Posts by Caleb D'Anvers
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Blast!
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I cant find the link to the original Nathan Barley website, which appropriately was called 'CUNT".
Ahem. Note: not even remotely safe for work.
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I'm thinking that you guys may not have witnessed one middle-class North Shore white boy greet another with the words "Yo, my nigga" ...
Now that's some messed-up shit.
Hip hop is the new Westie culture. Goodbye purple Torana; hello, tricked out Evo VII. Goodbye AC/DC; hello Jay Z. Or something like that.
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I'm also staggered that only 45% of us believe in the theory of evolution
I suspect this is because a number of people don't know what it says. There's nothing like controversy for ensuring something's poorly taught.
Yeah, I think that's definitely a major part of it. Another would be people taking a relativistic sense of 'balance' or 'fairness to both sides' and extrapolating it to science, where that kind of thinking doesn't really work.
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So more people believe in Hell than firmly believe in God. What on earth is that about?
Perhaps they have experienced life in Newtown?
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thought = though.
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Beaming in, as thought from some alternate universe, a new essay by John Quiggin, the first in the Whitlam Perspectives series: An Agenda for Social Democracy.
Excerpt:
The global financial crisis will have long-term effects going far beyond finance and economics. There is already a reaction against the consumption culture that has become steadily more extreme over recent decades, as the restraining influences of Depression-era frugality and the anti-materialist idealism of the 1960s faded away. At this stage, the reaction is superficial and unlikely to be maintained in the event of a rapid return to pre-crisis conditions. But such a return is improbable. Even when economic growth and employment recover, the effects of the crisis on wealth and debt levels, and on access to consumer credit are likely to persist for many years.
Going beyond specific policies, the failure of financial regulation leading up to the crisis is likely to lead to a re-evaluation of ‘light-handed’ and ‘incentive-based’ regulation in all areas of public policy. Similarly, ideas such as New Public Sector Management, promoted largely on the basis of the supposed superiority of private sector methods, will need to be re-examined.
Write-up from The Australian .
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The simple fact is that Vettori has an average of 40 as a bowler since his back injury all those years ago.
I'm not sure it's quite that simple. Since Vettori came back from injury in November 2001, he's taken 187 wickets at 34.08. Interestingly, his strike-rate during that period is marginally better than his strike-rate over the whole of his career.
Vettori's bowling average last dipped under 30 in his sixth test match, back in 1997. I think what this indicates is that he's a bowler who has never really delivered on his reputation or early promise, statistically speaking.
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What a bizarre passage of play that was. No Harbajhan and Patel bowling way wide of off stump, over after over.
It was almost as though India suddenly decided that, no, they didn't want to win this game after all. Why they might want to do something like that I wouldn't like to speculate.
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There was water involved and a pedalo as well. But I don't want to go into detail.
One of the immortal lines in cricket history.