Meanwhile in Brazil.

“The better team” never loses a game 19 - 3.

Worth a try

I'm an old fashioned git too.

Useful or not as a rule, I suppose it does get kids used to following appearance rules for when they matter later in life. Be it hi-vis vests, or realising that facial tattoo's are fine so long as you don't then expect to work for Emirates, etc etc. I guess I'm also a grumpy old git who gets fed up of all such media stories trying to fuel outrage on relatively trivial matters...

Vaea Fifita: the Akira Ioane that they do pick...

There's an impressive army of vehement Facebook posters who would have completely locked down the NZ border to everyone four weeks ago.

I'm not sure how they found to time to study medicine alongside their qualifications in volcanology and mine re-entry, but they've found a way....

@ACT-Crusader - Weka was one of the Thames Valley Mafia along with @Fonzie and Bart, but we co-opted them in as Bay fans . @aucklandwarlord was also on the terraces at Eden Park on a certain day that we might have mentioned once or twice. @King-Goober-XL was another regular Bay fan around that time.

In 2004 @bayimports finally got to (mostly) bury the memories - and end of game footage of him - from the stands at Eden Park in 1996...

Unlike Steve Braunias with his ongoing 'Secret Diary' series, @JP & I eventually figured out that there's only so many Day in the Life satires that you can write before you start repeating the same gags in a different guise. Think we did either five or six of them in the end - they were all a huge amount of fun to write - with plenty of stifled laughs at work as iterative e-mail versions were sent back and forth. The one for Phooey included a couple of local knowledge lines about the Hong Kong rugby scene from @BartMan - it was the first one we did and the content flowed quickly!

Mountie @brain-man made a few Bay related posts from London in the mid 2000's but was sadly lost to a car accident on the Kaimai ranges in 2009. For those in Hamilton there's a memorial bench dedicated to him outside College Hall on the Waikato Uni campus: https://www.wu.ac.nz/fmd/memorial_trees_plaques.shtml - Brains was a good keen Varsity man and an absolutely top bloke.

"Varsity W.U.R.F.C. Eat, Laugh, Drink, Play, Nude. In loving memory of Varsity Legend Matt 'Brains' Goodlet"

'He doesn't play for the Crusaders?'

A thread not to make light of the overall situation - but to try and have a few lighter moments.

@mariner4life said in Crusaders v Rebels:

Let google decide

Search: Ryan Crotty injury - 242,000 results (.40 seconds)

Search: Anton Lienert-Brown injury - 44,700 results (.41 seconds)

the internet has spoken

And for once Crotty is faster than ALB.

@canefan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@Donsteppa said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

‘Bright North Korea’ (a new term to me) are at an equivalent of Alert Level 3... the scale looks fairly similar, I wonder if we borrowed it... https://www.gov.sg/article/what-do-the-different-dorscon-levels-mean

I find the term a little insulting to be honest

Yep, I get that some parallels can be drawn... but I think 100% of the time I’d still choose Singapore for many more good reasons than just the electricity supply.

‘Bright North Korea’ (a new term to me) are at an equivalent of Alert Level 3... the scale looks fairly similar, I wonder if we borrowed it... https://www.gov.sg/article/what-do-the-different-dorscon-levels-mean

@hydro11 said in Radio Sport:

The other big issue is that they have gone away from actually having live sport. Cricket from Australia (when we aren't playing) and the Plunket Shield both got canned.

This! Losing the domestic ball by ball cricket, and losing the cricket from Australia was the start of me drifting further and further away from Radio Sport.

I remember tuning in one afternoon, hearing Darcy on a fired up rant, and being puzzled because I was sure I had the time difference right for the second Ashes session of Day One from the Gabba. After a few minutes more of Darcy, the sinking feeling that they weren't going to cross to ABC from the Gabba was eventually confirmed by a score update.

Nothing against Darcy for that, he just happened to be the host on at the time, but it was definitely a change the station and a loss of loyalty moment.

@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - Overall:

@canefan I think if someone said drinking bleach would kill the virus, some would drink it.

Sadly that's what some people literally do to their kids with autism.

Parliament TV has that select committee on at the moment with the discussion focussed on the economy today

Some promising progress on ventilators: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/413111/covid-19-nz-sources-more-ventilators-amid-rampant-global-demand

Also a sobering thought this morning. Especially for the meh, Covid only kills very old people with pre-existing medical conditions anyway line of thinking.

People at that late stage don't get intubated in the best of times. Full scale ventilation is for the rest of us...

On the supermarkets, my sense is that some regions and communities have had it luckier than others. Talking to/hearing about families in some parts of Auckland, their local supermarkets have been short/out of some of the basics for two weeks whenever they've been.

While we've been very lucky where we are and it's almost normal shopping. One day felt a bit like the week before Christmas, but only flour and Vitamin C were completely cleaned out.

For the 90's Waikato alumni, for some weird reason I've always remembered a line in Nexus reviewing the long-vanished local 3 Guys supermarket: "like shopping in Moscow".