Three nil, yeah right
Every now and then you’re there when a fairytale unfolds. Maybe once in your life. I wasn’t at the game in Hamilton, but watching it on the tele in a bar in Wellington. The ad girls and guys were already drafting the next Tui billboard - “three nil, yeah right”. McMillan and McCullum were truly amazing. People flooded into the bar from everywhere and they turned the sound up. If this doesn’t improve Labour’s poll ratings then nothing will. But it should also help Ruddock against Howard in Australia, he should improve his lead. It’s like the wheels are falling off the Howard government - they are isolated about the war in Iraq, isolated on the Kyoto Protocol, and now the cricket team is in trouble. Where the bloody hell are they?
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February 21st, 2007 at 11:54 am
I imagine they’ll be disbanding the Oz cricket association soon and transferring all the bean counters and athletes to the newly established “Anything the Yanks do we can do with our noses firmly buried” Elite Baseball Academy.
February 21st, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Russel
You are a cricket fan?….I have new found respect.
February 21st, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Lots of us in the Greens are cricket fans BB - and it really was an astounding comeback from the Black Caps to go from 4/41 to the second highest winning chase in history - even though it probably was Australia B with Hussey and Hayden being the only first-choice Aussie batsmen playing.
And the best thing about it is that John Howard is the Aussie team’s biggest fan. What a pity he decided to sneak back home early in response to his poor polling there and media questioning here re Iraq, and wasn’t in the stand at Hamilton last night squirming as the Aussies lost their fifth one-day international in a row!
February 21st, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Hi Toad,
It might have been Aussie B (but with latest injuries who can tell what Aussie A will look like at the World Cup) - but this wasn’t exactly the top BlackCaps team either.
Our two best bowlers (Bond and Vettori) and our best allrounder (Oram) were sitting in the stands.
Well done the Men in Black.
February 21st, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Toad
You as well!…things are really looking up for me at Frogblog now.
Not sure I share you views about Johny H though, the man is a great leader and a fine prime minister, how i wish we could say the same about ours.
February 21st, 2007 at 9:56 pm
yes I think he’s a great leader too, because he has decided to ban energy inefficient lightbulbs! what a surprise that was. Now if only our govt would do that!
February 21st, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Stuey
See, if you look hard enough you can see the good in anybody, mind you i am struggling with Sue Bradford.
I guess I will just have to start buying extra bulbs so I have plenty of the ones we use now, those energy efficient ones are hideous to look at.
February 21st, 2007 at 11:47 pm
Nah Bro, the Green Police will come probing into your house and confiscate your light bulbs… No use hiding in the dunny, we’ll break the door down… and then you’ll find Sue Bradford under your bed, checking whether your sexual practices are politically correct…
Fear us!
February 21st, 2007 at 11:48 pm
I’ve been following the cricket from France… not much TV coverage, as you can imagine… mostly through the Guardian blog. I’m a fan of England, and I suffered through the Ashes series. Good to see the Black Caps avenging the poor Poms.
February 22nd, 2007 at 12:00 am
alistair,
You are truly unbeatable when in full flight!
February 22nd, 2007 at 12:16 am
Hi 5 Eredwen… I’m in fine form, back from a week’s skiing in the Hautes Alpes… snow’s not much good, I blame Bush, but never mind… I think I need lessons, I would like to go skiing with you one day… in the (other) southern Alps!
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:40 am
alistair,
THAT is a date!
Just send word when you (and yours) next decide to head in this direction.
If the regular ski areas aren’t good, there may be the possibility of high (Southern) Alps and glacier neves … with skins (synthetic of course).
Here, it’s already time to buy (preseason discounted) nzski.com passes for Coronet, Remarkables and Hutt … without dwelling on the leanness, or not, of the coming season’s snow.
February 22nd, 2007 at 7:58 am
Alister
Sue Bradford under my bed, that is scary.
Tell me though, what is politically correct when it comes to sexual practices?
Do the Greens intend to make homosexual behaviour compulsory?
February 22nd, 2007 at 9:38 am
Hah BB, there is a poll on the Ban the Bulb website:
http://www.banthebulb.co.uk/
“People who use filament bulbs should …”
you can vote for:
“Be respected for their polluting choice”
February 22nd, 2007 at 12:50 pm
BB asked: Tell me though, what is politically correct when it comes to sexual practices? Do the Greens intend to make homosexual behaviour compulsory?
Don’t think sexual practices is something the Greens have or should have a policy on BB - as far as most Greens go, I suspect we’d say that anything is okay as long as it is a choice made by genuinely consenting adults. See, we really are libertarians - the State should only interfere to restrict individual freedom when someone’s actions cause someone else harm - which is why we’re so down on fast food advertising targetted at children etc.
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Toad
Given the Green parties desire to run our lives I fully expect you to come out (no pun intended) with policy in this area.
No doubt you will make homosexual behaviour compulsory and outlaw any relationship between men and woman.
I am disappointed though that you seem to have come down with an attack of the Bradford’s, it is an outright lie to say that the Greens do not want to get involved in our personal lives, you ant to be in it right up to your arm pits.
Any party that wants to introduce hate speech legislation is only interested in controling what people say or what they think.
February 22nd, 2007 at 2:05 pm
And I thought (obviously unreasonably) that legislation against hate speech was about trying to influence the culture away from crass, opinionated and boorish behaviour which incites hatred and violence - that’s actual harm to others. Of course this must seem threatening for people for whom such behaviours are second nature.
Of course I expect BB is completely right about the Green Party’s intention to legislate to make homosexual behaviour compulsory - but they’ll probably be even more cunning than that and make it only compulsory for right wingers and other neanderthals so they can’t reproduce and mess up what’s left of our gorgeous environment. Just the sort of things those deluded pretend libertarians would do eh?
But then again they’d say not, but you just can’t believe what they say eh BB? Makes one wonder why anyone would bother debating the issues with them then.
February 22nd, 2007 at 2:45 pm
Kiwinuke
All I want is a debate on this and many other issues, it is a pity that so many here are afraid to do so.
February 22nd, 2007 at 4:46 pm
Kiwinuke
I am glad that you admit to being against free speech, at least I know your political leanings.
February 23rd, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Toad/Russel
Back on topic, not sure if you have seen this but it is one of the bravest displays of batting I have ever seen.
I was lucky enough to see the game live..enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9o0iK3utOA
February 23rd, 2007 at 3:01 pm
afraid to debate the issues?
afraid to debate the issues?
you’ve got some cheek!
you’re the one that avoids difficult questions mate.
If anything, we are incapable of keeping up with the onslaught of posts that you make - it is impossible to read them all, let alone respond to them all, plus there is the fact that most of your cracked record utterances have already been answered, and you took no notice of the answer then, so why should we bother to answer the same thing again?
February 23rd, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Ask away Stuey, I will admit to ignoring the stupid utterances of Phil as cannot decipher what he has to say but ask what ever you like and I will answer.
Can you promise you will do the same for me?