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Made it in time to watch the ABs v Namibia match from my hotel room tonight. Unfortunately my suitcase had different ideas and MIGHT turn up tonight/overnight.

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Grandpa wrote: ↑Thu Sep 14, 2023 7:30 pm Bump. Surely someone lives in Edinburgh?!

Great city... hope you enjoy it!

Very kind, Grandpa. Halfway there, waiting in Abu Dhabi for my next flight.

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Hello the bored Edinburghianianians, I arrive in your town this Friday night all the way from NZ. Will probably need to sleep to get over some jetlag and catching up with a relative that weekend, then I'm off to Islay for a few days but I might try and find a pub to watch Argentina v Samoa on Friday...

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terryfinch wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2023 11:17 pm Yes. I thought the haka was embarrassing yesterday. I kept thinking about them spending hours practicing it and how ridiculous they looked.

Hours, you say? Naturally you'll have receipts for that statement.

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A great day in Dunners - sunrise on St Kilda beach, a tour with the Royal Albatrosses, Larnach Castle and then Baldwin St. I knocked the bastard off https://scontent.fchc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/373014478_10164374404886959_2130871837922730069_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=4c1e7d&_nc_ohc=...

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Hope you didn't get murdered by sandflies.

Even the drive out there from Haast is pretty cool. Did you eat at the Craypot?

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How about the cojones on the Southland Boys Year 11 student Jimmy Taylor. Slotted clutch place kicks to get SBHS into the Top 4, his kicking was key against PNBHS, then he slots a 41m drop goal (with plenty to spare) to give SBHS an 8-point lead with 10 to go.

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Well regarded player in his time. Git ousted by the Auckland clique. Think Bernie McGahill took over and the ABs sucked. This isn't really correct, he went to league essentially because John Gallagher left and they were best mates. McCahill didn't take over from him, Walter Little did who was not p...

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He's eligible, but he was a 12 and probably the worst 12 ever to play for Australia. Just thinking about it though, I think big Dell might be eligible on the wing. Wendell is definitely qualified. He’s Aussie af. Yeah he self IDs as Torres straight islander so he's in. As opposed to Torres bicuriou...

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Murdoch wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 8:08 pm
BlueThunder wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 12:04 pm Bogan XV

1. Crockett
2. Hore
3. Slater
4. Thrush
5. Eaton
6. Squire
7. Blackie
8. X. Rush
9. Marshall
10. McKenzie
11. Dane Coles
12. Jordie
13. Goodhue
14.?
15.Jane
Aaron Hopa at 6 or 8.

He was no good under pressure.

Sorry.

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How about all-time Māori XV - who would come in? 15. Nepia v Cullen - you'd have to lean Cullen, but that's a genuine battle of two of NZ's greatest FBs 13. Johnny Smith at centre, maybe? 12. Bill Osborne 8. Shelford v Brooke - I'd stick with Zinny. 7. Waka Nathan - never lost a test as an AB Hika R...

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Now something sinister in the bad gash suffered by Lomax. Mein Gott! Where are you seeing that? 30 stitches is a pretty decent gash, but I've not seen anything to suggest there was any untoward behaviour. I believe there's grainy CCTV footage of one of the Bok forwards filing down one of their boot...

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Meh. Meaningless friendly.

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Ennor is a better centre than Ioane and I'll die on that hill. I just spat out my drink reading that. What sort of karakia do you want for your last rites? Ennor consistently outplays Ioane when they go head to head in SR. He made him his plaything in the semi final. He is also a better defender by...

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Euge, as an art aficionado, you'll be pleased about this piece of legislation passing yesterday? It was nice it received unanimous support too.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/art ... become-law

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I'm easy either way, election weekend, the following, town or Petone. Somewhere with some half decent ale is my only prerequisite. That rules out Horse & Hound. I am in there once a year and I'm not sure the tap lines are cleaned in between those visits. I'm in Sydney on election weekend. Could do ...

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I think I speak for the bored when I say I would rather have a toddler with diarrhea than being a creepy 50yr old crypto bro at a David Guetta gig in Ibiza Hope that helps A mate's 40th at Craig Davids actually. You can take your sprogs diarrhea and smear it on the walls of your shitty little PE ap...

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I'm away for a month (Sept 14-Oct 15) but could be a chance outside of that. If I'm welcome... sniff.

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That being said after Labour's vetoing of the PPL amendments at the first stage that had the support of all of the other parties that's the final nail in the coffin for me ... am looking more towards TOP but haven't decided yet. If they really want to, they can reintroduce the bill next year, can't...

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MoonBatto wrote: ↑Tue Aug 01, 2023 6:48 am There's nothing descent to do in Christchurch.

I know Christchurch is flat, but the Cashmere Hills are right there!

