Posts by Petra
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In relevance to New Zealand 2009, I find the colour bar assumption a little questionable (but it seems to be very fashionable on this group). More questionable still is the assumption of plentiful employment, jobs in fact being extremely difficult to find these days, even for those with qualifications.
Sure, these are not the best of economic times, and jobs are thinner on the ground than they used to be, with many more layoffs expected. But TradeMe currently has 5 pages of jobs listed for Dunedin alone. Not all of them are what you might call a "good job", but so what? On my travels, as young'un, I cleaned toilets, worked in bars and hostels, did shop work, fruit picking, flower planting, factory work, whatever was available. Those jobs were quite character building, I thought.
And why should these guys get off so easily when they've caused a fair bit of public property damage and terrorised the less belligerent locals?
I stand by my view that they should be expelled until such time that they can re-enter Varsity as adult students.
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In light of the other news story of the week, maybe they could organise an Undie 500 across Cook Strait.
Now that would rock! :-D
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I'd be quite happy to have those who were the worst offenders be kicked out of Uni, with their fees being donated in scholarship to some more deserving young adult from - say - South Auckland.
Secondly, like or not, having a fuckwit with a degree and a good job is better than having a fuckwit without one and unable to get a break because of a conviction.
Indeed. So give the opportunity for a degree and self-betterment to someone who will make good use of it because they don't take it so much for granted. The white kid will still find a goodish job I'm sure, and s/he can have another crack at University after a couple of years, with more stringent criteria for a student loan.
and most of them probably won't be a bother to police again.
Well, perhaps not as thugs, but who's to say their pampered arrogance and flagrant disregard for others won't make white-collar criminals of them? Alan Bond, anyone? Bernard Madoff?
Do we really need to make criminals of these people?
As someone already said, they made criminals of themselves.
Am I being overly harsh? Perhaps. But they piss me off that bloody much. Give them a lesson they won't quickly forget, and perhaps the otherwise fun Undie 500 (which I think is an awesome idea, btw) can get back to just been jolly good times with the areshole element thinking twice before turning it into a nasty old pot of ugly. 'Cos it's not the booze; it's the people.
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Fantastic! I've been hoping we'd get The Daily Show for the few years now, and I'm happy as a toddler in a bouncy castle that it's coming to us free-to-air and on-the-day. Just brilliant. And hopefully this means the Colbert Report will eventually follow? *fingers crossed*
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