@kiwiinmelb "Nice guns, Sonny".

"Thanks, Jack - I like your hair".

@Siam said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:

Wags out. Baby coming.

But don't worry Henry called up

Don't know why Mrs. Wags can't do this on her own - the delivery is bound to be short, or very short!

@mn5 said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

@mariner4life said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

Shit team in a shit location. lucky the Warriors are on

DO NOT diss Nelson you Queensland Bogan fluffybunny.

Ignore him, MN5.

What would a fucker who lives in Cairns know about locations? He's choosing to live in a swamp, inhabited by nasty, poisonous biting creatures - and that's just the people, don't get me started on the wildlife.

In fact, do. Go to the beach - get eaten by a crocodile. Go for a run - get bitten by a snake. Go for a shit - get bitten by a spider. Go anywhere and get bitten by dengue-ridden mosquitos or some other fucking insect largely unknown to science.

Go to the pub and be entertained by Tex Morton and his pet bantam, Stu - singing "Blue Bayou" - a song about living in a swamp.

In summary, he wouldn't know a good location if it bit him on the arse - and in Cairns it probably will!

Well done, lad!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/126150980/paul-coll-becomes-first-new-zealander-to-win-the-british-open-mens-squash-title

Biggest win by someone from Greymouth in a while.

Dave McKenzie won the Boston marathon, but he was from Runanga.

How have I never seen Pinky the Loving Cat before?

Well, that was pretty exciting and given that I hate losing far more than I like winning, I'm remarkably sanguine about the result.

I think some of you guys are being pretty harsh on the execution. The Lions defence was extremely good - no weak links - and I think the ABs decided they needed some pieces of magic to score. Maybe a lack of patience at times, but the two tries we scored both had a fair degree of magic to them - especially the second one. Taking pop passes into a close defensive line and getting smashed isn't the best way of retaining the ball - but, it's also a good way of breaking the line. On another night we could have scored four or five tries - we certainly created opportunities - especially in the first half.

I haven't really seen a massive decline in Hansen's coaching - we just came up against a team chock full of talented players and with the depth to match and possibly better the advantage we usually get from the subs bench - particularly once we lost a few players.

On the final penalty, I guess Poite will give a Gallic shrug and say something like "Il n’est pas la bonne décision, mais c’est la belle décision."

Which means, "It is not the right decision, but it is the beautiful decision." At least that's what I typed into Babelfish to get that result!

@sparky said in Savea goooone Skudder in:

@Crucial Selling Comics.

Worst Wing Ever!

Right now, the Crusaders have won the same number of games as the Australian teams combined.

@mariner4life

@Kirwan said in US Politics:

In decades of observation, the most egregious management fuckups are done by people who can't do the simplest shit right. They're the same arsebandits who try to use Excel as a database.

The things I have seen built in Excel over the past 20years...

But, I wanna talk about Windows 8.1. I mean that was terrible. So terrible. Really bad. An affliction on the American people. And everyone else. And I was the only person to tell the truth about how bad that was. So bad. And so-called experts here tried to tell me it was good. Sad. Very sad. I mean Bill Gates. And by the way Bill Gates is a great friend of mine. And a great American. He's done so well. But even Bill Gates said how bad Windows 8.1 was. It was so bad Bill Gates gave everyone a free upgrade to Windows 10. So just listen to me in future. No-one knows more about IT than me. And halfbacks. Even Nepia will tell you that.

Welcome to Greta's world, guys...

@bayimports I see ten Doeschate is now 41. I thought he'd been around a long time and I was right!

Logan Van Beek also in that Dutch side.

@crucial Timmy always seems pretty hittable - but, Big Kyle has gone for plenty playing for NZ as well.

Mitch Jr. has shown some form in the lead-up games (he retired in this game against Oz). But, I think Phillips and Neesh have a bit more hitting power at 5 and 6 and we probably want that.

Chapman can bowl a bit of spin in addition to batting - but, I'm not sure his batting is compelling enough compared to other options.

Astle - third spinner if we decide one is necessary. But, who knows - they might prefer him to Ish.

@crucial Davy will probably come right when we least want him to.

What is our top XI? Something like:

Guptill, Seifert, Williamson, Conway, Phillips, Neesham, Santner, Jamieson, Sodhi, Ferguson, Boult

Leaving: Mitchell, Southee, Astle and Chapman

@canefan There was an initial surge in the outbreak - then a dip when they looked like they might get it under control (lots of days sub-30) - and now it's surging again.

@canefan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@chris-b said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@antipodean Yeah - I don't think they're missing that point either.

If you look how cautious they were about letting the South Island etc. drop from L4 to L3 when we had zero cases - and then a few weeks later, they let Auckland drop - even though there were still plenty of cases.

I think they're balancing what the population will wear.

If the Auckland hospitals start overflowing with covid patients, then I think the population would accept the need for a circuit-breaker.

The fact that they aren't overwhelmed and the numbers are relatively stable, people are going to increasingly wonder what the fuck we are locked up for

Numbers are significantly higher than when they were suppressing them at L4 though and it's pretty much an exponential thing - my expectation is that we will be having several hundred cases per day this time next month.

On the plus side for the Auks (misery loving company) - I'll be pretty surprised if the rest of us haven't joined you in whatever level of lockdown.

I hope to be pleasantly surprised!!!

@antipodean Yeah - I don't think they're missing that point either.

If you look how cautious they were about letting the South Island etc. drop from L4 to L3 when we had zero cases - and then a few weeks later, they let Auckland drop - even though there were still plenty of cases.

I think they're balancing what the population will wear.

If the Auckland hospitals start overflowing with covid patients, then I think the population would accept the need for a circuit-breaker.

@antipodean Seems to me that Level 4 pushed the case numbers down in this current outbreak and now they've gone to Level 3 they're going up again.

So my guess is that if they went back to Level 4 they would push the numbers back down - as long as everyone obeyed the rules.

And that's the key clause.

Any good you did would probably be offset by the protests you'd spark.

Awful news.

@godder Yeah - it would be buying time - for a few more people to get their first jab, but quite a lot of people to get their 2nd jab and develop the antibodies.

In 2 weeks maybe they'd get back to something like anonymous' 30 cases per day as opposed to having something like 300 cases per day on the current trajectory.

One of the professors on TV last night reckoned about 1 in 10 people in the current outbreak are being hospitalized - so that would get things back to 20 hospital admissions per week, rather than 200.

It's pretty much all about stopping the hospitals from being overwhelmed now, I think.

I don't think they'll go for it today though.