This is the 7th Lions v ABs series I've watched ('66, '71, '77, '83, '93, '05, '17) and I think this is probably the tightest my sphincter has been since the 4th test match in 1971. My ticker might not be able to handle this one. I get anxiety attacks even opening this bloody thread. If I don't have a paramedic on standby I might have to go into an isolation tank until the game is over and then look for the result. I thought this was supposed to be fun?!
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An all-time great as a player and skipper, obviously, by my memory after the Cavalier debacle in ‘86 was that Lochore was the guy who held the fern closest to his chest and helped rescue the ABs, much like Jock did a decade later. People forget how divisive the early-to-mid 80s were, when politics got in the way and supporters were turning their backs on rugby. Lochore was a great servant to the game and the union. And of course, I always loved how he remembered everybody in the Wairarapa, I remember being with family in Masterton in the late 80s and he knew everybody, a national hero who was at heart a smalltown heartland lad. RIP.
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@Chris-B. said in All Blacks vs. B&I Lions test #1:
@dogmeat As they used to shout on the Basil Brush Show...."Who's that?"
Love that guy.
Boom-boom!
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Terry Jones: Monty Python star dies aged 77
Dementia, a rare form. Hits close to home. Very sad.
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@MN5 said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:
The gunman ( and I still don't know his name without googling ) ...
I’ve been wondering the past two weeks whether this is by design. I suspect it is, mostly because of the idea that we don’t want to give the sickfuck psychopath “infamy and notoriety” or something. Maybe there are other explanations.
But burying his name seems to me irresponsible and inadequate. It’s a way of absolving him of some of the blame and spreading it far-and-wide onto “toxic white masculinity and privilege,” especially, which let’s face it means a lot of us here. Like, we did it. That’s why we keep seeing fingers pointed at ourselves with far too many confessional white-guilt op-eds telling us “we’re to blame,” etc. Am I being defensive? Maybe I am. But that’s what happens when people start fingerpointing and throwing around blame. And I suspect this is exactly the sort of highly emotional and divisive effect that the dickwad terrorist was banking on.
No, we and society are not to blame. Sure, there are a lot of factors you can pull outta your bunghole if you want to absolve the sicko. But he’s the shitforbrains who planned and executed this appalling crime. His name is Brenton Harrison Tarrant, and he ALONE is responsible for it. Certainly we can all do better as a culture and society making sure everybody feels included. But we are ALL individuals responsible for our own actions, and fingers don’t need to be pointed anywhere other than the sickfuck who planned the assault and pulled the triggers.
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He’s not wrong.
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The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code
Bill Benter did the impossible: He wrote an algorithm that couldn’t lose at the track. Close to a billion dollars later, he tells his story for the first time.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-03/the-gambler-who-cracked-the-horse-racing-code
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Re: "There are no easy answers, etc." Of course. But Scott Adams has an interesting hot take. I like it. "Change the frame."
Helping The Terrorists Recruit
There is more terrorism in the news, this time in London. So how do the British politicians respond?
They do a recruitment ad for more terrorists.
They start by giving the terrorists cool labels, such as “Islamic extremists.” Do you know what sounds like an awesome club for an angry young Muslim to join? I’m thinking “Islamic Extremist” sound about right. That branding should be great for recruitment.
The media also helps terror recruitment with their wall-to-wall news about the terrorists’ successes. Every time they mention the body count, the bad guys cheer.
A better approach for the media, if they want to be helpful, might involve inviting a continuous line of Muslim scholars and critics to talk about how these “gullible losers” were duped by ISIS to kill themselves and spend eternity in Hell. And we need lots of visual and other persuasion about Hell. I want Photoshopped images of the terrorists burning for eternity. I want descriptions of the smells, tastes, and sounds they are experiencing, so the next “lone wolf” has something to contrast with the 72 virgin story. Let’s put some doubt into that mix. Fear is a good persuader.
I also wonder why the families of terrorists are not being flooded with condolence messages from Muslim clerics saying they are sorry about their kid burning in Hell for eternity. Be sincere about it. Include some digital representation of Hell in those cards and letters.
Change the frame.
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http://blog.dilbert.com/post/161427038341/helping-the-terrorists-recruit
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@ACT-Crusader said in FIFA Womens World Cup:
There’s some pretty brutal footage from international women’s football games. The hair pulling, kicking, biting, elbows.
“I went to a NHL game and a womens soccer match broke out.”
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Good commentary in Sydney Morning Herald this morning written by lesbian activist Dawn Grace-Cohen decrying “queer fascism” that is trampling speech.
