Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Media7 will soon be Media3, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
whatever privilege goggles (sorry, Russell, know you hate the term but there’s a point coming up) you bring to the table and consciously widen your frame of reference.
I really, really don't hate the term or the concept. But I am sometimes troubled by the way some people use both to shut down others' voices. Watching relatively privileged people hurl the word at each other is an unedifying sight.
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Hard News: Media7 will soon be Media3, in reply to Deborah,
Even so, sitting in my armchair and speculating (that’s code for saying that I have done no research whatsoever), it does seem to me to be plausible to suggest that it might be in a sense more permissable for straight cis women to blog about sex and sexuality than it is for straight cis men to blog about sex and sexuality.
Dunno. Locally, we're really only talking about one troubled commenter who acts out by trying to control everyone else's language.
But I don’t really know, and perhaps it’s a topic for another day and another thread.
Yeah, probably.
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Hard News: Drunk Town, in reply to bob daktari,
If the youth had more optimism in their lives (refer to lack of jobs) I doubt there would be such a violent attitude displayed by some on the streets (good gear would help too) – with that in mind there does seem to be more groups of youths looking for fights than even 18 months ago…
Yeah, that's my impression: there's just a slightly nastier vibe at the moment.
and I put that down to anger at their lot in life (refer jobs et al), not drinking in itself – and it seems to be very locale driven, I rarely feel threatened on K Rd, Queen st however…
Totes. You know what you're dealing with on K Road. Some of the darker lanes off Queen Street are a bit iffier.
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Hard News: Drunk Town, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
I thought you meant this longer article. Opium den reference at para 4.
And I don’t really see the difference between getting drunk in someone’s garage (legal), getting drunk in a hotel room (legal I think) and getting drunk in a private room in a karaoke club (illegal).
The law does, though. They're licensed premises, and subject to the same rules around responsibility as other licensed premises. Racist? I could have done without the opium den comparison, but Hilary Chung and Raymond Huo are quoted saying it's a problem.
I wouldn't know, being allergic to karaoke.
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Hard News: Drunk Town, in reply to andrew r,
Given everyone throws up in the Queen St hood -
did RB throw up on LB first, or was it the other way around ?I nearly threw up in that public toilet, I tell you.
How were Disaster Radio ?
The whole thing was a bit of a shambles, but I quite enjoyed that aspect of it. Andy and I might have been the only people in the room not tripping balls.
Luke got on and played it loud and messy, which was just the ticket. I'd never realised that 'Gravy Rainbow' has such a hard-ass house bassline.
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Hard News: Drunk Town, in reply to Angus Robertson,
Whilst Mayor Len Brown takes a high profile stance to micro-manage a non-problem with youths in the central city.
Really? His comments are hardly incendiary -- remember when John Banks was declaring to all and sundry that he was going to close off Queen Street to traffic at nights? I think it's reasonable that he took a reporter from the Herald -- which has been making most of the noise -- and some of the people he wants to help and actually had a look. He now says he'll go back and have a look without the media entourage.
The Herald's stance has a whiff of moral panic, but it's also true that Herald staff come and go from work in the deep of the night and are exposed to what goes on. I hope that they don't try and get too clever with mandating door policies -- they'll get the power to enforce a local liquor ban when the Alcohol Reform bill passes later in the year.
Forcing clubs to close earlier or mandating one-way doors won't stop people binge drinking and it won't do much to stop them coming into the CBD late at night.
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Just realised I left out the link to the Herald story I quoted.
It's here.
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Hard News: Drunk Town, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
If anything I think NZ doesn’t have a drinking problem, it’s got a violence problem, and the booze just brings it out.
We're mid-table for alcohol consumption in the OECD. It's not the drinking, it's how we're drinking, etc.
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Hard News: Media7 will soon be Media3, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
If you’re tempted to invite Witi Ihimaera to a panel on Maori writers for the squillionth time, how about Patricia Grace instead?
You've got it. And that's the one we can work on.
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Hard News: Drunk Town, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Binge drinking is far more complex than just availability of liquor – it’s most likely a symptom of some wider malaise – and attacking the symptom is an exercise in futility.
Our national tendency to binge was what wrecked the experiment with party pills – particularly when people used BZP as a means to help them drink even more. That was a shame – although I didn’t think BZP was actually the one you’d want to legalise and regulate anyway. It just happened to be the one that wasn’t presumptively banned under the analogue provisions of the Misuse of Drugs Act.
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