The Silver Fern

@sparky said in NH Club Rugby:

Ma'a Nonu, aged 43, is starting at 12 for Toulon tomorrow against Lyon in the Top 14.

Ten years and one day after his second Rugby World Cup win.

That's at LEAST five more years he could have played for the ABs.

So selfish, especially considering the donkeys we've had since him.

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Haha
I am sooo hoping the dud team gets it done again this weekend . . .

And I was absolutely flabbergasted when the dud team won the last T20 WC.
Because I thought they really were a dud team.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/360872201/sharon-stone-defends-sydney-sweeney-over-jeans-ad-backlash-says-its-ok-be-hot

Yeah no chance Samoa don't win the tournament with that squad. Shame it's taken until this point in the year for them to bring all those players together.

Spurs first 5-0 start in franchise history.

Community Notes works pretty well, that's why Zuck is copying it for his platforms. The crowd source approach is a good interim step until we get AI watermarks somehow. XAI have a plan for that, will see how effective it ends up being.

Will definitely need some sort of blockchain/watermark that can't be spoofed for video from politicans and news reports sooner rather than later.

Even I get caught by AI Video now, and I'm looking for it. Good videos are indistinguishable from real videos now.

"There's some left-over cold sausages in the fridge"

"Great" (I really like cold sausages)

Uncover the foil-wrapped dish

They are vegan sausages

Just fuck off

@mikedogz That's brilliant news. Congratulations! 👏

@Rancid-Schnitzel The Borg would have made better tv shows.

@kidcalder said in Boxing Thread:

Signing with Frank Warren is a career crusher for a fighter if they are not from UK...
Uk boxing is dominated in the promoter ranks by Warren and Hearn...then trailing behind Shalom,
Non UK fighters really need better- fairer representation as its stalling/ruining careers

Always been the way if you're not from the UK/US. Many Eastern Europeans fall into oblivion as a result. Promotion is a tough business and extremely tough to make profit if you don't have a TV network backing you. Look at Bob Arum and Top Rank now that they don't have the ESPN deal now. Frank Warren is like the Winston Peters of Boxing promotion. Just as you think he's down and out and won't be back, he always finds a way back in.

It's even tougher now that Turki has seemingly distanced himself from the HWs for now.

Thought I should post this as nobody else will - the final leaderboard for Superbru NPC. Super Rugby table is below, well done to @Joan-and-Mary

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I haven't watched the Chael/Smith footage in context but have listened to Chael on both Good guy/Bad guy and Ariel's show and he was fully defending Aspinall claiming the context of the earlier comments were in regards to how part of their training was to fight with one eye to try and replicate this potential situation. Could be just back tracking now due to the reaction of course, immediately I thought we was just doing his 'I'm the badguy' routine. Haven't heard anything from Gane but that would be a shocker, it is interesting that there really isn't a downside to rake guys eyes in the ring. You might (but likely won't) get a point taken off and your opponent is more often than not to severely injured to have a chance at beating you and in most situations will resume fighting for ego or whatever. I do think immediate point loss for eye pokes is the way to do this, maybe 2 and its a forfeit, something like that.

@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:

Given England's terrible batting form at the moment, Australia could pull someone out of club cricket to be one of their openers and still win the series 5-0.

Both teams have a mix of brilliant batsmen, a couple maybe past it or in terrible form and some who are a bit shit and you wonder how they made it in the first place.

Should make for an excellent series.

The 2nd clip...funny how in most, after a red card offence in today's game, most just keep playing, not stopping to point out the offence.

@NTA said in Wobblies 2025:

Lose? "Pommy bastards colluded to scuttle our chances!" 😠 🖕

or, should have cracked a window...

I don't know Wordpress but Grok gives a comprehensive answer on how best to go about doing it: https://grok.com/c/fd288606-2fb8-4e7b-b331-be3514116cbb (Edit - scroll down to your question, I forgot I included another question previously)

I'd think there would be someone in your Chess community who is handy with basic webdev and could knock it out.

Hodgman had been injured a lot this year.

Interesting to read that Liam Wright is also leaving Qld, and maybe Aust, and that seems down to only being offered a reduced RA contract.

The cheating Cantabs would have got away with it if wasn't for those meddling Journalists. Larry the Lamb has been unmasked.

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Canterbury’s Larry the Lamb stormed to victory in the mascot race during the half-time show at Saturday’s NPC final - but there was a good reason...