Meh, governments are going to mandate it anyway, so the rule will be redundant. I just think Joyce is a egotistical twat. Thats all.
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- Wed Nov 25, 2020 7:40 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
- Replies: 37746
- Views: 1075660
- Wed Nov 25, 2020 7:31 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
- Replies: 37746
- Views: 1075660
Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Korea Air has basically come out and said Joyce is a grandstanding attention whore. :lol: Governments will very likely make vaccination a condition on entry. Airlines should work with governments to decide what is ok or not. “This is not something for airlines to independently decide,” - Korea Air ...
- Wed Nov 25, 2020 7:19 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
- Replies: 37746
- Views: 1075660
Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Korea Air has basically come out and said Joyce is a grandstanding attention whore. :lol: Governments will very likely make vaccination a condition on entry. Airlines should work with governments to decide what is ok or not. “This is not something for airlines to independently decide,” - Korea Air :...
- Tue Nov 24, 2020 9:36 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
- Replies: 37746
- Views: 1075660
Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
What about Qantas - no jab, no flight.
I don't think its Qantas' place to make such calls tbh. Should be up to the relevant governments, not an airline company.
I don't think its Qantas' place to make such calls tbh. Should be up to the relevant governments, not an airline company.
- Mon Nov 23, 2020 12:30 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: What's a good, well priced tablet computer?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 2123
Re: What's a good, well priced tablet computer?
Lol, just rubbish.
A Samsung S5 or S6 is great.
Apple v Samsung tablet is just down to personal preference, same as the phones.
- Mon Nov 23, 2020 6:15 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: TRI NATIONS 2020 R5: Pumas v All Blacks MATCH THREAD: Nov 28, 08:45 GMT
- Replies: 347
- Views: 11114
Re: TRI NATIONS 2020 R5: Pumas v All Blacks MATCH THREAD: Nov 28, 08:45 GMT
Yeah, he had a bad day at the office. But still a top tier ref, unlike the others.Jay Cee Gee wrote: ↑Mon Nov 23, 2020 5:58 am
Even Gardner is prone to shitting the bed from time to time. The first half of NZ v Argentina was a lesson in brainfart decisions, IMO.
- Mon Nov 23, 2020 5:45 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: TRI NATIONS 2020 R5: Pumas v All Blacks MATCH THREAD: Nov 28, 08:45 GMT
- Replies: 347
- Views: 11114
Re: TRI NATIONS 2020 R5: Pumas v All Blacks MATCH THREAD: Nov 28, 08:45 GMT
Nic Berry never fills me with confidence He's a damn sight better than Paul Williams, mate. Just be thankful he'll never ref the ABs. What happened last weekend? I missed the PowerPoint. I'm sure the GAGR guys will put one together. But Zakar is right. He lost control of the match for a bit there.....
- Sat Nov 21, 2020 6:55 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Welcome to Hell ... eastern Australia
- Replies: 1268
- Views: 58638
Re: Welcome to Hell ... eastern Australia
Angus Taylor has only talked about hydrogen from coal getting funding It's been all over the newspapers. I'm happy for you to find more information about the Lobs hitting zero at some nebulous point long after they have retired Remember, they are still banking on Carbon sequestration. Its in the SM...
- Sat Nov 21, 2020 6:48 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Welcome to Hell ... eastern Australia
- Replies: 1268
- Views: 58638
Re: Welcome to Hell ... eastern Australia
But ScoMo is in Tokyo with hydrogen people to discuss future deals with Japan. So while they are slow and backwards, I think they are creating pathways for what you describe above too. Not Green hydrogen. The Lobs are actively against the concept Look, I don't like Scomo, but you are talking BS. It...
- Sat Nov 21, 2020 6:32 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Welcome to Hell ... eastern Australia
- Replies: 1268
- Views: 58638
- Sat Nov 21, 2020 6:06 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Welcome to Hell ... eastern Australia
- Replies: 1268
- Views: 58638
Re: Welcome to Hell ... eastern Australia
The African country of Morocco has taken the World lead in solar energy. It exports power to the EU. Australia has the resources to make solar panels but invests more in coal subsidies. We are actually one of the world leaders in solar and wind installations. We have GW of both installed at the mom...
