SBW and Crotty both injured. Fuck me, that's never happened before.

51 players. Unlucky Akira, you were the 52nd. Honest mate.

@frank said in AB EOYT 2018:

51 players. Unlucky Akira, you were the 52nd. Honest mate.

Fuck, I was taking the piss Steve.

@Stargazer said in Blues v Hurricanes:

Great, well-deserved win for the Blues.

Black, Sotutu and Clarke very good; BB well-contained, Telea invisible.

Look I realize his emergence threatens the AB spots of Saders Bridge and Reece, but you've really got to make your bias more subtle. It's too obvious.

Being thinking it over, I guess I am not too annoyed by Frizell being picked ahead of Akira.

It's not like Frizell is stuck behind the All Black incumbent at 6 in the exact same Super rugby side. So he'll get plenty of Super rugby games next year to put into practice all that special coaching he's gets in the AB camp. I mean, he's already so experienced, but playing the full season as the starter for the Highlanders will really round him out!

And the World Cup is plenty of years away yet, so no hurry there.

Akira has hardly played any games for the Blues this year. Totally under used and definitely not flogged. What he needs is more games at a higher level - the NPC!!!

Moreover, he's had the benefit of superb guidance by one of Super Rugby's most astute and successful dread-locked coaches.

He's also had the benefit of playing in a highly motivated and cohesive pack that never slacked off and were highly consistent week in week out. Look at all the role models he's had! He definitely didn't stand out in that pack. In fact, he was one of their worst performers.

Of course, one must also remember, Akira is behind such greats as Luke Whitelock and Ardie Savea. These guys have really, really performed each time they've been in black. No second chances for these guys. And look at Ardie, Frizell and Fifita, they were certainly the finished products when picked. Definitely not picked on potential.

He simply doesn't deserve even one cap right now. It won't motivate him one bit. I mean, what would he possibly have to gain or learn playing alongside lazy bastards like Retallick, Cane and Whitelock in a low prestige team such as the All Blacks ????

Williams lost because Osaka was colluding with the Russians

Leaked photo from her jail cell.

Definitely Akira (in the wider training reserves for the tour of Uruguay).

So Harry Plummer is better than TJ Faiane??

Finlay Christie has a very good quick game but I think he'll be targeted.

Some members of the Democrat party have put forward the BREATHE ACT.

This is a summary of its proposals.

Section 1: Divesting from police

• Divesting from agencies like the DEA and ICE as well as moving federal resources away from incarceration and policing
• Eliminate ankle monitors
• End civil asset forfeiture, which even some conservatives say is readily open to police abuse
• End life sentences and mandatory minimum sentences
• Develop a "time-bound plan to close all federal prisons and immigration detention centers"
• Decriminalize and retroactively expunge both state and federal drug offenses

Section 2: Community safety

• Offer a 50 percent federal match for projected savings when states and/or local jurisdictions close detention facilities, including jails
• End cooperation with immigration authorities
• Ban "pretextual" police stops and searches, even where police obtain consent. It's not clear how the lawmakers would define a "pretextual" police stop
• Abolish police gang databases, as well as armed cops and metal detectors in school
• Forgive all outstanding court debt
• Tie state grants to intervention programs that involve specialists other than police responding to some 911 calls

Section 3: Allocating new money

• Create a plan to close youth detention centers
• Pilot programs for universal basic income
• Develop curricula that examine the political, economic, and social impacts of colonialism, native genocide, and slavery
• Create tools to promote environmental justice, including by subsidizing "community" energy solutions
• Provide lifetime education for illegal immigrants and the currently incarcerated
• Ensure all communities have safe access to water
• Eliminate state laws that bar formerly incarcerated people from serving as guardian for their own children or others in their community,

Section 4: Holding officials accountable

• Pass the Commission to Study Reparation Proposal for African-Americans Act and establish commissions to "design reparations" for mass incarceration to include those caught up in the War on Drugs, border and police violence and the "systemic violation of the U.S. Government’s treaty obligations to Tribal nations"
• Enfranchise all incarcerated individuals
• Guarantee private right of action for recovering damages when a federal official has committed a constitutional violation
• Allowing local and state resident voting for illegal immigrants

I guess Don Lemon would say his views have "evolved".

@Rembrandt said in Coronavirus - Australia:

I wonder willing is the populace going to be going back to house arrest after only recently tasting freedom? Might be a fair few saying "fuck it, I did my part and government still fucked it up, not going to do that again"

What if lockdown fails again? How many times before they have to say fuck it, a lot of (mostly old) people will die but we have to get back to work?

I have a solution for NZ's Covid problem.

@No-Quarter said in Black Lives Matter:

@Frank said in Black Lives Matter:

Texas Realtors Stop Using 'Master Bedroom' Over Slavery Connotations. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/texas-realtors-stop-using-master-bedroom-over-slavery-connotations

This one is weird. In this context, the abbreviated form of Master is Mr, and it is referring to the owners bedroom. As the owner was always male back in the day, the term Master Bedroom was used.

If anything it's sexist, not racist. But, who fucking cares about this shit anyway? Does anyone in the real world actually give a shit?

It is strange isn't it. Normal people don't care. Why is it even proposed in the first place? What do they stand to gain?

I am so surprised this is backfiring and also a little suspicious that the only reason they are now writing is because their views (as opposed to conservatives' views) are being attacked.

Liberal writers, professors and activists have come together and signed an open letter in the hopes of ending "cancel culture."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/liberal-writers-activists-open-letter-call-to-end-cancel-culture

Texas Realtors Stop Using 'Master Bedroom' Over Slavery Connotations. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/texas-realtors-stop-using-master-bedroom-over-slavery-connotations

God damn it would be beautiful if the Blues win. Reignite the rivalry - BIG TIME!!!!!!!

@JC No idea mate.