Interesting Links for 11-06-2012

[andrewducker]

• Various animals riding tortoises. Anyone know what the one at the top left is?
  (tags: kitten animals cute )
• Hamlet the Mini Pig Goes Down the Stairs - an adorable video
  (tags: viaSkreidle video cute pigs )
• The Real UK Citizenship Test - I got 9/10, how do you score?
  (tags: funny satire citizenship uk )
• “Run,” Bakri Says. A powerful short story of save points, lost lives, and the consequences of technology and war.
  (tags: technology computergames terrorism war scifi shortstory )
• Majority of MSPs back gay marriage. (69 pro, 9 against, 51 undeclared)
  (tags: scotland relationships lgbt )
• The Pixar story rules (or, at least, a version thereof)
  (tags: pixar stories storytelling writing )
• 8 Tiny Things That Stopped Suicides (The moral being that some people just need a tiny ray of light to grab on to)
  (tags: suicide )
• How Inglourious Basterds links to the other Tarantino movies
  (tags: QuentinTarantino movies )
• 6 Movie and TV Universes That Overlap in Mind-blowing Ways
  (tags: movies )
• David Cameron decides children should earn their keep, puts eight-year-old daughter to work in local pub.
  (tags: davidcameron )
• The sexual depravity of penguins that Antarctic scientist dared not reveal
  (tags: penguins antarctic sex )
• Betteridge's Law of Headlines - is it true?
  (tags: headline questions )

Comments

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

"David Cameron decides children should earn their keep, puts eight-year-old daughter to work in local pub."

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.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Although I have to say, replicated the plot of "Home Alone" in a pub isn't a GREAT stroke of positive publicity for a politician :)

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

I’ve never accidentally left my children in the pub.

It’s always been deliberate and they’ve always found their way home.

So far.

[hano.livejournal.com]

give them a few years then they'll thank you and refuse to come home altogether. Although you'll get frequent demands for more money...

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

Well, you see, if they refuse to come home then they don't live here anymore.

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.

[hano.livejournal.com]

I fear that teenagers will be allergic to the logic of your argument.
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 :)

[hano.livejournal.com]

although they might be better off in an independent Scotland. Certainly better than England especially if the govt maintains its present economic course.

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

Plenty of jobs in Chinese sweatshops. Never did me any harm.

That or banks. Plenty of opportunity for someone who can pull of a good bank job.