Posts by Jolisa
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Except that in the boxing gym most of the writers I know hang out in, they're too busy giving each other shoulder rubs and making pots of herb tea to actually put on the gloves. Even the editors are kind. You leave your douchiness at the door, for the most part.
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Danielle, whose cloak of anonymity is her REAL NAME
And now I want that to be the tagline for a new series - TV, books, comics, I don't care.
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If she stabbed him in the manparts, it might be.
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Disclaimer: not recommending any such course of action, at all.
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No. I don't know shit about dick. I'm just saying: nice.
I vote this the new "talk to the hand."
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and the placement of the title box.
Like a particularly erudite game of Spot the Ball?
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(But as Emma simultaneously confirms, he is a man of many aliases)
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There is always an assumption in the public mind that the publisher is Goliath and the author is David.
And in this case, they're right - the author is David. (Last names are sooo private school).
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Yeah. Ben didn’t wait until he could gage the reaction of the country over the remarks.
The timeline is fuzzy to me at this point, but Ben was the absolute first to step up and say "It's not OK", without test-polling or fear of consequences, right? Not a premeditated media-friendly campaign of any sort, either, just a gut-reaction judgement call of standing up and walking away from the table and quietly explaining why.
I'm still kind of in awe about that. My cool brother! Outrocks the PM!
Because, you know, there's an alternative universe in which TVNZ's spokespeople were the first to hit the presses, with a statement of "It's not OK -- and we've given him a written warning." In which case, they'd have had it both ways. Instead, they placed a huge bet the other way, and in sheer ownership-of-the-moral-high(and common)-ground PR terms, they missed the boat by a nautical mile.
Likewise, there's an alternative universe in which John Key fronted up immediately about being "uncomfortable with the tenor of that particular conversation," or whatever. If he's OK with vasectomy-chat, surely he can be blunt about other stuff that matters?
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But hey, even the marketplace of ideas has a $2 Shop.
Right on! Thanks for this. A Malcolm Tuckeresque fusion of righteous argument and Olympian swearing.
But ... you didn't get the memo about Public Address Newspeak, where hereafter "cunt" => "twatcock"? (Also, FYI, we have always been at war with Oceania).
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Agreed, Craig. But even if it's inevitable, the fact that we recognise that we're doing it or have just done it, can be a good thing, no? Little teachable moments (or kick-yourself-in-the-butt moments) every day.