YES!!!!! @NTA World famous in New Zealand!!!!! Excellent. Having that article published here in NZ is as good as having a passport. Welcome ashore...
Hooroo
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Well fuck a duck.
Well done Fozzie. You have exceeded our expectations and in four years you have got this team just right.
Win or lose, itโs a great achievement.
Fuck the naysayers
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The Fern has a medalist in the World Masters Games!!!
Willie The Waiter just won Bronze Medal in the individual pursuit!!!
Congrats bro!!!!
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@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
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@Tim said in Political Memes (memes only):
@booboo Just a funny picture of Chelsea Clinton.
We need an @Tim Meme only thread.
It will have to come with instructions ๐
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@canes4life said in Foster signs 2 year extension:
The thing is, if we win the World Cup he will most likely be reinstated again. Ffs.
and so he should be.
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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
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If we win this, all off-season I will be saying "we could have won the damn thing if Jacobsen wasn't injured..."
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Remember all those years ago when we joked around about Foster becoming coach.
Oh how we laughed....
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Some one must have hacked his account as BSG would always scoff and laugh at those who did grand exits. Must be someone else.
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Just seen the Same Cane incident. He stopped the guy.
The rubbish I read had me thinking he gave him one on the ground.
You enter the field as a streaker, protester or otherwise and your rights are left in the stand in my eyes.
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Our illustrious founder of TheSilverFern.com got to witness his beloved Whangamata Rugby team win the Thames Valley premier comp for the first time in an age!
Dave Dillon got in on the coaching panel as he is back from Japan and while he isn't taking the credit it appears his influence certainly helped get them over the line.
@BartMan you must be chuffed!!!
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@junior said in Happiness Scale:
@junior said in Happiness Scale:
Good thread.
I have a great life. My wife is beautiful, kindhearted and good fun. My wife and I both have great jobs with a decent amount of flexibility, intellectual challenge and very good remuneration. We have a great apartment and I have a nice car. We never want for anything and eat out at nice places regularly. COVID-permitting, we can travel anywhere we want and stay pretty much wherever we want when we get there. We live near the beach in a part of the world where the sun shines all year round. We pay fuck all in taxes. I play golf every weekend with a great group of mates.
If you'd asked me 5 years ago what my perfect life would like, that's pretty much it.
But, to be honest, I'm feeling dissatisfied, restless, irritable and a little helpless. Wife and I are and have been for the past 2 year trying to start a family with very little success. The clock is ticking for her and so we have gone the IVF route, which has taken a real physical toll on her and even more of an emotional toll on us both. We've basically got one more roll of the dice before we give up and live our lives as a childless couple, the hardest part of which is watching my wife come to terms with losing a large part of her "purpose" in life. It's difficult for us both right now to see our many blessings, because the truth is we'd give up almost all of them just to have our own little family.
Still working out what this all actually means in terms of my overall happiness, but a few thoughts include (a) that happiness is a completely relative concept, (b) I may have been wrong about at truly makes me happy, and (c) your own happiness can be massively influenced by the happiness (or otherwise) of others.
With the thread having back to life, it's prompted a lot of reflection and a decision to re-read my first post to see what's changed and to see if I feel any different.
In my life, nothing really has changed. I still have the objectively charmed life described above (slightly more money on account of a mid-year salary increase). But, if I'm honest, I am even more miserable now than I was then.
Our last round(s) of IVF were unfortunately unsuccessful. This did not come as a great surprise - in fact, we had both resigned ourselves to this being inevitable, while at the same time being committed not to give up so long as we had the physical, financial and emotional ability to continue on the off-chance that we would be lucky enough to be blessed with a child (something we both really wanted).
The whole process was really such an emotionally draining experience - building up the determination and optimism to continue despite previous failure and the odds stacked against us, only to fail again - that I completely detached myself from the experience as a coping mechanism. As a result, I am completely lost as to the timelines, what happened when, what the outcome was on each occasion, the discussions had with and advice received from doctors etc.
