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Wooo Hooo "Free Lunch" (Well kind of)
Shoshin
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I just scored a packet of ASB "All Blacks" coffee....
The bank is advertising free coffee give a way...They didn't say anything about being a customer so I went along to the local branch and asked for one for my son (he has/had an account with them before he left for his big OE) ...
Not that I'm a rugby fan... but one can't help being carried away with rugby fever, especially now that they are playing their ol rivals the Aussies in the World cup final this coming weekend..
Aussies (this includes you @Bunks 
) BE AFRAID ! BE VERY AFRAID ! 
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Ha! You Kiwi's and rugby.......talk about fanaticism!
I have no interest in rugby either. Living in Melbourne we get no coverage of it. Most people down here wouldn't even know it was on.
Given we won the cricket, happy to give you the rugby
Ain't I nice........
What a bunch of pussies, Wales could squash 'em without even leaving the coal mines. :0
I saw Richie McCaw once at a local petrol station (he must have been visiting a friend) boy is he big, over six foot (and that's just across the shoulders
) in the video one does not get to see how BIG these players really are...
@SpinyNorman There aren't any coal mines in Wales any more - Mrs Thatcher closed 'em all down.
Real athletes play Aussie Rules!!
Exhibit A - Majak Daw (North Melbourne Kangaroos)
Exhibit B - Will Skelton (Wallabies)
Rugby and Tibetan Buddhism....
We are fortunate enough to have a Geshe come to the island once a month to give a Dharma talk...Anyhow a few years ago (at the time of another Rugby World Cup) Geshe-la and a couple of monks were staying at a friend's place, well a few of us were invited to dinner at the friend's place with Geshe-la and the monks , after dinner Geshe-la and the monks retired to their room, (one would have thought to meditate), well kind of.... they were contemplating the rugby match that was on TV that evening,this friend had-(in the passed tense 'he got rid of it a year or so ago) a small portable TV (he not much into technology-he doesn't have a computer nor mobile phone) which he had set up in the monk's room... They were all downstairs watching the All Blacks play..They are big All Blacks fans....
It reminds me of that movie "The Cup"
I actually used to work for ASB in Takapuna many years ago @Shoshin.
A lovely time in my life.
I lived at one end of Takapuna Beach and worked at the other. A lovely stroll in summer!
Takapuna's a nice suburb.....
Oowooo Just had another thought.......
My friend might miss out on the usual merit bonus, now that his thrown out the TV... They are all here this week for the sand mandala ....I wonder how Geshe-la and the monks are going to cope san TV.....which means san world cup final....
Isn't Rugby a form of a legalized grudge match?
Sometimes it looks as if the Kiwi's are ready to turn anything (even chess) into a contact sport.
Good luck to your All Blacks.
Gridiron! Rugby ! the only difference is one wears armour and padding and the other toughs it out... Regardless it's just a bunch of grown men playing with their balls....Some (mostly other men) find this exciting to watch, go figure
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I've got my free coffee so I'm happy
BTW the reason why the free coffee promotion by the bank... because some of the matches are being play early morning Kiwi time and the coffee's meant to be a pick-me-up...
I don't watch the matches (only highlights shown on the news-it's unavoidable) and nor do I drink coffee, however one of my son's who lives in Europe does both... Guess what he's getting for a Xmas present this year....Scrooge has got nothing on me
mind you the post will cost an arm and a leg....
SO I guess there's some truth to the saying "There's no such thing as a free lunch"
You're right, Shoshin. It does appear Gridiron is derived from Rugby.
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On another thread, I goofed and called the All Black a Soccer team (my bad
I must have been more sleepy that usual. The highlights do take to boredom out of it (Gridiron, Rugby, Soccer, Base(Yawn)ball. Unless, of course, you are either a fan(atic) or a player.
Postage is a B....! Sometimes.
Sumo Wrestling with a ball tossed in.......
Sumo wrestling is gentler.
When a football/soccer player is writhing on the ground, clutching his leg in supposed agony (slo-mo will clearly show he was hit on the shoulder) he is putting on a performance worthy of an Oscar (this type of behaviour is prevalent among the 'latin-blooded' teams... Spain, Italy, sometimes France, occasionally even the Portuguese or Greek).
When a Rugby player is writhing on the ground in agony, you can bet your gramma's Zimmer and hearing aid, he's damn well hurt, and in most certainly in agony. Probably a broken bone. Even two, on a good day.....
Soccer players really are a bunch of pussies, they fall over as soon as you look at them!
Except for the women. They generally don't play that game while playing that game.
you don't even have to be looking at them....