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andrewducker) wrote2012-06-11 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2012-06-11 12:00 pm
Interesting Links for 11-06-2012
- Various animals riding tortoises. Anyone know what the one at the top left is?
- Hamlet the Mini Pig Goes Down the Stairs - an adorable video
- The Real UK Citizenship Test - I got 9/10, how do you score?
- “Run,” Bakri Says. A powerful short story of save points, lost lives, and the consequences of technology and war.
- Majority of MSPs back gay marriage. (69 pro, 9 against, 51 undeclared)
- The Pixar story rules (or, at least, a version thereof)
- 8 Tiny Things That Stopped Suicides (The moral being that some people just need a tiny ray of light to grab on to)
- How Inglourious Basterds links to the other Tarantino movies
- 6 Movie and TV Universes That Overlap in Mind-blowing Ways
- David Cameron decides children should earn their keep, puts eight-year-old daughter to work in local pub.
- The sexual depravity of penguins that Antarctic scientist dared not reveal
- Betteridge's Law of Headlines - is it true?
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LOL. That's great. And if you actually want to measure people's exposure to pop culture, that's not bad (although obviously some people will just not know).
Likewise, 9/10. I totally didn't know the greek one, and it took me ages to figure out which one I'd got wrong (in fact, I suspected for a while it just gave 9/10 to everyone).
I was very amused that the ant and dec one has two correct answers: "left and right" and "can't tell" are both correct :)
And if I didn't know the pop culture, (or not get enough cues from the format of the quiz) I would never have gussed that two of the answers were "Hitler" :)
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LOL. Although this is the sort of news story that doesn't seem very pointful: yes, if Cameron is neglectful and doesn't care about his childen, this sort of thing is more likely, but it's the sort of thing that happens to everyone _sometimes_, and the trick is just making sure it happens a couple of times in your life, rather than a couple of times a week, and the solution isn't to care more and hope really hard that magically translates into competence, but have specific plans for avoiding it.
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It’s always been deliberate and they’ve always found their way home.
So far.
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And if they don't live here anymore than they're not my responsibility.
And if they're not my responsibility anymore than I don't have to give them any money.
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Not that any teenagers are going to have any jobs to go to in the future, so the chances of your children ever leaving home are somewhat slim :)
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That or banks. Plenty of opportunity for someone who can pull of a good bank job.
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This is because they don't know the "ant and dec" identifying rule that ant and dec are (almost) always pictured in "ant and dec" order reading from left to right. (I found four exceptions in the first 50 or so google hits but one was a photo from behind, they can't defy physics).
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Some questions appear to have more than one "correct" -- the Ant and Dec question is one but not in the way I thought.
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This is a telling paragraph from the report
And some figures within the SNP Cabinet have privately expressed the view that going ahead with such divisive legislation could harm the Nationalists’ chances of winning the independence vote
Don’t mention marriage between homosexuals in case it puts people off voting for Independence.
I wonder how much legislation will be shaped or even not progressed because of its impact on the
If you’re a gay couple who really, really want to get married and think that equal and exact marriage rights are really important but are a bit “meh, sorta British, sorta Scottish, sorta European haven’t seen Braveheart” they you’re losing out to what might seem a strangely warped view of the world.
But as Keith Carradine said in the Duelists, “Duels of nations take precedence over duels of invididuals.”
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And 69/129 is a clear majority, even if all the undeclared's are anti. Not a massive majority, I give you, but definitely one.
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If all 59 undeclared it takes 5 pro MSP’s to not turn up, or to have examined their conscious in the light of an effective local campaign by anti-proposal supporters.
Six if you assume that Bill Walker won’t be available to vote.
I’d feel happier if the majority confirmed was into double figures.
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Judging by the comments I’ve seen on various articles about it there are people who genuinely believe that extending marriage to homosexual couples will cause some kind of social break down. I’ve never been exactly what the mechanism would be for the break down of society but some folk seem genuinely apprehensive.
I think a number of Labour party members come from the tradition of Christian Socialism. I wouldn’t be surprised to discover a few were strongly against extending marriage and several more were concerned that coming out in favour might lose them votes.
(I wonder if there are any elected representatives who would vote to restrict female sufferage.)
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That’s quite funny. (Although 40 years on perhaps not as much racial equality as they prophesised.)
And I guess that’s what lies at the root of some of the objections to marriage reform. That if we allow marriage between homosexual couples then it will be seen as acceptable and more people will become homosexual. Or as my granddad used to say with heavy irony – they’ll be making it compulsory next, which was his standard mockery of any slippery slope arguments he disagreed with.
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Personally, I've been waiting for the legalisation of gay marriage for me to find the right man. Julie's in for a massive surprise.
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I'd book early if I were you - there's going to be a hella of a rush once those floodgates open.
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"Most pedophiles are gay but the Catholic Church has a terrible record for pedophiles so they should stay out of the debate."
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I got 9/10 but don't know which answer was wrong.
Still - tea and scones all round!
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Salt n' vinegar?!? Wrong! Salt n' sauce every time.
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(Also, Scotland _clearly_ not part of the UK, its citizens don't like Salt 'n Vinegar!)
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Oh yes, I heard that! :)
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Actually, it might be an East Coast thing - I'm sure they had it in Newcastle.
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I'm not quite sure how far salt'n'sauce spreads, but you certainly wouldn't get offered it anywhere in a chip shop in Ayrshire or Glasgow, and I have never been offered it in Dundee or Aberdeen.
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The firebombing of Dresden had a significantly higher deathtoll than both Japanese attacks. Most Americans just don't know much about it.
[which you probably knew already]
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Hiroshima: over 70,000 killed (immediate deaths from blast)
Nagasaki: over 40,000 killed (immediate deaths from blast)
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