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- Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:31 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I need to find a better book, I’m struggling with the one I’m on at the moment so I come here as a distraction and next thing you know… It's always entertaining watching you and Eug go toe to toe but it's a bit rough for you when he's tag teaming with UncleFB. :D :lol: Funnily enough I've always th...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:01 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Even when I was without a roof and sleeping rough for a few weeks there was support from strangers and I could eat pretty well due to the Krishnas . Serious question mate. How did you wind up in this predicament? Turned up in Sydney . Got a job with a guy who was fixing up his terrace in Paddington...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:12 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Works for me Yeah it's just this thread that brings us crashing back to earth! :lol: I need to find a better book, I’m struggling with the one I’m on at the moment so I come here as a distraction and next thing you know… It's always entertaining watching you and Eug go toe to toe but it's a bit rou...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:25 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Is linking tax brackets to inflation happening? Is that included as a "tax cut"? Yep that's coming. Ta. I'm guessing it's considered a tax cut despite the fact that not linking it never seemed to get referred to as a tax increase. Which would have been a more accurate description. Yeah I've seen th...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:16 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Still a lovely place to live FB.......and if it wasn't for the media, I would have a clue what's going on around the place. The view out my front window is serene, neighbours talk to each other, and there's still three squares a day (and that's not Stevenson Famous ones) Yeah mate, stop watching th...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:14 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
Re: NZ Politics Thread
One thing for sure. Stuff is still going up in price. Another 50 cents / pie at the local :x When I touch down in Auckland on Friday NZ better be the land of milk and honey I was promised with the election of the new three headed govt. Will I even be able to afford my 6 monthly pie? Well at least i...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:05 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Yep that's coming.Fat Old Git wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:40 am Is linking tax brackets to inflation happening? Is that included as a "tax cut"?
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:04 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:01 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Still a lovely place to live FB.......and if it wasn't for the media, I would have a clue what's going on around the place. The view out my front window is serene, neighbours talk to each other, and there's still three squares a day (and that's not Stevenson Famous ones) Yeah mate, stop watching th...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:57 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:01 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Fozzie: The axe falls.
- Replies: 4920
- Views: 213713
Re: Fozzie: The axe falls.
Shame on everyone who thought that Ian Foster would never land a head coaching role again and said his ascension to the AB coaching role was nepotism and jobs for the boys at its worst. The man’s credentials speak for him and on his and his merit alone, he has landed the head coaching role at Toyot...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:53 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
Re: NZ Politics Thread
One thing for sure. Stuff is still going up in price. Another 50 cents / pie at the local :x Didn't the price of a Big Mac used to be the measure of inflation? A pie at you local pie shop is much more appropriate. :thumbup: Yes, the Big Mac metric used to feature quite a bit with economic comparati...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:41 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
Re: NZ Politics Thread
One thing for sure. Stuff is still going up in price. Another 50 cents / pie at the local :x Didn't the price of a Big Mac used to be the measure of inflation? A pie at you local pie shop is much more appropriate. :thumbup: No, because of their supposed universality, Big Macs are used to compare va...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:38 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:35 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:31 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
Re: NZ Politics Thread
My living circumstances are perhaps an example of the dog eat dog world, who missed out so I could come here, there must be a finite number of people who are allowed into NZ, why me and not someone else. My very employment meant someone else had to miss out, maybe it was a kiwi who I took the job o...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:51 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I thought National wants us to be aspirational ? Obviously not that way , too ‘unrealistic’ and utopian. :lol: Hilarious. Jacinda's Govt failed on almost every measurable metric going but that was Ok because, as Jacinda herself said, they were an 'aspirational' Govt. There is a massive difference b...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 1:44 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: OJ gone....
- Replies: 107
- Views: 2852
Re: OJ gone....
Without patronising anyone, OJ was guilty as hell and the jury - black or white - were mouth breathing morons to a person. I believed he was guilty as sin as soon as I read the facts of the case way back in 1994, before it had even gone to trial. But I have never heard the side story potentially im...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 8:29 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
Re: NZ Politics Thread
A bit of good news to cheer you lot up and distract you from the demise of our mainstream media. The Govt plans to resolve the housing crisis by making it easier for landlords to evict tenants. Government to make it easier to evict tenants, hopes to encourage more investment in rentals, officials un...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 7:35 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53467
- Views: 2340800
Re: War in Ukraine...
It's also a loss which emboldens Putin. It does get him what he wants out of the war at this stage - which is unpalatable to say the least. And opens the door for a repeat down the track. Everyone is massively overestimating the odds of this happening. The Russians are done, this war has shattered ...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 6:54 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Greatest Lock Eva retiring from all rugby.
- Replies: 90
- Views: 1897
Re: Greatest Lock Eva retiring from all rugby.
