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Long piece from Cricinfo on the anniversary of Martin Crowe being incorrectly given out with no reviews left..
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@Frank said in US Election Thread 2016:
Our comments in relation to the articles/videos are good examples of confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance. None of us are rational - but we are claiming we are.
That's the genuinely scary thing about the likes of Facebook & Google, they are 100% created to learn what we like & tailor our news to that. Once you have a FB news feed for a year all that is coming down that feed is news that the algorithm knows you like. Same with Amazon with our shopping. So its possible - even probable, that people feel incredibly well informed on topics, despite being staggeringly poorly informed.
Its created a silo'd society where people in each group have utter certainbty that they are right because they've read extensively on the topics. And zero trust in those outside their silo.
Pick any of the big issues in society today, Climate Change, Islamic Terror, Guns, Taxes, Elections, Vaxines, Food Allegies..
We in the West pat ourselves on the back for not reading propaganda like those in in dictatorships, while reading a very narrow stream of news tailor made not to differ with our click learned world view.
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Did you mean to do that?
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@Bones
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I feel like Savea is taking one for Todd, we were going to be bitching about something & I can almost picture Todd reading at home going
"no way? so no one on the Fern has compared me to Mark Carter?"
"nope, they are all shitting on Savea! high five! The younger ones are chanelling Rokocoko & the older ones have just thought about that 93 tour where fat Inga couldn't find the try line if there was a bucket of KFC on wheels leading him there"While Cruden is just going "no ones goives a shit about me anymore, not even the Cheifs guys"
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Late to the party. But the thing that stood out to me most watching the game was -
"How good / much"
I lost count of the number of times Smith & Justin asked each other "How good is Ben Smith?", "How much is ALB liking test rugby" "How good was that try", "How much did the ABs need that" "How good was that catch?" "How big was that tackle?" "How fat am I since I stopped playing cricket?", "How little did I prepare for this test" "How much much of this comentary is Nisbo saying stuff & me repeating the last thing he said, but louder?"
It got to the stage I was actually waiting to see what Smithy or Justin would ponder the how of next. Turned out it was "How good is the NZ bench"
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@infidel said in US Election Thread 2016:
Valid news sources....allblacks.com reporting on try scorers and final score in the big match.
I fucking hate Allblacks.com
I mean look at this -
http://www.allblacks.com/Fixtures/EventDetails/4213
thats the page for ABs v Aus August this year. It shows a stack of pre game articles, but is there a quick link there to the teams with who played, who subbed on, any basic stats, the match report?
Nothing. Nothing at all. Its the official fucking AB site but if I wanted to see the team & who subbed on when, who made most tackles there is fucking nothing on the main game page.
You want anything on the actual game you have to go to stats home - series - click on the game. WhyTF is that link not on the match page?
That site is a fucking abortion. And not even a good abortion, a backstreet 20 weeks-in mexican doctor with a kettle he uses to both make tea & sterilise the coathanger abortion.
Its probably all there in an easy link I just havent seen but I'm on a roll
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An 18-stone jazz fan who sued for compensation after an accident at Ronnie Scott's was fat, drunk and careless in her high heels, a judge found.
Eren Hussein, 53, blamed dim lighting at the world famous Soho club after breaking her wrist and elbow falling down stairs after a party in 2012. She wanted thousands in damages, but after a civil trial this week, a judge threw out her claim, saying the fall wasn't the club's fault. "I tumbled over and over and over and I injured myself very badly. I recall landing on my neck and the back of my head as well"Eren Hussein Judge Heather Baucher QC said Mrs Hussein was intoxicated, obese, wearing shoes with high platform heels, and not taking care by holding the bannister as she descended.
"In her inebriated, obese state on three-inch platforms, that would be an obvious, simple step for anyone presented with what they saw as a hazard," she said. During the trial, the company director, from Lower Clapton, said she had been at a birthday party with her pregnant daughter-in-law when the accident happened in March 2012. After missing a step outside an upstairs lounge, she fell, tumbling down one flight, round a corner and down another, she said.
"It was dark, it was dim and I didn't see my step as I was going down," she told the judge. "I tumbled over and over and over and I injured myself very badly. I recall landing on my neck and the back of my head as well." The mother, who has since shed five stones of weight, told the court she was walking down the left side of the stairs, whereas the banister was on the right.
But Judge Baucher said, given her size at the time, that should not have prevented Mrs Hussein using the rail as she walked down the metre-wide stairway. "Mrs Hussein, at 115kg, must have taken up much of the width of the stairway," said the judge, "but for some inexplicable reason, she did not use the handrail." Earlier, Mrs Hussein said she had drunk no more than a glass and a half of champagne and a glass of red wine, and was not tipsy.
But the club's barrister Catherine Foster pointed out medical records from her arrival at hospital, in which she was described as "obviously drunk" and "intoxicated". In her ruling, Judge Baucher found Mrs Hussein was under the influence, although she said she may have been affected by painkillers and the fact she had not had alcohol for six months before the accident.
