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- Thu Apr 04, 2024 3:49 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3542076
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Looking forward to the new cycleway along Wellington harbour as that'll make the cycle from Lower Hutt to Wellington much more pleasant. The reporting on that has pissed me off big time. Any time there's an issue with delays, costs, impact on the environment it's always "Cycle Way" rather than 'sea...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 1:24 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3542076
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: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3542076
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...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 9:44 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3542076
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 9:43 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3542076
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? 2 or 3 days a week (and the aforementioned Cambridge Tce ...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 7:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3542076
Re: NZ Politics Thread
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350232112/battle-bike-lanes-simeon-brown-v-cyclists I find the anti cycle way stuff so weird. I get why the high cost of some can put people off (that quoted figure for the Petone Melling one seems crazy in a vaccuum) but some of the talk about them is divorced from...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 11:38 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3542076
Re: NZ Politics Thread
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350232112/battle-bike-lanes-simeon-brown-v-cyclists I find the anti cycle way stuff so weird. I get why the high cost of some can put people off (that quoted figure for the Petone Melling one seems crazy in a vaccuum) but some of the talk about them is divorced from ...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 2:57 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Ed sheeran is modestly talented IMO
- Replies: 131
- Views: 2940
Re: Ed sheeran is a talentless fudge IMO
And yet I’m argue that Taylor is the biggest since the Beatles. There’s something there. What is it though? Record sales? Cultural impact? Number 1s? Or is it just your inner Daryl Kerrigan? Record sales, eh? It’s an interesting question but I don’t think record sales is meaningful. So what is? I c...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:38 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Ed sheeran is modestly talented IMO
- Replies: 131
- Views: 2940
Re: Ed sheeran is a talentless fudge IMO
What is it though? Record sales? Cultural impact? Number 1s?
Or is it just your inner Daryl Kerrigan?
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 7:01 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Hurricanes 2024. The Midget is gone!
- Replies: 190
- Views: 26547
Re: Hurricanes 2024. The Midget is gone!
Hurricanes adjacent related - just watched the Wellington Saints (basketball) season opener and John Plumtree's son (who is only 17 and still at school) is pretty handy. Played decent minutes, got some buckets and defended well. Also was unafraid to get in the face of Rob Loe who is much older and b...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 1:14 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Ranking the World Cup Winning Scrum-Halves
- Replies: 85
- Views: 2280
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 12:50 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: New Zealand to poach young French talent?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5699
Re: New Zealand to poach young French talent?
I don't think he gets his period.earl the beaver wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:37 pm I didn't think periods at school counted towards residency?
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 9:40 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Ed sheeran is modestly talented IMO
- Replies: 131
- Views: 2940
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 9:38 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Ed sheeran is modestly talented IMO
- Replies: 131
- Views: 2940
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:52 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Training Thread - all aspects of fitness and health
- Replies: 27114
- Views: 2016591
Re: The Training Thread - all aspects of fitness and health
I’ve done the garage thing but rarely trained well. I don’t need the other people - I prefer when it’s empty - but I like ‘going to the gym’. It’s like a switch or something that gets me into the right frame of mind. I never got that at home. And I like the mirrors. And the sauna. Yeah me too. I've...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:36 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Early Joke of the Year Contender
- Replies: 20
- Views: 729
Re: Early Joke of the Year Contender
3 guys are talking about how they've never achieved anything and one suggests maybe they could try to get in the Guinness Book of records. Guy 1: So I’ve been thinking: my head is pretty small. So I’m thinking, maybe I could record for smallest head. Guy 2: Actually, now that you mention it, my arm ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:41 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Jeremy Guscott v Manu Tuilagi - who was better?
- Replies: 88
- Views: 5347
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:27 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3542076
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I think it was Aristotle that said "give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man". There is plenty of empirical evidence showing the impact of quality ECE education on cognitive, language and motor skills, in addition to social and emotional skills. A suitably qualified teacher utilisi...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:01 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3542076
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I'd like to see someone interviewing Luxon say to him "Can you just say the thing you're saying please? I can see you and hear you saying things to me, you don't have to to tell me that you would say something to me every time you're going to say something to me. Just f**king say it"
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:02 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3542076
Re: NZ Politics Thread
The details of the ECE family boost scheme have been released. I'm no expert in this area and having 'adult' children, nor do we need to use ECE services. Does this look fit for purpose? What are the pitfalls? https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350226575/what-new-family-boost-policy-means-parents The...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:11 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3542076
Re: NZ Politics Thread
The revamp of the ECE 20 hours free is just f**king bullshit that'll make it less accessible. Not everyone can afford to pay it until they're given the tax credit and not everyone will be organised or clued up enough to do so. It's an unnecessary change designed purely to penny pinch and National ca...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:46 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3542076
Re: NZ Politics Thread
It's an envy tax, pure and simple. Politicking at its best. Sounds good to those who know nothing about tax but ineffective, inefficient and won't actually make a positive difference to anything. The horse has long since bolted for it affecting the housing market, but that said it's still a good th...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:52 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3542076
Re: NZ Politics Thread
After six years in power, ruling it out in their first term, deciding against it in their second term despite having an outright majority. Now Chippy reckons we need a CGT. Great to see they are full of new and fresh ideas in opposition. :roll: It's an envy tax, pure and simple. Politicking at its ...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:20 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3542076
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Try this bit then. "People like Chloe Swarbrick have been running round making this same statement ie lower rents will not be passed on. She has no concept of economic reality and is a dangerous politician. Every time she speaks she seems to indicate that her plan is to fund the worlds biggest soci...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:36 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3542076
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Ignore the IMF at your peril....
