The Silver Fern

Regardless of whether Twitter/X is a better user experience, there can be no doubt Musk has improved freedom of speech rights for those right of centre or those not subscribing to the latest woke madness.
And that's a bloody good thing.

@booboo interesting! Will have to keep my ears open

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@antipodean said in Waratahs v Chiefs:

That handshake by Narawa was funny as.

@Dan54 said in Tech Questions:

Ok fellas, got a question not tech that leads to another.
1 As I planning trip overseas later in year, I have set up a Wise debit card, seems good, has anyone heard bad things about them>
2 I can have a digital card etc, but if I want it in google wallet I have to set screen lock, is there anyway I can have a lock (pin ) just for Google wallet. I don't want to lock screen on phone all the time as I find it a complete pain in the arse!!

Haven’t used the travel digital card thing. but I can definitely vouch for Wise - I’ve been using them for years, really efficient, great rates etc

@barbarian said in NFL:

Falcons are an embarrassment of a franchise. Just egregious behavior.

This comes days after they were crowing that Bill Bellichick didn't make their top 3 coaching finalists

What a clown show.

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Calling all guitarists on here - anyone have one with a Floyd Rose bridge? The lad has one, and we attempted the first string change the other night with youtube assisting. Fair to say it did not go well...

Anyone got a good resource or advice for working with these things? Bloody nightmare!!!

Any chance you watched this one?

No, didn't see that one - will watch now, thanks.

Would note that I am already 1 min in to his 20min clip and he has already admitted to having "pre-done" about 5 steps and he has laid out the kit in this manner:

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I suspect that Fess was not exaggerating.

Edit - that pic includes a number of tools that he has designed and made himself to fill a gap in the market.

Fess is going to be taking a bit of my $ over the next few years

Fuck all of that.

Trade it in and buy him an imitation Fender Strat. They look and sound better anyway.

( this is all just my opinion of course, kids playing music is always awesome, encourage him anyway you can )

This all sounds very complicated, I had no idea there was so much involved with them !

155 bucka seems ridiculous.

He has a Strat already (not an imitation) - he bought that a few years ago, and the new Ibanez is a recent upgrade from that (with his own savings 💪)

It’s a wicked guitar, looks and sounds incredible - just a little tricky to change the stings apparently

Thanks for reviving this thread

Adelaide lost this weekend yet?

@KiwiMurph agree. Great lines on support. We’ve got some great support runners in our halves atm with him Ratima and TJ. Cam R is excellent at this too.

@MiketheSnow

Restores what little faith I had in politicians. He’d likely get my vote.

@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:

Completed my watch of the Best Picture nominees, so here's my ranking of them from worst to best.

10 . Maestro: I tried to continue watching this after discussing it with @Victor-Meldrew but I couldn't get more than 10 minutes into my rewatch. It's just not very good.

9 . American Fiction: Aside from Maestro I enjoyed every other movie in the list but some more than others. This was one of the less than others, it started off really well but kind of faltered a bit in the end. I think it needed to lean more into it's central conceit (mild spoiler coming) of an author pretending to be "street".

8 . The Holdovers: This was an amiable movie by a good director, and thankfully Paul Giamatti didn't do his whisper voice very often. A crotchety old teacher is left in charge of the few kids left over Xmas at a fancy pants boarding. Bonding happens.

7 . Killers of the Flower Moon: Again a good movie, by a great director, but there's no way he deserved a best director nomination for this. It was serviceable by his standards but unlike most of his movies I think other directors could have directed it just as well. Led me to the book which I enjoyed more than the movie.

6 . Zone of Interest: The best holocaust movie since Schindler's List (that's a weird thing to write). Oddly enough it kind of doesn't have an overarching narrative, something I'd normally find annoying. Tells a bit of the story of the outside life of the Hoess the Auschwitz commander and his family.

5 . Poor Things: Fairly bonkers movie with lots of Emma Stone nudity ... but she shouldn't have won best actress. It's a play the autistic/mentally handicapped person style role that Oscar likes, but Lily Gladstone in Killers was superb in an understated and "real role". Anyway, still a good fun film, very black comedy in an alternate steampunk style world.

4 . Anatomy of a Fall: A French film, a German actress (who was also the lead female in Zone of Interest), and filmed in a mix of French and English. Interesting look at the French style of court (judges directly questioning the accused and witnesses etc) and I'm not sure it is better then ours.

