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Also on Stuff, this perplexing headline: Heightened UK terror fear
They have nothing to fear but fear itself?
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Russell Brown,
So, probably not the apocalypse this time, then. But keep a look out for any seas turning to blood.
It sounds so heavy metal.
I'm sure the apocalypse comes with thrashy music with lots of distortion and the reverb turned way up. How could it not?
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Kirk Cameron says it’s definitely not the apocalypse
Does he have any special knowledge vis-a-vis Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy?
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And the most-read article on Stuff just now is this one. Yes, that's right, an article on whether dead birds are a sign of an approaching apocalypse.
And it concludes: "However, GodDiscussion said dead birds and fish were not among the signs. More commonly, the signs were interpreted as events such as seas turning to blood, sores on people's bodies, plagues, infertility, world wars and earthquakes."
So, probably not the apocalypse this time, then. But keep a look out for any seas turning to blood.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Megan Wegan,
I am really just getting inspiration for next year’s Christmas crafting
So you haven't quite been assimilated yet. Ah well, it won't happen overnight, but it will happen ;-)
David Tennant's engagement to Georgia Moffett
oh and in reply to David Hood...wow, who knew David Tennant was straight? Not me, dammit!
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I have been sent a pattern for some Tardis socks.
Don't tell me, one size fits all? :-)
And BTW, I'm sure there is an untapped market for Who-themed lingerie. Don't you think?
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I still haven’t got to the point where I don’t ask questions I’m not supposed to ask
It’s OK to ask questions in the commercial break, or afterwards. It’s not OK to talk during the programme, unless the house is actually burning down. Giggling is also not permitted. It’s OK to gasp with wonder, though. :-)
But wow, total kudos for the knitted daleks. And I thought the gingerbread TARDIS was cool…but wooly exterminators, oh yes!!!
ETA: Gah, I wrote this while Russell was writing the post above. Sure makes the trivialities even more trivial. -
Hard News: Behaving badly at the bottom…, in reply to Matthew Poole,
the skeleton editorial staff in place at major media outlets, the kinds of outlets that are prone to be the focus of contempt of court proceedings, will be very hesitant to publish comment on a matter that cannot be vetted by the doubtless-on-holiday senior legal staff.
OK, but stories of alleged celebrities allegedly behaving badly could also be in contempt of court as well as defamatory. The skeleton staff can handle that but not the other?
Obviously one story is in the public interest and the other is, unfathomably, of interest to the public.
Bloggers can also be charged with contempt, as we know....but if our local bloggers can manage to be circumspect, I fail to see why paid journos can't.
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Hard News: Behaving badly at the bottom…, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
Re the Urewera 18, I think the issue is that the couple dozen people in the national media – morning report producers, political editors, news editors at the dom-post or the press – who would realise the significance of the decision and run stories on it, are all away on holiday.
Is that really a good excuse? When important stuff happens, in defiance of statutory holidays, there are no senior staff to call on? How come Idiot/Savant, Russell, Paul Buchanan, et al, are hard at work in the public interest, holiday or no holiday, and those whose papers we pay actual money for simply can't be arsed?
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his macronic talents
Wow. Does he also have macaronic or macarenic talents? Or some combination of all 3?