Posts by Matthew Poole
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Sacha, oops. My bad. Doesn't change my post much, except to say that you're a far braver man than I :P
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Shit, that is enlightening Sacha. And kinda freaky.
What's even freakier is that she spent the time to read Grunt's dross and find that shit in the first place!
She's a braver (or far, far nuttier) woman that I gave her credit for :P -
Our society regards racism as morally wrong and I think a pro-white skinhead march would be banned. Isn't the same principal involved?
As Russell said, the National Front and various other bands of bigots have been allowed to march in the past. Yes, it is the same principle: the right to be obnoxious in public, provided you don't actually do anything illegal.
Is nudity pornography, Grant?
Unless it's a person changing or bathing (alone, unless they're incapable), or a man and a woman in bed, who are married to each other, and the lights are off, and it's strictly missionary, preferably with no enjoyment (except the requisite degree of physical pleasure required to cause the male to ejaculate) by either party, of course it's pornography!
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I'll add to the dubious anecdotal evidence: I use to work in the BNZ transaction processing centre, back in the day when they still got people rather than machines to put the cheques through in the evenings.
I'll accept that your experience is a rather more indicative, since it doesn't hinge on the availability of cash to donate, but the dark ages is a little long ago to be hugely relevant :P
Maybe I'm giving the "rich" too much credit (har har). Maybe because I give a lot of time to the community and trade that off against giving money (of which I don't have so much), I expect people who are money-rich but time-poor to do the converse.
When I was in the Fire Service I was giving (since I was a volunteer) at least 750 hours a year, and I just couldn't make myself feel guilty for not donating to every charity that came past the door. So I'm loathe to judge others for not giving money to street collectors. -
Do you understand the value of living in a free society, and that part of being free is other people having freedoms that you don't like?
Ah, Morgan, you haven't encountered Grant before have you? Morgan, meet Grant, the resident right-wing fundie. Abortion is the root cause of all society's woes, says Grant. You really think he'll respect personal freedoms?
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You agree with Family Fist
It sounds like a tremendous organisation, how can I join?
Not picking on typosNot a typo, a deliberate misspelling. Reflective of their views around corporal punishment.
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You're being serious, aren't you?
Quite likely. Unless nothing he says on here is actually his position, and he's simply being contrary for the sake of argument. Though I'd put the odds of that as roughly equal to McVicar saying something reasonable.
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The management for the city shouldn't need a law to stop this "parade". They should just be allowed to say, "No" and let that be the end of it.
Let me guess: You agree with Family Fist that the judge's ruling was the Bill of Rights trampling all over societal decency? And in your utopia there would be no guaranteed freedom of expression, only that which was judged to be "morally acceptable" by the Office of Public Decency or some-such?
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Street collectors report that the stingiest neighbourhoods are where rich folk live.
I wouldn't call that in any way significant. For one thing, how many "rich" people actually live with cash? Given anecdotal reports from budget advisors about how many high-earning people are up to their eyeballs in credit card debt, I'd not be in the least surprised if many of these "stingy rich folks" actually just don't have cash to give because they live their lives on plastic.
For another, I would again not be surprised if donations on these "stingy streets" are in the form of regular, electronic or postal donations.If you can find me a better statistic than just street collectors, I'll concede the point. But in world where cash is becoming rare and electronic payment is totally ordinary I just cannot give it much credence.
Oh, and have you considered that a lot of people tend to be of the view that they cannot possibly, reasonably support every charity that's out there, so they pick one or two "pet" charities and only donate to those? I know quite a few people who give to one or two causes, but give fairly generously (three-figure donations a year) to them.
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It's not boobs on bikes, it's women.
I dunno, Russell. If one uses "boob" as slang for one of lesser mental agility I think that, in the current temperatures, boobs is entirely accurate :P
I see that the police are trying to supress the Undy 500 rally - despite the fact that, if the driver remains sober and the road rules are complied with, students are perfectly entitled to drive from Christchurch to Dunedin and have a party.
Given the history that the Undy 500 has, I'm not surprised. This year's run is unsanctioned by U.Canty, funnily enough. When an event has historically resulted in parts of a city existing almost in a state of riot, I cannot blame the Police for wanting to nip things in the bud. I'm sure the Fire Service will be quite happy about it, too, given that fire fighters' roles are quite dangerous enough without having to dodge missiles thrown by drunk little scroats.