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taniwharugby

that was done some time back I think...some of the comments on there are, um, priceless!

jegga

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that was done some time back I think...some of the comments on there are, um, priceless! 
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The one about Richard Loe is without price.
We had Richard Loe at a practice when kids - experience wasn't quite the same.......We had Richard Loe at a practice when kids - experience wasn't quite the same.......

Tim

booboo

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The kids faces are priceless <a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/73957273/dan-carters-surprise-visit-wows-auckland-kids-rugby-team">http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/73957273/dan-carters-surprise-visit-wows-auckland-kids-rugby-team</a></blockquote> 
The mighty Gribblehirst Park. Prettiest ground in Auckland. Fond memories of wakking diwn that tunnel. Must have been early in the season. There's grass and they haven't sunk ankle deep ...

booboo

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that was done some time back I think...some of the comments on there are, um, priceless!</blockquote>
 
I started reading them ... they made me dumber ...

booboo

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I started reading them ... they made me dumber ...</blockquote>
 
And I've read the vax, conspiracy theory and climate change threads and started the flag one (sorry).

Tim

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Apparently this sort of thing was common in the margins of "illuminated texts" of the middle ages. Farting into horn instruments especially.
 
<img src="http://i.imgur.com/6gqroIu.jpg" alt="6gqroIu.jpg">
 
 
<img src="http://i.imgur.com/hfVSPl2.jpg" alt="hfVSPl2.jpg">
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://discardingimages.tumblr.com'>http://discardingimages.tumblr.com</a> <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://demonagerie.tumblr.com'>http://demonagerie.tumblr.com</a>
 
Personally, I choose to believe that it was the inspiration behind a great Gary Busey moment.

jegga

<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2015/11/watch-otto-the-bulldog-set-record-for-longest-human-tunnel-travelled-through-by-a-405506'>http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2015/11/watch-otto-the-bulldog-set-record-for-longest-human-tunnel-travelled-through-by-a-405506</a>

jegga

Seems like decent way to clean up your backyard

Nepia

That is just weird. Why is he in a Gorilla suit?
 
Do that in Aussie and you'll burn down half the country.

jegga

I'm guessing he doesn't want to be identified ?

Nepia

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I'm guessing he doesn't want to be identified ?
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I had just assumed he was one of the guys (not wearing a gorilla suit) in the similar videos that you see at the end.

jegga

I don't think you want to put too much effort into trying to understand the mindset of someone like that .

taniwharugby

jegga

Tiger tank factory<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.alanhamby.com/factory1.shtml'>http://www.alanhamby.com/factory1.shtml</a>

Catogrande

The stoicism of the English beer drinker:-
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34836397/leeds-pub-garden-floods-men-go-for-pint-anyway'>http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34836397/leeds-pub-garden-floods-men-go-for-pint-anyway</a>

Siam

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The stoicism of the English beer drinker:-
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34836397/leeds-pub-garden-floods-men-go-for-pint-anyway'>http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34836397/leeds-pub-garden-floods-men-go-for-pint-anyway</a>
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Fucken gold Cato!!
 
"I stood and shouted at the water but it didn't seem to do much.

Tim

Too good for the US election thread:


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<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/11/16/hardball-questions-for-the-next-debate/'>Hardball Questions For The Next Debate</a>
 
Senator Rubio:
 
When you became Floridaâ€s Speaker of the House, one of the other men on stage here tonight, Jeb Bush, <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/01/30/the_sword_of_chang.html'>presented you with a golden sword</a>, which he said was the â€œSword of Changâ€. He told you that â€œChang is somebody who believes in conservative principles, believes in entrepreneurial capitalism, believes in moral values that underpin a free society. Chang, this mystical warrior, has never let me down.â€ You looked pretty excited about it.
 
