Posts by James Butler
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But I took Physics and Music, and Physics sooo won. Protip: The only student worse than an Engineering student is a Performance Voice student.
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And I imagine a lot of pot gets smoked on those several-month-long research voyages
This might go some way towards explaining SpongeBob Squarepants, produced by marine biologist Stephen Hillenburg. Whenever one of my children comes out with some particularly sophisticated knowledge/surreal humour, and I ask them "Where did you hear about that?", the answer is invariably SpongeBob.
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When Amy Sedaris turned up as the Tooth Fairy in one episode I thought I might levitate
That's excellent, I must watch more closely next time my kids have it on. OTOH, to much famiglia Sedaris might be bad for their mental health...
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The way things are going, current policy thinking towards square pegs in round holes is to grab a bigger sledgehammer.
Or rather to drill fewer smaller, rounder holes.</stretch_metaphor>
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I'm waiting until technology stops improving before spending on anything new.
For what definition of "stops improving"?
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It's really that old argument again - genre work (whether comics, TV, books, or films) cannot be Serious because it's genre.
<soapbox>And the corollary, that if it's Serious then it's not Genre - and the further corollary that there is no Serious Genre... hence literary critics can scorn eg. science fiction novels, by defining the speculative works of eg. Doris Lessing, John Updike, Margaret Attwood as by definition not science fiction.</soapbox>
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Judging by what people are writing, I think threading can mean two different things.
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The multithreadedness of PA debates gives it much more of a community feel.
There's a third for you :-)
If I may mix my metaphors, the tradeoff is between locality of reference, and narrative flow. +1 for narrative.
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But she instead commented on the grotesqueness of his use of the provocation defence to smear his victim, which is absolutely nothing to do with Women's Refuge.
What it is is an extreme example of the humiliation of the victim, which is a major contributing factor to women's reluctance to bring rape or domestic violence complaints to the police - and that surely is everything to do with Women's Refuge.
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I wonder though if they went for the 'weird narcissist losing it and not be in control of his actions' defence because that was literally all they could come up with, he was done bang to rights otherwise.
This has echoes of the Hans Reiser "Geek Defense". OK, Reiser was claiming he hadn't in fact murdered anyone (he confessed after conviction), but the premise was similar - "My actions would make perfect sense to you if only you were more like me, which you aren't, so you're just going to have to trust me".
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OMG. I have some 15 year old Glenfiddich at home.
sighs I guess it's Whittakers and Famous Grouse for me.