Let's adopt the Parliamentary System

Bill Cochrane billc at waikato.ac.nz
Wed May 10 13:55:44 PDT 2000


G'dday Rob writes
>Ah, yes. That'd be back when you had a rugby league team, wouldn't it?
>
> (sorry ... )
Na mate its NZ that should be sorry, we should fall on our knees and beg forgiveness for sullying a rugby league field with that sorry band of gutless wonders. I've always thought that league offered a bit of a window into the consciousness of the working class ... so what have we got here.
> Bet our economically depressed provinces can produce more Dutch
> eye-reddener than yours! We'd export a larger proportion, too, as young
> men are the major consumer group for this product, and most of those who
> did not abandon mum'n'dad's precious allotment at puberty, have since hung
> themselves (male youth suicide rates have tripled in the bush in the last
> decade).
>
> So thin those silver linings, these days ...
If I recall correctly NZ has one of the highest youth suicide rates in the west, particularly amongst young males. I think that as the certainties of masculinity have dissolved leaving only self doubt and confusion many give into despair, either that or getting pissed with our rev head mates while driving a high speeds in our Holdens shortens our lives. As for dope production in our provinces I'd say the unimaginatively named North Auckland would probably be the area of the western world most dependent on the production of an illicit crop . Even some of the regional economic studies put out by the local authorities admit that dope is the largest cash crop in the area and all but argue that the cops should lay off to help the local economy.... maybe Nandor will make some progress and we'll return to prosperity on the back of the might hemp industry. Cheers Bill



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