Posts by Yamis
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From a selfish point of view I'm a bit disappointed because it means I have to continue to put up with 16, 17 and 18 year olds organising where they are getting wasted at this weekend while they are supposed to be doing the class work they've been set :(
On the flip side I remember being a 19 year old in my 3rd year at University STILL not being able to drink alcohol and being fucking annoyed by it. Of course they lowered the drinking age about a year later :( It's OK though, I've made up for lost time.
I was actually in favour of the split age.
You can drink when you are 18 but it must be in a 'semi' controlled environment (your mates garage with 94 other people doesn't fit this category).As long as the purchase age is 18 from a liquor store then the drinking age will basically be 16-17 (and lower) and that's the reality. Education, and laws about supplying minors and all that guff will not change that. Because that law gets broken relentlessly every Friday night by a teenager near you.
There's nothing for it. I'm off to get a drink.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Impermanence, in reply to Danielle,
The Atlantic article is very interesting but sheds no light on my favourite part, Inexplicable Pelvic-Thrusting Cowboy Hat Guy in Elevator (at about 1.55). Yes, I have watched this video one gazillion times. DON'T JUDGE ME.
Here's a clip of this years incarnation featuring cowboy hat dude (though with his hair dyed).
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Hard News: Friday Music: Impermanence, in reply to Danielle,
The Atlantic article is very interesting but sheds no light on my favourite part, Inexplicable Pelvic-Thrusting Cowboy Hat Guy in Elevator (at about 1.55). Yes, I have watched this video one gazillion times. DON'T JUDGE ME.
Sorry, joined this a bit late. The cowboy dude in the elevator is a famous Korean comedian. There may be some 'deeper' meaning for it but from my following of Korean comedy shows/humour I'd say it's more likely just them playing silly buggars.
I spend most Friday and Saturday nights getting boozed watching sport on the telly while my wife sits in front of the computer getting boozed watching Korean drama's and comedies, and game shows etc.
They have a group of about 20? famous comedians who do 'gag shows' each week (that would feature anything from say 4 of them to a dozen or more depending on the format, and when one gets a bit stale they ditch it and come up with a new one. They are extremely low budget and extremely bloody popular.
Even with my rudimentary Korean they can be quite entertaining as they rely a lot on sight gags, often involving some degree of pain.
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Armstrong may well have been the best cyclist of all time, and was most likely the best cyclist of the past couple of decades.
BUT he ruined any chance of being called that now.
Because the doping was so widespread all his team mates and nearest rivals appear to have been doping as well but that doesn't make it right of course.
I thought it was pretty awful reading about the cyclist who WAS clean but was being vilified by the other tour riders for daring to call out all the dopers and give the sport a bad name.
One thing for sure though, next year there will be millions lining the streets of France once again...
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CIA liespotting expert says ....... guilty.
http://liespotting.com/2011/06/liespotting-lance-armstrong-part-2-expert-analysis/
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Hard News: Paying for what doesn't come…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Those things totally exist in the DAB world. But it seems that not much has happened with DAB in New Zealand in the last 18 months.
Imagine how useful DAB instant rewind would be for Morning Report or to catch the names of artists on music radio. Sigh.Next you'll be telling me they've actually already invented stuff that grills sliced bread!! pfffft.
Out of interest (because I will never be able to afford one) what are modern cars doing in terms of factory radios?? Any chance that this sort of technology will become the norm in new vehicles?
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Hard News: Paying for what doesn't come…, in reply to Russell Brown,
I sort of meant a portable device. A radio that you can cart around with you that can pick up stations and then be programmed to record them or whatever. It obviously wouldn't be cheap (at first anyway). And no, I don't mean one with a bloody tape deck in it to record on to. I mean something more sophisticated :)
Including car radio's that do the same.
I'd quite like to be able to get in my car for the drive home at the end of the day and be able to listen to some of a show from earlier in the day, or a commentary that I'd missed, or an interview...
At the moment you're just at the mercy of whoever is on, or whatever ads are playing, over and over ... and they are basically all to do with penis's on radio sport (directly or indirectly).
I don't imagine there's much demand for it now but I see it as being something that might well be developed over the next decade or two.
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I was thinking a bit a while back about whether there will ever be something similar to MYSKY developed for radio.
I realise that some radio stations have 'listen back' options at their websites but I'm thinking more of a 'radio box' where you could set it to record particular shows on particular stations to listen back to at your leisure later on.
As an example I listen to Radio Sport A LOT but there are some hosts I can't stand and some I enjoy and find entertaining, but basically if you miss their show then it's gone for good. Ya missed it.
Also there are commentaries of matches that you might like to listen to later as though they are live (especially if you haven't heard the result). That's what I do with most sport on TV.
Radio Sport now has live English Premier League games on each weekend from midnight until 6am and that's something people could record and listen to when they wake up perhaps.
I wouldn't expect it to be anywhere near as big as the TV equivalent but there's no reason why there couldn't be particular radio stations that sign up to it and are available and some sort of annual or monthly subscription with the money being shared out.
Anyway, just some ideal futuristic thinking :)
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Hard News: And so it begins, in reply to Jeremy Eade,
One of the big improvements in schools has been the move to smaller class sizes. The ability to answer individual queries from the class is a massive prerequisite for more productive learning.... yet only recently we saw are very uneducated move to increase class size.
I don't know when this move to smaller class sizes was.
I started teaching in an NZ secondary school in 2006 and my classes are the same size now as they were then.
Roughly 27-28 average when 20-24 would be sensible. Especially given how there is WAY MORE weight on internal assessment now than there used to be, Remember when subjects ould have 20-40 percent internal assessment? Like year 13 Geography was 34% internal and 76% external???? Well now at my school it is currently 67% internal and 33% external so we do all the fucking assessing and marking work and don't get paid an extra cent!!!!.
I'm all for some monitoring of the achievement of students at primary school because we have SOOOOOOOO many students coming to our school who are 12-13 years of age who have a reading and writing age of 8, 9, 10, who we cannot catch up (because we don't have sufficiant resourcing) so that they can realistically get to Level 1, 2 and then 3 before they leave school.
It actually fucks them up and fucks everybody else up in their class because we are constantly having to waste our time explaining simple shit that should be obvious, or behaviour management because kids aren't 'getting' it.
And I'm at a decile 5 school with a range of ability (we literally have decile 1 criminals to decile 10 scholars).
By god I would hate to be at a decile one school. I've been to some with sports teams and it's a bit scary. Those that work there deserve gold medals but all they typically get is either sympathy or abuse.
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Semenya ran a season best in the final after placing 3rd in her first round race and running a season best in her semi (which she then beat again in the final). If she had been throwing it then she wouldn't have had the same worries coming up to the Olympics because those middle distance runners are running hard in the leadup. Many will be running, or throwing or whatevering further, harder, faster etc in their training beforehand. Adams was apparently throwing it further in training than she did at the Games (though there's been some well publicised reasons why that might have happened).
It did look like she let herself miss the jump down the back straight and had a hell of a lot of ground to make up late on but that happens to runners all the time.
It's easy for us looking from an elevated side profile TV view, but on the track when your legs and lungs are burning and all you can see is peoples bums off in the distance, trying to work out if they're getting further away and if so at what speed, then it might take an extra second or two to realise your in the shit. And it's too late to make up for it at the death.