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merlin the happy pig

Yeah... her battles with mental health and chronic depression are well known, as are her suicide attempts. Bonkers, eh? I have had (long) episodes of depression and suicidal tendencies, (fine now thanks for asking) but bonkers nicely describes the experience. Could add hell on earth, eating yoursel...

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The scary thing , from reading some of her car crash twitter threads, she only became involved in the sport 15 months ago. The woman she beat in the final had been competing at that level for over 16 years. She then breaks the womens world 200m record in her first race on an indoor track and then h...

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guy smiley wrote:So apparently Winston wandered out to a press scrum, played them Burning Bridges on his phone, thanked them for their time and wandered back into whatever it was he was doing. Downloading mp3 files, most likely.

Recipes for Whisky cocktails seems more his speed.

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I wonder if anyone will try to develop supercavitating foils? Probably unlikely as the downsides (high drag at low speeds) would probably outweigh any advantages (max speed limited by aerodynamics rather than hydrodynamics) Would be fascinating watching one boat chugging along at the back until it r...

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I'd say all teams will be on foils. The standard was set on the AC50s. Monos have the ability to sail closer to the wind than a multi so the engineers will have it all sussed. I imagine they'll have different foils for different wind ranges. Remembering, these boats have a very light displacement s...

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Unless one team is covering the other for advantageous wind position so as to set their foils first in a better breeze. I think there will be tacking duel, just not as we recognise them and they won't be lengthy or have nearly the frequency compared to the old mono-hulls. If we're in displacement m...

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I would have Greens as far more authoritarian. Just because they want dak legalised doesn't make them libertarian. Perhaps people have made the following (il)logical leaps? libertarian = liberal = progressive. Presumably authoritarian doesn't include wanting to interfere with property rights, compu...

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The most sensible thing I've heard to date on the issue of climate change is: Change is required urgently and it is our will/or not, to make that change. If we were serious about climate change, who on this board would: 1. Be prepared to change their lifestyle if it meant cleaning up the planet? Vo...

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Look like the Cantabs Maoris dont like the Fiji players. A club rugby player from Canterbury has been handed a 46-week ban for racial abuse. Following a highly publicised complaint by the Southbridge club, Bronson Munro of the Waihora Rugby Club has been found guilty by the Canterbury Metropolitan ...

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Perhaps we've found another Great Filter - for intelligent life to advance further than us there has to be both sufficient fossil fuels to power an industrial revolution AND sufficiently small amounts to force a gradual move away from fossil fuels before the climate changes too much. And we're unlu...

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My parents' generation feared that nuclear war would kill us, mine that nuclear power would, but now it may save us? Depends. No sex is going to end japan before climate change does. Korea too. If ever there was a situation that gave credence to the notion that problems are opportunities.. This is ...

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Championship calibre. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/oct/09/queer-the-leads-and-unleash-the-nudes-how-to-reboot-a-sexist-classic-for-the-metoo-age Australian lefties. :( :roll: x( x( x( Turns out some Australian leftists - old-school rather than IDpol eejit - are none too keen on the sneery...

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Perhaps they could find time in their busy schedule to cover trifling issues like being sentenced to death for blasphemy.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/christian ... -1.4853415

This shit makes you sick to the stomach.

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I wonder what this discussion would be about if that last penalty kick to touch broke right instead of left. The ABs would have lost and yes there'd have been some knives out. But I've seen enough of Richie playing live and training before games now to know he was trying a genuine percentage play t...

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Mo'unga's first act on the field was to miss touch and give the Saffers the field position from which De Allende scored. Hmm. No point trying to make out that try was anyone's fault other than the muppet who got steamrolled in a one on one tackle, the defence was well set. Can't agree with that at ...

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deadduck wrote:I wonder what this discussion would be about if that last penalty kick to touch broke right instead of left.

Probably mostly about how Barrett's aimless performance had completely de-stabilized the whole team's performance.

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Hansen of course was unhappy with game management in the Wellington test. Despite the win, he can't be any happier today. Barrett wasn't the only transgressor, when starved of ball, Naholo decides that a grubber kick with little chance of contesting it is required. But he was by far the worst, the c...

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The following saying is apt (though not always true)

1. Anything course with the word studies in the title it is not a study.
2. Anything course with the word science in the title is not a science.

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UncleFB wrote:
merlin the happy pig wrote:
UncleFB wrote:The billboard company should cop some shit over this as well.
Why?
Why are you asking why? They allowed the advertisement to be put on the billboard.

Really don't see why they should be expected to act as a censor.
Really bad idea IMHO.

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UncleFB wrote:The billboard company should cop some shit over this as well.

Why?

