Posts by Peter Darlington
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I went to see Jean Pierre Rives France play Marlborough at Lansdowne Park in 1979. I'm pretty sure the French 1st 5 put up a high ball and killed a seagull. That was primo entertainment back in the day.
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Q: Name three football clubs with swear words in their names.
A: Arsenal, Scunthorpe and Fucking Man U.
And according to the article, Hillary Clinton is a Man U supporter. Can I just say, surprised not.
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OMG, that says it all about the Dem's desire to actually win anything. Its the taking part that counts, I suppose.
Behave. Means he's a genuine guy that wants to do things the right way and isn't an out and out glory hunter. McCain is totally Chelsea.
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__When a student observed the death of Jam Master Jay of the hip-hop group Run-DMC by wearing the group’s trademark tracksuit to the racism seminar, Obama acknowledged the gesture with a nod and a smile.__
That makes me feel all warm inside.
Yep, a Presidential hopeful who counts Jay Z as a mate and confesses to the odd Jay Z and Ludacris tune on his iPod would already get my vote. Even before finding out the astounding news that the man is a Hammers fan!?!
Dude is too cool for school.
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But hey! Amplifier has Dub Asylum's extremely choice cut of funk, 'My Sneaker Collection Weighs a Ton' as a free download this week. And it's a 320k MP3 with cover art. Go get!
It's pretty good alright. Good on Mr Asylum and Amplifier for making it available.
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On the broadband/peering tip, something to do with their commitment to the provision of open access networks. Maybe their understanding of what an open access network is.
On the digital divide, I'd like to know some specifics about the model they see working to bring broadband to our rural areas where DSL is not a goer, let alone fibre.
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When I'm watching sport on TV*, I like to snack on a plate of freshly cut veggies, including celery, capsicum and carrots sticks, along with some freshly made hummus dips
Yes, the Tiramisu at half tiime at Lancaster Park is divine. Perfect washed down with a warm 2008 bottle of Tui.
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Considering the boy (three months old now) is often sent downstairs with me for sporting events, I may need to tone the swearing down.
You're right Richard and it doesn't get any easier as they get older. Football is a particularly bad one with all the best tunes being fairly unprintable. When my kids were babies I'd happily sing from the Hammers tune book ("My old man said be a Chelsea fan, and I said bollocks you're a c**t" etc...) which they used to enjoy but 10 years later doesn't seem quite right somehow.
They both like "You're getting sacked in the morning" sung to the tune of 'Juan Tanamera' and the special operatically popular one for scousers 'We've got Di Canio, you've got our car stereos'.
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he said dvd have quite substantial drm in them, no one complains about that.
You what? DVD drm is horrible and has been universally panned since it came out. Not to mention the easy prevalence of breaking tools to get around it. I don't see much difference to the music situation tbh.
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I'd be curious to know how other PA posters guide, control, censor their kids' internet experiences - and tv/movies, come to that.
We don't filter, we've talked to the kids (10 & 13) about the possibility of nasty stuff showing up and we keep Google Safe Search switched on to try to minimise this. The kids are pretty savvy now in my opinion, they've had the net pretty much forever and they know there's no secrets if I want to look hard enough.
The saddest thing for me is the odd occasion when my youngest has stumbled onto something that has freaked him out completely. He learns from it but it's still not very nice for him. Last time was a couple of weeks ago, he'd been enjoying a series of cartoons on Youtube created by some young guy with a MySpace link listed. He went to the MySpace page and there was a comment from a teenage girl that whoever read her comment, she was going to visit them at 10.20 that night with a knife and murder them in their sleep. This is probably mildly entertaining when you are 15 but when you are 10 with an overactive imagination, well, he was beside himself. We tried to convince him it was a load of bollocks but he wasn't too sure. Naturally he kept himself awake until 10.25 to prove to ensure that it wasn't going to happen.
Re TV, it's shows like Family Guy, American Dad and South Park that annoy me. We have endless arguments that they're not just like The Simpsons, they're quite different and not suitable. Unfortunately, many families appear to believe they are just like The Simpsons if the kids friends are anythig to go by.