When did NZ lose its balls? (I'm drinking and I'm mad)

[avgas]

Been overseas a bit again, and saw something that made me think:
"Shit, that's a bit wrong/racist".

Turns out this shit is everywhere. And it's simple a case of someone selling out? Or us not sticking up our hand and saying
"Oi you lot - you can't do that shit - its special".

What am I talking about. We lets start with the concept of having the haka performed by those with no association with Aotearoa?

Linky's:
http://highlandrugby.net/index.php/highland-rugby-haka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haka_pe...d_sports_teams

I mean sure let the aussies jump in on a drunken one outside a Sydney pub - but international sports teams? Ones that also we All Black replica jerseys? WTF NZ?

We can't munch mash-mellow Eskimo's, wear feather head-dress, call someone a Jew, tell someone to reveal their face..... but an overseas team can parade a performance, in a fancy outfit......pretending to be something that makes a select few of us special (no I am no special enough to don one).

It's just fucking wrong. Respect where respect is due. I dare John Key to make a speech using the words from the Gettysburg Address. Let's see how they like it.

Don't even get me started on the term "Kiwifruit". That's another time we lost our ball.
We need to get mad, we need to fix this kind of shit - it's fucking horrible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGiX5tbLKiY

What say you - sober kiwi's and fans of such?

[nodrog:Me]

Who gives a fuck? its just a dance.

[Berries]

I agree, the haka is a joke. All sports teams and all pissed New Zealanders on their OE should be banned from using it.

Any notion of it being special ended decades ago before every man and his dog wearing black did it at the drop of a hat.

[yokel]

just sit down shut up watch the TV and dont ever speak your mind

http://youtu.be/jbug5sM1T1w?list=LLQ...h_i5DtIl3xl2Zg

[bogan]

Don't be silly, Maori are an inclusionist culture (buffoon² told me so) so anyone can do that sorta thing anywhere.

[Akzle]

now, see, if you'd hit the bong instead of the booze, would we even be entertaining this discussion?

[Bikemad]

meh.......the haka........as i understand it conceived by te rauparaha whilst hiding under a wahines flax skirt in a kumara pit whilst being hunted by the authorities of the time for crimes including rape and murder........hiding under a womans skirt.......no mana in that in my opinion........so when did it make the jump from a cowardly murderous old prick hiding under a womans skirt to the shit we see today.......if he had stood up and yelled it and challenged his hunters it might then be worthy of respect........sorry but i just don't get it

but in saying all that this is one of the most moving things i have seen............
http://youtu.be/xI6TRTBZUMM

[Drew]

Oh for fuck sake. Bet half the people who have a problem with people emulating the best rugby team in the world, would also bitch if no one knew what a haka was.

Bitching for the sake of bitching, because you don't feel unique. That makes someone spineless, nothing to do with the country they come from.

Grow some fucken balls yourself cunt. Next time ya see it and feel it's inappropriate, waltz (not that you should because waltzing is German) into the middle and start knocking people out. That ​would take balls...COCK.

[bogan]

meh.......the haka........as i understand it conceived by te rauparaha whilst hiding under a wahines flax skirt in a kumara pit whilst being hunted by the authorities of the time for crimes including rape and murder........hiding under a womans skirt.......no mana in that in my opinion........so when did it make the jump from a cowardly murderous old prick hiding under a womans skirt to the shit we see today.......if he had stood up and yelled it and challenged his hunters it might then be worthy of respect........sorry but i just don't get it

To question the obvious, but isn't the haka kind of loud, and the point of hiding to not be loud?

[Bikemad]

To question the obvious, but isn't the haka kind of loud, and the point of hiding to not be loud?

well they shouldn't call it a challenge then.........more of a discreet

[scumdog]

now, see, if you'd hit the bong instead of the booze, would we even be entertaining this discussion?

He would have forgotten to post it eh...

[R650R]

We can't munch mash-mellow Eskimo's (Yes you can, and Tiptop still sell Eskimo pie icecreams), wear feather head-dress (Yes you can if you go to the right clubs!), call someone a Jew You've been missing axles posts then) , tell someone to reveal their face..... but an overseas team can parade a performance, in a fancy outfit......pretending to be something that makes a select few of us special (no I am no special enough to don one).

Guess our music artists shouldn't perform any Mozart or do cover bands in pubs....
We should close down the strip clubs because their ripping off the culture of New York city gals...
We should ban rally driving as we're ripping off the Scandinavians...
And guess we're ripping of Asian culture with karaoke bars...
Congrats on most epic fail drunken rant ever lol... talking balls try spouting the same on talkback instead of a bike forum lol...

[Oscar]

Been overseas a bit again, and saw something that made me think:
"Shit, that's a bit wrong/racist".

Turns out this shit is everywhere. And it's simple a case of someone selling out? Or us not sticking up our hand and saying
"Oi you lot - you can't do that shit - its special".

What am I talking about. We lets start with the concept of having the haka performed by those with no association with Aotearoa?

Linky's:
http://highlandrugby.net/index.php/highland-rugby-haka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haka_pe...d_sports_teams

I mean sure let the aussies jump in on a drunken one outside a Sydney pub - but international sports teams? Ones that also we All Black replica jerseys? WTF NZ?

We can't munch mash-mellow Eskimo's, wear feather head-dress, call someone a Jew, tell someone to reveal their face..... but an overseas team can parade a performance, in a fancy outfit......pretending to be something that makes a select few of us special (no I am no special enough to don one).

It's just fucking wrong. Respect where respect is due. I dare John Key to make a speech using the words from the Gettysburg Address. Let's see how they like it.

Don't even get me started on the term "Kiwifruit". That's another time we lost our ball.
We need to get mad, we need to fix this kind of shit - it's fucking horrible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGiX5tbLKiY

What say you - sober kiwi's and fans of such?

We’re being a bit precious aren’t we?
Do the All Blacks ask permission from Rugby School or the RFU for playing their game?
If it’s being performed by a sports team in a commercial situation then it ceases to be a cultural icon as far as I’m concerned.

[Ocean1]

We can't munch mash-mellow Eskimo's, wear feather head-dress, call someone a Jew, tell someone to reveal their face.....

Sure we can.

'Cause we's right, and all them precious culcha Nazis is wrong.

Kiwis, insisting that there's no patent on culcha, (not even ours) since fucking yonks ago.

[Swoop]

Do the All Blacks ask permission from Rugby School or the RFU for playing their game?

Why should they? There is probably a ruling from the Waitangi tribunal stating that they have an entitlement to do so.