Posts by mark taslov
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…, in reply to Tony Kennedy,
Another that comes to mind:
"If a woman takes her clothes off and walks around in a group of men, what are we supposed to do if one of them tries to touch her [...] It's not nice and perhaps the stripper shouldn't have been hired, but I'm reluctant to say that the boys were out of line."
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Drumpf
As employed by many American liberals to mock Trump, in turn validating this common trend of changing names to avoid discrimination in an insular culture.
Now something of a pejorative, despite the possibility of it being an unconscious effort to blur racial lines. Come Jan 20, in the White House, orange is the new black.
pull someone’s ponytail
1.to make fun of someone; tease, humiliate, ridicule, harrass (sexually or otherwise), gaslight.
2. to deceive someone; trick someone, lie, feign memory loss. -
Inside out – Aaron Smale
Article adapted for international consumption:
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Private Business, Public Failure
Auckland University sociologist Dr Tracey McIntosh points out that if we go right back to European settlement, there’s a long history of locking up Maori. “There was a desire to incarcerate significant numbers of our people,” she says.
It’s a salient point, given the fact that more than half of the prison population today, is Maori.
The recent rise in prison growth begins in the mid-1970s. The muster bounced around about 2800, a rate of about 90 per 100,000 people, before New Zealand embarked on a remarkable period of emptying out cells.
By 1985, the muster was down to 2200, a rate of 67 per 100,000. Consider that if this was our rate now, we’d be on a par with Scandinavian countries praised for their low imprisonment.
Instead, between the mid-80s and the mid-2000s, the number of prison sentences handed down jumped 47 per cent. By 2007 the prison muster was about 8300.
A focus on community sentences saw numbers flatten somewhat for the next few years.
But now, prisons are a growth industry again. And the rate of imprisonment is more than 200 per 100,000.
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
“confirmation bias”
It’s a good one Bart. I’ve not noticed 4714 to be much crazier than any other year, The UK’s on again off again relationship with a Europe they could never totally commit to in the first place is off again, more fake news and lies, and the USA elected another racist, misogynist whack job for president following a campaign that was more or less a localisation ripped straight out of the populist playbook of the ex-PM we had for the past 8 years. Meanwhile the far more considerate pastime of tapping plastic seems to have displaced shouting at TV screens, and those in the throws of that might feel justified in feeling that the distance between our two great nations feels closer than it ever has been.
Outside the largely monolingual English speaking world things have been business as usual, except within the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs where the mandarins who seem to have lucked upon a new toy to distract them from their endless whoring. In the meantime the readership -still in complete denial that our civilization jumped the shark a decade or so back – and so hypnotised by this double China vision: pretending to be one: pretending to be two – remains so engrossed in speculation as to who loves who the most that they – once again – neglect to ask their own leaders to “show me the money”. Perhaps 4715 might be more interesting…
at one point during his presidency, Johnson met with a reporter who repeatedly asked him why American troops were in Vietnam. Frustrated, Johnson unzipped his pants, pulled out his “substantial organ” and shouted “This is why!” The craziest part of this story, which itself is nothing but pure, poop-eating crazy, is that it worked. That answer satisfied the reporter, like “Oh, yeah, when you put it that way, sure. Of course we’re in Vietnam – look at that dick. We should be in all countries. I’d be starting a war on space if I had a dick like yours. Come on, now."
bring on the year of the cock.
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…, in reply to Lilith __,
Wikipedia currently has it listed as the Kaikoura EQ which makes sense when we remember those who died.
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…, in reply to Lilith __,
I believe Hastings has lingering resentment that the 1931 Hawkes Bay EQ is known as the Napier EQ, although it was closer to Hastings, and the damage was worse there.
truthiness…get a response.
I See what you did there ;)
Hastings was avenged when the Napier hospital came down.
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…, in reply to JessicaRose,
Mansplaining?
2010. Incidentally my sister is the heavyweight champion of mansplainers.
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Americentrism...
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Kumara Republic,
I guess that would depend on who owns the copyright of the photos. You could probably ask Gabriela Gagnier directly. Not speaking Vietnamese the second model (2:50) appears more difficult to track so I gave up. My impression of this kind of thing is that it’s rife online and that chasing it down might prove costly, especially across borders.
It seems there’s a mounting list of things Obama should have done.