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bugger can't remember YouTube embed codes
Just paste in the URL.
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Something that hasn't - I think - really been mentioned yet is the way that the judge's and the prosecutor's attitudes to group sex may have influenced this.
Now, (bear with me) If a man had been charged with something truly bizarre - say, setting fire to a horse and then dismembering it - I would think that previous online posts by him about his desire to set fire to and dismember a horse would have some relevance.
Personally, I don't think that group sex is that unusual of a thing - I've been there once or twice; it can be a groovy scene, man - but I'm aware that some people view it as extremely perverse.
Perhaps the judge and the prosecutor think that it is such an out-there thing that, in their minds, a group sex fantasy and a group rape is just too much of a coincidence.
I mean, if a man was charged with stealing a car and it later emerged that the owner of the car had previously voiced thoughts about possibly giving the car away, no one would suggest that his being dispossed of the vehicle was voluntary, would they?
I haven't expressed this very well, but you get my drift.
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And yet the Herald is not asking its readers Do you accept the reasons given for the high number of murders?, or Is increased violence damaging NZ's image abroad?, and the Minister of Police is not being held responsible for it all.
And when did the Herald give Clark headlines like this?
If this summer was under a Labour watch, you can bet they'd be all "Domestic Violence Skyrockets Out Of Control" or somesuch.
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I don't know that we're stuck with the implications of this debacle. Surely, the judge's comments - and probably the prosecutor's comments - were a mistake.
... but, why has this apparently not become a bigger story?
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And yet [ Two and a Half Men] has very high ratings. I'm never going to get that.
It's that golden 7:30 slot, I reckon.
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Graeme, Steve, Islander, Matthew,
I quite agree with all your Simpsons opinions. For the record, I agree that series 6 thru 8-or-9 are also great.
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Leo... really does not want to talk about Aspergers
No one wants their personality pathologised. (I realise that issues around diagnosis are far more complicated than that, of course, but as for addressing the specific comment...)
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The Quireboys from London (does anyone else remember them?)
Barely. Didn't they have a hit covering an Argent tune?
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This version of Take Five got posted on boingboing yesterday (as part of the Adventures In Music series) and yes, that drummer - Joe Morello? - is one coool mother.
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Most worrisome: after the settlement NBC still 'owns' the characters Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and the Masturbating Bear!
What about Bugatti Veyron Mouse?
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leacacy
I mean 'legacy'. (6:46 am, and all).