Sh*tcan the haka.

20 Responses to Sh*tcan the haka.

1. Oswald bastable says:

   November 6, 2014 at 15:32

   It’s a bloody primate threat display. Nothing more.
   • KG says:

     November 6, 2014 at 15:33

     Absolutely. And dictating how other teams may – or may not – respond to it is effing arrogant.
2. tranquil says:

   November 6, 2014 at 15:43

   Yep, I have no problem with it being canned.
3. dondiego says:

   November 6, 2014 at 16:23

   Beh, it’s lost whatever meaning it may have once had (I’m coming to your house to kill you). The rules re: right of reply is what interests/upsets me here.
   • KG says:

     November 6, 2014 at 16:51

     Same here, Dond.
4. mistress mara says:

   November 6, 2014 at 18:02

   I love the Haka when the All Blacks do it pre game. Otherwise it is rubbish and much overdone by every idiot who gets pissed enough to lose class in public situations by trying it.
   • KG says:

     November 6, 2014 at 18:09

     I dislike it VERY much, Mara because any threat display without a right of reply (or ignore) gives the team making it an advantage which has nothing to do with player skills.
5. KG says:

   November 6, 2014 at 18:10

   Mind you, I also find the Kiwi obsession with rugby union utterly baffling. And irritating.
6. Flashman says:

   November 7, 2014 at 03:37

   Regardless of its ostensible purpose, the haka in relation to rugby is nothing but a commercial marketing ploy – in the same class as an advertising jingle for a brand of children’s laxative.

   When performed elsewhere (often by overweight porkers wearing wristwatches) it’s a Stone Age Primitive display that gives more pleasure to its performers than this repelled and astonished observer

   On-field, the haka is cringeworthy and rugby’s blatant homoeroticism is a weird social curiosity. For women, I get it…rugby is pure Chippendales. But for ostensibly ruff-puff men????

   So there you have it, haka and rugby…only in NZ.
   • KG says:

     November 7, 2014 at 04:34

     
   • andy5759 says:

     November 7, 2014 at 07:35

     I have had the horror of seeing elderly female lawn bowlers performing the Haka. Complete with calf length white pleated skirts and pudding bowl hats. Shudder.

     As for right to reply, why doesn’t English rugby employ some Morris dancers to gaily skip around, waving hankies at the NZ team? It’s traditional, isn’t it?
7. Darin says:

   November 7, 2014 at 04:59

   Somehow it’s even made it over here in our cable company’s adverts –

   http://youtu.be/lqZ7XQJxiT0

   Come to think of it,can someone recommend a good Maori warrior name so I can write Charter and tell them how offended I am at their cultural insensitivity and how a 50% discount would honor my people
   • The Gantt Guy says:

     November 7, 2014 at 07:16

     Somewhere in a corporate office in Wellington, or in a mansion surrounded by tribally-induced poverty, a tribal leader is wondering who to sue for that travesty.
     • Flashman says:

       November 8, 2014 at 05:10

       
8. john says:

   November 7, 2014 at 06:32

   Whenever I see the haka I’m always reminded of that first Indiana Jones movie. The muzloid is poncing about, waving his sword; Indy gets bored, pulls his revolver and shoots the fucker.
   • KG says:

     November 7, 2014 at 10:27

     
   • Flashman says:

     November 8, 2014 at 05:12

     100 per cent!
9. rivoniaboy says:

   November 7, 2014 at 12:09

   The words seem to me to be a load of meaningless bollocks.
   • KG says:

     November 7, 2014 at 14:37

     That’s probably because the words are a load of meaningless bollocks, Rivoniaboy.
10. dondiego says:

    November 7, 2014 at 17:05

    I read somewhere the haka was created by Te Raparaha (sp/ -open to correction) after he played dead and was the only one to survive a slaughter…
    This is the same turkey whose diluted descendents wanted koha/kash for the Brits ruining his Maritime Empire. They seriously expected money for the Royal Navy stopping slave-gathering and cannibalism across Cook Strait

    Hadn’t thought about that geezer for ages; Not since a stadium that was supposed to be named in his honour got canned.
    [I was going to email the Aussie netball girls as a concerned citizen asking they schedule elsewhere. Had some links at the time~]