Hmmmm turning off the China tap would not be a great thing for our export market.

I don’t know why we would want to make less from the tourist either?

Ha ha funny @Kirwan weak weak losing blaming the ref.

Grasping straws to be a good team.

This will be a good team eventually but your fucking piss weak arse blaming the ref is pathetic. You may as well be @Canerbry

@Kirwan said in Blues vs Crusaders:

Weird feeling, with a better ref we would have had that. Still lots for us to work on, but far better than last year

The fucking ref?!?? That means for everything he got wrong for blues you need to give points where he got it wrong for red team.

It was your shit first five that could not win the game for you not the ref.

Pleasantly surprised st the size of the crowd.

@mariner4life said in Chiefs vs Highlanders:

@Hooroo said in Chiefs vs Highlanders:

@Bones said in Chiefs vs Highlanders:

@Hooroo said in Chiefs vs Highlanders:

Wow! That was so a try

Meh. No clear grounding. Hooker decides to run straight at half back and gets made to look like a dick. I can abide the decision.

Doesn’t need to be clear. It was try on field call so it had show it definitely wasn’t grounded

fuck up Marshy

ALB with his first of approximately a million great defensive plays this year

I’m not complaining. And kind of grateful as I have. Chiefs to score a penalty as first points bet

@Bones said in Chiefs vs Highlanders:

@Hooroo said in Chiefs vs Highlanders:

Wow! That was so a try

Meh. No clear grounding. Hooker decides to run straight at half back and gets made to look like a dick. I can abide the decision.

Doesn’t need to be clear. It was try on field call so it had show it definitely wasn’t grounded

Wow! That was so a try

@voodoo said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):

@taniwharugby said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):

@voodoo by played rugby with him, I assume you, like I mean, when he wasnt injured, which was about 80% of the time....

Yep - and given my lack of talent, I also use the term "played rugby" very loosely

That touch tournament was good fun. Was quite the crew there is I remember. I can't remember winning any games though

@Paekakboyz said in Universal income:

@gollum we have a huge problem in NZ (not unique to us or Detroit though) of people who don't have a 'decent' (say basic 5th form or level 1 NCEA reading/writing/math for a general point of comparison) level of literacy or numeracy. Approx 1 million people at or below that level, which is massive given the gaps that means in being able to do everyday stuff, let alone advance in education, career, vocational training etc.

The only big change I've seen in and around this area of work was 5-10 years ago they were saying the really basic jobs were going (due to tech/AI etc), but now they seem to talk more about entry level/middle tier jobs going faster than any other segment. I guess we are also seeing some new areas where jobs are developing alongside the tech changes, rather than it being all replacements.

Will check out that UBI vid. Had totally missed that Alaska has been running a test case for nearly 40 years!

Dunno if he still posts mate. That was from 2017

I miss PdP, Just and Dodge the most.

Be nice if MvJ and Phooey were still around.

Don't miss the likes of Davidav etc as folks like him were essentially trolls or easily trolled