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- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:13 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52443
- Views: 3490890
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 1:53 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52443
- Views: 3490890
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? Abort, it’s tur...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:51 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52443
- Views: 3490890
Re: NZ Politics Thread
You may find it an awful world view, but if you were honest with yourself, you yourself spend more time focused on the negative than the positive, well you do if your posts on here are anything to go by, this is not a dig at all by the way, but if you see/read a post that you disagree with you come...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:45 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52443
- Views: 3490890
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? There'll be a M...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:12 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Bondi Junction Shooting
- Replies: 266
- Views: 6048
Re: Bondi Junction Shooting
They cant control their "flocks". This reaction from angry young middle eastern men isnt totally uncommon. Fighting with police who where there to get the stabber just shows it takes anything to set them off on the right situation, luckily it didnt escalate too much but a number of police in hospit...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:10 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Bondi Junction Shooting
- Replies: 266
- Views: 6048
Re: Bondi Junction Shooting
Rilley has been calling out left wingers in the UK for their Anti Semitism for a number of years. She won a couple of libel cases against supporters of Corbyn. She has become more vocal and forthright in the last year. She was pretty dumb to make assumptions about what happened in Sydney before mor...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:05 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52443
- Views: 3490890
Re: NZ Politics Thread
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?
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:49 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52443
- Views: 3490890
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 11:55 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52443
- Views: 3490890
Re: NZ Politics Thread
It being a dog eat dog world has nothing whatsoever to do with NZ’s world view and I think you know that. That was a terrible attempt at deflection. There's no deflection whatsoever. I really have no idea where you're coming from here. You're clearly living a comfortable life in a country you rocke...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:58 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52443
- Views: 3490890
Re: NZ Politics Thread
You disagree? Yes, the fact that you're happily living in NZ after leaving the hellhole of a country caused by your ancestor's racist policies would surely make you think it isn't all a dog eat dog world? If NZ had your world view as expressed in the most recent pages of this thread you wouldn't be...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:06 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52443
- Views: 3490890
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I thought National wants us to be aspirational ? Obviously not that way , too ‘unrealistic’ and utopian. The evidence from this thread suggest righty tighties don't believe in aspiration, it's a dog eat dog world. You disagree? Yes, the fact that you're happily living in NZ after leaving the hellho...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:00 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Bondi Junction Shooting
- Replies: 266
- Views: 6048
Re: Bondi Junction Shooting
Aren't most mass shootings in the US done by home grown wacko white boys? Why not jump to that conclusion in this case? Or you know, wait for the facts before making an arse out of yourself. Equally, looking at the list of all mass murders (more than 4 being the threshold) in Australia shows no Isl...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:13 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Bondi Junction Shooting
- Replies: 266
- Views: 6048
Re: Bondi Junction Shooting
Unfortunately, it's an easy conclusion to jump to, and sadly, it was my first thought as well. I did, however, have the sense to a. keep it to myself, and b. Remind myself that it could quite easily be the situation that it was, ie. the act of one deranged individual. It was in 2021, that a man, in...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:50 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Bondi Junction Shooting
- Replies: 266
- Views: 6048
Re: Bondi Junction Shooting
I don't know who or what Rachel Riley is or does but she seems to have been a right wit kant on Twitter. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLJmiixW8AAqJdg?format=jpg&name=medium She's "apologised" but only because she was told to. Man, UK conservatives are really gross people. One assumes MBE stands for ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:10 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Bondi Junction Shooting
- Replies: 266
- Views: 6048
Re: Bondi Junction Shooting
But doesnt explain her casually linking the Bondi attack to that, when it had nothing to do with Jewish people, or any other religious or ethnic group. She made a incorrect assumption and apologised. It was an assumption understandably made by a lot of people. Also what’s the problem with supportin...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:55 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Bondi Junction Shooting
- Replies: 266
- Views: 6048
Re: Bondi Junction Shooting
But doesnt explain her casually linking the Bondi attack to that, when it had nothing to do with Jewish people, or any other religious or ethnic group. She made a incorrect assumption and apologised. It was an assumption understandably made by a lot of people. Also what’s the problem with supportin...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:43 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Bondi Junction Shooting
- Replies: 266
- Views: 6048
Re: Bondi Junction Shooting
And it helps explain why she is alarmed by the calls for a ‘global intifada’ heard on the streets of the uk But doesnt explain her casually linking the Bondi attack to that, when it had nothing to do with Jewish people, or any other religious or ethnic group. She made a incorrect assumption and apo...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:24 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Bondi Junction Shooting
- Replies: 266
- Views: 6048
Re: Bondi Junction Shooting
Which, as others have pointed out, has nothing to do with Bondi.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:04 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Bondi Junction Shooting
- Replies: 266
- Views: 6048
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:19 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Bondi Junction Shooting
- Replies: 266
- Views: 6048
Re: Bondi Junction Shooting
I don't know who or what Rachel Riley is or does but she seems to have been a right wit kant on Twitter. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLJmiixW8AAqJdg?format=jpg&name=medium She's "apologised" but only because she was told to. Man, UK conservatives are really gross people. JK Rowlings mates are a nas...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:18 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52443
