@kiwiinmelb "Nice guns, Sonny".

"Thanks, Jack - I like your hair".

@Siam said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:

Wags out. Baby coming.

But don't worry Henry called up

Don't know why Mrs. Wags can't do this on her own - the delivery is bound to be short, or very short!

@mn5 said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

@mariner4life said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

Shit team in a shit location. lucky the Warriors are on

DO NOT diss Nelson you Queensland Bogan fluffybunny.

Ignore him, MN5.

What would a fucker who lives in Cairns know about locations? He's choosing to live in a swamp, inhabited by nasty, poisonous biting creatures - and that's just the people, don't get me started on the wildlife.

In fact, do. Go to the beach - get eaten by a crocodile. Go for a run - get bitten by a snake. Go for a shit - get bitten by a spider. Go anywhere and get bitten by dengue-ridden mosquitos or some other fucking insect largely unknown to science.

Go to the pub and be entertained by Tex Morton and his pet bantam, Stu - singing "Blue Bayou" - a song about living in a swamp.

In summary, he wouldn't know a good location if it bit him on the arse - and in Cairns it probably will!

How have I never seen Pinky the Loving Cat before?

@sparky said in Savea goooone Skudder in:

@Crucial Selling Comics.

Worst Wing Ever!

Well, that was pretty exciting and given that I hate losing far more than I like winning, I'm remarkably sanguine about the result.

I think some of you guys are being pretty harsh on the execution. The Lions defence was extremely good - no weak links - and I think the ABs decided they needed some pieces of magic to score. Maybe a lack of patience at times, but the two tries we scored both had a fair degree of magic to them - especially the second one. Taking pop passes into a close defensive line and getting smashed isn't the best way of retaining the ball - but, it's also a good way of breaking the line. On another night we could have scored four or five tries - we certainly created opportunities - especially in the first half.

I haven't really seen a massive decline in Hansen's coaching - we just came up against a team chock full of talented players and with the depth to match and possibly better the advantage we usually get from the subs bench - particularly once we lost a few players.

On the final penalty, I guess Poite will give a Gallic shrug and say something like "Il n’est pas la bonne décision, mais c’est la belle décision."

Which means, "It is not the right decision, but it is the beautiful decision." At least that's what I typed into Babelfish to get that result!

Right now, the Crusaders have won the same number of games as the Australian teams combined.

@Kirwan said in US Politics:

In decades of observation, the most egregious management fuckups are done by people who can't do the simplest shit right. They're the same arsebandits who try to use Excel as a database.

The things I have seen built in Excel over the past 20years...

But, I wanna talk about Windows 8.1. I mean that was terrible. So terrible. Really bad. An affliction on the American people. And everyone else. And I was the only person to tell the truth about how bad that was. So bad. And so-called experts here tried to tell me it was good. Sad. Very sad. I mean Bill Gates. And by the way Bill Gates is a great friend of mine. And a great American. He's done so well. But even Bill Gates said how bad Windows 8.1 was. It was so bad Bill Gates gave everyone a free upgrade to Windows 10. So just listen to me in future. No-one knows more about IT than me. And halfbacks. Even Nepia will tell you that.

Firstly, good effort Wallabies. Turns out last week's first half effort was more of a fluke than the second half.

I was wondering about that - but, we were at home this week and struggled to win.

Secondly - fail on behalf of the AB coaches not to identify that. We spent quite a lot of this game playing like the result was a foregone conclusion and buried ourselves in a ditch for a while by not playing proper test rugby.

Thirdly - Man of the match - Nepo Laulala. If our scrum had been less dominant in that game, we would have been well beaten. Coles and Moody can take residual credit. No more of this Ofa bullshit, Hansen!!!

Fourthly - second man of the match, Rieko Ioane. Looked like an AB back out there, when several others didn't.

Fifthly - show some class Chieka. It's not fucking soccer!!!

@mariner4life

I'm in too - Go hard, Polly!

@canefan said in NZ Politics:

@Chris-B This will be her only chance. Luxton is on the horizon, she has a chance to save the party from annihilation

A thing I learned today from google is that it's Luxon. I had in mind he was some part of the Luxton "dynasty"as well.

It's actually reasonable timing for Judith - she might not quite get a mulligan for losing this coming election, but if she performs credibly she's got a reasonable case to stay on given that right now it looks close to unwinnable.

Aside from which, who else could they appoint immediately post-election?

Luxon is going to need some time to learn the ropes and prove that he'd actually be any good.

Judith has just beaten out Mitchell.

Brownlee? Goldsmith?

If it's a debacle the axe would doubtless fall, but anything else she should stay on.

@NTA I was looking for something a bit later, based on when the ref blows his whistle.

But Mike's knee definitely hits the deck early.

@canefan said in NZ Politics:

@Crucial said in NZ Politics:

@canefan said in NZ Politics:

@Crucial said in NZ Politics:

It’s Crusher

Funny how she has spent the last few years denying any aspirations for the leadership yet .....

Including in her book? But who could have foreseen Muller committing hari kari? She is too savvy to stick her neck out unless she is sure of support. I expect either Adams, Kay or Collins, probably in that order

No it’s real. Crusher is it.

Oh wow. I think she is a good choice. Has been one of the best opposition MPs, has polished her persona so it is less abrasive than before. Seems to be more popular with the national faithful than her MPs. But they need to fall in and pull together because all their jobs are on the line. I'd pick Adams. At least when the jibes about minorities come about they can say they are led by 2 women, not just 1

She's probably about the only credible choice at this point - her or maybe Mitchell.

I'm slightly surprised that she didn't demur at this point - in favour of picking up the pieces later - but, you can never be sure the chance will come again, and maybe she has a plan for overcoming the damage wrought.

@NTA Good spot - you're right!

@mariner4life My bad bro, my irony meter was switched off - or set on alanis or something.

@mariner4life Yeah bones!

@mariner4life Basic English mofo - I'm agreeing with you.

If you'd paid some attention to my brilliant posts over the years, I always favour a bit of size.

And I'm not meaning Debbie does Dallas!

Mofo!!!

Leon wins in Wellington for a passtime.

https://www.ultimaterugby.com/match/wellington-vs-tasman-mako-at-sky-stadium.-29th-sep-2018/78632?fb=

@Bones He's the guy I'm putting my speculative prop money on.

Will Jordan and Shannon Frizell will be fucking good from Tasman as well.

Mitch Hunt will struggle to get past Richie Mo'unga, but will be great from the bench!