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@Stargazer said in Bledisloe #1:

Ah, another TSF meltdown. Everyone completely overreacting as usual.

If you don’t meltdown after nearly conceding 50 in a Bledisloe game something is wrong with you

@Godder said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

Level 3 lets more people go to work, but it's hardly a huge improvement on level 4 in terms of the cage doors opening.

However, in good news, apparently, not only is our curve flattening, it's exponentially reducing - halving every 5 days. At this rate, we are probably looking at a total of 6-8 weeks at levels 3&4 (so another 2-4 weeks) and then back to level 2.

The rest of the world is rightly envious of that, because they're generally looking at months of the equivalent of level 3+. 4 weeks seems a bit early to be rolling out the civil liberties flag - human rights and civil liberties are critically important to the NZ democracy, but the most important right is the right to life because the rest are not much use to dead people.

And a cratered economy is a damn sight harder on people on the other side.

This is exactly the sort of scare mongering that drove that poll result.

The original justification for this lockdown was not to eliminate the disease but to prevent our health system from being overwhelmed. That has been achieved and over the last four weeks process and capacity has been added to help even more with that.

So let’s move down the levels fast, test appropriately, contain regional reoccurrence, and get back to normalise life.

Even today Cindy was downplaying the huge impact this is having on the economy. “Doing in tough” is not even close to what’s coming IMO.

@crucial said in All Blacks Squad for France:

@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks Squad for France:

This thread is starting to resemble the good old days around AB selection time ,

All we need is Toeava to make himself available .

DMac is the new Toeava

Toeava could play ten.

Helps with disappointment that a quality bloke is lifting the trophy

Nah, you lose the ability for a Japan vs SA or Ireland upset if you do that.

I like the alternative of the plate competition I saw mentioned the other day, so there is more to play for after the top two pool spots.

@sapetyvi said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

@jegga said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

@mariner4life said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

@snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

@jegga said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

Cn one of you clear the air by posting some photos of her? I don't know how to get them from instagram to the fern.

No. She's my first officer and you reprobates can't have her.

do you get her to hold your cock and then aim for turbulence?

Fuck your drinks passengers, I'm getting a jerky handjob

What the fuck did I just watch? Can someone ban jegga? Or me?

Considering it for not having seen Airplane.

@KiwiMurph said in Blues v Highlanders:

Im not gonna rip into Tana too hard cos it's a long season but cripes you have to question some things. Blues need SBW at 12 as soon as they can - Moala is a beast but his distribution aint much chop - Rieko barely sees the ball at all - let alone in space.

The game plan seems to be not to use our backs until we have won a bomb. We had the same issues last week with Francis at 12.

Collins has given us nothing on attack, Duffy only seems to be good at catching bombs and we leave a player like Nanai on the bench!

With so many players having poor games, it's hard to tell if it's a good game plan or not I suppose. But I don't think it suits the players we have.

So two strikes against Tana here, selection and game plan and what the hell is Jackson doing with the set piece? Two hookers that can't hit their target and the scrum is inconsistent as all hell.

Highlanders shouldn't get away without any criticism as well, they were equally as poor as the Blues and only scored a try because Ranger is a shadow of his former self.

I took my son to this game and he spent a good portion of the second half making a blindfold out of his flag. The guy behind me (in full Blues gear) commented that he wished he had one too.

@Stargazer top post. But that is a warning for bringing facts to a discussion.

@KiwiMurph said in The future of NZ Rugby:

@Machpants said in The future of NZ Rugby:

@mofitzy_ said in The future of NZ Rugby: "Impey has said that SRA isn't financially viable so NZ needs Aust (and vice versa)." No he said a five team domestic league is not viable, increasing it to 8NZ teams is. It wasn't around finance but number of games. Ozzie will bring in fuck all money

Not sure how NZ are going to fund or have the population to support 8 professional teams.

Make the NPC amateur?

@Hooroo said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

@Kirwan said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff

New Far Side cartoons!

Do you want to know what disappoints me??

The lack of acknowledgement of your post!

This is fabulous news. I love far side. There is one cartoon from all his books that no matter what, I just don't get. I will try and hunt it down but is has baffled me ever since I first started reading them.

I was excited too, so happy someone else is

@nzzp said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@Kirwan like this, but Christchurch

But way, way, way less cool

@canefan or enforce process. Eg, sacking people for not following the basics. Lack of accountability again.

@canefan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@Kruse said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

Yeah - pretty angry about that. As I'm seriously considering flying from NZ to the UK, settle my affairs there, and flying back. If shitknuckle fuckheads like this continue their fluffybunnery, then I'm expecting a two-week sojourn in fucking Whenuapai, and I'd understand.

I don't know why they aren't already using Whenuapai or Whangaparoa

Too close to me, just put a wall around Christchurch and put them there.

https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff

New Far Side cartoons!

It's basically a government focused on kindness opposed to responsibility. Quarantine means quarantine. It's two fucking weeks.

Heads should be rolling over this.

@Paekakboyz said in NZ Politics:

@canefan did that actually identify individuals? or was it a summary of the ethnicity data only? if the latter its still shitty but no where as bad as this latest (double) leak imo.

Well that was fairly racist as well, as apparently having a chinese surname means you can't be a kiwi.

@canefan said in NZ Politics:

@Kirwan said in NZ Politics:

@canefan said in NZ Politics:

@JC said in NZ Politics:

@canefan As shifty as that was, consciously breaching the privacy of individual, named members of the public is not something we can base our whataboutery on.

Don't get me wrong, this is a massive mistake. But let's not kid ourselves that Cindy's most excellent transparent government is much different

That's the most disappointing thing, the consistency of incompentance across all parties. I could only point out a handful of any of them that I respect.

We are being run by idiots right now. And I'm not so sure the idiots in blue are any more capable. Winston is looking about as reasonable as he has been for a long time, which is a sad indictment

Yep, when Winston is the least extreme and the moderating voice we are in deep shit. Good thing we aren't borrowing 150B and mortagaing out country's future....

@canefan said in NZ Politics:

@JC said in NZ Politics:

@canefan As shifty as that was, consciously breaching the privacy of individual, named members of the public is not something we can base our whataboutery on.

Don't get me wrong, this is a massive mistake. But let's not kid ourselves that Cindy's most excellent transparent government is much different

That's the most disappointing thing, the consistency of incompentance across all parties. I could only point out a handful of any of them that I respect.