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

[jack]

The Real UK Citizenship Test - I got 9/10, how do you score?

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" :)

[pseudomonas]

I keep meaning to email the Albert Hall and ask if it's on display to the public.

[matgb]

10/10, same for James. Jennie got 9, because she's from Yorkshire and would want Henderson's relish instead of vinegar.

[dalglir]

Bah. 8/10 :)

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Up top? It looks like a marmot of some kind - possibly a groundhog.

[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 :)

[atreic.livejournal.com]

I got 10 out of 10. And then I changed all my answers and got 2 out of 10.

[erindubitably.livejournal.com]

My guess is it's a rock hyrax.

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

69 out of 129 is still pretty tight. Depends if you think the undeclareds break evenly, abstain or break more for the socially conservative position. Obviously.

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.”

[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.

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

Also, comment 456 on the comments thread below the support for marriage for gay people is a work of genius.

"Most pedophiles are gay but the Catholic Church has a terrible record for pedophiles so they should stay out of the debate."

[randomchris.livejournal.com]

10/10! Yay! Oh dear, I know which of Ant and Dec is which.

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

9/10 and proud of it.
Salt n' vinegar?!? Wrong! Salt n' sauce every time.

[andrewducker]

Pfft. Salt 'n Sauce is a Scottish thing. And Scotland is clearly not part of the UK.

[andrewducker]

"I don't know" is also a correct answer for that one :->

[andrewducker]

It's a bit late to not mention it.

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.

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

A tad presumptuous, no? :)

[andrewducker]

I hear that if I say something enough times, it makes it so :->

(Also, Scotland _clearly_ not part of the UK, its citizens don't like Salt 'n Vinegar!)

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

I’m not assuming that all of the of the undeclared will vote against but I think they will split more against than for.

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.

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

They do, but only as a crisp flavour :D

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I hear that if I say something enough times, it makes it so :->

Oh yes, I heard that! :)

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

and it's only an East Coast thing at that...

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

As a South African who has seen these animals in the wild, the animal at top left appears to be a fairly plump Dassie (rock hyrax)

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

Yep, looks like a dassie to me.