Posts by Steve Barnes
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Up Front: Casual, Shallow and Meaningless, in reply to Sacha,
I could see " Facebook" being an answer to that.
Do you reckon young people think of that as "reading"?How could they not?
Unless, of course, they were just looking at the pictures but then someone that illiterate could not set up a Facebook page on account of not being able to read.
So, if it's got words and you can understand them then you are reading. QED.
annat.
Even following the instructions on a pack of 2 minute noodles is reading.
In fact, anything more complex than that eats into valuable TV time. -
Munters AB | Isafjordsg 1, Kista Entré | P.O. Box 1188 | S-164 26 Kista| Sweden
So now you know. ;-)Or As wiki says
munter (plural munters)
(UK, slang, pejorative) An ugly woman
I’m never going to date her, she’s a right munter.
(New Zealand, slang) A person often impaired by alcohol or recreational drugs
He’s a real munter; He was really munted at the party. -
Excelunt Mr X, Excelunt
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That picture kinda says "I've got one too"
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Up Front: Casual, Shallow and Meaningless, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
‘Vibrancy’
I think that would be a great descriptor for Christchurch.
"What do you do?"
"I vibrate" -
Smalltalk? pub
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Up Front: Casual, Shallow and Meaningless, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Is this were you furrow your brow enigmatically, and say that you have issues with Andrew Lang’s Anglocentric bias and cultural insenitivity?
Then compare them with Hitler?
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Hard News: Thinking Digital, in reply to merc,
Oh dear, T.S. Elliot, my bad, thanks for not shaming me…
A simple mistake...
"The Waste Land" is notable for its seemingly disjointed structure, indicative of the Modernist style of James Joyce's Ulysses (which Eliot cited as an influence and which he read the same year that he was writing "The Waste Land").
[flounces off feeling all proud about his ability to use wikipedia]
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Curran asked Joyce directly “do you believe in convergence?”
“I fear those big words' Stephen said 'which make us so unhappy. I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.”
Joyce criticised Curran’s push for another look at the terms under which broadband is being provided. “We should get on and finish UFB,” he said. “Why would you want to stop the process. A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”
This stuff writes itself.
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Hard News: Thinking Digital, in reply to merc,
Phew, Joyce’s vision thing.
Not James Joyce then?
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