@rotated said in Censorship and the Mosque Shooting:

@Duluth said in Censorship and the Mosque Shooting:

I think it's a fundamental problem with the culture when people don't stand up for liberal principles.
Instead too many seem to care about what 'side' someone is on before applying principles..

That is not a bad idea - someone should write a book with some principals like these to consider living your life by. You wouldn't need many, ten or so should do the trick.

Could be a best seller.

That made me laugh a lot more than it should have

@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Should the Crusaders change their name?:

@Hooroo said in Should the Crusaders change their name?:

@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Should the Crusaders change their name?:

@SammyC said in Should the Crusaders change their name?:

@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Should the Crusaders change their name?:

@SammyC said in Should the Crusaders change their name?:

@Siam said in Should the Crusaders change their name?:

@SammyC wouldn't the right decision be to have discussions with the whole community including muslims?

This is a members and community issue with inputs from other groups within the community as I see it

Not really, I don't see how anyone in my position can feel that strongly about it.

It's just a brand name to me, I'd support the team and continue to buy my season ticket no matter whats it's called because I'm from Christchurch. If it's offensive to the Muslim community in general then change it, the team name isn't something worth fighting about.

Offensive? That is the most inane reason to change anything. I am offended by your posts, should you stop posting?
Claiming something is offensive is just the lame brains attempt at making someone else change position on a topic.

Fine, change offensive to inappropriate if it’s that big a deal.

I don’t know why it’s such a big issue for guys like you? My point is that it doesn’t matter what the team is called, as long as we wear red and black and ply in Christchurch.

Inappropriate? Nope just as inane.
As for it being a big issue?... shouldn't that be directed at the people wanting a change?
I am just amazed at the lame reasons for doing so.

Inane to you maybe but so what if others think of it inappropriate? Should we all have the same train of thought around everything?

Thats my point....... anyone can find anything offensive.

This will be the thin end of a wedge that will lead to very bad results.

For who? I think if, for the most, people are happy with change, then change. If it is a few that are unhappy with this, then too bad.

@antipodean said in Law trials and changes set for 2017 and beyond:

@Hooroo So as soon as the opposition look like getting into your half, you need to drop another defender back.

For all of this, if the players had to run more during the 80mins, there would be more open running rugby. So a proposal I'd be interested in trialling would be every scrum reset the clock is stopped until it comes out and general play commences.

Yeah, I actually like the sound of this rule as a whole.

Looking to use a league rule

@dogmeat said in Should the Crusaders change their name?:

as a by the by - they've already changed their name once

From Canterbury Crusaders? They forgot to tell the Aussies!

@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:

@Hooroo said in Re: Movie review thread...:

@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:

@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:

@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:

Incidentally the movie wasn't great (IIRC it also had Christian Bale in it before he was huge) but it's better than the gobshite awful book it's based on. Why use one sentence to say a ball is round when you can use 43 paragraphs!

fark why the hell would you read that book, I only watched the movie out of interest because it had been made a year or so prior to me visiting the Island.

It's marketed as a good book, it may have been recommended to me, and I used to read lots back then ... now I would have got a few pages in and just turfed it.

CC's Mandolin? I liked it. Never watched the movie though as heard it was rubbish

I can't stand his writing style, it's overblown (I don't like overly verbose language) which I thought was a translation issue until I realised he was English. @SammyC as CCM was the first book of his I came across I haven't attempted any others.

Fair enough. I don't really get into styles etc. I just like a story or I don't. I don't think I'm a decent marker mind you as my favourite books of all time are the Harry Potter series

@SammyC said in Re: Movie review thread...:

@Hooroo said in Re: Movie review thread...:

@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:

@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:

@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:

Incidentally the movie wasn't great (IIRC it also had Christian Bale in it before he was huge) but it's better than the gobshite awful book it's based on. Why use one sentence to say a ball is round when you can use 43 paragraphs!

fark why the hell would you read that book, I only watched the movie out of interest because it had been made a year or so prior to me visiting the Island.

It's marketed as a good book, it may have been recommended to me, and I used to read lots back then ... now I would have got a few pages in and just turfed it.

CC's Mandolin? I liked it. Never watched the movie though as heard it was rubbish

Same here, have enjoyed all Louis de bernieres books.

I don't know if I have read another of his or not. Can barely remember CC's Mandolin it was that many years ago but I do remember quite enjoying it

@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:

@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:

@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:

Incidentally the movie wasn't great (IIRC it also had Christian Bale in it before he was huge) but it's better than the gobshite awful book it's based on. Why use one sentence to say a ball is round when you can use 43 paragraphs!

fark why the hell would you read that book, I only watched the movie out of interest because it had been made a year or so prior to me visiting the Island.

It's marketed as a good book, it may have been recommended to me, and I used to read lots back then ... now I would have got a few pages in and just turfed it.

CC's Mandolin? I liked it. Never watched the movie though as heard it was rubbish

@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Should the Crusaders change their name?:

@SammyC said in Should the Crusaders change their name?:

@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Should the Crusaders change their name?:

@SammyC said in Should the Crusaders change their name?:

@Siam said in Should the Crusaders change their name?:

@SammyC wouldn't the right decision be to have discussions with the whole community including muslims?

This is a members and community issue with inputs from other groups within the community as I see it

Not really, I don't see how anyone in my position can feel that strongly about it.

It's just a brand name to me, I'd support the team and continue to buy my season ticket no matter whats it's called because I'm from Christchurch. If it's offensive to the Muslim community in general then change it, the team name isn't something worth fighting about.

Offensive? That is the most inane reason to change anything. I am offended by your posts, should you stop posting?
Claiming something is offensive is just the lame brains attempt at making someone else change position on a topic.

Fine, change offensive to inappropriate if it’s that big a deal.

I don’t know why it’s such a big issue for guys like you? My point is that it doesn’t matter what the team is called, as long as we wear red and black and ply in Christchurch.

Inappropriate? Nope just as inane.
As for it being a big issue?... shouldn't that be directed at the people wanting a change?
I am just amazed at the lame reasons for doing so.

Inane to you maybe but so what if others think of it inappropriate? Should we all have the same train of thought around everything?

@Virgil I too can only imagine Reeves as John Wick