ODT Watch | Issue 24

ODT Watch | Issue 24

Knee-high socks and sandals


Nearly 10,000 people aged between 18 and 34 in Dunedin are not enrolled to vote. Was the cover of last week’s Critic not clear enough?


This is one way to raise money for a new children’s playground: lure people to an old derelict hospital, bring it to life as a creepy asylum, and scare the money right out of people’s pockets! They’re even thinking about including live spiders in next year’s fundraiser.


Engaged and short on cash? Get married at your local grocery store! It may sound bizarre but that’s just what a Dunedin couple did last weekend. It actually turned out to be a bit of a shindig: 200 flash mob dancers, Tiki Taane playing some of his hit tunes and a Shortland Street star handing out promotional cheese were all part of the big day. Despite the bride being “very happy” with the celebration, I would be pretty upset if it was me, since my usual attire to the supermarket is either fat pants or gym gear.


I bet he was just burning for his turn to come.


So this boozer wandered outside in near-freezing conditions with minimal clothing, did he? Now he knows how it feels for us women going out every weekend wearing dresses in Dunedin’s glacial temperatures.


This article reports how students aren’t the only ones with a dress code: teachers are now expected to turn up to class in “correct uniform,” though we’re wondering when “plunging necklines,” “showing cleavage” or “stubbies” with “knee-high socks and sandals” were ever acceptable as teacher attire?
This article first appeared in Issue 24, 2014.
Posted 3:00pm Sunday 21st September 2014 by Kristen Stewart and Allison Hess.