@kirwan id watch it

i know the nolan batman movies are great movies in general....but it was too close to reality for me...someone like darkseid rocking up in that world or even some of the heros....would just look weird to me

and i liked Batfleck, he aligned with the batman i know so i would love to see a snyderverse/batfleck film

Curry with another 49 as the Warriors beat the Sixers

The play-ins for the West should be good fun

@bayimports said in NRL 2021:

@mariner4life said in NRL 2021:

The Cowboys obviously like sucking if the reports are true and they are going to offer Chad Townsend $2M over 3 years.

Do you think it could just be an attempt to put pressure on Reynolds to sign?, or perhaps Reynolds has said no unofficially? Clearly they are after somone to game manage as opposed to be chief creator.

i hope it's something like that. i really do.

@gt12 said in Pasifika SR team:

However the issue of ineligible NZ-born PIs will get worse I guess.

Yep.
They can always spend 5 years in the more northern PI's to qualify though if they were born in NZ and don't have the Grandparent rights...(sarcasm emoji thingy).

@kirwan said in NASA:

It's pretty amazing all right. Nice to a "first" after decades of what feels like nothing. The fact we could see humans on the moon in the next five years is fantastic.

I'm more amazed that we haven't been back to the moon (if we ever went of course...).

@canefan I think that he just reads the Fern. I posted a similar thing about getting my wife into the country on here. The difference is that I really don't give a shit because I'm not a Black Cap and my wife was with me anyway.

@kiwipie said in EPL 2020/2021:

@mariner4life said in EPL 2020/2021:

@kiwipie said in EPL 2020/2021:

I think the main reason the ESL will fail at this point is that they have pretty much just made it up on the spot without really working out the details.

see, that can't be right. there is no way they have done this without having plans in place. these guys aren't that dumb

but they might be that arrogant i guess.

Discussion has been under way for a while but there has definitely been a rush by certain parties to announce it and declare it is happening as soon as possible.

The outcome will be fascinating. But these clubs are among the biggest, most famous, richest, most storied clubs in the world. They either think the breakaway can work or they are gambling on the current power structure making serious concessions

@machpants the books are hugely overrated after the first couple. I could not care less if he never finishes the story.

@siam Had to do a quick google for that one because I don't remember it. Need a refresher, not in "gumboots" that I recall.

I did find this though, so Stuff aren't completely useless:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/92092158/waikato-farmers-want-friday-afternoons-declared-holiday-for-fred-dagg

@hooroo said in Forum maintenance 18/02/2021:

Typical. I resigned 6 weeks ago and finish on the 30th. I haven’t been able to use the fern at work since the upgrade as we are on IE.

Just been notified they are updating to Chrome and Edge this week.

They'll take you back. Just explain that you couldn't fuck around on the internet whilst they were paying you because they had an outdated browser so you resigned. Now that they have fixed the problem, good to go again.

@snowy Yes, yes and yes.

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@dogmeat said in Songs that remind you of...:

@snowy yeah but as a recompense you get to call yourself - A TROUBADOR!

You spelt "twat" wrong.

@kiwimurph said in NFL Season 2020/21:

@mariner4life That's basically Alex Smith's first 6 years in the league to a tee.

We will never know how Aaron Rodgers would have gone if the 8ers actually picked him. I think they did him a favour passing on him

@bones said in Sports Memes:

As a non soccer fan who has no idea what that is about can you tell me if it's funny on a scale from Dave Chappelle all the way way way down to That Guy?

@act-crusader said in NBL 2021:

@mariner4life Oliver has been playing the house down and the more Mike Kelly plays him and Nate together, good things will happen.

Heal still thinks it’s 1993 and everyone that isn’t out there looking to chest bump their opponent, doesn’t “look interested”.

Heal is a fucking idiot.

Oliver and Nate together last week against Adelaide was scary good. i've never seen Nate play that well in terms of assists. The standard defense on Jawai is to double team as soon as he gets the ball, last week he was taking that double team and dishing to Cam for another big dunk.

People like to say Cairns is an import short. I don't think that's the case. What we really need is a high quality Australian player. We don't get many of those. Martin Cattalini might be the last big name transfer we attracted.

@act-crusader said in AFL 2021:

@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:

@kiap grass roots AFL is a really scary proposition for other sports. It's very well run, and awash with cash.

The AFL development programs are awesome. My mate used to run the AFL programs in Canberra and they are a slick machine. I felt for the Raiders and especially the Brumbies because they were getting a lot of interest from what is a rugby/league heartland.

my neighbour's daughter is now on the Suns pathway. Once a passionate representative netball player, she no longer has anything to do with that sport, it's all AFL.

During my high school days in the Netherlands, I often worked in the tulip fields and sheds during the holidays. I don't miss the smell of the bulbs in the sheds, but I do miss the sight of the fields.

@victor-meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:

@pakman

Painless. Had niggling aches every now and again with this tooth for decades but couldn't find out what was wrong. Dentist thinks there was poss.a small infection lurking under the root which finally got big.

