The Silver Fern

@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:

I gave Once upon a time in Hollywood another watch.

Probably 4-5 times in total now.

Gee whiz it’s the hardest Tarantino movie to rate in my opinion.

Leo is fucken cool and Brad is even cooler. Their chemistry is awesome. Margot Robbie is lovely to look at. It is full of snappy dialogue ( of course ). The period is captured brilliantly. The Spahn ranch scene and finale are awesomely violent.

BUT…..

There is heaps of pointless filler, it really, really drags at times. I really drifted off in some scenes. There is fuck all in terms of actual storyline

I still can’t decide where it ranks overall, at its absolute best it’s well up there……but at its worst it’s down there……

So it’s probably about 5th out of 10 ( assuming you rank Kill Bill as two films )

What’s really impressive about it is it’s stacked cast of unknowns at the time…
Austin Butler, Mikey Madison, Sydney Sweeney, Margaret Qualley. Maya Hawke
All pretty big now (pun intended re Sydney Sweeney)
And of course it wouldn’t be a Tarantino movie without feet

@Virgil said in Straya!:

@mariner4life said in Straya!:

not one but two Nope Ropes? lol imagine the look on the sparky's face when he opened that the first time

surely being from 'straya hes seen it all before and probably much worse

speaking of worse..
New species of Stick Insect discovered, where else..

try this, upated

@mariner4life said in Straya!:

of course it's fucking Tropical NQ. I have had some big fucking bugs on my patio but that might take the cake.

at that size it might take your fucken patio too
They are already calling it a branch insect

@mariner4life said in Straya!:

not one but two Nope Ropes? lol imagine the look on the sparky's face when he opened that the first time

surely being from 'straya hes seen it all before and probably much worse

speaking of worse..
New species of Stick Insect discovered, where else..

EDIT: WARNING WARNING WARNING !!! - Big scary bug whoaaaaa

@Nepia said in Pro Wrestling:

Reading back through the thread a number of posters mention watching Wrestlemania on TV. I don't remember ever seeing a Wrestlemania on TV, I can only remember them on video and having to book them out. IIRC Wrestlemania was already a couple of years old when WWF Superstars of Wrestling started on TV in NZ. (Looking at Wrestlemania 1 on wiki and not many of the wrestlers are still alive. Mr T is the only one from the main event.

Is my memory faulty or others?

Hart Foundation and Bret Hart were always my favourites, even when they were heels.

you're right, the only way you could watch those big events was to wait for them to come out on VHS
im not sure if there was PPV back then

The posts would have meant the weekly show they had on tv here, was late on a friday night from memory

Its why it was great going back to watch Wrestlemania on Netflix earlier this year, alot of that stuff i never watched back in the day.

@Cyclops said in Black Caps in Zimbabwe:

Henry outright 10th now. A bit sad that Chats is now out of the top 10.

Good chance he might over take Cairns Snr by the end of this match too.

@nzzp said in Black Caps in Zimbabwe:

@MN5 said in Black Caps in Zimbabwe:

Magnificent from Henry again.

he's been second to Bumrah in the last WTC cycle. Averaging 18.

his last 2 years have been really impressive, and across all formats
Since July '23 hes done the following

Tests - 10 matches - 54 wickets @ 17.24
T20I - 47 matches - 65 wickets @ 17.98
ODI's - 19 matches - 38 wickets @ 22.18

@nzzp said in Black Caps in Zimbabwe:

@Virgil said in Black Caps in Zimbabwe:

The Black Caps record is 101..can you guess who it belongs to? (without cheating!)

Baz?

Breaks an impressive run for Latham too
its the first test he has missed since 2014..
He had played 88 successive tests
The Black Caps record is 101..can you guess who it belongs to? (without cheating!)

@Catogrande said in Other Cricket:

@MN5 said in Other Cricket:

@sparky said in Other Cricket:

Everyone knows why the Australians called Kevin Pietersen FIGJAM? And apparently the lads in his own dressing room had a seven letter nickname for him.

What a piston wristed gibbon!

Pietersen was one of the best batsmen I’ve ever seen when in form. Seriously classy player who perhaps underachieved. Nice of him to chuck some NZ names in there.

Definitely sounds like a cock, yes.

Well done Ben Stokes, hundred and five for in the same test is a terrific effort.

Finally well done Root, plays more tests than the others but still has to actually get the runs and stay in form. I wonder if he’ll have a crack at Tendulkars record ?

