<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side two <&>15:54 four triple nine seven eleven is the number you're most welcome to give us a call the lines <&>16:00 are now open and there are lines free morning mollie oh good morning look i'd first like to comment about the black power does this occur often does it the er <{><[>loud the loud noise apparently according to the er residents er in kensington street certainly <[>parties oh but look everyone's entitled to have a party now and then i i sort of feel a bit sorry for them <{><[>word <[>mollie i couldn't agree more with that but um i really do i mean we <.>p we live in a suburban er you know nice area we pair we put up with people having parties and you hear them from miles <{><[>away <[>how frequently though <{><[>mollie <[>and it's it's not the <.>y <{1><[1>young kids it's the older kids <{2><[2>we once had the noise control come and ask us to take you know they'd take away our band laughs <[1>mm <[2>sure A BAND <{><[>what were you doing with a BAND in your house <[>well we had a band no we we had it at a in a backyard you see and <{1><[1>of course it came and went and two three oclock came and of course you don't you DO tend to get have a few drinks and you do forget about the time now <{2><[2>i i sort of i want to sort of go out and um all fairness for the black power <[1>mm <[2>mm mm they're not all that bad oh no <{><[>i'm sure <&>17:00 <[>we've got them living round here and and er i mean to say i you know they look all that tough rough and all that <{1><[1>i think just all normal human beings after <{2><[2>all they've got mothers and fathers most of them i hope um <{3><[3>laughs but <[1>no <[2>course they are course they're normal human beings <[3>laughs well they have it's a biological fact of life but they're still human beings and i think they're not all bad i mean just because they look a bit dirty <{><[>but <.>the they're NOT some of them are scrupulously clean <[>mm mollie we're not saying that they're bad it's just that they've caused general annoyance to the neighbourhood in <{><[>kensington street no believe <[>but look there's always some neighbours that have a complaint it doesn't matter where you live well mollie if we've talked to a number of the neighbours in kensington street who unfortunately wouldn't come on the programme no doubt because they do fear these rather intimidating looking people that live in their midst and what they say is that it's it's a an absolutely frequent occurrence <{><[>that it happens with a monotonous regularity they never get to sleep at night <[>why don't they why don't get them all <&>pronounced as tall together and have a sort of a sit down and say <&>18:00 look you know we'll meet you half way but i mean i don't think they're big enough to do that any of them well i don't know if you heard rei harris on yesterday and he said that um er in fact if people give them a call they will turn it down <{><[>but no but according oh damn <[>that's right if they went up and face to face it's behind the backs this is what they don't like mm but according to the neighbours <{><[>they do well hang on mollie they do call according to the neighbours they do call frequently the black power members they turn the music down for ten minutes and then up it goes again <[>no well you see they're gutless but it wouldn't be the black power it'd be some other person <{><[>had come and turn it up <[>oh bound to be are you a black power member are you mollie no i'm not <{><[>i'm i'm laughs <[>do you wear a patch on your back <{><[>come on come clean <[>i'm a fifty year old pakeha <.>wo pakeha woman no i'm not <{><[>i just think that pardon <[>and you're a sickly white liberal obviously you're a sickly white liberal that's right <{><[>but i still believe that everyone is entitled to have a party and all this hue and cry because they had one <[>voc thought i'd get a bite look i i've i i couldn't argue with you at all <{><[>mollie that people are entitled to have a <.>p exactly <[>it must have been a bit over the odds <&>19:00 but look i've seen some young KIDS around our neighbourhood have them going on to four oclock in the morning mm and the noise is absolutely obscene and the <{><[>cars revving up and down motorbikes all that sort of thing it happens everywhere in every walk of life <[>yes you live in a bad neighbourhood mollie no i don't <{><[>i live in a wonderful neighbourhood <[>you do so mollie you live in a bad neighbourhood that's rather a noisy one no i live in a lovely quiet <{><[>refined one and all i get is the burglar alarms going off all day with the SUN <[>oh do you oh do you oh i see in the hot weather <{1><[1>but also i would like comment <{2><[2>to about the homosexual <[1>mm <[2>oh mhm now have you got <{><[>children <[>i'll bet i'll bet you're liberal on those lot as well oh no i'm oh you're NOT no no oh <.>d you like the black power but you don't like the gays laughs <{><[>i i have got very many good friends who are gay <[>laughs yes but have you got children i've got three daughters have you <{><[>mhm <[>well i've got a son too yeah and i always told my daughters about talked <&>20:00 about you know rape but i never told my son when he was fifteen about what would happen when he went to a work do and somebody got him plied with alcohol and took him back to his flat and and indecently assaulted him <{><[>that's cause you never think to tell them <[>what <.>you you're meaning another <.>y you're meaning another male yes is that what happened to <{><[>him <[>yes it did <{><[>oh dear <[>and until then i had thought they were my best friends the gay crowd i had been a very open minded about them it certainly closes you down in a hurry but i tell you what mollie that happens also in the heterosexual <&>pronounced hetralsexual <{><[>heterosexual community these lecherous old men that take these young girls HOME for a quiet drink and then er interfere with them look look i'll tell you what mollie i can be perfectly up front about this as a sixteen year old i had a another male <[>oh i do believe so yes put his hand down the front of my right knickers <{><[>i got such a fright i didn't know what to do went home and told me mum i did and of course we thought nothing more of it I didn't have a closed mind to gays because of that i simply see it as um some people in the community <&>21:00 whether they be gay or heterosexual take advantages er advantage of situations <[>laughs but then again and i don't think you should close your mind to gays <{><[>because something naughty happened to