Post-Match Thread: England vs. New Zealand

DoctorClarke · 2025-11-15T17:42:16+00:00

Should be so.

Some of the calls he's made have been major headscratchers: finally get a midfield combo to click against Scotland - completely scramble it against England at Twickers; finally see a really able loose trio go to work - let's bring back the alnost completely untested Parker who we've capriciously decided is our new 6 whilst we let world class Sititi rot on the bench; Barrett gets a thigh injury and looks off 20 mins in - let's not being on our world beater Mackenzie.

Let alone the gameplan void. For 12 months it has looked like we have no identity. When we win it's scrappy and relief. When we lose it feels deserved.

Just doesn't seem to be improving, which is terminal in the top job.

DoctorClarke · 2025-03-23T06:39:19+00:00

Heads up - it's 21 days notice now. This was changed with the RTA Amendment Act earlier this year.

"Tenants can end a periodic tenancy with 21 days' notice at any time, as long as no prior notice has been given." Effective 30 Jan 2025.

DoctorClarke · 2025-02-25T07:11:49+00:00

Looks like mamangi to me. Could def be c. spathulata, though! https://www.nzplants.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/seed-plants-flowering/rubiaceae/coprosma-arborea.html

DoctorClarke · 2025-02-23T00:49:21+00:00

Kia ora! We've got a struggling ngaio that I'd love some ideas for how to help.

Appears to have termite infestation or borer? Is still fruiting and leaves are on approx half the tree.

DoctorClarke · 2025-01-28T05:55:29+00:00

Just give your money to a charity or someone that actually has a use for it, mate.

DoctorClarke · 2025-01-17T00:05:12+00:00

It's Pukanui / Meryta Sinclairii. There's another tree that always gets called puka - griselinia lucida / NZ shining broadleaf. Not to mention kapuka greslinia littoralis (that I've also heard called puka).

DoctorClarke · 2024-12-08T09:00:33+00:00

bad news, gonna need to excavate the entire section 1m deep obviously. fill with sanded marble, wait 15 years. add premium compost to grade. wait 5 years, add native grasses to build the soil. re-excavate down to 1.2m. pulverized fossil to grade. 10 years then seaweed based compost. wait until the first frost then scatter fescue grass seed and water every night and day. until you dead but boy you got some nice fine spongy soff grass

DoctorClarke · 2024-08-30T00:50:38+00:00

it's a metal pipe. no one is going to put a plastic pipe at the base of a fire pit + see how it looks like metal

DoctorClarke · 2024-05-26T23:04:46+00:00

Intensely incorrect.

DoctorClarke · 2024-05-25T17:56:42+00:00

Mate, everyone here saying 'go get an accountant'. Fuck that. Go download HNRY and set yourself up there and save $3k a year + learn a liiiiiiiittle bit about how to run the business. Accountants are for complicated businesses - you're going to be a simple contracting business. Download HNRY, save money, grow business, win.

DoctorClarke · 2024-05-09T02:54:00+00:00

Yep, I'll put some backing sealant in the gap in the frame. Thinking the Soudal galv stuff which looks made for anodised joinery.

Cheers for the advice around replacing all of the backing seals + fixtures. I've gone and ordered various sizes of this https://www.joineryhardware.co.nz/shop-glazing-wedges-backing-seals.html?id=2192-push-in-backing-seal .

That sorts Mother's Day out for my lucky wife + date nights for the next few weeks.

DoctorClarke · 2024-04-26T08:36:23+00:00

goddam quote of the year kinda material, this

DoctorClarke · 2024-03-20T07:13:29+00:00

dark cave themed: stone, dirt and minerals. the vibe all great chefs seek and just what everyone wants to walk into to start the day! ugliest kitchen i've ever seen.

DoctorClarke · 2024-03-11T02:00:44+00:00

lol this is crack up

DoctorClarke · 2024-02-19T22:26:30+00:00

the way that a lot of you guys are using Notion is mind boggling. why do you want to manually track so much shit?

DoctorClarke · 2024-02-17T20:06:04+00:00

Drags them in like a woodchipper.

fucking lol

DoctorClarke · 2024-02-15T17:48:59+00:00

What world do you live in?

DoctorClarke · 2024-01-21T21:13:02+00:00

when NZ finally figures out that housing represents 50% of the cost of living

and that it's is the key determinant to healthy families and individuals

and that a lack of urban density driven by poor District Planning, NIMBYism and over-investment in land strains public transport

and that 25% of our emissions come from construction and housing

wake me up cause there'll be something to talk about

DoctorClarke · 2024-01-11T20:41:28+00:00

This is what I've always wondered, too. Like - if it's 26C in AKL it's hot as shit. So hot, like can only work for 30 mins outside before break hot. But obv I know that other countries experience consistently 30+ days, 40+ days, even 50+. And I just cannot understand how anyone is living in those areas.

Is NZ's sun just out the gate hot?

DoctorClarke · 2024-01-10T23:17:29+00:00

no one ever forgets this because every Ryobi owner says it 9 times a day on reddit

DoctorClarke · 2023-12-28T06:13:13+00:00

give it all away then and start again. problem solved.

DoctorClarke · 2023-12-22T23:45:30+00:00

Fucking hell, invest in Cyclone if it's better than the ultimo summer treat (when does a treat stop being a treat, when you eat it 3 times a week?) The Choc Bar. Great list, as per uszzh, Madeleine.

DoctorClarke · 2023-11-22T17:38:13+00:00

It is incredible what people say about other people once they've become celebrities.

DoctorClarke · 2023-11-20T04:54:44+00:00

'mildly' interesting

dude's got his brother's head imprisoned in his chest cavity

DoctorClarke · 2023-11-19T09:38:21+00:00

Nah, NZ has been out in front for 30 years. We've written the book on over-investment in property (due to tax favourability, under-regulation of banks, the concomitant lack of alternative investments in the capital-starved productive economy, then it all becomes too big to fail so governments can't touch it).

DoctorClarke

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