The saying that putting a chimpanzee in control of a keyboard will eventually lead to the primate producing a novel is a ludicrous and ridiculous stretch of imagination, but that a chimp, or chump, could very well churn out something execrable and therefore worthy of the very low standards of RNZ and Stuff is entirely possible; and here's proof:

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Our inter-evolutionary champ claims, among other nonsense, the All Blacks need an un-pale coach for reasons; dumb

"[the Folau furore] provides an interesting illustration of how badly things can go wrong when management of one colour tell staff of another what they can and can't do or say or think."

and dumber,

"How much better might those guys play if they felt truly valued or included in team culture?

and dumber again:

"We once looked upon Umaga's ascension to the All Blacks' captaincy as a watershed, but 14 years on from his retirement not a lot's changed. The players at most levels of the game are still brown and the authority figures are still white".

Only the navel-gazing, Onan-worshipping, victimhood dilettantes of RNZ and Stuff could describe Folau's case as anything, at all, to do with skin-colour. The suggestion that the melanin-rich might have held something back on the playing fields as some form of rebuke to their white masters is utterly contemptuous and a huge insult to every proud Polynesian ever that pulled on the black jersey, and to describe Umanga's elevation to captaincy as a "watershed" - a moment in history - begs both belief and the question 'Who the hell is this idiot tinkler, and how rugby-ignorant are they that can describe Umaga's moment as a 'watershed' but appear to never have heard of Randell, Norton or Shelford?'

The writer's name, I'm very certain, must be Lucy. It simply must be.

A female coach will be the next move

From a woman perspective, what’s not to like being in a changing room with 20 finely tuned athletic men, and yelling at them “to get stuck in”.
But in all seriousness it will come to pass if this madness doesn’t stop.

And I expect that you'll say that the Black Ferns will be coached by a male.

White male.

Umm... they are and always (?) have been.

As previously stated, look at the Auckland Blues!
Also take exception to the article in Stuff declaring Perenara should be NZ player of the year for his pandering to weirdos and derelicts . . . these types of writers make me puke.
Then we are subjected to this rubbish:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nat...
Definitely the wrong colour and ethnicity . . . if he were a imam, tohunga, et al, he would have been acquitted.

Folau was happy to be featured on the cover of a gay focused magazine promoting inclusivity. How nice is that? The real issue I have is that he said that as a lying thieving adulterer I won't go to heaven unless I repent. How mean is that? It has really rattled me.

Surely there will be calls for a trans coach.

And that curremtly unemployed facilitator of Wellingtons rainbow pedestrian crossing (over) could be hired to design their new rainbow strip and come up with some suitable spectacle to replace the haka.

Trans-Tasman perhaps?

Well Simon Bridges must be doing something right. He got a right gumming from that wet-wipe David Cormack over at the paper this morning.

Sounds like the start on a non-PC joke, but it isn’t: ‘lone Muslim joins a Wolfpack and everyone’s happy for once’. Well, all bad jokes aside, one thing is for sure, the ABs will be a happier environment without him.

I wish him all the best over there and hope they keep renewing his contract.

Money Bill - unerringly consistent; following the money.
At $10m they may be expecting him to drop the show pony act and perform though.

Will be interesting to see whether they permit him to hold his prayer meeting on the paddock before a game. Will also be interesting to see whether he has to sing the national anthem.

I think it is about the show pony act, publicity, as they could have bought a dozen good NRL players for 2 years with that money and taken out the title x2.

Trudeau may have tossed in a bit of Canadian taxpayers' money as he, like our unelected PTPM, is a devout supporter of Islam.

A spokesman for Tracy Martin said she had now decided to press ahead with specific
anti-porn legislation without waiting for decisions on wider issues...........I wonder if that got the big tick from uncle Shane?

Might get his nephs off the couch.

He gives Tracy the tick and the nephs the flick ;-)

taki's is a mixed lot, and some of it very good. Among those is a post on why trannies are so in:

https://www.takimag.com/art...

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nat...
This would be the worst scaremongering I think I have seen. Graphic detail of the tsunami that will hit these areas. Shame on that fish and chip wrapper of a so called newspaper. Whoever thought this was a good idea is a fool. Thinking you can scare the bejeebees out of people ...well how low do you go to push the climate change farce?

