Posts by Che Tibby
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bingo. the cookie for being the smarty goes to hamish.
i would have thought years of pwning opposing scrums worldwide would make a man stupidier. myth deflated.
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here's another one. someone asked who was the AB who said this:
I've played for [ ], the [ ] and the [ ] - those are teams that I've cared fundamentally about so to play overseas would be mercenary. If you could attach it to a place like southern France or Italy where your interests were aligned it would be more of a trade off - but I do feel that I want to put my roots down in the south because I've lived such a peripatetic lifestyle
*team names removed to make it harder
i'll give the game away by saying that i had no idea what peripatetic means. to find out it was a front rower was surprising. whatever happened to stupid rugby players i do not know...
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doh , you're*
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actually, if your the sort of person who pwns poon you probably belong in a place with lots of other blokes.
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When you're at sea, you really miss the shapeliness of a woman's leg?
it just occured to me that if you're a whaler pwning a big 'un of the bow, it might look remarkably like a thigh.
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last week i was introduced to 'gam'.
it is alternately the shapeliness of a woman's leg, or, a bunch of whalers talking at sea.
i've had trouble trying to establish any connection between the two definitions.
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i'm inclined to agree with webweaver. the entire matter smacks of "plausible denial".
john howard and the AWB are another example. that evil little shit.
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bassett is alleged to have edited orewa.
now there's a freaking surprise... reading his columns makes me want to write angry letters.
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weston, wasn't meaning to sound angry. it's just that the orewa-line really grinds my gears.
i can't really comment on National party policy or lines of argument, but can say with conviction that the "saved from irrelevance" argument always seems trite. when has the National Party not been the natural alternative govt?
maybe they just needed to understand that 'minority bashing' and 'consensus-building' are two entirely different animals? brash obviously didn't.
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weston, i think you might find that the largest movement on treaty politics was in fact advanced by 'the right'.
the 4th Labour Government opened the pandora's box of historical grievance, but then did nothing to address the results (i'm thinking specifically of Prebble's patronisation and mishandling of the Tainui settlements in the late 1980s).
meanwhile, National under Bolger and Graham picked up the ball and produced a workable solution. the late 90s (and current) treaty consensus descends directly from that work.
Brash's Orewa speech was a quantum leap backwards into colonialism and assimilation of 'the hories'. fostering racial dissent is not a reflection of democracy in action, i.e. tapping the 'national mood', it is demagoguery or the worst kind.