Posts by linger
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On the bike helmet law – even if no statistically proven effect on adult safety, there are subtler effects to consider, e.g. are children more or less likely to wear helmets if adults have to too? vs. other behavioural factors like the tendency for riders wearing helmets to feel safer, so be a little more careless, than riders not wearing helmets (which tends to minimise any actual safety benefits to adults).
I may be slightly biassed, as I’ve personally walked away from a few cycle vs. car [and subsequent tarmac vs. head] crashes, partly thanks to wearing a helmet. (I say walked away, because the bike was munted.)
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Hard News: DNC 2016: Beyond weird, most…, in reply to Tom Semmens,
What, "President Putin, I say to you, build a wall"?
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Southerly: A Tale of Two Iceblocks: Part…, in reply to David Haywood,
I just feel like weeping
that's the tragedy of the co₂mmons for you.
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Speaker: Darkness in New York, in reply to bbrooks,
But then again, not a month ago, 538 was rating Trump’s chances at only 20%. Against that whopping amount of variance in the figures, a current estimate of 40% shouldn’t feel comfortable at all.
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Hard News: RNC 2016: A literal shitshow, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Man. Chur, Ian.
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Hard News: RNC 2016: A literal shitshow, in reply to Russell Brown,
Would a professional writer really do that?
Assuming McIver actually had anything to do with the process, it’s only plausible if (i) McIver was unaware of Michelle Obama’s speech, and
(ii) Mrs Trump, speaking over the phone, did not attribute her quotes.
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Hard News: RNC 2016: A literal shitshow, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
The Trump camp
= campylobacter.
“There is a disease … that is tearing apart the lies of thousands …” -
Hard News: Obama's Mana, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
The way American political choices are going, it seems to me that if Michelle Obama were to stand as a presidential candidate, she would have a realistic chance.
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Up Front: The Best Possible Taste, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I too inserted the word cunt into each of those gaps and I was annoyed at myself for doing so. There are better words.
Yeah, “misogynist self-centred one-eyed prick” is more accurate (at the very least, it’s their perceived job description). As the old saying goes, They can’t be called cunts, because they lack the warmth and depth.
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While Hosking, Henry, and Plunket are (or should be)
a job lot of job openings waiting to happen,
the second quote clearly pegs Plunket as an arsehole.