Posts by Rochelle Hume
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Awesome post Keith.
Makes me so happy to see good journalism in NZ!
It'll be just like the bat signal shining over Gotham's night sky.
A big turd picture, posted on PAS.
I'll be looking out for it..!!
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Duly enlightened- thanks Kyle.
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Okay.
My bad. Again.
I meant Larper.... I don't know what that is either.
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(Or is this your subtle lawyerly way of exacting revenge for his Werewolf algorithm?)
Umm, yeah David - that was it totally!!
And what the hell is a LARKER????
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Thanks for putting my thoughts into words so eloquently. Sure, I'd be pissed off if I had a gate or wall and it got tagged.... but I don't understand the Intense hatred some people seem to have for taggers.
I may actually buy the Sunday Star times! :-)
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I dont think anyone reasonable would argue that if someone is so comatose or out of it, that they are uncomunicative.... then consent cant be assumed. I think we all agree that absence of refusal does not indicate consent.
But some here seem to be arguing that even if consent IS given by an incapacitated person.... that the other person must be able to know that this isnt real consent...
I'm with Bea when she says we all know that we must teach our sons to care about young women - and know that intoxication is precisely when you PROTECT someone rather than ABUSE them.
But we also teach our daughters about the ROPATIs of the world who think they have an entitlement to whatever they can take...
I had so many friends as a teen who ended up in that poor women's position, and believe me - whatever the man thinks - too intoxicated to consent is rape in the women's eyes...
The legal issues mean many of these charges will not be proved ( I can't see any way around that without creating further problems) - but I reserve myself the right to morally judge these predators and wholeheartedly congratulate the police for prosecuting...
For every one in court - at least a 100 never reported???????
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but at least we have craftstock
Sue, I was so disappointed you couldn't make Foo Camp after reading all the fun stuff you were going to do on the Wiki!! Could you share the details of Craftstock....???
Answer: more plots hatched, more plans made.
I noticed that all round too, Russell. My take on it was that last year, I was too blown away by the concept and the calibre of the people to do much more than sit back and say "Wow!". By year 2, you're used to that and get down to the business of collaborating. Still awe inspiring though...
And the reason Keith was so good at Werewolf??? He made notes and created a Werewolf algorithm.... -
What would it take for me to want to rise up? Or you?
An empty stomach always helps in an uprising...Is that a recession I see around the corner???
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OK, so here's one from when I was fourteen (33 years ago).
uh oh - my son tells a similar story.....I hope he's not sharing it with the world in 33 years time...
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Most memorable Christmas?
As a 17 year old on exchange in Sri Lanka... staying with a Catholic family. Went carolling to old people's homes with a group of Buddhist and Christian students (don't ever get put into an old people's home in Sri Lanka...) Oh, and also carolling with us was the Christian daughter of our Muslim neighbour.... Then spent 3 hours at midnight mass at the local Catholic Church, 42 degrees Celsius, dressed in a ball dress and high heels... Capacity of 400 - about 3,000 Catholics crammed in...
Walked home in high heels on the mud road, past beggars and stray cows at 3am in the middle of civil unrest (fortunately accompanied by my rugby-playing host brother)... only to open presents. Finally asleep at 4am, to be awoken at 5am on actual Christmas day by the chanting from the local Buddhist temple...'buddhyang saranang gachaaami'.
Then spent Christmas day giving out pieces of Christmas cake and stollen to our Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim neighbours (they returned the favour during their religious festivals...). Fortunately, Sri lanka has more public holidays than any other country in the world - including all the major religious days for Christians, Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims - so Christmas day was actually a holiday - even at my Buddhist High School.
Funny, although I remember opening the presents - I can't remember anything I was given, not even in my parcel from home...
(Although I do remember the baked beans, chocolate muesli bars and Easter Eggs sent at Easter time, via the New Zealand cricket team - which I fortunately picked up from their hotel the day before a massive bomb blast sent the country into disarray and the New Zealanders on their way home...)