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not to belittle what happened here, but aren't we talking about one drunk moron and his car? does it require all these explanations?
But it's not just one incident. It happened a few years back in Whangarei, and someone else here suggested it also happened in Papatoetoe (TBC). I don't think it's a case of reacting to one incident that happened last weekend. There's a pattern emerging and either we address it or let it continue. And already the chorus has started: 'that's just how it is", "kids have always found illicit booze", "you can't do/change anything," and "I had some wild times when I was a kid and I turned out alright".
Talkback hosts annoy the hell out of me.
That's why right wing talk radio is more popular in the US than liberal talk radio. Michael Laws morphs into Leighton Smith more and more every day.
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Think of someone like Dei Hamo...huge singles, all over radio, got the funding, but a massive sales flop. There are many. Radio play became the driving force, and killed sustainability.
I really loved his stuff (both the songs and the videos) but there was no way I was going to actually buy it. Ditto for Pink and any other radio pop. It's nice to listen to but ... buy it?? Mainstream radio is for backround music.
We've had countless singles in recent times, huge on radio, with albums that have had funding and videos but have flopped massively (I released one myself..and one which should have been a pointer to the way it was going but was ignored)
C'mon, spill it!! Who are you talking about? I checked your website - Three The Hard Way??? Care to comment also on the oft-mentioned statement/claim that "Urban" music (ie "black/brown" music) doesn't sell because "they" (fans of said music ie black/brown people) don't actually buy it - they copy it and pass it around? I know it's racist, but is there any basis in fact? The company behind Siones Wedding claimed huge losses in sales when bootlegs turned up at Otara market ....
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You're right, when a culture is that f**ked up something does have to change, but I don't think turning the drinking age into a political ping pong ball is going to do a damn thing about it. And at the risk of sounding glib, it's also pretty hard to legislate against cretins doing incredibly stupid things for reasons that defy reason.
I think we're agreed on this Craig (with the small exception of me thinking the legal drinking age is a factor!!)
Herne Bay is full of the latchkey children of self-obsessed parents
has RB been peeking behind the curtains of my non-de-plume?
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Certain kids whose parents worked for TVNZ/the NZ culture industry also happened to be involved which may have led to it getting more publicity than it might have otherwise.
Just as (I believe) the relationship between a TV3 freelancer and 'Mullet' led to lead stories on TV3 about 'innocent' youth in ChCh OD'ing on party pills.
Finn, fair enough, I was being flippant but perhaps we're both making the same point: unsupervised youth will source and consume alcohol. I think rural parents presume there's not much damage a kid can do to themselves in a rural environment. This point was disproved a few years back when a young girl also drove thru a crowd (outside a rural hall) and killed someone.
[I've tried googling that story for 15 minutes but couldn't find it - maybe the MSM have had the same problem]
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I didn't mean this thread was silly, I wa sreferring to my first post halfway up/down page one.
however, this sort of idiocy only seems to take place in certain places - rural NZ, including Christchurch
Yes as Mr Higgins has indicated, rural youth are clearly allowed to run wild and unsupervised, possibly because their parents wanted time-off for key parties and other tawdry activities they didn't want their kids to see.
Just because someone hasn't been run over at a party in Auckland doesn't mean Auckland parties aren't similarly out of hand. I stand by my comments: I believe a key factor in this problem was the liberalisation of the drinking age. -
Okay, it's possibly too early in this thread to get so silly, so let me get serious:
In the end, two girls didn't die because there was texting or a party, or because of the drinking age.
I do think Parliament missed a great opportunity to reset the drinking age last year. I do believe it should be 18 to drink on liscenced premisies and 21 to purchase liquour at a Wholesale/Retail outlet. Why? Because young people do need a 'training' period to learn to drink responsibly (well, semi-responsibly, even adults can't seem to manage it). Of course we all drank stupidly when we were young but that happened in our late teens because alcohol was only available by law to 21 y.o.'s.
Now you can buy a slab of Tui at 18 y.o. and go down to the beach and try and pick up 16 year old chicks with the lure of alcohol (ooh so 'grown up') - and if my youth was an indicator those 16 y.o. girls are actually 14 trying to act 16. Is that how we protect our young people from harm? By tossing them to the wolves of the 'free market'.
I've heard all the arguments about how 'hard' it would be to have a split drinking age but I really don't see the difficulty. The Bar industry would love it - it's just the Brewing Industry that don't want it; because they want to sell as much piss to as many punters as they can. If an 18 y.o. thinks it's unfair to have to pay $6 for a beer in a bar when he can buy a dozen in the supermarket for $18 then I say "tough!"
That's the idea dumR's: I don't want you sinking as much as piss as you can afford and then hopping in your car and cruising thru my steets looking fun and adventure. Hopefully after drinking in pubs/clubs for three years you'll discover the joys of binge drinking aren't so cool after all.
Yes, kids have always congregated in large groups and gatecrashed parties, but now it happens with greater frequency and with more freely available alcohol. I know this gripe is akin to the Hippy parent telling their kids "In my day the weed wasn't as strong as what they grow these days" and I also know that the alleged drive was allegedly not driving under the influence, but I do believe that binge drinking is the monster that feeds the beast.
{FYI - despite my sillier post above, I'm not really a wowser, I do go out, I do drink, I'm not religous/moral/ family values but by god something has got to change!}
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So I didn't jinx myself by actually going this time.
No, but if you hadn't of gone you might have still won the award and won Lotto too. But no, you had to go in person to possibly collect an award you may or may not have won. And in the process you cost yourself a First Division win. So you won the award but was it really worth it? (And I think a plane crashed somewhere in the world, and a landslip, all possibly because your vanity would not let you stay home) (which is why I choose to stay in a lot: "Bad Things Happen When You Go Outside")
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"Theatre" would be a little too subtle for most Trademe messageboard posters.
Not if we send over a few PA posters to rabbit on and on about the precise meaning for a few pages on TM.
And while we're over there we could correct their spelling and grammer. They R qwite atroshus and seem 2 dlite in it.
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My apologies, didn't mean to make light of Reeves.
No need to apologise at all Shaz, for it was I who was being tasteles for mentioning it (and deliberately so, which is worse).
Speaking of injuries, my ego is badly bruised since I poured my heart out at the bottom of Page 4 and no-one responded. But I guess that's what happens when you have the bad luck to be the last post on a page and everyone skips to the new page.
And I bet I've done it again! D'oh!
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WHITE POWER!!
sorry, couldn't help it