Posts by Richard Wain
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But it’s a world away from the image that shadowed him for years after he switched to rugby (and then, perplexingly, switched back to the NRL for a season)
Great piece Russell, but SBW played 2013 and 2014 for the Roosters inbetween Chiefs/All Blacks stints. Now off to sevens, hopefully for another gold medal...
But rugby crowds aren’t really like people who don’t go to games think they are. If anything, they’re a bit quiet.
Not if they're a Welsh rugby crowd! Or even a Scottish crowd. NZ fans really, really suck at being proper sports fans. I wrote about this around the Under-20 FIFA World Cup held here mid-year:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/sport/276846/opinion-foreigners-the-best-fans-at-our-world-cup
Notable absence of support from the most newsworthy politicians (who happen mostly to be male)?
No fan of our PM but Key did intend to show up for the Auckland Constellation Cup netball Test (which was awesome until the end - live netball really rocks), only the Cheerleader-in-Chief got stuck at an airport somewhere further south instead due to bad weather - Palmerston North IIRC.
And Aussie coach Lisa Alexander (who thought the support shown by fans and politicians here was great) then issued a heartfelt appeal for their PM to attend a Cup match back across the Tasman. Don't think their PM did, though.
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Hard News: Radio Punks: So many stories, in reply to Warren Clark,
a community radio station in Motueka called Harvest Radio, then called Fresh FM.
Ah yes, I spent a few hours playing tapes on the ol' Harvest Radio in the summer of 92 on the marae while on holidays picking fruit... now a fine community station run by a former student radio colleague, the marvellous Jo Ann Firestone.
I can actually claim DJing on four student stations from back in the day: my high school station X-Static 89FM in Blenheim then Radio Active in the late 80s, through to Radio One and bFM in the 90s/millennium. Good times.
Yet to watch the doco but have it saved on the MySky. The trailer looks good Paul, Jeremy et al!
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Hard News: Some reprehensible bullshit, in reply to JC Carter,
Yep commercial rates for everyone. We didn't do the whole bathroom - like I said, the shower/bath
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$10K doesn't get you much for a bathroom? We renovated our apartment's bathroom for $4,500, took out the old crappy corner shower and put in a shower/bath, it looks sweet as!
With tiled walls too.
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...in some home-and-away tournaments, away goals count double.
Only in the event of a tie. Away goals are the tiebreaker if the scores are level after the two games.
Hilariously, The Crowd Goes Wild always pretends that's incredibly complicated...
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OnPoint: Sunlight Resistance, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Saying that junior scientists aren't paid well doesn't equal journalists are, in general, being paid well. It ain't the case.
Plenty of folks don't get paid well, I get that - but to claim journos are, in general, paid generously, is incorrect.
But anyway, I don't wish to derail the thread, in general ;-)
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OnPoint: Sunlight Resistance, in reply to Russell Brown,
The way the protagonists kept on being invited onto The Panel as if nothing had happened was fairly troubling
+1
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OnPoint: Sunlight Resistance, in reply to Bart Janssen,
They accept generous salaries
Um, not so much. Journos tend to be badly paid actually. Horrible hours usually too. Would you do 50-60 hour weeks for $50-60K, in Auckland? Less if you're a junior... $70-80K is pretty much top dollar nowadays, unless you're Mike Hosking et al.
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to SteveH,
None of the ones I’ve checked are there…perhaps they're on the National Archives though, cheers mpledger
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A list of all the things Cameron Slater has deleted from the Whaleoil blog since August 18th
I gather they’re all still available on the Wayback Machine.
A quick squizz suggests not...