ABC news website headline: “ADF sex probe extended due to flood of complaints”. Good grief.
Monthly Archives: August 2011
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RT @joffalab: Rode beach rd 2day. Gotta get this msg out, cycling shouldn’t be deadly. Sign the minimum safe passing distance petition http://t.co/pBi5jBN
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bus driver, ambulanceman, ticket inspector
It’s a bit late but here’s my ep-sized playlist for the English riots. – The Clash – London’s Burning (single version) – Prodigy – Their law (live in Moscow 97) – KLF – It’s Grim Up North – dizzee rascal…
American motorsport
For a month or more I’ve had absolutely nothing to do and so I have done almost absolutely nothing. I’m almost tempted to feel guilty about it but I shan’t. Besides it’s all over now. Not because I have to…
Tagged with: corn, indycar, motorsport, nascar, usa, zombie jeff gordon
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My followers live in Germany (100%). Find yours at http://t.co/hogco2X
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Pronunciation: no one does it right except me As you know, there’s no differentiation between the ‘L” and ‘R’ sound in Korean, with results often turning out hilarious. And I could forgive this full-size neon ad I saw in the…
Tagged with: advertising, chevrolet, korea, linguistics, seoul, translation
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Now that the weather is cooler I am wearing trousers again. I found German pesto at Homeplus. Things are looking up.
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non day
Opposite to Australia, summer here is more overcast than winter. I listened to a conversation between two people mentioning cracking the SADs here lately but I don’t know how you could feel it if it’s as warm and humid as…
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the seaside holiday
Another podcast I quite like is the bbc history magazine. They recently went to a weekly format so there’s plenty of listening. It’s all English history so you have to be into that kind of thing. I did have…
stockholm syndrome
Yes I know the most recent episode of top gear purposefully, erroneously referred to this. Message to them: the ‘it’s technologically impressive so it lacks soul’ routine is boring. Say something new. The only good bits in that whole six…
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