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andrewducker) wrote2021-11-17 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 17-11-2021
- Racism Is Institutional In British Cricket
- (tags:UK cricket racism OhForFucksSake )
- Supersaurus: Scientists realise dinosaur might have been the longest ever after fixing fossil mix-up
- (tags:dinosaurs )
- Chile wants to export solar energy to Asia via 15,000km submarine cable (losses would be just under 50%)
- (tags:solarpower chile Asia )
- Joanna Cherry's popularity is not going up
- (tags:LGBT SNP transgender politics Scotland )
- Englandâs austerity-hit courts losing days of work to collapsing ceilings, broken lift and arctic conditions
- (tags:justice UK OhForFucksSake )
- There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada
- (tags:Canada transport roads weather )
- Remarkably accurate neurosurgery residency interview
- (tags:medicine USA surgery doctors funny satire video interview )
- Activision CEO Bobby Kotick told an employee he would have her killed. He kept an exec from being fired after a sexual harassment claim. He didn't tell his board of alleged rapes and other misconduct.
- (tags:games rape abuse misogyny OhForFucksSake )
- John Carmack on Steve Jobs
- (tags:Doom games Apple stevejobs johncarmack history computers graphics opengl )
- Amazon to stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in UK
- (tags:UK Amazon visa credit wtf )
- The students losing thousands in an Edinburgh rental scam
- (tags:edinburgh property fraud )
- âClear riskâ UK joining Pacific trade deal will raise drug prices for NHS
- (tags:uk nhs trade )
- The FTC is moving to end âclick to subscribe, call to cancelâ
- (tags:business usa )
- Netflix has started publishing its top 10 watched movies and TV shows
- (tags:netflix )
- Dogs! Being! Kissed!
- (tags:dogs behaviour )
Cricket
I remember, many years ago now, being really irritated by a fellow cricketers continued inability to pronounce a Sri Lankan player's name whilst having no problem with getting his mouth around "Auchtermuchty" "Ecclefechan" "Kirkcaldy" "Cholmondesley-Warner" and the like. Sri Lankan names are often quite long and have some unfamiliar combinations of sounds, and a bit a of run up the first couple of times the first couple of times I think is not unreasonable so I was prepared to give the guy the benefit of the doubt but by fourth meeting where he got mentioned several times and this guys "struggled" with his name it felt rude at best.
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(Also the very excellent Indy Nydall from the Great War YouTube series keeps apologising for the damange he's doing to Eastern European place names.)
I expect Scotland's newly won status as a world cricketing power after that tournament is going to cause some East Asian commentators all kinds of problems as they are forced to wrestle with our ludicrous names. "What do you mean it's pronounced "Milgavie, " are you mad?"