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It's hard being a kid these days

09:57 / 20.05.02

this is what our kids are doing these days, what's worse is this is how our adults react to it.

11:19 / 20.05.02

ask a bunch of high school kids how your body betrays you and you dont expect a "boner" story? and with dignified language, no less

sounds like she needs a lesson in reality

Less searchable M0rd4nt

16:44 / 20.05.02

Oh, boy. Some people just shouldn't be allowed around kids. What could he possibly have said that was so terrible? Unless the essay was largely taken up with a graphic description of exactly which individual had given him the offending stiffy, I can't see what the hell's wrong with this. Bit tactless of the lad, yes, but how petty to punish him like this.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

16:54 / 20.05.02

From another site:

At Cambridge High's prizegiving last year he got three prizes – for drama, Maori and physical education. He is remembered, however, not for the prizes, but for an incident that led to a three-day stand-down. While collecting one of his prizes, Mike walked up to the board of trustees' chairperson with his hand out. Instead of shaking her hand, he put his thumb on his nose and wiggled his fingers.

Oh... my... GAHHHHHD! He put his thumb on his nose and wiggled his fingers! Is there no depth of iniquity to which this boy won't sink?

07:37 / 21.05.02

You know, I love my country. I really do. In Britain, you have race riots. in the Netherlands, politicans get assassinated. In Australia, the Governer General is in trouble over allegations of sexual abuse cover ups.
In New Zealand, we have
(1) The Prime Minister wears pants at an official dinner with the queen. (yes, the prime minister is a woman)
(2) kid writes essay about boy cracking fat in class.
(3) trouble over hosting rights to rugby world cup

I swear these are the biggest things to happen this year, so far, but there is a meaningless election due before November.

sweet.

07:46 / 21.05.02

Wanna swap?

08:02 / 21.05.02

not unless you tell me where my new home is. Do I have to wear leiderhosen?

08:06 / 21.05.02

Don't forget the prime minister's dodgy painting fakery. Helen Clark signed paintings by a staff member and then let them be auctioned as her own. Much brouhaha ensues. And then there was the missing baby.... It's all happening in New Zealand.
Think yourself lucky, Mikebro ... peace and quiet isn't such a bad thing.

08:16 / 21.05.02

mikebro:
"tell me where my new home is. Do I have to wear leiderhosen?"

As a matter of fact you do, but only for the duration of Herr Queenie's Golden Jubilee. Then it's back to flat caps, cockles and plus-fours.

08:17 / 21.05.02

on the other hand, i saw the may day stuff in london and I wanted to be there, and we're pretty piss poor at intrigue and drama. I mean, fuck's sake, the Prime Minster signed the back of the painting, and in other countries, they break into the other party's headquarters.

sigh.

09:04 / 21.05.02

Well, yes, that's why I moved home, after being in NZ for most of the past decade. It was just a bit too quiet. Come over to London!

09:58 / 21.05.02

four million people in a country the size of Britain who don't have much to get angry about have it pretty sweet. I mean, there's something to be said about living in the least strategic locale on the planet. Name ten other countries that haven't been invaded since their foundation.
On the other hand, this "she'll be right"/"sweet as" mentality makes things dull. Our right wing party is more left wing than New Labour, and the streets are paved with fucking gold.
HEY SHIT! This place is dull. Nice, earnest, dull, but I don't want to go to the UK, between you and me,it seems depressing: 57 million people on an island the size of New Zealand? Man, that's going to be fun.
On the other hand, this September (no lie, the 11th), I'm going to be 26, and that's pretty old to have never been out of the country.
Heh, this reads like a blog. Where's the most exciting place in the world I can go that:
(1) is by the sea
(2) has 2 to 10 million people
(3) has a large english speaking population
(4) does not play rugby (cricket optional)
?
crisis ends.

Tryphena Absent

10:14 / 21.05.02

I hear the weather's quite nice in New Zealand.

10:18 / 21.05.02

yeah, unless it's winter.

it's winter.

10:29 / 21.05.02

"Where's the most exciting place in the world I can go that:
(1) is by the sea
(2) has 2 to 10 million people
(3) has a large english speaking population
(4) does not play rugby (cricket optional)"

Portsmouth fits all of those criteria.

10:54 / 21.05.02

As does London, almost.

The Return Of Rothkoid

11:21 / 21.05.02

Helen Clark signed paintings by a staff member and then let them be auctioned as her own.
And nobody cottoned on to the fact that the woman has no soul? It seems a very out-of-character thing for her to reveal her arty side. What's next? Winston Peters doing interpretive dance?

11:34 / 21.05.02

ACK! on the local news today a maryland county put a ban on certain things that kids wear. one of them? untucked shirts. surely a uniform is next

untucked shirts. am I the only one who thinks this sucks huge buckets of maggot infested flayed pig scrotum?

Morlock - groupie for hire

11:42 / 21.05.02

Soory to threadrot, but "leiderhosen" has got to be the funniest misspelling I've seen in a long while. Unfortunate trousers, indeed.

Hum, maybe I need to get out more.

12:28 / 21.05.02

Rothkoid said: Winston Peters doing interpretive dance?

Thanks, you just cheered up my afternoon, and bemused my colleagues who heard a loud snort of laughter from behind my little blue walls. I would pay good money to see that.

I'm now coming up with all sorts of scenarios. Bill English starting a rock band. Jim Anderton writing raunchy poetry.

The Clark drawings were pretty dismal so I would probably have believed it.

Oh, and back on topic I'm glad to see the boy's parents are standing up for him and are calling for a public meeting to talk about it. Sorry not to link - I've tried before and failed - but it's here: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=1992880&thesection=news&thesubsection=general

23:10 / 21.05.02

It's hard being a kid these days
My parents always ground me
I think I know my inner self
And then my lies surround me
I want to be a teenager
I want to be way cool
I want you to respect me
But you say I'm just a fool
But maybe being a kid these days
Is really not that bad
And maybe being a kid these days
Is something more like rad!