Hah, definitely. Or perhaps even a miracle.
My daughter reminds me that, if Scotland were to win, then England could win the tournament so a loss is quite acceptable. 
No matter the result, Stade de France is a fantastic place to go to experience a rugby test match.
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Yes great stadium much better than that farmers field in Scotland, trying to remember his name ,ah got it Murray:rofl:
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Hah, definitely. Or perhaps even a miracle.
My daughter reminds me that, if Scotland were to win, then England could win the tournament so a loss is quite acceptable.
[/quote] Console yourself @JohnH as England will probably not win either.
Their “Jaffa Cakes” are not bad either
Not sure why but your posts don’t seem to display correctly for me @oldbutnonthewiser. Here’s what I see for example.
Not a biggie but just makes it tricky to read what you’re replying to.
I’ve got used to the french versions over the years apart from the cherry ones with icing on, they are too sickly. I used to buy them for the children’s gôuter a lot when they came in from primary school with friends who never got them at their homes so I became known as maman des gateaux.
I think it may have something to do with @oldbutnonthewiser’s post quoting technique - the quotes seem to come across bracketed in forum code not interpreted to give the right formatting. I’ve noticed it when they have replied to me.
Could be a web browser difference, or perhaps @oldbutnonthewiser you are drafting your replies in some other program and then pasting the result back into the forum?? Not sure.
ETA: elsewhere someone noted they they were typing their reply directly after the quote instead of in a new paragraph, so maybe that’s it.
Yes, that was me.
Typing anything after the square brackets, either at the start or end of a quote, leads to the quote formatting disappearing & thus rendering a new post rather incoherent.
Thus far @oldbutnonthewiser has not responded to my first comment about this.
Good morning, Chris , Badger , John H, and anybody else who has a problem with any of my postings. I apologise for the quality of my replies to this forum and have searched for a plausible reply which was literally staring me in the face, my keyboard is made by Polaroid ,yes a American company, obviously a C.I.A infiltration device and I shall make attempts to have it destroyed although I must report my local decheterie is quite fussy about anyone attempting to dispose of dangerous waste.
It doesn’t do spaces after commas either. 
Definitely time to have it put down, humanely of course.
Those of us who have commented are only trying to help you make your postings more readable. I suspect others have just scrolled on by.
It’s hard to judge the quality of your replies when they are jumbled up with the bits you are quoting & thus replying to.
I don’t think your keyboard is the problem.
P.S. If you are addressing a user directly, as in your last post, then I can recommend using the ‘@’ feature so that they receive a notification i.e. @Badger, @ChrisMann
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@Badger. You could be right and that my keyboard may not be the only problem I am old and decrepit. circa 1948 using original parts most of which are worn out.
As an aside when I first started using distance communication we had two tin cans linked by a piece of string, the further away someone was you had to use a longer piece of string. 
Also there was no internet dating sites (no internet ) the Americans had not invented it yet😂,
if you wanted to meet women you waited until a Monday and lit a bonfire and put wet leaves on it, all the women in the neighbour hood would come to talk to you.
Explanation for the youngsters here , in times gone by women did not work 
, Monday was washing day and a line full of washing exposed to a smoking bonfire was somewhat less than apricated .
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Well, I understood all that.
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I recall the women being fully functional in those days (and pretty sure laundry is considered work too) but I do recognise that of which you speak. Not sure chatting up the neighbours wives was necessarily the best way to find a mate though. 
But could be quite rewarding though, …so I am told. 
Your story of success is somewhat uncommon I suspect.
Well my second, and last, wife was married to someone else when I met her, but wasn’t a neighbour. 
Oh the women were fully functional but being a housewife was not considered work.
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I bet a lot of the women would have clouted you over the head with a frying pan too!
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