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[mikeynz]

Rodney's fucked in the head but still funny, yet Jimmy Carr and today's ilk just don't do it for me aye, strange but true.

[Honestjohn]

On 2/9/2023 at 2:37 PM, mikeynz said:

Rodney's fucked in the head but still funny, yet Jimmy Carr and today's ilk just don't do it for me aye, strange but true.

my grandkids fave is Rodney as well. 

 

Hj

[mikeynz]

Once again our elite women's sports team have proven to be in a league of their own, women's T20, for all the hype they fail miserably, I don't expect any difference with the footballers at the World Cup.

Their seems a bias by free to air to coverage of women's sport, must be the woke world we live in, I'm not knocking it, just putting things in perspective.

 

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Edited February 13, 2023 by mikeynz

[Honestjohn]

20 minutes ago, mikeynz said:

Once again our elite women's sports team have proven to be in a league of their own, women's T20, for all the hype they fail miserably, I don't expect any difference with the footballers at the World Cup.

Their seems a bias by free to air to coverage of women's sport, must be the woke world we live in, I'm not knocking it, just putting things in perspective.

 

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Our press is woke,   they get it from the government. 

 

Hj

[mikeynz]

Football ferns beaten 5 0 by Portugal, despite one of the players saying they would be a lot easier than the US, some of our fem players and teams build themselves up only to bum out.

[mumbles]

NZ were bullied off the ball,couldn't string a pass together and the defenders were hopelessly outclassed.Changes needed today.

[mikeynz]

https://youtu.be/aM2IYVala0g

This kind of music can inspire us.

 

 

 

[mikeynz]

Another good song.

https://youtu.be/kGF5NlfFWjA

Edited February 20, 2023 by mikeynz

[mikeynz]

Another good musician

 

[mikeynz]

This one takes some beating.

 

[mikeynz]

Amazing what you find on You Tube

 

[mikeynz]

How can I keep this thread going, maybe a nude picture or something, not sure how Chief Stipe would react.

Plenty to talk about, from Chris Hopkins v Luxon, there is Cricket, League, women's sport always seems topical, women in general are rather topical.

[aquaman]

On 13/03/2023 at 5:07 PM, mikeynz said:

How can I keep this thread going, maybe a nude picture or something, not sure how Chief Stipe would react.

Plenty to talk about, from Chris Hopkins v Luxon, there is Cricket, League, women's sport always seems topical, women in general are rather topical.

I'm with Russia on their war against the Nazi's. I cannot stand Luxon or Hipkins, both false and compulsive liars, Act and NZ First opportunists. Fed up with Womens sport especially rugby, cricket, football, and boxing. Do like womens tennis, golf. MSM just lie, do like Fox especially Tucker Carlson, Bill O'Reilly was great value until the woke brigade had him dumped.

[mikeynz]

Im starting to believe this whole website is declining, might be slowly going out of fashion, even racing forums aint much chop, i try to jazz it up but seems to no avail, hence a free for all forum.

Luxon aint pm material, Hipkins is in the job but not voted in, Seymour should seek the top job if forming a coalition but would he walk the walk, easy to be in opposition, still reckon Hosking should have a go, otherwise his show and himself become pointless, bit like the boy who cried wolf, after a while we stop listening, that airhead he lives with has a show in the early hours, same old crap day after day.

Womens sport gets a imbalance on free to air tv, but who would pay to watch this so called super rugby, in fact who would bother with the male version, without South Africa, its just a NZ benefit ,only the Brumbies seem the only team much chop outside NZ, spose they gotta fabricate something to screen on sky.

Now Auckland might have a team in the A league, no one attends sports events there now, not that many go to Wellington but at least they have lasted which cant be bad for soccer in NZ

All Whites might have easy path to World cup but that wont make them better, no big games in NZ like Peru, Bahrein, Mexico, just Fiji or Vanuatu, Fifa are watering product down, Crickets doing it too with all the meaning less crap that keeps cropping up.test Cricket is still number 1, 50 overs seems outdated but 20 20 is just a revenue earner, for the players and the coffers, Cricket in NZ shot itself by going to Spark.

[aquaman]

Whats your views on Ukraine Russia war, should we be supporting Zolensky and Ukraine, should we be training their soldiers? mikeynz. Do you believe what Gruberment and MSN tell you about the war?.

[Honestjohn]

OK my view on women's rugby,  they are good you will get no argument from me.  But Ruby tui on TV every half HR is way too much.  A lady I know hires guest speakers for corporate events. She rang and enquired about Ruby,  she wanted $14000 . My son also hires guest speakers.  He said di henwood was $12000. But he has cancer.  Big difference. Ruby will be burnt out in 12months.

 

Hj

[mikeynz]

46 minutes ago, aquaman said:

Whats your views on Ukraine Russia war, should we be supporting Zolensky and Ukraine, should we be training their soldiers? mikeynz. Do you believe what Gruberment and MSN tell you about the war?.

Don't know, but builders of tanks and amoury will be happy, build some more now.

