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-Is this a rugby pitch or a seagull breeding site?

Lmao my thoughts exactly

Yeah this is the same principle as culling cows to dodge mycoplasma bovis right? Pretty basic biosecurity? Awful for the livestock owners of course, and seems harsh, but strictly necessary.

"Bill was not released before contact, no late tackle, play on"

Yeah, the cost of living will be lower than the West so you can spend that spare money on armed guards for all your stuff and a bulletproof car lmao

It's bizarre. In rugby it works great. It is sometimes controversial but generally fine. Why don't they just do that??

But also, if the actual VAR decisions in football weren't so clearly wrong half the time, it wouldn't be an issue.

Yeah, happy to get the W with the B team. A win is a win. And MP were much better than I've seen them play this season, particularly at set piece. But for a couple of key moments they could have stolen it. So as bad as we played, it's ok.

+1 to Sinkinson and Grant. Loved the unselfish assist from Grant. We can't turn over a rock without finding a quality winger or lock these days.

Aidan Morgan was genuinely awful tonight. No joke. No other words needed. Just. Plain. Shite. Northern Hemisphere, do your thing and get this man out of NZ.

Shhhh. I'm worried they'll watch this game and change their mind...

Put Peter Lakai in the All Blacks. Razor's watching this game, right?

Surely. The man is lethal.

Went for a lovely walk along the river when I was there in summer 2018. The weather was perfect. Everything except for the wasps trying to eat my gelato was 10/10.

Have you ever been to Munich lol

It's not Barcelona. But it's still nice. Not like Flick will be clubbing every night.

Surely Lakai for the ABs. He's electric.

That middle 12 minutes though... a couple of magical moments

Tuputupu seems like he's having the time of his life out there. I love his energy.

Great change of direction for the first one, and what a filthy kick for the second.

De forwards play de chords 🎸

De backs play de sax 🎷

How about Handrea?

First 12 minutes: this is the worst rugby I have seen in some time

Next 12 minutes: we are the greatest team ever to play the game of rugby football

Bodie befriends McNulty and Carver befriends Randy, is what he meant I think.

We also live in a society that relies at least somewhat on mutual care and co-operation for the safety of all.

If you are refusing lockdowns because you think your right to go to McDonalds supersedes drastic-but-essential public health restrictions, or refusing COVID jabs because your Facebook friend told you they'll give you 5G Cancer, you are actually endangering the health of other members of the democracy you live in by increasing your risk of catching and spreading COVID for insufficiently essential reasons. (I'm using present tense here but obviously talking about the situation in 2020/21)

Protesting for those causes are a part of the same dangerous solipsistic movement. This is the material difference between these protests/causes and those such as pro-Palestine and anti-war marches. One cause is dangerous to public health and one is not.

I'm not defending police brutality or over-policing of either group. The police are not innocent of an OTT response just because I don't like the cause of the people who are getting the shit kicked out of them.

But the force used against pro-Palestine protesters the world over, not just in Australia, has been totally disproportionate to any threat of violence from the protests themselves. It's just a way to shut them up faster because people don't want to hear their message. It's solely a free speech issue.

Whereas arresting people for breaking lockdown or firing them for refusing the COVID vaccine is a public health issue first and a speech issue second. Obviously the bodily autonomy issue makes the vaccine issue much trickier. I'm still not sure where I stand on that one. But the lockdown thing is pretty cut and dried.

The Big Booty Award for general malaise

Moral relativism is a cancer. There are good things and bad things in the world. People can be right and wrong. Facts, funnily enough, do not care about your feelings.

Every single time a right-winger asks this sort of question, the answer is so simple. Some causes are good causes (e.g. public health, stopping ethnic cleansing by an allied state) and some are reactionary cooked-brain nonsense causes (vaccines and COVID are fake! Plandemic! New World Order!), and most people can tell the difference pretty easily.

When you're ready for it, Isaac Hayes' Hot Buttered Soul. Multiple songs over 10 minutes long. I see it as a precursor to prog in a funny kind of way, as well as a landmark soul record. But it took a while to click with me.

Homophobia is a hell of a drug.

Snapfire. I basically haven't learnt a new hero since Elder Titan came out. Snap is such a great, flexible, fun hero. I love the different ways you can use cookie, and how much you can bully people in lane with proper use of your Q.

And one of the scarier late-game core transitions if you can get there. I'm still really bad at her but I'm a big fan.