The Silver Fern

A man wrote to the NZ Herald yesterday saying that he was at the airport with his wife and young children when they saw Smith "sneak" into a wheelchair access bathroom with a young woman who was not his partner.

"The pair were in the bathroom for 5-10 minutes and from the noises coming out of the bathroom there was absolutely no question what the couple were doing in there.

"Mr Smith then came out of the room on his own straightening up his white checked shirt and black dress pants (the All Blacks uniform they were all wearing at the time).

"About a minute later the young lady comes out of the same toilet cubicle looking equally suspicious. bolded textI myself did not have a problem with this... my wife however is protesting that this is disgusting for a public figure to do this.

From the Herald article.

The most distressing thing about this incident is that it is dividing families.

Kmart is really fucking good for females frittering away money, I can confirm that.

@No-Quarter I expect it would be contempt at a similar level to that expressed by my wife, kids and boss.

@No-Quarter Wags is magnificent. I love the guy. He looks like he is trying at least 10% harder than everyone else. And his aggro is genuinely paying off. His average is now better than Boult's and I think he's 6th all time for NZ (min. 50 wickets) on averages and 12th on wickets (should be up around 8th by the end of the summer unless Boult or Southee pig out on the Bangles).

With all these grammatical errors now in the public domain, the CEO and Board of this esteemed publication will be forced to front the media to apologise for the actions of lazy subeditors. Advertisers and sponsors may tear up contracts and this house of cards will tip over eventually.

@Smudge said in Aaron Smith naughty boy?:

I didn't watch One (sorry, "1") News last night because a) I was out, and b) I hardly ever do anyway, but can someone tell me if Simon Dallow used the phrase "it's not a good look'' at some stage during their expose - disabled toilet and all? From the very few times I've watched during a scandal, It's a favourite of his as he rides his trusty steed named Moral High Horse. I get the feeling it's his own editorialising, rather than anything scripted by the journo.

Simon Dallow? You mean the guy who turned his wife into a lesbian and then fucked half the blonde dolly birds in the newsroom? Yes, Dallow should editorialise about public figures and their private sex lives.

Great game from Luatua. Very impressed.

Discrimination against Scots? All I can see is a massive and undeniable bias towards cisgendered men.

@Billy-Tell That's an epic whinge packed into a short report of a radio interview.

Here's the highlights:

I thought I was at the Colosseum on Saturday night...
deeply, deeply disturbing
The game is in serious trouble, because this is a disgrace
What happened to Robbie Henshaw is a disgrace
I think there was three head injuries, a number of neck injuries
The All Blacks raped my grandma and poured sugar in my petrol tank.

I'm hoping Grammar will be lobbied in term 2 by libertarians to give the OK to a neck tattoo.

@canefan Wouldn't a more innovative tactic been to drop McCullum down the order for the CWC final? The Aussies, after the game, all they talked about was spending the lead up constructing their bowling plan to McCullum in the first few overs to prevent him getting away to a flier (didn't appear to care so much about Guppy or Kane or Rosco and co). So putting us in and getting to bowl at McCullum straight away suited them.

If we'd sent someone else out to open they'd have been (temporarily) fucked.

Armchair Tactician, 39,
Hamilton.

@jegga I sometimes take my coffee with cream. Cream as they say "rises to the top." I never fail to stop and consider for a long moment the symbolism of black brothers once peacefully inhabiting the cup being invaded and subjugated by the cultural jackboot of the overpowering white minority entrenched at the top of the cup.

Sometimes I just avoid confronting my own white privilege, up to four cups a days.

That being said, I should further acknowledge the original cultural appropriation of coffee from the Ethiopians (and latterly from the Yemenis, who although they may have acquired the taste of coffee while slaving).

Coffee related facts from Wiki. Guilt from deep within.

McKenzie could hardly ask for a better first big start. It's touch footy out there at times.

@jegga I hear you - I can confirm that it is first rate behaviour from the Simon Dallow wearing his private citizen hat. But when he says it disapprovingly wearing his broadcaster hat (PS I didn't dare watch the news last night) then nobodies like me can snigger at him and point to his own life, which to me somewhat lessens the criticism of Smith.

10 years ago (or whenever his missus left him) Simon Dallow was a party joke. He was "taunted and booed until my throat is sore" (c) Simpson, H. 1994 - the episode in which Lisa reluctantly plays ice hockey and turns out to be star, and Homer pits her against Bart for his affections.

I suspect in private Dallow's thoughts about the Smith incident were "big fucking deal" or "shit, I remember nailing blondie X in the level three toilet at Friday drinks and it wasn't that comfortable but I got there in the end" or "I hope that viewer Tregaskis doesn't remember some shit about me".

However, he is not allowed to say "Nope boss, I don't want to raise my eyebrows or finish any of Wendy Petrie's paragraphs in this entire segment" because it was the lead-off batter in the "news" last night.

@antipodean Have just watched "Making a Murderer" this week. I just found your post and I have not read any other posts on this series.

Fantastic doco. The thesis of the filmmakers is quite chilling with the strong overtones of police and prosecutorial misconduct: evidence planting / police revenge / harassment and, especially, the coerced confession of Brendan Dassey (possibly as opposed to establishing the truth). They are doing a second series soon focussing more on Dassey.

Overall I feel massively for Dassey and to a lesser extent for Avery (I'm on the fence with his guilt). There seems to be a significant element of circling the wagons from Manitowoc County law enforcement. Procedurally the police actions appeared abhorrent.

That being said, I need to do some other reading on it because it is undoubtedly biased towards Steven Avery's side of the story.

The other issue hanging over it for me (especially given my US political "awakening" in the last 12 months) is the probability of latent political bias. The filmmakers are two New York women (they met at Columbia film school) taking an angle on a rural Midwestern police force and district attorney's office. So you have this almost certain liberal / libertarian / anti-authoritarian slant on the rural / redneck male authority figure. You couldn't get more Clinton vs. Trump.

@pakman I think its a youth hostel on the south side. Bad neighbourhood, but likely to be gentrified in the next five years.

@MN5 That's a cutting remark.

Lucky those didn't link to BMX Bandits.

I like how I was the direct target of his resurgence for simply regurgitating who has run on in the 7 jersey this year. I should have known not to use facts in my statement.

@stargazer Yeah but that was in Bucharest. Georgia will smash the Romanians at Dimitri Kirakashyashmashsmashvili Stadium in Tbilisi.