[aquaman]

22 hours ago, mikeynz said:

Don't know, but builders of tanks and amoury will be happy, build some more now.

Does it concern you it may go nuclear and involve all the world?.

[mikeynz]

2 minutes ago, aquaman said:

Does it concern you it may go nuclear and involve all the world?.

Would Putin want to be destroyed ?

[aquaman]

On 17/03/2023 at 10:46 AM, mikeynz said:

Would Putin want to be destroyed ?

Depends if Biden's puppet masters continue to push Putin into a corner. I have no doubt Putin will use them. I believe the movers and shakers actually want all out war with Russia. The world came oh so lose in the Cuban missile crisis back in 63. It came down to one U Boat Captain letting go a nuclear torpedo that he was instructed to use if he came under attack. The sub was attacked not by depth charges, but rather grenades to try and signal it to surface. The Captain had a political officer on board and his 2nd in command whom he lent on for advise. The political officer wanted and advised to shoot the torpedo, the second in command said no, we should surface pointing out that so far the explosions going off ha not damaged the sub, and maybe it was a message they were trying to convey. Bear in mind the Captain had orders from Moscow that if under attack to use the nuclear torpedo, so war came down to one UBoat skipper whom had no contact with Russia on starting World War 3. The war head on the torpedo was mush greater than was dropped on Hiroshima. Fortunately the Captain took the advise from his 2nd in command and not the political officer and surfaced and the world was saved. The sub along with 3 others sailed back to Russia in disgrace. They all had 1 nuclear torpedo each.

[Walt]

Just harping back to a contentious discussion on Covid vaccines and mandates etc. I wish to share context and my updated perspective.

When the first of my children were born I read a lot of literature about vaccines. At that point I had never even heard of the term "anti-vax". I decided not to vaccinate my children based on what I read which I learned years later was mostly total bullshit.

My wife has run HPV and Meningococcal vaccination campaigns including cold chains. I heard first hand about hundreds of examples of incidents that invariably stated "as a result of the vaccine" etc etc. Further investigation revealed if a person died a year after being vaccinated in a totally unrelated incident such as a car wreck, it was still signed off as "potentially" vaccine related. If a vaccinated person had a huge hole in their heart and died as a result a year after being vaccinated, it was signed off as "potentially" vaccine related. The circumstances of the death were seldom known by the public but the "potentially" vaccine related aspect was often widely aired. It's difficult not to become cynical. 

During Covid there was a shit ton of misinformation out there. Some was clearly disinformation. I can say I was never comfortable with Pfizer who I trust about as far as I can throw an elephant. It's always easy to be wise after the event but during the pandemic I believe there was enough evidence out there to believe the vaccine was the best tool in the Covid toolbox. There was however evidence available along the way that added weight to the contention that only the elderly or health compromised should be vaccinated. Having Jacinda Ardern telling people 150 times a day to "get vaccinated" did more harm than good. I know of numerous people in our democratic country that lost their job due to not wanting to be vaccinated. That is despite there being ample opportunity available for them to work virtually at the time. Court cases resulting from this will follow.

I've seen compelling evidence that previous vaccines that had x number of adverse events were immediately removed and withdrawn. The Covid vaccines way exceeded those numbers yet was still being forced onto people as if it was mothers milk. 

In short, I'm still very much pro vaccine but that no longer applies to the Covid vaccine that continues to cause serious life threatening problems to big numbers of people who had no previous health issues. 

[Special Agent]

Walt, did your unvaccinated children survive?  I'm assuming yes.  Good on you for reading up on the vaccines of the time and making your own informed decision.  As parents that is our duty until our offspring are old enough to make their own choices.

Were the deaths around the world worse than any yearly flu?  It depends where you source your information.  The mainstream propaganda suggested the numbers were multiplied many times over and showed stacked up body bags for effect.  The New Zealand figures of Covid deaths were miniscule in comparison to the 500 influenza deaths per annum.  Locking the country up would account for that.

Personally I do not know anyone who died from Covid, however I do know and know of vaccine related deaths and injuries to previously healthy fit beings.  There are copious articles on this very subject and I believe there are huge numbers who regret being vaccinated against Covid.  Funny that I have not heard anyone come forward to apologise for bad mouthing of those who chose not to have the jab.

Today I saw one lady at the supermarket wearing a mask.  I don't even want to comment on how ridiculous that is.

Our country is going to take a long time not to recover from a pandemic but, to recover from the bad decisions made by an inept group in charge of our well being, when most of us have been doing a pretty okay job of looking after our family's well being until now.  Racing followed suit administrating in a manner that made no sense when unnecessarily mandating vaccine passes.  All those at the top had to do was read the Covid Response Act correctly to see the errors of their ways.

Walt, I could go on and on and on about this subject as I had so much time every day to think, read, watch and write about nothing else.  I am longing for a new focus and a new Government.

[Walt]

Special Agent,

When you combine a company like Pfizer and Politicians should we expect anything other than a dubious result?