- Fri Nov 20, 2020 3:54 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Melbourne. Fvcked again. And again. And again.
- Replies: 3392
- Views: 85361
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Yeah, so we didn't need to go into lockdown. Only went in as they thought someone caught it collecting a pizza.
Dude is a total muppet.
But glad our contract tracing works, and lockdown was only triggered because of BS.
Dude is a total muppet.
But glad our contract tracing works, and lockdown was only triggered because of BS.
- Fri Nov 20, 2020 3:52 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Mungoball to re-introduce scrummaging?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1461
Re: Mungoball to re-introduce scrummaging?
Strange thread, pushing in scrums has never been against the rules in Rugby League. Teams just don't do it. To carry this point further for people that understand the game more than I, if a team makes their scrum all the small guys, what's stopping the opposition from smashing that scrum every time...
- Wed Nov 18, 2020 11:52 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Melbourne. Fvcked again. And again. And again.
- Replies: 3392
- Views: 85361
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Sure. Trust the experts. But they aren’t infallible on this. We in Vic ended up in lockdown because we were not conservative enough. You haven’t had to deal with that, you don’t know how bad it is. Disclaimer: it’s shite. I would do anything not to do that again. Vics experts got it wrong (granted ...
- Wed Nov 18, 2020 8:26 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Melbourne. Fvcked again. And again. And again.
- Replies: 3392
- Views: 85361
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Its now multiple households isnt it? And potentially hundreds of exposures. The way NZ dealt with an outbreak like this was a short, sharp lockdown to make sure that no further exposures happened. This isnt a little outbreak, its not one or two people. Its 17 at last count. And SA is open with no m...
- Wed Nov 18, 2020 6:37 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Melbourne. Fvcked again. And again. And again.
- Replies: 3392
- Views: 85361
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
They did the sensible thing. Unlike some on here were pushing, they didn't jump the gun, they did massive amounts of contact tracing. After 48 hours they found that the possible no. of contacts was beyond what could be managed, so called for this circuit breaker lockdown. 6 days + 8 days. The SA Go...
- Wed Nov 18, 2020 5:11 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: "Our fans are morons" - Sam Cane
- Replies: 201
- Views: 7616
Re: "Our fans are morons" - Sam Cane
Even morons can recognise a shit sandwich when they see one. Sam is opening himself right up here if no improvement is seen by the morons. Actually its Fozzie, not Cane the fans are spewing about. Someone said NZ is playing the same as 2015. Seems like it. It was time for a change, but they decided...
- Wed Nov 18, 2020 5:09 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: TRI-NATIONS 2020: Pumas v Wallabies MATCH THREAD: Nov 21, 08:45 GMT
- Replies: 239
- Views: 6757
Re: TRI-NATIONS 2020: Pumas v Wallabies MATCH THREAD: Nov 21, 08:45 GMT
Their forwards could eat us alive. But I think they will be still too mentally drained after getting up last week. I am reasonably confident we will win comfortably.
- Wed Nov 18, 2020 5:06 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Melbourne. Fvcked again. And again. And again.
- Replies: 3392
- Views: 85361
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
They did the sensible thing. Unlike some on here were pushing, they didn't jump the gun, they did massive amounts of contact tracing. After 48 hours they found that the possible no. of contacts was beyond what could be managed, so called for this circuit breaker lockdown. 6 days + 8 days. The SA Gov...
- Wed Nov 18, 2020 2:33 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: "Our fans are morons" - Sam Cane
- Replies: 201
- Views: 7616
Re: "Our fans are morons" - Sam Cane
lol.
Pretty much sums up that this dude is not captaincy material.
We will win the Bledisloe next year.
