we are hoping to do a house-swap with someone in the south of France or Italy for the period of the Cup (offers anyone?)

So is there web site set up so all us Aucklanders can go to Italy/Spain/France?

Purely noble reasons of course I wouldn't want to disrupt the…

Even if it involves chocolate mousse?

Is that a chocolate mouse that has been felched?

What better time to drop this masterpiece:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw

On the subject of felching I can wait indefinitely.

Even if it involves chocolate mousse?

That's a different story. You'll have to wait for the book.

On the subject of felching I can wait indefinitely.

Phew, I was worried she actually meant felched.

That's a different story. You'll have to wait for the book.

That would leave Dunedin, already dangerously over-dependent on its university

Wait are you saying that we should be making money on our rugby team? it's the economic engine that will save our economy? the ORFU doesn't even make ends meet with it.

Professional sports here is largely a 0-sum economic…

Emma probably means filched. As in to steal or pilfer.

Phew, I was worried she actually meant felched.

It seems to me the…

you need sunshine, grass, the knowledge that these are the best days of your life

Aw, but can "they" make a buck out of it?

It doesn't seem like it would be the same experience sitting in a box/tin like stadium. You need…

Filking is big with Scifi cons or the SCA. Usually it means taking a popular song and altering the lyrics – Weird Al is just a very famous filker.

In this case it was taking Icehouse's __Great…

Ripping people off and still losing money sounds like a lose-lose scenario.

BTW every time they say "Great Southern Stand" does anyone else think of Icehouse?

Filked it, back in the day.

every time they say "Great Southern Stand" does anyone else think of Icehouse?

No, but I do when someone mentions Carisbrook.

every time they say "Great Southern Stand" does anyone else think of Icehouse?

Yep.

It's to gouge foreigners.

It worked well on the Lions tour.

If the tickets were cheaper then we’d be bailing it out even more.

How many NZers can afford that? But we're all (and especially Aucklanders) being taxed to subsidise the millionaires, government, corporate and journalistic liggers that will make up the NZ contingent.

Yeah it is, but so are all stadiums.

The MCG is not a shithole, it is a work of art. Living near it was a joy rather than a burden.

While the Caketin is not perfect, and a soulless venue for cricket, it does have the advantage of being a proper stadium, and not a random collection of stands like all other venues in NZ. Eden Park being the worst for that.

And that means you can get from…

Carsibrook is a shithole.

Yeah it is, but so are all stadiums. Like you LB I live in Welli and I have been to the caketin a number of times. It is also a shithole, just a well-placed one. Stadiums must have the highest depreciation rates of any buildings -…

Recently however it turned out that they are counting…

It's amazing that in effect, it really hasn't progressed beyond the stage it was more than 18 months ago, when I wrote a feature on the debacle for Critic.

I was quite in favour of Dunedin having a new stadium. I think stadiums in residential areas are just foolish, and…

Agree with most of your objections / concerns about the new Dunedin stadium, but must pull you up on one thing.

Carsibrook is a shithole.

As I've said, I stopped following the issue in detail when I moved up to ChCh about 11 months ago, but have they actually made any guaruntees as to how it will be funded, and how much the public is expected to stump up for it?

the City has committed…

shambollock

Irish testicle?

Asterix character?

shambollock

Irish testicle?

This is an old trick by a hyperventilating McCully: create a sense of urgency and give people only one option. We gunna legislate!

We saw this when the clownish idea for a waterfront stadium was suddenly dumped on Auckland by That Other Guy. (Do we need to mention egress? Sixty…

We're stil talking about fake dog testicles, right...?

shambollock?

Re the Eden Park thing. Catching the train into Wellington today I noticed that they advertise train fares for events at the stadium. For…

We're stil talking about fake dog testicles, right...?

Rofflenui

. . . or whatever that Irish patron saint of manic urgency is called

Damocles?

Though it did set me thinking that, in terms of dangly-slicey things, climate change policy has been more like The Pit and the Pendulum.

We're stil talking about fake dog testicles, right...?

The soft silicone version. No bitch would be fooled by those clunky polyester cheapies.

did anyone ever figure out what "come home to the feeling" actually meant?

We're stil talking about fake dog testicles, right...?

I think advertisers have moved wisely towards sustainability in generating slogans which can be re-used for retro value decades down the line without any inconvenient traces of meaning. A concept…

These people who forsee "possible" delays to their consents for certain parts of the "project'...... I sure hope they've actually started the process of getting…

On another note, did anyone ever figure out what "come home to the feeling" actually meant?

If any potential branding slogan actually meant something, it would be immediately rejected. Impossible is nothing, okay?

On another note, did anyone ever figure out what "come home to the feeling" actually meant?

It's the standard vapid feel good but mean nothing fare which passes for branding.

But now that you raise the question and now that I look at it closely, I figure we really really…

Fake bollocks . . .

Scroll down a bit for the heavy-duty stuff:
Equine & Bullshit?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPr0ciPnTyk

Btw, Craig, I'm not too happy with that particularly happy about many things surrounding the preparation of the RWC, particularly that aspect that I/S highlighted there, among others.

(Also, there's the more…

Absolutely. There needs to be a serious reality check here- National's "damn the torpedoes" approach ("select committes? who needs those things?") in their first week has been disconcerting at best, downright insulting at worst.

Now where was the outrage when it was almost unpatriotic to wonder whether the Rugby World…

It's looking increasingly likely that the new Otago Stadium won't get the private financing required in time. In which case either it gets dropped, and a whole bunch of money has been spent for SFA, or the local bodies will be persuaded to cough up more. Neither of which is…

The timing of getting the world cup that everyone will have to travel a million miles to get to, just a few years after the world economy goes to the shitter, is mildly annoying.

I have a funny feeling Boris Johnson is (quietly) eating his own weight in asprin on…

It's looking increasingly likely that the new Otago Stadium won't get the private financing required in…

It's ridiculous to have to suspend normal planning procedures just because the rugby authorities want…