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The story was about this young person finding the phenomena, the distance was considered not to be the focus of the story.
I know, and remain in complete disagreement. If the supernova was as close as reported it would be visible with the naked eye.
The item, as presented, is nonsense (proving that the distance is material to the item). Being cute doesn't trump that.
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today's royal visit-style cabinet meeting.
Or - as One News called it - "a historic symbolic show of support".
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Just caught up with the last Media 7, and I have to say that I remain gob-smacked at the BSA's decision.
In my opinion:
(Dominic Sheehan and co. are wrong, wrong, wrong in finding that the 240 light years vs. 240,000,000 light years issue was not material to the item and, frankly, it is such a stunningly dumb decision that their credibility is shot with me.If anyone should've been fined for wasting BSA's time it's TVNZ.)
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Trekking around the South Island in the early 1980s you'd find pockets where you had to ask folk to repeat themselves or talk slowly.
Indeed. I can remember doing the same in the summer of '94/'95; hitching a ride (Picton to Blenheim or similar) with a guy who asked us if we like "wonn".
"Er... sure." replies us, looking blankly at each other and wondering just what he was on about. It became clear when he suggested that we visit some of the great "wonneries" in the area.
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I mean the special "broadcasting" voice as opposed to the way people generally spoke, and the two aren't necessarily the same. I hear a underlying accent accent in pre-70s recordings of NZers that seems quite distinct to me. I quite like it.
Oh, I see (and agree).
Funnily enough, Damian's Hindsight show has reminded me that such accents were still quite in existence even into the '80s.
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Could it be that our memory of how people talked back then is influenced by what we see in old film and TV? That is, people who have been trained to speak in a posh telly voice.
Yes, and so ordinary people thought they ought to too when they had a camera pointed at them. Well, that's my strong impression.
Not buying this theory at all. My grandparents (all Edwardian vintage) etc. spoke with the old Kiwi accent, camera or no.
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Or alternatively, yes.
That's what I meant.
(I appear to have successfully erased most of the unpleasant memories of iPod ownership. :) )
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The iPod does act as a USB drive, doesn't it?
No.*
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his reaction to it, which was, in my opinion, really strange.
I just think he might have felt as though he'd be at risk of being sacked for accepting money from a customer that didn't go through the till.
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But then, being a mere male what would I know.
O/T:
There's a barber shop in Grey Lynn called Mere Male's Barber Shop.For many years, I assumed that "Mere Male" was the name of the Samoan guy who owned the place.