Uriah Heap

18 years for Rhodes. Good job. He did exactly what then President Trump had asked him to do. "Stand down and stand by." Then on 6 January when the call came to action; he acted. Now he pays the price for that.

Those two NRL promo's featuring Tina Turner, were slick, had a huge impact on crowd numbers; and were far ahead of their time in 1988-89. They still make for great viewing now.

What a right old Anti-Vax Wankfest you boys have got going in this post. In the three months from October to December 1918, influenza killed 9000 people in New Zealand. No Deep State conspiracy; no Big Pharma; no fake news; just a lot of dead people.

If you take four years, spend US $6.5 million, and hear from 450 witnesses; you'll find some faults in any historic FBI investigation. I'd guarantee it!

And these local bodies who the National party propose will be given money to improve their water and drainage issues!!!

Court action against former President Trump for sexually assaulting a woman in a changing room and paying a hooker hush money are vague and highly disputable. The one thing that is not disputable, and which he should definitely be charged with for the sake of democracy, is the call he made to the Georgia Secretary of State asking that official to "find 11,780 votes". That is an outright abuse of power and shouldn't be allowed to slide. Why these other matters are being pursued ahead of this phone call beggars belief.

Biden v Trump.... again. Two geriatrics!! No room for vibrant young blood. Mass shootings; so common place, that they're in the news for one day, before being superseded by the next mass killing. Politicians on both sides whose main aim appears to be to dig up dirt on the opposition... as opposed to governing the country. What is wrong with that country? They need to wake up and look at themselves.

Exactly! Gruff's research involves scrolling the internet for opinions, which support his own biases. I'll take the scientists studies any day.

Logan Roy finally got fed up with Tucker Carlson and asked Tom to fire him. Tom told Greg to action it.

The thing is Tucker only pretends to be up Trumps arse for his viewership. He's stated privately that he "hates Donald Trump." This is the main thing to come out of the Dominion settlement. Fox hosts Hennesy, Carlson, Kilmeade, etc, don't actually believe what they promote. They are happy to tell lies, in order to keep their ratings up. Bear that in mind the next time you watch them rant about some topic.

Fox News tells lies! What we've always known to be true. Fox News paid out Dominion Voting Systems, because Fox was, "knowingly broadcasting something false" or " wilfully disregarding facts". Fox's defence was basically - President Trump was telling lies and we just reported it.

Gee Chevy. You've surpassed your normal low standards in this post. Not only have you trumpeted your Eurocentric view of the world, but right at the end you manage to include homophobia as well.

Not now he wouldn't. Seb Coe has just announced changes in athletics, so this can no longer occur. Tell your relative to stop growing his hair and shaving his legs.

Reason has it wrong. He sees the problem as coming from the top and trickling down (i.e Super rugby is boring so people are losing interest in rugby) The real problem is at the grassroots. Kids preferring gaming, playing Bball, football etc; Mum's worried about concussion; good school players being poached by "rugby schools"; etc etc. It trickles up; not down.

Exactly right Old Man. Nash has been caught and sacked, but do you reckon he's the only Cabinet member who's ever done this?

The problem is not Blues, Warriors or a clash of games. The problem is Apathetic Aucklanders. In Brisbane on Friday night crowds totaled 80,000, when the AFL and NRL games clashed.

Chiefs v Crusaders; Fijian Drua v Crusaders; Blues v Crusaders. Three top games you missed right there Mike. One team the common denominator! I think it was the NPC provinces themselves who wanted the switch to one division. Stand to be corrected though.

I think this "continuity" only really started with Steve Hansen succeeding Ted Henry, and then carried on with Ian Foster succeeding Hansen. The problem was/is that Hansen was a genuine Head Coach in the waiting, whereas Foster was probably never more than "assistant coach" standard. Given it's the Head Coach who brings in his assistants, the concept is flawed, because it's basically the current Head Coach selecting his successor.

Nanaia Mahuta is meeting with her Chinese equivalent, Qin Gang. Primarily to discuss trade, given they remain our biggest trading partner.

Jacinda Ardern played Basketball and Badminton at College.

I thought this and the post under it by Contentious, sounded the best advice I have read. It doesn't seem that hard, unless the Track Manager doesn't have the equipment to action it. The other thing I was thinking, involved keeping the punters onside., Why didn't they just shift the races, rated R75 and below, to the synthetic track? Sure there'd have been scratchings, but at least the Racing Club would put on some sort of a meeting.

He is an awful man, lucky he lives in a country where he is allowed to talk bullshit, no matter how hurtful that might be to bereaved family of little kids.

I wish I had some alarmist stories to tell like Billy Goat Gruff. But unfortunately I do not. I'm happy to report that no one I know personally, or have heard about second hand in the area I live, has suffered any complications from having a dose of the Pfizer vaccine. No family, no work mates, no one in my community. No one!!

It's raining with floods in Melbourne. It's the weather pattern. Rain on the East coast's of Aus and NZ. It'll come right again next year! Maybe!!

Talk of the Little Ice Age (not the mini ice age) in this thread is appropriate, because Tripple Alliance is parroting Donald Trump's view on climate change. This being, that their have always been climate fluctuations; what we are experiencing now is nothing new; and the effects of increased industrialisation and forest clearance are not the cause of climate warming and and so, can continue unabated. Any scientist (and there aren't many) who agree with Donald T and TA are lauded by them. Any who scientists who disagree with Tump and TA, are dismissed as fake, disingenuous, compromised and/or part of a self-serving conspiracy. Once you raise "conspiracy theories" you're dealing with people who want the facts to suit their own narrative. They're either manipulative (Donald Trump) or deluded (Tripple A, 100-1, 6xes).