@crucial said in US Politics':

Republicans have been hard at work twisting the landscape to their advantage

Why would they bother? It's Biden's incompetence, Harris being shown to be utterly out of her depth and Democrat in-fighting that's changed the landscape in a remarkably short period of time and caused the US public to regret not voting for Trump.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/donald-trump-tops-opinion-poll-as-us-voters-regret-supporting-joe-biden-xcp6vz69v

I'm in

@frank at least !

@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

When it's your round...except @MN5

I’d happily shout you a water if we met for a drink.

@antipodean

Seen more realistic space helmets on a welder

I don’t know how anyone affords anything in NZ nowadays, but this will help:

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/climate-crisis-millions-in-counter-intuitive-new-charges-for-rail-freight-users?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3XRT7_L5kxsquTeivXIaXilJdxPcmlLy5ddUIcjpJcA6Sz-PUwE0A3qG0#Echobox=1634495233

@bones said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

@catogrande seems quite interesting in that, all his beefs are with stereotypical gay themes, yet it seems at no point did anyone in the show actually say anything about gays? So he's offended by his own stereotyping of gays. Brilliant.

So we’ve come full circle and we can now take legal action for offending ourselves ?

What an age to be alive.

What is rather encouraging was I spent time ( Christ talk about being bored ) looking at the comments and they were virtually all taking the piss out of him to varying degrees when I fully expected quite a few to have a go at Hammond and co.

Perhaps we’ve turned a corner with this PC/woke bullshit ?

Just a heads up here:

I'll be immediately deleting low grade Facebook conspiracy nonsense like "Nuremberg Code violations". That stuff poisons the well for genuine discussion of the problems and responses.

@crucial "Phil Oakey out of The Human League" star of Top Gear.

@Cyclops said in Super Rugby News:

@Duluth said in Super Rugby News:

Tim Perry.. of all the players who had multiple starts for the Blues he was the worst. Second place is miles behind him. Think of all the crap players that played for the Blues over the decades Tim Perry was number one. Well done.

Managed to win three super rugby titles though!

Didn't really watch him at the blues but he was decent for the crusaders and ultimately managed to push crockett out of starting his last final.

Not to mention a fairytale end to his career winning the M10 Cup with the Mako in his final match.

Six test caps.

And even memorable for the Blues....

Pretty solid, Tim! 🙂

@antipodean said in British Politics:

'Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.' - Oscar Wilde

One heck of a quote that.

I guess human interaction and social norms wisely stop us saying what our emotional side really thinks - which is missing on social media

New Zealand Rugby is planning a special tribute for Wainui for this weekend's NPC matches, with details to be confirmed later this week.

@bovidae said in Olympics Thread:

I see that Lisa Carrington is committed to going to Paris.

Le Grand Spectacle d'armes à feu

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(The big gun show)

@act-crusader said in Coronavirus - Australia:

The amount of backslapping in that press conference yesterday by the Qld Government was embarrassing.

mate, they wheel themselves out for a daily press conference to say "zero cases" it's absolutely ridiculous

It's like our daily propaganda broadcast. Fuck off woman and only speak when you have something to say. This is effectively a loooooong political campaign with no election in sight

@nta said in Hawt discussion (lots of PG13 gifs/pics):

@bones said in Hawt discussion (lots of PG13 gifs/pics):

@nta said in Hawt discussion (lots of PG13 gifs/pics):

@bones said in Hawt discussion (lots of PG13 gifs/pics):

@nta his penis?

I didn't think about that.

Because I'm not into penis.

Surprise!

As in "Surprise-there-is-a-penis"? Or "Surprise-Bones-is-into-penis"?

Context.

I'm as innocent as they come.

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A bit of a ironic meme this one, I remember reading in the newspaper around 97-98 ( remember those relics of the past ? ) that Ewen McGregor had been cast as Obi Wan. My first thought was no fucken way will that junkie do justice to an iconic character. I was triggered before that term was even a term….

How wrong I was.

If anything due to the volume of work he surpassed the great Sir Alec Guinness.

Hats off you Scottish legend.

@gt12 said in Memes:

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Haha, I’m stealing this to put on the good ladies FB page. She criticises my driving…..and she doesn’t even have a license hahaha.

@nta said in JK vs BigRed:

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Upvote cos Clint

Kautai won't be playing for MP.

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@nzzp said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:

@majorrage said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:

TBF though, I can't blame Aussies for treating the result with a bi of disdain given how much we shit the bed when we toured there last.

at least we could beat the Indians at home, eh 🙂

seriously, give us a proper warmup and a better selection policy and we may have been competitive.

