It was a bad week for Auckland university literature professor Brian Boyd, who was revealed as an associate of Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>, brought together by their mutual interest in the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. How was he to know that the billionaire with an obsessive passion for a book about paedophilic desire was a creep?\u00a0<\/p>\n It was a good week for The Spinoff writer Hayden Donnell, who managed to wring yet another story out of his decade-long obsession with the Waitangi dildo<\/a>.<\/p>\n It was a bad week for Wellington\u2019s south coast, with raw sewage spilling into the ocean after a \u201ccatastrophic failure\u201d at the Moa Point wastewater treatment plant. It\u2019s the worst thing to happen to Wellington\u2019s swimming beaches since this photo of Andy Foster:<\/p>\n It was a good week for the laser kiwi flag, which has been adapted to a symbol of resistance against ICE<\/a> by the designer of the Minnesota state flag, proving that New Zealand\u2019s greatest export is high-powered shitposting.\u00a0<\/p>\n It was a bad week for Tauranga Mayor Mahe Drysdale, who has resorted to begging for donations to help repair his storm-ravaged region. It turns out the government scrapped the $6b climate resilience fund and replaced it with a glorified Givealittle page.\u00a0<\/p>\n It was a good week for pearl-clutchers, after the latest BSA survey found New Zealanders were becoming less tolerant of swearing<\/a>. The whole country is turning into pathetic fucking bitch losers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n