Posts made by dogmeat

@antipodean Not the upset it would have been last year. These days it seems everyone wins at Anfield. Except Liverpool.

@kiwimurph said in Netball:

And Ferns win the series!

Constellation Cup heading to NZ.

A good day for trans tasman sport.

If you're a Kiwi

I know that's what you meant but I just wanted to reinforce it. Netball, T20, WTC ....

@donsteppa From Sunday we will all be allowed to go to the pub - as long as it's on top of a hill!

Fortunately both my locals are

@nta well done mate. Even at my age I could do most of that - by most I mean the walk back.

Is Raoul Island unmanned because of COVID? Be a very uncomfortable 12 hours for any Met Service / DOC staff otherwise

I thought luck was supposed to even out over a season?

Fulham must be due a fucking shit load then. I get we haven't got the most accurate attack but FFS. WE WUZ ROBBED (again).

No way are we one on the three worst sides in the EPL Lady Luck simply needs to realise that. Time running out though

@nzzp the space shit is great. Shame Musk is such a serial douchebag

@canefan Judged on election results God doesn't seem to listen to the Tamaki's much.

They have also announced they are taking the media to court for defamation and persecution over the reporting of their flight from Auckland.

@donsteppa Given the places the guy had been too while symptomatic I don't think the govt had any choice but to go back to L3. They would have been very reluctant to as it was a golden opportunity for National.

Today and tomorrow are the critical ones given the likely gestation of any cases. Isn't today the day the gym contacts were told to get tested? Fingers crossed.

@r-l there's a mythos built around Petty as a decent, regular guy divorced from the trappings of a rock star lifestyle.

Listen to the podcast Enzology and the Finn brothers are scathing of Petty. They toured North America together as an arrogant, conceited asshole. Totally the opposite of his popular image. Up himself, thought he was a superstar - this was in the early days before he did become a global superstar. Hated it if Enz gotr a decent reception, would sabotage their practice sessions, fiddle with their sound system after Enz had done their sound checks etc.

Only one side of the story but interesting nevertheless.

@williethewaiter the Tamaki's are scum

and I am also bothered about leaving Akl before Lvl 3. To me it's the same although not as serious as not isolating when you have had a test

@machpants I didn't find the smell of rakfish as objectionable as durian. Didn't really like the taste of either although neither made me want to puke.

Durian, however, repeated on me for hours making me quite queasy later.

In my case neither came with vodka

The most disgusting things I have ever seen swallowed were by pilots

@mariner4life said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:

if i can be serious for a moment

Well I guess there's a first time for everything in these strange times we live in

@voodoo I'm pretty much as unaffected as your friends but I'm happy to hear plenty of bad words about Jacinda. It's just when I contrast her with ScoMo BoJo or DumbDo I think meh - maybe not so bad.

The NZ response was pretty similar to NSW's this last time round, but they made the call it hadn't worked solely because the rules haven't been followed. Personally I give no credence to the apologists who are trying to shift the blame from personal responsibility to poor messaging by Ministry of Health. Twelve months fuckwits. You knew what the rules were. Don't even try it.

I agree about international students (large number come from Covid hot spots) and travel. Sucks for those affected but I think both of those industries were due a reset anyhow.

Govt debt. Fuck I wish it was higher. Borrow fucking more while money is so cheap and use it to catch up on decades of infrastructure underspend. It's still low by comparison with almost every developed country and economically we are performing way better than those same countries. Our govt debt will still peak at less than most European countries levels pre Covid.

I give the govt a cautious pass on Covid. It's everything else I criticise them for - although I don't see the opposition parties offering anything as an alternative

I shudder to think what it has been like for people in the NH with significant death tolls and repeated lockdowns. You can palpably feel the mental exhaustion of a lot of Aucklander's al Lockdown 3.2 and we have had such a light let off compared to those overseas.

I do believe it has been the fact that we had a (poor weather-wise) summer of life as near normal as anywhere on earth that has made the last three weeks such a ball ache for a lot of people. The end is in sight it seems then whammy. This contributes to the anger felt by a majority towards the 'offenders' in the latest cluster - although I do wonder how many of them could have been caught out in exactly the same way but for the roll of the dice i.e. the majority of the team of 5 Million have been skipping practice and not following their diet plan.

I think there is a plan by the NZ govt. Deal with this current outbreak and any subsequent ones as we have successfully in the past while inoculating those that work at the borders and their close contacts to make it even harder for Covid to enter the country. Then open up travel bubbles. Oz and the Sth Pacific probably I'm guessing Q3. I can then see this being extended to places like Singapore which already allows entry from NZ without the need for quarantine.

Progressively roll out the vaccine to the general population over Q3/4. What happens with international travel isn't for one country to decide.

The doomsayers about NZ's approach have been proven wrong on almost every point to date. Unemployment isn't where they predicted, the economy hasn't tanked, we are not in the depths of depression, mental illness isn't on the rise. Undoubtedly some industry's and individuals are doing it really tough and as I said I think everyone is over 'it' Have we been lucky? Yes? Could we have done better? Certainly in some ways. But it is not all down to dumb luck. We are more fortunate than 99% of the people on the planet because we have followed a plan that has largely worked.

These last couple of weeks have been tough for me. My partners mother died during Level 3. We were lucky enough to bury her under Level 3, then her Dad was diagnosed three days later with a massive cancer wrapped around his spine and is in hospital unlikely to come out and no one can even visit. It sucks for her, but it's been much worse for a lot of other people and it would suck if we had never even heard of Covid. I'm not looking for sympathy I honestly believe that tough as things may be for people here in NZ we need to take stock and get some perspective.

Plus use the covid app and do what we know is right.

Apologies for rant

@canefan it could be that it's as simple as summer. Everything got a little better in NH during their summer too.

