Posts by John Fouhy
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@Heather W: http://www.brailletshirts.com/
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Richard Long, writing on Stuff:
The awful driving statistics for [15 to 24-year-olds] are made worse by our Anglo-Celtic genes which seem to inspire binge drinking in many adolescents, with young women (the ladettes) now alarmingly emulating the males.
It's all William the Conqueror's fault!
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One wonders if they will test for people under the influence of (legal) prescription drugs...
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At the risk of being obvious: if you showed me a Spanish sitcom, or some Japanese current affairs, or an Israeli crime drama, I wouldn't have the faintest idea what was going on.
But if you show me some guys playing sport, even if the commentation is in foreign and I don't know the rules, I can probably follow 60% of what's going on, and working out the rules can be interesting on its own..
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For that kind of money, you could pick up a mac mini and an eyetv..
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Incidentally, I'm not a twitter user (yet..?), but the impression I get of it is that it's for:
a. Talking to people you know, and
b. Reading short thoughts from people you don't know.(I suppose there is also
c. Sending short thoughts to people following you.
but I don't see myself as the type to attract stranger followers)
Is that right? With that picture, it doesn't seem to have much to offer me. I'd rather read stranger's thoughts on blogs, and I don't talk to people much in general. Or is there more to it?
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I thought some of the complains had merit. I recall having trouble navigating the site for a while. I don't have those troubles now, but that's because I've learnt it -- whereas with much of the internet, I'm a native. ^O^
Also, when I signed up here, I posted this complaint to my own blog. I don't know if that still holds true. I suspect that was in the days before Firefox 3 gave me full-page zoom and made the web readable again.
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Maybe we need more automation in parliament!
We could start with a few tape recordings of people shouting "Hear hear!" and "Shame!".
I'm sure a competant DJ could replace 80% of the house in the debating chamber..
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"Prospective cohort and case-control studies suggest an association between low folate intake and increased risk of colo-rectal adenoma and cancer."
link"In adult life folate deficiency has been known for decades to produce a characteristic form of anaemia ("megaloblastic"). More recently degrees of folate inadequacy, not severe enough to produce anaemia, have been found to be associated with high blood levels of the amino acid homocysteine. [...] High blood levels of homocysteine have been linked with the risk of arterial disease, dementia and Alzheimer's disease."
linkMy question for the masses: How do you get folate in your diet normally?
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Thanks.
Hmm, looks like whoever titled that article got their maths backwards..