Sir Colin Meads
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@MN5 said in Sir Colin Meads:
@MN5 said in Sir Colin Meads:
@jegga said in Sir Colin Meads:
@MN5 yeah that wasn't great especially coming from a man who broke his spine in a car accident .
Yep my point exactly. I have a feeling he woulda driven home after twenty tuis down at the clubrooms on more than one occasion.
If you're brought up in rural NZ I guess that was part of growing up, provided to could walk semi straight you were good to go behind the wheel.
It wasn't just rural life , in the cities in the 70s , it was pretty standard to drive to the pub , drink all night and drive home -
@kiwiinmelb said in Sir Colin Meads:
@MN5 said in Sir Colin Meads:
@MN5 said in Sir Colin Meads:
@jegga said in Sir Colin Meads:
@MN5 yeah that wasn't great especially coming from a man who broke his spine in a car accident .
Yep my point exactly. I have a feeling he woulda driven home after twenty tuis down at the clubrooms on more than one occasion.
If you're brought up in rural NZ I guess that was part of growing up, provided to could walk semi straight you were good to go behind the wheel.
It wasn't just rural life , in the cities in the 70s , it was pretty standard to drive to the pub , drink all night and drive homeVery true.
Look I've got no doubt Meads is arguably the greatest AB ever he just sometimes comes across extremely old fashioned in his views.
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@MN5 yeah the authorities have done well to change attitudes to drink driving but I think the law changes a year or so back probably pushed things too far .
He's doing well to last as long as he has, normally by the time you're diagnosed with pancreatic cancer it's normally too late to treat it . It's apparently one of the worst to have as far as the patients outcome is concerned.
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@MN5 said in Sir Colin Meads:
@kiwiinmelb said in Sir Colin Meads:
@MN5 said in Sir Colin Meads:
@MN5 said in Sir Colin Meads:
@jegga said in Sir Colin Meads:
@MN5 yeah that wasn't great especially coming from a man who broke his spine in a car accident .
Yep my point exactly. I have a feeling he woulda driven home after twenty tuis down at the clubrooms on more than one occasion.
If you're brought up in rural NZ I guess that was part of growing up, provided to could walk semi straight you were good to go behind the wheel.
It wasn't just rural life , in the cities in the 70s , it was pretty standard to drive to the pub , drink all night and drive homeVery true.
Look I've got no doubt Meads is arguably the greatest AB ever he just sometimes comes across extremely old fashioned in his views.
The dudes 80, its not particularly surprising. I used to cringe at some of the things that would come out my dads mouth .
Brian Lochore got roasted in a column a few years back by Richard Boock for his comments about raising kids that weren't out of Nigel Lattas playbook. -
Meads could come across as hard nosed in his attitudes even in his own era ,
Best to keep him away from the PC brigade in this era
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@taniwharugby said in Sir Colin Meads:
@MN5 he is from a different era, quite a different era, life was much different back then so he, as many of his age and generation have a different outlook on alot of things.
Thanks for that captain obvious....you need to move with the times or keep your outdated views quiet. Even Clint got on with the slopes that lived next door to him by the end of Gran Torino after all
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@kiwiinmelb said in Sir Colin Meads:
Meads could come across as hard nosed in his attitudes even in his own era ,
Best to keep him away from the PC brigade in this era
Not being a fan of drinking and driving is PC?
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@jegga said in Sir Colin Meads:
Got to do something about the dust in the house , it got in my eyes while reading this
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11816620
Vernon Coxhead, an organic dairy farmer, says: "I knew I could help him. It broke my heart to see him like that. He is such a great Kiwi."
Coxhead advocates natural remedies and his company Purecure produces Te Kiri Gold, a special water he believes could be a "game changer" for cancer.You know what's coming, but wait for it:
"I've changed the molecular structure of the immune system so the water can penetrate through bone, and I believe that it can penetrate into the cancer cells."
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@antipodean yeah , not sure what I'd do in the same situation if some shysters were offering enchanted potato chips to cure my cancer.
Actually I do, stock up on ammo and get them to form an orderly queue. I'd be dead before they bought it to trial and the world would get to know if homeopathy can cure a bullet wound to the head.
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@taniwharugby said in Sir Colin Meads:
@MN5 you were the one that said some of his views were outdated....so from your comment it didnt seem quite that obvious you were grasping it...guess that close loss to England still grating!
Bro....they won the anthem battle!
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@Nepia said in Sir Colin Meads:
@kiwiinmelb said in Sir Colin Meads:
Meads could come across as hard nosed in his attitudes even in his own era ,
Best to keep him away from the PC brigade in this era
Not being a fan of drinking and driving is PC?
Wasn't referring to that in particular, I just meant in general -
@MN5 said in Sir Colin Meads:
@taniwharugby said in Sir Colin Meads:
@MN5 he is from a different era, quite a different era, life was much different back then so he, as many of his age and generation have a different outlook on alot of things.
Thanks for that captain obvious....you need to move with the times or keep your outdated views quiet. Even Clint got on with the slopes that lived next door to him by the end of Gran Torino after all
Didn't get on with all the Hmong people though...
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@booboo said in Sir Colin Meads:
@MN5 said in Sir Colin Meads:
@taniwharugby said in Sir Colin Meads:
@MN5 he is from a different era, quite a different era, life was much different back then so he, as many of his age and generation have a different outlook on alot of things.
Thanks for that captain obvious....you need to move with the times or keep your outdated views quiet. Even Clint got on with the slopes that lived next door to him by the end of Gran Torino after all
Didn't get on with all the Hmong people though...
Just the ones that reminded him of the fucks he used to stack five feet high and use as sandbags.
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@kiwiinmelb Meads could hold his own in a debate though. In the mid-70's he took on quite a few anti-apartheid figures and argued the case for using sport as an agent of change extremely well.
His 1975 biography talked openly about problems with rural poverty - particularly among the Maori - and was years ahead of it's time it drawing attention to a subject which in that era was swept under the carpet