@taniwharugby said in Straya!:

@NTA I suspect they are more cruising for food than swimming for food....

If you deliver pizza to my pool, I will eat it.

Some good stuff coming out and with the changing weather, it will only get better.

As Mike says, the pricing is currently an issue.

Here in Japan, we can get a bit of it but it's not cheap enough to be volume (much of the Prosecco market) and is in the mid-premium price range with a huge range of fantastic substitutes (not just champagne and cheap Franciacorta, we also get some very nice Cremants and the better Proseccos).

I have done it on and off for 20 odd years, Dave Loveridge is my most famous relation, a distant cousin. Provincial battler Chris Eaton is my 2nd cousin. I think Arnold Palmer is the golfer that my Grandfather said we are related too ,I'm still trying to find the link.

Happy New Year all.

This is currently doing the rounds..

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RIP 2024!

@Victor-Meldrew I didn't think we had it so loud you'd hear it in the next bay!

Merry Xmas all, writing less as drinking more

is netting a option

@antipodean

I have a Rega Planar 2 which is excellent. First brought to market in the early 70s and still being made. Low tech so super robust but with really good mechanics. The sound quality is very good Caveat: depending on your amp and speakers of course.

Cost in the UK is about £350 (bought one for Ms Cato’s birthday just over a year ago). There is a Planar 3 available but that is a bit more techy and close to twice the price.

Stylish to look at too. V understated.

@Catogrande said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:

@nostrildamus said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:

@Catogrande said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:

@MN5

And I only do that if I’m standing on the edge of a cliff. So I’m straight.

Is that why you are always standing in front of Cliff?

Well I'll be buggered. Wait. What?

You'd push back for Cliff.
And be buggered.

@Victor-Meldrew I only bought a new ride on about 18 months back, but at the time I had looked at some robo-mowers and they seem to have improved remarkably since, and pricing come down too.

I know a guy who has a prototype Husqvarna robomower, and Husqvarna are monitoring its perfomance in NZ conditions, particularly on kaikuya grass.

This is one I been looking at and will seriously consider in another year or so, is priced at about 5k NZD

Recently had the pleasure of listening to Mark Mathews speak, telling his story from big wave riding and getting on the red bull team and then adversity.

The way he speaks, telling us how he hates public speaking to his story, saw a bit of a dust storm rise up in the building we were in, made more impactful as I didn't know his story (hadn't googled him when i heard he was to speak)

I spoke to the MC after and he said Mark was terrified before he went on stage, yet when he was up there he looks as comfortable as anything.

We also had Ben Hamer a futurist speak, wasn't sure what to expect from him, but whatever I expected, he exceeded it, fascinating stuff, and he paints the picture more from the positive than the negative we see so often in the media.

@Davesofthunder ive been trying to learn so i could make a page for my local club

found this thread when looking for some help myself, i can help with edits though

On the original topic of the thread, WWE will be available in NZ via Netflix from 2025 although apparently PLEs (PPVs in old terms) are available now if logging in from NZ. Presumably that will be the end of the Network for the time being.

Brilliant

CrowdStrike: Company that caused global techno meltdown offers partners $10 vouchers to say sorry - and they don't work CrowdStrike: Company that caused global techno meltdown offers partners $10 vouchers to say sorry - and they don't work

The company behind the world's worst IT outage has given gift cards to its teammates and partners to apologise and thank them for the extra work during last week's meltdown.

Anyone watched an AB’s game in Busan SK before?

@antipodean The epitome of ZIRP.

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