Now, <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://newrepublic.com/article/100205/marco-rubio-flunks-history'>some might say</a> that this all came from a giant misunderstanding. Back in the late 1940s, Mao Zedongâ€s victorious Chinese communists forced Chiang Kai-shekâ€s defeated Chinese nationalists to retreat to the island of Taiwan. The United States kept the peace in the the Taiwan Strait, mostly to prevent Mao from invading and finishing the job, but a common refrain in 1950s conservativism went that we should â€œunleash Chiangâ€; that is, advise Chiang Kai-Shek to go back across the strait and reconquer China. George H. W. Bush served as envoy to China, had to listen to this sort of stuff, and got annoyed enough at the â€œunleash Chiangâ€ rhetoric that he would quote it ironically at bizarre times, like his documented habit of threatening that his serve would â€œunleash Chiangâ€ on his tennis opponents. Itâ€s unclear how we got from George H. W. Bushâ€s constant threats to â€œunleash Chiangâ€ on people, to his sonâ€s belief that Chang was a mystical conservative warrior. Maybe it was a joke, either Bush Sr. pranking Jeb or Jeb pranking you.
 
In any case, you hung the sword in â€œa place of honor in your officeâ€. From that point forward, Jebâ€s fortunes declined. He left the Florida governorship, failed to get any further high positions, and then ran a very lackluster Presidential campaign. But from that same point your own fortunes decidedly rose. You started a law firm, were appointed a professor, got elected to the Senate, and are currently running a spectacular Presidential campaign with most pundits betting on your eventual victory after Trump and Carson lose their shine. The connection between the transfer of the sword and the sudden switch in both your fortunes is so striking that even the Huffington Post, not normally a source for magic-sword-related journalism, wrote about it: <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bush-rubio-sword-of-chang_56329854e4b00aa54a4d97f3'>Jebâ€s Last Hope â€“ Reclaim the Sword of Chang</a>.
 
But here we have a conundrum: if there was never a mythical Chinese warrior named Chang, by what magic does this sword grant worldly success to its possessor and ignomious ruin to any who lose it? There is a legend that fits almost exactly: the tale of the <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Lance'>Holy Lance</a>, aka the Spear of Destiny, aka several other portentious sounding names. According to <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.unmuseum.org/spear.htm'>the story</a>, this relic from Christâ€s crucifixion grants victory to all who own it and swift ruin to all who lose it. Charlemagne was reputedly the first to make use of its power; he was unstoppable while he wielded it but died moments after dropping it during battle. The same pattern repeated with Frederick Barbarossa, then a host of other military leaders, until finally it passed to the Austrian Habsburgs. They realized its power, locked it away, and ended up winning the greatest empire in European history. Supposedly Hitler was obsessed with it, so much so that his fascination with the object inspired the depiction of Nazi archaeologists in Raiders of the Lost Ark, and he took it for himself after the Anschluss. As the war wound down, the relic caught the special attention of General George Patton, who brought it back safely to Vienna afterwards. But ever since that time there have been various rumors that it was a fake, and that Nazi sympathizers took the real Lance in preparation for the time when the Reich would rise again.
 
The book <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/1931882436/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1931882436&linkCode=as2&tag=slastacod-20&linkId=I6EXYR2F2N7PIDIA'>Secrets of the Holy Lance</a> describes <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://books.google.com/books?id=qGX3ZtD_UikC&pg=PA256&lpg=PA256&dq="Holy+Lance"+"George+Bush"&source=bl&ots=5N0FvuEV7w&sig=ZHXp9cXbf8P33X0vbXyziLmfAPI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAGoVChMIh4bVop6WyQIVQV0eCh19HQ5l#v=onepage&q="Holy Lance" "George Bush"&f=false'>one possible route</a> by which the artifact might have been smuggled out of Europe:
<blockquote>Reporters John Buchanan and Stacey Michael cite recently declassified documents from the US National Archives that indicate that Prescott Bush â€œfailed to divest himself of more than a dozen enemy national relationships that continued until as late as 1951. Bush conducted business following the end of World War II with moving assets into the Nazi refuges of Argentina, Panama, and Brazil.</blockquote>
 