And that has been well known by Wellingtonians for decades. Liquifaction = Built on reclaimed land. Methinks the books at Stuff are now in very "Dire Straits" and they are clutching at fantastical straws to click bait readers. I daresay we are in graver peril from the Govt's economic policies than the Hikurangi Trench.

A so called newspaper has taken planning scenarios and sensationalised them. 'The [GNS] report writers go to lengths to state that the scenario was created for planning exercises and "must not be used as the basis for assessing the risk to any particular property or person..." '

I fail to see the connection between earthquakes and climate change??

Link to story on yesterday’s testimony by both journalists.
I have always argued if National wanted to ‘get rid of’ NZF in 2017, all they had to do was rule out working with them as Key had done.

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/...

Why has she never been charged. Did Ardern do a deal over policy to have her swept under the carpet?

Just bear in mind Newsroom are heavily invested in this story as they were go to media for the leaker of Peters details. They are keen to keep their source hidden.

What does that mean? Soper may know the identity of the leaker but has no obligation to reveal his knowledge to the court even when claiming to be an expert witness?

I know there is journalistic privilege and journalists don’t need to reveal sources. Hager’s books are a prime example.
What I am saying is Newsroom doesn’t want any chance of details of the leaker to be revealed. That spoils any future opportunity of leaks. So they are reporting on a case that they want to see fail. Also there’s a bit of spitefulness going on because initially Winston Peters named Tim Murphy in the court papers. There is a bias in their reporting, that’s all I am saying.

The thing is a witness who has pledged not to tell the full truth on some aspects of his knowledge should not masquerade as an expert witness. His ethics render him in effect a reluctant witness of the sort that a court could have difficulty relying on.

If we look at who gained the most from this “leak” we can rule out National imo.
The Grey Power types who worship Winston need to think about MSD claims that Winston didn’t know single pensioners are paid more.
He represents and relies on this group of voters, yet after all these years of championing ‘their‘ cause he hasn’t bothered to read or know the fine print details.

I am not sure what that is about. Soper was an expert witness and if he is not naming people he is just there saying one is more likley than another in his opinion.. That doesnt sound like a good basis for fact.

Soper was an absolute waste of time. He knows nothing but will offer conjecture freely, except that the NZ public has to pay top QCs to listen to him waste court time. I am also more than sick of our current government leaders blaming everything that goes wrong in their little worlds on inept public servants.

Soper was subpoenaed. He didn’t volunteer to go to court. All he was asked was about the article he wrote. and why he thought the leak came from National. He didn’t break the initial story. [edit. removed]
More attention should be paid to Melanie Reid from Newsroom who also was subpoenaed. The leaker contact her first. Melanie has a history of receiving leaks when hits are going on politicians.

Now that Twyford has has to go back and correct Hansard over his comments about NZTA board members not wanting another term, where are the calls for his resignation? It appears that National are too spineless to be baying for blood, and Cindy won't throw her mate under the bus, but with all the stirring NZF has been doing of late I'm a little surprised that Winnie or Shane aren't making waves.

With SJ front and centre in the news, it puts WPs court case out to the side. I wonder if this was coincidental?

A bit like the pics of SJ playing with an AR15?

A two minute video of the PTPM's huge successes over the last two years.

https://www.news.com.au/wor...

I do hope NZ voters are not stupid enough to believe this nonsense.

There will always be those voters who will defend Labour to the death

And defending Labour so as to get more terms in control of the country could well be the death of us all.

There are plenty of stupid voters who believed Winston when he intimated he would have nothing to do with Labour and the they will believe whatever line he slings them in 2020.

What really amazes me about a lot of these people is that they can actually find a job and keep it or do Labour, Green and NZ1 voters not work and just live off us Net Taxpayers like all the MP's.

The Nats have a great counter video up on their Facebook page, and other fact-checking has been going on as people respond to the alleged "successes over the last two years"..

It's more for the UN and Media than NZ voters

Of course they will, they know only that which they are told.

And now we have inter-generational crybaby snowflakes. A 17 year old who has been banned from playing Fortnite for life after cheating is "broken", "has been left in despair" and has bawled his eyes out in a Youtube video whilst whining that "it's so unfair".

Adding insult to injury his mum is whining in the media that it's her turn to feel "that abject pain, despair and helplessness" .

Listen up snowflake - you cheated, you got caught, so man up and accept you punishment. But above all remember it's only a bloody game - how about you get off the couch, out into the world, and find a job.