"I find that the notes in the hospital records referred to her being intoxicated because she was so," said the judge. There was nothing wrong with the lighting in the stairwell, continued Judge Baucher, who visited the scene of the accident during the trial. Hundreds of people use the stairs every week and yet there had only been one other report of a person falling down, she said. Mrs Hussein had fallen because she had missed her step, something for which Ronnie Scott's management could not be blamed.
"In ordinary circumstances, she, like countless others, would have descended the staircase and gone home," continued the judge. "However, on that evening, whether due to one or more of the factors - painkillers, weight, shoes, drink - she simply missed her footing. "I find she did so through no fault on the part of Ronnie Scott's." Her damages claim was rejected.
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@taniwharugby said in All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch:
So do the Abs tweak thier gameplan with Ardie starting, or does Ardie have to play differently to fit the game plan at the start or is his play able to just slot into the current AB gameplan?
No, Ardie plays the AB gameplan & if he does it well thats awesome (see NMS last year, similar deal), if he doesn't Matt Todd very much can play the AB gameplan. And will.
Its no different 2012 to me, where Kaino had shown the AB gameplan for a 6, Thompson, Vito & Messam (all superb athletes) then had a shot at it. Thompson played like Thompson. Vito played like Vito & Messam after briefly playing like Messam, switched to playing the AB gameplan & locked himself into the jersey till Kaino came back. Same when Luatua got a chance & played like Read, in the 6 shirt. And got dropped.
A good test match for Ardie will be one where half the fern get miffed because he is not making huge runs & popping up all over in space, because that probably means he is doing what Cane has been doing instead. If he gets a chance to gallop 60m he will & should, but above all he needs to play test match rugby as an AB 7 does.
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Its not really going ahead. its 700 miles. The actual border is 2,000m. Current wall is 500m.
The issue re Trump is more he campaigned on Trust me, I'm not a polititian, I'm not a liar like those other guys, when I say I will do something I do it. 100%
And his supporters talked about how great he was with his no bullshit & straight talking & totally different that was from the liars in Washington. His whole attraction was he wasn't like Obama & co. As we were told over & over.
So its holding him to what he campaigned on & was voted in on. The big thing is the speed of the unravelling. Drain the swamp, lock her up, build a wall right across & Mexico will 100% pay for it, sever ties with the banks & bash Goldmans.
These are all dead now, 14 days before he is sworn in. Its not like he's been in 18 months trying to fight congress to get these through & having to compromise (as with the case with ACA for example). They were bullshit when he said them & he's tossed them straight away.
@rotated said in US Politics:
Honestly the whole "Mexico will pay for it" thing to me just seemed like a start point for negotiations.
There haven't been any negotiations.
Its gone day one. As with say, appoint an investigator re Clinton. Look at the degree to which Frank spamed this site with youtube "proof" Clinton was dirty & the Alt Right unit on here gleefully talked about her being investigated. He didn't even pretend to do that, he just went, day 1 "well that was buillshit obv, congrats on falling for that morons".
And thats what we have for 4 years. A great combo of him going "nope, that was just a slogan" & his cheerleaders tying themselves in knots going "well, I knew that he didn't really mean that"
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Looking at Cane & Richie over the last 3 seasons the 2 core things we are getting from our 7 is impact tackling (ie not just tackling, but hitting the guy way behind the advantage lines & hitting him very hard indeed - something Wayne Smith is big on) and carrying in the 10 channel.
Both Richie & Cane have been doing that far more than traditional pilfering a-la Kronfield or early Richie (tho' a lot like 1987-8 Michael Jones)
One of the reasons Ardie has been a bit "M'eh" in black is he lacks the ability to tackle hard & fast like Cane has. He tackles, just without the impact. Hansen wants him to add 5kg (presumably to his chest & shoulders) and that'll get him up there you'd expect.
Poccock in contrast is a very passive tackler, he rides tackles down to get up for the turnover, his tackle style is polls apart from the way the ABs are using their 7. As others have noted a big part of the AB strategy is if the first up tackler creams a guy the next guy in - regardless of who that is, has the skill set to pilfer if its on. The key skill is the creaming bit, everyone has the pilfer skill.
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I don't really buy Guptil as a test batsman anywhere.
In ODIs if you loook at his strength its playing off the front foot straight through the ball. He drives on the up superbly, often for 6. He pulls incredibly well in front of square - off the front foot half the time. You try that as your "go to" in tests you are out pretty fast. Red ball moves more off the seam for far longer than a white ball. There are more fielders in place behind the bat, bowlers bowl shorter etc. Literally everything in test cricket is against a guy who's one textbook shot is a front foot straight drive on the up.
As for moving to the lower middle order. Yup totally, so long as he has fast feet & can get forward & back like lightning, because thats the key for every successful 5, they have to be able to cut late & fine, let the ball come on to them & move to the back foot fast to work it off their hip etc. Michael Clarke was outstanding at that.
Again, not sure thats Guppy...
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@Crucial said in US Election Thread 2016:
Is there any constitutional way that the election can be abandoned?
Neither of these candidates deserve to be POTUS.
