Positive chat! Final plans, What are you doing? Where are you watching?
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<p>Midday kick off here in Canada. No food, no drink - not by choice but two days out from a tonsillectomy it just can't happen. This should ensure I will be even more insufferable than usual both watching the game and on the fern.</p>
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<p>Being Queenslanders I'm quite sure they're used to it.</p>
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<p>They're putting it on at IMAX here in Sydney - largest screen in the world I'm told by wikipedia - and taking up roughly one-third of the size of a rugby field, I guess it just might be:</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAX#Theatre'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAX#Theatre</a></p>
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<p><em><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">A standard IMAX screen is 22 m × 16.1 m (72 ft × 53 ft), but can be significantly larger. <strong>The world's largest IMAX screen is in Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia, and measures 35.7 m × 29.7 m (117 ft × 97 ft).</strong></span></em></p>
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It's such a fucken pain that it's at 5am and not 7 or 8. During the 99 WC mates and I would think nothing of drinking all night either at a flat or on Courtney Place and then tapering off a wee bit as the games approached. Have tried to organise a really early brekky but I'm having fuck all luck so will watch with the boys if they get up.
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<p>Ive got to go to a wedding in the country( wifes family) on the Sat night out in the sticks , </p>
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<p>Have rented out a house for the weekend that has foxtel , so that part is covered </p>
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<p>3am kick off here and the wedding should finish around midnight , </p>
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<p>Bit concerned about what to do in those 3 hours between , worried about having a few beers , having a snooze and missing the game , </p>
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<p>But will be a bit shit sitting at a wedding for hours and not having a beer </p>
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<p>That, right there, is a true mid life dilemma! I wouldn't know what to do!</p>
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<p>If with close mates, it would be sweet as we would drink and stay awake.</p>
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<p>I'm off to my mates farm where we won't be doing an all nighter but will drink heavily from about 4:30 am!</p> -
<p>Just a note to Aucklanders planning on heading to pubs in the city or around the Shore to watch the game, the morons organising the Auckland marathon have chosen this Sunday morning to have their marathon. So roads will be closed from as early as 2 am in some areas. Be aware of this. You can find details of road closures at the following website.</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.aucklandmarathon.co.nz/event-information/road-closure-information/'>https://www.aucklandmarathon.co.nz/event-information/road-closure-information/</a></p> -
Im flying out to London tomorrow from Sydney. Just packed my bag. I think thats everything...<br>Not sure where Im drinking on Saturday. Dont care. Have barely slept since the semi final.<br>Good times.<br><img src="http://i.imgur.com/h4y5PWp.jpg?1" alt="h4y5PWp.jpg?1">
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="akan004" data-cid="535595" data-time="1445998919"><p>Just a note to Aucklanders planning on heading to pubs in the city or around the Shore to watch the game, the morons organising the Auckland marathon have chosen this Sunday morning to have their marathon. So roads will be closed from as early as 2 am. Be aware of this. You can find details of road closures at the following website.<br>
<br><a class="bbc_url" href="https://www.aucklandmarathon.co.nz/event-information/road-closure-information/">https://www.aucklandmarathon.co.nz/event-information/road-closure-information/</a></p></blockquote>
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Listening to the radio this morning and they were interviewing some pencilneck about this, he said it's ok because they've ( Shudder ) 'planned a victory parade'........ -
<p>cuuuuuuunts!!</p>
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<p>so, what time is kick off in NZ (so i can work back and get the kick off here), is it 4 or 5?</p>
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<p>It being Aus v NZ, most of my mates want to do something for it, but like Voodoo, going right through is pretty tough. Plus, i watched the semi with some friends and didn't enjoy it, i felt like i should be a bit more impartial, when really i wanted to rant at the TV. Plus i felt like i should have pants on...</p>
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<p>I guess the big question is, after we win, what is an acceptable time to start getting drunk? Not sure i am ready to explain to my kids why i am having beer for breakfast...</p>
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<p>We've won 2 world cups, I was too young to drink for the first one, so it's a rare enough event to have beer for breakfast.</p>
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<p>I watched the quarter and semi, alone in my apartment but with a Facebook chat with some mates in NZ and at the games. I went to bed early and set the alarm both times, clearly no show of getting sleep afterwards. I contemplated heading out, or even going to London but after much thought, I will stick to a winning formula, can't change things up this late in the tournament.</p>
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<p>So I'll set the alarm for 1:30am or so to give me at least 90 minutes to be fully with it. The only minor change I may make is a beer or 2 for the nerves. If we win, I'll turn that into a beer or 10 and head to meet up with some mates, if we lose I'm not sure what happens. Sleep will be unlikely, so it could be a long tired, grumpy day. </p>
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<p>Sometimes I wonder why I do this to myself, and wish that I didn't care so much...but that's just hedging. It will absolutely be worth it if I get to drink all day Sunday.</p> -
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<p>Listening to the radio this morning and they were interviewing some pencilneck about this, he said it's ok because they've ( Shudder ) 'planned a victory parade'........</p>
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<p>god I have no idea where I'm going to watch it. Some stupid twat (me) decided to book in their 40th for Sat night.</p>
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<p>Basically have no choice but to try and push on through. Which won't be easy. But fcuk it it's the RWC FINAL. surely I can stave off being an old ba$tard who can't stay awake past 1pm for one friggin night.</p>
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<p>I have purchased a couple of trays of redbull.. think I'll buy some boxes of no doze!</p>
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<p>will see how the night goes but hopefully watch it in town somewhere will be good to have some atmos.. not that I'll be remembering it most likely! </p> -
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<p>god I have no idea where I'm going to watch it. Some stupid twat (me) decided to book in their 40th for Sat night.</p>
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<p>Basically have no choice but to try and push on through. Which won't be easy. But fcuk it it's the RWC FINAL. surely I can stave off being an old ba$tard who can't stay awake past 1pm for one friggin night.</p>
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<p>I have purchased a couple of trays of redbull.. think I'll buy some boxes of no doze!</p>
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<p>will see how the night goes but hopefully watch it in town somewhere will be good to have some atmos.. not that I'll be remembering it most likely! </p>
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<p>Awesome. Did you plan the Auckland Marathon too?</p>
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<p>As someone who runs these races (at a very very slow jog SammyC), if I'd trained for months I would still give this one a miss. I enter the Melbourne Marathon every year but this year it would have required missing the quarter-final. No chance.</p>
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<p>I'm sure the feminist professor with absolutely no knowledge on how to perform scientific sampling and basic statistical analysis could survey some runners to find people who don't care about rugby though.</p> -
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<p>As someone who runs these races (at a very very slow jog SammyC), if I'd trained for months I would still give this one a miss. I enter the Melbourne Marathon every year but this year it would have required missing the quarter-final. No chance.</p>
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<p>I'm sure the feminist professor with absolutely no knowledge on how to perform scientific sampling and basic statistical analysis could survey some runners to find people who don't care about rugby though.</p>
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<p>The mother in law is in the local running club, they weren't very impressed with the timing but apparently the event calendar is set some time ago and is difficult to change. I would expect that entries will be down big time this year. Serves them right, fluffybunnys</p>
