Posts by BenWilson
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Cracker: Sydney-side, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Auckland is going this way, I feel.
Yup, it's one of the reasons I'm not so bummed about it. If Auckland ended up like Sydney now, or even 20 years ago, it would be a whole lot choicer.
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Radiation: Signing off, moving on, in reply to Emma Hart,
When we get back in there, we'll have to battle rats, street by street.
OMFG so it's just like Libya?
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Cracker: Sydney-side, in reply to Scott Gamble,
Just lucky, I guess.
Must be! The one and only time I went to Bondi they had 3 shark warnings in 1 hour, and I could see the shark from the cliffs. The surfers, however, ignored it, even when it came close (which you could see because a boat followed it, trying to shoo it away).
But you're right, you'd be bloody unlucky to be attacked by a shark.
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Cracker: Sydney-side, in reply to Scott Gamble,
Except that their city beaches are miles better than our east coast beaches.
Unless you're scared of sharks.
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Radiation: Signing off, moving on, in reply to Russell Brown,
Sorry to see you go, Fiona, but I feel your pain, my own blog has about 3 posts on it, all claiming that I will get around to making some more soon. I hope the Listener site does well.
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Cracker: Sydney-side, in reply to Russell Brown,
I fear we'll never be that good.
We don't have enough roads to just go chucking one to pedestrians, although it seems that is the way Queen St is going.
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Yes, just found that too. So it's a misquote by Pete the Hermit. One day I'll be a "the" something. Ben the Malattributor.
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Busytown: A new (old) sensation, in reply to giovanni tiso,
However Hesiod said this some three centuries earlier:
LOL, and I expect the same sentiment was expressed many times in the epoch between humans learning to speak, and learning to write.
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Busytown: A new (old) sensation, in reply to BenWilson,
...And why don't I just ask Google these things. Apparently it's disputed whether Socrates ever said the particular quote I'm thinking of. It may have actually come from a compressed paraphrasing of Aristophanes, who lampooned Socrates.
ETA Yes, that's the quote.
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I've never come across the passage myself. It sounds like something that would have been in my least favourite Plato - The Republic, written when Plato was himself an old fart. As with everything he wrote, it's quite possible Socrates said nothing of the sort.
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