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:43 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3542076
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I don't think the Greens are in free fall, a couple of bad eggs doesn't mean the whole party is rotten. I just agree with other posters that they set the bar so high with their holier than thou preaching to the rest of us that a couple of incidents as serious as these two makes them look really bad...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:07 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3542076
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Cast your mind back a few years Booji when National were in free-fall. Every party has the problem because most politicians are narcissistic trough-swillers who think that laws and rules are meant to be ignored by them. I don't think the Greens are in free fall, a couple of bad eggs doesn't mean th...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:50 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3542076
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Yeah but they are the only party claiming to be more woke than than the some of the left virtue signalers on this thread. Hypocrisy layered on top of bad behaviour leaves a worse taste in the mouth than just bad behaviour. I think that's in the eye of the beholder, tbh. Is it any worse (in terms of...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:38 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3542076
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Its becoming endemic of the green party.. Is it though? Not gonna get into whataboutery, but they're hardly the only party with skeletons. Yeah but they are the only party claiming to be more woke than than the some of the left virtue signalers on this thread. Hypocrisy layered on top of bad behavi...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:32 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3542076
Re: NZ Politics Thread
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/ ... 24PX33TAU/
I'm looking at buying a hybrid later in the year so I'm all for it....
I'm looking at buying a hybrid later in the year so I'm all for it....
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:32 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Training Thread - all aspects of fitness and health
- Replies: 27114
- Views: 2016591
Re: The Training Thread - all aspects of fitness and health
Just started getting back into exercises that aren't physio (knee replacement just before Christmas) or a bit of walking (i.e. a few km). Right now it's a bit of a lamester effort with embarrassingly light weights, truth be told: 4 sets of pull-ups, 3 sets each of machine chest press & machine seat...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:53 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3542076
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Its becoming endemic of the green party.. Is it though? Not gonna get into whataboutery, but they're hardly the only party with skeletons. Come on !!! The Greens always go on about ethics and social responsibilities, nek minute bullying, theft and sweat shops... Yeah, but again they're hardly the o...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:51 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Training Thread - all aspects of fitness and health
- Replies: 27114
- Views: 2016591
Re: The Training Thread - all aspects of fitness and health
I myself have changed up my training style in the last 18 months substantially. I'm nearing 50 and I decided that at my age I wasn't really interested in going for big strength gains as it doesn't really help my life to have a big 1rm squat if it's gonna fudge up my joints and connective tissue. Pu...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:57 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3542076
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Why the 6 week cover up by the Greens leadership though? Similar to GG. I would have thought the best course of action is to suspend the MP, pending an investigation, as soon as the allegations come to light. Its becoming endemic of the green party.. Is it though? Not gonna get into whataboutery, b...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:48 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Training Thread - all aspects of fitness and health
- Replies: 27114
- Views: 2016591
Re: The Training Thread - all aspects of fitness and health
Mate, 5kg of muscle is a BIG step in that timeframe. Suspiciously big….. TBF, I'd been trying to lose weight prior to getting back into it so a portion of that is probably just regaining muscle and holding more water - I doubt I've actually put on 5kg of new muscle, but yeah am getting good results...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:46 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Training Thread - all aspects of fitness and health
- Replies: 27114
- Views: 2016591
Re: The Training Thread - all aspects of fitness and health
I myself have changed up my training style in the last 18 months substantially. I'm nearing 50 and I decided that at my age I wasn't really interested in going for big strength gains as it doesn't really help my life to have a big 1rm squat if it's gonna fudge up my joints and connective tissue. Put...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:32 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Training Thread - all aspects of fitness and health
- Replies: 27114
- Views: 2016591
Re: The Training Thread - all aspects of fitness and health
Righto plums. You units have inspired me. All this talk of being strong and shit…… Last year I went hard (consistently) and finally saw some gains in the gym. I’m now slightly less-weak than I was previously. I’ve been training for many, many years but I’m up against some terrible genetics so it’s ...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 11:57 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3542076
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Also it could be applied to the family home in certain circumstances though Jacinda vehemently insisted that "It doesn't apply to the family home!" She probably wasn't across the details and didn't realise that in some circumstances it can but Robertson certainly would have known. To be fair on tha...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:08 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3542076
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I've noticed Luxon in his 'this will help renters' has mentioned the amended bright line test a bunch of times. I'd quite like him to explain how the bright line test affects rents given it's only applied when the property is sold....
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 6:53 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ hosting Australia 2024- Cricket series thread
- Replies: 571
- Views: 18958