The fact that they’ve picked a team that so many on the Fern wanted makes me nervous. As a collective we have a strong proven record of not having a fucking clue what we are talking about.

I missed the game as my wife decided to go into labor - as a Wallabies supporter I guess from her perspective childbirth is less painful than watching them play the ABs so fair enough.

Have caught the highlights - geez we scored some great tries eh? Squire's was a thing of beauty, the angle he ran and the perfectly timed ball from BBBR. Orgasmic. Also loved how Moody lined up a couple of backs on their goalline and just smashed the fuck through them.

Great to see us put Beauden into some space as well, he's a very different player to Carter but fuck we can tear teams apart if we use him like we did last night.

Well, it must have been an incredibly tough week for the players. All things considered that's a really good effort, never looked like losing. Proud of that effort.

@Stargazer said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

Have you guys considered the possibility that the fact that you don't understand why the MoH has advised an extension of 4 days, may have more to do with poor reporting by the media and not so much with there not being good reasons? Or with the fact that only the main point of the MoH advice is communicated but not the details underlying it?

If they need a few more days of contact tracing to get a reasonable level of certainty that they've found all the contacts related to this cluster that they need to find and that no infections related to this cluster will pop up at unexpected places, then there's likely an operational need for that. What's so hard to understand about that?

LOL this made me laugh, talk about defending Jacinda to the hilt. What does the media have to do with this? She had a press conference all to herself, which could go for as long as she wanted, to lay out the reasons for extending the lockdown. Instead she made some vague comments about getting better prepared. All while businesses die. And I'm not talking about big business here; Amazon, Facebook, Foodstuffs etc etc are all absolutely killing it during Covid. Bezos is worth a gazillion dollars now. I'm talking about small and medium businesses, the ones everyday NZers have absolutely slogged their guts out to build from the ground up, watching them go up in flames as politicians with no skin in the game extend lockdowns and tell them they can't open for business due to a virus that has a 99% survival rate.

It's nonsense and people have had enough. The cure is worse than the virus, by some stretch now, and a lot of people are in for a world of hurt over the next two years if we keep locking down every time we get a sniff of the thing.

This is the most nervous/excited I've been for a game in around 6 days.

@Crucial said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

On the flip side to govt errors, I'm not listening to one whinge about lockdown levels unless those making it can confirm that they are also being sensible.
I can't believe the number of people that are walking past requests to sanitise in shops, not using the QR codes, standing in close groups chatting, grouping in aisles of shops to talk, stopping in doorways etc etc.
They will all moan and blame others for failures but can't do the basics themselves FFS.

Fuck we have a bad blame culture in this country.

Sorry Crucial, but get the fuck out of here with that shit. We complied with the most draconian lockdown in the world and completely gave up our rights for ~6 weeks while businesses died and peoples mental health deteriorated. I heard Bloomfield speak recently and he said he was surprised by how compliant the population was (in a good way).

We then didn't only flatten the curve, we smashed the fucking thing. We then heard our government heaping praise on themselves saying we were the envy of the world.

While this was happening there was countless "compassionate" exemptions being granted, including two women WITH Covid that somehow managed to drive the length of the North Island without stopping. Which is of course completely ridiculous, but apparently the government thought we were stupid enough to believe that. We now find out that most staff at the border aren't even being tested? WTF?

People are pissed because it's been obvious for a while that it's been nothing but blind luck stopping another outbreak. I said earlier in the thread that it was inevitable we would get another outbreak, not because the virus simply cannot be contained, but because there was no way we were going to contain it with the incompetence of this current government who were too busy reading their own press to actually plug the many holes at our border.

"Go hard and go early" is the mantra of the government, all while our border leaks like a sieve. It beggars belief.

If Adern is warning against "border perfection" - I.E. expect there to be issues at the border and breaches - then why in the ever living fuck are we striving for complete elimination? That means we have to keep locking down every time it gets in. Which is just such a fucking absurd idea I don't even know where to begin. We are facing economic ruin at the hands of an idiotic government.

@Kirwan @Duluth

You were asking for feedback from anyone that thinks this is a bad idea. I think it's a great idea, but, the only thing I'd say is that given people are paying I hope you don't feel more responsibility/pressure to keep delivering new features etc. Obviously the improvements you've been making are awesome, but also appreciate that you both have lives so I wouldn't want this to encroach on your personal lives too much.

I think I speak for everyone when I say we are pitching in to keep the site running, and away from the prying eyes of our overlords Google, so we don't expect you to suddenly increase your workload now that members are putting in a couple of dollars.

Really appreciate the effort you guys have put in to give us all a place to rant about our favourite sports (as well as other things).

@barbarian if you think we can just move on from the mis-spelling joke then you are grossly underestimating the number of cringe-worthy Dads that post here.

How do we watch the leaders debate in NZ? Will it be streamed?

Alex Jones having a normal one

LOL

@Siam said in US Politics:

@Rembrandt he's a nasty nasty man that fellow. Incredibly smart too.

He's a black supremacist that has openly advocated for racism against white people to "right past wrongs". Jack (Twitter CEO) also donated him $10M to fund his "studies". He is everything that is wrong with Twitter and the far left.

@Kiwiwomble fair enough mate. It's nearly impossible to keep up. I think there are 58 genders now, which basically renders the word 'gender' completely meaningless. I also think grouping together a large number of individuals under this umbrella term and then making assumptions on what their experiences are is completely the wrong way to go about it. Treating people as actual individuals is a far more effective way to overcome any discrimination.

@Kiwiwomble said in US Politics:

@Rembrandt said in US Politics:

Its official.

Now the attacks begin. Rapist/racist might be difficult being a woman with black kids...my money is on the alphabet people.

I assume you mean LGBTQI+ ?

You're missing an A on the end. Do try and keep up.

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Building myself back up:

@MajorRage said in Building myself back up:

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Building myself back up:

@MajorRage

Cheers mate.
Nice to be able to get the workout log going again. Making sure I stay well away from politics....and Star Wars

I just assumed Wellington or the Canes had a win ....

Well my man Jordie Barrett has come good. Just like I predicted

You damn right he did, what a player. I've been white knighting the fuck out of him in your absence.

@ACT-Crusader said in Running!:

@No-Quarter said in Running!:

On the subject of running has anyone done any sprint training before? I don't like going for runs but want to do some more cardio on top of weight training so thought I'd give the sprints a crack.

I hate going for long runs but I do like sprints. Go to the local AFL oval during lockdown and I warm up with a 50-60% pace once around (about 450m) and then I do sprint from goal line to centre circle (about 75-80m) then walk to opposite goal line (75-80m) turn and then sprint back to centre circle. Repeat that 6-8 times and that’s enough for me....

I broke my toe the day after posting that so haven't gotten out, but I'm planning something similar next week now that it's (finally) coming right

@Kiwiwomble said in US Politics:

@Frank said in US Politics:

@reprobate said in US Politics:

@Frank said in US Politics:

Reports coming out of the White House are that Trump is favoring Amy Coney Barrett.
If so, the left goes NUTS!!
She is hard core social conservative and anti-abortion.
If the Republicans try to do the vote b4 the election day, the left goes NUTS!!!!! NUTS!!!!!

Are you anti abortion Frank?

Yes.

any change for Rape or Incest?

There was a whole thread about abortion. Of interest is that studies have found women are more against it than men.