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Same thing was tried somewhere in Australia recently, twice... and the billboards were removed under public health policy. I could almost bring myself to support hate speech laws if that billboard was deemed as such. I mean it is inciting actual harm against people, though through being too dull to...

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If we brought back small pox we could prove a point and do Darwin's work in one easy hit.

GoFundMe anyone?

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This may sound controversial, but why do some people in the UK care so much about Israel/Palestine? There are plenty of juicy border disputes to get in behind (hell we're party to 3 off the top of my head) and none seem to arouse the fury, the indignation. I just don't get it. I think a lot of it i...

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This may sound controversial, but why do some people in the UK care so much about Israel/Palestine? There are plenty of juicy border disputes to get in behind (hell we're party to 3 off the top of my head) and none seem to arouse the fury, the indignation. I just don't get it. I think a lot of it i...

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Dont fall for fatcats typical anti BLM propaganda. BLM is not saying that whites are not shot. They are saying that the cases are treated differently when the victim is white versus when he is black. : Consider the case of John White , a black man in Long Island. He was sentenced to 4 years in pris...

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Clogs wrote:Isn't there a story about the rabbit and the tortoise? Do you think she may have gotten confused?

Remind me who came first?

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I haven't checked the odds, but even a strong favourite like the ABS would likely be less than a 50:50 prospect. Therefore a brand new coach is the highest probability. I think we should do an experiment, and appoint a total failure (any of the last X Blues coaches) and settle the argument about the...

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Weeding the garden around the plum tree 10 times instead of taking 2 hrs to get 1/2 a trailer of bark and spraying whatever pops up. FYI home made Black Doris plum jam is better than a pool full of stage 1 psych students. :o I automatically substitute "c u nt" for "plum" these days, which makes tha...

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The poor will use driverless busses Once you get to four or five people, the ability to do door to door Without large detours goes down drastically. Once you get rid of the driver the economics of smaller vehicles makes more sense, large vehicle are seldom anywhere near capacity, meaning that any e...

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Human controlled driving will be banned on most roads in the next 20 years. Eh, no I think motorways and national routes be will be 'autonomous drive' only soon. Every vehicle will need to have self-drive capability first but the ICE is the way out anyway. It's been no fun riding in Ireland long be...

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Weeding the garden around the plum tree 10 times instead of taking 2 hrs to get 1/2 a trailer of bark and spraying whatever pops up.

FYI home made Black Doris plum jam is better than a pool full of stage 1 psych students.

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The Future is Here https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/driverless-shuttle-takes-to-the-streets-of-dublin-1.3636947 I haven't seen it yet but I'm amazed it has appeared without a threat of strike by the bus/luas drivers. It's not much use where it is now anyway. 1km west and it would ...

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They’ve said pretty much the same thing ahead of each revolution. Hasn’t come true yet - we’ve just found other ways to value human effort and therefore be gainfully employed. TBH as productivity has increased, we have found other ways to keep people occupied. How much of it is actually useful to a...

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Farrar goes Beast Mode on the Massey VC: https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/09/the_massey_free_speech_timeline.html Serious blogging mastery. Massey University has behaved disgracefully over this. The idea that university students need protection against views that challenge them is the exact opposite...

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Ahh the sackcloth environmentalists, no consideration of the elderly, the infirm, those who live many kms away from their employment of course Want to cut air pollution? Get rid of your car Governments must accept the stark fact that cars must be removed from the street altogether https://www.thegu...

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https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/09/gdp-up-1-percent-largest-quarterly-rise-in-two-years.html GDP figures out just now. Economy grew by 1% over the June quarter. Largest quarterly rise in two years. So much for the socialists tanking the economy. :o Nor has Trump, give them both some ti...

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Bad decision/execution from Jordie but at the same time you shouldn't be anticipating the bounce in that situation. Ioane should have gone forward to that pass. Agreed, both contributed to the poor execution. Strangely a poor idea executed badly does not constitute a double negative and hence posit...

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Jenny Shipley has gone through an odd image transformation since she was leader. Certainly doesn't look like the proverbial ashburton farmer's wife. That's because she's now head concubine for China inc. I feel genuinely sorry for JA having to be that close to someone that repulsive. Likewise the o...

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40 square metres for $380,000? I thought these were supposed to be family homes to solve the housing crisis, not subsidies for childless middle class couples or bachelor pads I have a mate who is doing 150 metres prefab for 200k on a pretty good spec. There are some business out there who subscribe...

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It's not just the goal kicking with BB though. I know I'll get shot down for this on party lines but I reckon he had a poor game. I commented early in the 1st half about his passing being 'ropey'. I was being kind and didn't want to inflame a shitfight while the game was live. I don't know of anoth...

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