- Views: 3490890
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 12:25 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Bondi Junction Shooting
- Replies: 266
- Views: 6048
Re: Bondi Junction Shooting
First day on the job too, no? Really feel for this guy and obviously his family in Pakistan. I hope his death sticks in the craw of some of the online 'terrorist posters' (and the one here). Poor bugger probably confronted the attacker with nothing but his hands Sadly it wont because they just don'...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:26 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52443
- Views: 3490890
Re: NZ Politics Thread
What part of the diagram suggests that one gender should be given priority treatment over another? You're seeing what you want to see because you're an internet troll who likes arguing with other posters on this forum. Hmm. I see you are struggling with this one. You've deliberately misrepresented ...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 1:15 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52443
- Views: 3490890
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Maybe we've met after all. Do you know David Stone? Former HP student approximately our age. I was at Vic as an "adult" student in the early 2000s . Interestingly we had a couple of kaumatua in Heretaunga called Old Dave Stone and Young Dave Stone, but when I was in my teens Young Dave Stone was pr...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 12:59 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Favourite Rugby Commentator
- Replies: 81
- Views: 1754
Re: Favourite Rugby Commentator
Not a fan of Ryle Nugent. Irritating voice and don’t like his style. I never had a problem with Harrison and Barnes. In fact we switched to them (Sky option) during the 2005 Lions series. Helped that they were getting their arses kicked. Saffers always tend to be incredibly earnest and boring. Blad...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 12:49 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52443
- Views: 3490890
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Geoffrey Palmer being a law professor at Vic law school didn't stop my classes there from feeling like Young Nats/Young ACT conventions. Maybe we've met after all. Do you know David Stone? Former HP student approximately our age. I was at Vic as an "adult" student in the early 2000s. Interestingly ...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 12:39 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52443
- Views: 3490890
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I still maintain that the majority of reporters and such are left leaning, you have done nothing to persuade me otherwise, apart from asking me who owns the newspapers, which actually answers nothing. I have, however said that the audience is also biased, as you show every time you post, so our per...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 5:56 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52443
- Views: 3490890
Re: NZ Politics Thread
On the journalists swallowing their bias and doing the job. I think the perfect example is Hosking, every election there was a storm about him hosting debates, and every year he was absolutely fine and shelved his ZB shock persona Maybe Hosking should become a PR moderator and take care of the craz...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 4:57 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Australian Politics Thread
- Replies: 29330
- Views: 2058767
Re: The Australian Politics Thread
There's just so much to unpack here... https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/10/something-is-rotten-in-the-state-of-australia-peter-dutton-blames-police-and-labor-for-rise-in-antisemitism https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/11/tony-abbott-scott-morrison-covid-19-pandem...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 4:22 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Australian Politics Thread
- Replies: 29330
- Views: 2058767
Re: The Australian Politics Thread
There's just so much to unpack here... Dutton likened those 9 October protests to the shooting murder of 35 people at Tasmania’s Port Arthur historic site in 1996, which heralded tougher gun laws in Australia. “While no one was killed during the 9 October protests, the events at the Sydney Opera Ho...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 1:26 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: All Blacks 2024
- Replies: 891
- Views: 63948
Re: All Blacks 2024
I thought Selby Rickett has played well but nothing to suggest All Blacks. Interestingly the Blues have the most successful lineout in Super Rugby so far. McWhannell and Sotutu are the two NZ players to win the most lineout. Not suggesting they should be in the mix. Just that I would expect Selby-R...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 12:28 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52443
- Views: 3490890
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I'd love to see how they're going to get their 75% reduction in emergency housing - there's nothing of substance in the fact sheet other than "we will monitor".
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 5:08 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52443
- Views: 3490890
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:44 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52443
- Views: 3490890
Re: NZ Politics Thread
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 is maintained. Excellent work! :thumbup: https://youtu.be/ruAi4VBoBSM?si=inVyuDCKR2LQQdvg Sorry,...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:24 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52443
- Views: 3490890
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 12:06 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52443
- Views: 3490890
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 8:43 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Golden Age of Westerns
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2231
Re: Golden Age of Westerns
Why was he shit human? I think he got into a few fights but during that era people were much quicker to come to blows. Plus, weren't a lot of his issues related to PTSD, something he tried to use his celebrity to publicise? On his movies I always enjoyed The Red Badge of Courage as a kid. Maybe I s...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 8:36 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Super Rugby Rd 7 - Chiefs Vs Moana Pasifika
- Replies: 25
- Views: 442
Re: Super Rugby Rd 7 - Chiefs Vs Moana Pasifika
You prefer seeing the Chiefs pump the Cheetahs instead of MP?not_english wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 7:39 am God this is painful to watch. We really miss the south African teams
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 11:39 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Crusaders 2024 Thread
- Replies: 808
- Views: 69801
Re: The Crusaders 2024 Thread
Name the NZers ? Will Skelton, Bundee Aki and Uini Atonio. Jamison Gibson-Park James Lowe He was good in NZ, just wasn't the flavour wanted by our coaches. Gibson-Park is the biggest turnaround in ability outside of a league player you probably don't know called Chad Townsend who was terrible for t...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 1:42 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52443
- Views: 3490890
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? I walk. But I have a rule that I only take jobs within wa...