I do feel there is still a place for vulnerable elderly or the health compromised folk to wear face masks while out in public but they do stand out like dogs balls now which I think is a good thing. It actually looks like they have a nappy on their face. 

I had a melanoma scare in late 2021.  I had several lesions removed surgically. Two were invasive. All clear now fingers crossed. Two lesions were on my face. Wearing a mask became impractical as it would inflame one side of my face. I obtained an exemption not to wear it. I went into an automotive accessories retailer and went straight for the area I knew the product I was after was stored. Nek minute some eggplant behind the counter yelled out to me "have you got a mask?"...I walked the 50 feet over to him and said no, I have an exemption. His response was that they had an exemption not to serve people that have an exemption. A heated discussion followed. I'd been going to that outlet for decades and had spent many thousands. I gave the shitheel on a power trip my valued customer card and told him to ram it up his arse and how he'd likely enjoy that type of activity.

Over the next few months I was contacted by numerous people who'd heard about what unfolded and how disgraceful my treatment had been and how that employee had pulled the same shit on dozens of other people.

Once Covid fearmongering settled down I received several emails and phone calls from that company apologizing for that employees conduct who no longer worked for them and asked what they could do to help move forward together. I said a great place to start was by them stopping contacting me.

Can you imagine how things unfold if / when we have another pandemic? One thing for sure, they won't have the same level of compliance they had this time around and politicians only have themselves to blame for that.

[Special Agent]

Compliance is an interesting topic.  Racing administrators were Governmental lackeys.  They charged, suspended and fined licence holders who had the nous not to be vaccinated yet were naive in their disregard for the rules they were licenced under.  For every person caught by RIB officials I'd lay money on there being many others who slipped under the radar.

What about those who sat the period of Covid restrictions out by being mandated out of an income?  These licence holders should be congratulated.  They respect their licence status and have gonads, as the Mad Butcher would say, as big as Texas.

The audacity of the automotive store worker was commonplace during the pandemic, just like the imaginary authority a race day white coat endows.  Every man and his dog could spout off rubbish in such an authoritative manner I felt the need to withdraw from conversation.  There was better fiction to be enjoyed in a book or on the telly.

I feel the Covid debacle handled abysmally by the Labour Government of the time sorted the shit from the straw.  I know which label I deserve and will stand fast should a similar situation arise, with less "friends" to call upon for a chat or encouragement.  Good luck to those who will jab up again because they think the coffee out with friends is more important than their health.  Personally my coffee supped at home is cheaper and enjoyed in better company.

[Walt]

On 5/29/2023 at 12:08 AM, Special Agent said:

Compliance is an interesting topic.  Racing administrators were Governmental lackeys.  They charged, suspended and fined licence holders who had the nous not to be vaccinated yet were naive in their disregard for the rules they were licenced under.  For every person caught by RIB officials I'd lay money on there being many others who slipped under the radar.

What about those who sat the period of Covid restrictions out by being mandated out of an income?  These licence holders should be congratulated.  They respect their licence status and have gonads, as the Mad Butcher would say, as big as Texas.

The audacity of the automotive store worker was commonplace during the pandemic, just like the imaginary authority a race day white coat endows.  Every man and his dog could spout off rubbish in such an authoritative manner I felt the need to withdraw from conversation.  There was better fiction to be enjoyed in a book or on the telly.

I feel the Covid debacle handled abysmally by the Labour Government of the time sorted the shit from the straw.  I know which label I deserve and will stand fast should a similar situation arise, with less "friends" to call upon for a chat or encouragement.  Good luck to those who will jab up again because they think the coffee out with friends is more important than their health.  Personally my coffee supped at home is cheaper and enjoyed in better company.

I think Ardern went to the Casino and gambled her popularity at the time on you getting jabbed. The irony of that is she refused to use her influence during the Cannabis Referendum. I'm not a midnight toker but make no judgment against those that do. I see it the same way I view what shirt lifters and pillow biters do in their own space. It's their own business.

I am however a regular CBD user for chronic lower back pain. I've used most pharmaceutical drugs that have either been ineffective or unhealthy to use long term including tramadol. CBD however has been very effective and I know of many people with a similar story. Anyone who still doesn't believe there are medicinal benefits from Cannabis has not been paying attention.

I can still run my business and function normally thanks to CBD.

During the 2020 campaign there were millions spent on advertising how dangerous cannabis was. We'd be seeing cars upside down due to cannabis effected drivers and a young people smoking 30 cannabis cigarettes a day resulting in a generation of zombies. All total bullshit of course but people were rightly alarmed by this misinformation and the polls turned from yes to no. Still Ardern sat on her hands. 

Me and people like me are now paying $150 for a two week supply of CBD instead of $20-$25. Certain companies are rorting people. Young people are still being harassed and or arrested by the Police due to small amounts of cannabis. 

Ardern betrayed NZ and flushed away authentic generational change. I appreciate a fair percentage of kiwis also didn't want a change for their own reasons which I respect. My contention however is people were not given all the relevant information / facts we have learned over the decades to assist them making informed decisions not based on fear.