@taniwharugby really not sure how you get mentally weak from reading that.

He’s being brutally honest about a hugely disappointing chapter in his career. Is taking responsibility for it and has identified how to improve handling setbacks in the future.

Talking about this instead of bottling it up, like he says in the article, is exactly what we want young men doing. Pretty mature reflection IMO.

Looking forward to seeing if that shows up on the field. Not many players get this much bullshit written about them, even fewer get character assassinated by the AB coach. All very weird.

@Tim said in Hello Boomer...:

@Kirwan Remember when the newspapers boycotted the NPC because the NZRU/Sky were trying to stop them from using short video clips? NZRU's digital strategy is as pathetic as it is arrogant.

Yep, very short sighted. You want eyeballs on your sport, end of story. Lots of choice these days.

Really good points about the free advertising. The amount of YouTube/Twitch streamers playing games with 100,000s of viewers is insane.

Going to be interesting to see what the middle ground will be for selling broadcast rights but not crushing fans sharing clips, or whatever the next popular way of sharing content will be.

They need to get on it.

@Duluth said in Jussie "MAGA Country" Smollett:

@Kirwan said in Jussie "MAGA Country" Smollett:

Unless the warrant is specific for searches related to the hoax.

It not be a difficult concept to grasp

Unfortunately some people divide the world into white hats vs black hats. Jussie has a black hat so fuck him. The same people cheering this on will then complain when the same is done to a white hat

Yeah, it's that old saying about I was quiet until they came for me

@Rembrandt If they can do it form him, they can do it for anybody. This is a bad precedent.

@Siam said in Jussie "MAGA Country" Smollett:

All your data?

As much as I want to see Juicy scapegoated as a message, is this a one of those times where the principle of privacy outweighs the schadenfruede?

Having the law pore through your life seems a bit over the top, whatever the charge.

We've all accepted our online life can be seen by others and there is no genuine privacy but have we seen the potential real life repercussions of all our stored data, and in this case, at the whim of a judge.

Stinks a bit, to me. He lied and carried on like a pork chop - convict him on that.

Absolutely, the guys a piece of shit but being able to access that data seems like over reach. Unless the warrant is specific for searches related to the hoax.

So much is going to leak.

@voodoo said in Ricky Gervais At Globes:

@Kirwan I obvs don't have the numbers, but I wouldn't have thought it would be sky high for people who would have otherwise vaxed their kids deciding not to because of some celeb? Def not zero, but not crazy numbers either?

You can look at the vaccination rates and far they dropped, and from when, and track it back to these types of celebrities starting to bleat on about it.

Millions of people listen to these idiots.

How about celebrity endorcements and activisim against vaccines? How many kids has that killed?

Airheads talking about stuff they don't understand with a large audience that laps it up can be very harmful.

@Tim said in 50 Years of Star Trek:

@Kirwan As if Discovery wasn't enough ...

Getting super nervous about Picard....

@Hooroo said in Re: Movie review thread...:

With all the movie remakes in the past decade, do you think they could do that to Star Wars Episodes 1-6?

I'd definitely watch. And they could still use James Earl Jones....

It’s more likely that they do a Darth Vader movie for the period between 3 and 4.

Some of the DV comics have been pretty good.