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So while I enjoy reading posts of everyone shitting on Pauline and One Nation her hype is unwarranted.

She has zero chance of getting traction at the next election and I would love to know how the media can justify them pumping her up.

When the most sane politician in her rabble of a party is Barnaby Joyce it says all you need to know about One Nation. Regardless, all of their candidates who they have put forward so far are bottom feeders. I haven't seen any who look likely at winning their seat. This isn't the US where you can just vote for a leader. It doesn't matter if Albo was 20% favourite and Pauline was 60%.. no one is voting in her scrub candidates.

One Nation has zero policies for achieving anything good and all Pauline does is moan. She says she stands up for regular people but her actions in politics have suggested the only people she stands up for are the rich and that fucking thing called Gina.

She is nothing more than a parasite, a shit stain if you will. Her legacy is being nothing more than a dumb racist. I have no doubt her daughter is exactly the same.

At best One Nation might win a couple of seats but any normal candidate never lasts long in her party because they soon realise what a complete cunt Pauline is.

Pauline Hanson is nothing more than a political trojan horse. Disguising herself as someone who battles for the everyday battler while deep down the people she really fights for are the rich at the expense of the poor.

So I know everyone has their own preferences but this song is one of my favourite live songs. It does seem to vary a little bit based on the concert but the build up in this song is amazing. I wish they had done a studio performance of this song.

They build it up and then drop it and I get chills every fucking time.

Love Replit as a product and the upside of it.

But what is with the agent fees, every time I try and do work under free mode its ended up on Max or Power. Every single time. I have heard that it prompts you to switch but that isn't true.

I have spent way more money since Free-Power-Max came out and I have no idea how. I burn through the free $20 that comes with the plan in an hour or so and I'm just burning through money rapidly. A week later I've already reached another $200.

If I switch to Power for a bigger task it says at the bottom it will stay on Free yet somehow its back on Power or Max instantly.

The other day it got stuck on "Power" on the smallest task and was stuck in a loop which cost $9. It's annoying when Free mode could easily have handled it.

I have no problem with paying for products but there is zero transparency with the billing and AI charges.

I've had this conversation with a few mates and we have all agreed at how poor our kicking game has become.

South Africa kicks bombs because they have the players who are exceptionally good at retrieving those kicks. We don't.

We kick way too many box kicks and our kicking in general is poor.

If we kick there needs to be way more intelligent reason behind it. Perhaps kick over the top to turn them around, particularly with fast defensive line speeds or kick for the corners and put pressure on them territorially.

They need to stop with the back and fourth kicking or a box kick in our own 22 where it goes 5 metres.

We had smart players like Fox, Mertens, Carter etc who knew when to kick and would make good sound decisions. Now we have players who are more kick first and think later.

We have a number of players in the team who are good kickers. We just need them to start kicking strategically rather than the same kamikaze kicking they currently do.

So I tend to ignore the bookmakers for insightful information. Their views are generally skewed. However even after the weekends game the AB's are still massive underdogs with SA at $1.30.

I get that South Africa should be favourites, but South Africa didn't just lose by 3 points. It was 5 tries to 1.

Its not often you see the AB's at such high od's of $3.50 particularly when we are playing well.

Lets not forget our scrum was terrible in the first half and if we are able to get parity in the second test we have a great chance at winning the second test.

Watched this movie again today for the 20th time. I love this movie.

Rachel McAdams, Domhnall Gleeson and Bill Nighy are excellent and while its a rom com it's more than that. Its a story about the love between a father and son and has a scifi time travel element which is also interesting. It's even got Margot Robbie in it.

There are sliding door moments in this movie and its brilliantly done.

I won't reveal all in case some people haven't seen it but if you like Love Actually or movies by Richard Curtis definitely give this one a look.

It's definitely one of my favourite movies.

As someone who doesn't live in NZ anymore I still like to get local news and sports information and I would visit Stuff regularly but something happened to that website years ago and its become a load of junk.
They have just loaded the website with junk articles and ads to the point where its unreadable. The adverts are putrid.