And yet he's played fewer tests than Dravid, Kallis and Ponting? He's also played 43.5 tests less than Tendulkar and at his current average of around 85 per test he will overtake Tendulkar in 29 tests.

Which based on standard England test cricket itineraries will happen in about 18 months from now.

Nice to win a meaningless T20 series no one will remember 2 weeks from now… but seriously how good is Henry across all 3 formats now

@dogmeat said in Missing Persons:

I've barely been on here since I retired on 30th April.

As a parting shot I stupidly won us a brand new business opportunity and have hung around as my fingerprints were all over the Tender document. As a result I am busier than ever although the upside is it's interesting and I don't have staff or all the other daily grind and I fo into the office about once a fortnight.

My name is mud at home though as were supposed to be sailing the Med in June and renting a villa in Italy in July...

I did get Kirwan's patreon msg thanks but until now the firewall wouldn't let me visit newly registered domains.

So who’s been banned / gone off in a huff in my absence?

Welcome back, with your return the average age here just went up several fold but that’s ok

@mariner4life said in Pro Wrestling:

Warrior was a terrible wrestler. clearly insane dude. great fucking character though.

That first big WWF era is so fun to look back on. Rampant steroids. Clear recreational drug abuse. But just so fun and over the top. The promos were amazing, and for them alone Randy Savage was the king.

I just remember watching it late (friday nights?) i would have been 15 or 16 when it first gained popularity over here
And spending lunch breaks on the sports fields re-enacting the moves on my mates. Its amazing no one was badly hurt!

how can you miss out on these 2 local heroes as well..

@mariner4life said in RIP 2025:

Terry was a piece of shit.

Hulk Hogan however WAS professional wrestling. He legitimised it, he gave it mainstream cred, and everything that came after was pretty much down to him.
Never my favourite, even in the 80s, and now in hindsight some of the shit he pulled was crap (in ring, as i said, Terry is a piece of shit and there is no denying that). But Hogan's legacy is locked in.

That golden era is almost all gone (but seriously how the fuck is Rick Flair still alive?).

Out of nostalgia earlier this year i semi watched a few of the old Wrestlemania's and Royal Rumbles from the late 80's and early 90's
You look up online and see how many of them are long since dead.
Shit Big Boss man died at 41 or so.

@MN5 said in RIP 2025:

Terrible week.

The Hulkster was never one of my absolute favourites ( even as a kid I found lots of his come from behind victories a bit silly ) but he absolutely changed Wrestling for the better.

Legend.

Superstar.

RIP

you missed out union snitch and racist.

Rami J. Hanna  /  Aug 23, 2024

Jesse Venture: I Wanted To Unionize Pro Wrestling, Hulk Hogan Ratted Me Out To Vince McMahon

Jesse Ventura wanted a better place for pro wrestling. Former Minnesota Governor was not surprised when he saw Hulk Hogan acting like a fool for former President, Donald Trump. In fact, he has known more about this kind of behavior from the former WWF Champion because when Ventura tried to make pro...

even Andre the Giant disliked him..

@Duluth said in Fern Outage:

Searching for the 'thesilverfern forum' in the last 24 hours sends people to MN5's posts

@Duluth said in Missing Persons:

A thread to keep track of who hasn't found their way here yet

Taken from the most upvoted in the last month and/or active recently with a lot of posts

@ACT-Crusader
@sparky
@nostrildamus
@brodean
@Landers92
@Victor-Meldrew
@Darth-Sader
@Jet
@MajorRage
@Nogusta
@Machpants
@Nepia
@dogmeat
@Snowy
@Yeetyaah
@Paekakboyz
@Steven-Harris
@Frank
@chimoaus
@Gunner
@kiwiinmelb
@Winger
@Rapido
@Rembrandt
@hydro11
@Damo
@Kruse
@Mattasaurus
@Stockcar86
@kev
@akan004
@barbarian
@reprobate
@Godder
@Dice
@ARHS
@Toddy
@mikey07
@SammyC
@Nevorian
@junior
@BerniesCorner
@TeWaio
@Tordah
@SBW1
@george33
@pukunui
@mimic
@DaGrubster
@Chris-B

Getting closer to finding them all

its not always the case but often when you receive a PM on the fern you receive an email notification.
Would that be worth a go?

@Duluth said in Fern Outage:

Number of people logged in is recovering

Holy shit you can track in real time with @MN5 started posting memes again