Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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Last night this topic came up at pre-pub-quiz dinner. One person was surprised to learn that the alleged rape victim and "Angel" were two different people. He thought it was a bit strange that this woman would claim rape and sell her sex story to the tabs.
I wonder how many others have got the two mixed up?
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Ouch! I doubt that Craig needs anyone to defend himself, but Tom, that's pretty much out-of-line around PAS. Insult someone's arguments all you like, but not the person themselves.
Ditto on Deborah's comment too. I was shocked at Tom's person swipe at Craig. This is not what PA System is about!
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While I agree that this would clear up a hell of a lot of grey area, the reality of it seems like some kinda futuristic Sci-Fi scenario.
"My dear, my I gently fondle your testicles?"
"The left one only, please. I don't feel I know you well enough for both." -
I was just thinking - if I found myself, drunk, in a hotel room with several drunk rugby players who all wanted to have sex with me, which wasn't what I wanted to do, how difficult would it be to leave?
Cos it seems like it would be really difficult and awkward and embarassing.
And that's me as a 33-year-old woman. I wouldn't even want to imagine what the situation would be like if I was 22 years old and pretty.
How complicated.
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What's interesting (for me, at least) is that this is news in the UK because over there rugby players have the reputation as being public-school toffs who don't go off having drunken sex with "party girls" - that's what football/soccer players do.
Whereas in New Zealand, we perhaps don't have such high ideals for our rugby players.
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Ugh. Grant is a hardcore Christian who is never going to change his stance on abortion, no matter how much robust debate is hurled at him.
Can we let this go?
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I could just ban him, but it doesn't seem quite right.
I suggest participants in that discussion treat him like the palm oil guy was treated - ignore him, don't fuel his fire. He ain't never gonna change and similarly he isn't going to change anyone's opinion.
Eventually he will turn his energy elsewhere.
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My almost-18 son was in Palmerston North last Saturday night, minding his own business, walking with 3 friends to pick up their car.
I'm always suspicious of any story that is along the lines of "I was just minding my own business when, out of the blue, a complete stranger did something horrible to me, totally unprovoked."
I once read a blog of funny ER stories, and one doctor observed that all foreign-object-up-the-bum explanation stories always start with "I was minding my own business..."
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Had Royd Kennedy left Shirley Young to burn to death under the tanker at Manukau, no fire fighter would've questioned that judgement call.
These high-profile cases, where an emergency services worker puts his life at risk and does something heroic to save the life of another, do you suppose we've started to take them for granted?
They are a staple of fiction. Even when someone tells the cop not to go in - "It's too dangerous!" - he will go in because, dammit, there's a kid in there.
And of course it's the real life cases of emergency services bravery that (usually!) get the attention.
Have we become so used to this as being "normal" behaviour from emergency services that when they go and follow procedure and don't rush in and don't put their life at risk, we're puzzled and wonder why they aren't doing their jobs properly?
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Grace Jones, Slaaaave to the Rhythm.
(And I suspect this won't embed, so click the link plz)