Anyway, I think it must be about 6ish months since we stopped. Since then, we've both put the blinkers on and buried our heads in the sand. I think we are both still processing the whole awful experience, the outcome and what this means for the future. We therefore don't really discuss this together, and I don't know if we are even ready individually or as a couple to do so. I don't think I am. My wife may be, as demonstrated by her opening up to certain people over drinks at her work Xmas party while completely writing herself off (something which upset me quite a lot, given that the people concerned were not friends and have big mouths).
We had previously discussed what our "Plan C" might be for having kids in the inevitable case that IVF didn't work - we don't anymore. I don't think we currently have the energy or inclination to go through the ball ache of, for example, adoption or egg donation or even to talk about it. I don't think I even want kids anymore - probably more of a "if I can't have them, I don't want them" reaction in reality. Still, seeing friends pregnant or with young children makes me feel sick. Being around friends and their kids - particularly very young ones - is galling. Half the conversations they want to have is either about or hi-jacked by their kids.
The last 12 months at work have been tough. It's provided a convenient pretext to avoid thinking or talking about the personal things that need processing. But it's also considerably added to the malaise, as I've basically missed out on Xmas and New Years due to being so busy since at least October. Added to that is the fact that we couldn't travel either to her home or mine for Xmas because of work, which has made matters worse.
We have some light at the end of the tunnel, with a chance of a decent break in February. But all I want to do is go home and see my friends and family, which seems unlikely to happen. At the very least the chances of it getting canned at the last minute due to border closures seems high. Best case scenario it is going to be a logistical nightmare and cost a fuck ton of money.
You tell yourself that the reason you work hard is to have a nice life and build something for your future and your family. Well, if your future doesn't involve kids, what is the point of working your c#nt off now? I can still have the life I currently live by working about 75% as hard as I currently do.
If you can't use the rare times you get a break from work to travel and visit your friends and family, again what is the point of working your c#nt off in those other times? I would have much more free time and flexibility to take holidays at more convenient times by working about 75% as hard as I currently do.
It's weird as I don't know you from a bar of soap but my heart sunk and I got a bit teary reading that.
We resigned ourselves to not having kids quite some time ago and I feel ok about it. Mrs Hooroo deals with it but I think she deep down still wishes.
I really like my mates Kids and can easily celebrate with them. If a mate is about to have a kid, I get super excited for them. I don't hold any jealousy. I thrive off other peoples happiness though.
Time is the only healer for this. Nothing else helps.
On the plus side, we have A LOT of fun. We are always getting away, the farm is nearly mortgage free (sort of) and we are now thinking of what to do next (Buy Beach House or place overseas etc)
No point me saying 'it will get better'....
.... but I promise you, it will.
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@KiwiMurph said in RWC: England v New Zealand (SF1):
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby/news/article.cfm?c_id=80&objectid=12279196
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.
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@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Apparently two confirmed cases In Tok and 5 probable! (or maybe it's one confirmed and 5 probable)
I'm happy to be working in Tok today...โฆ.
By myself!
without booze!
but a compulsion to talk to myself
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Ha ha. Montera didnโt shake Coles hand. He just gave another shove.
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@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.
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@nzbloke said in All Blacks 2021:
@chris said in All Blacks 2021:
@nzbloke said in All Blacks 2021:
@chris said in All Blacks 2021:
@nzbloke said in All Blacks 2021:
you mean here you moan again.
No I mean more sanctimoniousness dribble.
If anyone is talking verbal diarrhoea it's you.
You tend to think the sun shines out of Foster... so what has he actually added to the team of any value then ?
When have I ever said that ,
Read my posts I have smashed Foster for 2 years .
I have been one of his biggest critics.So more crap from you yet again.
It amazes me though how some here hardly ever question this current coaching staff - anyone that knows their rugby properly can see where we are going wrong & can also see what adjustments need to be made to fix it.
This whole forum criticises the current set up. Maybe one or two have slightly defended him but not really. Your comment makes no sense in this environment.
Even the Waikato and Chiefs supporters are saying he shouldn't be there.
This isn't Cantabs defending the Deans dross, this is a united front against Foster for the most.
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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.'''
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All Black Coach - Ian Foster
See ya
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