We definitely can. It is a remarkable achievement to do all that he’s done, which what appears to have been, in relative terms at least, a modest level of talent. Apparently growing up he was a gun swimmer, he was much better at swimming than Rugby. In high school his dream was to represent NZ in s...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 6:42 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
Re: NZ Politics Thread
However I'm pretty sure it was a wonderful 'family day out' that just ended in a minor family squabble. Nothing to see here. Well bugger me, you've changed your tune over the last few months. Playing golf over the summer has obviously made you soft. ;) I'm sure you've heard of sar-chasm. ;) I'm jus...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 6:37 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
Re: NZ Politics Thread
What happened to the moral panic response that we saw on PR everytime a significant gang-related incident happened during the previous government's tenure? https://othersociologist.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/beaker_the-muppets.gif?w=648 As I said I'm waiting for Marama Davidson 's take on this bef...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 5:38 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
Re: NZ Politics Thread
What happened to the moral panic response that we saw on PR everytime a significant gang-related incident happened during the previous government's tenure? https://othersociologist.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/beaker_the-muppets.gif?w=648 As I said I'm waiting for Marama Davidson's take on this befo...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:34 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Gangs. Thought the new three headed snake govt would have cracked down on the gangs by now. ;) Right on cue. :lol: I will refrain from commenting until I hear Marama Davidson's take on this. I took notes from the thread from the previous 7 years and am simply ensuring the same style of opposition i...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:06 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Endless Positivity Thread
- Replies: 34
- Views: 662
Re: The Endless Positivity Thread
In the spirit of the opening post. Thank you Shane. https://youtu.be/QjqyGyIILv0?si=mGImPyVPU_GxYAtv Oh the words that he spoke Seemed the wisest of philosophies There's nothing ever gained By a wet thing called a tear When the world is too dark And I need the light inside of me I'll walk into a bar...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:57 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I'll put this here rather than putting up a dedicated thread, but wtf is going on with this in Hawkes Bay rugby? Or anywhere else for that matter. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/hawkes-bay-visiting-ymp-rugby-teams-bus-peppered-with-shotgun-rounds-as-they-fled-a-game-abandoned-by-referee-due-to-safet...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:55 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I'll put this here rather than putting up a dedicated thread, but wtf is going on with this in Hawkes Bay rugby? Or anywhere else for that matter. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/hawkes-bay-visiting-ymp-rugby-teams-bus-peppered-with-shotgun-rounds-as-they-fled-a-game-abandoned-by-referee-due-to-safet...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 7:23 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 6:45 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Greatest Lock Eva retiring from all rugby.
- Replies: 90
- Views: 1897
Re: Greatest Lock Eva retiring from all rugby.
Eales once stopped a penalty goal by jumping up and blocking it, before kicking the ball past the PG kicker into touch. Never happened before or since. Well, it almost happened the next week; except this time the referee wasn’t mesmerised and correctly ruled it a knock-on. The other team scored a t...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 3:51 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
Re: NZ Politics Thread
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: As if !!! I showed my other half this ( who’s a Dr ) she crack up laughing saying just how naive is this bloke ? I will be impacted by these cuts although in my case it will be voluntary. From what I have seen in my Dept is it is either the younger ones taking it before thei...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 3:49 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
Re: NZ Politics Thread
It's tough on those losing their jobs but it would be good to know the numbers of public servants in 2017 when Labour came to power, how many the numbers swelled by under Labour and what National are cutting the numbers back to. Not that I have the numbers at hand but all the reports I've read is th...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 8:20 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Greatest Lock Eva retiring from all rugby.
- Replies: 90
- Views: 1897
Re: Greatest Lock Eva retiring from all rugby.
Indeed. Did he not also best and humiliate the Bok's great hope, Eben Etzebeth, for that lineout steal? My memory was that it was the older, past his peak version of the great Victor Matfield but I'd need to go back and have another look. I've checked and can confirm that it was EE, who incidentall...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 12:19 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Greatest Lock Eva retiring from all rugby.
- Replies: 90
- Views: 1897
Re: Greatest Lock Eva retiring from all rugby.
I will forever worship Whitelock for his lineout steal in the 2015 RWC Semi final vs the Springboks as we clung to a 2 point lead in the rain late in the match . If the Boks had won that lineout followed by a lineout drive and the inevitable penalty that would have taken the Boks into the lead and ...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 6:32 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
Re: NZ Politics Thread
One of the few perks of farming, no commute. Have used mountain bikes to get around the farm before now, awesome way to keep fit, just not currently. I mountain bike and to try and get my wife involved we shouted her a flash new mountain ebike. She already owned a decent mountain bike that she neve...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 1:19 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Ok so the responses so far a greater % cycle to work than I expected. Well done guys. Do you utilise cycleways where available? Further to Jammy's post I used to cycle to work in Auckland, not 100% of the time, but I used to also notice that the cycle path was not really used by the majority of cyc...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 1:18 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Greatest Lock Eva retiring from all rugby.
- Replies: 90
- Views: 1897
Re: Greatest Lock Eva retiring from all rugby.
I will forever worship Whitelock for his lineout steal in the 2015 RWC Semi final vs the Springboks as we clung to a 2 point lead in the rain late in the match. If the Boks had won that lineout followed by a lineout drive and the inevitable penalty that would have taken the Boks into the lead and ma...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 1:00 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Ok so the responses so far a greater % cycle to work than I expected. Well done guys. Do you utilise cycleways where available? Further to Jammy's post I used to cycle to work in Auckland, not 100% of the time, but I used to also notice that the cycle path was not really used by the majority of cycl...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 7:51 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I don't cycle, as I don't trust drivers after too many close calls when I was younger. However, I've never understood the ideological position taken by some that transport development should be about roads, roads and roads. When I'm driving, I like seeing people cycling as it means less cars cloggi...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 7:47 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52461
- Views: 3491708
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Quick poll. How many here ride a bike to work?
Don't get me wrong, I love cycling but it's a recreational pursuit for me. No way cycling to and from work is convenient in any way shape or form for me.
Let's hear from all you regular posters?
Don't get me wrong, I love cycling but it's a recreational pursuit for me. No way cycling to and from work is convenient in any way shape or form for me.
Let's hear from all you regular posters?