Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Not good enough, Eden Park, in reply to Matthew Poole,
The two highest-rated (by far) comments on the front page are not supportive. Which I think is more indicative of positions on the matter.
I read the lot earlier. It seemed about 2-1 supportive, perhaps a little more.
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Hard News: Not good enough, Eden Park, in reply to "chris",
I don’t know. When I posted this on one of Hadyn’s Publicaddress RWC threads back in ’11:
I'm not quite sure what Sofie was saying there, but I don't think she was saying harassment was okay. And as you noted, the perpetrators were kicked out, if belatedly. The park management seemed to understand its responsibilities that time.
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Also, this guy fixed up those ghastly Powerpoints. Brilliant.
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I either missed it or it wasn't up earlier, but here's Hannah's open letter about the incident -- along with (mostly) supportive reader comments.
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Must-read Ars Technica analysis of Prism and the data mining behind it. Best thing I've read on the topic so far.
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Hard News: The United States of Surveillance?, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
So even if terrerists took total contol of the computers, the consequences aren’t going to be anything more than a heavy rainstorm. Turning toilets into geysers of poo just isn’t feasible, fortunately.
What a poo party-pooper you turned out to be.
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Hard News: Not good enough, Eden Park, in reply to Angus Robertson,
Being indifferent, distracted (by I-don’t-know a rugby test), practising non-confrontational behaviour, embarrassment, fear of public speaking, possessing insufficient English, politely not wishing to disrupt anyone-else’s rugby watching, not having a formed opinion, being hard of hearing or whatever – none of these things confer assent to me.
Me neither. But in the view of Eden Park's spokesperson, it did.
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Hard News: Not good enough, Eden Park, in reply to Paul Campbell,
I guess we need a couple of All Blacks to get married in the Woman’s Weekly ….
Eight years ago, Aaron Mauger gave a really good interview to Express, outlining exactly the inclusive perspective you’d want from a modern All Black, encouraging gay kids to play sport, namechecking Ian Roberts, etc.
But the editor, Oliver Hall, decided to overcook it – billing it on the cover with Mauger’s photo as “The All Blacks’ first EVER gay interview”. It’s pretty rude to misrepresent someone’s sexuality like that. Mauger was married and some people did assume he was a closet case.
Craig Innes weighed in this year, but I wonder if the general silence does stem in part from the way the Mauger interview was handled. Note that in the same story, Steve Gray claims to have bedded an All Black – but can’t remember his name!
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Just got a tweet from Hannah -- who it turns out follows me:
Thanks for this. Agree that for the most part, abusive behaviour isn't typical - I've also had good times at many games!
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Hard News: Not good enough, Eden Park, in reply to Megan Wegan,
No, but it is the park’s management’s job to keep people in the crowd safe, right?
Exactly.