Posts by Lyndon Hood
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Apostrafing could also be something an overzealous rhetorician would do.
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Seeing as I just saw it...
McSweeney's: An Interview with Dr. Cruelty Regarding the Supervillain Sense of Humor
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Re: Jimmy Carr, it's probably worth noting the joke is about but isn't at the expense of amputees. Which distinction tends to be lost as the blood rises.
There will be about who thing you shouldn't make jokes about some things as well, but I can't say as I recall ever agreeing.
Mind you, in assessing my opinion on this you may want to take into account that I also think The Chaser's Make-A-Realistic-Wish Foundation sketch wasn't at the expense of kids with cancer either.
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It just dawned on me that when Tolley tries to get her drive to mediocrity through parliament...
As Russell notes, the standards thing was passed under urgency first thing. Much all the urgent things they've been advancing under urgency in the last five weeks. And a third of their term. Car crushing and surveillance and so on.
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Apparently Glenn Beck latest communist-terrorist-taking-over entirely-backwards bugbear is net neutrality: marxist plot to control content on the internet?
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Maori is now supporting the ACC bill through the first reading too.
I suddenly thought of the Minister in In The Loop, constantly claiming to be playing a long game while not keeping up. I haven't though carefully about how fair that is.
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"I'll just go and look at one TV Tropes page," I said to myself.
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One of the odd things is that depending on how you look at it, either all the weather is caused by climate change or none is. But it's fair to remark on the frequencies.
I notice that deeper in that April-Fool's-Day-2007 release from the C"S"C, Augie says:
Dr Salinger uses the words ‘as climate warming occurs’, when his own agency's latest seasonal summary statistics for December-February just released show New Zealand at 15.7 degrees C, 0.9 degrees lower than normal.
Add Augie's decision to use of local season data to deduce world climate to the sophistry of his counterargument and I think Salinger is still standing afterwards. And we do expect more exreme events, inculding floods (http://www.mfe.govt.nz/issues/climate/about/impacts.html).
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response that it's not ok to share ideas
The point is about the words - or rather the sentences. He could have used quote marks if he liked. Which would have shown how lazy he was being (part of the problem) rather than disguising it (a lot more of the problem).
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evo psych as if it's the Sacred Truth on sexual behaviour
Secondhand story, but I believe it was someone who taught philosphy of science had a favourite hypothetical example:
Why do women orgasm less than men? Someone has to stay up and watch for predators...
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By doing this, SKY has given Jed more publicity than he could’ve hoped for.
"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."
Oooh, what thread?
For serious? It's been dormant for two months precisely as of 5:50pm (touch wood); 44 new-PAS pages and 2100-something comments - one is reluctant to speak its name . . .