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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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And the word of the day is trichophilia …
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_fetishism
Yes but that’s just one opinion
Hehe I hate to think what the other opinions are …
World War I – a hundred years on, what’s changed?
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/world-war-1-whats-changed-100-years-on/
Has Key apologised yet saying,
“I am sorry for being a compulsive pony tail puller?”
tv1 6pm news had yet another clip of key touching a little girls hair…weird.
With him telling her, “The boys don’t pull it do they? No. That’s good. We don’t want that to happen do we.”
Creepy just got creepier.
Disappointingly the TV1 item left out the point that Key pulled the waitress’ hair even after being told by her and her manager explicitly that she didn’t like it.
Also I wish they would stop saying that Key apologized. Dumping a couple of bottles of wine saying ‘sorry I didn’t know’ with a big grin and legging it before she can reply is not an apology. It’s a butt covering PR exercise straight out of a Bret Easton Ellis novel.
An sincere apology involves sticking around and make sure that your apology is accepted – i.e. facing up to whatever the other person might have to say to you in reply like an adult.
As for Key’s conflicting claim that she said “It’s all fine” or whatever. Who shall we believe? The victim who has brave enough to come forward? Or Mr Pony Tail Lover the known reflexive liar?
plus another Key ponytail pulling and this time featuring on Amy Adams’ website last year .. scroll down for the photo .. and I guess there will be more to come ..
http://www.amyadams.co.nz/index.php?/archives/1222-Amy-in-Action-May-2014.html
Hope the waitress makes an official sexual harrassment complaint, and sooner than later.
Wow that makes four different pony tails, (that we know of), that Mr Key has found an excuse to fondle.
Meanwhile the TV3 news item managed to find some giggling fool on the street saying that he could pull her pony tail anytime. Maybe she can expect a phone call.
Four ? I only know three ..
1. Parnell waitress
2. From Campbell Live clip
3. The Amy Adams posting
Can you detail the fourth pse ? Thx
Got it .. the TVNZ clip you mention above .. sorry !
Wow. This is very serious and beyond creepy.
yep beyond creepy alright – serial hair toucher and compulsive liar – time to bring the hammer down on this wanker
Every mother and father of young daughters with pony tails will now be watching for him like hawks and viewing him through very different unblinkered eyes. I think this can bring him undone at last.
I so wish for the young waitress to lay a sexual assault complaint under the tort mechanism outlined elsewhere today by Tracey.
yep now we know why he needs minders – to protect women and young girls from his hair gropes
Those minders should start doing their job then.
Watch the lead item from tonght’s TV1 6pm news. It shows him touching a girl’s pony tail and saying to her, as I said above “The boys don’t pull it do they? No. That’s good. We don’t want that to happen do we.”
http://tvnz.co.nz/news Scroll down a bit to the ‘ONE News Video’ section. The use the arrows to find the video named “I went back, gave her some wine”.
thx .. good we keep an accurate record.
Get this one? Key and another ponytail.
http://inagist.com/all/590743559898324993/
Thx ianmac .. that is what we have called the Amy Adams incident from her website. Let’s see if it remains !
Bloody hell! How many more are there? And what else is there!
I am guessing all his female Nat MPS and Cabinet ministers will be extra careful now or may even cut their hair a little short! Keep an eye out!
only small white girls only ya?
someone has posted on the Guardian UK that they remember Key pulling on David Beckham’s pony tail … any one recall any of that ??
FJK wouldn’t dare to touch Valerie Adams hair, she would squash the pasty middle aged weirdo
There is a 4th one which was broadcast on TV3 (?) news last which had the girls face blurred out.
yes, thx .. we have four fully accounted now.
Those are the known ones so far.
Who wants to take bets that there won’t be anymore.
we have five confirmed …
Hair Hair, rawshark-yeshe!
on radio live Duncan Garner had Julia Hartley-Moore on,think she is or was a Private investigator.She was adamant it`s a case of Key being attracted to the waitress
That makes the one where he plays with the young girl’s hair a lot more awkward.
I thought Key was attracted to Liz Hurley . . . . . ?
