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@Bones said in Quote collapse:

@Stargazer Yeah I've noticed recently a lot of replies don't seem to show against the post that was replied to. I'm sure they used to.

An example FYI.

@MajorPom replying to @ACT-Crusader but not showing up in the latter's post.

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@KiwiMurph said in T20 World Cup - Other Matches:

Just have the qualification tournament earlier/separate.

I found that utterly weird: "Here's another mini tournament before we throw you in against the big boys. Enjoy that"

Good warmup games I guess but it basically went under the radar for me.

Watch the highlights how absolutely garbage was JGB the guy had soap for hands. How bad have we looked when he is at 10 Morgan can’t get back sooner.

@Frank said in London Fires:

@Crucial said in London Fires:

When I first arrived in London a few years ago I did some contract chef work as an on call emergency/troubleshooter. Basically when places were screwed for a night/week through absences or needed someone to clean up and sort out a kitchen after someone else's mess.

Crucial Ramsay.

The language used was often similar. 🙂

Mostly it was emergency fill ins at 'gastro pubs' and the like. Just needed to be able to get in there and run the kitchen on short notice. I had one or two where I refused to work there unless the kitchen was shut for a complete clean and decontamination as there was no way I was going to serve food to people from such cesspits. Funnily enough they all had 3 star health safety ratings and I'm not super fussy.
Punters really do not want to know what the average kitchen is like.

@Stargazer

Good on Mitchell for honouring the bet. Awful voice though.

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@Bovidae said in All Blacks in Hell:

@Nepia Maka over fatty Turner. Moving to NH should automatically exclude him. 😉

Then it would be G Evans in to replace him due to my selection policy.

TBH, I don't really hold that against Turner, in those days he had to move to further his career. There was no Hurricanes to overlook him or Chiefs, MP and Highlanders to pick him up.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby-world-cup-2023/300946507/stuff-sky-team-up-again-to-bring-fans-live-coverage-of-rugby-world-cup-2023

Live Rugby World Cup matches on Stuff
Opening match between All Blacks and France

Two quarterfinals (including All Blacks if qualify)

One semifinal

Bronze playoff

RWC final

Delayed Rugby World Cup matches on Stuff
All Blacks v Italy

All Blacks v Namibia

All Blacks v Uruguay

Two quarterfinals

One semifinal

@antipodean if it wasn't for pesky men and all those sexist people it would!

@nta said in Scotland v Japan:

@mn5 said in Scotland v Japan:

@nta said in Scotland Vs Japan:

Watched this today. Main notes:

Top quality skills on display. Like watching both these teams go around but fuck me Scotland can be cynical.

Scotland should have had a yellow card inside the first 20 minutes. Every time a ruck headed toward their line they invariably infringed. Pickerill bottled that.

Meanwhile, Williams was on one sideline calling out everything against Japan, ignoring anything in blue - both sides were playing merry hell with the last feet.

45th minute, Japan are moving upfield with pace. Ruck forms and Blue #4 is never onside - advantage.

Kick through, regather Japan 14, tackled just short by Blue 11. Ball is popped up for a supporting player but Blue 11, still on his knees, grabs it.

Clear penalty try. Nothing between Japan support runner but paint - as they say if you took out the offending player, would the try have been scored? Probably-to-definitely. Yellow card as well thanks. It was even replayed multiple times on the big screen and the officials still didn't want to know about it.

Call me cynical, but if it had gone the other way there would have been a fucking inquest and a YC/PT the way things have gone this tour.

I’ll just call you a Scotsman instead

My mother was 25% Scot, so I'm 100% not.

If you opt out of buying a round one in every four pub sessions you know why.

@booboo said in Black Ferns NH Tour 2021:

@crucial said in Black Ferns NH Tour 2021:

@bovidae said in Black Ferns NH Tour 2021:

I agree with Lendrum's comments about Ngata-Aerengamate feeling the need to use social media to raise these issues, rather than speaking to management/players directly.

As I said in the match threads, I wouldn't be selecting her on form alone.

If this is truly the feedback from the coach and he is supported right to the top (as seen) you can see why she wanted to air it publically to get it off her chest and move on though.

Throughout the years these were some comments made by head coach

That I had been selected but didn’t deserve to be in the team That he was embarrassed for me
-I was told that he couldn’t tell my worth in the Blackferns
-I was told what would my students think of me? I was sworn at for wearing my jacket around my hips, I was yelled at running to rucks, how I ran the ball, anything I did I felt I was doing wrong. a recent comment that I was picked only to play the guitar

Some of those comments are unacceptable and go way beyond pushing someone to perform. If that is how Moore speaks to those he coaches it's no wonder they didn't perform well.

Trying to justify that by saying 'her form was rubbish' is missing the target entirely

Perception vs. reality. Comments made may have been misconstrued. We all have a habit of convincing ourselves that the way we perceive and thus present a narrative is correct. They may be verbatim. They may be perception.

The highlighted bit makes me think this is being overblown and thus the other comments which may or may not have been made get exaggerated to suit your own narrative. You dwell on them.

The bit about the jacket is also a probable non-event to me. Smarten up and show some respect to your team and your uniform if the occasion warranted it.

The other comments would need to be looked into. But I wonder how much of this is an over sensitive player lacking in confidence looking to confirm her insecurities and taking anything remotely resembling criticism as such.

Yeah, I had another look at them too and can see how some could blow out of proportion based on perception. Once you feel picked on or bullied you jump at shadows. Even the guitar thing could be a joke that hurt.
Saying that you don't agree with selection and that you can't see value or deservedness is probably the root (if true) of the perception of the other comments though.

@smudge said in Thrashed CD's:

In the summer of 1994/95, my parents decided to do a road trip from Dunedin up to Auckland for Xmas. With one sister already having left home, and the other on exchange in Finland, 15yo me had the back seat of our 1986 Toyota Corona to myself. After taking SH1 all the way north, we took our time coming home via the BOP, around East Cape and down through Hawke's Bay.

Anyway, I tore through packets of AA batteries listening to cassettes on my Walkman, and the one that I could listen to over and over was Crowded House's Together Alone. Still my favourite CH album to this day.

Others on high rotate for me on my 3-CD player and later my 25+1 CD player/stero were:

Radiohead - The Bends Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream Stone Temple Pilots - Purple Jimi Hendrix - The Ultimate Experience The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation Gomez - Bring It On Chemical Brothers - Surrender

That is a cracking selection of music. Radiohead's best album for me.

@Duluth said in Embedded Facebook videos.:

Ok, I was planning on doing a software update in the middle of this week. I'll try another method of embedding FB videos when I do that

Too busy.. will get to this in a couple of weeks

@Stargazer said in A Global Season?:

World Rugby Professional Game Forum attendees: World Rugby, The Six Nations, SANZAAR, International Rugby Players, British and Irish Lions, EPCR, PRO 14, LNR, PRL, Top League and Professional Game Committee unions: Argentina, Australia, England, Fiji, France, Japan, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa and Wales.

No wonder nothing got decided, they probably didn’t get past making sure everyone’s audio was working on Zoom

@NTA said in England Vs Ireland, Six Nations 2020:

Intensity from the Poms was great but Ireland didn't adapt or adjust to any of it.

Not the only team in recent history for that to happen to!

This Italian team has a bunch of very good players (Canonne, Steyn, Polledri, Minozzi) but a majority of very bad ones who are not even M10 level. Hopefully some of their U20 promising players could join the national squad soon (halfback, 1st Five, centre, Nr.8, one of their locks, hooker, both props).

Seems a bit harsh on Brits to not just be a yellow, didn't seem a lot he could do other than protect himself.