Turns out that it is a prime opportunity for an independent 'placeholder' President but too late now for that to happen..Issue there is none of the alternatives were good either. Cruz should not be anywhere near government, Rubio is better but stands for nothing. The genuinely solid ones - Kasich, Kaine are too bland to get enough votes in the US, Ryan is OKish but didn't run. Santorum & Perry are atrocities, Sanders is delusional. Bloomberg would have been good, but WAY too liberal for most Americans.
Mitt Romney could have been excellent I think - Clinton without the baggage. Great experience, very centrist, willing to compromise. The GOP horribly dropped the ball not drafting him & getting 100% behind him when it became clear Jeb wasn't up to it. Jeb Bush would have been good, but its the dynasty shit again.
I don't buy the idea Clinton is not good enough. Shes not ideal, but she's got very good experience, shes bipartisan (which Obama wasn't), she'll be a solid president & nothing she does will cause any lasting damage. She may even do well in that she would work across the aisle on, say, reforming Obamacare & certainly on immigration. Obama was a disater on that front (compromise).
All the repeated garbage that Frank posts is just that, garbage. Last week she was so dirty she had Comey in her pocket so that disqualified her, then Comey goes WAY outside his remit & it turns out, oops, there's no actual smoking gun. The level of shit posted makes Winger look knowledgeable on climate change. Yesterday apparently, the whole NYPD had read Humas emails without a warrant. Now he's just literally spamming youtube shit - I'm pretty sure she did 9/11.
Its the Trump playbook - scream 400 things till people go "well, some of this must be true!". Like, sure the CIA didn't plan 9/11, but they probably let it happen... and no, the tower planes weren't missles thats stupid. Then pentagon one tho'...
Almost everything in the case against her only looks bad through a Frank / Brietbart lens. It's why even GOP media outlets are endorsing her, not because she owns the media, but because 99% of the shit against her is stuff like she wacked Vince Foster. On the flip side Paul Manafort actually on Yankokovichs payroll (100% confirmed) is no biggie.
Trump is flat out unqualified. He has zero ability to work across the aisle. He can't even work on his side of the aisle. The chance of major conflict in Ukraine or the Baltics goes way up under him. Thats beyond my own personal reasons which are more the social side - he'll put up, maybe, 3 Supreme court noms, all hard conservative. Gun laws, gay rights, racial issues, immigration, womens rights, prison reform, dug legalisation all get hit there - and not for 4 years, for 25 years. Thats why 30% of his vote is die hard christian conservatives who loathe him, but would marry satan if it repealed Roe v Wade. 90% of americans want gun laws tightened, almost 60% support gay marriage, only 20% of americans support banning abortion etc. He's socially going the wrong way on almost every issue.
On jobs & trade Trump is promising jobs that dont exist anywhere, not just in the US (digging coal by hand, manual car assembly), its an illusion & a lie.
Its too late to put up someone great. But they can vote in someone who wont criple the country (and damage the world) and focus on Ryan v... someone, in 2020.
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@Winger said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
Who does Todd play for?
The All Blacks. For proof watch the guy in the black 7 shirt tomorrow.
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Straight into a comentating gig on Sky last Saturday morning for the Super Rugby coverage too, he was pretty good opposite Noddy. A hell of a lot better than Fitzy tends to be, good chance to step into the roles that Ali Williams had sewn up until he got nose snuffle issues & shot his future earning in the face.
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@TeWaio said in US Election Thread 2016:
@phoenetia said in US Election Thread 2016:
@taniwharugby I hope its all over Wednesday our time, I dread the thought of it dragging on.
God no! This thread is the best piece of the internet, ever.
The best bit about this thread is the way people have slowley let their crazy show. And then they desperately try roll it back every 20 posts or so. Its like ranting about the Jews / blacks / immigrrants / women & how they are scum, then every 10 posts going "not all of them, I have a black friend."
Then after 50 odd pages those rolll backs are coming less & less. Like the way 20 odd pages into climate change a poster on the odd side finally went "well the lord god made the world 6000 years ago.." and it was "Oh! there it is". Frank started out 30 pages back posting pretty solid stuff, he is now calling out satanism.
This whole thread is like that for finding out if posters are bigots, morons, belive conspiracy theories etc.
I know, I know.. the irony.
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@NTA said in Uber v Taxis:
That is a pretty big fail. Can't use the "same colour as the sky" defence from the other incident.
On the plus side, it stays bang on dead centre in the lane. So for all bar the last half second that software is functioning perfectly.
This is sort of the thing that annoys me - and will more so in the future with self drive. That video will be on the news, it'll be viral, it'll be front page. The 2,000 identical instances where a drunk driver, a sleeping driver, a guy texting, changing the radio, trying to answer his phone etc do exactly that wont be.
I'd be more alarmed if we were choosing between pretty good self drive & perfect humans, but we are choosing between pretty good self drive & staggeringly poor drivers with bad attention spans & reflexes that, compared to a computer, are pigshit. Self drive dopesn't have to cause zero deaths, it just has to cause 10% fewer than the alternative
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Lets face in in reality, she'd drop the dress & I'd be done before we got round to discussing angles.
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