Random Play: He's just an excitable boy . . .
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Emma probably means filched. As in to steal or pilfer.
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Oh dear, I've outed myself as a big nerdy geek again, haven't I?
Filking is big with Scifi cons or the SCA. Usually it means taking a popular song and altering the lyrics - Weird Al is just a very famous filker.
In this case it was taking Icehouse's Great Southern Land and making it a song about cricket.
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Apologies Emma, didn't think you would have used the wrong word and certainly not meaning to accuse you of theft. "Borrowing to improve", that would be a better match.
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Cheers Emma. I never knew there was a word for it, although I know that Weird Al likes to refer to himself a a parodist; as in a parody of a human being.
Maybe I need to go to more scifi cons. Maybe they could hold a really big one in the Dunedin Stadium if it gets built...... -
I have very fond memories of wagging school to sit on the grass at the Basin and watch NZ and England play cricket. (I think NZ won, but who cares, not me.)
It doesn't seem like it would be the same experience sitting in a box/tin like stadium. You need sunshine, grass, the knowledge that these are the best days of your life and you aren't in a physics class, and guys pissing on the hill behind you (or maybe not that lat bit).
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you need sunshine, grass, the knowledge that these are the best days of your life
Aw, but can "they" make a buck out of it?
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Are the Dunedinites here happy with/resigned to Dunedin slipping ever further into being a backwater though? I know sport isn't the be all and end all, but in terms of profile losing all test matches and your professional sporting franchise is a pretty big hit.
It seems to me the logical outcome of not having a decent stadium is the end of the Highlanders and the end of Otago as a force in rugby, and the establishment of a Crusaders hegemony in the South island with a new Super 14 team based in the upper half (Tauranga?) of the North Island.
That would leave Dunedin, already dangerously over-dependent on its university, absolutely a one trick economic pony. Do the people of the deep South really think that if the (for example) Bay of Plenty gets its team, someone up North won't be coming after their Univesity as well?
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Well, that made very little sense Tom.
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Emma probably means filched. As in to steal or pilfer.
Phew, I was worried she actually meant felched.
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That would leave Dunedin, already dangerously over-dependent on its university
Wait are you saying that we should be making money on our rugby team? it's the economic engine that will save our economy? the ORFU doesn't even make ends meet with it.
Professional sports here is largely a 0-sum economic game - mostly it doesn't create new local wealth, mostly just shuffles existing wealth around the province a bit - sure it brings people in from outside Otago for games but the number are tiny - the stadium takes 30,000 people - that's ~200 737s worth - between AirNZ and it's competitors there are probabaly about 8-9 737 equivalents full of passengers flying into Dunedin a day (including the puddle jumpers to Chch as ~1/2) and all they're usually full already - there isn't the capacity to bring enough people in from outside to make any real economic difference - it's certainly not new economic growth that makes new wealth
If you want to use $188M (or $400 including interest) to boost the local economy building a stadium (and getting people in from ChCh to do it) is not the way - IMHO you're better to spend $20M a year VC funding local startup companies - make 10 new companies a year for 10 years - if you do it right and follow the usual VC rule of thumb 2 out of 10 will make it big (and you'll make your money back on them), 3 out of 10 will do OK and the rest will crash and burn - at the end of it you've made 50 new local companies, maybe 10,000 jobs and probably have made a profit on the deal
As far as "creating a Crusaders hegemony in the South island" you do know they're not fighting over actual turf right? they're fighting for fan's mind share and geography has little to do with it - as I mentioned above it used to be that we all supported our local teams - there'd be 1 or 2 from your high school's 1st 15 playing, someone's cousin, etc etc - nowdays they're hired mercenaries - it's not the same - the Otago team of my childhood would never be caught dead in a kilt, throwing some out of towners in them to try an make them locals is simply marketting.
For professional sport to be successfull though really the fix needs to be in - you can't have one team that always wins, everyone else loses interest and then you have no one to play against - instead you need mechanisms to balance out the teams so that they all have a winning streak every few years - US professional sports teams do it using the 'draft' where the weakest teams get to choose the cream of the new players every year ahead of the strong ones
BTW one of the great things about the Ranfurly Shield was/is that anyone, even the smallest team, can win it on a good day - because you can do it with one good match - points over a season means you don't get that sort of upset
Here's my list if you want to 'fix' professional rugby: make the teams as even as you can, black out home games on Sky unless they're sold out (so games in Dunedin can't be seen in Dunedin), play them when people can bring their kids otherwise you'll lose then next generation of fans not in the dark
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Phew, I was worried she actually meant felched.
That's a different story. You'll have to wait for the book.
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That's a different story. You'll have to wait for the book.
On the subject of felching I can wait indefinitely.
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Wierd comment Tom.
ARTS is the only response I can make initially - and then I think a bit.
Libraries, like the Hocken. The Museum. Tourism with attractions found nowhere else in our archipelago (from the albatrossi to Larnach's); a certain investment by TRONT, and an excitingly good foodie scene.
And really really parochial citizens & visitors/cum/family like me- -
On the subject of felching I can wait indefinitely.
Even if it involves chocolate mousse?
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3410,
Fisking? Nerdiness? Wierd Al?
What better time to drop this masterpiece:
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3410,
Ok. Embedding disabled, so watch it here
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Even if it involves chocolate mousse?
Is that a chocolate mouse that has been felched?
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Moose, Ben, moose. :)
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I'm definitely waiting indefinitely.
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What the...
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we are hoping to do a house-swap with someone in the south of France or Italy for the period of the Cup (offers anyone?)
So is there web site set up so all us Aucklanders can go to Italy/Spain/France?
Purely noble reasons of course I wouldn't want to disrupt the World Cup 2011 by driving or shopping in my own town :).
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