramatising it slightly but that was intended as an implication of Wood having an entire intact potato sprouting from his shoulder.

Is there no cricket chirp smiley to compound my lame sense of humour?

Thank you, that's perfect!

Yeah..I was betting on egg on face to continue the analogy along..... damn sometimes ...running...   jokes don't just work out!

It was a dream opening but again I let myself down, no tremendous deviation from the norm there   

So far we have egg and frys.... some mushrooms grow on wood too?

Got to go eat....

Some of the puns just don't cut the mustard.

On the breakfast theme...

Hash Made of Brown Touchline Ruling

(gets coat and runs away chased by angry mob)

there a full English joke there somewhere just can't think of it

jimmyinthewell68 wrote:there a full English joke there somewhere just can't think of it

Nobody complained when Lancaster selected a ful english side

 

Jenifer McLadyboy wrote:I think you'll find that a "Fender" is actually a Bumper and not a wing.

Just saying like.......

I think you are wrong on this one, I was getting my hair off when watching Wheeler Deelers the other day when Mike Brewer was out in the states looking for a car, and he needed a new wing, but he was teasing them saying they call them fenders over there and he was telling them they were wrong to call them such a thing. You go Mike. 

A fender is a mudguard....

A Fender is a guitar.

this is also a Fender

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qu8RPvhP-U