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I had assumed you were seeing 1st VIII rowing blazers but it's possible such a thing as a rugby blazer exists.

Fucking Ruperts.

Well they do exist, my school had them and I can read so I can recognise them.

An example of a rugby blazer: https://www.bserugby.co.uk/news/club-blazers--bow-ties-2758070.html

A bargain at £195.

Rowing blazers: https://twitter.com/henleyregatta/status/1330942058165657601

A real bargain at £399: https://www.walters-oxford.co.uk/product/brasenose-college-1st-viii-rowing-blazer/

I think this photo sums it up best:

My school's low quality Norn Iron version (rugby had the maroon one):

https://www.belfastroyalacademy.com/life-at-bra/honours-awards-prefects#:~:text=Honours%20Awards,-As%20a%20pupil&text=First%20introduced%20for%20Rugby%20in,and%20a%20gold%20school%20badge.

Club blazers exist for cricket, rugby, rowing and cunts just like the old school tie.

I like the addition of the hazard tape around the edges.

Oh, wait, that's the blazer?

Life At BRA

Had never heard it abbreviated as such, the jokes write themselves.

Re the previous discussion of toxic masculinity, I thought this threw up some good questions (although the conclusion was a bit flat)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/10/men-masculinity-toxic-andrew-tate

conclusion was a bit flat

Yeah. It's not exactly solution oriented is it?

Tl;Dr - things have changed can someone do something pls. Cheers.

The beard disguises the fact he doesn't have a chin.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=j5pZS4jdI-o

Interesting I noticed a mate is working for a sort of self help type group that seems to be all about building a positive and empowering type of masculinity. When I first saw it I got really worried that they'd sucummed to some sort of sketchy JP/AT/etc. bullshit, but it seemed pretty good.

Alumni always refer to it as 'Academy' - nobody else does.

BRA, smirks in Regent House

I hadn't followed this at all but Jamaica seems to have experienced a minor economic miracle in the last decade.

https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2023/02/08/pr2337-imf-executive-board-concludes-2022-article-iv-consultation-with-jamaica
https://www.ft.com/content/edbc05a4-7694-4af4-a6f4-0eb4cbd1134a

A lot to unpick here...

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15% of people think jail time is appropriate for not wearing a seatbelt.
And much as I hate bike theft, I'm going to say 15yrs in prison is probably on the harsh side.

1% of people think "no punishment" for stalking.

Shocked to learn that 100% of stalkers think "no punishment" for stalking.

TBH the only one that surprises me is the drugs one. 16% thinking that you should be allowed to take your own drugs seems insanely low.

Four years for attempted fraud 52k Jared O'Mara

No sententence attempted fraud four million Nadhim Zahawi

With O'Meara it clearly legally was fraud. Pretending to be a charity, classy...

Iffy tax schemes are more of a grey area.

I do feel a bit sorry for Jared he's a addicted and not well, but Zahawi just wanted to have even more money.

There's fighting in Turkey. Rescuers are having to stop rescuing, for their own safety. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/11/warning-violence-hampering-earthquake-rescue-efforts-in-southern-turkey Presumably one of the factions is PKK? https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230210-kurdish-militants-suspend-operations-after-turkey-quake I wonder if there'll be another coup. Erdogan isn't looking very secure.

Brazilian lawyer and gun ownership advocate walks into MRI scanner room with a pistol in his waistband, despite having been warned to remove all metal objects. Magnetic force pulls the gun from his waistband, shooting him. He dies... eventually.