Posts by Morgan Nichol
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Hard News: Moving right along?, in reply to Seamus Harris,
for the mayor to be wanking in the mayoral offices
It is bloody weird, I'll give you that at the very least.
On the bright side he may have then met John Key with a shake of the hand.
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Hard News: Moving right along?, in reply to Seamus Harris,
It must have been Darth Vader, right?
Someday he will be the most powerful mayor ever.
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Hard News: Moving right along?, in reply to Seamus Harris,
I'm not sure exactly which behavioural standards you're referring to.
As far as I'm concerned, Illicit (but consensual) shagging has no bearing on fitness for the job. And we'll have to wait and see how far the job reference and so on went when the auditors come back.
Not even one of the votes I cast in the election was for someone being close to their family, or for having self-professedly "strong morals", or for being a dedicated church goer, or for anything other than I thought they could do the job.
If news of this affair had come out a year ago, in the absence of a better candidate I'd still have voted for Len Brown. Not because I especially like him, but because his policies seem to line up fairly well with mine, and he was the only one who'd beat Palino.
And honestly for what I now feel like I know about Palino I'm extremely relieved things went the way they did. What a dead end he'd have been. Zero policy, even after he'd put his name forward? Seriously?
Now, if it turns out Brown has done more or worse, I may well change my mind. But not yet.
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Hard News: Moving right along?, in reply to Seamus Harris,
Who did you vote for in the election?
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Hard News: Moving right along?, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
It’s ok to snigger at a name privately-
With all due respect, Martin, it isn’t.
Laughing at names is not sophisticated, but squeegee is a funny sounding word and Luigi Wewege at least doubles that in the funny sounding stakes, so it's not much of a shock that it happens.
While you might get close to a useful point when you note that all of our names probably sound funny to someone in the world, you're still not the world authority on 'what's allowed to be funny' (which is an office that, were it to exist, I expect would come with an excellent hat), and even if you were, that wouldn't bestow any real power on you aside from the power your bossy britches already grant.
I've traveled to a lot of places and no one has ever sniggered in my face about my name. (Though I don't know if they sniggered later in private.) So what you're imagining, in my experience, is not a real thing. In fact the only place my name has been a source of mirth was primary school -- among people from my same culture -- which is where TracyMac quite rightly places this particular level of humour.
But the most important thing to me is that having a funny sounding name is very, very far away from the reason people are ridiculing Wewege -- which is for his actions, not his name -- it's just that for some of us his name makes him even more fun to talk about, and probably helps wash away some of the sour taste left by the venality of this whole sordid affair.
Aside: I quite like 'Ranapia', it's an excellent name when pronounced correctly.
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Raymond A Francis,
It's going to take me a while to get over the sheer ludicrousity of this stupid, sleazy, and distinctly regional story from leading the 6pm national news bulletin. Madness.
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In the latest bizarre twist, it appears Jock Anderson has been fired from the NBR for his editorial that said Brown should stay on as mayor.
I find it hard to believe, but there it is in #000000 and #ffffff. http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/nbr-journalist-dismissed-147312
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Hard News: Rape and unreason, in reply to Gee,
I don't like that someone singled you out as a man when you went past, but on the other hand, being yelled at and harassed by strangers is a normal day for most women walking along a street, minding their own business.
Oh well that's... alright... then... somehow?
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Hidden volumes are great, very reassuring.
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Hard News: Rape and unreason, in reply to Jolisa,
If solidarity and shifting the conversation is what we’re after, those would be great places to start.
Done.
and yup men can get it too even though they’re way less likely to
So I have a lump in one of my mighty man breasts. Went to the doctor immediately when I discovered it (breaking one stereotype of men & healthcare) and he went *fumble fiddle prod* "yo that ain't shit" and I went "oh ok fine thanks". And then a year later, with it constantly vexing me, I went back to the doctor and he fumbled fiddled and prodded again and said "nah look it really ain't shit" and I said "ok but I'm vexed doc" and he said "well you could go and get imaging done but it ain't shit" and I said "imaging it is then" and then the radiographer or ultrasoundologist of whatever her job title was lubed me up with jelly and rubbed her magic wand all over my (still very manly even after all these words) chest and said "yo I see what you're talking about and it looks to me like it ain't shit but the radiologist will look and she'll tell you the definitive truth" so I wiped myself off and went away and a week later no one had called so I phoned my doc who said "listen. if anything was going on we'd have called you. you ain't got nothing happening. that's why we didn't call" and even after all that I still worry about my manly little lump.