YES!!!!! @NTA World famous in New Zealand!!!!! Excellent. Having that article published here in NZ is as good as having a passport. Welcome ashore...

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/latest/119143490/first-person-in-the-world-to-have-a-tesla-powerwall-battery-pays-less-than-50-cents-a-day-for-power

The Fern has a medalist in the World Masters Games!!!

Willie The Waiter just won Bronze Medal in the individual pursuit!!!

Congrats bro!!!!

@mariner4life said in RWC: All Blacks v Canada (Pool :

perhaps, if you are in danger of going fucking blind from playing rugby, you should give it away?

or just wear some goggles.

Oops! It's a loop

Just watching Star Wars again

19 fucking 77

George Lucas. That's just fucked how you nailed that bitch.

There are fuck all movies that don't date but this fucker doesn't.

Boozed by the way

Remember all those years ago when we joked around about Foster becoming coach.

Oh how we laughed....

@KiwiMurph said in RWC: England v New Zealand (SF1):

These huas read the fern!

three times in the past week, about a couple of hours after a conversation on these threads, suddenly an article would appear.

@mariner4life said in Hello Boomer...:

@voodoo said in Hello Boomer...:

@mariner4life said in Hello Boomer...:

@No-Quarter totally works at NBL games

It does, but...

I'm a basketball guy through and through, played since I was 5 blah blah blah. And I still watch and follow the game.

BUT, there is no getting away from the fact that basketball fans at live games are by and large fcking weirdos. So many games I've been sitting there and feel like I'm at a Dungeons and Dragons Convention. It's a beautiful combination of family fun and a great night out for inbred couples.

where the fuck are you going to games?

Taipans, I heard.

Oh this is my favourite part!!!

'''The more educated you are in a field, the narrower your thinking becomes. I'm not hot on these academics...sitting on comfy chairs up on their hill. I've studied this subject for over 20 years, I know a little bit more than they do.'''

So Sam Cane is awesome!!!!

Prett cool to watch.

Not very cool this Tui catch a million thing. If someone crushed my little girl, I don't think I would care about the camera and just start laying into the fluffybunny.

I think they should just have two or three zones where the catch can be taken so that people can then choose to sit away from that carnage.

@canefan said in EPL 19/20:

@Hooroo said in EPL 19/20:

Suspended indefinitely.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/world-game/120817666/epl-suspended-indefinitely-players-to-be-asked-for-wage-cut

Winner is in alphabetical order.....

If they don't give the title to anyone I think Liverpool supporters' heads will explode

And that will sound like a symphony to me

Suspended indefinitely.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/world-game/120817666/epl-suspended-indefinitely-players-to-be-asked-for-wage-cut

Winner is in alphabetical order.....

@MajorRage same!! and worse is when you are 20-30 from the end of the cook and then the demand for Mash comes in as well as roast potatoes.

What is you Roast Potato Secret, if you don't mind sharing??

@barbarian said in Recipes, home grown goodness, BBQing and food stuff:

@Hooroo said in Recipes, home grown goodness, BBQing and food stuff:

@Hooroo said in Recipes, home grown goodness, BBQing and food stuff:

@voodoo said in Recipes, home grown goodness, BBQing and food stuff:

Fellas, if anyone has a favorite recipe, send it through. Lockdown inspiration needed, lots of time on my hands!

Must be able to be cooked in a conventional kitchen or on a webber bbq. Kitchen has oven, Le Crueset dutch oven, electric slow cooker.

What have you guys got?

A small shoulder of lamb in Dutch oven. Add stone in green olives (pressed/squeezed) a lime cut in half, hard herbs like thyme or rosemary a couple of whole chillies chopped in half and a cup of white wine or Rose.

Cover and cook low and slow

@barbarian

I swear by this

Might give this one a try. Not sure the place I'm staying has a dutch oven but I'm sure I can improvise some solution to that problem.

A slow cooker does the same trick. Makes a lovely sauce at the end while it is resting too.

EDIT: I should have kept reading the thread. @Crucial, as per usual, has it bang on.

@Tim said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

These are drugs with serious side-effects (QT lengthening) and very long half-lives. Evidence of efficacy is extremely limited, and they are being prescribed as one of many drugs currently studied in clinical trials, or as an emergency measure.

So it makes sense that they aren't giving this out willy-nilly to people who catch this virus?

Shit, if I was on deaths door and they said chlorine gas could cure me, I would prolly take it.

