All Blacks vs Boks

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@Rocky-Rockbottom said in All Blacks vs Boks:

Jesus. Look at this guy . Gets pwnd and THIS is his comeback? That is an embarrassingly lame retort for a purported professional journalist. Doesn’t take a PROFESSIONAL WRITER to deduce that it’s pretty much accepted, colloquially, that “not renowned” is synonymous with “shit”.

Too right. The technical name for it is Litotes. It is a huge part of Kiwi speech, and sometimes a thing that can trap foreigners (especially Yanks) who talk more literally. I have no idea what Hinton's excuse is.

Other standard rugby examples include:
"Pretty average" = shit
"Ordinary" = very poor
"Not bad" = very good

[Crucial]

OK. I'm in Paris for the weekend. Anyone know a place I can watch the rugby that may be open at 0930?

Edit: a suggestion or two in the next eight hours would be good.

[Tim]

@Crucial Finding a place open at 9:30 am is generally pretty tough.

L'Equipe lists these bars though:

http://ebar.lequipe.fr/matches/Paris/rugby-championship-new-zealand-south-africa-16-09-2017

[Tim]

@Crucial I used to work near this Saffa bar, and it says it's open.

La Pomme D'Eve – South African Pub – Bar Paris 75005 - Latin quarter

Never actually went for a drink there, but it looked tolerable.

[Tim]

Café Six might be more civilised.

19 rue Canettes
75006 Paris

http://www.allomatch.com/bar-sportif/paris/cafe-six.html

[Crucial]

@Tim Cheers. I'm going to give that a go.

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[Stockcar86]

In memory of Harry Dean Stanton, his 1960's lookalike is singing the Saffa anthem

[mimic]

DMac with another drop..

[Virgil]

First of 100 up and unders coming dmacs way tonight

[No Quarter]

Worst possible start for DMac.

[Donsteppa]

Dmac continues where he left off...

[kiwiinmelb]

Going up high for a chest mark with his elbows really wide apart

[KiwiMurph]

Nothing is Dmacs fault according to the coaches - cant have been his error

[broughie]

Did not touch it with his hands. That bad. Should not have been a knock on.

[nostrildamus]

@mimic not renown for anything else. Just scrummaging. So if he isn't known at all, Hinton should have just said that. Gotta agree with others on here, I thought Hinton is either not very well versed in English language usage, a sarcastic bugger, or a prick. Or perhaps a winning combo. Anyway, back to the game..

[dingo]

Boks have clearly targetting up the middle/one pass off the ruck as the place to make yards against AB defence.

[Donsteppa]

I see our renowned scrummager has been working on his hands in the inside channels...

[kiwiinmelb]

Not a renowned catcher of the ball