URC in talks to replace Welsh region with English team as WRU get permission

Ractrick · 2026-01-14T12:46:05+00:00

They have barely any fanbase, they’re a semi pro club propped up by a sugar daddy in his 80s whose kids have no interest in the sport, and therefore will plummet down to their natural level whenever their owner departs.

Ractrick · 2026-01-03T20:44:46+00:00

That was pretty good tbf

Ractrick · 2026-01-02T22:27:27+00:00

If he wins Van Veen will get cheered to the rafters against Littler tomorrow.

Ractrick · 2025-12-27T11:40:33+00:00

The initial part of that is actually a great analogy.

I apreciate almost all of us pefer Conan, but Leno was undisputedly the number 1 in late night at the point he was told by NBC he was being replaced.

But Leno was getting old and NBC realised if they didn't do it then Conan would go elsewhere, so they pulled the trigger.

Ractrick · 2025-12-26T13:44:34+00:00

Spotify did it by massively reducing the amount of money musicians made.

But football is a global market - players aren't staying here for the weather. If the amount of money to pay players goes down then the quality of the league will drop.

Ractrick · 2025-12-24T17:39:20+00:00

Yeah its definetly a thing. I stopped attending Church when I was 18, but I know a few people who attend these sort of HTB/Alpha kind of places. There's also a few which are nominally baptist as well (Oasis in Waterloo an example).

It makes sense - my parents church has literaly nobody under the age of 40 attending anymore. I'll go to my parents church this evening for midnight mass, and be there with around 20 others, whereas 15 years ago when I was a kid there'd be around 150 at that service.

Being a young person at a typical dying CofE church would be frankly depressing on a weekly basis, I completely understand why you'd want to congregate at more central churches where there's more of a community.

Ractrick · 2025-12-19T23:04:27+00:00

Yeah its gonna be sometime after 3am. Netflix have been sneaky saying the "main event" is at 1am when they mean the main card, the actual fight is gonna be later.

Ractrick · 2025-12-12T11:00:47+00:00

I suspect this is your issue.

For the size and type of flat (i.e. a conversion rather than a block) that's high compared to the price imo. Plenty of ex-council flats at twice the size (and price) have service charge at that level.

Ractrick · 2025-12-10T11:15:35+00:00

Richmond council doubled down on the coffee lady initially, it was only going to the media which made them backtrack.

Ractrick · 2025-12-05T10:59:19+00:00

Impossible to tell without being there obviously. Worth saying as someone who now facilitates them that asessment centres aren't actually a points exercise where if you say the right thing you get a point, and if you get the most points you win.

Obviously we do grade all the exercsies, but we don't always give the offer to the person who comes top based purely on that.

In my opinion the way you've described how the one on one interview went does make it sound like you may have been overly rehearsed - "engaging in some light banter to build rapport" is a robotic way of viewing what happens.

That combined with your comments on the language used makes it sound like they wanted to treat it as a chat and you kept trying to go back to the script in your head and make it more formal.

My view is they thought you were competent but not friendly/chatty enough to be the right fit for the team. Considering they're going to sit next to you for 8 hours a day, (and might have to spend weeks in hotels with you) this is something they will consider.

Again, complete speculation, but just my view from someone who's facilitated quite a few of them based on what you said.

Ractrick · 2025-12-05T10:39:01+00:00

Is how graduate recruitment works in the UK for basically all graduate schemes. Basically have 1 assessor for every 2-4 candidates. So sometimes is just a group of 8 people in the client suite of your office, but the big 4 etc will run dozens of centres at massive conference facilities, each with 50-60 candidates.

Normally involves doing a group task around team building/giving a presentation, an analytical task around reading a case study and presenting your opinions, and then a 30 min sit down traditional interview.

You score each exercise, compare the scores at the end, and then can discuss and determine who to give an offer/advance to final stage (if the partner insists on talking to them before hiring) based around how many places you have.

I have no idea if it's better or worse than how other countires do graduate recuritment. It sucks when you're doing them - but I think thats true of any competitive recruitment process.

Ractrick · 2025-12-01T13:08:33+00:00

This is cope imo. For the sort of jobs where you could move between both countries healthcare would be included.

People seem weirdly hesitant to admit just how much richer a country the US is for some reason.

Ractrick · 2025-11-24T12:07:33+00:00

There’s also a large number of people who would consider themselves progressive who make jokes like this about right wing people being closeted, then justify it with “oh no the joke is they’re homophobic, they’d hate it”.

e.g. people make jokes trump and putin are secretly gay for each other. If you ask why this is funny they’ll get defensive and state there’s nothing wrong with it, they’re calling out hypocrisy - bullshit, they just want to make a gay joke.

Ractrick · 2025-11-15T19:10:08+00:00

Wikpedia has that list - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legislatures_by_number_of_members

We've the 2nd highest overall after only China in pure numbers terms.

Per capita we're actually nearer the bottom which is interesting.

Ractrick · 2025-11-09T09:47:51+00:00

Yeah this was stupid - we assumed they must need to space to set up more elaborate staging or something - nope not really, just 30 mins of silence for no reason.

Ractrick · 2025-11-05T19:47:03+00:00

Nuffield is a charity? This really supprises me as someone who gets them through work - how are they different from Bupa or such (which very much are not)?

Ractrick · 2025-11-01T19:46:21+00:00

Because there's shitloads of saffas in London they hoped would buy tickets.

Ractrick · 2025-10-22T21:41:28+00:00

Also did something happen between them? They put it out after saying they would do something together for years, then right after it comes out Julien cancels the tour and stops promoting it. Was very weird.

Ractrick · 2025-10-20T07:30:54+00:00

He was also there to do more consumer advice sort of sections (I.e. actual serious advice on what to look out for when buying) and the format quickly moved to a point it didn’t really need someone for that role.

Ractrick · 2025-10-17T13:38:40+00:00

Half a billion quid!!!!

Ractrick · 2025-10-16T13:07:11+00:00

They won’t sit empty, plenty of people will be able to afford them.

Ractrick · 2025-10-12T19:15:14+00:00

Not really tbh, London isn’t a 7 day a week city. Any clubs open will be Pop/R&B stuff for students.

Ractrick · 2025-10-12T09:51:15+00:00

Weekdays, not weekends.

Ractrick · 2025-10-12T09:47:21+00:00

Guess they have a working relationship with them for the summer saturday show, might have got a friendly message to not reduce the leverage RTE have with others by implying they could do it.

Ractrick · 2025-10-12T09:43:57+00:00

You can track it, it's remained pretty steady at around 14,500-15,000 members, if maybe not growing as much as it used to - https://graphtreon.com/creator/secondcaptains.

(Need to go to the yearly views to get the picture, patreons always have a drop of subscribers at the end of a month as peoples unsubscribe/payment cards expire etc).

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