Free Talk Friday
Hey y'all, how's it hanging butt?
Posted Sep 3, 2021, 8:39 AM UTC
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Playing a GAA match last night.
Received a pass, man coming towards me, went to push off with my left and then I'm on the ground looking up at the sky.
Got completely clattered. Clotheslined across the jaw.
Remembered it all happening, went off for HIA, passed and came back on.
Red all day in rugby. Ref didn't even give him a yellow. Apparently because I dipped slightly to push off with the left, there was mitigating circumstances.
Match was being recorded and manager forwarded it to me, absolutely shocking watching it back.
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it's crazy some of the collisions they get away with
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The only time I ever played GAA, one guy legit Muy Thai elbowed me in the face. On the bright side, he immediately recognized that he had fucked up and drove me to the hospital for my broken nose.
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I had been waiting over a year for my driving test and finally got the date on Tuesday. and I also got a job interview offer on Wednesday so I'm going into that tomorrow
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Best of luck with both :)
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thank you
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I cannot wait for the English rugby season to kick-off again - absolutely desperate to see some domestic rugby.
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we have our firsrt competitive match tomorrow, its great to see
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Ulster vs sarries tomorrow I think. Must be some other warm up games on too
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Finally got my residency card so I'm now able to travel and not worry about the long expired visa in my passport.
Next is localising my driving licence. This is the longest I've gone without driving since I was 11.
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Going to my first Rugby game since covid tomorrow, very excited to see the two best teams face off against each other and I can't wait to hear the Munster roar!
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Who are you lot playing now? Annoying our friendly against you got cancelled
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Yeah I'm very disappointed about that, was looking forward to being at a game against unusual opponents.
We couldn't find an alternative game so all fans will be getting refunded and they're is a 60 minute Munster Red vs Munster Grey challenge match going ahead instead. Anyone who bought tickets will be allowed to enter the grounds.
You can see the teams here
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Munster vs Munster I’m pretty sure hahah
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Second jab later this afternoon and can not come soon enough. Will be able to do a lot more without the need for weekly tests afterwards at €30 a go.
Edit: Just had it done and now to wait for any side effects to show themselves.
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Why do you have to pay for weekly tests?
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I heard there's some countries that have started charging for tests unless youre a close contact or have symptoms. Italy must be one of them
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You are correct but my situation is that I am in France and am not French so get charged, which I guess is fair apart from being an EU citizen with EU health insurance so that sucks (vaccine ia free though thankfully). Currently there are a number of things that are "locked" behind the passe sanitaire where you need to be double vaccinated OR a negative result that lasts for 3 days (including the day you took the test). I get everything I need to done in those three days because I am not paying twice per week. This is going to change before too long where everyone is going to have to pay for a test (unless Macron (letwat) has changed his mind).
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Yeah but if you have to be tested for your job then surely that should be a business expense?
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think that relies on the employer being decent
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Finally going on holiday tonight, for the first time since last October (well, technically I had a long weekend away in July but that culminated with me winding up in hospital with an angry gallbladder, low liver function and jaundice so I'm gonna go ahead and say it doesn't count as a "relaxing break").
A week at a remote cottage in the lake district, with lots of long walks, wild swims, trail runs and no work emails. Yes please.
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42 years old in a few weeks. When should I hang up the boots?
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Every Saturday evening to air them out a bit and then put them back on come the next training session/match 😉
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You're a much smarter man than I
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Busted my knee when I was 17 and my shoulder at 18. After two years of surgery and physio dislocated my shoulder again the first time I went to a training session.
Got real and knew I couldn't play again.
I say go for it as long as you can still play. I would have loved to have been able to play as long as you have.
Your body will tell you when its time.
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How are your knees/hips?
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Pretty good actually, I've been lucky with injuries. Maybe that means I don't go hard enough.
The biggest problem is recovery - after a game I stop feeling sore by the following Thursday or Friday. Then play again the next day. Training is hard because I'm still feeling it from the game.
I love it, but it just gets harder every year. I play with and against guys literally half my age, and they just get bigger every year.
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It might be time to start looking at vets rugby if that option is available to you?
With that said, can I ask what do you do for any recovery work? You could also look at different methods to aid your recovery after a game if you want to continue playing as you are doing?
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Will the 50/20 rule or whatever it is apply to the rugby premiership this season?
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yes
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Got the first (and only) preseason friendly tomorrow… can’t wait to get back to normal rugby again! Scrums, lineouts and no more silly tap and go free kicks when it should be a scrum!
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Had a internal scrimmage last night that went south—our own teammates started a fight amongst each other. So embarrassing.
On the bright side I played pretty well and definitely know where I need to grow as a player. Played Fullback and did well in positioning and had some good runs on offense. Need to be better at communication—I always assume because I’m in the right spot everyone else is… definitely not the case lol
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What’s a scrimmage? Practice game?
