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I wonder if the All Blacks will meet up with the Wallabies at the airport on the way home for an early start to the summer?
Time to scrape the rust off the barbie and concentrate on the really important things.
Ah sanity returns, I can look forward to returning to a country not awash in self congratulatory machismo.
Its like Gallipoli, brothers in defeat. Thank you Winston..I mean Ref.
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Apologies to onegoodmove regulars who have seen this joke.
A female CNN journalist heard about a very old Jewish man who had been going to the Western Wall to pray, twice a day, every day, for a long, long time.
So she went to check it out. She went to the Western Wall and there he was, walking slowly up to the holy site.
She watched him pray and after about 45 minutes, when he turned to leave, using a cane and moving very slowly, she approached him for an interview.
"Pardon me, sir, I'm Rebecca Smith from CNN. What's your name?
"Morris Fishbien," he replied.
"Sir, how long have you been coming to the Western Wall and praying?"
"For about 60 years."
"60 years! That's amazing! What do you pray for?"
"I pray for peace between the Christians, Jews and the Muslims."
"I pray for all the wars and all the hatred to stop. "
"I pray for all our children to grow up safely as responsible adults, and to love their fellow man."
"How do you feel after doing this for 60 years?"
"Like I'm talking to a fuckin' wall."
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Bored now
Cognitive dissonance just hit full swing.
Hey, never said Australia is so much better. Chip on shoulder stuff is reflexive.
Hey nice tale about childhood exploits Rusty, but it was in you childhood. I have similar stories but different code. Won two championships in my younger days, but never really wanted you to care what I thought. Tho' rugby culture like godshite nowdays, alarmingly getting too much air time for the amount of good it does.
I just have two words to say to you David Kirk.But something that give me's joy is knowing that if the AB's lose somewhere you lot could be having a bad day.
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And this week's thing is cultural cringe?
So is that it one snippy comment from well known Australiaphobe and rugbyasculturetragic Russell Brown. A person unable to know conditioning when it slaps him in the face, and totally crippled when it comes to walking past it.
You mention cringe after an article where this cringe inducing paragraph swills in and drips with more grovelling emotion than all the lousy romatic comedies in the world could ever conjure up.It reinforced our point that international sport, as combative as it might seem, is really all about pride. Pride that our wee country is bigger than just the islands we stand on. Bigger than our meagre 4 million people. Pride that our national effort is put into something that doesn't result in the hurt or humiliation of anyone.
You could see it in the way the old guy put back his shoulders and lifted his head a little when he spoke about not only his son, but the team itself. It was a pride in taking part in something greater than the sum of himself and his family. A pride that we, a small place far from anywhere, could be measured in the collective greatness of a few men on some far foreign field. The childish pride of riding atop the shoulders of black giants, a view from the top of the world.
PUKE INDUCING FFS its a game/ and its a business.
Dropkicks such an appropriate nickname. -
cultural
Speaking of culture..may I presentThe President of Bolivia
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Who's the biggest employer in New Zealand?
Australia
Who's the best healthcare provider in New Zealand?
Australia
Who provides the best retirement schemes in New Zealand?
Australia
Come on parochialism is so last week.
Just lay off those sugar rich breakfast cereals. -
Gilmor's view was that we're all going to become a lot more forgiving.
Did he give any idea when this Brave New World would come online?
Cause this moral outrage, self-righteousness, sanctimonious shitheadedness and I prayed to jesus and he forgave me all worn out their welcome about 60 yrs ago.
It has also meant a lot of good people who bucked the system and got a conviction now run the danger of having it splashed out in headlines by deeply entrenched wormfood who dont give a FF, to the detriment of NZ, and possibly the world.
Since when has the job description for a humanity been must live a life holier that god. -
Railways - shit, even some Labour MPs privately said they would have had to sell it if they'd still been in power
NZ is a country better suited to a comprehensive rail network than road. Switzerland, Austria anyone..
The rail network had been neglected for years and had a weird gauge width. So such decisions tend to have a cumulative effect. Coupled with govt debt from Piggy. OH Whats the point. When the fuck is this country going to let some intelligent people in govt. Its been 70 yrs surely its due, OH sorry wrong again. -
to get anything anywhere they could not just put it on a lorry, they had to use the rail by law. He would have to spend a third of his day, hours and hours, every day on the phone to Rail trying to find out where things were, why the job meant to come to Auckland was in Whanganui and so forth.
The road network back then was about 100x worse. If I remember correctly, it was just barely a paved two lane road between AK & RT.
And a truck would have taken about 6hrs to do the drive.
Ah yes road transport is just so much better...NOT
On the phone ?... so this was before computer tracking. Hell everything was slow back then.
Ah the good old days. The rail yards were on Quay St, Ahhh -
(2) Earthquakes, risk, and risk. NZ and Japan have somewhat similar seismic profiles, even though their population leaves my Japanese friends wondering how we all stay sane in such a lonely place. Anyhow, everyone remember the quakes early this year in Japan?
I always thought this might be a major reason.
Has there been any studies done on seismic suitability of sites in NZ?
Just wondering.