Posts by Martin Lindberg
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Could you stomach one more piece of analysis? And from a Marxist, no less? I had been hoping that Scott Hamilton would wade in.
What you said in your comments over there Giovanni. Word!
(But consider yourself told off by Chris Trotter - don't take it too hard!)
ETA: But what do I know? I'm just one of the:
smug smarmy Grey Lynn chardonnay pseudo-socialists
And that's so unfair! I hardly ever drink chardonnay!
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I don't even understand what he thinks he can do, frankly.
He haz teh powah, dude!
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...then you are [redacted].
Dude WTF?
ETA: yes, what he said ↓
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I am reminded of Fred Kite in I'm All Right Jack. But not as funny.
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Thanks, Martin. Hang around a little longe
ETA: {redacted} - I now see there's a martinb
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So who did the analysis and fisking 10 years ago before blogs became part of our media diet?
Well, it did happen so someone must have done it. My money would be on journalists.
So unfashionable now.
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Do those people have an explanation for the use of the blurring in anime? Just curious.
Since you asked:
This is a consequence of a 1907 Japanese censorship law ("Article 175") which was interpreted to forbid the depiction of pubic hair as well as genitals.
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No, I'd expect journalists to fisk politicians on either side, as impartially as they can, and for reporting in general to err on the side of scepticism for politicians' utterances.
True dat. I'm a bit sick of hearing about the govenments generous offer to the teachers (that the greedy sods turned down). I expect to hear that from the government, but when media seems to repeat the generous part I wonder what the hey is going on.
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Oh Keith! You and your fact checking and analysis!
That's so unfashionable. No-one does that anymore. Not even, as Danyl just pointed out, the opposition. Maybe that would set a dangerous precedent where they might be on the receiving end of nasty criticism should they ever get into power again.
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.. unless said true libertarian paradise[tm] just put each child in their own learning pod and the pod travelled with the child to be clustered with other learning pods at whichever school happened to attract that child's parents' education dollar
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