So Prescott Bush was involved in moving Nazi â€œassetsâ€ from conquered Europe to South American refuges, presumably including the true Lance. Far be it from me to impugn his business ethics, but I donâ€t remember Nazi refugees in Argentina becoming an unstoppable force aided by a weapon of legendary mystical power. On the other hand, I do remember Prescott Bush being elected to the United States Senate just a few years later. Then his son and the presumed heir of his property was elected US President. Then his son was also elected US President. I need not add that according to the the laws of genetics, the chance of this happening by coincidence is hundreds-of-thousands to one even assuming implausibly high heritability of the fitness-to-be-president trait. Then his other son starts rocketing up through the ranks right up until the moment he gave you the sword of Chang, a sword named after a weird Bush family in-joke about a Chinese mystical warrior who doesnâ€t exist.
 
I think we can start to sketch out a plausible explanation here. Hitler didnâ€t want the Holy Lance falling into the hands of his enemies, so he replaced it with a fake and hired Nazi-artifact-smuggler Prescott Bush to transport the real one to safety in South America. Bush realized what he had, handed the South Americans a second fake, and kept the real one for himself, reforging it from a lance into a sword to cover his tracks â€“ an action entirely in character for Prescott Bush, whose other relic-stealing adventures include <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/prescottbush.html'>the theft of Geronimoâ€s skull</a>. He died unexpectedly without getting the chance to explain the significance of the artifact to his son George H. W. Bush. But since it seemed like a sentimentally important heirloom, George took care of his fatherâ€s weird golden sword anyway. When his sons asked him about it he didnâ€t have a real answer, so he just made his favorite in-joke about â€œunleashing Chiangâ€, and they believed him. Then eventually it passed to George W, later on to Jeb, and then Jeb thought it would be a funny present to give you to honor your election as Florida speaker.
 
Obviously the Lance is a significant strategic asset for America, and I imagine if you were President then its aura of victory would apply to the country as well, much as the Habsburgsâ€ possession of the lance enlarged Austria-Hungary. However, its powers are generally held to come from the Antichrist.
 
So my question for you is, do you think itâ€s ethical to use your magic sword to channel the power of the Antichrist if that would ensure Americaâ€s military success?
 
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mariner4life

Tim

The rest of them are good too, especially Fiorina and Trump.


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Mr. Trump:
 
You are famous both for your vast corporate empire and for your tendency to name the pieces of that corporate empire after yourself. By my count there are six buildings named â€œTrump Towerâ€, ten named some variation on â€œTrump Hotelâ€, a Trump Building, a Trump Palace, and a Trump Estate. You founded a financial services group called <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Mortgage'>Trump Mortgage</a>, a modeling agency called <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Model_Management'>Trump Model Management</a>, a bottled water brand called <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Ice'>Trump Ice</a>, and a magazine called <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/pictures/the-many-business-failures-of-donald-trump-20110511/trump-magazine-0520002'>Trump Magazine</a>. You also started an airline called <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Shuttle'>Trump Airlines</a>, a TV company called <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Productions'>Trump Productions</a>, a book series called <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.trump.com/publications/'>Trump Books</a>, and your own radio talk show called <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumped!'>Trumped!</a>. There are also several Trump-themed games, like <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump's_Real_Estate_Tycoon'>Donald Trumpâ€s Real Estate Tycoon</a> and <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002CEXOU/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0002CEXOU&linkCode=as2&tag=slastacod-20&linkId=66N4I5RKHETFON5Y'>Trump: The Game</a>.
 
Mother Jones wrote <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/what-we-learned-playing-donald-trump-board-game'>a great article</a> on this last one. Trump: The Game seems to be a tacky Monopoly clone. Players move around a board and bid on properties, and when one of them gets locked out of bidding for a property the other player gets to say â€œYOUâ€RE FIREDâ€ the same way you do on your show. The only way to get back in to a property once youâ€ve been fired is to use the gameâ€s most powerful card, which has a picture of your face on it and is called â€œThe Donaldâ€.
 
My question for you is: WHY DIDNâ€T YOU CALL IT THE TRUMP CARD?!?!!!!111111111asdfdf
 
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The Silver Fern

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