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@booboo said in Aussie Rugby:

@dK said in Aussie Rugby:

New neighbour has just moved in, Michael Hooper. My office overlooks his backyard. The wife is looking at setting up a webcam, as he tends to get changed to surf in the backyard.

Big backyard

Big money player

@taniwharugby if the haka doesn't scare him my pasty white fish belly will!

I am spending an inordinate amount of time walking around the backyard in my All Blacks Jersey

New neighbour has just moved in, Michael Hooper. My office overlooks his backyard. The wife is looking at setting up a webcam, as he tends to get changed to surf in the backyard.

For those outside NZ, I found it on YT. Good TV

@MN5 said in No kids, any regrets?:

@mariner4life said in No kids, any regrets?:

@MN5 said in No kids, any regrets?:

All this talk is getting me excited.

I hope Ms MN5s headache has cleared up by the time tonight rolls around.

it won't have

Bugger, I might have to roll the big guns out and pick up a nice takeaway, a bottle of red and then sit through some bullshit TV about a farmer choosing a wife.while rubbing her feet.

.....

Sounds like a perfect ad for "self pleasure" less effort same result

@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

Some people have such exotic lives. What's a vacuum?

A broom that sucks, not a euphemism

@mariner4life jesus that's some radar you have that you can "spot" baps 1 second after I had posted, very impressive.

Best Bacon buttie (and using my new cast iron pan)
Ingredients
Good bacon
Soft white baps
butter
Method
fry bacon, until crunchy on the edges but maintaining meatiness in the rasher and a good amount of fat is rendered
remove cooked bacon, place sliced bap face down in bacon fat to pan fry and absorb all the fat, this will leave a nice crispy layer
butter baps, add bacon, eat, take heart mediaction

You're welcome

@dogmeat said in Life changes:

@Virgil That's a relief.

Congratulations. What a traumatic experience. I'm sure the whole Fern community feel a little better about life thanks to that news - especially in these troubled times.

#Istandwithvirgil #TVLM

@Snowy said in Parenting:

@Virgil said in Parenting:

Having a husband must be worse... look at all of us.

My wife is a massive fail as far as raising a child to a mature, responsible adult goes, but I do blame her for all of my faults.

Is that because you were unaware of them until she mentioned them?

@Bones said in Fern Helpline:

Right place for this then? I'm struggling to figure out how to deal with this one (not exactly major)....

So my boss - really nice guy, always means well and does fight my corner if it's required. But...I can't have a conversation with him about anything without getting one sentence in and then hearing a 5 minute (at least) personal anecdote from him on a same/similar topic. We have a weekly one-to-one and I've given up. There is no point me trying to raise anything anymore as I don't get a chance to say my piece AND I get regaled with a monologue about an experience I have no interest in.

I don't really know what to do about it - if I say something then I'm sure that would just make him completely shut down in future due to being so self conscious about it - or am I projecting?

Do you have access to his schedule? Why don't you catch him 5-10 minutes before his next meeting and only ask the priority question

@Crucial said in Online Shopping - Clobber:

@Bones said in Online Shopping - Clobber:

@Crucial found that jacket you were looking for bro.

Still after the stonewashed version

pffftt, it's Acid Wash or nothing!

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@Stargazer said in What alternative sports to watch during lock down:

@dK You're late to the party!!

https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/post/427393

Happy to share the credit

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@Duluth said in The Silverfern Merchandise Ideas.......:

@Crucial said in The Silverfern Merchandise Ideas.......:

I remember I had a t-shirt years ago that @BartMan produced.

Think it was a fern with leaves made of shape of NZ? TSF on the back below the collar?

People used to ask where I got it and I had to explain that it was for special people only.

I had the one in brown, but it shrunk in the wardrobe