Posts by Graeme Edgeler
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I like the taste of beer -- it's quenching and it's one of the few cold drinks (yes, obviously, apart from water) that isn't sweet, which makes it good with food.
Milk? Some lemonades? (Charlies has a lot of sugar, but I wouldn't exactly describe it as sweet)
Also, there's a "fun" case you come across early in one's law degree which explains that if you can't physically get drunk off something (e.g. a low alcohol beer you'd need to drink a physically impossible amount to get drunk) then it isn't covered by licensing laws (which is how dairies and supermarkets first started stocking that low alcohol stuff).
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And hit parents/friends/acquaintances with the $2k fines that the law provides for supply to minors.
That's an interesting theory, but parents are allowed to provide alcohol to their children, and their children are allowed to drink it.
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If Anne Tolley thinks Professor John Hattie's monumental "study of studies" on student achievement will have a “profound influence” on the future of schooling in New Zealand, does she now feel a bit silly having just forced through education amendments enshrining constant testing and teaching-to-test -- two of the top five things Hattie found do not aid student achievement?
And my thought when I read the news report over the weekend was the opposite. New research comes out that "shows that the key to effective teaching is the quality of the feedback students get..." and I thought 'hey! Didn't National just pass a law so that they could set standards and force schools to provide quality feedback on individual performance?'.
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Neither shows up in the preview.
Nor it seems, after I press post!!
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Off topic (I know there was a discussion in an earlier post, but I'm a little too lazy to find it) but before we move PA System from it's beta-phase, can we fix up the problem with italics?
It's always looked like the gap between the close of an italicisation and the next word was a little small, but I put that down to the characters being slanted, and filling up some of the gap.
It's taken me a very long time to figure out what it actually going on. The first character after an italicisation (usually a space, sometimes punctuation) goes missing (at least in the preview, I'll find out if it's in the comment proper when I press post... )
My first paragraph in this comment includes a question mark in my typing box, and the third a space after "very". Neither shows up in the preview.
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But Stadium . Always Stadium .
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I was regularly attending rugby games at Lancaster Park*.
*And no, I will never call it anything else.
And why would you? I had understood that the ground at which Test Cricket was played in Christchurch was Lancaster Park. As a sop to traditionalists at the time the naming rights were sold, they only sold the naming rights to the stadium , not the ground.
You watch the All Blacks play rugby on Lancaster Park from Jade Stadium.
An excellent question for pub quizzes!
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Doh!
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Oh, and Hadyn, draws in ODIs are pretty rare. Prepare yourself for a loss.
New Zealand is currently in playing a series of 5 ODIs against the West Indies. The third is tommorow. Neither of the first two matches saw a winner. Are you sure that it's not ties that are pretty rare?
If these don't count as draws, is not the reason that draws are pretty rare in ODIs that it's not actually possible to get a draw?
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I get the broad point about hyperbole, but there's a hell of a lot more rugby played that NFL. Still, the bestest culture is a drag.
At the top-level? I'm not sure sure. The NFL is at the pinnacle of American Football, tests are at the pinnacle of Rugby. I'd say there were NFL matches than test matches in your average year (certainly between the top teams). An NPC final is never going to worthy of a best-game-ever accolade.
Plus, the analog of Rugby is American Football, not the NFL. There's a hell of a lot more American Football played than there is Tri-Nations :-)
The 2000 Bledisloe was a great game - and great thanks go to the boot of Andrew Merhtens - but the test write-up to which you link is a little odd:
it took Jonah Lomu's injury-time try to separate the two teams, who had both crossed for five tries each.
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when Lomu crashed over for the winning try in the 78th minute, the crowd knew they had witnessed something special.
Was it in injury time or not? And wasn't it only the boot which separated the teams? It's not like Lomu's try put New Zealand ahead on tries ... it caught us up is all.