Posts by linger
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Cracker: The Colorado Experiment, in reply to BenWilson,
Time will tell.
If it's allowed to, without being jostled by the jerking of knees.
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Yeah... that answer in particular is an amazing avoidance of the question actually asked.
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Hard News: Jones: The contender leaves, in reply to ,
willing to help irradiate pest animals
Awesome. Spotlighting them so that others can shoot? or nuking them from orbit ’cos it’s the only way to be sure?
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Access: What disability is, in reply to Hebe,
Bloody hell. What does that status "official language" mean if it doesn't include status as an accreditable subject in the state education system!?
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Access: What disability is, in reply to Kumara Republic,
simulate the real experiences of the disabled.
I may be misremembering, but wasn’t that one of the episodes of The Big Experiment (after the ones on gender and race)?
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Kitchen stool… If it’s a question of hygiene, underpants and straining should never be mentioned in the same sentence (let alone in a recipe) … but I am envious all the same: my paternal grandfather’s notion of cooking was to boil everything into submission. For days, if necessary. And as for seasonings, well, even salt was viewed with some suspicion.
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Hard News: Standing together, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
This was tea alright
-- tea real Maori?
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Southerly: How I Became a Grumpy Old…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
You didn't consider mowing your meadow? Cows up here would appreciate such green fodder.
Or just grab a local cow = mooing your meadow.
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Hard News: The Language of Climate, in reply to Bart Janssen,
There have been huge changes in aircraft engines, particularly around noise, perhaps a stronger focus on fuel efficiency […]
Yes, though engine noise is an efficiency problem, not just a compliance/comfort issue.
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Hard News: The Language of Climate, in reply to Kumara Republic,
The exact classical logical fallacy committed in that "you stop it first before I'll listen to you" argument is tu quoque (lit. "you also", i.e. "you do it too"). Which is a fallacy because it still does not make doing that thing RIGHT!