Nick Heath’s play-by-play in the market-bargaining regional qualifier. (Rugby Media)
Survive the shutdown of life, including the sportin’ life, amid the coronavirus pandemic by watching out-of-work British rugby broadcaster Nick Heath’s hilarious play-by-play for a string of everyday events in London. From the market-bargaining regional qualifier (top photo) to the international 4×4 pushchair final to pigeon dressage to the two-lonely-blokes-in-a-park final to the find-a-bargain steeplechase to the find-a-brunette-a-seat qualifier to the 2020 crossroad dash (bottom photo) – 15 video clips of two or three dozen seconds per clip – they are all totally hilarious, though some might be more to your taste than others. Press “Play All” (or the red button on iPhone) for all 15 to play one after the other. The clips are produced by Nick Heath for Rugby Media. Enjoy! This may be all the Olympics we get anytime soon.
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Thanks so much for drawing my attention to these David. Really had a good laugh!
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Thank you, Matthew. So did I, so much so that I had to share with readers even though it’s nothing about architecture.
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Step 1: Acknowledge the difficult reality we are in.
Step 2: Recognize that an indefinite universal lockdown is both impractical and immoral. Only international travel needs to be curtailed
Step 3: Massively increase testing and transparency
Step 4: Liberate American ingenuity to massively increase treatment ability
Step 5: Help the highly vulnerable minority protect themselves.
Step 6: Go back to work (and school) with virus-prevention best-practices.
You cant shutdown society every case of the sniffles, Europe survived plagues before
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I agree with most of that, Lazy. You sent two versions of the comment, anonymous first and then under your nom de plume a couple minutes later, that was slightly different. I have eliminated the first one, assuming that’s your preference. Please let me know if I cut the wrong one.
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