And yeah at 15 you always want a winger back with you basically, if you know about the pendulum that’s your job to organise it (especially if your wingers are clueless)
What caused the fight lol
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An internal match so a mix of A and B side guys to form two different teams and we played each other.
My team’s number 7 was going for the poach in every ruck and was being a total nuisance—probably being too aggressive with his own teammates and it boiled over and soured the game.
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Question for any Irishmen (or women) in here.
I'm planning a week long holiday in a couple of weeks, how is the covid situation in Dublin atm?
Fully vaccinated, no problem with mandatory testing but for the rest, I hope for a holiday as normal as possible under circumstances.
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when are you planning on coming?
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In two weeks, from Monday 20 to Saturday the 25th
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most things will be allowed go ahead at that stage, but I think, but still with be seated required and stuff like that, all going to plan
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So pubs will be opened?
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The first jugger tournament back was great. We didn't finish last place this time, which was really nice, and it was great to see everyone again. Only downside was I slept on a leaky air mattress so now my back is still messed up.
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Gym three times this week and ran 30 mins twice. Did not want to get up this morning but did it and pretty happy I did.
Getting to the end of my own wee 5x5 reset program, planning on starting Jeff Nippard's Fundemental Hypertrophy program once I stall with my squat in my current routine.
Need to learn about RPE, never really used it and it seems confusing.
I've also been jamming on my guitar and getting proper back into where I used to be about 5 years ago when I studied music at uni. Learning so much and having alot of fun!
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RPE isn't too bad. I probably think of it in flawed terms but if I feel that I am able to do two more reps at the end of a set its probably and RPE 8, if I think I could do 1 its an RPE 9.
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I understand that aspect of it, but how do you apply it in terms of sets and reps? Like if I want to do 4x6 squat at RPE 8, I choose a weight I feel like I could do and leave two in the tank. So is that per set or over all the sets so the last set I am doing 6 reps but feel I could do 8?
And if I choose 85kg and find that is too heavy or too light on my second set, what's the protocol there? Would you adjust the weight or leave it until next session?
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RPE would mean you adjust it accordingly. As you say, if 85kg feels like it is higher RPE on the second/third set then drop the weight so it is back to the correct RPE.
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Ah so it's a kinda dynamic thing through the workout?
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Its Sunday
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Top14 starts tomorrow, eggcited! finally get to hear some English commentary lol
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Have you joined the Superbru yet?
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i don't do those anymore due to not being able to afford to be online every week..
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Where are you getting English top 14?
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i assume premier sports will have their own English commentary team?
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Pro 14?
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premier sports got the rights to Top14 this year..
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Arrgh ! Vannes getting crucified by Grenoble on the last action of the match... That last action from Capuozzo is worth some upvotes here.
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For anyone who fancies a look at the play in question;
Awesome work to get the win.
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Final push for master's dissertation. Few more days and I'll hopefully never have to write an essay again
Not interested in a PhD then...?
Haha fuck that
The R&D is fun.
The writing never ever ends. I dunno what the ratio of words written to number of words in the final thesis is, but its more than 10 - 1 I reckon, a lot more...
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Also should say good luck 👍
Sounds like my idea of a nightmare haha. I’ve done 5 years of uni I just want it to be over at this point.
And thanks! Tbh it’s pretty much done in terms of word count, just refining it as much as I can
Maybe you can help me understand something. What's the point of doing a PhD unless you are going into a purely academic field (and have very rich patrons)
It's a fair question, and seems to vary from country to country. My experience of the US is that if you want to do research, even in industry, a PhD is really important - you'll struggle to get a job without it.
In Europe, PhD's seem to be far less important in industry, I've interacted with a mixture of PhD and Non PhD researchers across Europe over the years. In the UK it's an early career accelerator in industry, but after about a decade experience starts to take over.
From a recruitment point of view PhDs are generally a positive indicator for R&D jobs, but anyone capable of passing a degree is capable doing what their supervisor tells them to do for 3 - 5 years, so it's no guarantee you are getting a competent researcher. I've chosen people without post grad qualifications over people with masters and doctorates repeatedly over the years, and in one case I chose someone with out a degree over a PhD (and it was absolutely the right decision).
From a personal point of view I found post grad training a huge benefit to skills development. The step from answering well constrained questions to open ended, often horrible undefined questions has served me really well - but you can do this outside of formal academic training of course
In the UK, from my experience/talking to colleagues you should do a PhD for one of two reasons - you want to go into academia, or you want the personal challenge. Otherwise I've found (from recruitment) masters degrees seem to be a much better balance of skills development, having a CV that stands out, and commitment of time and money.
There are of course some UK based companies that insist on PhD's for research work, and I assume the same is true of Europe, and this is based entirely on my experience, so YMMV.
Thank you for the explanation
I remember thinking that, then I found out my job for the next 10 years would be nothing but report writing