andrewducker | Interesting Links for 17-11-2021

Racism Is Institutional In British Cricket: (tags:UK cricket racism OhForFucksSake )
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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 )
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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 )
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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 )
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That name is a special case for me, along Abu Hamza, Cheryl Baker, Sue Lawley as all of those names have been the basis of a pun in a stand up routine about mis-hearing names and song lyrics that has got stuck in my head, a bit like an earworm. I used to be able to pronounce "Ahmadinejad" but all I can manage now is "My New Dinner Jacket"

andrewducker

I think I'd want to practice a few times in private.

And I think many cricket commentators do. I heard a conversation between a couple of them about practicing during the recently concluded Twenty20 World Cup.

(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?"

Very cool, if true

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