@mn5 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@raznomore said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@mn5 as soon as I read "ragtop" I thought Bombs Over Baghdad
God bless you brutha Raz.....and what fucken banga of a tune it is too.
Stone, cold, classic.
I've been quite happy in a musical rut of Run The Jewels for work tunes, but this little gift of inspiration was appreciated. Hadn't listened to B.O.B in way too long.
@tordah said in 2018-2019 World Sevens Series:
Well, USA deserve the win but Rasta sure is one of the worst referees around and definitely - in my biased mind - seems to favour any team against NZ. Never have that feeling about any other sevens ref.
It's all good - this was his last Sevens tournament.
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Super Rugby next year... yay.
I've just heard - Anthony Starr is going to star in an upcoming TV production of "The Boys".
If you don't know "The Boys" - it's a so-called "graphic novel" - written by the same guy as Preacher... once described as "out-Preacher-ing Preacher".
So - Banshee-meets-Preacher.
An ex-girlfriend alerted me to this... I was so happy about this news I nearly took her back.
@smudge said in NZ Politics:
@rembrandt said in NZ Politics:
Honestly if people don't start standing up to this nonsense the next generation are completely fucked....
I got 21....
An arguable 20
@derm-mccrum said in Exodus 2019:
@mariner4life said in Exodus 2019:
@derm-mccrum are those Irish squad sizes correct? Between 60 and 69 players? Does that include the reserves side?
All the 6 teams include both the senior and academy squads as they're called. In Ireland, we don't have "reserves' as such. The PRO14 Championship is 21 rounds, the European Cup has 6 pool rounds, (plus knockouts) and there's 10-12 tests to play, so players get game time. Last season, Leinster used 55 players during the season.
At the weekend just gone, they went away to Dragons in Wales. Cullen decided to throw his kids in at the deep end, minded by Grandad Fardy. 5 first team benchers, 11 second and third choice, and 7 academy 19/20 year olds - mainly in the backline. 4 of the academy kids scored on the night in a absolute routing 59-10. The academy keeps on giving.
Never mind the dry powder, metres-gained metrics, etc, etc... THIS, this gives me the fucking fear, as an All Blacks supporter.
It really sounds like Ireland has got their shit together.
@baron-silas-greenback said in NBA season 2018/19:
@mariner4life said in NBA season 2018/19:
@baron-silas-greenback said in NBA season 2018/19:
@mariner4life said in NBA season 2018/19:
Spurs beat the Blazers today
My NBA app send me notifications during every Spurs game, and i have lost count of how many games recently we have either led at 3/4 time, or been down by only a point, and then gone on to lose it at the death.
Probably because Pop is a senile cunt
haha i thought of you last week when Pop was lamenting the modern game, where shooting threes is the only stat that matters. You two have a lot in common
Apart from being cumudgeons we have nothing in common. He is a marxist hypocritical cunt.
Why do I suddenly have a Meatloaf song stuck in my head?
@mariner4life said in EPL 18/19:
Hily shit get the highlights from Adelaide v Brisbane in the A-League last night. Eye gouge, dude gets knocked out by a super reckless challenge, the knocked out dude gets scragged on the ground, the coaches have a little go.
Shit, so there was an interesting game of soccer? Might have to revise my opinion.
I was the same... the first package of highlights I watched (the shortest I could find) - just boring, shit football.
Then - find the actual highlights of what the @mariner4life was refering to - football fluffybunnies being massive football fluffybunnies - actually quite entertaining.
The sport parts of it... still, yeah, nah.
@crucial said in Bogans with kids:
@booboo said in Bogans with kids:
Silly bitch named her daughter with the specific intention of being able to outraged, OUTRAGED!, when her name is inevitably ridiculed.
No sympathy for the pathetic showboating narcissistic mother; desparately sorry for the poor kid with the misfortune to be born to that unfortunate grandstander.
It’s like naming your child Dipshit then complaining that people are calling them names.
Had this big an name discussion with someone the other day and they wrote this one down as asked us to try work it out.
L-aKids name is pronounced Ledasha
Yeah, actually, if you've turned the naming of kids into matchstick-puzzles... fair enough.
It's constant brainteasers, for teachers, employers, everybody else.
@taniwharugby
That happened to somebody while I was in Rio... sounds like another urban myth, but I seem to recall having people at the hostel who'd witnessed it.
Although in that case - I have a (possibly false/distorted) memory it was the pilot who wasn't attached? And let himself drop off almost immediately, knowing it was a softer landing... leaving the tourist to pretty much "do their best".
Edit: figured something like that might appear in news/travel-stories... and yeah, found this - which seems to match my memory, and around the time I would have been there:
http://www.paraglidingforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=12325
@jegga said in Bogans with kids:
I wonder what her stripper name is going to be ? Xyzzz is pretty easy to remember.
Surely it's more likely to be XXXyz ?