Posts by FletcherB
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Re: The Listener and Guardian articles that appear very similar...
While obviously, near-direct copying is a likely explanation....
Another less sinister, and yet also likely one, is that both journalists were paraphrasing and condensing the same source material.
It's a story about a medical expert and their discoveries.... they have presumably published or been interviewed, and this same story about the mother in the waiting room has probably been spouted as the beginning of the research hundreds of times all over the place?
Just a thought....
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P.S. I got my $250 Freeview HD decoder today. Cant wait to get home and plug it in.
I decided in the end to go with the UHF-HD option even though its for an old telly that will probably look no better than the cheaper non-HD satellite-decoder... because It will mean as non-freeview equipped HD LCD TV's become yesterdays product, I'll be able to take advantage of deep discounts :) Alternatively, If I delay upgrading so long that Freeview equipped LCD's are all that's available, I can still use it on the bedroom TV with bunny-ears thats nowhere near the satellite dish connector in the lounge.
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Tomorrowpeople...
Prime hasnt "decided to to with" Sky..... Prime IS Sky. Prime was owned by Australia's Channel 9 network, but Sky bought it to fulfill some of the "must be shown delayed free to air" contracts with some of the sports they have bought... (instead of selling/giving the free/delay content to TVNZ/TV3)
And it's still available free on UHF analog (In Auckland).
As Russell keeps saying.... if Sky wants to continue to use Prime as it's free-to-air delivery mechanism, it will be forced to go with Freeview when the analog signals are phased out....
They may well choose to switch over earlier than that, but it's a matter of Sky choosing to, and while I dont like their choice, I can see why they think delaying will give them commercial advantage. (ie. They think knobling Freeview will be good for Sky uptake).
Presumably, once Freeview uptake is higher... they will change over, as they will be losing more potential Prime advertising viewers than they are gaining Sky subscribers?
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They'll taste like shit though
The taxi driver I had last week...
For a moment, I thought you were going to comment on the flavour of the taxi driver you'd eaten...
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A lot of the time they were wearing Blue Hats, though weren't they? Maybe it doesn't count...
Is this a new rule? Cool... I'm not really 40... I was wearing a blue hat for some* of the time....
* Unfortunately, not enough of the time... I'm probably still way over 39? -
Welcome back Keith.
Looking forward to more in the future...
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When I grew up in Melbourne (the 70's) no school I'd ever heard of had a rugby team... League or Union.
In the 90's a friend in Melbourne was in a club rugby (union) team... there were not many teams in all of Melbourne.
Maybe things have changed, but I'm having trouble with your urban legend... not because one school couldnt find the numbers... but because rugby's so rare there (admittedly less so than before) that I dont think its expected that every (or even more than a few) schools would have a first fifteen....
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Actually, anything's better than line dancing any day.
Nope! Line dancing EVERY day is worse than any day :)
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I'm confused....
I know of the male sex.
I know of the female sex.
Who or what is the australian sex? I got taught from a fairly early age there was only two to choose from?
Obviously, my sex education has been lacking...
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Although I'll struggle with eating animals we've raised, let alone killing them.
Then dont! A dead chicken will feed you once.... a live one will keep on giving and giving and.........