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andrewducker) wrote2012-07-20 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2012-07-20 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 20-07-2012
- Lack of evidence that popular sports products work (Including Puma, Lucozade, and amino acid supplements)
- Disability and sexuality: everything you think you know is wrong
- Is Britain behaving better? (Crime at lowest level for 37 years, antisocial behaviour also down)
- Loch Lomond and Trossachs hydroelectric scheme opened
- Where Tetris blocks really come from
- Oh Mr Darcy! Pride and Prejudice among classic novels to receive erotic makeover
- There's a consultation on assisted dying - you can fill it out here.
- Sex offenders to take polygraph tests - despite polygraphs being rubbish.
- Live in Edinburgh and go drinking with friends in Glasgow? Then you can't get the train home afterwards.
- Finally, a UK mains plug you can put in your pocket.
- Kinder Eggs are illegal in the US - and carry a $2,500 fine.
- Why Pot Is Illegal Everywhere in the World
- Why iPhone pricing and market share in the US is so different to everywhere else.
- Yahoo! by Mayer (High-ranking Googler taking over at Yahoo)
- Author Denise Mina predicts that ebooks will fundamentally change everything about books and publishing.
- Highland Council challenged on prayers at meetings
- In utero exposure to diesel exhaust a possible risk factor for obesity
- We have five times as much oil and coal and gas on the books as climate scientists think is safe to burn.
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I want to not give a shit about this.
I want to be as philosophical as I was about the Keira Knightly Pride & Prejudice, or the Guy Ritchie Holmes, and say let people enjoy them for what they are, have fun, and hey, maybe they'll end up reading the books and if they don't, why shouldn't they enjoy the films.
But I actually can't count the number of ways in which this latest step pisses me off.
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It does seem unlikely that these will do it _well_ though.
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Also it's lazy as hell on the part of the writers and that pisses me off as a person who gets irritated by people profiting from others' work.
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What the actual fuck?
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I worked in Glasgow and lived in Stirling for a couple of years. I guess going out with my workmates would have been forbidden under these rules.
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Although that would be dangerous too of course, since then sober people wouldn't be able to sleep on the train. I used to love sleeping on the train.
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And yes, they could handle it as "If you're unable to look after yourself, or are causing a public nuisance, then we'll throw you off."
Oh, wait, _they can already do that!!!_
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Also, I couldn't help wondering how they would know. Does ScotRailintend to breathalyse everyone? Or us it really a ban on the "obviously drunk"?! Which I guess would be covered by existing bye-laws...
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Which basically means they could tax it massively, and still have it utterly destroy the alcohol industry.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_consumption
but above Australia and the USA.
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If they can clarify it to make it clear that they don't mean people who have had a few drinks, then I'd be a lot happier.
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If pubs are happy to serve drunk people, but trains aren't happy to carry them, doesn't this just mean that if the rule is enforced on trains, there will be a bunch of drunk people with no way home stuck outside a closed station until morning?
Or do they assume that everyone out drinking will either moderate themselves accordingly, or else happen to have the money for a sudden taxi journey at midnight between Edinburgh and Glasgow or hotel room?
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I'd like to know what the definition of "drunk" is, in this case.
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I wasn't actually that drunk, I'd only had two drinks. But I was horribly distracted by the slot machine to my left, because bright flashing lights distract me easily, and I was trying to work out what the pattern of changing lights was.
I did use it as an excuse to abandon the works night out I was on though!
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