Posts by daleaway
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That's patronising. "Next" magazine does not usually use stereotyped imported cliches about their readers.
"Soccer mums/moms" i's a lazy borrowing by slothful journalists who think it's cool to ape Americanisms.
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"People can eventually get so deeply involved in and seduced by their own arguments and end up believing that they must act in a radical fashion or else.
I wonder if that has gone on here."Quite right. Listening to your own voice to the exclusion of all others leads to folie de grandeur. Ask any All Black supporter.
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Looked like the Aro Valley to me.
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Thick as two short planks!
If there's trouble in the ranks
You could bring out the tanks
Or sell it to the Yanks
Either way, you'll end up travelling by Shanks
And wishing you were Manx.
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If John Banks is the answer, what the hell is Auckland's question?
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Oh dear. Just catching up with my email and here's this piece of vileness from popbitch:
Rugby World Cup humour:
Q: Did you hear about the new All Blacks bra?
A: it's got great support but no cups. -
Joanna, I apologise most humbly for seeking a leadership role. That was thoughtless of me. It must have been all that stray testosterone that sneaked under the ward partition last night and got into my drinking water.
So let me humbly volunteer to help in some menial role on the coaching committee, taking minutes perhaps. Or making the balsamic reduction for Haydn's asparagus salad, if he can bear a woman in his kitchen.
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Here I am! Running (on crutches) to catch up with the team! Sounds like my kind of sporting code. One where a game means just that.
Due to the fact that I've spent the last 48 hours in hospital, I'm presently only useful for sitting down positions involving a lot of thinking. Would Coach still be vacant? Does the team need a Bard? Perhaps I could do PR, if I brought a batch of pikelets?
One of the most memorable moments of my girlhood was of being present with my Dad at Athletic Park to see Don Clarke succeed with that impromptu, heart-stopping 80 yard dropkick that set a record. Number One indeed. There weren't too many men not crying on that occasion. (And I've still got all my Dad's old Rugby programmes, Russell - commiserations about yours..).
It's not the sport I mind these days, it's the hype and drivel, and the insistence that none of us are patriots unless we invest in the appropriate tacky merchandise to show that we care. Plus the fact that they put me in a single room at the hospital but next to the ward full of old men who could find only one topic to talk about. Loudly. Till 1am. And so GRUMPY with it!
Some women have all the ruck.
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Sorry, RodgerD, I'm pressed for time at the moment.
Would anyone like to take up the challenge of extending Rodger's horizons? -
And you're doing really well, Danielle.
Does anyone else feel that the more loud and murderous the haka, the thicker the layer of egg on the face of a team which talks themselves up big before the match then subsequently loses?
I think the winning team should then have the option of delivering a post-match unanimous Nelson-style "HA-ha!"