Posts by Mrs Skin
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Different "O", Mrs Skin.
Damn. Oh well, it's all the South Island from here.*
*Disclaimer: I'm from Nelson which sort of doesn't count as either North or South Island since it's so isolated in its own head.
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There will never a PAS gathering at Big 0
Don't see why not, they hold McGillicuddy gatherings there. Seems like the very place for whisky and fun.
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The actual offence is injuring with reckless disregard for the safety of others
OK, that makes sense. Thanks Graeme.
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Before everyone freaks out too much I should add that there are defences to a defamation action, including truth and honest opinion.
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Defamatory statements have a pretty wide definition.
They "tend to lower a person in the estimation of right-thinking members of society, or that tends to cause the person to be shunned or avoided, or that tends to cause the person to be exposed to hatred, contempt or ridicule." From http://www.howtolaw.co.nz/html/ml146.asp
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He is a broadcaster, that's his work; and it would be a grossly unfair punishment to declare that he cannot work. Broadcasters will make their own calculations on how and when they ought present him to an audience.
Let me put my hand up and say now that never would be a great time. The channel will be changed if I see Veitch on my TV.
He's a role model, and, as we so often bang on about with role models, he's got responsibilities associated with that. For my part he would need to have not only done the right thing but gone further and used his public position to make anti-DV ads. Something along the lines of "I did it once and look what a c*** it made me" would have done nicely thanks.
Behaving the way he has sends a message. Putting him back into broadcasting will affirm that message. That's just arse.
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Giovanni, as euphemistic as it sounds, reckless disregard causing injury is likely to be (without having read this post or any other articles thoroughly) the lesser charge in exchange for the guilty plea. Repeatedly kicking someone in the back while they're lying on the floor would be intentional rather than reckless and the original charges probably reflected that.
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Can there BE more than one blackboard-leaning rugby-mad gay lecturer?
I want him to model for the Outgames website. He's model material for sure.
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...he has never, to my knowledge, identified as gay.
I was thinking earlier that this gay-your-life-up thing has similarities to the complaint of wheelchair users that other people see the chair, not the person, but I see that unlike a boringly static physical disability we can spread the love around and tar you with our gayness too.
Quite by coincidence, someone told me a story today that was marvellously on-topic. A couple of guys were complaining to my friend about one of my lecturers on the grounds that he's just a bloody rugby-head who spends the whole lecture leaning against the blackboard. On being informed that the lecturer is in fact gay, the chaps attitudes shifted markedly and they decided he was a fairly decent chap after all. My friend was left scratching his head and reflecting on how markedly things have changed in NZ when people are more accepting of one's gayness than one's passion for rugger. So the gay oil-slick works in our favour on occasion.
Eddie, I have 2 assignments and some test revision to procrastinate on, so it's a dead cert I'll be reading your article in the next day or two.
Craig, my day is only complete when I've read your description of whatever event is in discussion.
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NZ is small! I really missed that when I was overseas. I like meeting people & knowing that they'll know your cousin's girlfriend's best friend.