Posts by Russell Brown
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to James Francis,
Whoops. Haven't mastered this linky thing. Apologies.
If you just paste in the YouTube URL, it embeds automagically. And it would have worked as a link, but you had a spaces between your square brackets, which broke it.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Megan Wegan,
But with cycling, for example, and rowing, the equipment is mandated to be the same. So it relies on much much more of the skill/endurance/sheer madness of the sportsperson.
Hmmm ... there are rules about minimum bike weight, etc, but tons of room for technical advantage within those parameters. And more budget definitely means better training programs in any sport.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to giovanni tiso,
But public statements of world cup allegiance (or world cup criticism, for that matter) by a person with your profile are always going to attracts contrary comments in a place like Twitter.
Arrggh. It wasn't "World Cup allegiance" -- it's not a culture war. I said I was looking forward to having lots of people come visit my city for a major event -- and promptly being told how many people go to other things in other countries seemed a surprising, not to say utterly irrelevant, response. But it's good to know it was my fault for saying so.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Tom Beard,
But in the last few years, the continued prolapse of the Super-n competition from something tight and exciting to a shapeless, painfully-distended bore has diluted my interest, and made it more and more difficult to get excited.
I think there's a good argument that they've screwed the pooch by making the rugby season last all year, for sure. And the viewer numbers show it.
The RWC hype has added to the oversaturation, and it hasn’t helped that it’s become a magnet for all the PR buffoons who think that the fact that everyone groans at their ideas means they’re misunderstood geniuses rather than deluded, unfunny wankers. And now the hype is ramping up to the point where it’s no longer about the people who enjoy rugby enjoying rugby: it’s become a national duty again. And yes, I resent that, if nothing else then because it’s made me want to dislike rugby again.
Fair enough. None of that stuff has really bothered me, or in general, touched my life. Wankers be wankin', whatever the year.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Kind of asking for it if you tweeted about it, it seems to me. You have six thousand followers. What did you think was going to happen?
The odd thing is it was all people I'm actual friends with. But you've sort of swerved around the point there ...
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Megan Wegan,
What I, at least, am asking, is to be allowed to have my fun, without being told on a pretty regular basis, that the RWC is A Problem and Here’s Why.
See above, re: unsolicited information as to how many people go to things in Proper Countries.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Your endless complaining that people should stop being grumpy is exactly the same thing as the stares that Tom gets at work.
What got me yesterday was observing online that, Telecom debacle notwithstanding, I was looking forward to seeing all the visitors in town -- and then having a series of apparently rational people queue up to tell me how many more people go to a book show in Germany or an air show in America or a market in Thailand.
Just ... why? Why was everyone so eager to put me in my place? If there was a Cultural Cringe World Cup I think we'd be favorites for that too.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Gareth Ward,
Given the TV-types what hang around here – does anybody know of the HD broadcast plans for the everyone-but-Sky’s? Are MaoriTV and/or 3 are putting the bigger games out on HD? I’m doubting that MaoriTV has the broadcast bandwidth but I’m hoping TV3 are…
All Sky and TV3 games are in HD and TVNZ and Maori TV will have a mix of HD and SD broadcasts.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Some of the preparations have been stupidly over the top, 11 day waka?
A poorly conceived political jack-up that has done no favours for the RWC organisers or the Auckland Council, which actually had an events plan.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to David Hood,
Now being reported "Telecom scraps no sex RWC campaign"
Debacle hardly seems a strong enough word.