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As you know Booji, it's all about proportionality and distribution. The Key Government raised GST and lowered income tax rates at the same time, and according to Treasury, this was more beneficial to everyone (at that time) who was earning over $80k a year. So why not follow National's policy of ra...

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Heading to USA v Netherlands tomorrow - shame that it's going to be raining.

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He is not charming either. I ran into him a year or two back, and the conversation was just so forced (and we knew each other so it's not like we were breaking the ice) - as PR posters who have met me will attest, I'm delightful company! I’ll take your word for it. Normally they’re excellent at pit...

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That description drips born to rule arrogance. Can’t imagine he’s the sort of person I’d want round for a bbq. But he’s probably charming as fvck, like every other politician I’ve ever met. Honestly, I genuinely feel he is one of the National MPs who is in it for the "game". The political tete-a-te...

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Well the answer in politics unfortunately is a murky mix of voting and the mechanics of the party selection process. In terms of deciding what is meritorious I think most peoples opinions and conventional wisdom would agree age is certainly a criteria. Not all old people have wisdom but virtually n...

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Another Argentinian player who had a lengthy career was Alejandro Iachetti. 1975-90. I seem to recall him being massive. http://en.espn.co.uk/argentina/rugby/player/8425.html Good candidate for Up The Arse Corner too. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTDYj8tAGlGl-AybdLVRN2kO3ro4i...

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The Clan (Highlanders) Ben Smith Jeff Wilson Marc Ellis Ma'a Nonu Waisake Naholo Tony Brown Arron Smith Arran Pene Jamie Joseph Josh Kronfeld James Ryan Brad Thorn Carl Hayman David Latta Kees Meeuws and that leaves out so much quality too. Pene never played for the Highlanders. Neither did Joseph....

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The Clan (Highlanders) Ben Smith Jeff Wilson Marc Ellis Ma'a Nonu Waisake Naholo Tony Brown Arron Smith Arran Pene Jamie Joseph Josh Kronfeld James Ryan Brad Thorn Carl Hayman David Latta Kees Meeuws and that leaves out so much quality too. Pene never played for the Highlanders. Neither did Joseph....

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Lee scored a lovely try for the AB’s from memory . The others not so much . Mark Carter sucked !! Indeed. Nothing wrong with Lee. His kicking game helped the ABs win the series decider against the Lions in 1993. On that alone, he is nowhere near this team. To paraphrase the late great Bulldog, judg...

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How are you Kiwis forgetting about the Canta-Blacks and Sam Broomhall at 8? Granted I'm only halfway through the first page but it's criminal. Mayerhofler, Matson and Ben Blair would not have been test players if they were at another province. Matson never was a test player. Five tour matches for t...

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I recall a former member of this parish who suffered terrible racial abuse, despite only being 1/5th Samoan, so I can only imagine the language used towards the half-Samoan Boxall.

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A good percentage of folks on planes aren't up more then a polite "Hi, how's it going" in my experience. Most have something going on on a device. Some olders ones have a book. Some are just enjoying an enforced quiet period. I wouldn't read too much into it. I chuck on the noise-cancelling headpho...

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Wouldn’t be surprised if there were a few perks in it . Kids put themselves through university doing time in Putins and Israeli troll factories . I’m pretty sure there were a few coins exchanged here . I'm going with na, he did it for free. Living in Wellington, and despite being a boring centrist ...

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Decent read in the Dom this morning about Mick Hall, the guy who was 'editing' RNZ news to be more Russia friendly. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300906113/this-rnz-story-is-probably-more-complicated-than-first-thought I knew he'd be a tankie. I don't understand how this whole thing happened. Wa...

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Globus posted his bail money :lol: bugger me, that was hilarious. Wasn't it just, the constant references to his general largesse and acts of altruism followed by pissy fits when challenged over the fact he had not put his hand in his pocket once. I always found that accusing him of living in semi ...

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Noddy is alive and well on Twitter. Not sharing his Twitter handle as it's his name.

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Congrats Crusaders fans. I hope the Blues can nail down one of Cotter or Filipo. Crusaders identified a few concerns with Filipo during their inquiries. Namely his social media gets into some tricky areas... Shame on every person who chose to take the vax and then projected their own fears on to th...

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Not sure how big you are on the walking these days, but both the Bannockburn Sluicings (near Cromwell) and the Earnscleugh Tailings near Alexandra offer some interesting tracks and quite other-worldly terrain. I'd probably lean towards Bannockburn (& you can visit a cellar door after).

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Right - trying for take 2 in late August. This time we will fly in and out of Queenstown and have a good look around over a fortnight. Taking in Tekapo and Mt Cook this time but otherwise much the same as the last trip, just no return to Christchurch (just in case they win another title) So basical...

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Main job - 40-45 hours a week (a bit longer in recent weeks due to big changes). "On-call" on a Sunday and for any media queries in general, but not much pops up.

About 10-12 hours a week for my side hustle.

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