3 . Past Lives: Two old Korean friends who haven't seen each other in year catch up in New York (she lives there with her husband and he is visiting) and drama happens, but not really.

2 . Barbie: The Barbieheimer one-two punch. Good to see a weird comedy-drama based on a doll get nominated. Greta Gerwig should have had Scorcese's best director nod though.

1 . Oppenheimer: The Oscars and I agree, yay. I'm not sure if this is Nolan's best movie (I'm still partial to Memento) but it's definitely Oscar worthy and the best film I saw last year. I'd quite like to see him make some more grounded stuff. Tenet tends to pale in comparison to this movie.

About halfway through this list

9 American Fiction. Enjoyed it.
8 The Holdovers. Couldn't get on with it. Bailed after 30 mins.
5 Poor Things. Rubbish. Could only stomach 20 mins.
2 Barbie. Decent. Should be nowhere near the Oscars.

4 Anatomy of a Fall. Excellent. Snoop the dog is a better actor than most in the above.

This film then daylight to the others. The 24-hr above the Arctic Circle Summer daylight.

Well they're only 1 point out of the 8 (not sure what effect remaining games will have) so not terminal yet.

@Bovidae not bad by the Under 20s, I thought it would have been more of a flogging than that.

@Kruse That sounds like Derpus?

Squads for Singapore. Some mens players returning from long-term injuries.

All Blacks Sevens:
Leroy Carter
Dylan Collier - captain
Tepaea Cook-Savage
Fehi Fineanganofo
Andrew Knewstubb
Ngarohi McGarvey-Black
Moses Leo
Tone Ng Shiu
Lewis Ormond
Brady Rush
Codemeru Vai
Kitiona Vai
Regan Ware

Unavailable due to injury: Roderick Solo, Sione Molia, Payton Spencer, Akuila Rokolisoa, Tim Mikkelson, Joe Webber and Amanaki Nicole.

Black Ferns Sevens:
Michaela Blyde
Jazmin Felix-Hotham
Tysha Ikenasio
Shiray Kaka
Tyla King
Jorja Miller
Manaia Nuku
Mahina Paul
Risaleaana Pouri-Lane – captain
Alena Saili
Theresa Setefano
Stacey Waaka
Portia Woodman-Wickliffe

Unavailable due to injury: Sarah Hirini and Kelly Brazier

New Zealand Sevens teams named for Singapore New Zealand Sevens teams named for Singapore

The All Blacks Sevens and Black Ferns Sevens travel to Singapore this weekend for the last tournament of the regular SVNS Series season.

Time to tip everyone - some tough choices this weekend I reckon https://thesilverfern.com/tipping-submit/

Highlanders have won 8 of their 15 matches with the Force

6 of the Force wins came in a row from 2008-2014. The Force also won the last match between them in Perth last year (30-17)

@KiwiPie ha, I thought both Westwood and Scott never quite took #1 spot, like a couple others I mentioned.

@DaGrubster said in EPL 2023/2024:

This is a quote from Michael Oliver from a few years ago. I’m not sure if the same rules apply at the moment but you can see why Nottingham Forest were able to raise questions about the allegiance of the VAR official.

"I never referee Newcastle games. We have to declare if we have an allegiance to any club or if a family member works at a club. You can’t do any match involving that team and I can’t do Sunderland, either, for obvious reasons.

"Because Newcastle are invariably involved in a relegation battle, when you get to March or April, it means I can’t referee anyone around them towards the bottom three.

"If Newcastle needed a point to survive and the team they were fighting to get above was say Villa, I couldn’t referee Villa’s game either. I wouldn’t want to. It’s not worth the hassle."

No idea if the same rules apply for the ref in charge of VAR - they aren't meant to be making the decisions as such, such decide whether to refer back to ref to make a call. Or draw lines and not entirely sure how much control they have over that and how much is automatic.

I should at this point state that I am a Notts County fan and we are duty-bound to dislike the mob from across the Trent. But Forest have been hard to like this season (bar Chris Wood) for their whining and employing of a ref - and complaining about their points penalty having spent a ridiculous amount last season.

Liverpool are out of the title race now unless both Arsenal and City slip up more than once - Liverpool's maximum is 86 points and given the relative goal difference, they would need Arse to get 8 points from 4 games and City 9 from 5 to finish above them.