@Duluth see thats where the pessimist in me is afraid that when fozzie sees that equation....he'll just move jordie back to 15 or god forbid the wing

Started A town called Malice last night.

That guy who usually plays other roles ( Dougray Scott, thanks Google ) is good fun as the weird crazy uncle although a bit depressing seeing one of the hustling gang from Lock Stock who isn’t Jason Statham looking extremely middle aged ! I thought he might have been wearing make up to look older, nope, that’s him now.

Good fun so far, will stick with it and see how it goes.

There is a ubiquitous 80s banger played every couple of minutes which might get a bit gratuitous, we’ll see.

@dogmeat said in NZ Politics:

@MajorRage said in NZ Politics:

Where is NZ really on the woke scale, as a population?

Overall as in most things more left wing than most countries.

More specifically.

30% fully bought into the TOE-MA-TOE /TO-MATE-O agenda.
20% indignant at the increasing wokeness and madly posting against gender, race, maori name changes etc on all forms of social media
50% totally bemused and just trying to get on with life.

As for the Fern; obviously a bolt hole for CIS, male, colonialist apologists who only want to see a broadening of the male, racist hegemony while never moving too far away from the Barbie or the TV remote.

This is wrong. A high percentage of posters identify as hawt Polish women.

FFS I had to google what cis male even was. The LGBT community make up a lot of new words and grammatical expressions, its hard to keep up!

@voodoo said in NBA Season - now 22/23:

@gt12 said in NBA Season - now 22/23:

@voodoo said in NBA Season - now 22/23:

@gt12 said in NBA Season - now 22/23:

Motherfucker!!!

Goddamn being in the West right now.

I bet we lose Luka.

Lose Luka??? Whaddya mean?

No way in hell he gets traded, you mean when he’s a FA in 26-27???

Suns look seriously scary to me. Lakers got better, but damn the Suns man.

Would love to see a Boston v Bucks and Suns v Dallas CFs

Luka now unhappy…

I reckon Cuban would be the worst person to ask for a trade from too…

He sold Nash years ago and still regrets it to this day. Luka ain't going anywhere

@Stargazer What I read about the fundraiser on the Hamilton BHS FB page was the first I had heard of them attending, so maybe it was a late decision to go.

@Bones said in Memes:

@MN5 who doesn't love a dog with human ears

Stop ruining my memes with facts

Just following on from @MajorRage post in the NZ Politics thread and trying to make sense of this stuff.....

It's the civil rights fight of this generational group - just like gay rights, apartheid etc. Previous battles won - freedom of speech, equality under the law. women's rights - are likely seen as old-hat and less important to respect.

There's a belief that as the battle on women's right has largely been won, sex doesn't actually matter - people should be able to choose

Science and facts are less important than feelings as he former are a bit dry, boring - and unemotional. We can get a bigger emotional hit by interacting emotionally online with like-minded people. And an even bigger hit when we meet up to protest in real-life.

And just as people can't get directly physically hurt online, this poss. translates into thinking intimidation and paint-throwing/damage to property is OK

In the past, people's values and moral were rooted in day-day experiences which earlier generation took online when social media appeared. Are later generations increasingly taking their online morals and values into real-life? Does this explain the violence and groupthink?

Media, business & politicians are targeting this group or generation (which cuts across traditional political groupings) for click-revenue, marketing opportunities and votes. (Follow the money)

Most of these beliefs - like many who espouse them - are nonsensical and collapse when facing reality - as we've seen in other countries, sports and institutions when the harms they cause become really apparent.

@MajorRage

I wouldn’t have a problem with him in the set-up, but I cant see us paying the money.

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@game_film Saw a checky segment on Aussie tv tonight asking Nathan Clearly about whether he would give Rugby a crack. He reponded by saying he grew up in New Zealand and that rugby was huge over there. While there was nothing in the intervew he didn't rule it out. He is currently working with Dan Carter on his kicking game. Clearly came off as an All Black supporter, no mention of the Wallabies. New Zealand can poach league players as well was the message which was subtley conveyed.

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@Bones said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:

I think there was mixed reviews over PJ but can't remember which thread.

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@Stargazer said in Chiefs 2023:

@Bovidae I can totally understand him still being angry about it. It was disgusting what Swain did and he only missed three games, while Tupaea has been out for a very long time and is likely to miss the RWC. Not to mention the physical pain and what it did to him mentally.

and it sounds like (from that video) he's not going to be 100% on that leg again into the future.

@Crucial Thanks, I had seen those documents, but that's not what I'm looking for.

@MN5 said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:

@Kiwiwomble said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:

@MN5

but they do give good, imo, explanations (unlike rey), cara is litterally built like a brick shit house, Bo has been born and raised to be the leader of a military culture, fennic is an assassin, shes not generally swinging a club around, she snips with a gun most often and dones some acrobatic shit...there is still far more male character that kick arse over all in Star wars to each their own so is it just that we see them all in the same series?...too any women?

Fair enough. I did re edit my original post.

To further add to your post Ashoka is an extremely powerful Jedi Knight.

Maybe the girls are just bearing the brunt of my criticism of the new series. Han, Luke, Leia etc struggled to put away troopers much more than these guys do.

Han got decked by a Scout Trooper and Luke and Leia really struggled to catch the others. They only escaped the Death Star cos Moff Tarkin ordered it.

In the latest movies, series etc though they’re a joke. Any less than 20 of them is basically target practice.

