Adrian Frielinghaus
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Adrian Frielinghaus
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Rugby, programming, and Oxford commas 🇿🇦
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This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
Yes, but it’s sometimes confusing to use plural when singular is meant. It’s probably the best alternative to gendered pronouns but it is, at best, a hack to overcome a design flaw
Gender should never have been baked into grammar. There is no reason why I should always and forever have to say whether the person saying something is a "he" or a "she" and it seems to be causing a lot of problems for some folks so...
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
What?? You think Scarlets will hire him?
Fair
Lions are shit. But at least we’re not expensive shit.
Rare photo of Sam Prendergast before the haircut
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It’s funny, because it’s true. And that’s not funny
JD Vance Defends Erosion Of Democracy As ‘Happening’
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My URC assessment after 3 rounds, and ahead of a key round this weekend:

Stormers: Best balance, yet can improve📈

Bulls: Not delivering on D or physically... yet 👊

Sharks: Tough climb ahead, but there's hope ⛰️

Lions: Caught in a cycle of mediocrity😵

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Sharks, Lions feel the heat as crunch round looms
OPINION: The Bulls, Sharks and Lions head into the fourth week of the United Rugby Championship with everything to prove regarding their defence and game management.
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I’m getting tired of the Lions man. They are just taking the piss at this point
Found a whole drawer full of Covid masks to assign to the proverbial scrap-heap of history
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but Crowley is better than Prendergast
I don't think the Springboks played well today, but if you can beat the Argentines when they bring their A game then you've done something many teams have not. #ARGvRSA
Well if that first half doesn’t bring on early-onset beer time, nothing will. Cheers! #ARGvRSA
In propoganda terms it's really very effective. It's active, patriotic, optimisitic and nostalgic all at the same time, and yet is also framed as a continual work in progress, where greatness is always around the corner - and would be here already but for the turncoats and backsliders in our ranks.
My older brother disappeared into exile from South Africa in the 80s leaving behind a half-painted room and this album taped on a TDK Gold casette and it gradually wormed its way into my pre-adolescent brain to become, eventually, the reason why Bowie's death hit like the death of an older brother
If ever the coke was talking, this was it
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Another near-miss for the Bulls? Sharks to finish top four, Stormers to travel for the quarters, and Lions to miss the playoff cut again?

I took a closer look at the SA franchises ahead of the new United Rugby Championship season, for @rugbypass.bsky.social

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URC season preview: How will the four South African sides fare?
RugbyPass assesses the prospects for the Bulls, Lions, Sharks and Stormers as the 2025-26 URC season prepares for lift-off.
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Gold
The NZ series was always going be a watershed in this RWC cycle.

So where do the Boks stand, in terms of developing the next generation and balancing the scales ahead of 2027?

I took a look at some ages, caps and projections to gain a better idea of how they're tracking 🧵
Guys chill, it’s the other one
This is the fundamental question of this turbulent age
Do you think unbending Clippy until he was a long piece of metal would be painful for him. Or do you think it would cause him to feel a great sense of relief