Posts by Sacha
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How the hell did we reach the point where people even suggest this shit?
Citizens keep voting them back in. That's all the encouragement they need.
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To be clear I was referrring to Cecelia's 4.35pm post. My comment got held up in the works somehow.
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Spokesperson for Immorality
There'd be a queue (with lots of shoving and bribery).
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If you're from the first four ships, odd are on that your mum was (at least) mail order.
Ooh, slappers in the closet. Go Canterbury.
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I vote for Ben's grand vision.
I've previously argued against students getting any sort of special treatment in court under diversion
But they actually do, don't they, no matter what you might prefer?
Or are the stories of prospective lawyers pleading their "career" as mitigation just unrepresentative? Certainly never heard of a garbage collector getting off because their progress up the career totem pole might be unduly thwarted by youthful indiscretions.
Many organisations will take further action to protect their reputations after criminal charges against their members. There's no special treatment for students in that.
And defying the police is not the same as giving the finger to mummy and daddy. Life lesson, as some have said. The students were warned what the consequences would be - no diversion - and they decided to go for it anyway. I believe what probably set Russell off was the entitled whining from some of them that it wasn't fair. Hardly original thought from a teenager.
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For all the gripes that I hear about students having their own special legal system with diversions to maintain their careers, I fail to see why that should be turned around and they get pinged twice for something - police and university punishment.
Nothing personal, but isn't that the same sort of one-way sense-of-entitlement thinking that is annoying some people? I wonder if that is less about class than it used to be. Perhaps just more obvious somehow in the offspring of the relatively wealthy.
I'm sure someone can dig up figures for diversion and occupation. In any case, if prospective professionals believe they are entitled to diversion on grounds of their impending "career", it seems reasonable that they be held to an equally exceptional standard in other areas. Two-way street, no matter what suburb.
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engage a waitress in a long yibbling conversation
Lovely expression, sir.
Ships, I meant ships.
Given the tone, confusing the word with another is excusable. Stoke up the couches..
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He's an existential genius.
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And every story like that is a good enough reason for informed consent and patient-centred care.
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I'd also get him regularly nurturing your upholstery, to be safe.
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