Silencing Folau with queer fascism betrays our gay marriage victory
I think Israel Folau's views make him a Neanderthal; he thinks I am a sinner. I should be able to say so and keep my job. So should he.
Marriage equality activists won over Australians not by silencing the opposition but by winning the argument. I was one of them, and last year I married my fiancee, Robyn Grace, after a 34-year engagement.
Resorting to bully tactics now against people who oppose us betrays that victory. We have asked the country to celebrate our diversity, but that means we must also celebrate diversity of opinion.
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Can’t wait for FIFA WC2022. Qatar is gonna be lit.
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Ifuckinknewit!
EAT LESS RED MEAT, SCIENTISTS SAID. NOW SOME BELIEVE THAT WAS BAD ADVICE
The evidence is too weak to justify telling individuals to eat less beef and pork, according to new research. The findings “erode public trust,” critics said.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Public health officials for years have urged Americans to limit consumption of red meat and processed meats because of concerns that these foods are linked to heart disease, cancer and other ills.
But on Monday, in a remarkable turnabout, an international collaboration of researchers produced a series of analyses concluding that the advice, a bedrock of almost all dietary guidelines, is not backed by good scientific evidence.
If there are health benefits from eating less beef and pork, they are small, the researchers concluded. Indeed, the advantages are so faint that they can be discerned only when looking at large populations, the scientists said, and are not sufficient to tell individuals to change their meat-eating habits.
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AMAZING STATS:
Both the Springboks and the Wallabies have played 101 Rugby Championship matches.
Of those, each side has won 42 matches, lost 57 and drawn 2.
Even more bizarre is that, in all of that time, the Wallabies have conceded 2,472 Rugby Championship points to South Africa's 2,473.
In the 'points for' column, the Boks have a slight advantage having amassed 2,197 points to Australia's 2,147.
That's an average 24-22 defeat for both sides - thanks in main to the All Blacks' dominance over the years.
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Missing Woman Mystery Solved
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@act-crusader said in Springboks v Wallabies - Bloemfontein:
Nothing separating these two (mediocre) teams....
Wobblies have conceeded one point less. Still keeping their edge.
@salacious-crumb said in Wallabies v Boks - Perthfontein:
@Salacious-Crumb said in Wallabies v Boks - Perthfontein:
AMAZING STATS:
Both the Springboks and the Wallabies have played
101102 Rugby Championship matches.Of those, each side has won 42 matches, lost 57 and drawn
23.Even more bizarre is that, in all of that time, the Wallabies have conceded
2,4722,495 Rugby Championship points to South Africa's2,4732,496.Updated.
AMAZING STATS:
Both the Springboks and the Wallabies have played
101102103 Rugby Championship matches.Of those, each side has won 42 matches, lost 57 and drawn
234.Even more bizarre is that, in all of that time, the Wallabies have conceded
2,4722,4952522 Rugby Championship points to South Africa's2,4732,4962523.Fixed again.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in The Folau Factor:
What genius thought attacking someone for a religious belief was a winning strategy.
I think they’re blind, Baron. They live in their little bubbles, and those bubbles are echo chambers.
These are the same sorts of corporate elites who live on the coasts in America, don’t know anybody who works off the land or goes to church, and became so stupified when Trump won their heads exploded and the only plausible explanations in their brains was that the election had to be stolen. They couldn’t accept that other people had different values.
That’s why hosts on MSNBC can say with a straight face they don’t know anybody who voted for him. It’s why Ted Cruz could grill a Google exec yesterday poiting out that $1.3 mill was donated by senior Google management to Hillary and exactly $0.00 was donated to Trump.
These people don’t believe conservatives or Christians or free speech activists exist, and then believe if they actually do exist then they need to be silenced. This is the new secular orthodoxy, and anybody who deviates is a heretic.
I suspect the majority of donations to Folau’s legal fund come from Christians, but I wouldn’t be surprised if close to half come from people who are simply fed up with virtue-signalling hall-monitors and lynch mobs telling us that traditional values are beneath them.
All Blacks v BI Lions Test #3
MOTM v Wales
The mighty Totara has fallen. RIP BJ Lochore
All Blacks vs. B&I Lions test #1
R.I.P. 2020
Christchurch Gunman in Mosque
Ricky Gervais At Globes
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FIFA Womens World Cup
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Jeffrey Epstein
Israel, Iran, Syria, and the rest of the ... Middle East
Science!
Wallabies v Boks - Perthfontein
North Korea
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