Posts by Kyle Matthews
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I watched a dingo giving birth in Taronga Zoo once. As the pups emerged, the other dingos were waiting ready to eat them.
Lol. Great family trip to the zoo that'd make. Children crying. Pregnant women traumatised, men with wide eyes. Everyone walking 10 metres away from the dingo enclosure for the rest of the day.
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Oh my god, the pacing. The PACING. They still haunt me.
I have memories of a 1st form zoo trip flashing back here Danielle.
Everything bad about zoos is rescued by them having otters. Most wonderful animals in the world, ever, and forever, by a mile.
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And that's why I've really left TVNZ. Thanks to him I've got three ideas that are going to see me carry off an unprecedented clean sweep of the Qantas awards by a freelancer.
It'll never work. You're obviously the straight guy, he's the funny man. You'll never get him back for a repeat performance for the media, and a straight guy with no funny man...
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I reckon they know diddly-squat about organising CDs/DVDs/computer games.
They do a lot better than any DVD/Video hire store I've been in. eg.
K: Do you have XXXX.
VS: (looks on computer) Yes we do, and it's in!
K: I've been looking for it and can't find it.
VS: Ah, try the new releases section, and if it's not there try the action section... oh, and it might be in kids. Of course, if someone has mis-shelved it, it could be anywhere. Just y'know. Look around for it, I'm sure you can find it.
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Some uni libraries (Otago, for instance) are beginning to acknowledge that libraries can be social spaces, and not just hushed tombs.
Ugh. The number of students down here who complain about people who start up 20 minute conversations in study spaces about their weekend and how much they hate exams, at full outside volume. There's a whole student union tacked onto the side of the library... seriously.
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Yes. I only vaguely remember it, but I seem to recall there was some dispute as to whether he was just thrown, or if he was drunk, struggling with the bouncers, and then fell down the stairs (and quite possibly they made very little attempt to catch him).
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The number of people I've seen getting hurt (receiving 'bodily harm') whilst being expelled from bars is quite a lot, but I've seldom heard of any prosecutions.
There was one a while ago - guy got thrown/dropped down stairs while being removed. I can't remember if it was a successful prosecution, or a complaint at that stage.
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I'd rather say the law reflected a rather naive society.
Well that too. But I'm sure that we can come up with a list of things in our history that were both naive, and also as it turns out, sexist.
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And yes, it might be therapeutic sometimes to talk things through, but is that the media's job, to provide therapy?
Hear hear. The only possible thing therapeutic about being in the media, if the victims think their story should be told to the public and that will help. The "I hope by talking today other families won't have to go through what we've gone through".
The rest is just the media exploiting other people's grief for news. Victims of crimes and accidents absolutely should be supported. Just doesn't need to happen at 6pm in front of a million people.