Their combat instructors need to be fired for this inept training

To be fair though, I’m not sure Stormtrooper training deals with Jake the Muss.

The Herald understands Hansen is also in talks to sign Highlanders lock Josh Dickson, who was called into train with the national team last year and featured for the All Blacks XV in their two-match northern tour.

@Duluth or has "blocked" whoever started the thread?

Really? Surely there are plenty of other coaches who are better options.

Laidlaw to lead New Zealand Under 20s Laidlaw to lead New Zealand Under 20s

All Black Sevens Head Coach Clark Laidlaw is set to make his return to the fifteen aside format after being confirmed as the New Zealand Under 20 Head Coach to lead them through to the 2023 World Rugby Under 20 Championship in South Africa later this year.

The New Zealand Under 20 squad will be named in April.

New Zealand Under 20 Schedule:
Vs. Australia Under 20, Monday 29 May, Wellington
Vs. Australia Under 20, Saturday 3 June, Wellington

2023 World Rugby Under 20 Championship
Pool matches:
Vs. Wales Under 20, 24 June, Paarl Gymnasium, Paarl, South Africa
Vs. France Under 20, 29 June, Paarl Gymnasium, Paarl, South Africa
Vs. Japan Under 20, 4 July, Paarl Gymnasium, Paarl, South Africa

Knock-out matches:
Match day 4: Sunday 9 July
Match day 5 (final): Friday 14 July

@kiwi_expat said in Moana Pasifika v Hurricanes:

@SBW1 said in Moana Pasifika v Hurricanes:

@Canes4life They are pretty close to being the form team of the comp and possibly have the most depth of any of the franchises. A lot of this success probably has been springboarded by the success of the Wellington Lions at NPC level.

Might be a Chiefs vs Hurricanes final this year, Canes are riding a wave behind a NPC winning Lions contingent. Chiefs have a squad that's peaking also.

But Crusaders have all but one forward in ABs, or NZ XV or Pacific test teams, and a lot of back depth too. It is all about the best team you can field for knockouts - and Crusaders will have the edge regardless

@Duluth said in 2023 World Sevens Series:

New players are Rhodes Featherstone and Xavier Tito–Harris

XTH has been looking sharp on the wing for the Blues u20's

Does anyone know much about Featherstone?

He is tall and full of energy - a flanker. Should have been in the team before this from what I have seen.

Clarkson 100 off 70 and still going. Amazing innings.

@mariner4life said in NRL 2023:

James Tamau is not a fucking kiwi

+1

@Machpants Gone probably from Leinster rugby which is why I posted it in this thread.

@dogmeat said in Movie review thread...:

@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:

Best superhero movie ever is a huge call. Can’t say I’m with you. In fact, it’s not even my favourite multi-dimensional movie

I'm not really a fan of superhero movies. All a bit same, same.

I do remember enjoying Dr Strange (both) but can't recall the plots now.

I have a very visual memory so I tend not to watch movies more than once.

Although DrS1 had a much better (scene-stealing) cameo from the cloak of levitation (arguably the best actor) the dead-eyed Dane let it down as did Tilda Swanton (strange casting). DrS2 is a multiverse magical zombie movie (not surprising given who the Director was-Sam Raimi).

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/300841109/harry-plummer-shrugs-off-the-setbacks-to-make-it-back-in-super-rugby-pacific-for-blues

@SBW1 said in Hurricanes 2023:

@Canes4life Heard he is returning to NZ at the conclusion of the French Top 14 season. Lions appear to have an impressive squad going into this year's NPC.

And a good young coach in T Ellison to boot.

@Canes4life yup fair point. Not a bad group to pick from!

Interesting body position adopted by blues defender at 3:17 in this video.

Where have I seen the before .........?

@Bones said in Highlanders 2023:

@FakatavaAllBlack switch TUJ and Gilbert and that looks better than expected.

thats what i was thinking

@SouthernMann said in Highlanders 2023:

@FakatavaAllBlack said in Highlanders 2023:

11

Thinking Nareki will be back. Chuck CGB back to fullback and Hunt can go to 10. Millar gets another 20 minutes off the bench, Quite interested to see how Gilbert might go in the midfield for a game. Like him getting his hands on the ball.

CGB to 15 and hunt to the bench, he can come on as impact

@booboo I clearly dont spend enough time on here

What is E.T short for?

Because his legs aren’t very long

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@Bovidae I don't know about Monaghan, but Morrison has a NDC (training with the senior Canes) and Allen is probably seen as a bigger talent.

Yeah, will be interesting to see if SRP players will be released. A few years ago, Jordie wasn't. Caleb Clarke may have been in the same boat, but I'm not sure about that.

I assume there will first be an Oceania U20 Championship?

@MajorRage said in British Politics:

@MiketheSnow said in British Politics:

Is anything illegal here?

Truth is that UK politicians are woefully underpaid and in theory as long as they are consulting for the good of the UK, then what is the issue?

🙂

I finally had a chance to watch this game. Good to see Wrampling have a strong game until he had to leave the field with cramp. I hadn't realised he was still so young, being eligible for the U20s next year too. Gabe Robinson did his NZ U20 chances no harm either.

@mariner4life said in Favourite Comedians:

if you haven't watched Chris Rock's latest Netflix special do yourself a favour

don't

it's shit. Barely a laugh in there.

Comedy is in the ear of the beholder. I thought it was good.