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Why is it that sports reporters are almost universally complete f-ing idiots? Or maybe it's just NZ?
I'm starting to think TVNZ is doing a pretty poor job of this. Hardly anything on ONE is live, so many ad breaks (especially at night), many poor programming decisions, idiotic opening ceremony commentary, and Lavina "feel" Good is becoming a national embarassment.
They didn't even show the Women's team Gymnastics - surely, one of the most popular events - live, just a tightly edited (barring that ridiculous 2 minute loop) highlight reel.
I didn't see it, but apparently a TVNZ reporter got right in the face of that poor American girl who fell while mounting the beam, immediately afterwards. I guess humanity goes out the window when you're obsessed with your "coverage".
Not to mention blank-screening God-knows-how-many viewers during the most important race so far.
Nice having a choice of streams, but that's only par for the course in '08.
The TVNZ message board is riddled with complaints.
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"google-ing"
conforms to no rule known to Man or Woman. Did we not all learn at 6 or 7 years old that if a verb ends in an "e" the "e" is dropped when adding "ing"?
I suppose that would imply a two-syllable "googling", which is not, I think, how most of us say it, but perhaps "google" is a special case which retains the pronunciation rules implicit in the word on which it is based.
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Anyone worked out how to fix Firefox for TVNZ's Olymic vids? I installed silverlight, but it still doesn't work.
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Great swim.
It was. Won't be celebrated much at home without a medal, I'm guessing, but under the circumstances he did very, very well.
Post-swim interview was unsurpringly poor, though.
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well certainly in the decade after the wall came down, Russia was reeling in many ways, China was only just starting to find it's feet.
Sure, but in retrospect America's economic and political dominance in the 90's seems so... inevitably transitory.
Maybe I just forget what it was like before the war.
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"America: the last/only superpower"
Was that ever true? Or merely wishful thinking, with the idea becoming widely entrenched via a certain level of media dominance.
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Great Men's team Gymnastics yesterday. Some pretty incredible performances and the crowd was going nuts as China's victory drew towards certainty. Women's today.
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Muphry's Law.
heh.
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I am not Keith.
I thought you were going to do "Which Rolling Stone are you?"
Congrats on your new blog.
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Beneficiaries
Just a reminder of current rates for Unemployment , Sickness and Domestic Purposes benefits (scroll down). By the way, those numbers (in the first 2 cases, at least, and the third, I presume) include Accomodation supplement.
Very few people, I'd wager, would subject themselves to that sort of income level unless they had to.