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but at least for women, a quick trip to the bathroom and a subtle application of 'thin lizzy' means they can once again get amongst it with little or no sideways glances...
Like that charming young man who did the 'thin lizzy' for the cameras at Camp Matai on the news, a safe haven for binge drinkers, where the 'Camp Mother' promised to look after the little urchins and make everything turn out swimmingly.
Fact is, people don't always make good choices.
No they don't. But lets think about the 'It's not Ok!' campaign and the anti-smacking legislation. Do we agree that they had a positive impact? Sometimes people do actually have to be told, quiet loudly, not to make bad choices. I'm not sure that's so much a moral debate as a common sense one.
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You think that's scary, you want to see what a bunch of heavily drunken men looks like:)
Seen it. Suppose that might be part of Danielle's point. The fact that this is 'old news' makes as less shocked by it, but in fact it is no less shocking.
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but I have a sensitive wee ear out for the beginnings of a gendered moral panic...
Quite right, too. That can lead to comments like 'they should have known better', and other such helpful genderalisations.
Some moral responsibility has to be put somewhere, though there are whole branches of ethics in philosophy devoted to deciding that exactly.
PS. Damn, too quick. How do I agree with both of you, and still be credible?
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This sucks, by the way. Row over cool store medals and compensation.
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Our modern history of alcohol use and abuse has all been state sanctioned and relatively transparent.
It's certainly transparent in the sense that our hopefully 'brightest young stars' can be seen stumbling down drunk into St John's ambulances all over the country during New Year's Eve celebrations. And the scary stat that the majority of heavily intoxicated youth at R&V were young women. Earlier in this blog (or was it elsewhere?) it was mentioned about the ALAC Lisa ad. Are we in a society where the victim is held solely responsible for their actions? That's a bit libertarian for my liking. Surely the Alco-pop industry, their clever marketing strategies, and lobbyists, like Myers, for lowering the drinking age, have some responsibility for it all.
Personally I think if we all stand back and watch, and that includes the government, we are in some way either condoning, or complicit, in the inevitable outcomes of excessive drinking. And just so it's clear, throwing drunken people in prison for ignoring a liquor ban is not going to fix it.
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Pretty much, yes.
Apart from what Craig said above, actually I don't care, particularly in this discussion. Political leanings shouldn't have anything to do with receiving national honours, or participating in blogs for that matter. They shouldn't, but perhaps they do?
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I feel like this phrase needs to be more widely, uh, disseminated.
I'm not sure I can claim it, but while searching for the reference on Google using the search string "st matthews billboard semen", my little missive above was number 4 on the list.
Bloody hell, that was fast! So I think you could say it is disseminating itself fairly liberally.
Ah, yes of course, it was the Fundy Post link on the Original Blog. See Russell, I am reading them. And it doesn't actually say 'cosmic semen', so maybe it's mine after all. That's me done for a while. Lightening doesn't strike twice. Are you listening God? No lightening strikes!
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I'm not providing a link, because some of the chatter is seriously vile, and I'm not going to dignify it with linky love.
Thanks for the heads up. Plenty going on here to keep my attention away from it.
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Out in the blogosphere it is a different matter. Right-wing blogs are apoplectic over Clark's honour. Some lefties are out-raged that Myers has been elevated.
So this is a lefty blog? I'm outta here. It's only 'polarising' because it makes people question what we hold as 'honourable' in this here society, which surely is a good thing.
The fact remains that if at a very basic level you compare the two mentioned above, one is the first female Prime Minister in New Zealand and the first to lead a Labour party into three terms, while the other ran a successful billion dollar corporation that profited from people's propensity to drink large quantities of alcohol.
Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised when these are given similar standing in this country of ours, but we can be, IMhO, a bit disappointed.
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Gee, I wish my computer could do all those things ;)
Haven't you got an Apple? ;-)