Posts by Kyle Matthews

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  • Hard News: Clover It,

    Depends on how the risks are perceived.

    I think this sentence sums up the gap in the debate. Perception of science and corporate science, and how far that is or isn't from a future reality.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Speaker: KICK IT! The Highest Mountain,…,

    I'm no expert, but my impression is that Smeltz is a reasonable striker. Top scorer in the Australian league. Having a better world cup than some top premier league goal scorers.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Hard News: Fear, authority and ... Judy Bailey?,

    It doesn't say much about his supervision either that his kid was hit on the road once, but he wasn't watching them closely enough near a road that they were able to do it again.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Hard News: Fear, authority and ... Judy Bailey?,

    I'm undecided between the ear trumpet and the woman knitting. The audience was fantastic, the Bay City Rollers were terrible!

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Speaker: KICK IT! The Highest Mountain,…,

    I'd just like to say that Kyle Matthews knows his football punditry. Just saying.

    Actually my comment near the end of the NZ-Slovakia game was that it would be vastly improved if there was more body checking. Seriously, passing back and forth, back to D, back to goal tender. Do we need their warm up passing to happen in the middle of the game? Can't they do that beforehand?

    Needs a good forechecker there to put a couple of them on the ground, steal the ball crash the net.

    That might be just me however.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Hard News: Piss-poor on PEDA,

    I don't know, do you? Maybe she doesn't and it got to her husband some other way. That's why some "investigation" might be called for. From "journalists".

    Those sound like reasonable questions. I just don't see how raising them here advances anything.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Speaker: KICK IT! The Highest Mountain,…,

    Apparently if we draw with Paraguay by the same amount as Slovakia draws with Italy then it will come down to a coin toss between us and Italy!

    Is that seriously the next thing they use to decide? Not 'least number of penalties' or something?

    Smith committed a foul, you know.

    I don't know much about the rules of the game, but I thought it was a foul on replay. The Italian player made it a lot more obvious, which I don't like, but I thought Smith was still holding his top when he pursued the ball coming across the goal and that seems worthy of a penalty to me.

    I suspect actually the Italian wouldn't have gotten near it, but that's Smith's bad luck/judgement.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Speaker: KICK IT! The Highest Mountain,…,

    Indeed. And 84% of those who responed to the poll said so as well.

    That's why it wasn't called. The referee was waiting on good polling data...

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Speaker: KICK IT! End of Act One,

    They do. And it's an automatic yellow.

    It seems to need to become a little more common. It's clearly pretty prevalent through the game:

    Though mostly what has disappointed me watching the football isn't what I would call diving (going down when you didn't need to) but feigning injury. Yeah sure, there was competition, you went down, get back up and play the game you overdramatic shit.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Southerly: Bob's Top Five,

    David,

    Does the data isolate the two major factors you've identified from each other?

    1 relates to the cyclist, cycling less (because of having to wear a helmet among other things?) and this affecting society's general health.

    2 relates to drivers driving in a less safe way around cyclists because they are wearing a helmet.

    1 obviously relates directly to the helmet law, but 2 is more indirect and the problem there really is the behaviour of drivers.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

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