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Jerome Manning

I assumed the thread title was a joke. Williamson did everything by the book.

Jerome Manning

I've checked out 3 sports bars in Auckland and none of them have Spark.

NZ cricket has a massive coverage problem:

https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/05-12-20 ... -the-past/

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Warner isn't in the conversation if he can't bat on a green deck. Doesn't the fact kiwis have lots of gentle paced roads make it level. Plus how bad was that deck really. Latham nearly made a hundred on it and the price on the draw at the start was so short the bookies were not expecting any firewo...

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Warner isn't in the conversation if he can't bat on a green deck.

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It's terrible now that they advertise odds on tv which IMO is primarily aiming at kids. I should say the loot box system or in game currencies that can be brought with real money for any random outcome or advantage has to go as well. I gave my 7 year old nephew cash for his birthday and he spent it...

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Anonymous 1 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 5:31 am
Jerome Manning wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 4:47 am This is the pitch he was batting on:

Who won the toss

West Indies

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This is the pitch he was batting on:

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Best batsman in the world. Would be averaging 70+ if playing for Australia

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Got told at work today that we have to do unconscious bias training in the new year.

Corporate told us over zoom that our work place is a hotbed of racism, sexism and homophobia. Everyone just looked at each other and was like wtf

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The problem is the players are too big. Reduce the amount of subs to 6 to make the cardiovascular requirements greater.

No one gets tired in the final 20 minutes anymore.

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Watching it now. Great show. Three things: 1) The idea idea of "resigning" in chess. Seems stupid - in no other sport do you just give up because you are behind. Every other sport encourages fighting til the fat lady sings. Your opponent who is on top could make a basic mistake anyway and let you b...

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I feel as though this is a question that can only be answered in 10 years time. Like you need to let it rip through your population at some point.

Hope I'm wrong though, I wanna visit my family in straya!

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I haven't seen it yet. A couple of my female family members recommend that i watch it. I might start watching it after my studies finishes next week. etc. Funny that you stipulated female. I recommended it to my mum saying "it's probably a bit too girly for Dad though". It ain't girly, it's just go...

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Watching it now. Great show. Three things: 1) The idea idea of "resigning" in chess. Seems stupid - in no other sport do you just give up because you are behind. Every other sport encourages fighting til the fat lady sings. Your opponent who is on top could make a basic mistake anyway and let you ba...

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Alex the Kidd
Wolfenstein
Doom (II?)
Mortal Kombat

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shanky wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 9:32 pm Mick’s going to blow a gasket at some point.

Take a breather Mick, we’ll put Derwyn on for 20 minutes.

Interchange bench!

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Will employers require employees to be vaccinated in order to keep their jobs?

I'm hardly an anti vax nutter but I don't like where this is heading.

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Theflier wrote: ↑Tue Nov 24, 2020 9:41 pm I posted this elsewhere, why don't we just make the pitches wider? The pitch size is based on 15 ordinarily sized men of ordinary fitness.
And also finally ref sealing off in the opposition 22 and 5m line

There would be plenty of stadiums around the world that couldn't take the increased width.

Jerome Manning

Reduce the amount of subs and make the big fellas run.

8 subs is absolutely farcical.

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In another first Trump is the first dictator to hand power to a successor opponent after an election having submitted to the rulings of an independent judiciary. This is a new phase of despotism. While we don't know what are Trump's deepest intention, what is happening right now is not a reflection...

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Dark wrote: ↑Sat Nov 21, 2020 11:58 pm They are all a bit crap these days since they all turned into lefty hand wringers...

Trump was the worst thing to happen to late night. Their ratings literally go down if they don't mention him - people want to be outraged. It makes the shows intolerable.

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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson Are you a lover or a hater of him? I find him to be incredibly annoying. I don't mind Conan and Norton. I utterly loved Craig Ferguson. Very intelligent and would have real, unscripted conversations with people. You probably need to discover his stuff slowly a...

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Why the hell would a 76 year man old use hair dye? What an odd sort

Sorry, carry on.

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I don't mean to go all Jordan Peterson-y but many of the things that we think of as social constructs are actually deeply ingrained biological adaptations - formed over hundreds of millions of years. Very difficult to overwrite. Whether it's old fashioned or not is irrelevant. Behaviours tend to be...

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This is a very interesting thread. It really highlights for me how old fashioned and conservative humans still are when it comes to our inter-personal relationships. Despite the fact that it's the year 2020, judging by the responses on this thread (my own included) we are still very old fashioned w...

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apropos of nothing but the word "systemic" has become a buzzword for bullshit. I'm immediately suspicious about the claims of anyone who utters it.

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DragsterDriver wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 8:11 am Heaviest players in the side must join the scrum- surely it’s that simple?

You'll get disputes on the field and the ref is expected to resolve that?

"No, you are the fatty - get in the scrum!"

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At the moment the highest level of the game is kind of uninteresting, unless you care who wins. Not much variety in it. I loved loig back in the good old, bad old days, lots of different stuff happened in the average game. Some of it was legal. Some of it was lethal. Hookers were the stars!!!! Fred...

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Yeah, new ruling this season. The refs have to ensure that there at least 4 forwards (I think?) in the scrum never saw it penalised though How could you possibly enforce that though? Just name your props as wingers, and your wingers as props. Josh Papalii could be named at full back while never bei...

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How would you make the scrum relevant?

The reason it's mickey mouse now, as pointed out by Delmich, is that a weak scrum means you just waste 1 tackle and everything is back to normal. Players are just responding to incentives.

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Why do you judge Biden by the worst of his supporters? It makes no sense. I judge Trump as an idiot because of Trump - not his supporters. Well Jerome, that is an excellent point, but one which might be lost on those who have been characterising anyone favouring Trump as a Nazi. So you may have to ...

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Why do you judge Biden by the worst of his supporters? It makes no sense.

I judge Trump as an idiot because of Trump - not his supporters.

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What's happening in Wayne County Michigan? Something odd again. They ended up certifying the election results. The nutty forum I'm checking (think 15 Micks agreeing with each other) says the Republicans have rescinded their certification: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/michigan-gop-election-check...

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What's happening in Wayne County Michigan? Something odd again.

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CM11 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 10:03 am That is nuts. And I've been told by someone who believes in this stuff that I'm just not reading the right sources and mainstream Internet is all lies.

Society can't function if 30% of the population is hooked on this shit. The internet has completely splintered us apart.

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Giuliani now blaming it all on Democrat mafia A former Giuliani political aide who listened in on Tuesday’s hearing via phone was distressed by the former mayor’s performance in the courtroom. “He increasingly sounds like the very people on city sidewalks who would yell at no one in particular,” sa...

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We just don't look hungry. Like winning 2 world cups back to back has satisfied all itches.

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but they don't see the stuff that goes on behind the scenes.

That's always a bad line. No one cares about how much effort you are putting in if you're not getting results. This is professional sport - not kindergarten.

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wamberal wrote: ↑Tue Nov 17, 2020 11:28 pm Why on earth do people waste their time pointlessly arguing with the likes of Mick Muckraker?

I tried on the other thread and regretted it. He's not disingenuous - he's just not very smart.

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