We have Kylo and Devon as well now. Much better team

@kid-chocolate said in Rough tips and other bets...:

Waller and J-Mac win The Everest with NATURE STRIP. Just held on. Worthy victor, has been the best Aus sprinter overall the last three years. Does Steve Hansen still own a share? If so he’d be receiving a nice chunk of change today.

Yes he does. He watched from Tokyo

@catogrande said in NH International Rugby:

@mikethesnow said in NH International Rugby:

@catogrande said in NH International Rugby:

@mikethesnow

The interesting one in the squad is Christ Tshiunza who I think has played four games for Exeter. I know he is highly rated by Baxter and co but...

Giving him a sense of the step up

Don’t expect him to play

They’ve done it with a number of players

Yeah Eddie has done the same but then forgets about them for 5 years and once he is forced to play them they get called up for the Lions 😀

If that comes to pass, it’ll be the Second Coming of Christ

Winter 'Flu & Covid booster jab booked for next week. Our local health Centre is really pushing hard to get these out to people before mid-November.

@voodoo said in Lockdown Check In:

@nzzp said in Lockdown Check In:

Covid lockdowns are the shittest thing since shit sandwiches.

A dear friend passed away suddenly yesterday, one of those blokes who knew everyone and would have hundreds at the funeral. Can't even give the widow and family a visit, let alone a hug. God knows what the funeral will be like; memorial services in a few months just aren't the same.

I have no idea how we're going to work through the grieving process remotely, a lot of people will struggle (myself included). It just sucks.

No replies needed, just venting. It's a shit 24 hours that's getting shitter frankly.

That sucks mate. My Mums best mate passed away last week. Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer 3 months ago and now gone. She turned really fast at the end and her son, who lives in Sydney, managed to get on a flight home but was still in MIQ so missed her.

Shitty times.

So bizarre, the doctors gave my mum 6 months to live, 12 if the treatment was successful, back in Sep-19, and here she is 24 months later having stopped all treatment more than 18mths ago. And this poor lady went in less than 3 after the diagnosis. Life is weird sometimes.

Bloody hell, @nzzp that's totally shit too.

I'm going to go facetime my old man. I'm feeling really lucky that he is still sticking through it but these posts are my biggest fear.

@Rugger-Quizzes said in My Latest All Blacks Quiz:

3000 or more test runs. New entry on the list.

https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/83115/new-zealand-test-cricket-3000-or-more-test-runs

3.19 remaining........most of this was due to the spelling of one particular name...

@bones said in All Blacks 2021:

Anybody over here going? Tempted to see if can find a ticket for France somewhere, but it doesn't look cheap.

Italy is a bit more bearable, be nice to pop to Rome for a weekend again.

I can imagine tickets to the Wales game would be a couple of hundred squid by now, plus the complication of trying to figure out my covid passport.

Dublin...yeah nah fuck Dublin.

Test Match day in Cardiff always money well spent

@Stargazer @Crucial

And the two waterboys in question (actually coaches) have been charged. By the RFU rather than the judiciary I think.

@jk legs are rooted lol!

@nostrildamus said in Brexit:

@majorrage has there been a problem with GPS or did they reach an agreement with the EU over the satelites?
Regards discrimination, most of my foreign pals are outside London (and some are far north England) so that may be a factor.

Talk on that has gone quiet since the deal was signed, so I suspect this was included in that.

No doubt location is a factor, but I should point out, I'm not in London.

@kruse said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:

@rancid-schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:

@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:

One thing TSF is terribly good at is straw man arguments.

It's entirely fine and proper to point out a player isn't up to Test rugby at that stage of their development. That doesn't rule out maturity and improvement. It certainly doesn't rule out criticism.

Again that's not the argument. It's when a player is ripped to shreds as being shit, not up to it etc. And again let's stop pretending nuance is a thing here.

Nuance is a thing everywhere. If only you can recognise/understand it.
And it's "balderdash".
Boulder Dash was a sweet little computer game.

Stick to reviewing shitty Movies. It's a much better use of your time.

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Warning: 40 minutes long

@No-Quarter said in GOT - there will be spoilers:

I'm currently reading the books. Got em on Kindle so it has merged all 5 books into one which physiologically makes it a tough as you don't feel like you are making much progress. Have got 69% of the way through.

They are freaking awesome though.

The detail on the houses the families is fucking amazing isn’t it.

@MN5 said in Australia v India:

@Snowy said in Australia v India:

@MN5 said in Australia v India:

I hate overrated All Rounders like Watson and Ben Stokes.

How do you feel about Chris Cairns?

I said overrated not underrated

We could just go with rated then.

Regardless of your opinion on the issue, this is a funny read: