Posts by TroyHoward
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blast!.... hit the post reply button without re-reading....should've let the red mist rise first....
but still....
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...are you shitting me?
Only 91 words about the Warriors?
A team that has been written off that many times this year that sometimes it seems they'd been redacted.
I rate the Warriors achievement a hell of a lot higher than what the AB's produced on Saturday night! Sure the two games were absolute stunners, but the Warriors had a Everest to climb in the Storm, while the All Blacks merely had to contend with a Mt Cook to get over the Wallabies.
Jeez, maybe the Warriors player who was overheard in the tunnel at full time was right is saying "..maybe now we'll get some fucking respect."
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Late to wade into the NatRad fracas, but as a long time listener, I am finding Ms Ryan and Jim Moira (he'll be forever called that in our house now) increasingly annoying. Mora is so damn smug! And both of them drive me nuts with their pronunciations. I mean issue is is ISSHEW not ISSYEW. Please somebody tell them.
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Wellingtonista has got me thinking.
Carbonista: A dedicated follower of all the carbon hype.
Terrorista: A "fabulously!" dedicated follower of all the terrorism hype.
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Nothing makes me turn the telly off faster than those Noel Brockovich 'hereiam' ads.
These ads have finally surpassed telecom in the "Let them eat shit" stakes.
I only hope that FairGo has enough balls to rig the Worst Ad competition and give Noels the prize.
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Dude..welcome to the big show!
The only 3 bits of advice I ever give new/expecting parents:
Get ready for the biggest, longest, mostly unintentional pissing contest you'll ever have with every other parent for the rest of your life.
Do it your way and don't feel bad about it - millions of years of evolution have given you some pretty powerful instincts. Trust them!
Remember MASH! No matter how shitty things are (literally sometimes), you'll always find something that will bring a smile to your face. (I think that ends when they hit 13 though?)
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I remember right a the end of the Portugal v NZ game, seeing Rodney being asked by a Portuguese forward to swap jerseys, Rodney tugged on his own jersey and motioned "back in the change rooms bro". I can only imagine the dismay when he gets a grotty pair of Socks and Shorts.
Poor, very very poor.
Tell you what, anymore wanky Telecom, Ford, Weetbix, (am I missing any other corporate dicks the AB's have to polish) ads from the AB's and I'll switch to league fulltime.
Go to the Allblacks.com site and email the team about the Jersey swapping Bullshit. I'm sure if the find out enough of their 'mana' is being degraded in the eyes of the fans. I'm sure they'll do someting about it.
On the Web coverage issue. IRB and ICC all drink from the same cup of fecklessness. Reminds me of a great book title: An Utterly Impartial History of Britain or 2000 Years of Upper Idiots In Charge.
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I liken this to drink driving and seat belts.
In the not to distant past drink driving was the norm. Not wearing a seat belt was a national pastime - Everyone did it and noone seemed to worried. But cars got wrecked, people died, and lives and families were wrecked.
Then we kinda woke up and saw that this was pretty daft and now we treat those issues with the respect they deserve.
Smacking these days seems to be the accepted norm.
Parents/care givers get angry and a small child gets a smack, a llight 'tap', a sharp shock. Sometimes a kid gets hit too hard, sometimes a kid dies, a lot of times families are wrecked.
What happens to the vast majority of kids who were smacked? How many times do you have hear "...it never did me any harm" till it starts sounding a little hollow?
Maybe it's time that we woke up again and realised that hitting kids just isn't nescessary let alone acceptable. And maybe, just maybe our collective ambivilence to violence might change.
After all, aren't our prisons full of people that were disciplined? That should know better? That have had 'firm' moral guidance in their upbringing?
Left, Right, Liberal, Conservative, Hippy, Yuppy, Baby Boomer, Gen X, Ford, Holden, Asian, Maori, Pakeha, whatever your standpoint, are you going to change it if I smack you with reasonable force?
So why should it work on kids?
As for those that blather on about a "Nanny State" telling you what you can and can't do...wear a seat belt by chance? Drink and drive?
Didn't think so.
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Russell - Have a cuppa tea and a gingernut - you work to much!
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My kid just turned three. "Character Building" now gets mentioned a lot.