Posts by Scott A
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"Small world," Simon? You're not kidding!
Finding comments from Jack who I used to flat with while people pranked called the Minister of Police, on a blog post about the magazine published by a woman who I once played in a band with, it all points to the same honest truth - Wellington, indeed New Zealand, really is a very small place.
None of that suprises me about anything involving Suraya, though. Suraya's one of those people who, for one reason or another, are social hubs - one could play 'six degrees' with Suraya Singh as well as with Kevin Bacon.
And I wish her all the best with the magazine. Quiting one's job to launch not just a magazine, but a niche magazine, would scare the bejeebers out of me. But Suraya's done it, which is just... well, it's awesome.
Oh, and back to an older comment - I also don't find the word 'Filament' very erotic - I really did like one of the earlier names 'Spitfire' but I understand that was problematical. But, then, I'm not a heterosexual female.
'Moist' on the other hand, is pretty frisky.
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I can see where that ad is coming from in it's message for the rest of New Zealand. After all, what are the most likely reasons for someone visiting Auckland? It's either because there is a specific show/event on, or for business, or to visit family.
Very few people, I imagine, go to holiday in Auckland 'just because it's Auckland.'
So to change that, the perception of Auckland has to be changed. But that'll have to be a very long term thing, with very long term fundamental goals. That ad won't acheive that by itself but, perhaps as part of a very long term campaign, it will be shown to be a useful opening.
However, if the goal is to increase domestic tourism in Auckland *right now*, it won't work. If that was their goal, they'd really need to focus on why people go there already and then say "since you're here already, why not stay and do this as well?"
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Oh yeah? How can that be when he admitted the pulling of the ear and pleaded not guilty to the count, which was pulling the ear and punching in the face? And was it you that said you used to be a law student?
Because it's possible to say "yes, I did that thing, but no, it wasn't the crime of assault."
The issue of the punch was used in the evidence that convicted Mason was a contested fact, yes, but do you dave have any knowledge of why Mason and his lawyer pled not-guilty
I don't either, but I can think we can eliminate such things as a "it wasn't me wot dun it" not-guilty plea. I would be curious to know if the reason for pleading not guilty was a "no, I didn't do what they say I do" plea, or a "what I did wasn't assault" plea.
Of course, it also could've just been a "this is a good way to get some media attention" plea as well.