Is this a true statement? Or are they no worse than Wallabies and Springboks?
All Blacks Are Violent
Is this a true statement? Or are they no worse than Wallabies and Springboks?
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Of course its not true. All of the black people I know are relatively normal people, and are not any more violent than any of the white people I know.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then, the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
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Many exude a tough imagine, but I think its from generations of being kicked down and put out, and this is a front saying "not anymore." No, what a nonsensical question, blacks are just as human as you, I, or anyone else in this world.
EDIT: Yes, Yes they are. Destroy them. ;)
Last edited by Samurai Waki; 10-02-2007 at 06:50.
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Perhaps this will help:
The All Blacks (capital letters important)
It's a violent game and New Zealand tend to play within the laws.
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Originally Posted by Pannonian
False.
Even the claim that all humans can be violent or even the claim that all blacks can be violent are false.
Edit: Hm I knew that I should've done a search on Wallabies and Springboks
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Just to make it clear for anybody who is drawn to this thread by the somewhat ambivalent (but not inaccurate with regard to the actual topic) thread title.
This is not about racial issues - so pleaase do not use this thread to discuss racial issues (such posts will be removed at the moderators' discretion).
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I haka say that this thread needs a pun.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
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Interesting. People assumed it was a racial issue, despite the clues...
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I see what you did there...
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I laughed....
"Put 'em in blue coats, put 'em in red coats, the bastards will run all the same!"
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No...
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Springboks and wallabies - you know what they're famous for? For jumping up as high as they can in the face of danger.
Unlike the blues. If the all blacks, those embracers of thug culture, think they can use their dirty tricks on the blues they're wrong. All the French rugby players are drawn from just ten départements, in the South and South-west. Not the civilised, refined France. But from the rough country. Basques and Catalans too – tough mountain dwellers.
These guys fight for family and village. The proud descendants of the Lascaux cave people.
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The haka (<--vid link) they perform, pre-game, suggests violence, but it doesn't look any worse than other team-rousers used by many professional sports.
American football teams often do a chant-thing just before kick-off, though rarely as a display aimed at the other team (more aimed at the TV camera, I think).
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LMFAO that Aussie wasn't bothered one little bit. Did you see his face?
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
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I am more concerned that the poor soul on the right is kissing the
bearded one's knee, as it were.
it's the **** that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come
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Wow... those French Rugby players really look like....Neanderthals. You should shave them to throw the opposing team off.
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The early haul was promising, but then the Duke of Gloucester had to spoil the fun.
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.......
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Am I the only one who thinks the captain in that video (can't remember his name) looks like this guy?
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The haka has become part of the All Blacks pre match spectacle:Haka Wiki
The All Blacks themselves:All Blacks Wiki
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Haka is something that is part of NZ culture and heritage. The haka the All Blacks used to perform dates back to 1810. The new one however was composed just a few years ago specifically for the team. I guess it is kind of hard for people to understand when they don't really know anything about Maori culture.
There was one Newspaper article I remember from quite a few years back where the British were complaining about the haka being performed and so the article suggested the British maybe adopt something from their past, like morris dancing.
But seriously, there is no reason to think that they are more violent or that they are thugs, where is proof of this? Unless you want to link to that bloody stupid article about one of them hitting the other with some lady's hand bag and telling him to watch his behavior. Hardly assault or brutish behavior but the media tried to make it out like a scandal.
Just because we're from a "rugged" country doesn't mean we're apes.
EDIT: Ah, Papewaio just beat me to it
Last edited by Hepcat; 10-02-2007 at 23:40.
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I think it is all a joke, Hepcat.
Everybody loves the haka, it is one of world sports great traditions.
See you on Saturday! (Early Sunday for you?) Hope it'll be a great game.
...and please try to be gentle on us...
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Good grief! Those rugby players are scary. More so than american football players, because you can't run away like you could a 350 lb linebacker.
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Yeah Louis, I know you're all mostly joking but I just felt obliged to explain it. I also felt the need to point out that we weren't apes because of one English girl at my school who said living here is like living on planet of the apes and all she ever does is rant about how much better England is than NZ and I'd never realised people perceive us that way until then.
So it's not a lecture directed at anyone here.
Last edited by Hepcat; 10-03-2007 at 00:19.
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Good grief! Those rugby players are scary. More so than american football players, because you can't run away like you could a 350 lb linebacker.
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Hyperbole=exaggeration for comic effect.
My point is that they don't run around all the time; they get loads of breaks between short bursts of speed. Yes, they are very good at what they do, but they aren't distance or endurance runners, and I do run.
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I dunno, I think they look more the way you would expect your Total War elite units to look if you ever ran into them at a Starbucks.
Vangrian Guard? Or Norse Cleric?
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They're prettyviolent. Amazing, but violent. Great players, all of them.
Thanks Banquo! I do not actually recall what I said, so this daisy is quite the pleasant surprise!
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And to think that what appears in Lord of the Rings must also be a kind of Haka then. The Uruk-Hai war chant before the battle of Helms Deep starts is a Maori war chant.Haka is something that is part of NZ culture and heritage. The haka the All Blacks used to perform dates back to 1810. The new one however was composed just a few years ago specifically for the team. I guess it is kind of hard for people to understand when they don't really know anything about Maori culture.
There was one Newspaper article I remember from quite a few years back where the British were complaining about the haka being performed and so the article suggested the British maybe adopt something from their past, like morris dancing.
But seriously, there is no reason to think that they are more violent or that they are thugs, where is proof of this? Unless you want to link to that bloody stupid article about one of them hitting the other with some lady's hand bag and telling him to watch his behavior. Hardly assault or brutish behavior but the media tried to make it out like a scandal.
Just because we're from a "rugged" country doesn't mean we're apes.
EDIT: Ah, Papewaio just beat me to it
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well that just makes you a pansy. Besides even the 350 OL guys could run you down in the fiirst 40 yards. Yea if yall were racing two miles youd win but if he just wants to catch you than youll be cuaght,
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