rugby world cup to be cancelled

given the climate crisis, shouldn't we cancel it?

No.

What we should cancel is the deforestation in the south America and in Asia; the pumping out of fossil fuels all over the place; the excessive use of cars versus cycling instead; the use of single use plastics; the excessive consumption of new technology which has an adverse affect on the planet due to the utilisation of rare metals; the pumping of waste into the oceans; the over fishing; the huge island of rubbish floating in the Atlantic.

You think a few flights to Japan is really going to have a major affect on climate change? Nah.

We should probably cancel it on the basis that atmospheric levels of dullness are reaching a catastrophic tipping point from which humanity may never recover.

The olympics can definitely go.

Who actually turns out to watch most Olympic sports on a regular basis? Almost no one.

It is branding the whole thing as Olympic that causes the travel.

By the way, as a Londoner still waiting for the repayment of my personal financial contribution towards that event which was sold to us on the basis that it would make a profit.

The Olympics is the legacy of ancient civilisation which unites the planet in celebration of athletic prowess.

Rugby Union is an arcane game played by the Celtic fringes of a cold island in the Atlantic, and a few antipodeans.

 

while i appreciate this is simply a trolling attempt, there r a few glaring errors

1 rugby is more modern than football, so if it is “arcane”, football is even more so

2 rugby is also a major sport in random places like france, the argentine, the republic of georgia and growing in places like japan, the usa and chile; it is now v widespread

3 u also left out sub-saharan africa, i.e. rsa, zimbabwe and kenya from ur list

"rugby is more modern than football, so if it is “arcane”, football is even more so"

Do you actually know what arcane means? You might be thinking of the word archaic?

I am with laz on the "arcane" debate.  Rugby and soccer were one and the same thing for centuries.  Rules would differ from one county or even village to the next and probably for a long time involved lecels of physical contact that would have Cristiano R9naldo pirouette rolling for the length of the pitch.  I think I am right in saying that some of the clubs represented at the first codification meeting (freemason's arms, nice boozer and a good steak sarnie) of what would become assoc football declined to attend the second and instead formed the nucleus of rugby football (blackheath were one i think).

I went on a corp hosp golf sim event once.  I made it round in about 3 over par (9 hole) and got the longest drive.  This suggests to me that the "simulation" computer was very much a work in progress.  It was on that rd where sidley austin's office is.

wot is ur weird climate change thing diceman?

i know u r a proper wrong’un, but this particular line of straw manning is standout incoherent, relatively speaking

Don't worry Ray, Ducks will be all over the rugby world cup threads when they start.

He is a throwback act. Pinch of salt and all that. Court Jester should be his name.