They need to redevelop the website and go with the theme less is more because that website is a complete cluster fuck.

Sack the editors, developers and whoever else is in charge of the website because I am sure they would be losing money because of its current state.

The scrums are a fucking issue. As soon as Ethan went off though it looked a lot more solid. Not sure if that was a coincidence or not.
We have defended well so far.
Jordie Barrett has had some massive defensive plays so far. We need to stop doing box kicks as they are getting the ball every time. We just can't our jump then. The backs look dangerous when they spread it.

Being down by 1 at half time, I will take that.

The rule currently is if there is a head clash the defender is given a card. It's one of the dumbest rules in Rugby Union at the moment. I was watching a game on tv recently where the ball carrier basically led with his head and head butted the defender. TMO gets involved and would you know it, the defender is sent to the bin.

In the NRL a head clash is ruled as accidental as the idea that someone is purposely trying to get concussed by head butting someone is ludicrous. In Union though stupidity reins and now ANY head contact no matter how stupid results in 10 in the bin. Whacking someone in the head would also hurt so I can't imagine any player is trying to do it.

Maybe that's a good tactic, get the ball and run up to the oppositions best player and head butt him. Bam, he's in the bin.

One thing I have discovered is how little rugby footage there is available to fans.

I was wanting to rewatch the game between South Africa and Australia at Brisbane in 2015 where Aussie wins in the last minute by going for the try. Was an excellent come back win.

Its not available on Stan or any platform I could find. Couldn't even find it on youtube. When I searched for it on YouTube looking up Wallabies vs South Africa half of the video's were of the All Blacks.

I couldn't understand why there is such a shortage of clips and highlights available online for Australia.
Does some company own these rights and won't release them or is Rugby Australia just shit at marketing their product. I know the rights have changed to Stan in the last few years but you would think there would clips of these classic test matches available somewhere.

Does anyone know where you can view these?

Thanks

Look I get it, I am a biased kiwi but I'm not sure why South Africa are such heavy favourites for the first test. Their team is aging and were not impressive against Argentina at all.

I know they are hard to beat at home but for some reason I am really confident with the All Blacks. I like what Dave Rennie has done with this team and the new players coming in mixing with experienced players.

I think if we can keep all our players on the park and not have any in the bin we win. We are consistently down to 14 players in test matches and we can't afford to be against South Africa at home. I think tactically if we get a warning on our try line that the next penalty is a bin its almost worth letting them get the try and resetting.

Half of their team is over the age of 32 and the average age is 31 meanwhile the average age for the All Blacks is 26.

If we do lose, it won't be by much.

So having watching the Northern Hemisphere teams and South Africa play there seems to be a clear tactic of slowing the game down to give their forwards more time. They are slow for lineouts, scrums and players are regularly going down pretending to be injured. Its a blight on the game and teams should be penalised for it - a free kick would be adequate.

I was watching a Currie cup match and one of the teams was so slow anytime there was a stoppage for the lineouts etc and the ref kept telling them to hurry up and warning them but there was no consequence for it. The game was unwatchable.

Watching the NPC its a fast paced game and a real spectacle and then you watch the garbage overseas and its as enjoyable as visiting the mother in-law.

Do the All Blacks need to adopt to this game style for the world cup or do we just ignore it?

I know that it's easy to blame the referee but its honestly getting worse and I now prefer NRL and League as a spectacle purely due to the rules and refereeing.

In the Stormers - All Blacks game the referee was putrid. Yes the AB's infringed a lot but the cards were an absolute joke. It felt at times he was looking for infringements. Imagine if we had two players sent to the bin at the same time in the world cup final or semi final.

I've always felt that yellow and red cards should not be given to players if its accidental. In the NRL an accidental head clash is an accident. There is no malice so its just play on. In rugby however I have seen a ball carrier lead with their head, hit the defenders head and its the defender who gets binned.

You can hip drop someone in Union and its play on but graze someone on the head and its a card.