Lockdown ending, pubs open (ish), tooth sorted and looking at a new motorcycle. Good week.

I had my first one when my tooth was starting to feel odd a couple of days before US flight, wanted to avoid complications and popped into local dentist.

He did it then and there. What a rude awakening!

Then after a few years tooth felt a bit spongy. X-ray showed infection. So off to specialist who did a precision redo. Turned out that tooth had four twisted roots, but local chap had only seen three.

Never got a crown, and about four years later got an infection through filling.

So another precision redo. This time got a crown promptly.

Good as gold!

Pub supper tonight. World almost feels like normal...

@kiwimurph said in Blues 2021:

No disrespect but if I wore that hair colour people would call me Toilet Duck.

@canes4life said in Hurricanes 2021:

@mikey07 weird aye, and then nothing eventuated which was odd.

Yeah we got no game Hickey instead.

@pakman
I take your point but they aren't selling the farm just yet. If anything this is mainly to counteract the massive investments being made in Europe that have been taking some of our best players for a while now.

Now I feel pressure.

@donsteppa said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

It's been good to see some of the family/partner reunification stories in the media this afternoon. A small step, but brilliant to see a little more joy back in the world.

Absolutely.

Just please nobody fark it up in the next 3 weeks...😬 (he says incredibly selfishly)

@bones Nah my old man told me when I don’t know why he was watching it..I’m assuming the commentary team said it.

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@kruse I think they call them pokie machines mate

@gt12 Bobby Boshier hits harder then both of them combined.

@rancid-schnitzel said in Happiness Scale:

I’d also have to stack on some weight.

Not a problem.

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The Islanders would snap me in half!

Best part of playing prop in lower grades - most of the Islander guys are only picked there because they're also a bit overweight, and generally they don't know what they're doing 😉 The pommy bloke opposite me on the weekend was half a foot shorter and decent, but at one point we drove over them and one of their second rowers did his ankle.

There was a Ba Bas match or a possible v probables in 91 , Jones was 7 playing against NZ top players and he in the first half played at a level of freakyness - I remember commentators saying they had never seen anything like it.
I watched many a 80's Auckland match and Jones was the man, he also was part of the most in sync loose forward trio with AJ and Zinny. Ahead of them a brutal front 5.
MJ was a freak - someone mentioned height but he was a main lineout target even before lifting due to his athleticism.
I agree with the ...I would pay to watch Jones but want McCaw in a WC final quote

Also Dunedin’s a farking great spot for a few days away with the family. In addition to rugby, we got a couple of surfs in, mountain biking, saw the penguins and Larnach castle plus lucked it with some rally action. And some mint weather too. No rain, high of 24 today and about 5deg the other night. Will be be back!

hammering down. has been for 24 hours. last of the monsoon i guess.

@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Australia:

@act-crusader said in Coronavirus - Australia:

@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Australia:

@act-crusader guess my main point is that we in OZ/NZ need to totally rethink our tolerance levels. I've been banging this drum for a long time now, but there should be consistent messaging around tolerable levels of Covod in society post-vaccine. This adherence to elimination is just so foolish

I agree mate. But the states have made their beds with lockdowns and restrictions. How can they justify doing anything differently now, especially when certain parts of the economy are still in pain from previous lockdowns. The immediate questions will be - “what’s different now?” “Why didn’t you allow us to stay open last time?” Sure they will say ‘health advice’, but to have any actual evidence of the positive effect of the vaccine will take some time for the research, evaluation etc.

Yeah, and what's worse , is that their draconian methods have been so unilaterally aupported at the polls. VIC, WA, QLD, NZ, pretty amazing

"thank you Anna for keeping us safe!"

@donsteppa A remarkable test attendance effort. How he would have loved watching the 28 - 00 whooping of South Africa at 1999 Carisbrook test.
The modern day commentators don't hold a patch on the Old Timers like Trevor Rigby, Alan Richards, Peter Sharp, Colin Sneddon and that pommy guy Jim someone from Christchurch (apologies for not being able to recall his last name). Thankfully we still have Wadds but he seems to be on the outer now with the change in radio cricket broadcasters, and then there was the uniqueness of good old Ron Snowden who, age and time wise, doesn't really fall into the "old timer" category of the others mentioned.
Ahhh I still have great memories of the "lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer" and Sports Roundup. Summer just ain't the same without it.
Thanks for the memories and good times Iain.

@kiwiwomble One start and a some second half moves. I'd definitely not select him at 10 ahead of Mo'unga or BB.

Dawes (together with Barry John & Mike Gibson) visited my school during the 71 tour. From memory he spoke very well and appreciated the school assembly singing Land of My Fathers.

I had a beer with him and Bill Beaumont after the 4th test in 77. Understandable he wasn't as chipper but still seemed like a decent sort. Lions in 77 were very unlucky. Shitty weather all tour long, Phil Bennett homesick and out of sorts, an unhappy tour party, key injuries before and during the tour - hence Beaumont being there. Yet despite all this they probably should have won the series 3-1 Batty and Knights winning tries in the 1st and 4th test both came against the run of play.