@kruse ... but some are more 'special' than others

@canefan they distribute it out to jab the border workers. For whatever reason they don't use it all. They send out an email saying there is some spare front up if you are interested. This offer is oversubscribed and they run out.

The Ministry said this situation is likely to repeat given they can't totally predict the uptake but that in future they will send out more targeted emails.

That doesn't sound like the lack of a plan to me. It sounds like Plan B but poorly implemented the very first time.

@tim they catch hake in the south island. I have seen it at Sanfords here in Akl. It's a member of the cod family so maybe a cod - or given the cooking method, monkfish?

@antipodean apparently only about 1 -5 covid carriers shed enough viably virus to infect many or even any people.

At the opposite end of the spectrum are the super shedders. We don't want one of them gyming it.

What fucks me off is the apologists for this guy. He;'s too young, there could be a language barrier etc. Fuck Right Off. Covid is the most reported even in history and we have been living with it for over 12 months. There is no possibility this fucktard didn't know what he was supposed to do. He simply decided he didn't want to follow the rules.

@canefan I'm told that didn't happen. What happened was they had excess vaccine and sent out an email to GP's and more turned up than there was excess.

@kiwipie Really? I thought I'd double checked.

I normally wait until a few weeks into the season before I get my picks arse about.

@kiwipie I thought I picked Blues and Crusaders?

When Covid first appeared 12 months ago NZ's ICU capacity was 173. By April this increased to 330 and by July 552. I'm not sure what has happened since.

Similarly withy respirators. Don't know current numbers but I do know from a RNZ The Detail podcast that we purchased (medical term) a shitload last year. We also developed a methodology for having one ventilator support multiple patients

@kirwan Hard to justify economically I guess. No cases in Dunedin since April last year. Asking a lot of businesses down there to go through the same pain as Auckland.

People are morons.

I'm with @nzzp with the benevolent dictator thing, only I wouldn't be very benevolent.

Was out dining when notification came through. Was able to watch presser on phone but clearly most tables didn't. As the rumour got around the restaurant it was interesting to see peoples reactions. The staff in particular were devastated as they don't know if they'll be paid but even diners looked crestfallen.

The place completely emptied in about 20 minutes. We kicked on and ended up in a bar on the waterfront that was heaving. I think we were the only two papalagi there. Having read @JK s comments, I'm now wondering how many of the punters might have come in from Papatoetoe for the night....

@nzzp We are not at the back of the queue for vaccine and we haven't gone into L3 every time we have a case. We didn't for the Defence Force cluster or the Northland one.

I'm as fucked off as anyone about being back at L3 but it is a total misrepresentation to say the govt hasn't learned anything in 12 months. They have made plenty of mistakes but how we respond to Covid has evolved. Unfortunately so has the virus. We simply can't instigate the same policies as the likes of Taiwan and Singapore. Kiwi's are far less quiescent. What can be done on those countries can't be replicated here. The yells of police state would be deafening.

I have been thinking about what needs to be done with this selfish prick who has cost us all a large measure of freedom and the economy millions. I can't see any defence for his actions. Personal responsibility FFS. Yeah a 21 yr old is still a kid, but he knew what he was doing was wrong and thought fuck it anyway.

The problem as I see it is people inherently lie and that is a conundrum for the government. Increase punishments for transgressions. People will simply lie or avoid getting tested at all so they don't get found out.

I have been told by a very senior source that Ministry of Health are pretty sure how this latest outbreak got across the border but it can't be proven. Not blaming the woman at the airport as she may not be patient 0 but someone contracted it at the airport and the very high suspicion is they were friendly with someone they wouldn't want their partner to know about. So they lie. More draconian measures simply increases the probability that people will cover up their actions.

We have thousands of exampoles of people not doing the right thing. Just look at the queues to get out of Auckland.

@bovidae I looked up that 1932 Test. Quite remarkable. SA won the toss and batted first and were all out in 90 minutes for 36!
Australia fared better but were still dismissed for 153. Both teams totals were their lowest ever against their opponents.

So SA resumed 117 runs behind and lost one for 5 before play ended.

Saturday was totally washed out, Sunday was a rest day (sabbath) and play didn't resume until 2:15 on the Monday. This time round SA couldn't even last 90 minutes, being skittled for the addition of only 40 more. Bert Ironmonger was unplayable once the sun came out. He had match figures of 11-24. SA's total aggregate of 81 is the lowest in tests for two completed innings. So despite having only scored 153, Oz won by an innings and 72 in only 109.2 overs and due to interruptions less than six hours actual playing time

SA only had one batsman reach double figures in each innings. Apart from these two only their #11 totaled 10 in two innings.

The twitterati have pointed out there were nearly 50 more runs scored in the NZ/A T/20 than in the whole test

Kane train derailed clean bowled for 53

@canefan Guptill caught on boundary for 97

Kane 50 up off 32 balls

150-1 off 14.1

@mikethesnow I've done a bit of research as when I heard it on the radio I was a very surprised. My best guess is I misheard it as it appears the mortality rate for over 70's is around 16%.

Apparently mortality rate increases are pretty linear across all age groups if you remove people in rest homes - presumably because they are only there because they are so frail. It also appears that cardio pulmonary disease is a bigger risk factor than age, but of course old bastards are much more likely to have CPD

Heard some interesting factoids on National Radio today.

Don't know how they worked this out but

• The average number of years lost per COVID fatality is 16

• Only 16% of fatalities are 70+

• 40% of COVID patients report long COVID in some form or another

All of the above further evidence against the it's only old fucks that die argument

@voodoo unless your name is Tiger Woods it seems...

@voodoo Neste buy up almost all the fats and tallow in Australasia along with other sources I believe.