Posts by Kyle Matthews
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The Flymo does a pretty good job. ;^)
Pah. Like a flymo would last 10 seconds on the tangled jungle that is my backyard.
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The NZPA transcript is great stuff. Some interesting answers therein.
I think your definition of 'interesting' differs from mine Don. I wish they'd just all run headlines "Winston is a complete git... again".
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We are talking international referees Kyle....and to be honest I think you're doing other codes a diservice.
I spoke to an international referee the other day about a game he did. First thing he said was that he needed to learn more. I look through my rulebook often, and after two years of refereeing, including at national finals, I often find out new information by reading it.
I wouldn't know the football rulebook if I fell over it, but rugby isn't the only sport to have complex rules.
There are umpteen areas of rules that football doesn't have to cover. Rucks, mauls, scrums have no equivalent in the round ball game. If we were to simplify the rugby rulebook we could remove all contact and call it touch rugby, which would be much simpler, but not necessarily a better game.
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"Where does money for this procedure come from? Either you've got to borrow for the cut - which we've always said is crazy - or you are heavily pruning existing Labour Government spending."
lol. Mr Pound brought the funny.
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It's basically an airborne lawnmower
My lawns often get that long as well. I didn't know someone else had come up with an invention to chop them by hovering above them.
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The effing reffing is a joke in world rugby and has been for a long time. I don't know how sports fans can watch modern rugby without tearing their hair out. Quite a number of senior coaches have called for a significant change in the way the games is ruled on yet nothing changes. I remember a prominent lions coach stating he didn't even know all the rules.If this was international football their would be wars by now over some of the bizarre decisions.
I thought the refereeing was pretty bad over the weekend, but refereeing in any sport varies from country to country, competition to competition, referee to referee, game to game. Very few referees know the rulebook of their sport off-by-heart. There are often obscure rules in the book that you wouldn't need to know for a thousand games.
I find soccer refereeing bizarre. If players came up to me and argued with one of my decisions on the ice rink, like they seem to always do in soccer, they'd all be binned. How you can have a sport that doesn't back its referees up when they make decisions, I have no idea.
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In the address bar, simply type the middle part of a web address, then press ctrl+enter.
This must be a PC trick. Does nothing on my mac.
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"Ok, now I hold the post and you shovel in the concrete. And I try really really hard to hold it still, but the shock of the concrete splats makes it move a little bit, and then you yell at me."
Hmm. Your teacher didn't teach you to use a couple of posts lying down on each side, and then a couple more on the other sides to hold it up (in a cross formation)? If the posts are thick enough then the side that they're up the in air there's easily enough room to pour the concrete underneath.
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And given my thoroughly crap psychic abilities (and lack of access to a TARDIS) I'm not willing to call it yet.
And I don't think it's stretching plausibility too far to suggest that, both covertly and explicitly, the National Party conference this weekend is going to be told over and over again that there's not even a fag paper's worth of room for over-confidence.
If you did have a Tardis, you could have as much over-confidence as you wanted. It'd still all fit in the phone box.
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__I think the election is already over__
That's not true at all, Kyle.
No really, that's what I think. Honest.