Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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Because your Welly twitter friends are so cool?
Twitter works so well with Wellington.
Srsly, all you need to do is plonk yourself down in front of the Bucket Fountain, tweet "Sitting by the Bucket Fountain. Who wants to drink with me?" and within seconds you'll have a posse*.
* This may be a slight exaggeration.
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I kept asking for roller skates when I was a girl but my parents would never buy them for me (something about growing feet). So now I'm thinking, hey, I could do this...
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Which, by the way, I tweeted about last night.
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My advice for people new to Twitter is to just create and account, follow some people you know, and just go with the flow. Soon enough you'll figure out how you're going to use Twitter (cos everyone has their own experience).
Also, I'm so over 34. I'm eagerly awaiting 35 so I can amp up my twatmanship.
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"I'm secure with myself and I feel sorry that these people are so insecure about either their own appearance or mine. This is not about me, it's about them."
One big issue in this - and coming from both sides - is the idea that it is somehow wrong for women to have visible facial hair. Whether it's expressed as "Women shouldn't have moustaches! Paul was right to point it out!" or "Some poor women can't help that they have facial hair! Leave them alone, Paul!" the message is clear - lady mos are wrong.
So it's really cool that Stephanie Mills seems utterly comfortable with her facial hair (just like JD Samson of Le Tigre or Frida Kahlo) and is apparently not giving much of a damn about whether people have sympathy or contempt for her facial fuzz.
Over at the Herald's Your Views (sigh), readers have their own opinions on the matter:
Craig from Wellington says:
It is offensive for a man to look at a woman with glaring masculine features.
Just as well I keep my ladypenis in my pants, then.
While Jen from Thames wants all women to suffer as she does:
I have to get rid of my little bit of fluff on my upper lip so why can't other woman.
One can only hope one day Jen will be emancipated.
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Heh, I like that this thread has been brought back from the dead.
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Give them the YouTube link
It is, after all, TVNZ who edited the thing together and put it on YouTube.
The Broadcasting Standards Authority's jurisdiction does not extend to the internet. So if you complain about a clip you saw on YouTube or even the broadcaster's website, the BSA can't rule on it. It has to be in relation to the original broadcast on TV or radio.
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WINNER!
Flattered as I am, I must take myself out of the running as the tickets should go to someone who is hot 4 teh leaguez.
Heh.
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Stacy Jones? Oh, her -
she was in my class at school.
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The Iceland article is extraordinary. The two things that stood out for me.
The reporter questions a fisherman-turned-banker (they all pretty much were):
"You spent seven years learning every little nuance of the fishing trade before you were granted the gift of learning from this great captain? And even then you had to sit at the feet of this great master for many months before you felt as if you knew what you were doing? Then why did you think you could become a banker and speculate in financial markets, without a day of training?"
And:
Yet another hedge-fund manager explained Icelandic banking to me this way: You have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that they are each worth a billion dollars. You sell me the dog for a billion, and I sell you the cat for a billion. Now we are no longer pet owners, but Icelandic banks, with a billion dollars in new assets.
Shit was real fucked up there, but there's a bit of relief that at least things aren't that mental here.