The Silver Fern

@nzzp said in NZR review:

@Godder thanks for that.

If the PU still 'own' the pro game, but appoint a board to run as an independent business, do they still pay tax? Surely the transfer of a surplus to the parent body doesn't attract the liability as the parent body is tax-exempt.

I'm not an accountant, so terminology may be totally wrong.

If it's a separate for-profit entity, the surplus would be taxable. Imputation credits on the dividends would be refunded after filing a tax return, but to avoid all tax, the entity would not be able to retain any amount from the surplus. Possibly there are other options around licensing and/or management fees but that's a good way to attract IRD's attention for an avoidance arrangement.

Appointing a separate arms-length board to run the professional game within the NZRU is fine.

No, but probably over Tucker.

Blues picked Sotutu as their MOTM

Ha! Tipped already! Won't get me a third time... At least, not in a row...

A duck walks into a pub in the East End of London, walks up to the bruiser of a barman 'got any crackers?'
the barman looks confused, 'no we don't sell crackers' and the duck leaves.

The next day, the duck walks back into the pub, up to the bar 'got any crackers?'
the barman, disgruntled replies 'i told you yesterday, we don't sell crackers' and the duck leaves

the following day, the duck walks into the pub, up to the bar, 'got any crackers'
by now, the barman is pissed off, 'i've told you twice, we don't sell crackers, if you ask me that one more time i'm going to nail your fucking beak to this bar' - the duck leaves

the following day, the duck walks into the pub, up to the bar, 'hello mate, got any nails?'
the barman's face creases in confusion, 'no, no nails'

'good, got any crackers?'

@antipodean said in Hubris:

This popped up in my YT feed. Amusing and quite frankly alarming as I haven't trained since prepping to go to France last year.

Doc says another week and the internal stitches should be dissolving so I can start training again. I already know it will be worse than the above video and certainly not as funny. Perhaps once you get over 50 there's such a thing as muscle amnesia?

That was pretty cool, I liked his honesty and humbleness. I’m shocked he only managed FOUR dips though !

You really do have to use it or lose it especially as the time passes.

Thank goodness I have a garage gym ( which is also a garage bar but only when I’ve done said gym work )

Looks like these had broken again. There was a small change to the instagram urls so I had to update the pattern matching.

Should be good now. No idea how long it was broken

[Edit] Actually there seem to be a couple of different urls styles now. So not every embed was broken. It works for both styles now