Posts by bronwyn
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them africans do have some crazy customs and beliefs though pretty much on a par with american objectivism
I'm charitably assuming that was an ill thought out throwaway comment.
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a ticket to see 3Ds/Pavement at the Powerstation
Wait, do you know something the rest of us don't? It's at the Town Hall...
Anyone care to bet that some over-enthusiastic fans will rip three seats (metal bolts and all) from the floor like they did at the NOFX gig last year? No? Those shoegazers can get pretty raucous, you know.
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After seeing Kora @ R&V my thought was that their live show has gone backwards from other times I've seen them.
That would be a real step backward then - I still think that their 15 min long intro at Splore four years ago was one of the most exciting openings to a set I've ever seen, and I wasn't the only one by the way the crowd almost literally exploded when they finally all got on stage, and that carried through the rest of the set.
I shan't be at the BDO this year (some of us have big gigs in Picton instead) but I can't say I'm especially disappointed - I have to really love a band, and know that the likelihood of me seeing them again in the next year or so in a better venue is small, to make it worth putting up with all the not-rad things about it. (see: Rage fans hating on Bjork, 14 year olds making the most of being out of the house without parents, people who are old enough to know better throwing beer at strangers just for a laugh etc. etc).
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I do, however, wonder whether this case would ever have got to court if there hadn’t been a “well known entertainer” involved.
Probably, given that he admitted he was guilty and there was more than one witness - both things that most cases involving sexual offending don't have, and part of the reason it's so difficult to take many of them to court.
I think he acted like a sleazy drunk, but usually, if you tell a sleazy drunk to fuck off, they do.
Perhaps that's not so easy to do if you're a 16 year old girl who has realised that she's in way over her head with someone she's a bit in awe of and twenty years older?
I've been tremendously disappointed to hear whispers of the old victim blaming in this case as well - people saying "but oh, she led him on". I'm all for context, but gosh, there's context and there's taking responsibility for your own actions. Lord knows I've been drunk and flirtatious a thousand times but never felt like the next step was pushing someone's face into my naked crotch.
However, I'm disturbed by this trial by media and assumption that if you don't play the game and sell your story to the Sunday rags, you're fair game.
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people who made the mocking signs and turned up. They're no doubt over-represented in the photos but a good sense of humour is often the best way to deal with these sorts of things
I think it was more that the majority of us alleged anti-democratists all had signs, whereas quite a large proportion of the marchers didn't.
I had a reminder that people don't like to be made to feel stupid, when I had quite an aggressive man insisting strongly that I answered his question about what my sign meant.
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I did think it odd that the "talent" selected for the march consisted of her and Ben Lummis
Almost as odd as the juxtaposition of the national anthem and Dancing Queen as a pre-show warm up.
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Still not sure what they DID spend their $450k on...
Yulia doesn't come cheap these days.
To be fair, Colin Craig has always been quoted as saying "up to $450k".
If it's all his money, I don't really care* how much he has spent on it - just as I don't expect to have to explain to total strangers what I'm spending my money on.
The only reason for investigating further would be if there were other sources of funding who were somehow misusing funds in the cause of supporting this march. I don't think that has been suggested anywhere, but as no-one has really found out, we don't know for sure either way.
*(apart from my own sense of waste, and how much more useful it would have been to give that money to a couple of really well-run and effective community agencies working in the area of child abuse)
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Setting aside the issues about the HoS and it's lack of anything resembling journalism as we know it, I'm really surprised about level of judgement people are prepared to wield when it comes to parking tickets.
No, driving a car doesn't excuse you from acting like a responsible member of society, but parking tickets are basically penalties for being disorganised - the only thing not getting parking tickets makes you is more organised (or lucky) than a person that gets them.
I also concur re. dealing with the collections unit of the Ministry of Justice. They are not just difficult but actually unpleasant to deal with. I've never cried on the phone until I tried to sort out some of my (relatively small amount of) fines with them last year. On another occasion, one of them shouted at me. It's no surprise that a lot of people would rather ignore the issue than have to deal with the Call Centre of callousness.
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and I still wonder if they really like what they see in the bathroom mirror every morning. Which makes me sad more than angry.
What concerns me is the normalisation and use of plastic surgery etc. as a response to issues that are more about one's mental state. The current edition of rather awful Beautiful You magazine has an article in it stating that Botox can be a cure for depression.
I wish I was making that up.
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I know that this issue usually focuses on females, but I'd be interested in knowing if many males feel the same pressure that many females seem to feel? My suspicion is that whilst there's still more diversity amongst male presenters/actors/"media figures" this will slowly whither away as well, until, if aliens are tapping into our tv networks, they will assume the whole place is populated by clean-cut young 'uns with oddly smooth skin.