Posts by Steve Barnes
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Hard News: When the Weather is the News, in reply to David Hood,
this ignoble prize winning article from Preventive and Social Medicine at Otago University.
About halfway through reading that I wondered, as you do, "Did the participants get to keep the socks?"
Although participants in the intervention group were told that they could keep their socks, many (who appeared to have image issues) opted to return them to the outcome assessors —including one young man who promptly fell on leaving the assessment area.
Ah, schadenfreude.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to tussock,
Ball sports involve moving a ball to the opponents end of the field,
What about those Lawn Bows eh? or Ten Pin Bowling?
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Nope. For some reason, perhaps those apes who problems got eaten, things seem to float in appropriate places.
I must be descended from the wrong ape.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Stephen Judd,
If you don’t sweat it isn’t a sport
If that is the case then it would be quite difficult to tell if swimming were a sport or not.
@Ben.In naked swimming, the balls are even on display.
And even in the way, try a vigorous "Crawl" where there would be a high probability of entanglement. It brings a tear to the eye just contemplating such an activity.
On a more pressing note it looks like a promising evening for some non-competitive beer supping in Kingsland @ Te Neighbourhood, 6 o'clock kick off I suggest.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Rich Lock,
So it goes.
Or, in the case of the offending ad campaign, So it went.
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Well, according to Wikipedia to qualify as a Sport it must involve Balls.
So Ballroom dancing qualifies because it has room for the defining object. -
Well that was short lived, the Telecom ad that is. I can now understand the Latest Logo, admittedly stolen from Kurt Vonnegut
The above drawing by Vonnegut is from Breakfast of Champions. It's of an asshole.
Kevin Roberts? fixated much?
Anyway, something must be done to get these slackers behind the All Blacks. We need real leadership and our risk taker/trader Prime Minister is the man for the job.
How about resigning if the All Blacks lose? Now, that would get the juices flowing. -
Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Sacha,
you're thinking of fruit and veges :)
Got Milk?
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
“But we can’t use words that imply sudden departurelike absquatulation, or absence, abscond or abscess, even”“oooh, I know, abstemious sounds good…”“Hell no, we don’t want the sponsors products undrunk!”“So I guess abstract is too insubstantial, then…”
You forgot Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS)
The all plastic all blacks...
Or anti-lock braking system (ABS, from German: Antiblockiersystem)
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Barrytrevorbruce,
So this is now what marketing is....
Indeed. The whole Adidas debacle was, in my opinion, just a marketing ploy. The $220 RRP was just that, a recommended retail price. I would guess, going on past experience in th retail sector, that the wholesale price would be around $50-55 allowing a resale mark-up of 150%. A retailer could afford to "drop" the RRP and still make a fair profit as turnover would increase as a result of the extra publicity caused by the "outrageous" price calculating that the "once in a lifetime chance" to own such a shirt would outweigh the negative perception.