@Wairau said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@dogmeat Cheers, I am going for food so won't check this for a while, however, most of your points I must note that I disagree with. It's not anecdotal. There are clear short informal trials and the drug process is logical. The prescription amount is safe, and the main side effect given 5 day treatment is low probability compared to the usefulness of the combo for the wider pop., and given those same people with weak heart would die from ARDS anyway, that's relatively pointless.

Where is the literature on this? Legitimate literature on it.

I only ask as surely you must understand that there would be 100's of cures in the pipeline that aren't approved yet due to the unknown side effects and long term results rather than just the at point in time 'cure'?

@voodoo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

So......how many days do we have left????

Some.....

@canefan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@Wairau said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@canefan
I suggest you educate yourself, it has been used in many places on COVID19

provide a link where the drug is used in a recognized and researched paper and I'll change my position. But to the best of my knowledge there is no such research available. And no need to get all snippy

I reckon. The conversation was rather civilised for a brief moment.

Why do I think we are about to get an obscure link to this saving drug and then a lot of noise around it.

@antipodean said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@antipodean said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@antipodean said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@antipodean said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@antipodean said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@antipodean said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@Stargazer said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@canefan Yeah, so stupid. Totally giving the wrong message to people who are already struggling to abide by the lockdown rules.

Unhelpful when your own PM is unclear about what is permitted and what isn't:

The official Covid-19 website says private vehicles should be used for essential purposes, and does not mention using vehicles to travel short distances for exercise. 

But Ardern and senior government officials, including Police Commissioner Mike Bush, have said driving very locally to visit a park was acceptable. 

"There are some people who not near an area where they can safely walk or they can safely get fresh air, so we do accept that people will make short-distance journeys," Ardern said on Tuesday.

Do people like you (and I ) grasp what we can and can't do without it being spelled out? I think the answer is yes.

People are complaining about the wishy-washy-ness of the instruction yet complain of living in a police state if we are governed strictly to a rule.

I like that it lets me make a sensible decision on what I can and can't do.

Unless that decision is going for a swim or surf apparently.

But you and I grasp that we should not as per L4 lockdown protocol.

That's your interpretation.

Most peoples interpretation.

Most people wouldn't consider driving a private vehicle so you can go to a park essential either, but apparently Ardern does.

*Most defined as per our own scientifically constructed polling methods.

I am referring to Surfing. Most people know you can't hence the empty surf breaks by comparison.

They allow us to make sensible decisions and aren't making a rule for evert scenario. It's almost like they trust us to make the right decision which the most are doing

See previous post. I don't find argument by assertion particularly compelling.

Who's arguing? Or compelled to for that matter?

We are. An argument doesn't have to be emotional, just an exchange of differing views.

Fair call.

I think it is best to end the argument as the differing opinions won't ever match.

@antipodean said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@antipodean said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@antipodean said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@antipodean said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@antipodean said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@Stargazer said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@canefan Yeah, so stupid. Totally giving the wrong message to people who are already struggling to abide by the lockdown rules.

Unhelpful when your own PM is unclear about what is permitted and what isn't:

The official Covid-19 website says private vehicles should be used for essential purposes, and does not mention using vehicles to travel short distances for exercise. 

But Ardern and senior government officials, including Police Commissioner Mike Bush, have said driving very locally to visit a park was acceptable. 

"There are some people who not near an area where they can safely walk or they can safely get fresh air, so we do accept that people will make short-distance journeys," Ardern said on Tuesday.

Do people like you (and I ) grasp what we can and can't do without it being spelled out? I think the answer is yes.

People are complaining about the wishy-washy-ness of the instruction yet complain of living in a police state if we are governed strictly to a rule.

I like that it lets me make a sensible decision on what I can and can't do.

Unless that decision is going for a swim or surf apparently.

But you and I grasp that we should not as per L4 lockdown protocol.

That's your interpretation.

Most peoples interpretation.

Most people wouldn't consider driving a private vehicle so you can go to a park essential either, but apparently Ardern does.

*Most defined as per our own scientifically constructed polling methods.

I am referring to Surfing. Most people know you can't hence the empty surf breaks by comparison.

They allow us to make sensible decisions and aren't making a rule for evert scenario. It's almost like they trust us to make the right decision which the most are doing

See previous post. I don't find argument by assertion particularly compelling.

Who's arguing? Or compelled to for that matter?