Posts by Russell Brown
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Yeah, that McCarten column was curiously pissy, wasn't it?
The guys at The Standard are a similar mode -- feigning outrage over Key's supposed transgressions and blunders. They need to chill out: I expect there will be things to get decently outraged before too long.
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Okay, now I'm scared out of taking Panadol. So, the guy who's going through a multi-session root canal should take what? morphine? I knew the day would come when I would rely on PAS for pharmaceutical advice...
It's a shame that the painkillers that really work for the big jobs are so sodding hard to get, on account of their abusive potential. For dental pain, you really want opiates.
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Then again I'm not a journalist and I don't know the subtleties of proper attribution.
I just had a look. Hmmm. I don't think I'd be comfortable with that.
But it can be difficult when you have a column-writing job that basically involves you synthesising interesting news and knowledge in your topic area. You have to put some effort into rephrasing the ideas in your own voice, and attribute or directly quote where you can't do that.
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Good post about the Noelle business on Peter Hoar's new blog
Noelle's off air till Boxing Day, but back for Summer Noelle.
It probably wouldn't even have been that if John Howson hadn't blurted to the media before considering her case.
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On Radio NZ (buggar their marketing), whos boyfriend did Noelle steal to get knocked off the air? Some Jurno student who still has their uni login to use turnitin ?
She had to apologise but she's still on air.
The handful of items she got caught on were certainly improperly attributed -- she used whole sentences and turns of phrase from UK newspaper stories. That's at least sloppy.
But they were also fairly ephemeral -- a chat at the top of the hour isn't quite the same thing as, say, handing in a plagiarised story with your byline on it.
Ironically, a good many radio hosts spout words that aren't their own in such circumstances. They just get their producers to write it for them.
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Allow me to toss in "Labour Plus".
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Lyndon: bravo, sir. I believe that should get a special judge's award for outstandingly non-compliant entry allowed on grounds of brilliance.
Agreed. That was superb.
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Do not use any syrup containing paracetamol - could be fatal.
Quite. It's amazing how many people actually are killed by ingesting paracetamol every year.
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__and the second is, well, an advertisement__
Yeah - but...!
Yes, I know.
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According to that link it sounds pretty resistable. You'd have to sink at least 250ml of vile-flavoured concoction just to reach the "fourth plateau", and still only experience stage one hallucinations, i.e. distortions of mundane reality. To make it worthwhile you'd expect to be able to see things that aren't even there.
I don't think you read that right ...
**Fourth plateau:** At 15.0 mg/kg or more, an individual may experience a perceived loss of contact and control with their own body, changes in visual perception, out-of-body experiences, perceptions of contact with "superior," supernatural, or other archetypal beings (ie. gods, aliens, vampires, etc.), other miscellaneous delusions, lack of movement or desire to move, rapid heart rate, complete blindness, increased hearing, and intensification of third plateau effects.
Yo.
DXM is the drug of choice in the US southern hip-hop scene. If I was 22, I'm sure I'd be necking a bottle to see what happened (in isolation, it doesn't seem to pose a significant risk to heath) . Now? Not so much.
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