Posts by Sacha
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Our weather aint got nothing on the Aussies right now.
Melbourne endured its hottest night in over 100 years. The temperature dipped to a minimum of 31.3 degrees Celsius just before 1pm (AEDT) on Tuesday after a sweltering maximum of 43.6 degrees.
Suspect that's meant to say 1am. Rather have a chilly December or a humid January any day.
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Dunedin, cool seas and hot furniture
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Christmas in Dunedin one year - 12 fecking degrees. Guess it felt nice and familiar to the Scottish settlers. That's love.
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Apparently a lot of midwives get totally over Enya in the course of their work
Wonder if funeral directors tire of Eric Clapton?
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Herald reports new research:
A University of Queensland study has found that girls who experience puberty early are "significantly" more aggressive than their later developing peers by age 14.
It has also found there's no marked difference between boys' and girls' aggression levels when at the same stage of puberty.
The findings stem from Australia's largest longitudinal study, which tracked more than 8000 mothers and their children over 21 years.
...Prof Najman says the findings, coupled with children reaching puberty earlier and earlier, may explain why girls are increasingly involved in anti-social behaviour such as drinking, smoking, drug-taking and bullying.
...The study also disproves the belief that boys are more aggressive than girls because of higher testosterone levels.
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You wouldn't want to be queer in large parts of Africa.
The current anti-homosexual crackdown is drawing worldwide attention, but 38 out of 53 African countries had already criminalised consensual gay sex. And in many cases, sodomy laws had remained on the books from the colonial era.
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I'll buy that for a dollar
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Tiger Woods' wandering meat putter
Another triumph
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There's a more recent thread about all this celebrity suppression (with appropriate exhortation up front by Russell). I for one prefer not having to read Veitch's name again for a very long time..
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To the Love thread with you both.