Posts by Kyle Matthews
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I would point out that John Smit is no dwarf, in fact pretty tall.
Also no longer a hooker, he's switched to prop since 2008.
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There's more to it than just money though Kyle.
I think that's precisely what I said.
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Larry went and lodged his referendum petition proposal.
A non-binding referendum asking the question whether referenda should be binding. Larry obviously has a sense of humour that we've missed seeing.
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(and if you click on page 1 on that thread and then click on page 2, you get to see a full page of posts, not the 4 that were there a second ago).
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Russell, somewhere in the update a bug has been introduced. The front page says 24 posts for this topic, but there's no page 1 link here.
Likewise the undie wankers thread says 84 posts, but only shows 24 (a page 1 and 4 on a page 2).
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Oooh!
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The reaction here in Dunedin has been universally pissed off with the students, and there's going to be a lot of support for them both facing hard punishment from the police, and from the university. There's a no diversion policy in place for the event, and once court cases are complete the university will seek to exclude some of them. There's lots of calls to do things that aren't legal - exclude them from coming to town, shut down the whole street for the weekend, ban people from drinking on private property, etc etc.
What's not been well handled, again, is any attempt to deal with what's causing the event and trying to make it safe. The student president, as much as he doesn't have all the answers, did try before the event to get the city council to allow them to put on a free event for the Saturday night to try and prevent the Castle Street Party developing. They shot it down.
There's a developing culture of "this is what happens on undie weekend". Rather than trying to break it by arresting a bunch of people, which isn't working, someone needs to try diverting it into something safer so it fades from cultural memory - which is only a couple of years in terms of students.
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If Roger Douglas votes for huge subsidies to farmers, the irony will be delicious.
He voted for (effectively) large subsidies for Faye and Richwhite and everyone else who bought up everything he helped flog off in the 1980s, so I suspect irony is something that slips past him.
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Sweet, glad to know that it's as much of a screwup as it looks like.
Umm, was there any good news in it?
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Kyle: different costs to different people.
Yeah I get that. But the average of $3/person/week. Does that include the vast taxpayer subsidies, or is that just increased prices for power, transport etc, the taxpayer subsidies are on top of that?