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Jerome Manning

Derwyn wrote:Gervais’ finest work.

I realise Gervais is the definition of "it takes 20 years to be an overnight success", but odd how he smashed it out of the park with his first hit. He's done brilliant stuff since but the Office is going to be very difficult to top.

Jerome Manning

That is the best episode.

I also love this scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzs1KowWqG4

I work with a lot of Gareths.

Jerome Manning

If there are no crowds it's still a shit tv product and I'm not interested in watching.

Jerome Manning

The game can:

a) be entertaining
b) have integrity as a physical contest
c) be safe and appropriate for 2020 sensibilities

You get to pick two - all three are not possible.

This to me is the elephant in the room that we have not confronted in the last decade. It's not 1956 anymore.

Jerome Manning

Tarantino films are a complete blind spot for me, it's like I have film dyslexia. Haven't seen a single one where I haven't been completely bored and confused 5 minutes in. They may as well be in Swahili, my brain just refuses to understand what's going on. Pulp Fiction? Watched it in my mid teens ...

Jerome Manning

Tarantino films are a complete blind spot for me, it's like I have film dyslexia. Haven't seen a single one where I haven't been completely bored and confused 5 minutes in. They may as well be in Swahili, my brain just refuses to understand what's going on.

Jerome Manning

Every kiwi would have picked this but very early on in the 2003 semi v Australia, it was very obvious that we were in big trouble. As much as we were outplayed in 2019, I still thought "two late intercept tries and we've got this". Didn't necessarily think we would win, but I least thought the we co...

Jerome Manning

Put me in the camp for the Sinckler injury being a decisive factor in the final. South Africa won that game because of the accumulated scrum penalties that Pollard kicked midway through the second half. The final two tries made it look one sided, but 60 mins into that game it was a dog fight that wa...

Jerome Manning

How long is a peak?

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Crikey I am amazed no one has mentioned Bar :thumbup: nes and the YC at the 2007 Quarter final yet :shock: Proud of you kiwis The forward pass and the yellow card were fine. All Blacks have gotten away with plenty of forward passes that have resulted in key tries. Not getting any second half penalt...

Jerome Manning

Tried to go to Macca's twice today Why? :? Is it just the novelty factor? There was an actual traffic jam on the normally (even outside of lockdown) Akoranga Drive this afternoon from people lining up just to get a sniff of the privilege of waiting for Maccas drive thru. Mindboggling. Kids demandin...

Jerome Manning

Tried to go to Macca's twice today - line was depressingly long both times so had to give up.

Got my Thai chicken fried rice instead

Jerome Manning

3 hours 38 minutes until we can go crazy!

Jerome Manning

You can't change the meaning of words like that. What word do we now use to mean "completely remove"? Eliminate means eliminate. Use "reduce to a negligible level" if you need to. Hockey uses "eliminate" when an attacking player passes a defender "eliminating" the defender from the attacking move. ...

Jerome Manning

You can't change the meaning of words like that. What word do we now use to mean "completely remove"? Eliminate means eliminate.

Use "reduce to a negligible level" if you need to.

Jerome Manning

How the hell does eliminate have a different meaning than its "lay man" meaning?

Jerome Manning

Muttonbirds wrote:
Jerome Manning wrote:This thread is being left unmolested. People not keen to plough right in.
The thread is young yet.

I'm not interested in watching it mature. I'm leaving it now.

Jerome Manning

This thread is being left unmolested. People not keen to plough right in.

Jerome Manning

I've heard it's controversial.

Jerome Manning

Google thinks London of that time would have a similar population as modern day Wellington NZ (350,000 to 400,000).

Jerome Manning

kiap wrote:
Monk Zombie wrote:that is a lot smaller than i thought
Yeah

London supposedly had a population of several hundred thousand, but doesn't look it.

No way is that several hundred thousand people. That city looks about about 60 thousand. It looks significantly smaller than my home city of Tauranga.

Jerome Manning

you have to expect spoilers on a thread like this.

Jerome Manning

Chicken Fried Rice from the Thai place.

Jerome Manning

Ryanair are making the usual noises. They are suggesting the bailouts should cover all airlines equally. I wonder how the Irish govt will look at supporting Aer Lingus. They will be hung if they do, and hung if they dont. Personally I think all shareholders should pony up a % of any bailout for any...

Jerome Manning

Not enough Rolling Stones talk.

Brown Sugar and Rocks Off. And Gimme Shelter.

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That's an unfair banning. The mods are hysterical.what can we say? Lockdown has made us all a bit crazy. See you in a week

Jerome Manning

JPNZ wrote:Just finished S5 of better call saul. Fantastic, best season to date.

S5 is brilliant - it finally reached the level of Breaking Bad (or at least in the same ball park).

Took a long to ramp up, makes me wonder why they spent so much time on crap storylines involving his brother early on.

Jerome Manning

This is stolen from an NYU Professor called Scott Galloway but university education is in for a massive shake up. Wealthy parents of students going to the most prestigious institutions are going to see their kids doing Zoom lectures of limited quality and wonder what the hell they are paying $50,000...

Jerome Manning

I'm actually worried that in Australia and NZ we are controlling the spread to well which means we may have to remain in lockdown from the international community indefinitely... Yeah, it seems the best case scenario would be to let it rip through your population at a rate your health system can ha...

Jerome Manning

I couldn't go out. I was having a sleep.

Jerome Manning

Tehui wrote:Anyone who ranks a losing finalist ahead of a RWC winner is barking mad.

1995 All Blacks were a better team than the Springboks. The following year proved that 3 games to 1.

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2017 to 2019 All Blacks were probably the worst team you had under Henry/Hansen. 04 and 08/09 were rebuilding phases, 17 to 19 should have been a team peaking for the WC, but you bumbled the Lions series, lost to Ireland a couple of times and shat the bed against an England team that had your numbe...

Jerome Manning

Best:

1 - NZ 2015
2 - Eng 2003
3 - NZ 2011
4 - Aus 1999
5 - NZ 1995

South Africa 2019 are grossly overhyped. They turned up for one game.

Jerome Manning

naki wrote:
Jerome Manning wrote:That team doesn't beat England and South Africa in 2 weeks - especially without Carter.
They’d already beaten SA twice that year. England were trash.

2003 Wallabies are on the phone.
1999 France are are on the phone.

World Cup rugby and non-World Cup rugby are two different sports.

Jerome Manning

That team doesn't beat England and South Africa in 2 weeks - especially without Carter.

Jerome Manning

sorry, too much time indoors staring at my bedroom walls

Jerome Manning

Ashley Bloomfield, Director-General of Health, is doing a great job with daily communications. He comes across really well - doing a brilliant job. The most difficult aspect of his job (I'm sure it's not...) looks to be coming up with polite answers to absolutely stupid questions from "journalists"...

Jerome Manning

I've written numerous times on this thread that Ashley has been great - love the way he communicates.

Didn't get shit canned, just wanted a login name that I didn't come up with when I was 17. Also want to post less shit - although that will probably last 3 days.

Jerome Manning

kiweez wrote:Poking my head back into this thread after a long absence.

What have I missed...?

Jacinda's been great

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