@Paekakboyz said in Censorship and the Mosque Shooting: @Baron-Silas-Greenback no. Multiple tongue in cheek comments re JP's work, although @rotated's was the best, and first. You were the one coming in hot and throwing your own shade. So how about you get over yourself? So you did think that Rotated posts was one of the ones I was referring to? You are wrong. You should be more careful before assuming others dont know what they are reacting to.

@canefan I can still remember him being asked last year about his kicking by an interviewer... he got very salty about the person not seeing his development in that space... and in that very game!! I actually think he has fewer downsides to his game if you were comparing him to early days Nonu. But Nonu was also being played at 13 and that is a merciless position when you are learning your trade. Maybe because he's shorter but Laumape doesn't have the same riskiness around his D, whereas young Ma'a rode the line... a lot!

@Baron-Silas-Greenback Yes It's an official UK Gov site. 100k is enough to get the petition considered for debate in Parliament It's getting more media attention than it should

@antipodean I'd be interested in whether any of those folks would take any person in need into their house - outside of their family and wider social circles I mean. And not including people who foster kids either. I suspect there would be a similar pattern of responses - essentially it's about strangers, but refugees are stranger strangers.. if that makes any sense.

@antipodean i don't hate on Bruce, he's passionate and knowledgeable across a wide number of sports. As a presenter i just feel he's top draw, don't you reckon? I actually quite like him doing Ch7 racing (except the whole Winx thing is actually a little weird). But his commentary is fucking annoying. That said, i would take 8 hours of him a day, 365 days straight, over 10 minutes of Hamish McLachlan

@Yeetyaah said in Bulls vs Chiefs: Chiefs backline looks good. Maybe a win finally, but I say that every week. It would be an obvious fix of massive proportions. In decades to come, baseballers would talk about the Black Bulls...

@Tim Jesus. I honestly have no idea how a member of a group that experiences pretty severe racism would sit down and think ‘I know how to make this better, I’ll abduct and try to murder some kids.’ Yep, that’ll help every other poor law abiding black refugee or immigrant.

@Duluth yeah possibly a confidence thing (which is growing too) last couple of seasons everytime he looked to be finding his feet he got injured...

@SammyC said in Should the Crusaders change their name?: @Siam said in Should the Crusaders change their name?: @SammyC similar thoughts if ( when) a debate about changing the All Blacks name? Just a musing question mate. Culture often runs on precedents Bit of tangent? But yes my point stands, I’ll support the New Zealand rugby team no matter what they are called. I’d struggle tbh with the NZ Wallabies.

@Mokey said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque: It would be so great if the nzh stopped giving that fuckstick "bishop" an extra platform for his bullshit. It's just clickbait, but in very poor taste. NZH lowering the bar then crawling under it again

@DaGrubster frankly the idea of Foz taking on the head coaching role scares me. He was poor with the chiefs, and it is one thing to be a good assistant, another entirely to be a head coach. For starters he will need to identify talent.....

@Kruse Yep, that's what you get when you have to assemble players who are not involved in any club competition at the moment. Basically, retirees, third stringers and players who play in the Japanese competition (the only competition having a break at the moment).

@Tim said in Woo:

Yeah sounds like a mix up from 2015, ABs not playing in Samoa

@Rembrandt said in British Politics: Ignore the hyperbolic tweet description but the content is disturbing. Police admit he didn't commit a crime but they have been sent around to advise him that he is being watched with what he says online. I'm all for people being held accountable for what they say on social networks, but sending cops around to peoples houses to say you've done nothing wrong but be careful, seems like a frankly ridiculous waste of resources!!

@Stargazer That's a shame. I was hoping he'd turn out for Tonga but never mind.

Posted by Yealden: In light of the likely culling of the Sunwolves tomorrow & all the chat around how much travel teams do (especially the RSA teams ... supposedly) I was keen to find out how far the Sunwolves traveled last year in comparison with fellow expansion buddies the Jaguares & three franchises (chosen at random) from the three foundation Super Rugby member unions - NZ, OZ & RSA. Now I have to stress that these are rough figures, calculated using distances from airline route maps & what i know of the teams traditional routes & modes of transport. Anyways, this is what I found about the 2018 season: Sunwolves = 85,522 kms NB homes games in three different venues; played their last game in Tokyo in round 13 (Sat 12 May 2018) followed by games in Hong Kong, Melbourne, Canberra (Break for International Window) Singapore, Sydney, Brisbane Jaguares = 66,240 kms - longest time away from BA was four weeks (Melbourne, Canberra, Auckland & Rotorua) Rebels = 56,716 kms - longest time from Melbourne was two weeks twice ** (Pretoria, Cape Town & Brisbane, Dunedin) ** I believe the Rebels went straight to Dunedin from Brisbane but stand to be corrected on that Blues = 56,707 kms - longest time away from Auckland was two weeks (Johannesburg & Cape Town) Lions = 51,952 kms - longest time away from Johannesburg was four weeks (Sydney, Brisbane, Wellington, Dunedin) Make of these what you will - for what its worth, I feel better for doing it - and feel free to fire a question about this if you want; I'll be up for a little bit longer - cheers heaps NY

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