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    @taniwharugby said in Anzac Day:

    @MN5 I heard that on the radio news today (Normal speed) good on the kid, been bought up right!

    He definitely said the right things but fuck me he came across as a rude annoying knowall tubby fuckwit. I'm quite torn in my views....

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    @MN5 when giving a numpty like that a serve, it dont matter what you sound like, you have being right at your back 🙂

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    @taniwharugby said in Anzac Day:

    @MN5 when giving a numpty like that a serve, it dont matter what you sound like, you have being right at your back 🙂

    If he bottled him and kicked him I the ground it woulda been better

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    @MN5 said in Anzac Day:

    @taniwharugby said in Anzac Day:

    @MN5 I heard that on the radio news today (Normal speed) good on the kid, been bought up right!

    He definitely said the right things but fuck me he came across as a rude annoying knowall tubby fuckwit. I'm quite torn in my views....

    He's a snot nosed little kid who wouldn't know a tit from his elbow. Perhaps after he's served, he might just appreciate people have a wide range of views...

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    @MN5 I rewatched Stand by me last night and after seeing it I'd prefer it if he incited a barfarama amongst the pinkos like Lardass did by chundering on the cretin he was talking to.

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    @jegga said in Anzac Day:

    @MN5 I rewatched Stand by me last night and after seeing it I'd prefer it if he incited a barfarama amongst the pinkos like Lardass did by chundering on the cretin he was talking to.

    Of everything you've ever posted this is by far the most baffling.

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    @antipodean Yeah, watching it on the news the father comes across as a pussy for letting his son do all the talking.

    Lardarse already has the makings of an annoying politician.

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    @MN5 you never saw this?

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    @Bovidae given it was recorded, you do wonder if they knew the protesters would be there and the dad probably encouraged the kid to give them a serve as less chance anyone will hit the kid (although...) and less chance the kid would get in trouble.

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    @jegga said in Anzac Day:

    @MN5 you never saw this?

    Ah righto. Definitely saw it but never stuck in my mind like other movies of that era.

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    @Bovidae said in Anzac Day:

    @antipodean Yeah, watching it on the news the father comes across as a pussy for letting his son do all the talking.

    Lardarse already has the makings of an annoying politician.

    Very much. Neither look remotely familiar with burpees or push ups either.

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    @jegga said in Anzac Day:

    If you're looking for a good Anzac Day doco this is one of my favourites.

    If you watch the doco this guy features strongly , he did an am zing job under the circumstances

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4140258/NZ-war-hero-Morrie-Stanley-dies

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    @jegga said in Anzac Day:

    If you watch the doco this guy features strongly , he did an am zing job under the circumstances

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4140258/NZ-war-hero-Morrie-Stanley-dies

    There is a book or two about the Battle of Long Tan and the Kiwis feature.

    Pissing rain, shit conditions, RPGs going off everywhere and a fuckload of confusion. Want to have your calculations just right for that.

    One of the standout sections in the book I read was the aftermath - most of the guys they found dead were still in place, set up with rifles on their bergens, pointed outward.

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    @jegga said in Anzac Day:

    @jegga said in Anzac Day:

    If you're looking for a good Anzac Day doco this is one of my favourites.

    If you watch the doco this guy features strongly , he did an am zing job under the circumstances

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4140258/NZ-war-hero-Morrie-Stanley-dies

    HIs competence saved Delta Company. It's impossible to overstate the importance of close fire support in keeping the 6RAR boys alive.

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    @NTA said in Anzac Day:

    @jegga said in Anzac Day:

    If you watch the doco this guy features strongly , he did an am zing job under the circumstances

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4140258/NZ-war-hero-Morrie-Stanley-dies

    There is a book or two about the Battle of Long Tan and the Kiwis feature.

    Pissing rain, shit conditions, RPGs going off everywhere and a fuckload of confusion. Want to have your calculations just right for that.

    Yeah, the part where he tells the artillery to drop their shells just in front of him and they refuse because its too close and he replies "its simple if you don't we'll all be dead in 10 minutes".

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    It needed to be brought to her attention...

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    I think the comments pretty much sum up the attitude there and here as to what would happen if someone was thick enough to try and hijack ANZAC day for their own agenda.

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    My first ANZAC day overseas and me and a kiwi colleague went to the service at Hellfire Pass in Kanchanburi. Some of the toughest sections of the infamous death railway were cut through sheer rock there.

    Incredible service. You walk down through the pass with only flame torches lighting the way. There werent many kiwis there but was packed with aussies. They lost something like 13000 POWs building the railway, doing 15 - 18 hour days of physical labour while dodging beatings from the Japanese and suffering illness.

    They had two old diggers who were 100 and 95 there as guests of honour. They were both POWs in the area during the war. I swear someone was cutting onions next to me when the old boys laid their wreath.

    As an aside, i saw those anti war protesters on the news. I don't think the kid came across that great, but i reckon there would be a niche for a hero in a cape and mask to turn up and thump pricks like this. I would chip in for legal fees. There is also case law relating to burning flags at ANZAC ceremonies that suggests they cant be charged with offensive or disorderly behaviour unless someone is sufficiently offended so this yet-to-be hero would be doing the police a favour...

    I wholeheartedly support the right to protest, but doing it at an ANZAC service just make you a fluffybunny, IMHO. If i turned up to their vegan meetings and started cooking a lamb on a spit, I'm sure they'd all have a cry.

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    @aucklandwarlord said in Anzac Day:

    I wholeheartedly support the right to protest, but doing it at an ANZAC service just make you a fluffybunny, IMHO. If i turned up to their vegan meetings and started cooking a lamb on a spit, I'm sure they'd all have a cry.

    Yep, sure does. Free to protest, but free to be labelled a loser by everyone else. That's freedom, folks. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from criticism.

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    @antipodean said in Anzac Day:

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    It needed to be brought to her attention...

    Never heard of this fool before but a google search reveals she said on tv that "Islam is the most feminist religion ".
    Those words coming to a Tui billboard near you.

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