Posts by Morgan Nichol
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Damn fools, the lot of them. They should have gone to the police when it happened.
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I wrestled a pig.
Me too. Even after he was bacon he kept insisting he was the one doing the eating. It would have been hilarious if it wasn't so monotonous. Just a big plate of crispy bacon, I really wanted some scrambled eggs. But bacon was all he could come up with.
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"achieve the it" is so awesome I'm going to pretend it was intentional.
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Matthew, if that's the best way to achieve the it, then I'm all for it. I'm not especially attached to the name 'constitution' - I'm not a lawyer and probably using the word as shorthand as much as anything.
Danielle: And more pina colada mix.
Link plz, thx. :)
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Dylan: All that fuss over what was really only a few tits, and none that were especially fantastic (at least by my measure).
This really isn't the point.
Grant: You think authority needs to be constantly questioned and watched very carefully indeed. Wouldn't that make the people doing the watching and questioning either:
A) the real source of authority, or
B) a bunch of loser, cry-baby wannabes?Have you actually heard of democracy? Who do you think a country is run for? The government or the citizens they're elected to represent?
I really hope you're being wilfully obtuse, and only pretending not to understand this point.
You then go on to suggesting that you would be justified in defying a law if you saw fit. So I guess actively opposing established law is only acceptable if you do it. Interesting set of .. *ahem* .. standards you have there, mate.
And I was clear about the case in which that would be appropriate - in defense of democracy, which I consider a fundamental human right. I was also clear that I didn't think this was necessary in New Zealand.
You think you don't need to be told how to live or what to think. And you think that's a reason to have a constitution? What is the constitution going to do? Not tell you how you can act?
The constitution is to protect our rights, to help guide the hand of our elected representatives between elections, and to help our courts do away with unjust legislation that manages to get through.
It's another safeguard against the poorly thought through kneejerk legislation that tends to win short term favour in the public eye.
Allow me to clue you in. EVERYBODY, not just you, has the capacity to think just as they please. Why do you have such a problem with people who suggest courses of action that you do not agree with?
I don't mind suggestions. The members of our council are free to suggest anything they like. What they're not free to do is: anything they like.
A few things I expect to see from the council: clean streets, nice parks (which is more of a regional than city council issue), rubbish collection, dog control, parking management, community venues, and such.
None of these are issues that require any moral judgement.
You think you won? All you did was rant without coherency or any semblence of relevance.
Did you know that the parade went ahead? Yeah. That's how I won.
Protestors got a pretty fair whack of media coverage as well, which is another way I won.
Everyone got their say - not their way - which is fair.
You also would like to see current laws adjusted. So I guess, once again, that it only when you are unhappy with the law that anything has to be done or said. How about you step off your pedestal and find a moral standing you can defend without hypocrisy?
Which law did I want to have changed? Are you talking about my desire for a constitution? That would really be about protecting me (and you) from any potentially unjust legislation coming down the pike in the future.
Guaranteeing more firmly such trivial things as freedom of association, freedom of (and from) religion, due process, and so on.
If you believe you've caught me being hypocritical, tell me how. If it's just nuance that your... remarkable... mind... fails to grasp, then I'll be delighted to have another laugh at your expense.
Ian: But isn't there a distinction between Pornography (implies violence etc) and Erotica.
I don't think pornography implies violence. It is an umbrella term that includes all sexual writing and imagery. This is of course bound to include some types of explicit material that depict violence. (Unless you believe that all sex is violence?)
There's been a bit of an uptick in rough play stuff in the last few years. (Something I find a bit distasteful.) But I think the ratio is still overwhelmingly in favour of "the same stuff you get up to in your own home" variety.
Only with better tans and less body hair.
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You're absolutely right, Sacha, and I couldn't agree more. These latte drinking pinko communists have besmirched the ideals of our honest hardworking tea drinking society with their shiny boilers, and their sodomy! On our honest godfearing streets no less! My forebears died in the trenches of Pakuranga & Mt Roskill to pave those streets with their BLOOD and what do these little crypto communist pinko LIBERALS do but just bloody well strip off to their shameful pornudity and dance their evil sinning sexy-time pornographic gyrations away as if they don't even care about the children! Heathenographers, THE LOT OF THEM!
SOMEONE SHOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!
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See, it's exactly what I've been saying for years. Lucy's been queer for less than an hour and the liberal media elite has already inducted her into the secret pinko cabal. WHAT IS THIS COUNTRY COMING TO?
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Hey now, we were generous enough to give them a rib (right Grant?), you've got to allow us some privileges in exchange.
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Most people in a normal society with normal interaction with actual women however understand that women in general are not objects.
I've got that part down pat, the hard part for me is understanding that objects aren't women.
By the way, you need to clean your couch. Sorry.
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Claiming that all feminists think alike is OTT as well. Look up third-wave feminism.
None of the women on the bikes were there because their husbands threatened them with a beating. If they weren't doing what they were, they could freely practice law, or medicine, or web development.
They are thinking humans who have made the choice to do what they do.