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@MN5 check out the the car fight in the comments ,
"She's pretty average really"
"Omg !, how can you say that? Our tall poppy syndrome is just so awful"Repeat 30 times . Well she is very average imho but she's been marketed pretty well and no station I listen to at work plays her music which I am eternally grateful for.
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@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@MN5 check out the the car fight in the comments ,
"She's pretty average really"
"Omg !, how can you say that? Our tall poppy syndrome is just so awful"Repeat 30 times . Well she is very average imho but she's been marketed pretty well and no station I listen to at work plays her music which I am eternally grateful for.
@jegga you'll find this absolutely fascinating. If not then 'OMG hater much? Hav u Eva released an album?'
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@MN5 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@MN5 that is a superb non story, it has so many levels of inanity and pointlessness
Mentions of tweets from the Lena Dunham about bringing snacks
Lorde almost saying something to the Edge at the gym but going "nah".
Lorde being inconvenienced be U2 doing what they have every right to do.
Just awesomely banal , somehow I missed it in all the fuss over a couple celebrating their 55th wedding anniversary in a storm.
I hate Lordes music but that's not really the point. Every bullshit story I read seems to try and paint her as some prima donna which in all honesty she probably isn't.
The whole 'story' is embarrassing as fuck. If they followed my life I'd be 'just about getting in fights' about 50 times a day.
Me too. It is also a good thing I don't have a camera in my car. A program of me when I used to commute would just be a whole lot of bleeps interspersed with 80's music.
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Most of the comments seem to make sense too, well the ones I scanned anyway.
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11841263
Now here's an editor digging deep into the bowels of an article to drag out some anti-male stuff. Of course the leap taken to link it to rugby is not tenuous at all.
I swear it took me several minutes to find the bit referred to in the headline. Was expecting an anecdote about "rape culture" from the 1980s high school scene but the outcome was a bruise.
That's modern feminism for you: if you look hard enough, you can find something real, perceived, imagined, or feelings-based to complain about. Even if you're a 46 year old TV personality you can dredge up an incident from high school.
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@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Most of the comments seem to make sense too, well the ones I scanned anyway.
Why on earth is that even a story?
[moving into grumpy old man mode] back in my day a big part of what pulled you back into line after pushing your behaviour too far was that adults other than your parents would tell you off.
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@Tregaskis said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11841263
Now here's an editor digging deep into the bowels of an article to drag out some anti-male stuff. Of course the leap taken to link it to rugby is not tenuous at all.
I swear it took me several minutes to find the bit referred to in the headline. Was expecting an anecdote about "rape culture" from the 1980s high school scene but the outcome was a bruise.
That's modern feminism for you: if you look hard enough, you can find something real, perceived, imagined, or feelings-based to complain about. Even if you're a 46 year old TV personality you can dredge up an incident from high school.
I wonder if NZH pays these guys just like the Women's Day do?
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@Crucial was a big discussion on Breakfast this morning, with lots of people saying he should not have told the kids off, some saying he should have told the waitress, others he should have told the parents.
Its a story cos hes a 'media person' and he done something that is apparently not the done thing...
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@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Most of the comments seem to make sense too, well the ones I scanned anyway.
Simple solution, give the kids a couple of cans of V each and then send them back to their parents.
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@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@Crucial was a big discussion on Breakfast this morning, with lots of people saying he should not have told the kids off, some saying he should have told the waitress, others he should have told the parents.
Its a story cos hes a 'media person' and he done something that is apparently not the done thing...
@taniwharugby you are bringing up kids in a different generation. What's your take on it?
That 'takes a village' comment is exactly how things used to be. If another parent had told us off as kids for doing dumb shit our own parents would have simply said 'good, you deserved it'. Nowadays you get kids running feral in public places and if the get in my way I usually say something only to notice their parents give me the evils for saying something to their kids.
It's just a selfish 'me' culture that has come about where everything is focused only on yourself or your children and token consideration for how it affects others.
As a side note this is one of the good things about getting kids involved in rugby. Great lessons to be learned on working together and how decisions you make can affect others in your group. Having coached young kids it was quite noticeable how many took a while to understand that because their parents had brought them up to think the world revolved around them. -
@Crucial I'd of told them to piss off too, my wife said she would have spoken to the Waiter/waitress.
I been to a Small Blacks coaching session tonight, very focussed on reminding parents that kids play it to enjoy it and keeping it simple.
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@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@Crucial I'd of told them to piss off too, my wife said she would have spoken to the Waiter/waitress.
I been to a Small Blacks coaching session tonight, very focussed on reminding parents that kids play it to enjoy it and keeping it simple.
Why put the problem onto the poor staff? It's not their job to play Henry Kissenger? The parents are likely feral as well and would simply get either overly defensive or aggressive.
As for the Small Blacks thing I would add ensuring you are being inclusive. There are some subtle ways you can do this. Praise the 'star' kid after his flashy try but in the same sentence praise someone else who may or may not have done something that contributed.
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@Crucial said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Most of the comments seem to make sense too, well the ones I scanned anyway.
Why on earth is that even a story?
[moving into grumpy old man mode] back in my day a big part of what pulled you back into line after pushing your behaviour too far was that adults other than your parents would tell you off.
Mrs CF is not shy about playing cop with feral kids. The other day we were at the Maccas playground and she was telling some kid off for climbing up a slide, knowing the young CFs were about to come down. Should teach them to lift their legs up so that they can kick any dickhead kids coming up the other way in the face
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@Crucial yep, all about show and do, rather than have the coach talk and talk and talk....also making sure each drill has an objective, and if it is tackling or ball handling, ensuring the 5 or 10 minute drill, each kid touches the ball or makes as many tackles as possible rather than oft seen 2 lines of kids doing an activity and might touch the ball 3 times in a 10 min drill.
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Getting told off by another adult was way worse than by your own parents. Humiliating and there was no way you could complain if you wanted to avoid a clip from your parents.
I find most kids respond positively to being growled at. More so in most instances than the parents who seem to feel their little Maksyne is entitled to run riot.
One of the advantages of being an old fuck is I seem to be able to get away with telling the complaining parents that I wouldn't have had to say anything if they did their job properly.
Is this a story though? Not as presented - but as part of a bigger piece - probably
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Jane Bowrons stories about living in post quake Christchurch were really good I thought, unfortunately not long afterwards she got a bad case of Leftwing derangement syndrome to the point where she wouldn't support the abs at the 2015 Rwc because the team was announced at the beehive by John Key.
Anyway Spark are switching landlines to a new system which caused this meltdown which ended up with comments being closed and a correction from the dompost because she thought the evil empire aka Spark were going to shut down landlines completely. -
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Most of the comments seem to make sense too, well the ones I scanned anyway.
Simple solution, give the kids a couple of cans of V each and then send them back to their parents.
A good one I have seen in a couple of pubs is "unattended children will be given a double espresso and a free kitten"
One thing I do like about the UK is that dogs are welcome in pubs but children aren't.
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Looks like I've found a top joint for a fern get together!
I am disappointed they apologised.
I'm not surpised in the slightest this is 'news'
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