Posts by Jacqui Dunn
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@ Kyle: No, maybe not. But I didn't actually attack anyone - it was an over-all observation. The comments themselves were often incomprehensible, so either fuelled by fury or an inability to express. Whatever the driver, still rather dismaying.
Oh, I've just re-read what you said. The whole thread.....? Not my post per se? Yup.
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You could be absolutely right, Hilary! Good point. I've been looking at some comments on line - not my usual reading spots - and some of the things said make my stomach turn. However, I'm also noticing that some of the spelling/grammar/punctuation is of a very low standard, so I'm guessing there's not much intelligence going into the mix....or am I being altogether too precious? Or something?
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Percentage too, although to my non-mathematical brain that doesn't mean much. However, Campbell said (iirc) 13,000 people responded.
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Ooops. Don't know what happened there - I say, I don't know what happened there. Somehow went back to previous screen.
Sorry....
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Michael - a very sane and measured comment, thank you.
Has anyone else noticed that one of the Aussie MPs came out very strongly against MEAA? So Simon Whipp's disappearance may be to take the heat off himself....but what is Equity to do if they can't communicate with him? And how do we know he hasn't "disappeared" himself for the past few days? I think AE is between a rock and a hard place, but the worst aspect for me is remembering my agent's very strong advice at the time, that joining up with an Aussie union was not going to be in NZ actors' interests. How true that seems today.
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Michael - a very sane and measured comment, thank you.
Has anyone else noticed that one of the Aussie MPs came out very strongly against MEAA? So Simon Whipp's disappearance may be to take the heat off himself....but what is Equity to do if they can't communicate with him? And how do we know he hasn't "disappeared" himself for the past few days? I think AE is between a rock and a hard place, but the worst aspect for me is remembering my agent's very strong advice at the time, that joining up with an Aussie union was not going to be in NZ actors' interests. How true that seems today.
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Paul, we must presume that no-one's commissioned a poll on it yet, so he doesn't know what to appear to think.
I caught one on Campbell Live last night. "Was PH being racist?" (or words to that effect) and the "no" vote outnumbered the "yeses". It made me depressed.
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I am, for most people, "Mrs" Dunn, which really pisses me off. Just because I am well over the age of being a young woman who is possibly unmarried, I must be married! Only recently, when arriving in hospital, having broken my ankle somehow, did I refrain from correcting anyone.....just didn't have the energy to do it.
But, as someone who fought to have "Ms" used - imagine going through life either as "Miss" or "Mrs" when you could see that men were never required to give their marital status because they were routinely "Mr" ("master" having long ago disappeared) - I must admit I prefer being called "Ms Dunn". If I ever make the mistake of giving my full name - say to someone I'm ringing for a business query - I find it vaguely insulting when they immediately call me "Jacqui". I like my friends to call me by my first name, but think that just because someone working in a business knows what your first name is, they are at liberty to address you as that is a step too far.
But I have been called old-fashioned. :))
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"If you asked me who'd be my favourite actor, I'd have to say that Edward Woodward would be."
he would, would he?
I wouldn't know about that, but Edward Woodward would.....
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Seen this? Inneressing.
Nah?
Oh well, actually Phillipa Boyens in the Herald Business section (as my attempt at a link didn't work either....bugger) But don't tell me....yet.