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Test rugby came to Dunedin this week.  The All Blacks are in town to play the French at Carisbrook.  The game was this evening (New Zealand lost - we'll pass quickly over that), but the build-up has been going on for days.

One of the more weird and wonderful pre-match events was a game of nude rugby.  Yes really, nude rugby.  (I dare you to click on the link.  There are a few bare bums, but nothing too graphic to be seen.)  I'm not sure what it is about a certain class of male Otago University students and nudity, but it's a big deal.  Mark Ellis - ex-All Black, ex-Otago University student, and current television personality initiated World Nude Day during his student days.  Walking around the north end of town, where all the student flats are, at the weekend means running the gauntlet of drunk naked guys.  And now we have rugby.

Maybe it's some kind of homosocial bonding thing.