Pretty much sums up that this dude is not captaincy material.
We will win the Bledisloe next year.

- Wed Nov 18, 2020 12:45 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: TRI-NATIONS 2020: Pumas v Wallabies MATCH THREAD: Nov 21, 08:45 GMT
- Replies: 239
- Views: 6757
Re: TRI-NATIONS 2020: Pumas v Wallabies MATCH THREAD: Nov 21, 08:45 GMT
Will be interesting to see how Argentina go with this one.
I think they will do an England. Played their final last week, won't be the same team this week. 20 point win for us.
I think they will do an England. Played their final last week, won't be the same team this week. 20 point win for us.
- Mon Nov 16, 2020 7:15 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Melbourne. Fvcked again. And again. And again.
- Replies: 3392
- Views: 85361
- Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:11 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Melbourne. Fvcked again. And again. And again.
- Replies: 3392
- Views: 85361
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
The irony is that the initial case seems to have been a family member working at a medi-hotel. NSW has been playing whack-a-mole like this for months, and successfully suppressing any clusters. It can be done, without the need to panic and dive into an economy wrecking total lock down. If it doesn'...
- Mon Nov 16, 2020 5:59 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Melbourne. Fvcked again. And again. And again.
- Replies: 3392
- Views: 85361
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
They are doing plenty - to try and obviate the need for a general lock down. This cluster is coming from one large family group and more directed "surgical" lockdowns are being applied. closures of Mawson Lakes School and Preschool, and Thomas More College at Salisbury Downs, while an infected Hung...
- Mon Nov 16, 2020 5:34 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Melbourne. Fvcked again. And again. And again.
- Replies: 3392
- Views: 85361
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
Its now multiple households isnt it? And potentially hundreds of exposures. The way NZ dealt with an outbreak like this was a short, sharp lockdown to make sure that no further exposures happened. This isnt a little outbreak, its not one or two people. Its 17 at last count. And SA is open with no m...
- Mon Nov 16, 2020 5:07 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Melbourne. Fvcked again. And again. And again.
- Replies: 3392
- Views: 85361
Re: Melbourne. UnFvcked. Almost
And it seems Adelaide is royally fvcked, and are not locking down. This will end in tears. Do an NZ. Hard lockdown for a week while its traced to stop any more movement. Otherwise it will be Vic all over again. Why? Whats the point of track and trace if you have to go into lock down everytime the v...
- Thu Aug 20, 2020 4:17 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Australian Politics Thread
- Replies: 27173
- Views: 1046205
Re: The Australian Politics Thread
Wow. Come in Neville Chamberlain, your time is up..! I guess whether Joel Fitzgibbon is Neville Chamberlain depends on whether China is Nazi Germany. If i's just making concessions to an aggressive power then everyone does that already. We make concessions to the United States. We've made concessio...
- Tue Aug 18, 2020 3:39 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: COvID - the end of traditional office hours as we know them?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2408
Re: COvID - the end of traditional office hours as we know t
Video conferencing etc are never as productive as getting a whole bunch of people around a table. But for most things outside of meetings, I found working from home more productive. Even, the sorts of short meetings that have always been done via a tele or video conferencing as you could do with ac...
- Tue Aug 18, 2020 1:09 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Has anyone heard from Globus?
- Replies: 283
- Views: 22562
Re: Has anyone heard from Globus?
Yikes all the best Globby. And if you didn’t pick it up from someone like a Prince Charles (was he the van driver?) I’ll be disappointed. And a little scary to hear the symptoms - my wife tested positive yesterday so a little nervous about what is coming. Hope its just a mild case, and somehow you ...
- Mon Aug 17, 2020 1:46 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
- Replies: 37746
- Views: 1075660
Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Looks like the Russian vaccine is going to be stage 3 tested for us by the entire population of Vietnam. 