I'm all for penalising and dishing out cards for blatant high tackles which have malice or are reckless but some of these officials go to the cards way too quickly.

So my subscription turned over and I got the $20 of usage credits etc. Within a couple of days I received an email to say it has been used up. I checked and I used the agent once for less than a dollar.

I contacted support who referred me to my account usage and I checked it out and apparently I used most of it on storage. It doesn't say what the storage charges relates to or which website. Its so incredibly vague.

The annoying thing its happened a few days after I renewed and I have no idea why.

Has anyone else had this issue?

I've noticed in Rugby halfbacks seem to do box kicks around 50% of the time. Its nauseating and incredibly frustrating to watch when a lot of the time it gains zero territory and just goes straight up in the air. Half the time it puts the team under immense pressure when you are kicking from your own half.

I get that its a tactical play and there is a chance you might recover it in the air or be able to snare it on the ground but its a low percentage play. Generally you have a fight eight who is a good tactical kicker so why not distribute to them so they can get much better kick off.

I don't know how many times you see a half back in Super Rugby just hand the ball to the opposition with a terrible box kick. Half the time there is zero tactical awareness and its almost a kick and hope strategy.

You never saw George Gregan or Justin Marshall do a box kick but now it seems engrained in all half backs play and its so frustrating to watch.

Surely there are better tactical options available.

So I support the Fever, I'm not right wing or MAGA but I couldn't care less if other fans are as in my mind its irrelevant.

Its tiring though when any post you see on the WNBA team or media outlet its someone moaning about the Fever or their fans and some negative MAGA comment.

There was a post on the WNBA sub about the Angel/Paige incident and apparently its us Fever fans who are moaning about it.

I hope that Caitlin tears it up for the rest of the season and just completely dominates the league. This bitching and moaning about the Fever is just getting out of hand from everyone else and I'm not even sure why to be honest.

Like some of us out there MAFS is my guilty pleasure. After watching this show for years the two segments I can't stand is:

Rating the other contestants

Intimacy Week

As an older guy I have no idea why they make them rate other people based on attractiveness. Its a trap and it serves zero purpose. You put your partner at the top and everyone below but it always feels a bit off when you have an old geezer judging 25 year old's. It just comes across as a bit sleazy. If you refuse to do it you just come across as a party pooper.

Another pet peeve for the show is intimacy week. These people barely know each other and the way they are forced to be intimate or get closer is just off putting. If people want to do it, they will but they shouldn't have to explain to the "experts" and justify their decision. Some people just don't like having sexy time with people they have known for two minutes and to be honest why would anyone want those endeavours smeared across TV.

You could have a week where the focus is getting to know someone on a personal level without the sex stuff but it gets tiring hearing Alessandra "just do it" to couples who aren't quite there yet.

I also think they need to do better background checks on MAFS. Its not difficult. Any DV/Violence type issues and they don't go on the show. Can we also get real people with real jobs.

On a side note maybe MAFS should just limit the age to 45. None of the older couples have worked at all so why bother. In every couple who has been older there has always been one person who has been a bit crazy or off.

So there are two movies where I have been hanging out for a sequel and its never happened unfortunately.
Those two movies are RocknRolla and The Collector.

I loved RocknRolla and there was suppose to be a sequel years ago in "development called The Real RocknRolla but we never got it. I loved the characters and I think it was one of Gerard Butlers best movies. Its easily my favourite Guy Ritche movie.

The collector series is excellent and the collection (the second movie) is actually a favourite of mine. I have been waiting for ages for the third one to come out (The Collected). Its a shame as its definitely got a lot of fans waiting for a third so hopefully they can make it happen.

Anyone else have any movies they are waiting on a sequel for?

Hey,

I'm looking at alternative ways of meeting someone other than apps and have seen companies like City Swoon and I think there is some other alternatives on Meet Up. Has anyone tried them and if so, what was the experience like?

I'd rather meet someone face to face but I have heard these events are a bit like job interviews.

Thanks