The fight back against namby-pamby nanny state socialism continues!

**Sparrowhawk** · 24th September 2008, 19:44

Originally Posted by alanzs

Yeah, every time change happens it's because of the socialist nanny state. I guess the nanny state that everyone bitches about should not pay for the sports related accidents (motorcycles as well) that fill the A&E's every weekend and everyone gets to pay for it through ACC. Why the fuck should I pay for someone's kids injury?
Yeah, make the people who have the accidents pay for it. Get rid of the health care system that the nanny state likes so much and make people pay their own way. Make profit the goal. See how they like that one. It'll shut them up really fast when they get to pay for it.

Can't we just return to the good old days when men were allowed to get drunk and beat their wives and kids and drive drunk and kill others. Shit, lets get back to the good, good old days when everyone was white, from the UK and you could lynch niggers and burn crosses.
Bunch of redneck assholes who obviously don't think about anything beyond their tiny limp dicks....

Ladies & Gentlemen, let me introduce you to a Card Carrying Member of the Labour Party! Sorry, what's that alanzs, Aunty Helen really IS your Aunty??

**BIGBOSSMAN** · 24th September 2008, 20:20

Originally Posted by alanzs

Can't we just return to the good old days when men were allowed to get drunk and beat their wives and kids and drive drunk and kill others. Shit, lets get back to the good, good old days when everyone was white, from the UK and you could lynch niggers and burn crosses.
Bunch of redneck assholes who obviously don't think about anything beyond their tiny limp dicks....

Oh really? Bit of an over-reaction don't you think?
I'd fucking love to play bullrush with you mate

BBM

**icekiwi** · 24th September 2008, 20:28

All the shit started when mum decided junior had to be dropped off at school everyday so they wouldn't have to wear wet shoes all day...from there things have got so pc FFS the kids are'nt allowed any fun.
Shit going on on the way to school an coming home from school was thewhole reason for being at school I thought...
Anyone seen a kid going to school in bare feet lately...not bloody likely..

**Manxman** · 24th September 2008, 20:35

Originally Posted by lostinflyz

yee haw. I remeber getting in the shit forever for playing the outlawed game.

NZ needs a good dose of harden the fuck up. For a generation who beleives that "this is living" comes from a PS3 its shit. A few broken bones and ripped uniforms is worth it to give people some testicles again.

Yeah, give 'em back Helen...

**Coyote** · 24th September 2008, 20:36

Originally Posted by MIXONE

My kids play it now.They just carry a ball and call it rugby.

That's a point. With all this PC claptrap being pumped into everyday life, why has Rugby survived? I suppose burly men touching each other in mud is so ingrained in the New Zealand psyche that it's immune.

**Motu** · 24th September 2008, 21:11

I'll sign up - lets repeal the helmet law,having to wear a helmet in summer sucks.

**Oscar** · 24th September 2008, 21:47

Originally Posted by Motu

I'll sign up - lets repeal the helmet law,having to wear a helmet in summer sucks.

So if we paraphrase the old Bell Helmet ad:
If you got a $10 head, get a $10 helmet...

Where does that leave you...?

**Motu** · 24th September 2008, 22:50

With 10 $1 helmets!

If I only had to wear a helmet on cold or wet days my expensive ($75) helmet would last much longer.Anyway - you only need a helmet if you fall off,and good riders don't do that.Same as going 140kph on good straight roads - it's so safe why should I wear a helmet to do that? We need to raise the speed limit too.

**vifferman** · 25th September 2008, 10:24

Originally Posted by Oscar

So if we paraphrase the old Bell Helmet ad:
If you got a $10 head, get a $10 helmet...

You do realise that Bell produced that ad because their business was taking a drubbing due to the success of cheaply produced injection-moulded helmets, versus their expensive hand-made fibreglass ones? They spent a lot of money trying to discredit the likes of Shoei and Star, and make out that 'plastic' helmets were inherently dangerous. Nowadays, with proper testing, it isn't an issue, and injection-moulded and 'conventional' GRP helmets are both accepted, but the Bell propaganda lives on...

Doesn't work for me, as my head IS worth only $10 (or less), so any helmet is overcapitalisation, incluyding my curretn XR-1000 that I bought solely to be trendy and to match my bike's paint colour...

**Kickaha** · 25th September 2008, 10:46

Originally Posted by Motu

Same as going 140kph on good straight roads - it's so safe why should I wear a helmet to do that?

Soley for comfort reasons, it's fucking uncomfortable doing that speed not wearing a helmet and bugs at that speed hurt to

Originally Posted by Motu

We need to raise the speed limit too.

Yes we do, no it will not ever happen

**alanzs** · 25th September 2008, 10:58

Originally Posted by BIGBOSSMAN

Oh really? Bit of an over-reaction don't you think?
I'd fucking love to play bullrush with you mate

BBM

Definitely....

**alanzs** · 25th September 2008, 10:59

Originally Posted by Sparrowhawk

Ladies & Gentlemen, let me introduce you to a Card Carrying Member of the Labour Party! Sorry, what's that alanzs, Aunty Helen really IS your Aunty??

Sorry mate, much more libertarian... Less government intrusion in our life, more personal responsibility...

**Oscar** · 25th September 2008, 11:17

Originally Posted by vifferman

You do realise that Bell produced that ad because their business was taking a drubbing due to the success of cheaply produced injection-moulded helmets, versus their expensive hand-made fibreglass ones? They spent a lot of money trying to discredit the likes of Shoei and Star, and make out that 'plastic' helmets were inherently dangerous. Nowadays, with proper testing, it isn't an issue, and injection-moulded and 'conventional' GRP helmets are both accepted, but the Bell propaganda lives on...

Doesn't work for me, as my head IS worth only $10 (or less), so any helmet is overcapitalisation, incluyding my curretn XR-1000 that I bought solely to be trendy and to match my bike's paint colour...

Nah, that ad originally ran in the late '70's when a Bell helmet was still a decent bit o' kit.

**nodrog:Me** · 25th September 2008, 11:20

Originally Posted by slofox

Bullrush was banned at the school I first taught in as a year one teacher (1975) after the ten thousandth kid busted a collarbone and/or arm etc...the list of injuries was, quite truly, too high a price to pay...so the game was stopped. I doubt that anyone in a position of responsibility could let that sort of injury rate continue unless they were some kind of idiot. Believe it kiddies, the injuries were very very common and not just minor scrapes and bruises......the game had to be stopped.......this was in rural mid Northland BTW.....and they did play it on the asphalt come to think of it......among other places....

im from a mid Norfland school where bullrush got banned. did you ever give the strap to a standard 3 boy for knocking out a standard 4 pupil and throwing him in the effluent drain next to the main road

? if so i would like to say that that farkin shit hurts man

, and look out im bigger now

**paulmac:Me** · 25th September 2008, 11:30

Originally Posted by nodrog

im from a mid Norfland school where bullrush got banned. did you ever give the strap to a standard 3 boy for knocking out a standard 4 pupil and throwing him in the effluent drain next to the main road

? if so i would like to say that that farkin shit hurts man

, and look out im bigger now

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