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  • Speaker: TPPA: It's Extreme,

    Would it be stretching geographic protection too far to prevent South American-grown fruit from using the name "Kiwifruit"? :-)

    It would be contentious to interpret the name as "Fruit originating from New Zealand, and thus known as 'Kiwi'" rather than "Fruit which looks like a fat flightless bird", but the thought amuses me nonetheless.

    Wasn't it called the Chinese Gooseberry for a while (after we ah, liberated a sample from China)?

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  • Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Craig Ranapia,

    Agree - for a short amount of time one of the channels (tv1?) was running footage of the guy being pulled from his car with a massive head injury. I'm fairly certain he was deceased... once someone in the control room worked out what the situation was they stopped using it pretty quickly.

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  • Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?,

    Unconfirmed commentary on HuffPo that tourist were up in the Cathedral Tower.

    Fuck.

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  • Hard News: Welfare: Back to the Future?, in reply to Russell Brown,

    Russell I thought you’d know this trick.

    Get something waaaay to extreme injected into the report so you can say it’s a step too far (hinting; look at me, I’m a nice guy) and go for the ‘middle’ ground —- which happens to be exactly where you wanted to go in the first place.

    Helen did it all the time, IMHO this is no different.


    edit - just read your later reply... carry on, but I do think it is bait and switch.

    Also... wtf about the pensioners whose bill is (I think) larger than dpb'ers

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  • Speaker: Medical Journal, Chapter V,

    Very timely - thanks Mr B.

    My wife just (monday night) gave birth to our second, and most likely last, child...

    Have been thinking about this op quite a bit, especially motivated by seeing the, ah, business end of the process (according to obstebutchertrician because of complications from previous c-section she got to a into a situation where 1-in10 babies die... so things got pretty brutal VERY quickly).

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  • Hard News: Because it's about time we…,

    Another coffee anecdote... draw up a stool, young child, and I will try to amuse you..


    When I used to live/work in the UK I had to spend 6 weeks on a mission-from-hell assignment in Milan.

    It was a fiendishly difficult task (space do-hickey), and my hosts would yell 'coffee break' (in Italian obviously) whenever something requiring deep thought popped up (i.e. every 15 minutes or so).... I could keep up with the coffee breaks for the first week, but after that my body started to do very strange things.

    If I remember correctly the brand of choice was Kimbo, or Bimbo, or something.

    Double shot, tiny, tiny plastic cups served from one of the million vending machines (yes!) around the office...

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  • Hard News: Because it's about time we…,

    One of many surreal experiences in China (with photographic proof somewhere) was entering a Starbucks inside the Forbidden City in Beijing.

    Just. Plain. Out. Of. Place.

    (and the coffee was bad there too!)

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  • Hard News: Because it's about time we…,

    uhh, not to be a jerk but in the paragraph outlining the fact-fail of the original you point out ...'the Indian food conglomerate Tata'.

    Assuming you're thinking of the same Tata I am... Tata do a hell of a lot more than food...

    http://www.tata.com/products/index.aspx?sectid=U2YC1EMmQuk=




    Seriously, this man is a blogger?

    :-P

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  • Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 1: Beach…,

    I've been enjoying nearly a month at Lake Okareka, but yesterday's stupidity has put a chill over the lake.

    What a waste.

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  • Hard News: A very roundabout review of…,

    Hi Russell - can you point me to any more NotSchool information or theri site - I looked but google has failed me (other than a couple of blgos about it).

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