Posts by BenWilson
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I wrote this yesterday, but deleted it, as I do with most of what I write: I've never really trusted any testimony on penis size except for actual scientific data. If you ask women, who have laid hands on many more penises than I, you get results that fluctuate depending on how they want to make you feel.
This doesn't mean women couldn't be objective between themselves about it.
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I don't buy the homoerotic line, Jeremy. That was Gio's point, and I'm not sure he wasn't teasing you for being mildly homophobic.
My take on heterosexual male appreciation of the male form is more "I want to look like him", rather than "I want to look at him". I think I can recognize male attractiveness without being gay, just as women can do it with women.
Sometimes I'm a little surprised at what women think is attractive or not, though, since I'm not really a big swat on it or anything. Just as women are often surprised by the kind of female looks that most men like. But they're usually pretty close.
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That these silly 'standards' don't work for disabled students is merely a subset of them not working for anyone.
I'm not sure that they don't work for above average students. But they're not the ones who need help from the government.
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But it's a false dichotomy - a journo who knows the subject properly will ask the right questions and challenge spin at the time - *before* they write a story.
Yes, it's hardly a story, to just quote a transcript. But it is:
1. Fast. Nearly immediate.
2. True (the person did really say that).I would agree that more could be expected of papers that have had, on average, half a day to write a story to do more than just transcribe.
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Even lightweight analysis would be better than the regurgitated press releases that pass for news reporting.
Yes, but Danyl's point is that they take quite a lot longer to write, so they miss the punch. That's where blogs seem to have the jump - the analysis is immediate, because they're not so concerned to take 3 days to analyze Bill English, just to be sure they're not wrong in some technical detail.
Indeed, I usually get the feeling with paper editorials that they've drawn heavily on blogs, on which the analysis is public. Even if blogs were to get it wrong 99% of the time (of course they don't), they raise all the questions, state most of the positions, basically drive the debate.
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it's just that breaking news is presented objectively for reasons that are pragmatic as well as philosophical.
I'd never really thought about it that way before. I'd presumed it was philosophy right down the line. But I guess that's the real lure of footage - you don't even have to interpret into words, just play it. Next easiest thing, transcribe. Next easiest, edit the transcript for the highlights. Next, canvass for opposing quotes.
Analysis is last. But that's also a race to the punch, so lightweight analysis is always going to get there first, or highly specific stuff.
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Are you still beating your wife?
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Sure, sure. So the fact that women would possibly also find you more attractive if you were "fit and less fat" hasn't got anything to do with it?
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There's a good reason for this: in a competitive "league table" environment, those of us whose children have special needs that might drag down scores will not be welcome at many schools.
I think "even more unwelcome" is probably a better way of putting that. But I think even worse than that, the obsession with standards will make a lot more special needs kids a lot worse. Especially if such standards find their way into even the last environments in which these kids are pushed when they're rejected from everything mainstream.
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I believe the female form is mindfucking, the male form...jeez , i leave that admiration to ladies and gay men.
Nah, c'mon man, don't tell me you wouldn't like to be more buff. If so, it means you appreciate what buff is.
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