"On TV's One News last night we saw the mud- and grass-covered rugby boots Nehe Milner-Skudder gave a fan after they arrived back in the country," writes a reader. "I have to wash every golf club to get through border biosecurity and last time they made me clean out thepockets in my golf bag to make sure no grass fell off my golf balls. Guess I didn't win a World Cup."
Bad day out
"I got nabbed by a cop coming into a 50km/h zone, from a 70km/h one," writes a reader. "He was seriously only about 100m away from the 50-sign and I was slowing down but obviously not enough. He clearly thought I was a crim-from-the-back-blocks as he inspected the car for anything incriminating. It probably didn't help that two weeks of recycling was in the back of the car, because he then asked if I'd been drinking. I said no but he insisted on a breath test. Then he said he was just going back to his car to check my criminal record! There wasn't one. When he came back he asked what my occupation was so I told him I was a mum. Then his mate in another cop car pulls up to have a chat and to see that he's not having any trouble with me-the-crim and blow me down ... he has two preschool children in the back seat with no car seats! So after I told the cop that that wasn't on and they should be leading by example, I looked down at the ticket and for the occupation of moi-the-accused it read UNEMPLOYED in capital letters! Yeah because mums are worthless and unemployable. If he'd pulled up a retiree, would he have put UNEMPLOYED? I don't think so ... "
"Adding to the list of 'honourable Australians paying off their bets due to the loss in RWC final' is our unfortunate weekly squash partner," writes Steve from Mt Eden.
"I cannot believe how gullible and naive people have been about SBW," writes Andrew. "All of these 'acts of generosity' are nothing more than self-promotion. He does them; AND THEN TWEETS ABOUT THEM! It reminds me of a character on The Harry Enfield Show whose catchphrase was, 'I do a lot of good work for charity, but don't like to talk about it' - the joke being that he wouldn't shut up about it. As for offering his tickets to Syrian refugees; talk about distasteful! If I was a refugee ... the last thing I would want to do is sit amongst the wealthiest ... of Britain's elite while they quaff $14 Heinekens and 20-year-old Scotch before driving their Range Rovers back to their estates while I shuffle back to my Unicef tent."
Have we reached peak concert filming?
My view of the Maroon 5 show at Vector a few weeks ago. Every rock concert must result in a thousand near-identical youtube videos. A reader adds: "Our 14-year-old son was allowed to take mums iPhone to the concert, in order to be able to text us at the end so we could pick him up. The phone came back with 800 (no less) pics of the same thing + over an hour of blurry video."
