Posts by Jake Pollock
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I demonstrate Darroch's Law with this tune about Lily Allen's attitude to file-sharing (courtesy of Simon Grigg).
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The thing is that the very worst shit tends to go down when the big obvious TV cameras aren't there. (Strangely enough.)
What is this all about?
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Hmm, well apparently the hardcore protesters when completely dark -- no twitter, no cell phones. That seems like a good way to get yourself in trouble you can't get out of.
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It's interesting that you note the dutiful adding of hashtags to tweets about fashion week. As a friend of mine pointed out, the disorganisation of the protest movement against the Pittsburgh G20 is such that they have five or six different hashtags in use, and key organisers (like, say the legal helpline for protesters) aren't using any.
As a result, the G20 isn't really trending, and if it does it will be all the residents of Pittsburgh complaining about the protests that get seen, and not the protesters themselves. Massive fail, really.
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After the post-Superbowl riots in Pittsburgh in February the (29 year old) Mayor banned couches on porches throughout the city. Seemed like overkill to stamp out a practice confined strictly to one neighbourhood.
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The best thing about the town hall crazies is how they've told us that Obama is simultaneously a fascist and a communist.
That's because it's not a spectrum. And when you go to the extremes, they meet at the back in the middle. That's why the anarchists that are going to protest the G-20 in Pittsburgh in a couple of weeks are also all fascists.
I learned that on Fox News.
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Yes Amy, but the passive aggression that seems to permeate every parent-undergraduate grouping by the end of the move-in period makes it all worth it.
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to make sure all the appropriate bits of her brain are still working
I'm an admirer of the many inappropriate bits of Emma's brain, and hope they remain fully functional as well.
Speedy recovery, Emma.
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For all I know you could wind up being like Jake, globetrotting and publishing articles in the NZJH and whatnot!
*blush* but I ought to confess that
they spent at least a year falling down, throwing up, and smashing letterboxes. Any course-work handed in would be done in a blaze of panic; a couple of hastily-typed pages thrown together and sprinted across campus to be flung in a submissions box seconds before the deadline.
played no small part in my undergraduate life.
Apart from the letterboxes. My stepdad taught at the local high school, and ours came in for enough of a beating that I never felt the need to deal to another.