This Liz Hurley?
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/03_01/LizHurleyDM0603_468x558.jpg
The very same. Key said she is ‘hot’ – – – if my memory serves me right.
That photo doesn’t show the ponytail very well.
Yep Shane Warne’s missus
The unexpected effect of Pony tail Gate has been nil appearances by fisiani telling one and all how grateful we should be to ‘Honest John’ for his sterling efforts on our behalf 😉
dpf too busy I’d say 🙂
Civil rights and Philippines solidarity activist on the ramping up of state powers in relation to ‘terrorism’ and the inclusion of large and genuinely progressive movements under this designation:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/01/23/the-terrorism-suppression-act-since-2007/
I dropped in on Seven Sharp to see Hoskings’ defence of Key .. but he had none. Worse, he explained the downfalls of third term governments … goodness, the faithful are rattled.
Guess the black stuff on the floor is teflon falling off.
And three recorded instances of Key’s ponytail pulling ( counting the waitress as only one) … at the end of the day, it is even more creepy than it seemed this morning.
This won’t get smaller anytime soon.
Very good post by Chris Trotter:
http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2015/04/22/upbraided-but-not-undone-will-john-key-survive-tailgate/
He may appear to get away with it scot-free – its been my experience that sociopaths usually do – but I think he has been irrevocably damaged this time.
“He may appear to get away with it scot-free – its been my experience that sociopaths usually do – but I think he has been irrevocably damaged this time.”
I hope you’re right, Anne, and I had exactly the same feeling. But then I reminded myself of the many other times I’ve had that feeling and nothing’s happened. That’s the thing about Brand Key, and is precisely what Totter’s talking about. Nothing touches him.
I almost dropped the remote when hosking’s said “that’s why you don’t get 4 th term governments”
and the Telegraph UK tells it in no uncertain terms: with very clear focus on our heroine waitress:
“New Zealand PM John Key apologises for tugging waitress’s ponytail
Unnamed woman says it happened on at least six separate occasions and that she warned his security detail she would punch him if he continued ”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/newzealand/11553972/New-Zealand-PM-John-Key-apologises-for-tugging-waitresss-ponytail.html
“Guess the black stuff on the floor is teflon falling off.”
And the brown stuff on top is the Rust.
John Key: New Zealand prime minister’s weirdest moments (so far)
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/22/john-key-new-zealand-prime-ministers-weirdest-moments-so-far
International reputation fading…
Il Cretino according to the Italian media.
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gone
fucken hope so – dirty little creepkey
Let’s not get our hopes up. History has shown that he can get away with just about any bloody thing. The apathetic electorate still think he’s wonderful.
not when it’s their daughters’ hair he’s fondling. this is likely the game changer. no parent blue enough to ignore it.
I was pretty saddened to see that both the TV1 and TV3 lead news item on ponygate pointlessly contained clips of women saying they would be stoked to get their hair pulled by John Key…
because, absurdly, they are bound to present two sdes of same story …. but yes, how pointless. but chances are the women concerned did not know the full creepy stories as they have unfolded … they might regret it now. I have to hope so anyway. No-one can support him doing this repeatedly to young and very young girls. It’s filthy.
Of course there is a difference between women wanting Key to tug their hair, and waitress who doesn’t.
exactly!
I guess it’s a modern form of ‘fore-lock tugging’.
just about anything – it is time to go nuclear on creepkey
more than 630 comments under the Guardian story about Ponytailgate … one says they remember when Key pulled David Beckham’s pony tail .. just before Key told the Dunedin school kids he thought Beckham was ‘thick’.
Anyone recall such a photo or report of the story ?
Well the Guardian has a better balanced story than the Telegraph which starts raving on about how popular the Key government is as it has a rare third term .
Maybe it needs a better class of stringer.
3rd terms might be quite rare in Britain, since there’s are 5 years long – so a 2-term government for them is already longer than a 3-term one for us.
Look who else has a ponytail. Aroha Ireland, taken to Waitangi by FJK. That story now becomes creepier than it was before.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/10468960/Aroha-of-McGehan-Close-flees-NZ