Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz
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<p>Dixon is indycars but I guess the point still stands I guess. If he was in formula 1 he'd probably be known worldwide .</p>
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<p>Yeah, 5th place Mark Webber is globally famous, Dixon is huge in most of the US. </p> -
<p>Lucy Lawless? Hell no! This is the global A-list! I briefly considered Adams and Dixon and discounted both - you have be both the Franchise player AND come with some mystique. LBJ, Curry, Shaq, Jordan, Rodman types.</p>
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<p>Ayrton Senna was A-list.</p>
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<p>Lorde? Well you can make a case that she's A-list, but I will say this. When Chris B. is sending out invitations to "Chris B.'s A-list BBQ for A-listers", ain't gonna be no invite going to Ella. Mick and Keith can sit around for three years being professional party goers and still command invites - let's face it, Keith can come on a mortuary gurney - but, being Taylor Swift's buddy cuts no ice with me. In fact, after what Gollum told me about Taylor, she might struggle to warrant an invite. She's hardly going to cause Mick and Keith to stay late! :)</p> -
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<p>Depends how much she knows about cricket Chris</p>
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<p>"THE cricket" judging by her conversation with KP on Graham Norton's show. :)</p> -
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<p>In the US he'd maybe be known. In Oklahoma... outside the US. If I saw him I'd probably think "Is that Victor Matfield!? Steven Luatua after an illness?!" and be excited, and go "oh, nope just some tall no one"</p>
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<p><strong>It always astonishes me how much NZers follow basketball. Especially given we are largely a nation of not especially tall, built like brick shithouse people. Average NZ body shape is probably Piri Weepu. </strong></p>
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<p>Who's the NASCAR new zealanders that no one outside NASCAR has ever heard off & no NZer would recognise but has heard of? Dixon?</p>
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<p>I know people ( all over the world, not just NZ ) are getting fatter but that is a truly baffling statement. 7 footers don't exactly grow on trees in the US you know. A bloke I know avidly follows V8s and UFC despite a) not even having a drivers license and b ) being someone who couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag.</p>
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<p>Even at my best I never cracked 10 seconds in the hundred metres but I still avidly watch that whenever I can. From what you're saying we should be more into Sumo wrestling but there's not much of that going on in good old NZ.</p>
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I recall reading an article about 10 years ago that said NZ was growing taller faster than any other nation...obviously also fatter now I guess
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="taniwharugby" data-cid="579676" data-time="1463196843"><p>I recall reading an article about 10 years ago that said NZ was growing taller faster than any other nation...obviously also fatter now I guess</p></blockquote>
Is that the white South Africans migrating?<br><br>
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<p>I recall reading an article about 10 years ago that said NZ was growing taller faster than any other nation...obviously also fatter now I guess</p>
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<p>Your first statement is doubtful.....your second is definite.</p> -
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<p>Your first statement is doubtful.....your second is definite.</p>
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<p>ah right, sorry, I guess I didnt read it afterall! </p>
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<p>I just got dragged to the mall today, short, fat fluffybunnies aplenty.....</p> -
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<p><strong>I recall reading an article about 10 years ago that said NZ was growing taller faster than any other nation</strong>...obviously also fatter now I guess</p>
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<p>I wish. Even in flats I'm eye to eye with most men. You blokes are getting shorter, I swear it.</p> -
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="gollum" data-cid="579499" data-time="1463131502"><p><strong>I think Russell is officially Australian now.</strong> Cliff Curtis is Mexican. I think... he's definately been Mexican in everything I've seen him in since Once Were Warriors. Except that time he was an Arab.</p></blockquote>
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<p>On topic, can't believe that it was news that a British mother was told to <strong>stop breastfeeding</strong> in a British hospital.</p>
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<p>Not just any breastfeeding, <em>sexual breastfeeding. </em>You get some pretty marginal types in the nursing ranks sometimes, but it's not very PC these days. I love how the newspaper dredge up sexy selfies because that has anything to do with it</p> -
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<p>Wikipedia still seems to think Russell hasn't obtained Australian citizenship yet...<br><br>
On topic, can't believe that it was news that a British mother was told to stop breastfeeding in a British hospital.</p>
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<p>I'm not surprised, it's bloody expensive!! It's not like you'd expect Russell to have a 1K lying around or anything... oh, wait.</p> -
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Not just any breastfeeding, <em>sexual breastfeeding. </em>You get some pretty marginal types in the nursing ranks sometimes, but it's not very PC these days. I love how the newspaper dredge up sexy selfies because that has anything to do with it</p></blockquote>
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<p>What's this about sexy selfies?</p>
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<p>Trust you to take what you want out of it</p>
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Mum ordered to stop 'sexual' breastfeeding, told to go behind hospital curtain
<p>By Adam Boult</p>
<div><span>2:25 PM Saturday May 14, 2016</span></div>
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<p>A young mother was told to stop publicly breastfeeding her four-month-old son while in hospital as it was deemed to be "sexual".</p>
<p>Darcie Pennington, 18, was visiting her grandmother at the Royal Liverpool Hospital when she started feeding her son Vincent.</p>
<p>She was approached by a female nurse who told her to move to a private room so as not to make other hospital visitors "uncomfortable".</p>
<p>"I went to sit down with my nan and feed my son, shaking and very upset," Darcie wrote in a Facebook post.</p>
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<p>"The nurse then came over and slammed the curtains shut, telling me that I couldn't feed him as there were males I would make feel uncomfortable.</p>
<p>"I asked her why I was being targeted and why she wasn't promoting breastfeeding as a nurse I thought was strange, she told me she was protecting my dignity.</p>
<p>"I then asked her if I was feeding him a bottle would I receive the same treatment - she went on to say, 'bottle feeding isn't sexual.'</p>
<p>"Appalled by this comment I asked her what she found sexual about a baby having something to eat from his mum.</p>
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<p>"I then had another nurse come over to me and felt very confronted and harassed.</p>
<p>"Me and my mum quickly got our belongings and left."</p>
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<p>Deputy chief nurse Colin Hont apologised on the hospital's behalf saying: "We are aware of a complaint made by Ms Pennington in relation to visiting her relative who was recovering on a ward that is primarily used for recovery from breast and eye surgery.</p>
<p>"We have apologised for the distress that has been caused and we are currently looking into the matter and would be happy to discuss this further with Ms Pennington.</p>
<p>"We fully support breastfeeding and visitors to our hospitals are welcome to breast- feed where they choose to and feel most comfortable," he added.</p>
<p>"We also offer private spaces for mothers who wish for privacy when breastfeeding. We work to maintain the privacy and dignity of all our patients and visitors."</p>
<p>- <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.telegraph.co.uk/'>Daily Telegraph UK</a></p>
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<p>Not sexy sexy, sorry Jeg, sort of poor man's Kardashian with all clothes on sexy :whistle:</p>
