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There is also a Kiwi culture (ex English culture) of tut tutting public displays of excessive emotion - in this case excitement expressed through hyperbole (A ghost of the humility and social calming control of the class system - understatement being a sign of good breeding and a nod to class "showing the under classes how one should comport themselves" and therein the emerging middle class took it further by adopting the stoicism of the steady man in grey suit, reliable, earnest, honest, and frowning upon the Aristocracies excesses and eccentricities [pupil becomes teacher])
Bear with me, but this is why this attitude pisses me off....English middle class Stoicism became the measure of Manliness....which is why you get New Zealand men doing their own tut tutting and excitement dampening, because it is a paternalistic expression of power and control, of male authority.
Ergo the Stereo typical New Zealand good bloke adverts, Older man sits quietly on a horse, younger man talks about a girl that has a rich father "500sl Mercedes, a box at Eden Park, she doesn't drink Speights but".
"She's a hard road finding the perfect woman"
"Good on ya mate".
Dunno about you, but I don't wanna spend my life sitting on a horse waiting to drop one liners every time you're having a deep and meaningful...but more than that...I don't wanna listen to the fun police anymore.....(I do love those Speights adds but lol).
Excuse the lecture....to your point about the toxic one up-manship that comes from mocking people for player X not turning out to be Laurie Daley...that is just more of the same power bullshit.
Can I point out that not one single poster has talked about Cassius Tia as a starter in our Current NRL squad (that I am aware of).....so if that is getting carried away....then shit they might as well turn the forum into a dry monologue of dead non interactive posting.
This forum thrives on the emotion, the dreamers, the rose tinted glass wearing cult that has always kept the Warriors alive. And I do still enjoy the dry balls fun police in their own odd ball way of communication - when they actually check their own behavior and look at facts like no one is saying Tia is ready to replace any of their favorite little faboi pets.