your son <[>i'm not closing my mind truly i'm not closing my mind what i'm saying is there's situations where they should not be in like i e working with children <{><[>in child care centres that sort of thing <[>rubbish absolute rubbish you're assuming that all gay people have a propensity to interfere with <{><[>children <[>no i'm not <{><[>i'm saying if you place <[>well why on earth are you worried about it then if you place temptation in their way <{><[>it look i <[>oh for good so that's like saying you're placing er with a heterosexual in charge of children you're placing temptation in their way as well well i don't feel like that i just <{1><[1>think that i've <{2><[2>been very open minded all my i've <{3><[3>got very many GOOD gay friends i mean when i say gay MEN who came round here dressed as females and actually er <{4><[4>my husband pardon <[1>oh <[2>god <[3>mm <[4>transvestites yeah i tell you what after today's call you won't have many friends in the gay community WHY i'm not putting them down you are so you're saying that they they have a propensity if er a um a <&>22:00 temptation is put in front of them if a CHILD is put in front of them then they could interfere with that child i voc to me i say the argument equally applies to the heterosexual community right right but it's more so if you're that way inclined <{1><[1>i mean look if a if you're a well known burglar and i mean you say you're reformed but if somebody leaves their till open in the shop and you walk out and go out on the pavement are you not going to say that you're gonna just not be TEMPTED it's the same sort of <{2><[2>thing if temptation's put there in front of you LOOK if you're an arsonist and there's a box of matches and a and a pile of kindling you're not going to think about it and when the thought's there that's when the seed's sown <[1>oh <[2>exhales you finished mollie yeah well not laughs really oh you're not i'm not against <{><[>them <[>i've only got one word <&>pronounced words to say to you one word to say to you mollie BOLLOCKS thank you for your call though nice to have you on the programme this morning mollie you're a very entertaining caller you were exhales entertaining but <&>23:00 perhaps a little misguided four triple nine seven eleven is the number give us a call the lines are open they're open er for you to have your say have your say about anything you like you don't have to talk about gays you don't have to talk about NOISE you can talk about anything you like four triple nine seven eleven the soap box IS yours and if you're calling from out of town of course put a zero four in front of the number and your call will be given priority four triple nine seven eleven is the number <&>23:23 <&>advertisements not transcribed <&>25:00 and here's me talking for me supper four triple nine seven eleven there is a full board of calls at the moment when there is a line free i'll let you know and we'll go and have a chat to anthony for a start <,,> gidday anthony hi hi barry <{><[>how are you <[>gidday good thank you yeah right um i i don't really know the situation about this kensington street and the and the noise and so forth <{><[>but i just speaking about noise in general um i i i live quite close to the winter show buildings <[>mm yeah and sort of sort of once a month they have a concert or something like <{1><[1>that or a some kind of party with a band and it goes till eleven twelve or one one thirty in the <{2><[2>morning um the only problem with those is is you generally get car windows and house windows smashed up as well <{3><[3>while i suppose that's not that wouldn't generally happen at parties that's just this kind of concert thing <[1>mm <[2>yeah <[3>voc mm um <{><[>but i i <[>particularly if they're those heavy metal head bangers well they er it depends on the people who go to <&>26:00 the concert <{1><[1>cause you i i i don't don't know that you get so many of the head bangers here <{2><[2>oh a certain number probably are quite loud but um yeah i i'm pretty anti noise in general <[1>mm <[2>mm mm um cos nowadays you you get people driving down the street with loud stereos going in their cars and all mm and and with these <.>g i i i asked a guy on the bus the other day to to turn his walkman down cos he was blasting the whole bus laughs his walkman yeah imagine what it must have sounded like in his EARS right and and yeah i i i said to him oh look you're not actually allowed to play radios on the bus and when you've got that turned up <.>i it's a it constitutes a radio he says oh look no this is a walkman it's not a radio you know you know the whole bus could hear him laughs and he he i talked very nicely to him and and and he turned it down and and the whole bus sort of breathed <{><[>you could feel a sigh of relief over the whole bus but <[>laughs i'll tell you er you imagine it though because of course with these walkman um players they have the er headphones on and you can imagine <&>27:00 his his HEARING must have been severely impaired yeah i i i think i think once i don't know you sort of wonder once once people get to the level where they i don't know maybe they just don't think about it but <{1><[1>sort of er well i don't know i i used to like a bit of loud music <{2><[2>when i was about twenty or so <{3><[3>but but it's it it it's pretty bad when it's it's putting other people out it's really making other people's life a misery that that's when it's it's pretty antisocial really <{4><[4>i i <[1>mm <[2>sure <[3>yeah <[4>to me anthony noise pollution rate ranks up there with environmental pollution mm <{><[>yeah <[>i can't stand it no <{><[>no not at all <[>well i don't mind a bit of noise i'm not saying that <{1><[1>i just can't stand this pounding and as i said yesterday about this kensington street problem <{2><[2>er with the black power the dreadful thing is if somebody does have a stereo turned up all <&>pronounced alls you get is the bass <{3><[3>so you just get this constant boomp boomp boomp all night and it drives me mad <[1>no no yeah sure <[2>mm <[3>yeah yeah or or <{><[>totally <[>although i don't get it in my neighbourhood oh oh right <{1><[1>yes of course well we we used to get it in karori and we had a <{2><[2>word <[1>yes laughs <&>28:00 <[2>oh did you out in karori we we had had it next door there oh <{><[>dear <[>used to used to drive my father <{><[>mad <[>where are you living now er newtown oh you've gone upmarket <{><[>now <[>yeah oh it's very civilised here barry good on you mate <{><[>nice to have your call anthony bye <[>yeah okay yep bye <&>28:12