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The Haka

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  • 17-11-2018 8:03pm
    #1
    johnayo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,718 ✭✭✭


    The Haka me bollox. Come on Ireland.


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,079 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    johnayo wrote: »
    The Haka me bollox. Come on Ireland.

    Love a bit of cultural appreciation around here, don't we?!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    johnayo wrote: »
    The Haka me bollox. Come on Ireland.

    It is bollocks, but **** 'Ireland' too.


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    limnam
    Registered Users Posts: 9,152 ✭✭✭limnam


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    Love a bit of cultural appreciation around here, don't we?!


    It's a game of rugby.


    What the fck has cultural appreciation got to do with it.


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    blueser
    Registered Users Posts: 10,692 ✭✭✭✭blueser


    Shouldn't this be in the rugby forum?
    :confused:


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,079 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    limnam wrote: »
    It's a game of rugby.


    What the fck has cultural appreciation got to do with it.

    The haka is a ceremonial dance performed before the rugby kicks off, old boy! And in any case, if it's not about the dance, then take the damn thing to the rugby forum!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    batgoat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭batgoat


    Patww79 wrote: »
    It is bollocks, but **** 'Ireland' too.

    Can you elaborate?


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    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    batgoat wrote: »
    Can you elaborate?

    Nah. This will be closed in about 8 minutes anyway.


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    #9
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,227 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    The Haka is a war dance. Only fair we have our own dance to oppose it.

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



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    Subcomandante Marcos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,683 ✭✭✭Subcomandante Marcos


    Patww79 wrote: »
    It is bollocks, but **** 'Ireland' too.

    Why is Ireland in comas?


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    batgoat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭batgoat


    Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »
    Why is Ireland in comas?

    I think it's the fact that Ulster are in the team but he m doesn't wish to expand upon his view.


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    Odhinn
    Registered Users Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »
    The Haka is a war dance. Only fair we have our own dance to oppose it.

    Yep. The team come on the field in white t-shirts which they - in carefully choreographed movements - tear off, while slagging off the big moon heads on the new Zealanders and their dribbly mouths, while expressing sympathy for their wives and children, who have to live in rat infested caravans.


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    #13
    Dr. Bre
    Registered Users Posts: 7,566 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    Bout ten national anthems before the game!


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    orourkeda1977
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭orourkeda1977


    The Haka is a microcosm of Rugby.

    i.e utterly retarded


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    blueser
    Registered Users Posts: 10,692 ✭✭✭✭blueser


    orourkeda1977 wrote: »
    The Haka is a microcosm of Rugby.

    i.e utterly retarded
    I dare you to post that in the rugby forum!


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    buried
    Registered Users Posts: 9,687 ✭✭✭buried


    orourkeda1977 wrote: »
    The Haka is a microcosm of Rugby.

    i.e utterly retarded

    Genuinelol

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



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    Skylinehead
    Registered Users Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Patww79 wrote: »
    Nah. This will be closed in about 8 minutes anyway.

    You underestimate my laziness.


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    sheroman01
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    Why should one team dictate respect? Why don't the opposition just walk away or not face the haka? It would make it quite less intimidating then.


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    biko
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    Seth Brundle
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    Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »
    Patww79 wrote: »
    It is bollocks, but **** 'Ireland' too.
    Why is Ireland in comas?
    Theyre not commas, they're apostrophes!


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    #21
    Hoboo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,524 ✭✭✭Hoboo


    White lads doing the Haka is just a bit, no.


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    #22
    First Up
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    Making faces and sticking out your tongue at people is rude.


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    #23
    super_furry
    Registered Users Posts: 27,322 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    The haka? The bleedin' haka you!


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    buried
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    Hoboo wrote: »
    White lads doing the Haka is just a bit, no.

    They been doin it every Saturday night at 3am outside my local Supersnacks for the last 40 years

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



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    tonycascarino
    Registered Users Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭tonycascarino


    New Zealand should be allowed do the Haka right in the opposition's faces like they did a few years back. Keeping them at a safe distance of the opposition has ruined the Haka.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn_ZyQ7jW9o


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    Laois_Man
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    sheroman01 wrote: »
    Why should one team dictate respect? Why don't the opposition just walk away or not face the haka? It would make it quite less intimidating then.


    Bizarrely, a team actually gets sanctioned if they turn their backs on The Haka!

    The best repose to the Haka was by Wales about 8-years ago when they refused to be the first to walk away from it - as the opposition being the first to walk away is part of the New Zealand ritual




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    Laois_Man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »
    Why is Ireland in comas?
    I assume the Ireland in quotes was about the lads in Green jerseys who were born elsewhere!


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    #28
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Literally the only good thing about rugby is playing 'spot the prod' during Amhrán na bhFiann.


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    nim1bdeh38l2cw
    Closed Accounts Posts: 689 ✭✭✭nim1bdeh38l2cw


    orourkeda1977 wrote: »
    The Haka is a microcosm of Rugby.

    i.e utterly retarded

    What a gob****e


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    super_furry
    Registered Users Posts: 27,322 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Despite the three anthems and the war dance, I still feel that rugby could do with more pre-match build-up. Maybe a dance off.


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    limnam
    Registered Users Posts: 9,152 ✭✭✭limnam


    sheroman01 wrote: »
    It would make it quite less intimidating then.


    Really?


    Intimidating?


    I'm always surprised the lads manage to contain their laughter..


    If you're intimated by that, rugby's probably the wrong sport.


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