- Mon Aug 17, 2020 1:38 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Trans-Tasman comp to replace Super Rugby in 2021
- Replies: 2021
- Views: 48947
Re: Trans-Tasman comp to replace Super Rugby in 2021
So it seems the NZR is working on 2 plans. Any link on this? i.e. relatively recent... I was wondering the same thing kiap, I sure haven't found any yet. Is this just an idea someone has come up with here? There are definitely two plans ... But the second part is getting proper recompense for the A...
- Mon Aug 17, 2020 12:48 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Was the 2019 loss to ENG actually the worst AB RWC choke?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2259
Re: Was the 2019 loss to ENG actually the worst AB RWC choke
NZ played their final against Ireland the week before. They gave us way too much respect based on our tournament form Its very similar to 2015 really. Massive quarter final, and then down on performance in the Semi-final. In 2015 they had the experience to grind it out and win a tight game. In 2019...
- Wed Aug 12, 2020 12:40 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Melbourne. Fvcked again. And again. And again.
- Replies: 3392
- Views: 85361
Re: Melbourne. Fvcked.
The first time you get it, you have no antibodies against it. Once you've had it, you do, so would likely fight it off if you're not too f**ked. How long the window of protection lasts is unknown at the moment. Yep, but isn't there quite a lot of data stacking up now saying after a few months most ...
- Wed Aug 12, 2020 11:55 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Melbourne. Fvcked again. And again. And again.
- Replies: 3392
- Views: 85361
Re: Melbourne. Fvcked.
OK I might be talking shit. Just what I have read. If Bindi disagrees then I have got it wrong. It's a little more complicated. There's 2 kinds of mutations that happen for whatever reason - those that affect fitness and those that don't. Even for very compact genomes like viruses have, it's easy e...
- Wed Aug 12, 2020 6:24 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Melbourne. Fvcked again. And again. And again.
- Replies: 3392
- Views: 85361
Re: Melbourne. Fvcked.
I might be talking shit. Just what I have read. If Bindi disagrees then I have got it wrong.shanky wrote:OK
- Wed Aug 12, 2020 6:18 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Melbourne. Fvcked again. And again. And again.
- Replies: 3392
- Views: 85361
Re: Melbourne. Fvcked.
I’ll defer to superior knowledge. My understanding is that a virus that kills its host before the host can pass it on, isn’t a very successful virus - so therefore, those strains get selected out and the more moderate ones survive. As that process continues, and the host takes preventative or curat...
- Wed Aug 12, 2020 6:08 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Melbourne. Fvcked again. And again. And again.
- Replies: 3392
- Views: 85361
Re: Melbourne. Fvcked.
Actually you can aim for herd immunity and have a policy that excludes the elderly from that to ensure minimal dead people. Except you can't with covid. Immunity lasts 2 to 3 months. You can't achieve herd immunity in a practical sense by just letting the virus go through the population. Well, actu...
- Wed Aug 12, 2020 5:58 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Melbourne. Fvcked again. And again. And again.
- Replies: 3392
- Views: 85361
Re: Melbourne. Fvcked.
Except you can't with covid. Immunity lasts 2 to 3 months. You can't achieve herd immunity in a practical sense by just letting the virus go through the population.eldanielfire wrote:Actually you can aim for herd immunity and have a policy that excludes the elderly from that to ensure minimal dead people.
- Sun Aug 09, 2020 9:10 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Melbourne. Fvcked again. And again. And again.
- Replies: 3392
- Views: 85361
Re: Melbourne. Fvcked.
You may be perfectly right. But no major country has gotten rid of it, so what’s the result of those shutdowns? Some people are still alive, for now, but will they stay locked down until there is a vaccine? And if there is no herd immunity, there will never be a vaccine, so..... we all stay locked ...
- Sun Aug 09, 2020 8:56 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Will there be any SH test rugby in 2020?
- Replies: 86
- Views: 2526
Re: Will there be any SH test rugby in 2020?
I am still hopeful there will be a Bledisloe in November. Hoping Victoria has the virus under control by then and it hasn't flared up in other states.