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a lot of flicking of hair and groovy head action
And, well, that doesn't sound like George Michael's style at all .
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Southerly: One Hundred and Thirty-one…, in reply to Islander,
I suspect the "car-centric" label could be avoided by making a simple extension
(a cycle lane, if you like), viz:many of our roads ARE NOT built to cater for cyclists
... in addition to cars.
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Muse: On First Looking into Elizabeth…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
fie !
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[Christchurch insurance claims are] higher than lowly insured Japan
For comparisons with Japan, you do need to bear in mind that most buildings in Japan have a design life of only ca. 25 years, and have zero book value beyond that.
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Is the fact that it is possible to get some seats with less than 0.83% also the (ultimate) source of overhangs, or am I mixing up two entirely independent features of the system?
Winning a first electorate seat requires merely a plurality of electorate votes (for which, in most cases, ca. 40% of votes cast will be sufficient); and there are more electorate than list seats at present – which means that this threshold must also be considerably less than 0.83% of the total, and in some circumstances (such as a smaller electorate, with many candidates having non-negligible support) could even be less than 0.41%.
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Muse: Hooray for Wellywood (Really!), in reply to giovanni tiso,
When McDonald’s opened in the cathedral square in Milan, it was allowed to but couldn’t use its ordinary signage, on account of the fact that it was too loud and brand-y. I assume this has happened elsewhere as well.
Yes -- there's another example in Freiburg (where the McD is sited on the city's original main gate). I was relieved they hadn't painted the gate arch yellow.
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Hard News: The Political Lie, in reply to BenWilson,
Yeah, though we have to be careful how much we can assume in the negation.
If your results suggest that a null hypothesis is very unlikely,
that just means “there may be something here that needs an explanation”. -
Hard News: The Political Lie, in reply to Deborah,
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Things like homeopathy are more a way of reminding us that humans are, in general, and more than occasionally, irrational.
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Well, it’s real in terms of the government’s balance sheet, anyway – which may be too limited a way of looking at it, eh.